of Ezekiel, the prophet, the genii of the seasons are referred to in
the same manner.

These genii of the seasons, standing, imaginarily, at the four corners
of the heavens, were called corner-keepers, and making them witnesses
to God Sol in his apparent annual revolution, the founders of the
Astral Worship designated them as Archangels, Evangelists, God-Spellers
or Gospel-Bearers, and claiming inspiration from them, composed four
different histories of the birth and earth-life of the incarnate
saviour, to each of which they attached a name, and called these
records the Gospel story. In its Chaldean version, the names of
Gabriel, Michael, Raphael and Uriel were given them; but while the
first two of these are mentioned in the Christian Gospel story, its
authors gave to the Evangelists the names of Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John. Thus knowing the true signification of the Disciples and
Evangelists, the very pertinent question presents itself: If they are
not the genii of the months and the seasons, why are there just twelve
of the one and four of the other?

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Half Year of Increasing Days.

In the ancient astrolatry, the half year of increasing days, extending
from the Winter to the Summer Solstice, was personified by the
composite figure representing the constellations of Taurus and
Aquarius, which, constituted of the winged body of a bull and the head
and beard of a man, was called the Cherubim. This personification we
find portrayed upon the Assyrian marbles on exhibition in the British