This only goes to show that, as to another phase, John and Jesus were but epitomisers of the history of the same sun, under differences of aspect or condition; and one condition following another, of necessity, the statement, _Luke_, ix. 7, was not only not an empty one, but it was true, that which “was said of some, that (in Jesus) John was risen from the dead.” (And this consideration serves to explain why it has been that the _Life of Apollonius of Tyana_, by Philostratus, has been so persistently kept back from translation and from popular reading. Those who have studied it in the original have been forced to the comment that either the _Life of Apollonius_ has been taken from the _New Testament_, or that the _New Testament_ narratives have been taken from the _Life of Apollonius_, because of the manifest sameness of the _means of construction_ of the narratives. The explanation is simple enough, when it is considered that the names of _Jesus_, Hebrew יש, and Apollonius, or Apollo, are alike names of _the sun in the heavens_; and necessarily the history of the one, as to his travels through _the signs_, with the personifications of his sufferings, triumphs and miracles, could be but the _history of the other_, where there was a widespread, common method of describing those travels by personification.) It seems also that, for long afterward, all this was known to rest upon an astronomical basis; for the secular church, so to speak, was founded by Constantine, and the objective condition of the worship established was that part of his decree, in which it was affirmed that the venerable day of the _sun_ should be the day set apart for the worship of Jesus Christ, as _Sun_‐day. There is something weird and startling in some other facts about this matter. The prophet Daniel (_true prophet_, as says Graetz),(253) by use of the pyramid numbers, or astrological numbers, foretold the cutting off of the _Méshiac_, as it happened (which would go to show the accuracy of his astronomical knowledge, if there was an eclipse of the sun at that time).... Now, however, the temple was destroyed in the year 71, in the month Virgo, and 71 is the Dove number, as shown, or 71 × 5 = 355, and with _the fish_, a Jehovah number. “Is it possible,” queries further on the author, thus answering the intimate thought of every Christian and Occultist who reads and studies his work: