would
stand Jesus, the Christos, son of the Fish Mother, born in his mother’s
House of the Fishes, Pisces. We ended the second article in this series with a "bang" when exposing how Christianity has misunderstood their own Scriptures over 1,800 years at present and how it has affected a multitude of cherished Christian doctrines passed off onto the world as supposedly necessary for the salvation of mankind. We looked at how Christianity has misunderstood the words "death" and "resurrection" in their own holy book. We explained why Egypt called its own Bible "the Book of the Dead". All of this mind you is tied to the "two births of mankind" and the operation of "the Christ" and his incarnation in the flesh of mankind. We ended with the following paragraph which is repeated here as a link between article 2 and 3.
A significant passage from the Book of the Dead recites: "Who cometh forth from the dusk, and whose birth is in the house of death"--referring to the incarnating Soul. In a spiritual sense the Soul "dies" on entering the body in incarnation, but has a new birth in it as it later resurrects from it at the demise of the body. The body is therefore the house of his death and rebirth, or the place of the Soul's/Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. later these ideas will be "literalized", "carnalized", and "historicized" in transforming the "Christ within" into an assumed historical person. The Egyptians, who gave us these spiritual concepts in the first place, had a name for the body as the point of these transformations, which carry the central meaning of all theologies. Through the benefits of archeology and the tireless efforts of dedicated men and women over the last two hundred years we have before us today the "clues" and "keys" necessary to interpret correctly these ancient spiritual writings; many of which have found their way into our Old and New Testaments. This name now rises out of the murky hazes of ancient Egyptian books to enlighten all modern Bible comprehension.This city of "the human body", where the "Sun of Soul" sank to its death on the cross of matter (think...intersecting two planes of existence, forming a cross), to arise in a new birth, was called the "City of the Sun", or in Greek, "Heliopolis", but in the Egyptian, "Anu".
Answer for yourself: What lies behind "Anu"?
We saw previously that the first, or virgin birth was depicted as taking place on the western side of the zodiac, in the house or womb of the Virgin Mother, Virgo (the Water Mother). This allocation was due to the fact that it is in the west that the Sun, universal symbol and embodiment of the fire of spirit, descends each evening into the earth and water that "represented the body" in which the "Soul incarnated", this body itself being composed of those two elements, earth and water. So man is, zodiacally, born in the water, as natural man, on the western side (Virgo); and is to be reborn, or regenerated, as spiritual man, at the end of the cycle, on the eastern side (Pisces) necessitating two births and two mothers. The Heavens revealed to mankind that mankind, in his pilgrimage through this plane of existence, requires "two birth" thus necessitating "two mothers". Spirit’s descent into water (of the body) on the west makes the man a physical being; its later resurrection on the east makes it man a spiritual being; the deification of man. Says the text of old Egypt: "Pepi saileth with Ra to the eastern side of heaven, where the gods (deity in man is born) are born."
Answer for yourself: What does this mean? This refers to the death (descent of the Divine into matter) and resurrection of the divinity (release of the Divine essence in matter/body at the end of bodily existence), the basic theme in all religions. It is simply the Ancient story of incarnation and return to heaven.
Answer for yourself: Have we read of this in our Bibles and not noticed it before? Yes. This same idea is allegorized in our New Testament in the story of the "Christ" and the "descent of the Christ/Messiah" into "Egypt" and his "exodus" back to spirit, historicized in the Scriptures as "Canaan."
Hidden almost everywhere in these New Testament stories which we have been taught to read as assumed "historical narratives" are ancient allegories of the "Descent of the Soul into matter" and its "return to Heaven" at the death of this physical body given mankind.
Further examination of ancient volumes and books available to us today brings to light today the connection between the zodiacal pictorialization and the Bible. It is time we look at another one which is a central idea in the New Testament concerning "the Christ".
By that I mean the use of the symbol of bread in connection with both Virgo and Pisces. Pisces is the "House of the Fishes" by name, but it is not commonly known that in the astrological representation the Constellation of Virgo is known, even today, as "the House of Bread". This is indicated by several items of the typology. Many centuries ago in the precession of the equinoxes the end of the year was marked by the position of the great Dog Star Sirius which we have already seen is a heavenly symbol of the divinity in man. Long ago in Egypt, precisely at midnight on December 24, this bright Sun stood on the meridian line running from the zenith to the south. Terribly important for us to know is that at the same moment there was rising on the eastern horizon the constellation of the Virgin (Virgo), bearing in one arm a star that was represented as "the Christ child", symbol of the Christhood coming to function in man; and in her other hand she clasped the great star Spica (Latin: a head or "spike" of wheat), symbol of that same deity coming as the celestial food for man.
Answer for yourself: What did this represent again? The Ancients came to understand this as the "Coming of the Christ into mankind" along with "the message of God taught through "the Christ" to all mankind" so that he might be saved.
It must be remembered that the "Jesus Story" has written for us that if mankind was to have eternal life, they each of us must virtually eat the body of Christ as our divine food, and drink his blood.
Mark 14:22-24 22 And as they did eat, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and brake it, and gave to them, and said, Take, eat: this is my body. 23 And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them: and they all drank of it. 24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many. (KJV)
Hence typism and symbolism represented "the Christ" as coming in the form and nature of man, the human babe; and coming likewise as spiritual food represented by wheat.
Answer for yourself: Should we see that these "two comings" of "the Christ" are representative of mankind needing "two births" as well? Yes.
The "Jesus Story" describes the supernal gift of the spirit in the words:
John 6:50-51 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. (KJV)
Jesus took the same symbol, a loaf, and, breaking it into fragments, gave a morsel to each of his disciples, saying it was his (spiritual) body, broken for them.
Answer for yourself: As this "loaf" from God was broken and distributed to all mankind present, then is this a symbol of the body of Osiris being dismembered and spread throughout the land? Yes. In the mythos we find that Set discovered the body of Osiris by chance and this time and cut up Osiris' body into fourteen pieces and scattered them far and wide throughout Egypt. This is a picture of the Metaphysical reality that God has descended from Heaven into all forms of matter; in this article we focus upon the key idea of the "Descent of the Soul" into matter (flesh).
Now the name "Anu" was given to an actual Egyptian city, where the rites of the death, burial and resurrection of Osiris or Horus were enacted each year (Osiris, a neteru, is symbolic for mankind); but the name "Anu" bore a theological significance before it was given to a geographical town. The name is obviously made up of "NU", the name for the Egyptian Mother-Heaven, or empty space, or abyss of nothingness out of the bosom of which creation emanates. The name for the Important to note. The A (alpha privative) means, as it does in thousands of words, "not." It is prefixed to a host of words to negate an affirmative meaning, as a-theistic, a-moral, a-symmetrical, a-mnesia. A-nu would then mean literally "not-nothingness," or a world of concrete actuality. The negation of a negative posits an affirmative. It refers thus to our world of physical manifestation.
Answer for yourself: Do you see in this the "breaking and multiplying" of the bread and the cutting up of Osiris as but symbols for this Divine Descent of God into all matter?
Here we are brought face to face with the important Biblical sense of the word "multiply." To exhibit its infinite creative resources, life must multiply itself endlessly. The unitary life of deity must break itself up into infinite fragments if it is to fill empty space with a multitude of worlds and beings of diversified natures. The primal sea, or Mother must engender a multitudinous progeny, to spawn the limitless schools of organic "fish-worlds" (spiritual worlds). This is the meaning of the promise given to Abraham that his seed should "multiply" until it filled the earth with offspring countless as the sands and the stars.
Answer for yourself: Since we learned that life divine was symbolized by bread (Virgo) as the type of the first birth, and by fish (Pisces) as the type of the second, then could we might expect to find in old religious typology the allegory of a generic Christ personage multiplying loaves and fishes to feed a multitude?
We should and we do.
No wonder we find in the "Jesus Story" then the account of "the Christ" feeding the 4000 and 5000 with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes (2 as in Pisces...remember)? The leads to the significance of the two numbers; "5" and "2". We find that as the bread symbol pertains to Virgo, mother of the natural man, the five loaves is likewise intended to refer to man’s five senses, while the two fishes could have represented the two natures (natural and spiritual) unified by the second birth.
This is amazing. But unsettling to see and realize its implications that are only reiterated when one begins to read into the subject of Comparative Religions. We definitely have a very close connection between the Gospel narrative and the "Jesus Story" and Egyptian Mythology.
Answer for yourself: Knowing this then can we begin to estimate the serious challenge presented by finding these Ancient Spiritual Allegories presented as "factual, historical, and literal" history in the New Testament to which "required belief" has been attached for one's salvation?
Answer for yourself: Is this a coincidence? Is this whole Bible a "Spiritual Allegory" centered on the Descent of God, the Soul, into matter, mankind, and we not know it? Now let us continue.
"A-NU" would then mean "not-nothingness," or a world of concrete actuality, the world of physical substantial manifestation. The Ancients taught that such a world is the realm in which units of Cosmic consciousness (thought, the Mind of God) go to their death and rise again in concrete manifestation (the invisible becomes visible). A-NU is then metaphysically likened to the physical body of man on earth. Anu is the body of mankind; "the place of multiplying bread!" The Soul descends out of the waters of the abyss of the NUN, or space in its undifferentiated unity, which is the sign and name of all things negative. The NUN is indeed our "none." Life in the completeness of its unity is negative. To become positively manifested it must differentiate itself into duality, establish positive-negative tension, and later split up into untold multiplicity. This brings out the significance of the Biblical word "multiply."
Precisely such a world it is in which units of Cosmic Mind, Cosmic Thought, Cosmic Energy, and Cosmic Consciousness go to their death "death" (matter) and again rise out of it. Says God in the Old Testament:"I cast down to death and I raise up again." Anu is then the physical body of mortals on earth. The Soul descends out of the waters of the abyss, or the Nun, which is simply space in its primordial undifferentiation and finds its home in the flesh of mankind.
Here, then, in the Ancient dusty and long forgotten and silent records of Egypt we find the original story that is later mistaken presented as an assumed historical reality limited to but one person in the New Testament. How sad. Serious study on my part, and yours as well, will show you that the original, the prototype, of the "miracle" of the loaves and the fishes in the Gospels of Christianity, as well as many other Gospel stories by the hundreds find their earliest existence in Ancient Egypt.
Answer for yourself: In this of this new found knowledge don't you think that a new enlightening meaning must be read into our New Testaments around the life events and sayings of the New Testament Jesus?
Answer for yourself: Does it not appear to you, the enlightened reader, that such new information make it necessary lift these Biblical narratives out of their assumed "literal-historical" existence and inspect them anew to see if behind them lie only Metaphysical Divine Allegory and Reality?
Our eyes are opening. We see then, as the Ancient Spiritual Masters always taught, that Anu, as the physical body, is the place wherein the unity of the Christ's power is broken into an infinite number of fragments, which are distributed out among a multitude of God’s children hungered after a three-days fast. This latter detail can readily be taken as referring to the deprivation of "spiritual food" suffered by Souls in their sojourn in the three elemental kingdoms, mineral, vegetable and animal, before attaining to the plane of mind.
Answer for yourself: Did we just discover the truth behind the Christian Eucharist? Is the Eucharist a picture of the broken but multiplied fragments of the body of the God, distributed to feed hungry humanity? And as humanity is composed of twelve groups of divine conscious units, there were gathered up twelve baskets of fragments! How appropriate.
Now for certain, for I have found it, this episode of the Christ’s purported life is found to be Egyptian in origin and meaning and symbolic in character!
It is a known fact that the Hebrews came along and appropriated Egyptian material. They picked up the name ANU and fitting it back into its zodiacal "House" of Virgo, they called it the "House of Bread." This required their adding to ANU their word for "house," which, as anyone knows, is "Beth".
Answer for yourself: What do we get? This yields us Beth-Anu.
Now it is a fact of common philological knowledge that the ancient Greek and Egyptian "U" is rendered as "Y" when the words are brought over into English.
Answer for yourself: Since the "U" becomes a "Y" then what do we get? We get "Bethany" of the Gospels! Beth-Anu becomes "Bethany".
Bethany is thus just the sign of Virgo, as the "house of Bread," the home of the great star Spica, the head of wheat!
Answer for yourself: But what do we get when we take the Greek "Bethany", seen as "the House of Bread", back into the Hebrew? We get Beth-Lehem (Lechem, Lekhem), for lechem, lekhem, is bread in everyday Hebrew.
Answer for yourself: What do we learn? We see that the Ancient taught that "the Christ" was born in Bethany or Bethlehem, the astrological "house of Bread." Later it seems that the two signs, Virgo and Pisces, and their symbols, bread and fish, were almost interchangeably confused or commingled in the symbolic imagery. This was natural, since the two signs, Virgo and Pisces, represented the same body of man in its two aspects of birth, both dying and being reborn, and the two processes are confusedly mixed over time.
Answer for yourself: If Pisces is then the "house" in which the Christ in man comes to his birth, it is pointful to ask if there are evidences in the Bible or Christianity that Jesus was colored with the fish typology?
To any causal reader of the "Jesus Story" we find easily that we are overwhelmed by "fish symbolism" for after all it was the Age of Pisces in which these "Christ events" were supposed to have happened:
He picks his twelve disciples from the ranks of fishermen (in Egypt they were as well carpenters, reapers, harvesters, sailors, rowers, builders, masons, potters, etc.);
In the catacombs under Rome the symbol of the two fishes crossed was displayed on the Christ’s forehead, at his feet, or on a plate on the altar before him. And the Romans for several centuries dubbed the early Christians Pisciculi, or "Little Fishes," members of the "fish-cult." And the Greeks designated the "Jesus Story" as Ichthys, the Fish.
Answer for yourself: Can all this be just a coincidence?
It is the product of ancient custom, which figured the Christs under the symbolism of the reigning sign of the zodiac, according to the precession of the equinoxes. And that sign was the sign of the two fishes in the shape of a "cross"; Pisces. The Age of Pisces, an artifact of the Precession of the Equinoxes, is the time span extending from about 200 B.C.E. (200 hundred years before the "Jesus Story") until the current day. No wonder all the fish symbolism since it is the age in which "the Christ" from antiquity was redefined in Pisces symbolism. It appear that it took two hundred years to get the stories of these allegorical Christs redone.
And yet another surprising correlation comes to view. The Christ, as it has here been delineated, is the offspring or creation of a conception of deific Mind, first in the inner bosom of spiritual matter, then in organic bodily structure. Primeval space, we have seen, was called in Egypt the NUN, or the Waters of the Nun. All Bible students recognize a familiar ring in the phrase "Joshua, Son of Nun." Sadly, hardly any Christian knows that the name "Joshua" is just a variant name for "Jesus".
Answer for yourself: Did you know that the phrase is actually written in some old documents as "Jesus, Son of Nun"?
At any rate Joshua is just Jesus, no less. So here is the Christ, called Jesus, son of space, or the NUN. But the wonder increases when we turn to the Hebrew alphabet and find that while "M" is called and spelled "Mem" and means "water," "N" is called and spelled "Nun" and means--of all things--"Fish"!
Jesus, then, is son of Pisces, the Fish-sign, as he indeed is in the Gospels themselves.
Answer for yourself: Can you believe that Horus, the Egyptian Christ, who is identical with the Jesus of the Gospels in some one hundred and eighty details, performed at Anu a great miracle?
Horus raised his father Osiris from the dead, calling unto him in the cave to rise and come forth.
Answer for yourself: Do you have a hint at where we are going next?
Now Anu, as we have seen, became Bethany of the Gospels; and it was at Bethany that Jesus raised Lazarus from death!
Answer for yourself: Could Osiris and Lazarus have a connection that affirms that the "historicized" Jesus of the New Testament is but a mistaken reiteration of the life of Horus in Egypt?
Answer for yourself: Who was Lazarus?
According to Budge and other eminent Egyptologists today the ancient designation of Osiris was ASAR. But the Egyptians invariably expressed reverence for deity by prefixing the definite article "the" to the names of their Gods. Just as Christians say, or should say, the Christ, they said: "the Osiris". It will be found that the article connoted deity in ancient usage. Our definite article, "the" is the root of the Greek word "theos", God; the Spanish article, masculine, "el," is the Hebrew word for God; and the Greek masculine article, "ho," is a Chinese word for deity. To say the Osiris was equivalent to saying "Lord" Osiris. Now watch this closely. When the Hebrews took up the Egyptian phrases and names they converted the name of "the Osiris" or "Lord Osiris" directly into their own vernacular, and the result was "El-Asar." Later on the Romans, speaking Latin, took up the same material that had come down from revered Egyptian sources and to "El-Asar" they added the common Latin termination of the second declension masculine nouns, in which most men’s names ended, namely, "-us".
Answer for yourself: What do we get? We now get "El-Asar-us." In time the initial "E" wore off, as the scholars phrase it, and the "s" in Asar changed into its sister letter "z," leaving us holding in our hands the Lazarus whom Jesus raised at Bethany!
Answer for yourself: What are we to make of all this?
We are faced with the irrefutable evidence of Comparative Religion that Jesus’ raising of Lazarus at Bethany is but a rescript of the old Egyptian dramatic mystery in which Horus, the Christ, raised his "dead" father Osiris, or El-Asar-us from the grave. And the Egyptian recital was in the papyri perhaps 5000 years B.C.E. or more before the events alleged to occur to a historical Jesus.
But the comparison is not complete. Nor was Osiris, masquerading under the name of Lazarus, the only Egyptian personage present at the scene of this supposed Christian "miracle." Isis, the wife and sister of Osiris, under her ancient designation of Meri, was present also. As the feminine counterpart of the male deity was dualized to match the doubling of Horus as Horus the Elder (otherwise Osiris) and Horus the Younger, so the Meri name was sometimes pluralized, becoming Merti. Let us not forget what we learned about the neteru; they Emanated from the ONE in pairs. They are always together as duality. So also at the Egyptian scene of the rising of Osiris were present the two divine sisters, Isis and Nephthys. An old source-name for Isis was Meri, basic for the Latin mare, the sea. The Egyptian plural of Meri was Merti. In Latin feminine form this became Mertae. In Hebrew it resolved into what was rendered in English as Martha. The picture is now becoming very clear to the reader.
We are reading Egyptian religious Divine Allegory without their correct meaning when we read our New Testaments and the "Jesus Story"...what a waste of time that postpones our Soul' intended maturation as God intended
So even in the ancient Egyptian transaction there were present the two Maries, or Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus! Martha is the Christianize form of Isis as Jesus is but a Christianized form of Horus/Osiris to which the "keys" for proper interpretation has been lost for almost 2,000 years; but no more!
One must ask what it can mean to the future of Christianity to realize now that this episode of the supposed life of Jesus is found to be the distorted republication of an antique Egyptian allegory, completely unhistorical in character.
To support the contention that this derivation is not a fanciful invention or sheer coincidence, we find the Egyptian "Azar" reappearing in the names of two of the Hebrew Priests in the Old Testament, Azar-iah and El(e)azar. The -iah (or -jah) appended to deific names substantially equated the prefixed "El" in Hebrew usage. But a further and far more authoritative confirmation of the linkage was found in one place in Renan’s famous Life of Jesus, on page 308. The French theologian displayed an extraordinary knowledge of Judean history, geography, sociology and religion, and in connection with the elucidation here presented this citation from his great book confronts the Christian exegesis with a challenge which it may be difficult to fend off. We quote the passage as follows: "The village of Bethany, in particular, situated at the summit of the hill upon the incline which commands the Dead Sea and the Jordan, at a journey of an hour and a half from Jerusalem, was the place especially beloved by Jesus." Following this a numeral directs us to the note appended at the bottom of the page, in which the reference is to Bethany: "Now El-Azerie (from El-Azir, the Arabic name of Lazarus) in the Christian texts of the Middle Ages, Lazarium." :
On the next page, Renan, speaking of Mary he states: "Her brother Eleazar, or Lazarus, was as much beloved by Jesus." Here is indisputable evidence that the Egyptian connection with the name of Bethany clung to the town up to the Middle Ages. Since it is agreed widely that John’s Gospel is far more mystical and spiritual and less historical than the other three, it is quite apparent that this reprint of an ancient Egyptian allegory would be more likely to be included in John’s Gospel and omitted from the three synoptic ones.
Answer for yourself: What can it mean to Christian theology that the story of the raising of Lazarus was extant in Egyptian papyri at least 5000 or more years B.C.?
All this sets the stage for the crowning item in this article. In the Gospel drama John the Baptist enacts the role of the first-born or natural man, coming first to prepare the physical ground of evolution for the advent of the second Adam, or Christ.
Answer for yourself: Is this saying the same thing as "Virgo" (the first mother that prepared matter for the first natural birth) prepares the way for "Pisces" (the second mother as the medium for the spiritual birth of man)? Yes.
John the Baptist is again a Spiritual Allegory found in the
stars of Heaven. He would therefore stand in the allegory as the son of
the Water Mother, Virgo, and under the astrological symbolism would be
born at the Autumn Equinox,
or in his mother’s House Virgo, which stands as that station in the
zodiac. On the other side of the cycle of descent, "death"
and resurrection, would
stand Jesus, the Christos, son of the Fish Mother, born in his mother’s
House of the Fishes, Pisces.
Answer for yourself: What we notice right now? These houses are six months apart on the zodiacal chart!
This is not good news for the "Jesus Story" nor Christianity as you will see. The house of cards comes tumbling down and with it the Gospel's historicity when the astronomical understanding of the Gospel Story is made evident. We find in the first chapter of Luke’s Gospel, that the Annunciation to Mary of her conception of the coming Christ by the Holy Spirit which is related to have come in the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy with John the Baptist. With the "keys" to this interpretation you can see the methodology that these myth-makers devised for discerning intelligence in the allegory in Luke. The natural man, having covered the zodiacal "six months" between his conception and the date of his quickening into spiritual status in his evolution, was dramatized as being "quickened" at a point exactly opposite from the point of the beginning of his life. Six months on the chart would mark the end of an epoch begun opposite it (the Christ is quickend, born born in Pisces as the natural man was born in Virgo..separated by 6 months). This occurs simultaneously in the narrative. Six months, speaking purely zodiacally, would terminate the period of mortal life and bring the natural man to the place of his deification. At that point he would be represented as being quickened from natural to spiritual life.
Answer for yourself: Do you see it?
So then, according to the Lukan account, when the mother of the true spiritual Christ (Isis/Mary), who had just been impregnated by the Holy Ghost (Osiris was dead...remember), came into the presence of the first mother (Elizabeth, John the Baptist's mother), carrying her child at the figurative completion of his cycle of physical evolution, and awaiting only the advent of the spiritual Lord to be quickened into a new order of exalted being, he was dramatized as manifesting this reawakening by the statement that "he leaped in his mother’s womb." The Luke narration makes it clear that the conception of Jesus had just taken place when Mary visited her cousin Elizabeth and found her at the six months stage of her pregnancy. These two birth, the natural and the spiritual are related as seen in their 6 month correspondences on the Zodiac. Mary’s coming into the presence of Elizabeth is made the occasion of the natural man’s leaping in his mother’s womb. When the Christos comes to the natural man the latter leaps into the higher kingdom of spirit. The Virgo man is to become the Pisces man; first the natural then the spiritual. The Zodiac has the key to this story. The natural man should be overjoyed at the reality of his "second birth"; being "born again". The two mothers and two births required of man as taught by God in His Book in the Sky is dramatized for us in this New Testament story of Elizabeth and Mary. It is but a simple matter of arithmetic to note that the last three months of Elizabeth’s pregnancy with John coincided with the first three of Mary’s pregnancy with Jesus, bringing the birth of Jesus just six months after that of John! So Luke has it. But be not mistaken it was in the zodiacal chart some thousands of years before it could have "happened" in Judea. It had occurred zodiacally long before it could have occurred historically.
The implication of the reality that lies behind this supposed historical study is overwhelming when realized. The supposed historical occurrence is but a presumption of ignorance based on the zodiacal when that became circulated as history among the unintelligent masses. Little has changed today by design orchestrated by Rome some 1,800 years ago. The Dark Ages yet exist in the Christian Church and little hope exists for deliverance from such darkness and tunnel vision without serious study in the churches of our land.
As we see, John, symbolic of the natural man, excited at his new "awakening spiritually symbolized by Pisces, jumped for joy. This is the plan for mankind written in the night sky. We, as natural Virgo creations, are all to experience and be joyful for our experience and second birth in Pisces. The Luke narration makes it clear that the conception of Jesus had just taken place when Mary visited Elizabeth, and this is the occasion of the natural man’s leaping in his mother’s womb. When the Christos comes to the natural man the latter (Christos) leaps into the higher kingdom of spirit.
John 3:30 30 He must increase, but I must decrease. (KJV)
I was taught that his is about a clash of ministries; that John the Baptist must step out of the way to make room for the ministry of Jesus. Well, we almost got it right.
St. Paul declares that we come to birth spiritually only as we die carnally, meaning that the quantum or quality of divine character in us grows in proportion as the quantum of raw nature decreases. We increase deifically as we decrease humanly; the god gains in power as the animal nature in us dies. So the structure of the allegory depicted the spiritual man, Jesus, son of Nun, the "Fish," as increasing, while John, son of Virgo, the Water Mother, decreases in stature.
This battle between Set and Horus that is eternally waged; good vs evil. Here is where the 42 Negative Confessions and the Torah play such a big role in the maturation of "the Christ" within us all and our Souls. Man must come to the knowledge of right and wrong; the Torah defines absolute right and wrong and reveals them as the highest love. The Torah is the training manual for our Souls in order to train our Souls in their earthly abode how to live like God and conquer this animal nature as the Christ continually to be "formed" in each of us and rises daily to conquer the Set in all of us. Judaism teaches the same thing; the mastery of the Yetzer Ha Ra (good inclination) over the Yetzer Ha Tov (evil inclination). This the internal battle of light and darkness, flesh and spirit. This life is the proving ground for our Soul. Every man has an idea of what is good, but only the 42 Negative Confessions and the Torah define them absolutely for mankind. Only in this way can the "John the Baptist" in all of us decrease and make room for the increase of "the Christ".
Astrologically, as we might expect, the Ancients observed that as a star or constellation sinks below the horizon in the west, its opposite star or constellation would be rising in the east (there is your 6 months again between Virgo and Pisces); the two births and two mothers. As John, typified by the constellation of Virgo, type of the first, the natural man, went down below the horizon (having completed his mission of preparing the way for his greater successor), Jesus, type of the spiritual birth, typified by the Constellation of Pisces, rose on the world in the east. So we now understand the narrative has John saying: "I must decrease, but he must increase." In the descent of soul into the body spiritual power decreases as physical life increases. But on the reverse arc of the cycle, or evolution, the physical (John) decreases as the Christ power increases in its new round of growth.
Answer for yourself: Do we dare say that a day of brotherhood in human society may be about to dawn, as the "six months’" reign of a degrading literal interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures goes down to disuse and the day-star of a transfiguring spiritual interpretation rises in the east in its place?