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that the sun rose little farther north
than on the 22nd. The statue of
Memnon was so constructed that as the
sun rose on the 25th of Dec. he sent 81
beam of light into the mouth of the
statue. Thus Memnon proclaimed
with his mouth that the sun had risen,
from his annual death and burial, andl
bwns returning to the northern hemis-,
! phere.
Jonah is the sun, and literally enters
the belly of a great fish. But this fisha
is not whale and is not called SO in
the Old Testament. He is called 4
whale in the New Testament, but theJ
astronomical student can easily under,
stand how this discrepancy occurred. !,
The account of Jonah is beautiful al,
legory, illustrating principle in nat
ural science, just as Bunyan, in hise
Pilgrims Progress, illustrates a moral =
and religious principle. But in mode
ern times it has not been understood1 q
save in literal sense, which rcnderst
the whole account puerile and ridicu-
lous. The infidel knows that in lit i,
eral sense 1t cannot be true, for the ,
throat of whale is no larger than that :
of an OK. so that he cannot swallow 8
man or even if he could, the man
could not live three days without oxya
gen. SO the intidel SCOTS at it as 4
fish story and adduces it as an evil
dence that the Bible is not true, and as
n proof of the stupidity of its authors. =
Fools often scott at science, because :.
their little brains are incapable OF com "
pretending its sublime truths.
At this point might properly con-
clude the explanation Of Jonah and the !
fish. were it not that some half-hedged
astronomer will detect an opportunity
for criticism which might stagger /.
such as do not thoroughly understand ;,
the heavenly science BY calculating
the procession Of the equinoxes, it is
probable, (and accept the probabil
itv,) that the winter solstIcc occurred u
in the sign Aquarious, and not Cap Il
ricorn. at the time the book Of Jonah \
was written. Such being the case, my
explanation seems out Of joint, and
my conclusion forced. | will answer
this objection, for | am anxious to leave
no loopholc for criticism.
In the time Of Moses the colures oc- 1
Cured when the sun entered the signs
Taurus, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. '
that is, the beginning of the four sea {,
sons, Spring, summer, Autumn and
Winter Spring was looked forward p,
TO with anxiety, and was period OF
rejoicing at having escaped the evils OF
winter. Taurus, the bull was held sa-
cred a an animal among the Egypt
tians, because when the sun arrived at
the constellation Of that name, they
had the vernal equinox. Moses, al (.
though often styled a barbarian on ac ,
count of his bloody deeds. was still q
progressive man, considering the age :,
in which he lived, for upon calculating
the procession Of the equinoxes he SAW
that in course Of time, Spring would !
seem To come earlier, as the vernal eq-
uinox would happen while the sun vas
in Aries, without waiting 10 arrive 1t
Taurus. This phenomenon first oc-
Cured 33S wears before the commence
ment Of the Christian Era, and will not :
not happen agaiu in Taurus until about 4,
the year A. u. - 900.
In anticipation of this epoch, hating
the Egyptians for their oppression of
his people, and disgusted with their D
idola,ry, Moses sought TO establish
new order of things, religious, scien- Il
tiiic and governmental. So he repudia-
ted ..the sacred bull instituted the
passover to commemorate that period :,
when Taurus should pass over the
equinoctial and Aries ascend To il, and {
substitute the male lamb, (Aries the =
ram.) and As a symbol of innocence d
and the most fitting TO otfer as . sac II
rilice to the Lord. instead Of worship-e
ing the sacred bull. With that charac-,c
terstic which has ever been common
to all who establish new creeds, Moses .
loathed and abhorred everything hing-sc
ing upon Egyptian ceremonies. Hence
he punished the worship of the golden
calf, representative Of the sacred
bull, by causing the Levites to slaugh- =
ter three thousand Of the idolators ~hot'
hankered after the Taurus ceremonialsit
of their oppressors. This incidents,
furnishes US with proof of the terriblen
earncstness Of Moses to crush out ev- n
cry vestage of the Egyptian creed.-t
later periods his successor observed
the same strictness of principle. The :
book of Jonah was written in the last
days of the Taurus dispensation, andn
il would be most irrational to conclude)'
that the author wrote from any otheri'
than the Aries basis, and upon thiss'
basis the winter solstice commenced
when the sun arrived at the water goat ,ic
or the sign Capricon. *
Since the days of Moses the colures
have retrocessed more than an entire
sign. Aries has passed over the equi-
noctial and its place has been taken BY :
Pisces, in the latter degrees Of which Z
the sun is transiting at the vernal e1uiAt
nox. Therefore the sun does not en1
ter Aries on the 2lst, of March ~ our.
Astronomers teach, for he does nom
complete his transit in Pisces unit
some four DAYS later. Astronomer
know this just as we'll - they know !,
that the sun does rot literally rise and
set. But as all our astronomical tables
are calculated from the first degree
Aries, it would create nothing but con-
| fusion, and labors incalculable, verT,
they to attempt correction each yea !
Of the 5O,2 seconds Of space Of retro
cession' l.
Fifty lectures would not exhaust thy
| ..,h;an4 &C thu Rihlo and .fHonoxnR ~