JOHN THE BAPTIST as the MORNING STAR
Ref Symbols Signs & their meaning Arnold Whittick Leonard Hill Ltd 1960 398.3 Brad
Ref to Col Mackinlay The Magi 1907 56
265 The figurative language of Gospels shows that JB regarded himself and was thought of as the Morning Star that heralded the rising Sun.
109 Allegro Gemini = Morning & Evening Star. A Star Born Leader. Matt 13:55 Mk 6:3 [copy in Mushroom]]
J 3.30 He must increase but I must decrease.
J 5.35 He was the lamp that burneth and shineth
Ref St John John Marsh Pelican Comm SCM Press 1977 Penguin 1963
267 He was a burning & shining lamp & you were willing to rejoice [271 a very strong word in Greek]for a while/season in his light.
310 J 1:4-9 John came to bear witness to the Light[God].
104 1:5 The light [neuter in Greek] shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
= the Logos, always shines, always illumines the darkness of the world.
270 1:8 He was NOT that light, but was sent to bear witness to that Light.
105 1:11 The light is active in the history of God’s chosen people Israel. The true light was coming into the world.
Ps 132 17 I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
International Bible Abingdon Press New York 1952 Brad 220.7
3 19-21 8 12
469 1 9-11 the Incarnation caused light to shine on every human being.
1 31 He who comes from above is above all..36 he that doesn’t believe - the wrath of God abideth on him [517= a sudden stabbing unexpected ending to this statement of the wonderful love of God toward everyone.
Rev 22:16 Christ is the Bright and Morning Star.
The Sports & Pastimes of the people of England. J Strutt 1903, 1968 Detroit Grove. 283-6
does Clube mention all this? or do they just talk about Celtic
JB is called in Holy Writ ‘A Shining Light’
Midsummer Eve - the vigil of JB. Everyone makes a large fire in the open or in the middle of the street. People leap over them. They wear Flower Garlands. People looking through the flowers at the fire will come to no harm. They cast them into the fire as an invocation to the deity. Fires drive away dragons & evil spirits in air. dragons hate the smell of burning bones = BONE FIRES.
Also St Peter & Paul - The Midsummer watch of 2000 marching with lights.
On this night oil lamps are burned. In London, especially in New Fish and Thames Street. there a re ‘splendid branches of curiously wrought iron with hundreds of lighted lamps [like Menorah of 7 planets?]
Burford Ox. Carry a Dragon up and down with mirth & rejoicing.
Golden Bough HB 122 Eve is 23 June. 318 St Peter 29th 343 JB= vernal celebration = Adonis/Tammuz
343-4 In Sicily, the sweethearts of St J draw a hair from each others head and perform ceremonies over them. They tie the hairs together and throw them up. They exchange hairs over a potsherd and break it in 2 = tied for life.. In Sardinia the sweethearts/gossips of SJ are the compare and comare de San Giovanni, Hans
545 waxen thread? 622 Rolling a wheel on MSD 24th June. Medieval - filthy smoke drives away noxious dragons copulating in the air and poisoning wells and rivers by dropping seed into them [comet germs?]. Chaplets of Mugwort, looked at fire through snapdragons. 624 Upper Bavaria, 16c, Bishop’s followers threw burning wood discs from mountain, discharged by flexible rods. Looked like fiery dragons. 631 Moslems in Morocco and Algeria burnt plants to give thick smoke and aroma.
704-6 Oil of St John = MISTLETOE.
CS280 There are less retrograde bodies as they have shorter lives than direct orbiters. They became rings of JUPITER &Saturn. also Chiron & PHOBOS [OR Deimos?]
Sunday Post 2.6.96 Beltane = New Year Spring = special mountain ceremonies=relighting of bonfires & offerings on summit to birds & animals capable of harming herds [wolf, rave, hooded crow, eagle [repeated in cometeze].
ball games haxey hood skin any around June/Jb?
Ezekiel Temple festival?
127.pinwheel disk from Space Puzzles M Gardner UK 1974?
Essene Odyssey Hugh Schonfield Element 1984
141 Sky Man Light Adam is one of the great secrets studied by the Essenes, Mandaeans [Book of John] & Nazoreans.
He incarnates in John the Baptist
A star appears/ comes and stands over Eliz while a fire burns in Zakhria.
A child is planted out of the height from Above [Sun]. He comes and will be given to Eliz.
He is fire in Z. PLANTED IN WOMB. AFTER BIRTH, MYSTERIOUSLY CONVEYED TO PARWAN
- WHITE MOUNTAIN - FOR 22 YEARS.
Then he is brought on a cloud of splendour and set down in Jerusalem region.
Encyc of Religion M Eliade USA 1987
8 113 Is 40:3 JB & Essenes warned of a coming purgative fire associated with the Holy Spirit and with washing.
[Now see
14.45 2.2 SCORPIO =a plague of insects and reptiles, LOCUSTS.
Downing 93 Luke 1:5-23 Gabriel appears in Temple to announce future birth of Baptist.
cw159 Sunday before feast of St John the Baptist
Lightfoot R H St John’s Gospel A Commentary OUP 1956/60
68 The light to which the Baptist witnesses,like life, has its origin and fount in the Logos. It becomes identified at Bethany by John with the Lord Bridegroom who is Himself the light. This identification takes place after a divinely enlightening sign promised at his mission outset [1 4 15 32-34]
120 3 13 He comes from above and is above all. Centre of circle of divine energy of life & love.
146 They sunned themselves in the illumination which he gave.
89 We can become sons of the light 12 16
89 Heb 1 1-2 the increasing intensity of the coming of the Logos, the true universal light which lightens all men The one and only Agent in creation 1 3.
90 The shekinah is made perfect, realised in its fullness, in the incarnation of the logos.
94 Baptist is final herald before Messiah comes with imminent consummation.
98 Andrew and Simon 2 Baptist disciples
update june 1 1999
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