the reason why. This we have given in the books on “Free-Masonry and Catholicism” and also in our book on the Rosicrucian Philosophy. But suffice it to say that in the Bible story to which reference has been made, we have one of the Naim, a Widow’s Son or initiate of the old Serpent School, for the priests of Egypt were “phree messen,” children of light. Each had within, the ancient Serpent Wisdom. But a new religion was being inaugurated, and it was necessary to raise the ancient Initiates to the Mysteries of the Coming Age. Therefore the Christ, the Lion of Judah, Lord of the new Kingdom, went to the Widow’s Son of Naim and raised him up by the strong grip of the Lion’s paw. And we may here emphasize that the first Initiate under the new system was Hiram Abiff, the highest Initiate of the old system, who, by this new initiation given him by the Christ, became a Christian, pledged to bear the Rose and the Cross, which were the symbols of the New Mystery Teachings of the Western World and he was then given the symbolical name: Christian Rosenkrenz.
Thus from the time when the Sun enters the sign Aries by precession, it became a crime for the chosen people to worship the bull exoterically, or to partake of the esoteric Serpent wisdom, And for a similar reason it is Idolatry when people of the West take up the Eastern religions, Hindooism, Buddhism and kindred teachings. For in the Aryan Epochs, only the Aryan Religions, the religions of
