In Catholicism there is a tradition that Mary is the Mediatrix, who takes prayers before Yeshua and El. This continues an ancient tradition,

In the first century Church, the idea of Mary and the Saints as mediators expressed a Christian concept of the solidarity of the Church as community. Salvation was mediated by relation of Christ to God, and by Christians' relationship to one another. The community created a 'cloud of witnesses,' not only among the living, but also with those of past generations, who are in solidarity with one another and us in communicating grace. In this manner the Church extends from the Saints in Heaven down to the faithful here on earth. As the representative of humanity in its original goodness, Mary becomes the anticipation of its restoration and fulfillment at the end of history.

Theologically, Mary is the personification of the Church, the New Israel, the hope of mankind. Her true essence as the Church cannot be found in its earthly institution but must be sought in the spiritual life. This takes place in the heart; for it is within the Heart that Christ reveals Himself. Thus, it is within Her, the Holy Church, { that is in truth and spirit } that heaven and earth meet and communion with God begins.

The ancients counted seven planets, thus arranged; the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. There were seven heavens and seven spheres of these planets; these correspond to the seven lamps of the golden candelabrum in the temple. To return to its source in the Infinite, the human soul, the ancients held, had to ascend as it had descended, through the seven spheres. From Egypt and Persia the new Platonists borrowed the idea, and the Gnostics received it from them, that man, in his terrestrial career, is successively under the influence of the Moon, of Mercury, of Venus, of the Sun, of Mars, of Jupiter, and of Saturn, until he finally reaches the Elysian Fields; an idea again symbolized in the Seven Seals. And circling is thought of as the way the bride enters the groom's s'ferot; the mystical spheres of his soul that correspond to the seven lower attributes of God. In the ancient world these orbits correspond to the seven spheres in the heavens and likewise are reflected in the seven nether spheres of the sea. The two most famous divisions of the Heavens, by seven, which is that of the planets, and by twelve, which is that of the signs, are found on the religious monuments of all the people of the ancient world.

Because the ancients believed in the real existence of the great sphere of the stars, its various parts-- such as its axis and poles-- played a central role in the cosmology of the time. In particular, one important attribute of the sphere of the stars was much better known in antiquity than it is today: namely, its equator, known as the "celestial equator. Just as the earth's equator is defined as a circle around the earth equidistant from the north and south poles, so the celestial equator was understood as a circle around the sphere of the stars equidistant from the sphere's poles. The circle of the celestial equator was seen as having a particularly special importance because of the two points where it crosses the circle of the zodiac: for these two points are the equinoxes, that is, the places where the sun, in its movement along the zodiac, appears to be on the first day of spring and the first day of autumn. Thus the celestial equator was responsible for defining the seasons, and hence had a very concrete significance in addition to its abstract astronomical meaning.
 

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