Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy

Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy is a 254 page book that speaks upon the religions, ancient belief systems and its relationship to astrology and the cosmos. It breaks down the symbols of the stars, planets, and solar systems and explains how they affect the history of the Earth's population at that time.

IF WE CLOSELY EXAMINE the elder forms of religious
worship, we will find in most of them that God is
worshiped under the symbol of the sun. This is not
only true of those nations called pagan, but we also
find in the Bible itself the sun alluded to as the most
perfect and appropriate symbol of the creator. The sun
is the most splendid and glorious object in nature. The
regularity of its course knows no change. It is "the
same yesterday, today, and forever." It is the physical
and magnetic source of all life and motion. Its light is a
type of eternal truth; its warmth of universal benevolence.
It is therefore not strange that man in all ages has
selected the sun as the highest and most perfect
emblem of God. There is a natural tendency, however,
in the human mind, to confound all symbols with the
person or thing which they were at first only intended
to illustrate. In the course of time we therefore find thatmost nations forgot the worship of the true God, and began to
adore the sun itself, which they thus deified and personified.
The sun thus personified was made the theme of allegorical
history, emblematic of his yearly passage through the twelve
constellations.
The zodiac is the apparent path of the sun among the stars.
It was divided by the ancients into twelve equal parts, composed
of the clusters of stars, named after "living creatures,"
typical of the twelve months. This glittering belt of stars was
therefore called the zodiac, that word meaning "living creatures,"
being derived from the greek word zodiakos, which
comes from zo-on, an animal. This latter word is compounded
directly from the primitive Egyptian radicals, zo, life, and on,
a being.
The sun, as he pursued his wan among these "living creatures"
of the zodiac, was said, in allegorical language, either to
assume the nature of or to triumph over the sign he entered.
The sun thus became a Bull in Taurus, and was worshiped as
such by the Egyptians under the name of Apis, and by the
Assyrians as Bel, Baal, or Bul. In Leo the sun became a Lionslayer,
Hercules, and an Archer in Sagittarius. In Pisces, the
Fishes—he was a fish—Dagon, or Vishnu, the fish-god of the
Philistines and Hindoos. When the sun enters Capricornus he
reaches his lowest southern declination; afterward as he
emerges from that sign the days become longer, and the Sun
grows rapidly in light and heat; hence we are told in the
mythology that the Sun, or Jupiter, was suckled by a goat. The
story of the twelve labors of Hercules is but an allegory of the
passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac, and
past the constellations of proximity thereto.