the Fish, attaining great prominence, and the apostles were called to be ‘Fishers of Men," for then the sun by precession was nearing the cusp of Pisces, the Fish, and Christ. spoke of the time when the Son of Man (Aquarius) shall come. Thus our evolutionary journey is mapped out in the hidden astrological allusions of the Bible,
The student now has a line on the march of events, which it is well to keep in mind.
Jesus taught the multitudes in parables but explained the mysteries of the Kingdom to His disciples. Paul gave meat to the strong, but the milk of doctrine to the multitude, for there has always been an exoteric and an esoteric side in every religion. If we take Taurus, the sign of the Bull, to symbolize the worship of that animal as practiced in Egypt, Persia and other countries at that time, then we shall find that the opposite sign, Scorpio, symbolizes the esoteric doctrine of the priesthood, which were. the guardians of these ancient Atlantean Mysteries,
In this connection we will note first that the sign Scorpio is represented in the pictorial Zodiac by a Scorpion or Serpent, and we wish to impress particularly on the student’s mind that the Scorpion has its sting in the tail, while the Serpent has the venom in his teeth, This is very significant, as we shall see presently.
On looking up the word “serpent” in the Bible, we shall find that there are about seven words that have thus been translated; but one of them, which
