Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. THE DRAGON, THE SERPENT, AND THE CROSS. " The monogram, or symbol of the God Saturn, was the sign of the cross, together with a ram's horn in imitation of the Lamb of God."—A'ev. Robert Taylor. As stated before, St. John's Revelation is one of the masterpieces of occult science, and we cannot begin our glossary on the dragon with more fitting words than those of St. John himself: "And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. And she being with child, cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. "And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his head. "And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth, and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she twought forth a man-child, who was to rule all natioas. with a rod of iron; and her child was caught up unto God and to his throne. "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. "And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, "And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven." The myth referred to in this passage by St. John was, so universal that it is identically related in the Grecian Theogony, and has survived in the Roman Catholic cult in the person of the Virgin Mary. In the " Secret Doctrine" we find an able interpretation of this legend. " So occult and mystic is one of the a...