Aeonism is a belief that holds that Jesus Christ, the central figure of Christianity, never lived as a man, but is rather the Spirit of the Sun, and that his twelve disciples are the twelve signs of the Zodiac. They claim to have several Biblical verses supporting their beliefs, such as Jesus being "the light of the world" (John 9:5), who "casts off the works of darkness" in the "armor of light" (Rom 13:12), can be seen "coming in the clouds" (Mark 13:26), and "wears a crown of thorns" (John 19:5). The "thorns" are seen as sun rays.