As an example, the pro-Jewish ADL (Anti-Defamation League) stated in a 2008 article:
""The perception of a Jew is irrational and it's a disease," said Mr. Foxman, adding that the truth matters little to the minds of those who are diseased...He added that anti-Semitism exists partly out of jealousy that so many Jews excel at what they do."
Can jealousy really explain persecution throughout history?
Here is an explanation for the persecution suffered by Jews from the realm of the irrational. Publishing this material (from "The Occult History of the Third Reich") does not imply that I subscribe to the theory...
Die Okulten Ursprunge Der Jüdischen Rasse - The Occult Origins of the Jewish Race
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DIE OKULTEN URSPRUNGE DER JÜDISCHEN RASSE
(The Occult Origins of the Jewish Race)
'The Jew is the anti-man, the creature of another god.
He must have come from another root of the human race.'
(The Occult Origins of the Jewish Race)
'The Jew is the anti-man, the creature of another god.
He must have come from another root of the human race.'
Adolf Hitler
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| Theosophical Society
© Copyright Peter Crawford 2012
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| Madame Blavastsky |
The Völkisch and subsequent National Socialist teachings on race initially stemmed from Madame Blavastsky's Theosophical speculations on the Root races, as expressed in 'Die Geheimlehre' (The Secret Doctrine - 1888).
Root Races, according to Madame Blavastsky, were said to have existed on now-lost continents.
Blavatsky's model was developed by later Theosophists, most notably William Scott-Elliot in 'The Story of Atlantis' (1896) and 'The Lost Lemuria' (1904), although German Occultists favoured Thule (see right) - hence the Thule Gesselschaft' (see left below).
According to Blavatsky's writings, there were seven root races, and each root race is divided into seven subraces.
Only five root races have appeared so far.
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| Thule |
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| Lemuria |
Blavatsky's model was developed by later Theosophists, most notably William Scott-Elliot in 'The Story of Atlantis' (1896) and 'The Lost Lemuria' (1904), although German Occultists favoured Thule (see right) - hence the Thule Gesselschaft' (see left below).
According to Blavatsky's writings, there were seven root races, and each root race is divided into seven subraces.
Only five root races have appeared so far.
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The German Völkisch Theosophists, however, adapted the Theosophical beliefs.
While accepting
the general theory of Root Races, and in particular the development of
the Teutonic Aryan Race, they emphasised the anti-Semitic element in
this teaching by grafting upon it certain Gnostic (see left) teachings.
The greatest of the Archons was the δημιουργός - dēmiourgos - whom the Jews knew as יהוה - YHWH - also El Shaddai or El Elyon - the God of the Old Testament.
While the Aryan
race evolved as part of the plan created by the primal source of being,
(the One through - the emanations of the Æons), this Demiurge created
the Semitic race
as a later act, to be his servants in the material creation he had
brought about - and so the Jews were the 'creation of a lesser god'.
Demiurge is a name for an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe.
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| יהוה |
Demiurge is a name for an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe.
The term was subsequently adopted by the Gnostics.
Although a
fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily thought of as being the same
as the creator figure in the familiar monotheistic sense, because both
the demiurge itself, plus the material from which the demiurge fashions
the universe, are considered either uncreated and eternal, or the
product of some other being, depending on the system.
The word "demiurge" is an English word from a Latinized form of the Greek δημιουργός,
dēmiourgos, literally "public worker", and which was originally a
common noun meaning "craftsman" or "artisan", but gradually it came to
mean "producer" and eventually "creator".
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| Plato |
This is
accordingly the definition of the demiurge in the Platonic (c. 310–90
BC) and Middle Platonic (c. 90 BC – 300 AD) philosophical traditions.
In the various
branches of the Neoplatonic school (third century onwards), the demiurge
is the fashioner of the real, perceptible world after the model of the 'Ideas' or 'Forms', but (in most Neoplatonic systems) is still not itself "the One".
In the
arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material
universe is evil, while the non-material world is good.
Accordingly, the demiurge is malevolent, as linked to the material world.
For many Gnostic thinkers the Demiurge is identified with the Jewish god יהוה (Yaweh.
The logical conclusion then follows that as the Jews worship Jaweh they are worshipping an evil entity, and therefore the Jews themselves are evil - and it is from these conclusions that anti-Semitism had its origins in Classical culture, and was later transmitted to the Christian culture of Europe.
In the 19th century, with the development of renewed interest in Gnosticism, combined with the Occult revival, anti-Semitism once gain became a commonplace among the intellectual elite.
For many Gnostic thinkers the Demiurge is identified with the Jewish god יהוה (Yaweh.
The logical conclusion then follows that as the Jews worship Jaweh they are worshipping an evil entity, and therefore the Jews themselves are evil - and it is from these conclusions that anti-Semitism had its origins in Classical culture, and was later transmitted to the Christian culture of Europe.
In the 19th century, with the development of renewed interest in Gnosticism, combined with the Occult revival, anti-Semitism once gain became a commonplace among the intellectual elite.
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| Cro-Magnon Man |
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| Neanderthal Man |
The 'chosen people' of the demiurge were hybrids (mixed-race) - the result of miscegenation - interbreeding -between the Cro-Magnons and the Neanderthals and less evolved primates.
These new
races, in which the Neanderthal traits dominated, were 'lower hybrid
races' - the non-Aryan races - and were designated as 'the creation of a lesser god' - the lesser 'god' being the Archon Demiourgós.
The Archon Demiourgós (δημιουργός),
on the completion of his work of imitation ('mimesis' - making
poor copies of the ineffable 'Forms') became blinded by arrogance.
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| Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon Girl |
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| Aryan Man |
He announced to his sentient creatures, the miscegenated hybrids - his 'chosen race' - 'Thou shalt worship no other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God' (Exod. 34:14).
There were many hybrid races as a result of this miscegenation.
Miscegenation
(Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different
racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and
procreation.
The
term miscegenation has been used since the 19th century to refer to
interracial marriage and interracial sexual relations, and more
generally to the process of racial admixture, which has taken place
since ancient history. Historically, the term has been used in the
context of laws banning interracial marriage and sex, known as
anti-miscegenation laws.
The most developed (in the sense of 'cunning') of these miscegenated lower races were the Semitic peoples, and it was this group that the Archon Demiurge chose in order to set his will over his new 'creation' - and therefore they became known to themselves, and other races, as the 'chosen people'.
The true 'chosen people', of course, were the Aryan people - the 'true blood' descendants of the Cro-Magnons - who were the physical, sentient descendants of the great Æons.
Modern
DNA evidence has provided evidence that the world's Jews have a common
ancestral lineage in the Levant, which can be traced to a common
ancestral population that inhabited the Middle East.
DNA
results indicate that the Jews have had a high percentage of marriage
within their community; in contrast to a low percentage of interfaith
marriages (as low as 0.5% per generation).
This indicates that there is a distinct racial group of Semitic people.
The Shasu
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| Shasu |
The peoples of the Demiourgós were organized in clans, under tribal chieftains, and were described by those around them as lawless brigands, active from the Jezreel Valley to Ashkelon and the Sinai
Shasu is an Egyptian word for these semitic-speaking pastoral cattle nomads, who lived in the Levant from what was known as the late 'Bronze Age' to the 'Early Iron Age' or 'Third Intermediate Period' of Egyptian history.
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| Temple of Soleb - Amenhotep III |
The term first originated in an ancient list of peoples in Transjordan.
It is used in a list of enemies of Egypt inscribed on column bases at the temple of Soleb built by the Pharaoh Amenhotep III.
Copied later by either Pharaoh Seti I and Pharaoh Ramesses II at Amarah-West, the list mentions six groups of Shashu: the Shasu of S'rr, the Shasu of Lbn, the Shasu of Sm't, the Shasu of Wrbr, the Shasu of Yhw, and the Shasu of Pysps.
Copied later by either Pharaoh Seti I and Pharaoh Ramesses II at Amarah-West, the list mentions six groups of Shashu: the Shasu of S'rr, the Shasu of Lbn, the Shasu of Sm't, the Shasu of Wrbr, the Shasu of Yhw, and the Shasu of Pysps.
"Shasu of Yhw"
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| Merneptah Stele |
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| Mount Seir - Jebel Madhbah |
הַר-שֵׂעִיר - Har Se'ir Mount Seir, a mountainous region occupied by the Edomites, extending along the eastern side of the Arabah from the south-eastern extremity of the Dead Sea to near the Akabah, or the eastern branch of the Red Sea. It was originally occupied by the Horites (Genesis 14:6), who were afterwards driven out by the Edomites (Gen. 32:3; 33:14, 16). It was allotted to the descendants of Esau
The Shasu, originally from Moab and northern Edom, went on to form a major element in the amalgam that was to constitute the the racial entity 'Israel', as opposed to Judah, which was protected and guided by the Archon Demiurge.
It was this racial group which later established the Kingdom of Israel.
The Merneptah Stele - also known as the 'Israel Stele' or 'Victory Stele of Merneptah' - is an inscription by the Ancient Egyptian king Merneptah (reign:1213 to 1203 BC) discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1896 at Thebes, and now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The text is largely an account of Merneptah's victory over the Libyans and their allies, but the last few lines deal with a separate campaign in Canaan, then part of Egypt's imperial possessions, and include the first probable instance of the name "Israel" in the historical record.
עברים or עבריים, - Hebrews ʿIḇrîm, ʿIḇriyyîm - is an ethnonym used in the Tanakh.
It is synonymous with the Semitic Israelites, especially in the pre-monarchic period when they were still nomadic, but may also be used in a wider sense, referring to the group known as 'Shasu of Yhw' (see above).
'Habiru' or 'Apiru' (identified with the Shasu of Yhw) was the name given by various Sumerian, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Ugaritic sources (dated, roughly, between 1800 BC and 1100 BC) to a racial group living as nomadic invaders in areas of the Fertile Crescent, from North-eastern Mesopotamia and Iran to the borders of Egypt in Canaan.
These people can be identified by the wall-paintings and reliefs, depicting them as racialy Semitic, and the name 'Habiru' is obviously taken from the word which the Hebrews used to describe themselves.
Significantly, these 'Habiru' are variously described as nomadic or semi-nomadic, rebels, outlaws, raiders, servants, slaves, migrant labourers, etc.
The names 'Habiru' and 'Apiru' are also used in Akkadian cuneiform texts.
The corresponding name in the Egyptian script appears to be ʕpr.w, pronounced 'Apiru' (W,or u-vowel "quail-chick" being used as the Egyptian plural suffix).
In Mesopotamian records they are also identified by the Sumerian logogram SA.GAZ.
The name 'Habiru' was also found in the 'Amarna Letters', which again include many names of Canaanite peoples written in Akkadian.
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| Amarna Letters |
The Amarna letters were written to Egyptian pharaohs in the 14th century BC, and document a time of unrest in Canaan that goes back before the battle of Kadesh, to the time of Pharaoh Thutmose I.
Though such letters are found throughout most of the Fertile Crescent, the arc of civilization extending from the Tigris-Euphrates river basins over to the Mediterranean littoral, and down through the Nile Valley during the Second Millennium, the principal area of historical interest is in their engagement with Egypt.
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| Amenhotep III |
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| Akhenaten |
These letters, written by Canaanite scribes in the cuneiform-based Akkadian language, complain about attacks by armed groups who were willing to fight and plunder on any side of the local wars in exchange for equipment, provisions, and quarters.
These people are the "Habiru".
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The Creation of a 'Chosen People'
The Archon Demiurge taught his 'chosen people' to trace their origin to Abraham, who supposedly established the belief among certain Semitic groups that there was only one God, the supposed creator of the universe - who was referred to as El.
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In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, El or Il was a god also known as the 'Father of Humankind', and all of creatures, and in some traditions, the husband of the Goddess Asherah, as recorded in the clay tablets of Ugarit. The bull was symbolic to El. He may have been a desert god at some point.
In the תַּנַ"ךְ (Tanakh - the canon of the Hebrew Bible - also known as the Masoretic Text or Miqra), אֱלֹהִ֔ים (’elōhîm) is the normal word for a God. The theological position of the Tanakh is that the names Ēl and ’Ĕlōhîm, when used in the singular to mean the supreme and active 'God', refer to the same being as does the name, Yahweh. All three refer to the one supreme God who is the God of Israel, beside whom other Gods are supposed to be either non-existent or insignificant. Whether this was a longstanding belief or a relatively new one has long been the subject of inconclusive scholarly debate about the prehistory of the sources of the Tanakh and about the prehistory of Israelite religion. YHVH says in Exodus 6:2–3:
'I revealed myself to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as Ēl Shaddāi, but was not known to them by my name, Yahweh.'
Abraham, his son יִצְחָק (Yitshak - Isaac), and grandson יַעֲקֹב (Jacob - Israel), were held to be the patriarchs of the Israelites.
All three patriarchs were said to have lived in the Land of Canaan, that later came to be known as the Land of Israel.
They, and their wives, were buried in the מערת המכפלה (Me'arat ha-Machpela), the 'Tomb of the Patriarchs', in Hebron
According to the Hebrew Bible אַבְרָהָם (Abraham) was born in the Sumerian city of Ur Kaśdim in Mesopotamia, and migrated to Canaan (commonly known as the Land of Israel) with his family.
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| Ur of the Chaldees |
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| Abraham leaves Ur of the Chaldees |
The Bible's internal chronology places Abraham around 2000 BCE, but the stories in Genesis cannot be definitively related to the known history of that time.
This, of course, is a fantasy concocted by the Archon Demiurge, to give a sense of unity to the various 'mixed-race' Semitic tribes, who originated in Mesopotamia, and which constituted his 'chosen people'
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| The Israelites in Egypt |
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| Moses |
When they arrive they and their families are 70 in number, but within four generations they have increased to 600,000 men of fighting age, and the Pharaoh of Egypt, alarmed, first enslaves them and then orders the death of all male Hebrew children.
The 'God of Israel' (the Archon Demiurge calling himself יהוה Yaweh) revealed his name to מֹשֶׁה, (Moshe - Moses), (who is described as a Hebrew of the tribe of Levi).
Moses leads the Israelites out of slavery, and into the desert, where יהוה (Yaweh) gives them their laws and, in return for Yaweh's guidance and protection, the Israelites agree to become 'his people'.
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| Hyksos and Egyptians |
The sons of Jacob were never slaves in Egypt - rather they were marauding invaders (semi-nomadic, rebels, outlaws, raiders - see above), whom the Egyptians referred to as the Hyksos.
The Hyksos (Egyptian heqa khasewet, "foreign rulers or desert princes"; Greek Ὑκσώς, Ὑξώς, Arabic: الملوك الرعاة, shepherd kings) were a mixed-race Semitic people who took over the eastern Nile Delta, ending the thirteenth dynasty, and initiating the 'Second Intermediate Period' of ancient Egypt.
The Hyksos first appeared in Egypt c.1800 BC, during the eleventh dynasty, began their climb to power in the thirteenth dynasty, and came out of the second intermediate period in control of Avaris and the Egyptian Delta.
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| Negro soldiers fighting for the Hyksos |
The historian Josephus states correctly that the Hyksos were in fact the 'Children of Jacob' (Jews) who joined his son Joseph to escape the famine in the land of Canaan in the book of Exodus.
Interestingly, the Hyksos included Negro soldiers (Nubians) in their armies when fighting the native Egyptians.
The origin of the term "Hyksos" derives from the Egyptian expression heka khasewet ("rulers of foreign lands"), used in Egyptian texts such as the 'Turin King List' to describe the rulers of neighbouring lands.
This expression begins to appear as early as the late Old Kingdom in Egypt, referring to various Nubian (Negroid) chieftains, and as early as the Middle Kingdom, referring to the Semitic chieftains of Mesopotamia and Canaan..
Kamose, the last Pharaoh of the Theban 17th Dynasty, refers to Apophis, leader of the Hyksos, as a "Chieftain of Retjenu (i.e., Canaan)" in a stela that implies a Semitic Canaanite background for this Hyksos king.
The Hyksos kingdom was centred in the eastern Nile Delta and Middle Egypt, and was limited in size, never extending south into Upper Egypt, which was under the control of Theban-based rulers.
Hyksos relations with the south seem, to have been mainly of a commercial nature, although Theban princes appear to have recognized the Hyksos rulers, and may possibly have provided them with tribute for a period.
The Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty rulers established their capital and seat of government at Avaris in the area that was referred to in the תַּנַ"ךְ (Tanakh - the canon of the Hebrew Bible - also known as the Masoretic Text or Miqra), as 'Goshen'.
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| Avaris - Goshen |
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| Avaris - Goshen |
The rule of these kings overlaps with that of the native Egyptian Pharaohs of the 16th and 17th dynasties of Egypt, better known as the 'Second Intermediate Period'.
The first Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty, Ahmose I, finally expelled the Hyksos from their last holdout at Sharuhen in Gaza by the 16th year of his reign.
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| The Demiurge Incarnated as Seth |
THE ARCHON SETH
Set (also spelled Setesh, Sutekh, Setekh, or Suty) was the incarnated δημιουργός ( Archon Demiurge), whom the Jews called 'Yaweh'.
The
meaning of the name Seth is unknown, thought to have been originally
pronounced *Sūtaḫ based on the occurrence of his name in Egyptian
hieroglyphs (swtḫ), and his later mention in the Coptic documents with
the name Sēt.
His purpose was to disrupt the work of the Aeons.
The
Ancient Egyptians, not understanding the differentiation between the
Aeons and the Archon Demiurge, believed the Archon to be a 'god' (neter)
of the desert, storms, and foreigners.
In later myths he was also the 'god' of darkness, and chaos.
In Ancient Greek, the 'god's' name was given as Seth.
For the Egyptians, Set, who was worshipped exclusively, represented a manifestation of evil.
During
the Second Intermediate Period, the Hyksos chose Set, originally Upper
Egypt's chief god, the god of foreigners and the god they found most
similar to their own chief god, as their patron.
The Hyksos King Apophis is recorded as worshipping Set in a monolatric way: 'He chose for his Lord the god Seth. He didn't worship any other deity in the whole land except Seth.'
- Papyrus Sallier 1 (Apophis and Sekenenre), 1.2-3, ed. Gardiner 1932
THE HYSOS AS INVADERS
When the Semitic Hyksos were eventually driven out of Egypt, all traces of their occupation were erased.
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| Edward Poynter - 'Israel in Egypt' - 1867 |
There are, however, detailed accounts from the native Egyptians who evicted the occupiers, in this case the rulers of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who were the direct successor of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty.
The historian Manetho wrote that -
'By main force they overpowered the rulers of the land. They then burned our cities ruthlessly, razed to the ground the temples of gods… Finally, they appointed as king one of their number. He had his seat at Memphis, levying tribute from Upper and Lower Egypt and leaving garrisons behind in the most advantageous positions.'
Most significantly the Hyksos had no culture of their own and, like parasites, derived their social structures, art, architecture, and all aspects of civilised life from their host country.
This is a phenomena that was repeated in every country which the descendants of the Semitic Hykos either over-ran or settled.
THE JEWISH LAW
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| Scroll of the Law |
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| Ark of the Covenant |
In order to maintain contact with his 'chosen people' the Archon Demiurge gave the Jewish priesthood a device which was contained in a specially constructed container.
This device was called in Jewish scriptures the אָרוֹן הַבְּרִית (the Ark of the Covenant - covenant here meaning the link between Yaweh and his 'chosen people').
However, because the 'chosen people' had no culture, and no art, the design of this device was based on Egyptian models.
The 'god' יהוה (Yahweh), prior to taking on wholly monotheistic attributes in the 6th century BCE, was a part of the Canaanite pantheon in the pre-Babylonian captivity period.
Archaeological evidence reveals that during this time period the Israelites were a group of Semetic Canaanite people.
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| El. Asherah |
The name Yahwi may be found in some male Amorite names.
Yahu may be found in a place name.
The earliest known occurrence of the name "Yahu" is its inclusion of the name "the land of Shasu-y/iw" in a list of Egyptian place names found in the temple of Amon at Soleb, from the time of Pharaoh Amenhotep III (1402-1363 BCE).
The place name appears to be associated with Asiatic nomads in the 14th to 13th centuries BCE.
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| Ramesses II |
Early worship of 'Yahweh' likely originated in southern Canaan during the Late Bronze Age.It is probable that Yahu or 'Yahweh' was worshipped in southern Canaan (Edom, Moab, Midian) from the 14th century BC, and that this cult was transmitted northwards due to the Kenites.
It is assumed that Moses was a historical Midianite who brought the cult of 'Yahweh' north to Israel.
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| Moses and Jethro in Midian |
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| Baʿal - בעל |
'Yahweh' or Yahu appears in many Hebrew Bible theophoric names, including Elijah itself, which translates to "my god is Yahu", besides other names such as Yesha'yahu "Yahu saved", Yeshua (Jesus) "Yahweh's Salvation", or Yahu-haz "Yahu held", and others found in the early Jewish Elephantine papyri.
Thus saith the Archon Demiurge - in all his arrogance -
'Behold,
I have taught you statutes and judgements, even as the Lord my God
commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess
it.
Keep
therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom, and your understanding,
in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and
say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
For
what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so
righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day ?'
Having destroyed all
the 'first-born' of Egypt - innocent or guilty, the so called 'chosen
people' of the Archon Demiurge set out to 'aquire' a homeland.
It would be a 'homeland' which the evil demiurge would give to them - regardless of the rights of the original inhabitants.
Carrying their palladion, the Egyptian 'Ark' before them, this mob of 'nomadic rebels, outlaws, raiders, slaves, migrant labourers' made their way across the Sinai to Jebel esh-Shera' (Se'ir),
where the Archon Demiurge would give them the Law, and make with them a
binding contract - so that they would serve him, and he would protect
them from their enemies, - (something that, in the end, he quite
obviously failed to do).
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| ʾĀrôn Habbərît (Ark of the Covenant) |
According
to some traditional interpretations of the 'Book of Exodus', 'Book of
Numbers', and the Christian 'Letter to the Hebrews', the Ark also
contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as
supposedly written by Moses; however, the first of the 'Books of Kings'
says that at the time of King Solomon, the Ark contained only the two
'Tablets of the Law'.
According
to the 'Book of Exodus', the Ark was built at the command of God, in
accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.
God was said to have communicated with Moses "from between the two cherubim" on the Ark's cover.
The
biblical account relates that about a year after the Israelites' exodus
from Egypt, the Ark was created according to the pattern given to Moses
by God when Israel was encamped at the foot of Mount Sinai.
Thereafter
the gold plated, acacia chest was carried by the Levites some 2,000
cubits in advance of the people when on the march or before the
Israelite army, the host of fighting men.
When
the Ark was borne by Levites into the bed of the Jordan, the waters
parted as God had parted the waters of the Red Sea, opening a pathway
for the entire host to pass through (Josh. 3:15–16; 4:7–18).
The
walls of the city of Jericho were shaken to the ground with no more
than a shout from the army after the Ark of the Covenant was paraded
round them for seven days by Levites.
Seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams' horns (Josh. 6:4–20).
When
carried, the Ark was always hidden under a large veil made of skins and
blue cloth, always carefully concealed, even from the eyes of the
priests and the Levites who carried it. There are no contemporary
extra-biblical references to the Ark.
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| 'Fertile Crescent' |
It begins among those people who occupied the area lying between the Nile, Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.
Surrounded by ancient seats of Æon inspired culture
in Aryan Egypt and Babylonia, by the deserts of Arabia, and by the
highlands of Asia Minor, the land of Canaan was a meeting place of
civilizations.
The
land was traversed by old-established trade routes and possessed
important harbours on the Gulf of Aqaba and on the Mediterranean coast,
the latter exposing it to the influence of other cultures of the Fertile
Crescent.
According
to the Jewish sacred writings, the writers of which were inspired by
the Archon Demiurge, the Jews are descended from the ancient people of
Israel who settled in the land of Canaan, located between the eastern
coast of the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River . The Demiurge's
'chosen people' shared a lineage through their common ancestors,
Abraham,
אַבְרָהָם (Abraham
- Arabic: إبراهيمʾIbrāhīm), originally Abram, is the first of the
three Patriarchs of Israel whose story is told in chapters 11–25 of the
Book of Genesis. According to these chapters, Abram was called by 'God'
to leave his father Terah's house and native land of Mesopotamia in return for a new land,
the so-called 'promised land'. Threats to the covenant arose –
difficulties in producing an heir, the threat of bondage in Egypt, of
lack of fear of God – but all were overcome and the covenant was
established. After the death, and burial of his wife, Sarah, in the
grave that he purchased in Hebron, Abraham arranged for the marriage of
Isaac to a woman from his own people. Abraham later married a woman
called Keturah and had six more sons, before he died at the recorded age
of 175 (?), and was buried by his sons Isaac and Ishmael. ( Genesis
25:1–10)
The
Bible's internal chronology places Abraham around 2000 BCE, but the
stories in Genesis cannot be definitively related to the known history
of that time.
Abraham's son Isaac, and Isaac's son Jacob, were identified as Habiru (Hebrews), whose nomadic travels centred around Hebron somewhere between 1991 and 1706 BCE.
These Habiru supposedly consisted
of twelve tribes, each descended from one of Jacob's twelve sons,
Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Yissachar, Zevulun, Dan, Gad, Naftali,
Asher, Yosef, and Benyamin.
Jacob and his twelve sons (in fact the Hyksos) were supposed to have left Canaan during a severe famine and settled in Goshen of northern Egypt.
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| Edward Poynter - 'Israel in Egypt' - 1867 |
While in Egypt the Demiurge asserted that the descendants were enslaved by the Egyptian government led by the Pharaoh.
After 400 years of slavery, YHWH, the God of Israel (in fact the Archon Demiurge - known at that time as Set), sent the Habiru prophet Moses, a man supposedly from the tribe of Levi, to release the 'chosen people' from Egyptian 'bondage'.
According to the later scriptures, the Habiru miraculously
emigrated out of Egypt (an event known as the Exodus), and returned to
what was claimed to be their ancestral homeland in Canaan.
This event marks the formation of Israel as a political nation in Canaan, in 1400 BCE.
On the way to Cannan (the Land of Milk and Honey) Moses
leads the 'chosen people' to Jebel esh-Shera' (Se'ir), where the
Archon Demiurge gives them the Law, and makes with them a binding
contract (covenant) - so that they would serve him, and he would protect
them from their enemies, - (something that, in the end, he quite
obviously failed to do).
The demiurge's 'chosen people' then invaded Canaan in 1400 BCE under the command of general called Joshua.
After entering Canaan, portions of the land were given to each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
For several hundred years, what had been Cannan was organized into a confederacy of twelve tribes ruled by a series of Judges.
After the judges the Habiru living in Cannan were ruled by kings.
In 1000 BCE, the monarchy was established under Saul, and continued under King David and his son, Solomon.
During the reign of David, the already existing city of Jerusalem became the national and spiritual capital of the Habiru .
Solomon built the First Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem.
The tribes, however, were fracturing politically.
Upon Solomon's death,
a civil war erupted between the ten northern Israelite tribes, and the
tribes of Judah (Simeon was absorbed into Judah) and Benjamin in the
south.
The
nation split into the Kingdom of Israel in the north, and the Kingdom
of Judah in the south. Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler
Tiglath-Pileser III in the 8th century BCE.
There
is no commonly accepted historical record of the fate of the ten
northern tribes, sometimes referred to as the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel,
although speculation abounds.
The Cannanites
Canaan and the Canaanites are mentioned some 160 times in Habiru scripture, mostly in the 'Pentateuch' and the books of 'Joshua' and 'Judges'.
According
to the scriptures inspired by the Archon Demiurge, Canaan first appears
as one of Noah's grandsons, cursed with perpetual slavery because his
father Ham had "looked upon" the drunk and naked Noah.
The Archon Demiurge later promises Canaan's land to Abraham, and eventually delivers it to the Habiru.
The
curse upon Canaan was imposed by the biblical patriarch Noah. The
relevant narrative occurs in the 'Book of Genesis' and concerns Noah's
drunkenness and the accompanying shameful act perpetrated by his son Ham
the father of Canaan (Gen. 9:20–27). The controversies raised by this
story regarding the nature of Ham's transgression, and the question of
why Noah cursed Canaan when Ham had sinned, have been debated for over
two thousand years. The story's objective was to justify the subjection
of the Canaanites to the Israelites. The curse on Canaan, invoked in
response to an act of moral depravity, is the first intimation of the
theme of the corruption of the Canaanites, which is given as the
justification for their being dispossessed of their land, and for the
transfer of that land to the descendants of Abraham.
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| Joshua Enters Cannan |
The Habiru scriptures lists borders for the land of Canaan.
'Numbers 34:2' includes the phrase "the land of Canaan as defined by its borders."
The borders are then delineated in Numbers 34:3–12'.
The
term "Canaanites" in the Hebrew language is applied especially to the
inhabitants of the lower regions, along the sea coast and on the shores
of Jordan, as opposed to the inhabitants of the mountainous regions.
By
the time of the Second Temple, "Canaanite" in Hebrew had come to be not
an ethnic designation, so much as a general synonym for "merchant".
According to the Book of Jubilees, the Habiru conquest
of Canaan, and the 'curse', are attributed to Canaan's steadfast
refusal to join his elder brothers in Ham's allotment beyond the Nile,
and instead "squatting" on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean,
within the inheritance delineated for Shem.
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| The Ark Destroys the Enemies of the 'Chosen People' |
One of the 613 mitzvot (precisely n. 596) prescribes that no inhabitants of the cities of six Canaanite nations, the same as mentioned in 7:1, minus the Girgashites, were to be left alive !
The strange fact about the relationship between the Cannanites and the Habiru was the fact that both groups were Semites.
The
only difference between the two groups seems to be the fact that the
'Twelve Tribes' had been designated as the Archon Demiurge's 'chosen
people' - and that the Demiurge had granted the land occupied by the
Cannanites to the Habiru - which obviously meant that the Cannanites had to be eliminated.
The
613 commandments (Hebrew: תרי"ג מצוות: taryag mitzvot, "613 Mitzvot";
Biblical Hebrew: Miṣwoth) is the number of mitzvot listed in the Torah,
first codified by Rabbi Simlai in Talmud Makkot 23b.
These
principles of Biblical law are sometimes called commandments (mitzvot),
and referred to collectively as the "Law of Moses" (Torat Mosheh, תורת
משה), "Mosaic Law," "Sinaitic Law," or simply "the Law". The word
mitzvot is plural; singular is mitzvah.
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