Yep, I bought it after Christmas with my Waldenbooks gift certificate my boss gave me. 
In Chapter 8, The Turning of the Age, she postulates that interest in astronomy and astrology was high and there was high expectation of the Piscean age coming. "The priests and astrologers of the time watched and waited, savoring the prophecies of the coming age, longing for the revelation of its avatar. When they heard the story, told and retold, of the charasmatic rabbi Yeshua crucified by Rome's degree and raised from the dead, they recognized the mythic energies they had been expecting. THe itinerant Jewish teacher was eventually appropriated by the Hellenized culture of the Roman Empire as the incarnation of the Spirit of the Age. He became Kyrios, the "bearer" and Lord of Pisces."
She goes on to talk about the fish symbol and its use not only in the ichthys, but in the metaphors of the loaves and fishes, the apostles as fishermen. She says "Christian homilists referred to their parishioners as pisciculi, the 'little fishes,' and dubbed the baptismal font the piscina, the 'fish pond."
In chapter 9, The Holy Name of Mary, she refers to the 153 fishes in the net of John 21:11, said to be "the chosen community or church of the new covenant." She also says "The number 153 is also by gematria the sum of the letters of (Greek rendering here), 'the Magdalene'." She then asserts that in Hellenistic times the number 153 was "universally recognized as denoting" the fish [i.e. () ], "the shape known to the Greeks as the matrix or the 'measure of the fish.' Greek geometers apparently used 153 as an abbreviation for the ratio 265/153, the value used by mathmeticians to express (the square root of 3, I think?). It is the shape formed when the circumferences of two equal circles travel through one another's centers."
(Source cited: Magdelene's Lost Legacy, Margaret Starbird, copyright 2003.)
I hope this isn't so long as to break copyright rules. It's fascinating stuff, though I admit the gematria makes my head spin and my mathematically midget mind skeptical. I find myself unable to paraphrase her very well, hence all the quotes.
In Chapter 8, The Turning of the Age, she postulates that interest in astronomy and astrology was high and there was high expectation of the Piscean age coming. "The priests and astrologers of the time watched and waited, savoring the prophecies of the coming age, longing for the revelation of its avatar. When they heard the story, told and retold, of the charasmatic rabbi Yeshua crucified by Rome's degree and raised from the dead, they recognized the mythic energies they had been expecting. THe itinerant Jewish teacher was eventually appropriated by the Hellenized culture of the Roman Empire as the incarnation of the Spirit of the Age. He became Kyrios, the "bearer" and Lord of Pisces."
She goes on to talk about the fish symbol and its use not only in the ichthys, but in the metaphors of the loaves and fishes, the apostles as fishermen. She says "Christian homilists referred to their parishioners as pisciculi, the 'little fishes,' and dubbed the baptismal font the piscina, the 'fish pond."
In chapter 9, The Holy Name of Mary, she refers to the 153 fishes in the net of John 21:11, said to be "the chosen community or church of the new covenant." She also says "The number 153 is also by gematria the sum of the letters of (Greek rendering here), 'the Magdalene'." She then asserts that in Hellenistic times the number 153 was "universally recognized as denoting" the fish [i.e. () ], "the shape known to the Greeks as the matrix or the 'measure of the fish.' Greek geometers apparently used 153 as an abbreviation for the ratio 265/153, the value used by mathmeticians to express (the square root of 3, I think?). It is the shape formed when the circumferences of two equal circles travel through one another's centers."
(Source cited: Magdelene's Lost Legacy, Margaret Starbird, copyright 2003.)
I hope this isn't so long as to break copyright rules. It's fascinating stuff, though I admit the gematria makes my head spin and my mathematically midget mind skeptical. I find myself unable to paraphrase her very well, hence all the quotes.
