The Astrological Origins of Pagan & Christian Belief

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
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Author: Edward Carpenter ISBN: 9781365829260
Publisher: Lulu.com Publication: May 28, 2017
Imprint: Lulu.com Language: English
Author: Edward Carpenter
ISBN: 9781365829260
Publisher: Lulu.com
Publication: May 28, 2017
Imprint: Lulu.com
Language: English
In Mithraism the slaying of a Bull by the Sungod occupies the same place as the slaying of the Lamb in the Christian cult. It took place at the Vernal Equinox and the blood of the Bull acquired in men's minds a magic virtue. Owing to the Precession of the Equinoxes, the crossing-place of the Ecliptic and Equator was different at the time of the establishment of Mithra-worship from what it was in the Christian period; and the Sun instead of standing in Aries, at the Vernal Equinox stood about two thousand years earlier in the constellation of the Bull. Taurus therefore became the symbol of the triumphant God, and the sacrifice of the bull a holy mystery. It must be remembered that in the early centuries of our era the Mithra-cult was spread over the whole Western world, and it may almost be said to have been a matter of chance whether Mithraism should overwhelm Christianity, or whether the younger religion by adopting many of the rites of the older one should establish itself...
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In Mithraism the slaying of a Bull by the Sungod occupies the same place as the slaying of the Lamb in the Christian cult. It took place at the Vernal Equinox and the blood of the Bull acquired in men's minds a magic virtue. Owing to the Precession of the Equinoxes, the crossing-place of the Ecliptic and Equator was different at the time of the establishment of Mithra-worship from what it was in the Christian period; and the Sun instead of standing in Aries, at the Vernal Equinox stood about two thousand years earlier in the constellation of the Bull. Taurus therefore became the symbol of the triumphant God, and the sacrifice of the bull a holy mystery. It must be remembered that in the early centuries of our era the Mithra-cult was spread over the whole Western world, and it may almost be said to have been a matter of chance whether Mithraism should overwhelm Christianity, or whether the younger religion by adopting many of the rites of the older one should establish itself...

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