1. LEPUS (the Hare), THE ENEMY
The Enemy Trodden under Foot.
The names of the three constellations of this Sign, as well as the pictures, are all more or less modern, as is manifest from the names being in Latin, and having no relation to the ancient names of their stars. To learn their real meaning, therefore, we must have recourse to the ancient Zodiacs. In the Persian planisphere the first constellation was pictured by a serpent. In the Denderah (Egyptian) Zodiac it is an unclean bird standing on the serpent, which is under the feet of Orion. Its name there is given as Bashti-beki. Bashti means confounded, and Beki means failing.
It is a small constellation of 19 stars (all small), three of which are of the 3rd magnitude, seven of the 4th, etc.
The brightest, α (in the body), has a Hebrew name, Arnebo, which means the enemy of Him that cometh. The Arabic, Arnebeth, means the same. Other stars, not identified, are Nibal, the mad; Rakis, the bound (Arabic, with a chain); Sugia, the deceiver.
There can be no mistaking the voice of this united testimony. For this enemy is under the down-coming foot of Orion, and it tells of the blessed fact that when the true Orion, “the Sun of [pg 142]Righteousness, shall arise,” and “the true light” shall shine over all the earth, He “shall tread down the wicked” (Mal. iv.), and every enemy will be subdued under His feet. “It is He that shall tread down our enemies” (Ps. lx. 12), as He has said:
“I will tread them in Mine anger,
And trample them in My fury …
For the day of vengeance is in Mine heart,
And the year of My redeemed is come.”
(Isa. lxiii. 3, 4.)
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