s out the
light of the Sun from the heaven.[485:3]

We have also the story of _Adonis_, born of a virgin, and known in the
countries where he was worshiped as "The Saviour of Mankind," killed by
the wild _boar_, afterwards "rose from the dead, and ascended into
heaven." This Adonis, Adonai--in Hebrew "My Lord"--is simply the _Sun_.
He is crucified in the heavens, put to death by the wild boar, _i. e._,
_Winter_. "Babylon called Typhon or Winter _the boar_; they said he
killed Adonis or the fertile _Sun_."[485:4]

The _Crucified Dove_ worshiped by the ancients, was none other than the
crucified Sun. Adonis was called the _Dove_. At the ceremonies in honor
of his resurrection from the dead, the devotees said, "Hail to the Dove!
the Restorer of Light."[485:5] Fig. No. 35 is the "Crucified Dove" as
described by Pindar, the great lyric poet of Greece, born about 522 B.
C.

"We read in Pindar, (says the author of a learned work
entitled "Nimrod,") of the venerable bird Iynx bound to the
wheel, and of the pretended punishment of Ixion. But this
rotation was really no punishment, being, as Pindar saith,
_voluntary_, and prepared _by himself_ and _for himself_; or
if it was, it was appointed in derision of his false
pretensions, whereby he gave himself out as _the crucified
spirit of the world_." "The four spokes represent St. Andrew's
cross, adapted to the four limbs extended, and furnish perhaps
the oldest _profane_ allusion to the crucifixion. The same
cross of St. Andrew was the _Taw_, which Ezekiel commands them
to mark upon the foreheads of the faithful, as appears from
all Israelitish coins whereon that letter is engraved. The
same idea was familiar to Lucian, who calls T _the letter of
crucifixion_. Certainly, the veneration for the cross is very
ancient. Iynx, the bird of Mautic inspiration, bound to the
four-legged wheel, gives the notion of _Divine Love
crucified_. The wheel denotes the world, of which she is the
spirit, and the cross _the sacrifice made for that
world_."[486:1]

This "_Divine Love_," of whom Nimrod speaks, was "_The First-begotten
Son_" of the Platonists. The crucifixion of "_Divine Love_" is often
found among the Greeks. Ioenah or Juno, according to the _Iliad_, was
bound with fetters, and _suspended in space_, between heaven and earth.
Ixion, Prometheus, Apollo of Miletus, (anciently the greate