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Christianity has undeniably had her great Seers and Prophets, like every other religion; but
their claims are not strengthened by denying their predecessors.
Listen to Plato:
Know then, Glaucus, that when I speak of the production of good, it is the Sun
I mean. The Son has a perfect analogy with his Father.
Iamblichus calls the Sun “the image of divine intelligence or Wisdom.” Eusebius, repeating
the words of Philo, calls the rising Sun (ανατολη ) the chief Angel, the most ancient, adding
that the Archangel who is polyonymous (of many names) is the Verbum of Christ. The word
Sol (Sun) being derived from solus, the One, or the “He alone.” and its Greek name Helios
meaning the “Most High,” the emblem becomes comprehensible. Nevertheless, the Ancients
made a difference between the Sun and its prototype.
Socrates saluted the rising Sun as does a true Pârsî or Zoroastrian in our own day; and
Homer and Euripides, as Plato did after them several times, mention the Jupiter-Logos, the
“Word” or the Sun. Nevertheless, the Christians maintain that since the oracle consulted on
the God Iao answered: “It is the Sun,” therefore
The Jehovah of the Jews was well known to the Pagans and Greeks;[See De
Mirville, iv.15]
and “Iao is our Jehovah.” The first part of the proposition has nothing, it seems to do with the
second part, and least of all can the conclusion be regarded as correct. But if the Christians
are so anxious to prove the identity, Occultists have nothing against it. Only, in such case,
Jehovah is also Bacchus. It is very strange that the people of civilised Christendom should
until now hold on so desperately to the skirts of the idolatrous Jews—Sabaeans and Sun
worshippers as they were, [ II. Kings, xxiii, 4-13.] like the rabble of Chaldaea—and that they
should fail to see that the later Jehovah is but a Jewish development of the Ja-va, or the
(Page 280) Iao, of the Phoenicians; that this name, in short, was the secret name of a
Mystery-God, one of the many Kabiri. “Highest God” as He was for one little nation, he never
was so regarded by the Initiates who conducted the Mysteries; for them he was but a
Planetary Spirit attached to the visible Sun; and the visible Sun is only the central Star, not
the central spiritual Sun.
And the Angel of the Lord said unto him [Manoah] “Why askest thou thus after
my name, seeing it is secret.” [Judges, xiii, 18. Samson, Manoah’s son, was
an Initiate of that “Mystery” Lord, Ja-va: he was consecrated before his birth to
become a “Nazarite” (a chela), an Adept. His sin with Delilah, and the
cropping of his long hair that “no razor was to touch” shows how well he kept
his sacred vow. The allegory of Samson proves the Esotericism of the Bible,
as also the character of the “Mystery Gods” of the Jews. True, Môvers gives a
definition of the Phoenician idea of the ideal sunlight as a spiritual influence
issuing from the highest God, Iao, “the light conceivable only by intellect—the
physical and spiritual Principle of all things: out of which the soul emanates.” It
was the male Essence or Wisdom, while the primitive matter or Chaos was
the female. Thus the first two principles, co-eternal and infinite, were already
with the primitive Phoenicians, spirit and matter. But this is the echo of Jewish
thought, not the opinion of Pagan Philosophers.]
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