The Witness of the Stars

Here we come to the end of the circle. We began with Virgo, and we end with Leo. No one who has followed our interpretation can doubt that we have here the solving of the Riddle...

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The picture is that of a Bull rushing forward with mighty energy and fierce wrath, his horns set so as to push his enemies, and pierce them through and destroy them.

In the ancient Denderah Zodiac it is represented as a _Scarabæus_, or sacred beetle.(69) In the Zodiac of Esneh and in a Hindu Zodiac (400 B.C.) it is the same.

This Second Book began with _the Goat_ dying in sacrifice, and it ends with the Lamb living again, “as it had been slain.” The goat had the tail of a fish, indicating that his d...

Here is the commencement of all prophecy in Gen. iii. 15, spoken to the serpent:—“I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruis...

In this third chapter of the Second Book we come to the results of the Redeemer’s work enjoyed, but in connection with conflict, as is seen in the last of the three sections (th...

This is the concluding chapter of the first great book of this Heavenly Revelation; and it is occupied wholly with the triumph of the Coming One, who is represented as going for...

All the pictures of this sign are confused. The Greeks claimed to have invented them, and they called them Apollo and Hercules. They are given in our illustration. The Latins ca...

The Hebrew name is _Mozanaim_, _the Scales_, _weighing_. Its name in Arabic is _Al Zubena_, _purchase_, or _redemption_. In Coptic, it is _Lambadia_, _station of propitiation_ (...

It is most noteworthy that this Second Book opens with the Goat, and closes with the Ram: two animals of sacrifice; while the two middle chapters are both connected with fishes....

The Atonement being made, the blessings have been procured, and now they can be bestowed and poured forth upon the Redeemed. This is the truth, whether we think of Abel’s lamb,...

We come now right into the heart of the conflict. The star‐picture brings before us a gigantic scorpion endeavouring to sting in the heel a mighty man who is struggling with a s...

Such are the contents of this wondrous book that is written in the heavens. Thus has God been speaking and emphasizing and developing His first great prophetic promise of Gen. i...

This brings us back again to Gen. iii. 15, and closes up this first chapter of the First Book (VIRGO). It shows us the _Person_ of the Promised Seed from the beginning to the en...

§ 3. HERCULES (_The mighty man. A man kneeling on one knee, humbled in the conflict, but holding aloft the tokens of victory, with his foot on the head of the Dragon_). The migh...