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JOHN-THE-BAPTIST AN ARYAN FIRE-PRIEST 279

commands by Christ to his hearers and disciples, each to “take up his Cross and follow Me,’’! were references to the visible, Fiery Red Cross sceptre-symbol of the Sun-cult of the One Father-God of the Hittite temple of Jerusalem, the symbol carried by John-the-Baptist who baptized Christ, and mo? an anticipation of the Crucifix. And Christ baptized “with Fire.’’*

This now suggests that not only the Cross-carrying Johnthe-Baptist and his father, the Fire-priest Zacharias, but also Christ of Galilee of the Gentiles, were Gentiles of the Aryan religion of the One and Only Father-God with his symbol of the Sun Cross, and its associated rite of Baptism, and whose ancient Aryan shrine was at Jerusalem. This appears to explain the anti-Judaist teaching of Christ and John the Baptist, and why Christ and the father of John, as well as his earlier priestly namesake, were slain by the Jewish priests.‘ It also seems to explain the visit of “‘ the wise men from the East” to Jerusalem, at the Nativity of Our Lord. The persons generally called ‘“‘ wise men from the East’ were, we find, as corrected in the Revised Version of the New Testament, “ Magi,’’* a term solely used for the priests of the Sun and Fire-cult ; and this name is obviously derived from the Sumerian Mas, as “‘ bearer of the Ma§ or + Cross.” Moreover, the related words translated in our English version ‘‘from the East” occur in the original Greek text as “‘ from Anatolia’ *—Anatolia being the middle part of Asia Minor, including Cappadocia, the old homeland of the Hittites and their Sun-cult, and the traditional home of St. George and his Red Cross.

1 Matt. xvi, 24, etc. The word used here for cross is stauros, usually employed in classic Greek for a stave, or wooden bolt, cognate with Gothic stafy or staff, sanskrit stavava, “ firm.’ It seems cognate with the Akkad word forthis + sign Sadadu, defined as ‘‘ The Wood of Winged God, the Light Red Cross” (Br. 1800).

* The same Greek word stauros is used for the Crucifix in the New Testament. 7

2 Matt. ili, 11.

‘Matt. xxili, 25; 2 Chron. xxiv, 20; G.L.S., Novr. 148 on Zacharias and cp. Enc. Bibl., 5373 for refs.

5 Matt. ii, 1.

5" Apo anatolon. Yet anatolz, literally “‘ Rising up,” especially of Sun, is used sometimes poetically for “‘ East.”