The Nome nugget., 1923-03-31
EsOTER|C SIGNIFICANCE
 OF EASTER SUNDAY
(Contributed.)

dance of shadows in the shadow world of physical matter.
 A Myth is an account of the movements of those who cast the shadows; and the language in which the account is given is what is called the language of symbols.
 A symbol has chief meaning, and then various subsidiary mean ings related to that chief meaning.
 The Solar Myth is a st ory primar- fly representing the activity of the Logos. or Word in the kosmos, secondarily embodies the life of one who is incarnated of the Logos. or of the myth is usually represented as a God, or Demi-God, and his life must be outlined by the course of the Sun. as the shadow of the Logos. The part of the course lived out during the human life is that which falls between the winter solstice and the reaching of the zenith in sum mer. The Hero is born at the win ter solstice. dies at the Spring equi- nox, and, conquerins death, rises in to mid heaven.
 It is pre-eminently to the gospel that this beautiful thought is apph- cable, for tEe gospel is not merely the narrative of what has been; it is the sublime narrative of what is and what always will be-
 The Sun God is always born, at the winter solstice, after the short est day in the year. at the midnight of December 24th, when the sign Virgo is rising above the horizon; born as this sign is rising, he is all ways born of virgin. and she re- mains virgin after she has given birth to her .Sun-Child. as the celes- tial Virgo remains unchanged and unSulied when the sun comes forth from her in the heavens. Weak, surrounded with perils in his in- fancy he lives thru all dangers and approaches the Spring equinox. when comes the crossing over, the crucifiction. the date varying each year
 The name Easter" has been traced to the Babylonian Ishtar, vir gin mother of the slain Tammuz. Easter is a movable event. calculat- ed by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fix in< year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but very natur- al and indeed ineventful way of cal. culating a solar festival. These hanging dates do not point to the history of man, but to the Hero of Solar Myth. These events are re- produced in the lives of the various Solar Gods, and antiquity teens with illust rations of them.
 The death and resurrection of the Solar Hero at or about the vernal equinox is as widespread as his birth at the winter soistice. In all cases the mourning for the death is immediately followed by the rejoic- ing over the resurrection. It is in- terestb ing to note that the Fast pre- cedine the death at the vernal equi- nox.-&he modern Lent-is found in MeHieo. Egypt. Persia. Babylon. Assyria, Asia Minor. in some cases definitely for forty days.
 Why have these legends mingled with the history of Christ, and cry stalized round Him, as a historical personages. These are really the stortes not of particular Individual named Christ, but of the universal Christ; of a Man who symbolized a Divine Being, and who represented a fundamental truth in nature: a Man who filled a certain office and held a certain characteristic posi- tion toward humanity; standing to- wards humanity in special reaa- 4ionsllip. renewed age after age, as generation succeeded generation, as race gave way to race. Hence He was, as are all such, the "Sun of Man." a peculiar and distinctive title. the title of an office. not of an individual. The Christ of the Solar Myth was the Christ of the Myster- les.