veloped to a far greater degree than before, the spiritual sight had been lost by the larger majority of the people who then lived entirely on the material plane and gloried particularly in their material possessions.
The Bull was very properly worshiped by them, it was an emblem of strength necessary to conquer the material world. It was, on account of its prodigious strength, an invaluable aid in all their work. The proverb about “the flesh pots of Egypt” has remained illustrative to the present day, to show how abundantly that animal supplies their physical need of food, and the milk of the female was also an important article of diet. The possession of many cattle was therefore ardently desired by the ancient infant nations, and the worship of the Bull was inaugurated under the solar precession through Taurus during earlier, sidereal years, and was continued to the comparatively modern times, when the Sun by precession went through the sign of the Celestial Bull for the last time.
At that point when the Sun entered the sign of the Lamb, Aries, the Aryan religions were inaugurated. The Religion of the Lamb is to hold sway for the next sidereal year, while the Sun by precession passes around the Twelve signs of the Zodiac, as the religion of the Bull has held dominion during the previous celestial year from the time the Sun entered Taurus, until it left the same sign on its next passage.
New religions, however, are not revealed in their
