King Jesus (Penguin Modern Classics) - Plot & Excerpts
The Chrestian mysteries are no exception. Jesus had been born at the winter solstice, the birthday of the Sun when it attains the southernmost, or right-hand, point of its course ; but his baptism and anointing were a ceremony of rebirth performed on the ninth day of the month Ab, the date of the heliacal rising of the Dog-star. According to Jewish apocalyptic writers, the ninth of Ab was also the destined birthday of the Messiah, because the Messianic star of Isaiah’s prophecy was the Dog-star, the Calebite badge of the House of David ; moreover, the rising of the Dog-star determined the true beginning and ending of the Phoenix (or Sothic) Year of 1460 ordinary years, and the Messiah Son of David had been mystically described as the new Phoenix. It is also noteworthy, by the by, that in having two birthdays Jesus resembled the god Dionysus, “the Child of the Double Door”, born first of his mother Semele and then of Father Zeus ; and so initiates of the Alexandrian Church are taught by the mystagogues when they pass into the Third Degree of Recognition.
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