Cooper / Tier 0 — Lucifer and the Gods of the Mysteries / symbol (treated as the primary exoteric deity)
Sun
Where each worldview places it
The first object of worship and the master symbol. It was first the emblem of the unseen Creator, then of the intellect, and so of Lucifer[1]. Cooper says "every single time we investigate one of these it leads directly to the sun"[2].
- Aliases
- BaalGod's Son / God's SunGood ShepherdLight of the WorldPrince of PeaceSaviorking of kings and lord of lordsmorning starsolar deitySun Worship
- Answers to / controlled by
- Lucifer, as his symbol[4]
- Lineage
- Primitive fear of darkness produced astrotheology, the first religion[5]. That became Egyptian dogma under the Pharaohs, then Mithraism, then Christianity's December 25 and Sunday[6]. It survives in Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Freemasonry and "the temples of all the secret societies"[7], and in modern churches' holy days and layout[8].
- Dates
- earliest era
- December 22–25 each year, when the sun "dies" three days in the Southern Cross and is reborn[9]
- Places
- Key events
- Members / notable people
- Worshippers named: the Mystery SchoolsFreemasonry (the 30th and 33rd degrees follow the sun through a zodiacal house, "no one can rise higher than the sun")the Cult of MithraHitlerElizabeth Clare Prophet ("the great central sun")the Nazi Partythe Communists (the rising sun) (H01, H03, H09, H17, H24-1)
- Author's claims · 4
- 01Every ruler, flag, agency and medal uses the sun as its primary symbol[11].
- 02The Worshipful Master in the East represents the rising sun[4]. "Traveling man", west to east, is sun symbolism[12].
- 03Maxwell (guest), endorsed by Cooper: "all of the ancient world powers ... have used one common symbol continually, and that's the sun". December 25 "is the birthday of the sun"[13].
- 04Sun Worship was "the oldest and by far the most prevalent of all the ancient religions" (reading on the UN Meditation Room)[7].