In the 13th century, the Celtics called our cross The Jerusalem Cross, but the cross was first seen around 4000 B.C. At that time the cross was a symbol of the sun, since people thought the sun to be the highest power known to man. With time, though, people realized that there is a higher power than the sun, a power that actually controls the sun. The cross remained as a symbol of that higher power, God.

The Western cross - the T-cross - only became popular in the 4th century, when the wife of an emperor went looking for the cross of Yesu. She claimed to have found the exact cross exhibited it in museums. Once the Persians stole part of it and a great furor arose--and since then the T-cross became a symbol of Yesu and of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

Yesu was not necessarily crucified on the T-cross, it was cheaper in those days to use a single pole or pleroo as the Greek of the New Testament says, with the hands nailed above the head.

The cross symbol of Church of the East commemorates the three major periods of humankind's spiritual awakening. The Yin and Yang from China, the Ohm from India and the cross from the Middle East and Egypt.

The cross is also a symbol of crossroads. We wake up every day, making conscious decisions and some unconscious decisions. We constantly have to decide between left and right, what to do in certain situations - do we follow the Way or do we turn left... The cross is a symbol of choice.