One more Christmas Star story!

Here is the link to a very interesting book. It can now be read online for free, it was written in the early 1900's. I have found his interpretation very interesting and it was an entertaining read. He has a similar discussion on the star and the Magi.

Mystic Christianity by Yogi Ramacharaka

http://www.fullbooks.com/Mystic-Christianity.html

THE TWO STARS OF BETHLEHEM

My hypothesis is that the mysterious Star of Bethlehem from the Gospel of Matthew 2: 1-18 was two separate apparitions meant to be seen only by the Wise Men or Magi from the East and the reason why that non of the Jewish scribes in Herod's Palace were not able to detect it in the night sky over ancient Palestine. The brief narrative about the star only appears in the Book of Matthew in the New Testament of the Bible that has sparked much debate among religious and scientific theorists. The traditional religious view is that it was a divinely created star.

The natural scientific view is that it was a planetary conjunction. In my opinion, none of these view's can adequately explain why no one else was aware of this bright point of light rising night after night in the sky. The Magi from the East (Greek for astrologer's) were not Kings but Persian Zoroastrian Priests from the region of modern day Iran. It was a religious system founded by Zoroaster some 700 years before the birth of Jesus who gave credence to astrological beliefs to seek omens to foretell future events such as the birth and death of a King. Although books, poems and songs have been written and sung about "The Star of Bethlehem", the star never appeared over the town of Bethlehem where Jesus was born in a cave. The first pseudo star was the apparition of the light-bearer Lucifer who went before the Magi and led them to the city of Jerusalem where it suddenly disappeared from the night sky forcing them to seek counsel from King Herod the Great who was appointed by the Roman government to rule their province for their expanding empire. Once they came out of Herod's Palace. The star suddenly reappeared in the night sky. Unbeknownst to them, this second pseudo star was the apparition of the Archangel Michael who guides them safely to the town of Nazareth until it stopped over a house where they found the infant Jesus, His mother Mary and His surrogate father, Joseph. Lucifer would trigger the mass murder of every Hebrew male child under the age of two by using Herod to find and kill the new born King of the Jew's to sever God's plan of redemption for the "Original Sin" in the little town of Bethlehem where the star had never shone sometime in the year 6 B.C.