"The sun is always a powerful, invincible image, whether it is the weak
illumination of the pre winter solstice, or the savage primal energy of
midsummer. Long before humanity developed written language humans must have
gazed in terrific awe at the reborn sun each morning, how it over came the
dangerous dragon of darkness that it sank into each evening, the provider of
light, warmth, sustainer of growing vegetation -life itself--this enormous solar
edifice quite clearly was one of the earliest forms of worship as man began to
fashion a supernatural interpretation of natural phenomenon from the daily
spectacle of the dying and reborn sun. Albert Pike makes the following concise
statement in his
Morals and Dogma: 'To them [aboriginal peoples] he [the sun] was the innate fire of bodies,
the fire of Nature. Author of Life, heat, and ignition, he was to them the
efficient cause of all generation, for without him there was no movement, no
existence, no form. He was to them immense, indivisible, imperishable, and
everywhere present. It was their need of light, and of his creative energy,
that was felt by all men; and nothing was more fearful to them than his
absence. His beneficent influences caused his identification with the
Principle of Good; and the
Brama
of the Hindus, and
Mithras of the Persians, and Athom,
Amum,
Phtha, and
Osiris, of the Egyptians, the
Bel of
the Chaldeans, the Asonai of the Phœnicians, the
Adonis and
Apollo of the Greeks, became but personifications of the Sun, the
regenerating Principle, image of that fecundity which perpetuates and
rejuvenates the world's existence.'"
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Christ, Constantine, Sol Invictus: The Unconquerable Sun By
Ralph Monday
June: Quotes, Poems, Sayings
Summer Solstice Celebration
