most mystic, so fraught with hidden meaning that its full import cannot be fully understood save when viewed by the internal light of spiritual illumination, Yearly, at the Winter solstice, the immaculate Madonna is ascendant at midnight, when the new born Sun commences to rise to the task of growing the grain and grape, to save humanity from the cold and famine, which would inevitably result were he to remain in the southern declination. The Sun is therefore an apt symbol of the Savior, born to feed his flock on the spiritual bread of life. But, as we must have eyes attuned to light to see the sun, so must the Christ be born within. As Angelus Silesius says:
“Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem be born
And not within thyself, thy soul will be forlorn,
The Cross on Golgotha thou lookest to in vain
Unless within thyself it be set up again.”
Therefore, by the precessional passage of the Sun through the sign Virgo, the germinal impulse was given towards the birth of Christ within. ‘The mystic marriage’ of the lower self to the higher, ‘the immaculate conception,’ and ‘the divine motherhood’ which nourishes deep in its bosom, unseen by a scoffing world, ‘the new born Christ,’ is an actual experience of a growing number of people, And without the celestial prototype, fructified by the solar precession, this would be an impossibility; neither
