secret of Genesis
Subtitle: an astro-religious record : the legends and their interpretation, from the fall of the angels to the building of the Babel tower
By: by George St. Clair.
Publisher: Francis Griffiths
Published: 1907
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis.
Description: CONTENTS

*Chaos and Creation 

Introduction.—We are in a realm of allegory—Reconciliation theories have failed—No accord with the sciences was intended; the matter is neither geological nor biological; the Bible writers do not describe a cosmogony—The subject matter is astro-religious legend, with associated calendars and festivals. The Universe of the Ancients. Early ideas of the Egyptians: star-worship succeeded by sun-worship—Creation associated with Time, and the beginning of Time with calendar record—The passage out of chaos—" Tablets of Destiny " were astronomical records—The date of Creation, the establishment of the Zodiac—Confused with the era of the first Sothic Cycle.

*Angels and Men

Fall of the Angels—Angels associated with stars; tutelary divinities of months, minutes and ages -Some became disobedient, deceivers, rebellious, and are imprisoned—How the fallen angels corrupted the daughters of men—The rebel angels have seven leaders. Creation of Men-Mortal man in the legend is a symbol—His creation follows the fall 

of the angels, at the close of the Sabaean period It is coincident with the institution of the Calendar.

*Paradise its Rivers and Trees

The Four Rivers.—Paradise and its rivers are celestial There were four cardinal meridians thus symbolised—The difficulties of the description are thus cleared up. The Two Trees.—Trees are symbols—The Northmen’s Yggdrasil was ATree of Life, symbolising the axis of the wor1d—Other nations had theirs—Relation of the Tree of Knowledge to the Tree of Life The Palm-tree was asymbol of knowledge—It comes in with the Sun-and-Moon when the stars have failed.

*The Subtle Serpent 

Contradictory legends indicate more serpents than one-Astronomy has several: Draco, Serpentarius, &c.—The" crooked serpent " of Isaiah xxvii. 1, like Apepi of Egypt, lies along the Zodiac—Two serpents, of Light and Dark, symbolise the upper and under hemispheres—The Egyptian Typhon has an artificial basis in the Calendar—

Typhon’s mischief distinguished from Apepi’s—The three serpents of the sky—The dragon of darkness and winter. The Serpent of Genesis corresponds to Typhon, the Egyptian Devil.

*The Expulsion and After 

The Cherubim and Flaming Sword, Plurality in unity Composite animal symbols—The Great Sphinx combines three aspects of the sun—Ezekiel’s cherubim combines four, the full circle; and the Sun is the emblem of Deity The descriptions apply to Zodiacal forms An important truth was set forth—The flaming sword. Cain and Abel Cain and Abel bear some resemblance to Typhon and Osiris - Cain, like Typhon, gets more than his due—Typhon is like Leviathan—Abel’s heavenly Flock - Cain founds a city, i.e., institutes a new era—The legends, however, have been adapted, for better ethical teaching.

*The Adamic Year and Adam's Two Wives

Adam and the Circle of Degrees—Adam and theEarth-god——The Adamic year of 360 days required a supplement—

Paradise and the Golden Age. Adam's Two Wives Lilith and Eve—Some Talmud stories—Lilith, the Evil Dancer—Lilith represents anintercaiary month, the Month of the Cat—How long the Adamic year (the year of Paradise) 

lasted—Tradition associates Adam with the equinox—Eve, like the goddess Neith, the Mother of the Five Days.

*The City of Enoch which Cain Built 

Introductory Section on the Antediluvian Patriarchs.—The Vague Year and the Sothic Cycle in Egypt- This Year and Cycle not confined to Egypt—Cain’s new City marks the new era—The Sethites stand by the true TropicalYear—Rival beginnings at opposite seasons—The working of the two systems—The seasonal names—How Enoch Disappears - Lamech and his two wives—As the Cycle ends with Lamech, the sons of Adam and Zillah 
do not inherit—The significance of Adah and Zillah and their offspring.
*The Ages of the Partriarchs

The paternity ages of the seven members of the House of —Cain amount to a Sothic Period—Is there any significance in the "rest-of-life " ages? Attempts of Baron Bunsen and Victor Rydberg - 0ur clue is the Sothic Period—But

the figures have been adapted, to suit the human history.

*Noah And the Nephilim 

After Lamech the Sidereal Year is revived, a rival to the Tropical-—Are their adherents the Elohists and Jehovists? Noah introduces a new Era, the Neros Cycle-—-The Sons of God and the Giant -Corruption of the world—The Nephilim are the fallen angels of the stars—The Pole has shifted further since the Seven fell-—-The Giants

and their relation to the Nephilim. ·

*The Deluge and the Ark

Theories of Whiston and Burnet; Facts of the Geologists-Difficulties relating to the quantity of water, and the dispersion of the animals from the Ark - Supposition of a local flood——Comparison with the Deluge stories of Babylonia and Greece—Is the great story allegorical?—The shadow of Fate! The Nephilim and the Deluge—The purpose of Noah—Noah in the Ark, discovers the extent of error—Symbolism of the birds and the olive leaf—
The Ark itself and its possible symbolism. 

*Noah's Later Life

Noah’s new Era——The promise of stability—The rift within the lute: ls Shem or Japheth the eldest son?—-How Noah" began to be a husbandman," and came to be drunken, -The sin of Ham-His brothers try to neutralise the

effect-—Shem succeeds Noah-—The vicious system of Cain revives, with Ham personifying the Dark power--The

curse on Canaan-—The value of our principles to the Apologist and to the Historian. 

*The Tower of Babel

The scene of the enterprise—The God Bel of Babylon-The spring equinox and a lunar year suggested—How find a basis of agreement?—Old records to be sought out-Conflicting proposals--This confusion of tongues not contradicted by facts of language-—Diversity of speech produced by separation - Rightly interpreted, the story is true.
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