"The seven candlesticks with lighted candles we have no doubt were introduced by Moses as a representative type of the Seven Glorious Ones ’’ — ix. the seven stars of the Little Bear, originally in Stellar Mythos. We have at the present time the same in use amongst the Christian Churches representing the mystic seven, which are the prototypes of the Seven Glorious Ones. Also the 7 Pole Stars each in turn represented The One — and these became the origin of the 7 Powers, 7 Great Princes, etc.
Nothing can be plainer more definite or more convincing than this:
Revelation ii. 28. — I will give him the Morning Star.
Revelation i. 16. — And he had in his right hand seven stars.
Revelation i. 20. — Mystery of the seven stars — and seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches. The seven candlesticks are the seven churches.
Revelation hi. i. — Seven spirits of God and the seven stars.
Revelation iv. 5. — ^There were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.
In furnishing the Ark of testimony according to the pattern seen in the Mount, instructions are given for the Lampstand to be made with Six branches giving out of the Candlestick. But it is added : ''Thou shalt make the lamps thereof seven’' — Ex. xxv.
This therefore was a figure of six encircling the one that was a fixture in the centre — i.e. The Seven Pole Stars."
