Light-symbolism gradually develops as the intensity of a vision increases, into the figure of the sun-hero, the “well-beloved.” These visionary processes are the psychological roots of the sun-coronations in the mystery religions.the early Church stood in a special relationship to Christ as the Sol novus, [new sun]. Philo Judaeus saw in the sun the image of the divine Logos, or even the deity itself.At the time of Marcus Aurelius, Melito, in his treatise,called Christ “The sun of the East.As the only sun he rose in the heavens”