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These wise men saw no star to guide them to Bethlehem. The beautiful legend of the star of Bethlehem originated in this way:Jesus was born August 21 at noon,7 B.C. On May 29, 7 B.C., there occurred an extraordinary conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces. https://twitter.com/steveouttrim/status/1340718895317991424
And it is a remarkable astronomic fact that similar conjunctions occurred on September 29 and December 5 of the same year. Upon the basis of these extraordinary but wholly natural events the well-meaning zealots of the succeeding generation constructed the appealing legend of
the star of Bethlehem and the adoring Magi led thereby to the manger, where they beheld and worshiped the newborn babe. Oriental and near-Oriental minds delight in fairy stories, and they are continually spinning such beautiful myths about the lives of their religious leaders and
political heroes. In the absence of printing, when most human knowledge was passed by word of mouth from one generation to another, it was very easy for myths to become traditions and for traditions eventually to become accepted as facts.
From: https://truthbook.com/urantia-book/paper-122-birth-and-infancy-of-jesus
From: https://truthbook.com/urantia-book/paper-122-birth-and-infancy-of-jesus
Anyone wanna put the ole Astronomical Calculator Model to good use, verify these Planet Positions/Dates for a "Book" completed in 1935? Perhaps understand the significance of today, with it's "Beautiful legend" relation to the "Star of Bethlehem"?
Also, for you Biblical-minded researchers as we approach the Mithraic-compromised "Season of the Birth of Christ, according to the Church bearing His name", or even those more Secular-minded researchers looking for "hard evidence", this might be efficacious to your search:
122:7.1 In the month of March, 8 B.C. (the month Joseph and Mary were married), Caesar Augustus decreed that all inhabitants of the Roman Empire should be numbered, that a census should be made which could be used for effecting better taxation.
The Jews had always been greatly prejudiced against any attempt to “number the people,” and this, in connection with the serious domestic difficulties of Herod, King of Judea, had conspired to cause the postponement of the taking of this census in the Jewish kingdom for one year.
Throughout all the Roman Empire this census was registered in the year 8 B.C., except in the Palestinian kingdom of Herod, where it was taken in 7 B.C., one year later.
