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Updated: May 1, 2025
As within our quiet waters passing Sun and moon and stars we view, So the loveliness of life is glassing, Child, in you. In the diamond air the sun-star glowing Up its feathered radiance threw; All the jewel glory there was flowing, Child, for you. And the fire divine in all things burning Yearns for home and rest anew, From its wanderings far again returning, Child, to you.
They have many beautiful relations in the star-fish family, one of the loveliest being the Brittle-star, so called because it will break in pieces when touched. Another relative is the Sun-star, which has twelve or fifteen rays, and often grows to a very large size.
No sun-star or swarm of worlds in the infinite azure could be so precious in God's sight as this earth of ours, it was believed, for had it not been chosen as the scene and stage of that transcendent act whereby the Deity had consecrated humanity for ever to himself?
On the left is an Ashera under a Crescent moon; in the centre is a Masseba under the Sun-star or radiate Sun; and on the right is an altar under a sun disc. The phallic meaning of all this is evident; and a kind of Trinity is presented to us, viz.
The disc of the Sun seems to have represented the former and the Sun-star or radiate Sun the latter where both were represented in one illustration, as for instance in figure 12 on the plate last mentioned. The illustration in question is an important one.
"How about those stars?" suggested the Very Young Man. "I believe they comprise a complete universe similar to our own solar system. There is a central sun-star, around which many of the others revolve.
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