The Sun
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
As we see, it is only with study that we can truly understand what Christianity is. The Sun symbolism can hardly be ignored. We see it in the accepted gospels and the Apocrypha. Christ is a Sun-god, and the old tradition of Christmas Day was to celebrate the Birth of the Sun as conceived in the constellation of Virgo at the end of August. The ancients believed that the divinity of the Sun was found within. One could know Christ as an inner experience of the sun within and reflect this experience in thoughts, feelings and deeds in the Sun Path. Let us turn to the 19th century metaphysician Rudolf Steiner for his understanding of the Sun Path in his lecture, The Wrong And Right Use Of Esoteric Knowledge (November 25,1917, Dornach, Switzerland.) “Oracle Sanctuaries were the names of the places where ancient wise women and men were instructed in the mysteries of creation by our angelic teachers. The highest Oracle Sanctuary was that of the Sun (Christ) Oracle.” Steiner called the Sun Oracle the highest, most sublime of all the ancient Oracles since it not only encompassed the Christ Mystery, but also all the other oracle wisdom. The wisdom, mysteries of the Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus and Vulcan oracles were held in the Christ (Sun/Son) Oracle. See U.M.S. Symbols and Colors course.