http://www.magisociety.com/

I had heard from a reliable source that the Magi were a mystically inclined order possibly connected to the Zoroastrians. The information I heard was that they were located in a coastal community that communicated with the Hebrew mystics or rather those who studied the Qabalah. They understood the mystical significance of what this person’s birth was about.

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

It was a spaceship, because a star doesn’t actually go to, stop at, or get so close to Earth…
a)Secrets of the Vatican – UFO’s in the Ancient Art:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2008/11/secrets-of-vatican-ufos-in-ancient-art_10.html
b)THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM MYSTERY:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2008/12/astronomer-dave-reneke-believes-he-has.html
c)Jacques Vallee: FATIMA EVENT WAS UFO – More seriously, the description made at Fatima, Portugal, OF ASILVERY DISK WHICH FLEW THROUGH THE SKY, WAS SEEN BY SEVENTY THOUSAND WITNESSES AND WAS PHOTOGRAPHED AS IT MANEUVERED, deserves a place in our resume of the ‘flying saucer’ legend:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2008/12/j-vallee-fatima-event-was-ufo.html
d)VATICAN OFFICIAL DECLARES EXTRATERRESTRIAL CONTACT IS REAL:
http://cristiannegureanu.blogspot.com/2008/11/vatican-official-declares.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.

The tale of the Gospels tells the story of Jesus so that it fits with the Hebrew prophecies of the coming Messiah. Christians obviously believe that this means that Jesus DID fulfill that prophecy; others of us believe that the story was re-told 100 years later and more to LOOK like the prophecy was fulfilled. One of the Hebrew prophecies was the Star Prophecy.
According to Wikipedia:
The “Star Prophecy” was a Messianic reading applied by radical Jews and early Christians to a text from the Book of Numbers 24:17: “There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.”
I watched an interesting story on the History Channel or National Geographic that I meant to post on, I took a lot of notes, about the early rivals of Jesus for the title of Messiah. One was Simon bar Kokhva whose name evidently means “Son of the Star.”