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In
Libra he came as the Lord of the Balance, or the King of Righteousness; in
Scorpio he came as the divine Scorpion, to sting the god into
incarnational Lethe from which he was to awake on Christmas in his
quickening to life; in Sagittarius he came as the half-animal Archer
aiming at the distant goal of unification of his two elements; in
Capricorn he came as the mountain goat scaling the heights of the spirit;
in Aquarius he was the Water-Pourer, or universal server; in Pisces he
came as the Ichthys, the divine Fish, as the food of man; in Aries the ram
or Lamb of God, sacrificed for the world; in Taurus, as the Golden Bull or
Calf, the male Cow of life and plenty of ancient Egypt; in Gemini as the
two divine twins, the god in his biune form, the one of which, like John
the Baptist decreases as the other increases; in Cancer as the Good Scarab
or Beetle, type of the self-renewing divine life; in Leo as the lion of
the house of Judah; in Virgo as the shoot of the vine, constellated in
this sign in old zodiacs.
