Visual Survey of the World's Major Religions Pillow

At the lower right is a bas relief of the Persian Sun God, Mithras, in an attitude signifying the conquest of the sun over the Celestial Bull at the ancient vernal equinox. In the center stands the High Priest of Israel, his right arm encircling the base of the seven-branched candlestick -- the Mosaic symbol of the Planetary Governors of the World. To his right is the statue of the golden calf and to his left the robed figures of the Greek mystics bearing a tripod in which burns the sacrificial fire. Behind the bull Apis, crowned with the lunar globe, and Father Nile, bearing the horn of plenty and poring the waters of life from his urn, loom the pyramids -- the great Egyptian temples of initiation.