Moses the Mystery Man
The major religions Judaism,
Christianity and Islam all claim Moses as their leader, prophet and sage. We
need to know who Moses was, and what was his capacity and credentials as an
ancient representative for God.
“Truth crushed to the Earth will rise again.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Moses was always genetically and
ethnically African, as chronicled by Manetho, Strabo, and Herodotus, Tacitus,
Pliny and other ancient, medieval and modern historians.
It is only after many revisions to his image’ over several millennia
and the advent of occidental or western thought, that his image as well as the
image and ethnicity of all the original Hebrews was grossly and purposefully
misrepresented by the European world.
Revised history and its telling
controlled by those who have a different viewpoint and agenda has ruined the
world. There was a point when it was imperative for them to change all things
African into all things European as seen in the drawing below and I have outline
in the article Changing
Black to White. Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon
and Jesus and all the Egyptians and Israelites all had their complexions and
named changed to relate to the European psyche.
As Truth seekers, we must ask
pertinent questions about ancient Moses and his role in our religious lives. As
in any story more than 10 minutes old, we hear a skewed or ‘revised’ outline
of that story with the information ‘sun’ to make us thing a certain way,
usually the official way. Surely, it has only gotten worst when the information
is 3000 years old that revised story enters into the annals of becomes history.
Because of this, we have come to believe a ‘new religion’ in our
modern world, a religion that is ‘morphed’.
If the plumb line is moved and the walls do not meet the foundation then
in a storm the building will fall.
“Therefore
whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a
wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the
floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for
it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine,
and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house
upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew,
and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.” Matt
7:23-27
“So
then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God
that giveth the increase. Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one:
and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. For we
are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, [ye are] God's
building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise
master builder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth
thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 1 Cor. 3:7-10
A religion that ‘whitewashed and
sanitized’ but the femaleness has been removed and relegated to the
background. We have come to
recognize a Biblical story that Abraham, Moses, and Jesus would not recognize, a
story made in the image of the European. We accept this as
"truth" or run the risk of being labeled rebellious non-believers,
those with itching ears, and at worst reprobate, blasphemous and hell bound
heathens.
It is with this energy, I believe
we need an understanding of the man scholars have attributed the writing of
Biblical laws. His actions have
affected religious and secular society of ancient and modern thought in Judaism
Christianity and the Islamic worlds. My earnest hope is for the information I
have unearthed will help us 'put some
clothes on' Moses and bring him back to his African roots. We have command
to understand the gaps and questions that are I scripture and to find out his
true appointment.
In this lengthy study, I have
included, notes, quotes, comments and excerpt from various controversial
authors, writers and historians. Many of these scholars do not take an orthodox
[accepted and approved by the European church] belief of Moses, the Bible and
Biblical events. I employ a variety of orthodox writers and scholars that had
more information about Biblical times and have written extensively about those
epochs. Although these scholarly and accurate commentaries and observations were
replaced by, the proponents of ‘modern’ scholarship who seek to shore up the
foundation of White Supremacy in its alternate guise as Western Philosophy.
I’ve found in the realm of
Christian scholarship the blood of African biblical and secular history was
drained dry in order to transfuse the European paradigm. This new European
pattern leaves holes, questions, gaps and confusion about the Bible in the body
of believers. When we are honest with history and plug the ancient Biblical
specifications into its original African context, the light of understanding
brings about spiritual revelation. That is why it is necessary to go to
extra-biblical sources to sort out these conundrums. Picking and choosing what
is acceptable extra-biblical references is a long held practice by most
western scholars who seek to ensanguinate the living word and form it into a
Corpus Christi to control the b extinguishing true investigation and research by
earnest students and truth seekers.
The
Nile
Valley
The Pharaoh represented the Sun
[son] of God and Ox or Bull was one of the icons as well as the solar disk. The
Bull was said to be an enemy of Moses and the Israelites but what did the story
mean?
The
Bull or Ox on the Altar with the image of the Sun between its horns.
The
Aleph is
thought to be derived from the West Semitic for Ox and the symbol for Yahweh.
The Golden Calves set up by king Jeroboam at Dan and
Bethel
were images of Yahweh-Elohim, also called "EL"
in the Hebrew Bible.
“And I
appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name
Yahweh I was not known to them.” Exodus 6:3.
Some have said this was put in the
form of a question and that could be true.
“I appeared
to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Yahweh I was
not known to them?”
The point in this instance was
they had not known God as Yahweh, but as Elohim and had worshipped him as such.
He then took them as his own under the new name Yahweh.
“Therefore
tell the children of Israel,’ I am Yahweh, and I will bring you out from under
the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I
will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: and I will
take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and you shall know that
I am Yahweh your God, who brings you out from under the burdens of the
Egyptians.” Exodus 6:6-7
“In
Samaria
was found an ostraca or potsherd inscribed egel-yah, "bull-calf Yah…
Scholars
have noted that EL, the supreme god of the Canaanite pantheon, and father of all
the gods and goddesses, is frequently addressed as "Bull" or
"Bull-EL" in various religious compositions found at ancient Late
Bronze Age Ugarit, modern Ras Shamras, in coastal northern
Syria
.
Israel
has preserved traditions that her ancestors were of northern
Syria
(
Haran
), so as a God of northern
Syria
, he may have been portrayed originally in Late Bronze Age times in a
"bovine" form." [1]
Hesat – The
Cow-goddess who gave birth to the king [Pharaoh] in the form of a golden calf.
In general she is a milk goddess quenching the thirst of mankind with divine
liquid described as the 'beer of Hesat'."
Hathor
Pinch noted
that the divine cow (Hathor, Nut, Mehet-weret, cf. p. 175) is portrayed as
suckling Pharaoh, frequently in a papyrus marsh, alluding to a myth where she
protects the newborn Horus from his uncle Seth who seeks his life”.[2]
Wow, did you read that? Moses, the
rival of the Pharonic dynasty and the priest was set in an ark on the papyrus
marsh because the unnamed Pharaoh sought to kill him. Later, after the Exodus
and while Moses spoke on the mountain with Yahweh [whose symbol was the Ox] and
when he returned Aaron and
Israel
had made a Golden Calf the symbol of the old Pharonic dynasty.
This is where we will stat at the Reed
Bed and the rescue of Moses from the Marshes. Above is a picture of
the Boom of the Book of the Dead’
the Pharaoh upon a barque or ark going toward the reed bed [life and
death] with the El or Ox/Bull ahead of them. Over the back of the Ox/Bull is the
Eastern Star symbolizing
Isis
.
The Legend of Moses myth from the 3rd century from the
Talmud.
“When Moses
was in his third year, Pharaoh was dining one day with the queen Alfar'anit at
his right hand, his daughter Biti'ah with the infant Moses upon her lap at his
left, and Balaam the son of Beor together with his two sons and all the princes
of the realm sitting at the table in the king's presence. It happened that the
infant took the crown from off the king's head, and placed it on his own. When
the king and princes saw this, they were terrified, and each one in turn
expressed his astonishment. The king said to the princes, "What speak you,
and what say you, O ye princes, on this matter, and what is to be done to this
Hebrew boy on account of this act?"
Balaam spoke,
saying: "Remember now, O my lord and king, the dream which you dreamt many
days ago, and how your servant interpreted it for you. Now this is a child of
the Hebrew in whom is the spirit of God. Let not my lord the king imagine in his
heart that being a child he did the thing without knowledge. For he is a Hebrew
boy, and wisdom and understanding are with him, although he is yet a child, and
with wisdom has he done this, and chosen unto himself the kingdom of Egypt. For
this is the manner of all the Hebrews, to deceive kings and their magnates, to
do all things cunningly in order to make the kings of the earth and their men to
stumble.
"Now
therefore, my lord king, behold, this child has risen up in their stead in
Egypt, to do according to their deeds and make sport of every man, be he king,
prince or judge. If it pleases the king, let us now spill his blood upon the
ground, lest he grow up and snatch the government from your hand, and the hope
of
Egypt
be cut off after he reigns. Let us moreover, call for all the judges and the
wise men of
Egypt
, that we may know whether the judgment of death be due to this child, as I have
said, and then we will slay him.
Pharaoh sent
and called for all the wise men of
Egypt
, and they came, and the angel Gabriel was disguised as one of them. When they
were asked their opinion in the matter, Gabriel spoke up and said: "If it
please the king, let him place an onyx stone before the child, and a coal of
fire, and if he stretches out his hand and grasps the onyx stone, then shall we
know that the child has done with wisdom all that he has done, and we will slay
him. But if he stretches out his hand and grasps the coal of fire, then shall we
know that it was not with consciousness that he did the thing, and he shall
live.
The counsel
seemed good in the eyes of the king, and when they had placed the stone and the
coal before the child, Moses stretched forth his hand toward the onyx stone and
attempted to seize it, but the angel Gabriel guided his hand away from it and
placed it upon the live coal, and the coal burnt the child's hand, and he lifted
it up and touched it to his mouth, and burnt part of his lips and part of his
tongue, and for all his life he became slow of speech and of a slow tongue.”
The Talmud is when more Jewish and
Christian scholars go to find an answer to a hole in the Bible. HOWEVER, the
problem is it is a lie. That is what happens when scholars have subverted
history by taking the key and essence out of the story and filling it in with
something that is a fairy tale. In
this replacement account, we have Moses who was “mighty in word and deed”
now stammering and stuttering his way through his schooling. The Rabbi has had
to find a way to ratify the sad story that Moses was slow of speech, to do so
they reached back into his childhood make up a story for him to become a burn
tongue.
It is my belief that Moses was an
Egyptian possibly a Pharaoh or at least a high-ranking official the house of the
Khemetian Pharoahs. When we read his story and lineage in the Bible, it is a
veiled attempt to hide the particulars of his birth, initiation, coronation,
exile, repatriation and murder. His
‘new’ monotheistic religion is a reiteration of the worship of the ‘old’
Aten religion recast in the Pharonic household of Imram as the leader
Ankhenaten. Moses’ life was
an epic play, not unlike the passion play of the Egyptians and as a side note
Catholics and some protestant religions still used this method as a
teaching tool for the ‘vulgar and unlearned’ later adopted this same
story telling. This epic drama was
passed from generation to generation in order for the original Hebrews to
understand their history and nativity, with some parts of this drama being
allegorical and metaphorical.
The problem facing us is the KEY
or LEGEND to the drama was forgotten, then lost, then found and finally revised
by those who do not subscribe to the original African interpretation of the key.
Interpretation is now in the hands of those who have another political
and religious agenda. Now the truth is a skewed version of a drama made
laughable and filled with holes, while continuing to be remolded and retold
outside of its appropriate and original context. That is why Christianity is
changed through syncretism, as Judaism and all other religions. When the
original is corrupted the counterfeit becomes reality.
The
ancient Aten with its hands holding the Ankh or sign of life was an iconographic
representation of God as the Life giver. The
sun was the largest object in the sky and it only REPRESENTED God and was not
worshipped as a God as many ignorant scholars have contended. In this case, God
was represented by the Aten or called Aten just like he was referred to Ra or Re
another name for the sun. The modern equivalent is Jesus as the Lamb and the
Holy Spirit as the Dove.
It was also a common practice for
the Egyptians to have several names for God.
This was also true for the Pharonic household and people of royal descent
possessing several names and titles. Some
names/titles were kept secret and others were for openly used but only at
his/her birth, coronation, initiation, marriage and death. Some
names were associated with a deity as in the case of Amenhotep IV his name was
changed to Ankhenaten and Tutankhaten name was changed to Tutankhamun and Nibhurrereya because of a change in worship. The custom was to use a pet or nicknames as well as abbreviated
forms of a full coronation, or names related to the God, these and other
official names were carved into stone or used for official business. It
was also customary for all members of the royal household to enter the
School
of
Mystery
. All Mystery Schools presented
taught the two paths of development:
1) The way of the mystic is the path of faith. Believed
those who follow this line of development could build a soul-body pure and
acceptable.
2) The way of the occultist considered the path of knowledge and good works.
Its followers demanded an answer to all matters in doubt, and required that
intellect be satisfied before the heart may speak. Do not cringe at the word occult, it meant hidden and not evil.
In the Moses saga, the stage is
set for the drama by an edict of death proclaimed to all ‘male’ Israelite
children.
The
king of
Egypt
said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah,
“When you act as midwives to the Hebrew women, and see them on the birthing
stool. If it is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, she shall live."
“Then
Pharaoh commanded all his people, "Every boy that is born to the Hebrews
you shall throw into the
Nile
, but you shall let every girl live." Ex.1: 16-22.
The Hebrews lived in
Goshen
from the time of the vizier Joseph, son of Jacob [
Israel
] Joseph was the prophet of Min,
and his people the Hebrews had supposedly over-run
Egypt
and become a threat to the stability of the nation. The Midwives assigned to
the Hebrew women were commanded to kill the boys, but according to the biblical
account they defied Pharaoh and lied to spare their kin. In this narrative Moses
and others [?] are kept alive because of their subterfuge. Moses is hidden
by his yet unnamed mother in the rushes of the river and watched carefully by
his unnamed older [?] sister.
'And
a man [unnamed] of the tribe of Levi, married one of his own tribe, and she
[unnamed] bore him a son...but when she could hide him [unnamed
child/toddler/boy] no longer, she took a basket [Coffin/Ark] made of
reeds and covered it with tar [bitumen] to make it watertight. She put the
baby in it and then placed it in the tall grass [reed bed] at the edge of the
river.' CJB - Exodus
2: 1-4.
Questions:
·
Why
was the woman unnamed?
·
Who
was the man she married?
·
Is
this the way to open up a real biography?
·
We
see Moses had a sister and later we find he has a brother Aaron three years
younger than Moses, but when did the killing stop and why?
·
Why
was Aaron exempt?
His unnamed sister stands watch
over her unnamed brother and soon an unnamed princess of the Pharonic household
spots the coffin [ark] in the Papyrus reeds by the
Nile
River
.
'The
Pharaoh's daughter came down to the
Nile
to bathe, while her handmaidens walked along the bank. Suddenly she
noticed the basket [ark] in the Papyrus rushes and sent a servant to get it.
The princess opened it [the ark] and saw a baby boy. He was crying, and
she felt sorry for him. 'This is one of the Hebrew babies, she said. Then his
sister asked her ' Shall I go and call a Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for
you?' Please do, she answered, so the girl went and brought the baby's own
mother.' Exodus 2: 5-8.
Questions:
·
How was
Merriam able to talk to the princess without an introduction?
·
How
do commoners have access to the Princess to speak to her face to face?
·
Didn’t
the Princess know it was a violation to harbor a Hebrew child?
·
Was
it her child from the beginning?
·
Was
Merriam one of her handmaidens?
The fact is Merriam had to be
fluent in Egyptian or the Princess must have know and spoken Hebrew. Merriam is
an Egyptian name as was Mose [a title] and Aaron, Phineas and Yocheved. Meriam’s
name in Hebrew means bitterness, but in Egyptian it means lovely or beloved and
like Mos or Moses it is affixed to the name of a deity.
Here are some examples of the
Egyptian names with the prefixed Meri: Mery-Ra, Meri-Ptah, Meri-Aten. A picture
of Akhenaton’s daughter Meri-Aten with the side braid
to signify she is of the royal household.
Who
was Merriam could it have been Meri-Am or Meri-Amon?
Would the scribes and revisionists
intentionally de-emphase her Egyptian name after the Exodus along with her role
and ability as a prophetess…Well, yes they would.!
Here we see the mother, sister,
baby boy and princess are still unnamed and the River finally referred to as
called the
Nile
. Although we have been primed to believe the basket of Moses floated down [up?]
the River to where the Princess was walking [bathing] we see that according to
scripture, she found him where he had been originally placed - in the papyrus
rushes.
This is not coincidence since the
symbol of
Egypt
is the Lotus and Papyrus and the ark in the rushes is symbolic for the birth of
royalty, mankind and death.
The making of
Paper out of Papyrus: paper", is derived from the word "papyrus", an
Egyptian word that originally meant "that which belongs to the house"
(the bureaucracy of ancient
Egypt
).
Bulrushes - Papyrus: A tall,
aquatic, Mediterranean sedge (Cyperus papyrus) having numerous drooping rays
grouped in umbels. A material on which to write made from the pith or the stems
of this sedge, used especially by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
The word Reed is Qaneh : A rod or
staff, a measuring rod. BTW this is also the name of the first son of Adam and
Eve who was Cain. Moses is placed by his sister in the reeds along the
Nile
. This word in the paragraph used as a measuring rod is pregnant with
possibilities. The picture to the left shows an ancient Egyptian with the
measuring rod.
Linen or papyrus are held together
by glue and molded into coffins and funeral masks. The word for ark means coffin.
Let us see what the translators were trying to get at in disguising the word
Reed or Rush. I will use the translator’s language to show you the progression
of thought. Remember the word has been translated and transliterated from Hebrew
to Persian, Greek, Latin, German and so on and everyone was not honest or
scholarly! The translators had some original or earlier manuscripts and I
believe some of the terms they used in the translation process give us clues on
the true story of Moses.
The reference for the
Ark
being a coffin harkens back to the story of Osiris and his brother Set.
“The
original form of the myth states that Osiris was killed in a wooden sarcophagus
[coffin] secretly being made to his measurements, and then a party held where
the coffin was offered to whoever it fitted. A few people tried to fit in, but
to no avail, until Osiris was encouraged to try, who, as soon as he lay back,
had the lid slammed on him and it sealed closed. The coffin was thrown into a
Nile
river, causing Osiris to drown, but the coffin eventually was rescued by
Isis and Nepthys, who used magic to bring life to Osiris inside. The coffin
sprouted greenery, eventually turning into an acacia tree, from which the
newly young Horus emerged.
The act of
evil in drowning Osiris was said to have been the work of 72 unnamed
conspirators, reflecting the legend in which 1/72nd of the moon's light was said
to have been won by Thoth for the birth of the five major gods - Set, Nepthys,
Osiris, Isis, and Horus, each 1/72nd of the moon's light given for the five days
reflecting an individual piece of darkness left in its place during the 360.
This legend was itself based on the fact that 1/72 over 360 days, the length of
the year in the older Egyptian calendar, produces 5 whole days, reflecting the
duration of the newer 365 day Egyptian calendar.
As a
life-death-rebirth deity, Horus/Osiris became a reflection of the annual
cycle of crop harvesting as well as reflecting people's desires for a successful
afterlife, and so the legend became extremely important, outstripping all
others. The legend's ventures into both life and afterlife meant that religious
rites associated with the legend eventually began to take on aspects of a
mystery religion, where initiates were said to be able to partake in
Horus/Osiris' resurrection, purging themselves of past ills, and entering a new
life.”
The ark’s oldest icon was the
bowl which was symbolic for the unseen Creator and has the sound of ‘nb or
neb’.
The nebet
hieroglyph portrayed the concept of two words that sounded identical.
Neb
, "all" and neb, "lord" or "master". The glyph was
used interchangeable to represent these concepts.
The basket
could represent, "Lord". Neteru were often shown sitting or standing
upon the glyph to emphasize their divine nature. The vulture and the cobra were
often placed atop the basket to identify them as the symbols of Upper and
Lower Egypt
, and not just ordinary animals. In the pharaoh’s nebty (Two Ladies) title,
the goddesses Nekhebet and Buto were seated on baskets.
Ark
, n.--Old English arc, earc, 'Noah's ark, box, coffin', from Latin arca, 'chest', whence also Old High German
arahha, arka (Middle High German, German, arche), 'ark'. Old Slavic raka,
'burial cave, rakev, 'coffin', are Teutonic loan words.) See arcanum and
compare words there referred to.
Arcanum, n.
Secret, mystery.-- Latin arcānum, probably a substantive use of the
neutered of arcānus, 'shut up, secret',
originally 'enclosed in a chest', from arca, 'chest, coffin', which is related
to arcēre, 'to enclose, keep away, ward off', and cognate with Greek
άρκειν to keep off'
What could it all mean?
Moses was put in a coffin an
enclosed chest that symbolized a Mystery? The Osirian mystery played out
again as I had been for centuries. This was an initiation ritual, similar to the
Ark
that Noah and his family lived in. It all pointed to another meaning - the
coffin that Osirus was custom fitted for, and then thrown by the 72 men in the
Nile
River
. In the case of Moses, the coffin was hidden among the reeds or papyrus
reeds which symbolized a measuring rod and the Pharonic house of
Egypt
.
The papyrus represents Lower Egypt
and the lotus represents
Upper Egypt
. In other representations we find two gods binding the Sema together using
papyrus and lotus.
From this giant lotus the sun itself rose on the first
day. A symbol of
Upper Egypt
. [So we see the sun rose in Upper Egypt in the interior of
Africa
.]
The Aten
Heliopolis
or On was in
the heart of the
Land
of
Goshen
and at its famous
Temple
of the Sun Moses studied theology. Not far from the obelisk is the sycamore
known as the 'Virgin's Tree' under which the Holy Family rested on the Flight to
Egypt
." Signed: "Joseph Moore, Jr., Grand New Hotel,
Cairo
, Dec. 29, 1877."
Osiris was associated with the
Willow
, Acaicia and Sycamore trees. Osiris was worshipped although the sycamore specifically
was regarded as a manifestation of the goddesses Nut, Isis and Hathor, who was
even given the title, "Lady of the Sycamore".
“…the identification of several maternal
deities as tree goddesses also meant that burial in a wooden coffin was
viewed as a return to the womb of the mother goddess.”
Since the mythological tree of Nut stood at Heliopolis and was a sycamore
tree under which tradition asserts that Virgin Mary sat and rested during her
flight to Egypt, and there seems to be little doubt that many
of the details about her wanderings in the Delta, which are recorded in the
details about her wanderings of a similar class, are borrowed from the old
mythology of Egypt.
“A Sycamore tree marks the place on
Roda
Island
where the infant Moses was said to have been found.”
Nut
of the Sycamore Tree
One
more Sycamore references:
Old
Testament:
1Kings 10:27And he
made silver to be as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones: and cedars to be as
common as sycamores which grow in the plains.
Psalms 77:47And he
destroyed their vineyards with hail, and their mulberry [sycamore] trees with
hoarfrost.
Amos 7:14-15 Amos
replied to Amaziah, “I was not a prophet by profession. No,
I was a herdsman who also took care of sycamore fig trees.
New
Testament:
Luke
17:3 The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith. "The
Lord said, "If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell
this sycamore tree,' Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,' and it
would obey you.
Luke 19:4 There was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector, and
he was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, and
couldn't because of the crowd, because he was short. He
ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he
was to pass that way.
John
1:48
Let us look at the ritual of
initiation of Moses who was schooled in all the ways of the Egyptians to see if
this coffin/ark experience in the bulrushes can be explained in another way.
The Process of Initiation:
Early at the seventh day and while
a distant gong was heard, the initiated ones were asked by the Hierophant to
enter inside a mummy case [ark] brought by a group of temple guardians
and acolytes.
The coffins bore scriptures and symbols resembling the ones used to
preserved the bodies of the departed ones. The Hierophant or High Priest of
the
Temple
entranced the initiates, one by one, into a magical hypnotic sleep. When the
candidates were laid inside, the lids were closed and they entered into a deep
sleep as homage to Osiris the Lord of the Dead and Lord of the Resurrection.
The coffins with the
candidates inside were tied up to a carrier and with robes lowered down, one at
a time, to the Chamber of Rebirth. Entering into the womb again [what did
Nicodemous say to Jesus?], "can a man enter into his mothers womb
again?"
Context and symbols:
All this initiation into the Egyptian educational system of which Moses was
schooled, takes place in a chamber in the great Pyramid. The great Pyramid of
Gizeh called Khufu stands upon a low hill overlooking the yellow sands of the
vast desert. Within it is a narrow passage leading up to the King's Chamber, as
it is now called, but which in olden days was the Holy of Holies or Chamber of
Initiation.
Egyptian Door
At the top of this passage is a
narrow gate that leads directly into the initiation chamber.
"...the
narrow upward passage leading to the King's Chamber had a "narrow
gate" indeed; the same "strait gate" which "leadeth unto
life," or the new spiritual rebirth alluded to by Jesus in Matthew vii. 13
et. seq.; and that it is this gate in the Initiation temple that the writer who
recorded the words alleged to have been spoken by an Initiate, was thinking of.
[Secret Doctrine I, 318, footnote. Blavatsky]
Having passed through the "strait
gate that leadeth unto life", the neophyte [initiate to the Mysteries]
entered the Holy of Holies. On one side of this chamber there stands a great
porphyry sarcophagus. This was the Baptismal Font, upon emerging from which the
neophyte was "born again".
Matthew
7:13-14 - Enter through the straight gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the
road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate
and narrow the road that leads to life, and only few find it. (NIV)
At the time of his initiation, the
candidate was attached to a couch in the form of a cross and plunged into a deep
sleep. He remained in that condition for three days and nights, during which
time his spiritual Ego is said to have "ascended into Heaven and descended
into Hell," while his entranced body remained within the sarcophagus.
This is part the ritual that Moses
had to go through. The allusion to his water birth and naming is consistent with
the initiation process of a neophyte and not floating down the river of the
Nile
as a babe. The truth is cloaked in a play. [see Passion play]
*Remember this when we are told by
Paul that the Israelites on their journey of the Exodus was ALL baptized into
Moses. Moses was Messiah to the Exodus-ing Hebrews he was the deliverer.
The Egyptian name is Iah like Ihuh or YHWH.
"For I
would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the
cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized into Moses in
the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual food; and
all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that
followed them, and the rock [foundation] was Christ [Messu]. "1Cor. 10:1-4.
[Messu is the Egyptian ever-coming son, later translated Messiah by the
Hebrews.].
We have been told that Moses was a
poor Hebrew boy saved from death by his mother and older sister, then hidden in
the rushes, set adrift on the
Nile
and later pulled from the waters by the daughter of an unnamed Pharaoh and
returned to his waiting mother. Later
after weaning he was returned at an unknown age to the princess, then named
Moses and reared in the great Pharonic household without question of his
parentage or bloodline.
Did Moses have a Hebrew name? How
could his birth mother not name him? According to the Abrahamic law of
circumcision and naming, both was to be done on the 8th day, even Zipporah knew
that! So the tradition was known by
Moses' people and those in the surrounding area for years.
Genesis 17 -
[9]
Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you must keep my covenant, you and
your descendants after you for the generations to come. [10] This is my covenant
with you and your descendants after you, the covenant you are to keep: Every
male among you shall be circumcised. [11] You are to undergo
circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. [12]
For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be
circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a
foreigner--those who are not your offspring. [13] Whether born in your household
or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh
is to be an everlasting covenant. [14] Any uncircumcised male, who has not been
circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my
covenant."
On
that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household
or bought with his money, every male in his household, and circumcised them, as
God told him. [24] Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised,
[25] and his son Ishmael was thirteen; [26] Abraham and his son Ishmael were
both circumcised on that same day. [27] And every male in Abraham's
household, including those born in his household or bought from a foreigner, was
circumcised with him.
“It
happened on the way at a lodging place, that Yahweh met Moses and wanted to kill
him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and
cast it at his feet, and said, surely a bloody husband art thou to me.” So he
let him alone. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," because
of the circumcision. Exodus 4:24-25.
Egyptian
Circumcision
Circumcision
of the Maasai at 8 years and 12 years old. With appendage being formed.
Let us look at the Egyptian name
Moses and what it may mean and how it may shed some light on this religious
drama. The first extra-Biblical record of Moses starts in
Egypt
with one historians view point.
The account of the Priest Manetho
[Ma-net-ho] who is said to have lived in the time of the Hellenized [Greek]
Ptolemy’s who ruled
Egypt
from 323-30BC. Manetho was commissioned to write the History of Egypt in the
original version of Aegyptiaca. We can assume that Manetho went to the libraries
of
Egypt
and researched his information for that work; here is an excerpt with comments
on Manetho's book and the Manethoan literature that followed.
'Soon after the
original composition, the Aegyptiaca was epitomized, by extracting a framework
of kings which clung to the occasional historical statement. At the same time,
however, the original work was being abused, commented and falsified for
political and religious motives. It is not unlikely that at this time, new works
about the history of
Egypt
were being written under Manetho's name. Such [fake] works were often full of
tendentious commentaries and anachronisms.'
'The classical
authors who copied, commented or made references to the Aegyptiaca were thus
confronted with different sources, all claiming to have been based on the
original work. Josephus knew both the original Aegyptiaca or its epitome, and
the fake Manethoan literature, but he was often unable to distinguish between
them.
Julius
Africanus knew and used the epitomized Aegyptiaca, while Eusebius quoted from
Africanus and from a version of the Epitome altered by the Hellenistic Jews for
religious purposes.
'Julius
Africanus is the father of Christian
chronography. His name says that he was an African; Suidas calls him "a
Libyan [black] philosopher". Gelzer ("S. Julius Africanus", pp.
4, 5) thinks he was of Roman descent. He knew Greek (in which language he
wrote), Latin, and Hebrew.
Sidebar: That was the equivalent
of saying he was born in a Roman province or commonwealth like Egypt was at that
time, but they want you to think Mr. Africanus was not African [Black] it was
the same as the Apostle Paul and the same as saying we are not Africans because
we are living in America or the Caribbean? Let's
move on.
We see there is a discrepancy
about the accounts of Manetho. Now we could discount this and say it is a
lie and Manetho was a player-hater or the all encompassing brand, an
anti-Semite. But, I don't think he was, he was just writing about what was in
the record books of
Egypt
. We need to look at what Manetho said about Moses and the Jews that made
Josephus so mad and tie his panties in a knot. This is what was said by
the modern Essenes and then their quote from ancient sources.
'The
Biblical character of Moses is at the foundation of the Jewish faith and of
consequence to the Judeo-Christian church that arose from it, in addition of the
Islamic religion of Mohammed. The Essene Order is suspect of the
authenticity of the Biblical and Jewish accounts of Moses, but recognizes some
truth preserved within these less than perfect accounts.
'No
intelligent Egyptian worshipped the bull. It was only the symbol that
represented Osiris. Any offense to it was an insult to him.' The Beautiful
Ethiopians -Drusilla Dunjee Houston
As you have to realize the worship
of animals was not part of the Egyptian construct. Those who do not
understand may think it so. But it would be like saying Christians worshiped a
lamb or lion. Osiris was the king
killed and raised from the dead - he was what brought life into the afterlife.
'The
writings of the ancient Egyptian historian Manetho are seen as a more reliable
account. Manetho (c.280 BC) tells us that Moses was by birth of Heliopolis, and
his name was originally Osarsiph, from Osyris [Osiris], who was the god of
Heliopolis; but that when he was gone over to these people, his name was
changed, and he was called Moses. He was a priest of
Heliopolis
. He instituted many new laws and customs quite opposite to those of
Egypt
and told his people they should not worship the Egyptian gods.' They also
abstained form killing those animals sacred to these gods and were to join
themselves to nobody but those that were of this confederacy.'
In the third century B.C. an
important and influential Egyptian priest named Manetho wrote an account of his
country’s history. It contained a wealth of information about ancient Egypt
and included a chronological record of all Egyptian kings from the [supposed]
beginning of the first dynasty (c. 3100 B.C.) down to the conquest of Egypt by
Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.'
Josephus was a priest, soldier and
scholar. According to his autobiography - Josephus traces his ancestry to the
Hasmoneans (the family of
Judah
' the hammer' Maccabbee, hero of the Hanukkah story). The genealogy he presents
is contradictory and the dates are barely plausible.
He lived at the Flavian [hence the name Flavius] court in
Rome
, Josephus undertook to write a history of the war he had witnessed. The work,
while apparently factually correct, also served to flatter his patron and to
warn other provinces against the folly of opposing the Romans. He first wrote in
his native language of Aramaic, and then with assistance translated it into
Greek (the most-used language of the Empire). It was published a few years after
the end of the war, in about 78 AD. He was about 40 years old.
The works of Josephus was put out
to counter any other works by non-Hebrews. In order to further corrupt the
history, there were many alterations by the ruling Jews that objected and sought
to alter the work of Manetho.
'This makes
the accessibility of Manetho's work very hard, but yet, when one knows how to
separate the original work from its fakes, and when one knows to distinguish
between fact and myth in the original work, Manetho's Aegyptiaca becomes a
valuable source for the study of Ancient Egyptian history.'
This book still remained the
authentic source for
Egypt
's history for several centuries until it was lost, probably during the burning
of the libraries of
Alexandria
(circa 390 A.D.).
This fire was intentionally set in
order to burn all the books not stolen by Alexander and his ‘cadre' of Greek
scholars. They desired to claim the wisdom of
Africa
for themselves. From this some critical assessments must be made and some
questions need to be presented.
Moses
and iconic imagery -
Icon of Amen with feathers [tablets] of
truth and power on his head.
European icon of Moses with tablets
[feathers] breaking Maat.
Charlton Heston with Tablets [feathers]
overhead
The Hidden on Amen/Amun -
Self Created the Father of all Pharoahs
Why alteration of Manetho’s book necessary, and what was were
they trying to hid?
For what religious and political
purpose were those book altered? What does this ancient historian [or
those writing under his name] say about Moses? Flavius Josephus complained of
Manetho's account of Moses in his treatise against Apion. Josephus was of
the mind that Manetho was an enemy of the Jew and spread lies about their
history.
'In the former
book, most honored Epaphroditus, I have demonstrated our antiquity, and
confirmed the truth of what I have said, from the writings of the Phoenicians,
and Chaldeans, and Egyptians. I have, moreover, produced many of the Grecian
writers as witnesses thereto. I have also made a refutation of Manetho and
Cheremon, and of certain others of our enemies. I shall now therefore begin a
confutation of the remaining authors who have written any thing against us;
although I confess I have had a doubt upon me about Apion the grammarian.'
'I have heard
of the ancient men of Egypt, that Moses was of Heliopolis, and that he thought
himself obliged to follow the customs of his forefathers, and offered his
prayers in the open air, toward the city walls: but that he refused them all to
be directed toward the sun-rising, which was agreeable to the situation in
Heliopolis. '
If it was true,
then Josephus knew that their claims to be the chosen people of Yahweh were in
jeopardy. Why? In tracing Moses back to his Egyptian roots meant that the
God they served may have been a shadow or type of the Egyptian reality.
Apion and supposed enemy of Josephus writing almost 1300 years after the Exodus
say:
'This wise man
[Moses] of
Heliopolis
united the lepers and impure people against the might of
Egypt
before going out of the country by the ruling Pharaoh.'
Josephus quoted Apion's comments
and the references to Moses in the
book of Manetho, needed to be edited. Its information was not kind to the
Hellenized Hebrew, but what else was originally chronicled by Manetho we will
never know.
Now, Manetho and Apion may have
had another motive for disrespecting the legend of Moses, but let us see if
there was a reason to relate Moses to On or Anu the Greek name
Heliopolis
.
We need to turn our attentions to the name of Moses and what it
meant in Egyptian. Why?
Because his adopted mother the
daughter of the Pharaoh named him, just as the name Miriam, Yocheved, Amram,
Aaron and Joshua are all Egyptian names. You can not live in a place for 430
years [according to the bible] and not take on the ways of the people you live
with. As I said, I have run into more than enough Spanish girls who are named
Nefertiti, Shannay and Kiesha, and a few boys of Filipino descent who boasts the
name Imani and KeShaun!
We can safely assume that the
names of those Hebrews who were born and raised in
Egypt
were essentially Egyptian in name, culture and religion, its called
assimilation we see it everyday!
Was Moses or Mos a common name in
Egypt
and its environs?
Well yes, in the initiation name
of those entering into the Mystery schools. It was chronicled by Manetho that
the biblical Moses was associated with On/Anu or
Heliopolis
and was viewed as Osarsiph derived from the name Osiris the god of
Heliopolis
, but can that be true?
'Soon after the
original composition, the Aegyptiaca was epitomized, probably by extracting a
framework of Kings to which clung to the occasional historical statement. At the
same time, however, the original work was being abused, commented and falsified
for political and religious motives.'
Julius Africanus knew and used the
epitomized Aegyptiaca, while Eusebius quoted from Africanus and from a version
of the Epitome altered by the Hellenistic Jews for religious purposes. [My
italics].
'Egyptian
historian Manetho is seen as a more reliable account. Manetho (c.280 BC) tells
us that Moses was by birth of Heliopolis [lower Egypt represented by the
Papyrus], and his name was originally Osarsiph, from Osyris [Osiris], who was
the god of Heliopolis; but that when he was gone over to these people, his name
was changed, and he was called Moses.'
Ausar or Osiris: The Bright and Morning Star.
Orion’s
Belt
He plays a key role and is a
central figure in the ancient Egyptian mysteries and in the ‘Order of the
Morning Star’. It was Osiris who was the beloved pharaoh of
Egypt
. It was Osiris who taught the people of the
land
of
Egypt
about farming. Osiris was also the god of vegetation.
To the Egyptians one must become
Osiris. In that no one can or could deliver the forty-two negative confessions
in the hall of truth, because no one is perfect in earthly life.
By identification with Osiris the
candidate who stands in the Hall of Truth can indeed deliver the negative
confession. The reason is clear; it is not him, but him in Osiris that is
delivering the negative confession. The candidate in the Hall of Truth is
redeemed by his unification with Osiris.
Why would the original account of
Manetho be altered for religious purposes? Because, the history they had did not jive with the story they
wanted told. Lies were later added to the original Egypto-African Biblical
account as in later years we received by scribal addition: The Curse of Cain
being blackness, Nimrod was a rebel against God, and
Canaan
was a pervert and he was cursed with blackness
?
How sad it is that these people
had to be to find a way to change the framework of the Bible from black to white
[Black to White]. When we think of the priesthood
we cannot limit our ideas of their education.
Our modern concept of a priest is
a cleric who performs duties that is connected to the church only. They preach
on a prescribed day, visited the maimed and afflicted, give communion, marry,
christen, baptize and bury the dead. Our minister, pastors, teachers and
those who are laypeople, for the most part only subscribe to one discipline
and that is attending to the needs of their church or parish.
This was not true of the ancient
priesthood. They had to be doctors, lawyers, healers, judges, astronomist,
astrologists, prognosticators, scribes and geographic masters to name a few
disciplines. They were highly intelligent.
Imhotep
What did Herodotus say about
Heliopolian priesthood?
'The
reputation of being the best skilled in history of all the Egyptians. Not
only were they [priests] well versed in Geometry, medicine, mythology,
philosophy, but they were looked on as the masters of astronomy. '
Here is a view of Moses from
George G.M. Jackson in his book Stolen Legacy:
'...Just
here it would be well to mention that all the great leaders of the great
religions of antiquity were initiates of the Egyptian Mystery System
[Universities]: From Moses, who was an Egyptian Hierogrammat, down to Christ.'
Pg. 40
What is an Egyptian Hierogrammat?
We know the name Hierogrammat is the Greek rendition of the Egyptian name from
an aspect of the priesthood in the Mystery System, and can also be called a
hierophant or high-priest. In this case we will go to the Greek rendering
of the word.
Heiros
means sacred [priesthood]. Grammat
means letter[ER].
I would assume it would basically
mean: He who has lettered in the sacred,
or He who understands the sacred.
Hieroglyphics was considered the
sacred language of the Neteru/gods. The Egyptian word is Medu Netcher
Medu Netcher - The words of the Gods, picture letters.
The Egyptians believed that
writing was given to them by Thoth, the keeper of records among the gods. But
Thoth didn't just give humans writing, he gave them the language of the gods. To
write hieroglyphs was to speak "god-language." In other words, the
Egyptians believed that the gods "spoke" in pictures and in things.
This is a powerfully important insight into the Egyptian world view. If the
"words of the gods" are pictures and things, that means that the
entire world is a speech by the gods, full of meaning and symbol; this
means that the universe itself can be "read."
Since Thoth taught humans the
"words of the gods," he taught them also how to read and understand
the universe itself. Above everything else, understand that for the Egyptian
everything in the world and universe was writing that resembled all the human
writing they inscribed on their tombs and monuments. For this reason, while
Egyptian writing is a form of art, all Egyptian art is a form of writing—it
has meaning, symbolism, and precision.
So, you won't start trippin'...here
is a Biblical account of what you just read:
"And God said let there be light and there was light.
The words of the Creator is life
and alive.
'The
Temple
at
Heliopolis
was the focal center of this ancient initiatory school, its roots extended far
back in
Egypt
's earliest period. The Great Sphinx at
Giza
and the nearby pyramid were Initiation Chambers under the authority of the
Heliopolis
priests, the high priest being known as ''The Seer of Great Vision.''
"
Heliopolis
was the site of the ancient
Mystery
School
of the
Academy
of
Thoth
. It was in
Heliopolis
that specific 'Master Souls' prophets and holy men and women had founded their
seat of authority around 8090 B.C.' Thoth was the Greek Hermes where we
get the term Hermeneutics, the science of biblical interpretation
'We are told
not only from the Bible, but from the historian Philo, that Moses was an
initiate of the Egyptian Mysteries and became a hierogrammat: learned in all the
wisdom of the Egyptian people. This was only possible by proper initiation
and gradual advancement, when evidence of fitness was demonstrated by a
Neophyte. The Egyptian name Mos[es] was given to all candidates at their
baptism, and meant ' Saved by Water’. Pg. 67'
Here is the Biblical account of
the ritual performed by the adopted mother of Moses. Being a princess in
the Pharonic house mean that you were tied to a cult or religious seat and in it
you had been initiated as a priestess. Since
Egypt
was a theocracy the educational process was tied to their religious beliefs as
was everything in
Egypt
.
'Later when the
child was old enough, she took him to the King’s daughter [Bithiyah], who
adopted him as her own son. She said to herself, ' I pulled him out of the
water, so I will name him Mos[es].' meaning to pull out of the water.' Ex. 2:10
In most ancient adoption processes
they use water. When you come out of one thing and into another you are
baptized. Here is more
evidence that proves the name Moses is a name given at initiation. According to Professor
Modupe Oduyoye in his essay 'The Spirits that rule the World: African Religions
and Judaism he relates Egyptian and Hebrew to the Yoruba language.
'…We
refused to take the ancient Hebrew on their word when they give us the folk
etymology that the name of their prophet, Mosheh was derived from the Hebrew
word mashak ' he drew out' [ Exodus
2:10b]. We say. 'Not likely. Moshe was not named by a Hebrew. He was
named by an Egyptian princess in
Egypt
where he was born. And she named him in the language of her own people,
Egyptian, where msi meant ' he gave
birth', msw meant ' he was born' and
ms meant ' child'. Hence the Hebrew text said the daughter of the Pharaoh named
the baby she found in the basket in the bulrushes by the
Nile
simply MS or ' child. Pg. 61 'The African