“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.
(3) “All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made that was made.
(4) “In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
(5) “And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not.
(6) “There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
(7) “The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light.
(8) “He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
(9) “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.”
This is the proclamation of the reappearing light, the reborn sun, which formerly was, and which will be again. In the baptistry at Pisa, Christ is represented bringing the tree of life to man; his head is surrounded by a sun halo. Over this relief stand the words Introitus Solis.
Because the one born was his own procreator, the history of his procreation is strangely concealed under symbolic events, which are meant to conceal and deny it; hence the extraordinary assertion of the virgin conception. This is meant to hide the incestuous impregnation. But do not let us forget that this naïve assertion plays an unusually important part in the ingenious symbolic bridge, which is to guide the libido out from the incestuous bond to higher and more useful applications, which indicate a new kind of immortality; that is to say, immortal work.