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When Christ was about to leave this world, He said to His followers, “It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you…..He will guide you into all truth…..He will show you things to come….He shall glorify me: for He shall receive of mine and shall show it unto you” (John I6).

That promise included all the divine life-power issuing from the mediation of Christ for the illumination, regeneration, and salvation of men — all the renewing, cleansing, comforting, and energizing grace for the gathering of the elect and the bringing of believers to eternal life and glory.

The Holy Ghost was in the world from the beginning, but here was the promise of a new and enlarged grant and endowment, to lift, nourish, and distinguish Christian believers.

The same was gloriously fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when ” suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and filled all the house where they were sitting; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”

And when the Jews mocked and derided, the sacred explanation was that Jesus, being raised up again from the dead and exalted to the right hand of God, and having so received of the Father, was now the Giver and Shedder forth of this marvelous power.

He is thus presented to our contemplation as the glorified Pourer-forth from heaven of the blessed waters of life and salvation; in other words, the true Aquarius, of whom the picture in the sign was the prophecy and foreshowing” (THE GOSPEL IN THE STARS).

Astrology, as is widely known in the world today, is a corruption of the truth about the signs (constellations) seen in the sky as the earth revolves counterclockwise on a line around the sun called the ecliptic.

Starting with Virgo (the real first sign of the zodiac) that is a virgin about to give birth and ending with Leo the Lion of the Tribe of Juda. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is what God revealed to us in the Bible here and here.