The Physiognomic Expression of the Old Jehovah Principle

In this weakened sunlight, in this moonlight shining down from the earth, the esoteric Christians saw the physiognomic expression of the old Jehovah principle. They imagined that when the sun shines perceptibly on the earth, it sends down its rays and makes all budding and burgeoning life shoot out of the earth. But then, when the days become shorter, they said, the sun increasingly withdraws its physical power from the earth. In the same measure as the physical power of the sun is withdrawn from the Earth, the spiritual power grows. And with the adherence of the oldest mysteries, the esoteric Christian, even deep into the Middle Ages, saw in the sun the expression of the spiritual light governing the