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It's all well and good that you make such a statement, but the fact remains that there are several religions that believe that there are in fact two "Absolute Beings," the most well-known probably being Zoroastrianism.
Except that the Essenes were a sect of Judaism.
I confess I've just been skimming most of the posts in this thread, since they're long and don't seem to make all that much sense to someone like me who isn't much into attempting to link together hundreds of disparate ideas into strange conspiracy theories ranging back thousands of years………….
While I agree with the basic premise that Egyptian religion is to this day the underlying factor of Abramic religions, there is after all much evidence to prove this to a large degree, I however note that you have been heavily influenced by the opinions and conclusions drawn by others which do not complement the evidentiary facts available to us, such that there is none that Atlantis was some advanced civilization; that Thoth and some flying craft associated with him is buried under the Sphinx; that the flood was a real worldwide event, the ark a capacitor, etc., that the ark in fact even existed in all its glory and supernatural splendour.
It could very well be so that the Freemasonry and Skull and Bones fraternities continue to believe in Egyptian theology or are unknowingly or unwillingly harbouring blasphemers................", "... will not fool the gods Seth has never been able to defeat, nor is able to defeat. So it is either that they do so while deceiving themselves they still hold a place in God’s heart even though they manipulate man by power; that what they believe and what they manipulate is sanctioned by god, or that they actually do believe and do not manipulate man".
Regarding your position on Egyptian monotheism, there is no extant evidence that suggests Egypt ever possessed a monotheistic religion outside of Atenism, it cannot be concluded then that any attempt was made to “bring the people back to the one true God of the Children of the Law….....”
There is no proof either of any plot to kill Akhenaton. All that is known and released anyway, is that Amarna was the seat of his kingship, and was abandoned 17-20 years later.
The worship of Seth began long before 100BCE. He was prominent as early as 4,000 BCE, tomb H29 at el-Mahasma attesting to this, was later overshadowed by Horus, gained prominence again during the 19th and 20th dynasties, until the 9th century when it became rather gauche to exalt his memory.
There is nothing to link Atenism to the Essenes.
You are confusing resurrection with reincarnation. If the coffin ritual is symbolic of Egyptian myth, it is resurrection as it involved the reuniting of the Ka, with the physical body which was necessary to live in the underworld, and in the case of the pharaohs, as a god.
"Judaism was a construct by virtue of the belief in the god of Israel, that that god guided, defended and cared only for the bloodline of Israel and that observance of god’s laws as outlined in the Torah, was regardless of sectarian differences, their underlying constitution......" "...... This similarity shared with Jesus of the gospel does not make Jesus an essene.."
That Jesus was an Essene as we know them from the historical references and the DSS, does not ring true. If anything at all it is that the gospel writers and late first and second century Christians fashioned his teachings and theirs after the Essenes, from whatever knowledge of their teachings and customs survived after their supposed massacre and interspersed with their own interpretations of scripture and indoctrination of Egyptian, Hellenestic and Roman myth/theology, followed by the usual course of revising that which they liked, did not like, and did not understand.
The Essenes contrary to what is stated did in fact share a like belief that God was cruel, if cruelty in the OT is to be used a yardstick for Essene philosophy , as evidenced by many documents, the Essenes were as spiteful, i.e. they invoke everlasting fire to all others, curse non-Essenes that God would show no mercy for their sins or grant pardon or peace (1QS iv 10,14 & 1QS xi 5,10), and ultimately, God would head their army as he did many times previously to utterly destroy once and for all his enemies (WS)
If you do not ever remember or care about any of my opinions, remember this:
There is nothing so important or precious to the "other side' than a human soul.
Blessings to all.
Originally posted by realrepublican
So we now have those Zoroastrianism’s who believe in 2 supreme beings. I thought they were monotheistic but believed in both God and Satan; similar to Christians or other monotheistic religions. Do they really see 2 Supreme Gods as being separate and independent of one another in Absolute Self-Sufficiency?
I wrote how Jesus was not a Jew based upon his understanding in the God of love and mercy (as the Essenes were Israelites, just like their Jewish brethren were) but why does this add or detract from what I wrote?
Originally posted by realrepublican
I do appreciate that much scientific evidence has yet to surface. However, I have read much on Atlantian history and I know there is evidence to support that they were in fact, highly advanced people technologically and spiritually.
Take a close look at the Blue Hole of Belize. Was it caused by the Son’s of Belial drilling concentrated laser-like energy beams deep into the Earth’s core?
As for the capacitor or “Ark of the Covenant” ever wonder why the myths show lightening passing out of it?
The Great Pyramid itself was a power generator and these generators were collecting energy from the Earth’s aura (or rather from the electromagnetic field). This field makes a Compass point to the North and if you tap into that energy source via a giant custom created quartz crystal and copper capstones, you channel that energy into a device (or a capacitor) which will provide a total wireless transmission of power to all facilities and mobile vehicles.
If you study “dark matter” (as I have before), you will discover that it was in the 1970’s that scientists discovered “ether”, or some call it also “anti-matter” and it’s a shame they stopped researching it.
As for who built the Pyramids what proof has modern science come up with to explain how workers over many, many years, could build these for use as tombs, when we know that the Pyramids were never originally used as tombs anyhow? If this be the case, then what slave would build them – it seems science has made some unfounded assumptions and acting un-scientific is common when politics enters into the arena.
“In Turkey 17 miles from Mt. Ararat on a gentle slope at the 6000-foot elevation. It is a man-made object and was clearly designed as a boat. It incorporates principles of higher mathematics and advanced hydrodynamics. It contains decks and interior chambers. It is the proper dimension for the Ark. It is in the proper geographical location. It is accompanied by large, anchor stones of an appropriate size. It has been visited by religious pilgrims for thousands of years. It is consistent with the Bible, the Torah, and the ancient clay tablets from Sumer. And it is surrounded by mountains and villages which carry names from antiquity relating to the Ark’s landing.”
Why are there salt deposits and deep sea fossils (dating 10,000 BC) in the desert which can only mean an ocean covered it and thus that land that was once submerged is now above sea level and vice-versa?
They do. Equally opposing powers. Not a god who created a devil.
Essenes were Jews, not Israelites who were 'related' to Jews, they were one of several sects in Judaism. And Jesus was a Jew. Period. Incorrect statements of fact always detract from what's being said.
There’s nothing to support it. All that there is on Atlantis is one story from Plato that was added to or expanded on by others.
It’s called a sinkhole. We have them all over the world. It also goes down just 400 feet—not even the tiniest bit of the tiniest bit of the tiniest bit of the way to the Earth’s core.
So some massively advanced civilization walked the Earth and all they left were stone buildings? Where are, I dunno, the plastics, the fibre optics, the computer remnants? Why would anyone disguise a huge power plant as a tomb of a pharaoh? Why disguise it, period?
It is known that the Egyptian pyramids were not made by slaves at all, but by a paid workforce of many labourers. We do in fact know how the pyramids were made—with much care and over many years by a large workforce. And they were, in fact, made as tombs for the pharaohs.
Picture, please. And evidence how any boat could possibly hold the huge number of species of life (variously estimated from 2 to 100 million) in the numbers required (far greater than two of each species) needed to repopulate the world. Also, scientific evidence in the archaeological record of a worldwide flood, please.
Originally posted by Lexicon
So some massively advanced civilization walked the Earth and all they left were stone buildings?
Take a close look at the Blue Hole of Belize. Was it caused by the Son’s of Belial drilling concentrated laser-like energy beams deep into the Earth’s core?
It’s called a sinkhole. We have them all over the world. It also goes down just 400 feet—not even the tiniest bit of the tiniest bit of the tiniest bit of the way to the Earth’s core.
It is known that the Egyptian pyramids were not made by slaves at all, but by a paid workforce of many labourers. We do in fact know how the pyramids were made—with much care and over many years by a large workforce. And they were, in fact, made as tombs for the pharaohs.
Originally posted by realrepublican
You are not reading these books correctly if you continue to read everything literally, instead of understanding the allegorical parables.
Originally posted by realrepublican
In Edward Griffins book the Discovery of Noah’s Ark:
“In Turkey 17 miles from Mt. Ararat on a gentle slope at the 6000-foot elevation. It is a man-made object and was clearly designed as a boat. It incorporates principles of higher mathematics and advanced hydrodynamics. It contains decks and interior chambers. It is the proper dimension for the Ark. It is in the proper geographical location. It is accompanied by large, anchor stones of an appropriate size. It has been visited by religious pilgrims for thousands of years. It is consistent with the Bible, the Torah, and the ancient clay tablets from Sumer. And it is surrounded by mountains and villages which carry names from antiquity relating to the Ark’s landing.”
realrepublican,
Okay, as for your wild ramblings about the three elements and a fourth of ether I don’t know what to say. I don’t believe that much of what is written of in the Bible is literal, and don’t believe in angels, devils, and all that jazz. I also know that the idea of four elements (wind, water, earth, and fire) is a pretty old concept and modern science has shown what things really are made up of, and there are a heck of a lot more elements than four.
As for questions about what Zoroastrians believe, sorry, you’ll have to ask one yourself.
As for the question of whether Christians are also Jews, I think the answer is clear—the original Christians thought of themselves as a sect of Judaism, and were therefore Jews. As they grew further and further from Judaism, they ceased to be followers of Judaism. The Essenes were one of many sects of Judaism, they were not so far from other sects as Christians are from Jews.
I know what alchemy is, it was a colossal failure of a scientific Endeavour, shown to be basically impossible by our understanding of chemistry (although, in technicality, nuclear physics allows the transmutation of elements, but it costs an incredible amount more than it could give you). As for how the pyramids were built, why not check out one of the hundreds of websites that show how it was done? Your belief that the scientific community thinks that the pyramids were built by slaves just goes to show how little you know about what the scientific community actually thinks—probably because you’ve never read a single scholarly scientific work in your life and get all your ‘facts’ from the writers of pseudoscience. Let me give you a few sites I found from a simple Google search--there are hundreds more when you're through with these. Maybe one day soon I’ll check out my university’s library to see if we have any good books or journal articles for you.
www.bbc.co.uk...
www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us...
www.unmuseum.org...
As for Noah’s Ark: I don’t need pictures from the CBC, just a credible website. I’ve read numerous sites about the Ark, myself--most relate to rock formations on Mt. Ararat, which, interestingly enough, are not unique--there are other formations just like the ones claimed to be Noah’s Ark, but those ones are of sizes different to the biblical description, so the pro-Ark folks kind of pretend those ones don’t exist.
This book doesn't exist. You're talking about a 'documentary' called this, narrated by G. Edward Griffin. It is based on a book called "The Ark of Noah" by David Fasold. David Fasold's claims have been thoroughly debunked by science. See this link for the scientific argument.
This is quite a laundry list you give me. Knowing and believing should not be confused with each other. Assuming that you believe Jacques Cousteau withheld evidence from his 1972 submarine adventure, Belize is tucked in between Mexico and Honduras, while the Indonesian coast; Minoan waters; The Portugese coast, and Oceana are but a few places said to the location of Atlantis. So how can you know its location, when all these other locations have are held by others as the location of Atlantis?
Originally posted by realrepublican…I have read much on Atlantian history and I know there is evidence to support that they were in fact, highly advanced people technologically and spiritually. Take a close look at the Blue Hole of Belize….
Less than I wonder why it is that for lightening to strike this supposed capacitor lying smack in the middle of a field would be ruled out; less than why one presumes some energy emission was the cause of death when there is no indication for such; less than why The Bible is silent on what happened to the Arc when the temple spoils were carted off; less than why the Phillistines were able to make off with it when it supposedly has such deadly qualities to the touch. It is highly unlikely that man being the curious sort we are would not utilize any such technology you dare to explain, where is such use in evidence?
As for the capacitor or “Ark of the Covenant” ever wonder why the myths show lightening passing out of it? The Great Pyramid itself was a power generator and these generators were collecting energy from the Earth’s aura (or rather from the electromagnetic field).
As for who built the Pyramids what proof has modern science come up with to explain how workers over many, many years, could build these for use as tombs, when we know that the Pyramids were never originally used as tombs anyhow? If this be the case, then what slave would build them – it seems science has made some unfounded assumptions and acting un-scientific is common when politics enters into the arena. These great structures were in built by Thoth and with the help of the airship. As for the flood of Noah’s day: you might not yet realize that the Turkish peoples have pilgrimage to the remains of Noah’s Ark, as it now still rests in Turkey, for thousands of years. I think you will find this great reading material.
I do believe it was promised that this boat would be finally revealed to the world. That time frame has come and gone. Of course it is always best to blame the impossibility of performance on the Turkish government or some such thing rather than the credulity of the explorator. I see no evidence of higher mathematics within the description in Genesis, anchor stones, or the “proper geographical location” describing Ararat, nor any photographs from pilgrims showing that their visits included more than just standing on a piece of mountain claiming they were there and therefore the Ark was underfoot. Perhaps you will care to expound.
“In Turkey 17 miles from Mt. Ararat on a gentle slope at the 6000-foot elevation. It is a man-made object and was clearly designed as a boat. It incorporates principles of higher mathematics and advanced hydrodynamics.
If I believed there was a boat caught up in a worldwide flood, I would be inclined to answer the first question. On the rest, it is well known that the great deserts of the world have expanded in size. Temperature shifts and extremes can cause fertile land just as they can reduce that land to sand. It is no closely guarded secret that the western desert of Egypt contains a deadly salt water table. Perchance in one of my earlier posts you saw a muted reference to the Siwa Oasis, and if not, your question will appear to yourself to be not so mysterious should you investigate that oasis and others. There is a preponderance of visual evidence as to what the winds over time can do to a desolate slice of land covered in sand. The 19th century watercolour rendering of the Sphinx (refer Louis Francçois Cassas) will give you an idea.
So how did the boat get up on a mountain? Was it wind and rain, or a massive flood caused by a pole shift? Why are there salt deposits and deep sea fossils (dating 10,000 BC) in the desert which can only mean an ocean covered it and thus that land that was once submerged is now above sea level and vice-versa?
I am at a loss to understand your point here.
Also study the masonry of the earliest periods and you will find that the limestone and other (hard to construct materials) was used to build. But as tiem progressed, the masonry became softer and more primitive due to a decrease in technology over time.
Imagine a storyteller inventing strange and wonderful places as they tend to do. Is NeverNeverLand real? Lilliput? How about the man in the moon, real? Santa Claus? Humpty Dumpty? The moon is made of cheese? The earth is stationary? There are only five planets? There is water above Heaven and below the earth? Ra fought with a giant serpent every night? The human brain (mummification) was a worthless piece of filler? It takes only one well written fantasy to grasp an audience who is more than willing to accept iit s truth, and that fact is shown not by any Egyptian tales of aliens, but by individuals millennia (19th c) after these pyramids were constructed to plant the thought that aliens were responsible. Is this how you go about justifying the tales that man would invent?
Imagine a catastrophy forcing the North American Continent and much of the world centers into the Sea? How long would it take before our children and their children's children speak of this place of America, as a myth and how long can a car or building of metal last under sea water?
You mean what option are you to choose. If it is as you stated that these societies of secrets know the truth, then it is requires you to think through those options for the soundness of your position.
What of the 3 options must we chose? For when a man does evil to another, he usually thinks he has done something righteous,…
And what exactly is wrong with a New World Order? Every time a new empire comes into power it can be considered a NWO. Consider that Americans by and large who by virtue of accepting that their nation is made up of states agreeing to form a whole, take no issue with there being one president and one federal government over their conglomeration of territories. Likewise Canadians, Australians, and The UK. So why exactly if people are so willing to accept their own order of dominion are they more so unwilling to accept the entire world governed by that which is acceptable to them in their land? I don’t see a mass exodus of any of the citizens of these countries opposed to nationalization of their own countries, do you?
just as in the meetings of the CFR, do they speak as they are evil men who will bring terror upon us all, or might they instead speak of themselves as righteous and wonderful men who would bring upon a New World Order, ruled by brilliant Elites who know what is best?
Let us not get ahead of ourselves here. The world after all has from time immemorial had its fill of bad politicians, He is not the first, and not the last.
When Bush calls for a war on Terror and yet also funds it at the same time,…
I am going to have to ask you to provide your proof here as well, since this is a motherhood statement. And while I did not provide that part of your quote, I must point out that you are grasping at straws here and taking this way off topic by talking about whether Bush is a Christian or not.
Amon-Ra Priests murdered those Atonists and re-wrote history to conceal the truth that Akhenaton IV wanted to free the people from despotism, ignorance and slavery over a false and cruel doctrine and replace it with a God of love and mercy.
I am afraid the learned people in hieroglyphs and hieratic script do not agree with you. It is taken to mean “the all.” You are trying too hard to distinguish one myth from another as though a clean slate separates the various god kings. Amun means “the hidden one” It is in the 13th-12th BCE—The Destruction of Humankind myth , where you will find that which eludes you: Ra claiming that his name (Papyrus Chester Beatty) is a secret. But he holds no specific rights to such a claim since Amun-Ra is secreted away behind a shrine because he is too awesome to behold( Red Chapel of Hatshepsut). While you are on the right track, you are looking to find definitives to explain a convoluted society caught up in religion and politics.
The word Aton means "incomprehensible",
I have no thoughts on the similarities between Egyptian and religions of the western hemisphere, save for the fact that I do not understand why when there is a scant 3 mile wide body of water separating Russia from North America, it should come as a shock that man migrated to North America.
eem toand if you study the ancient civilizations you will notice in the history of the 'Aztecs, the Incas, and the Hindus, the same truth was known.
You are losing focus, and I do not want you to because there is much in what you write that is backed by evidence and far more available than say; a man named Jesus preaching he is the son of god; or evidence of any biblical character contained within the Pentateuch. Suffice it to say that your comments as quoted directly above are benign.
Egyptian history is not based in classical Egypt only but in also much of the surrounding regions. The Egyptians are not to be all bunched together as people who practiced mummification or those who always had many Gods and then later just bunched them all together into one big one. Ancient Egyptians adored certain animals as gods like God Anubis also. Did they bunch these animal Gods together also and just accept Monotheism?
Pardon me here, if at all you think I get my information from a history book, it would be a far sight better than acquiring same from the likes of a non-historian like Sitchen or whomever feeds you the story that Atlantis was this and that. And I have no idea what you mean to portray with your analogies. So once again, perhaps you would be kind enough to expound?
Thoth was to Jesus, as Osiris was to Our Father, as Isis is to the Holy Spirit. What do Christians call that other than Monotheism today? I will tell you that the followers of Amon-Ra also worshiped one father God RA but they misunderstood what is “multiplicity”. Their understanding is the key difference, not whatever history book you get the word from.
I do not disagree with this basic principle, that is evident in what I wrote previously, but this has nothing to so with our disagreement.
Multiplicity means ONE, yet many – yet not a multiple!
Actually I made no such contention, I merely brought into focus the obvious: that Egyptian religion focused on duality which requires simply that order requires chaos, and by inference all else that is balanced by its opposite. And to answer your question yes, darkness can be measured when one ditches the notion that darkness is only attainable by the absence of light and not vice versa. Much like the chicken and the egg. You yourself prove this is so by contradicting yourself
To say there is no darkness without light is wrong, for can you measure dark?
But again you detour, and I want to be sure that detour does not amount to others so I bypass some of your response.
…in light of the understanding that darkness is an illusion.
Actually, I will have to ask you for the evidence to support these claims. Please support these claims?
Actually it was not just the Amon-Ra followers but also the followers of the other Gods who killed both; Khor Aton, and Akhenaton. They stabbed Khor Aton in Apts Palace were the old Tree of Life was to be seen on the walls and then they poisoned Akhenaton also.
Okay, we agree to disagree, since your definitions are unlike any I am familiar with in the usage of the words. Perhaps they are adjuncts to the British National Corpus in which I am a believer.
ME-There is nothing to link Atenism to the Essenes.
You are confusing resurrection with reincarnation. If the coffin ritual is symbolic of Egyptian myth, it is resurrection as it involved the reuniting of the Ka, with the physical body which was necessary to live in the underworld, and in the case of the pharaohs, as a god.
I confuse nothing of the sort – you assume too much. Resurrection means to awaken into what is in thy true divine nature and a calling back home from where we always were and always shall be. Reincarnation is the dead in judgment and a return to earth to eventually fulfill that coming resurrection through Karma. Our divine nature is to return home, as no soul is forever lost. If anything, it is S&B'ners who misunderstand and perhaps my fault is assuming they do not.
The better question in context is: does this mean as you assert, that just because the Gospels impart some Essene teachings, Jesus was an Essene?
"Judaism was a construct by virtue of the belief in the god of Israel, that that god guided, defended and cared only for the bloodline of Israel and that observance of god’s laws as outlined in the Torah, was regardless of sectarian differences, their underlying constitution......" "...... This similarity shared with Jesus of the gospel does not make Jesus an essene.."
**I have known vegetarians who will eat a little meat on Sunday to show respect for a typical Greek holiday, as they were to be a part of the community and culture. Does this mean this person was a Greek and was a big meat eater also?**...
Now therein lies a whole other debate, one I might add, I have taken up several times previously and will again I am sure. But I must re-focus you on this thread to the basis of your previous posts which speak to the influence of Egyptian religion on the religions of today. If you contend that Jesus was an Essene, and Essenes were believers in Egyptian theology; that the elite of today have this Egyptian knowledge and hide it from the masses, and that is not a good thing, then I invite you to start a whole new thread for the purpose of discussing exactly why you feel Jesus, an Essene, a descendent/follower of Amun/Aten/Ra, would be fulfilling the laws of Amun/Aten/Ra under the guise of Moses, and how you reconcile that to your previous statement I enclose with " **."
…Jesus never came to overwrite the laws of Moses, but to fulfill them with his gentle persuasions.
No, in fact it was a simple allegorical reference to Moses at the behest of his father-in-law, attempting to rewrite new laws for those whom he governed. If you pay attention at all you will find that synagogues display these tablets within a rectangle where the tops of same are semi-circular. Have you ever asked why this is so? Have you ever asked how they came to know that the tablets were this shape? I bet you have not, and I bet you have not ever had it register that Egyptian kings at the time of Moses had their names written in a cartouche.
When Moses went up the mountain and retrieved the two tablets with the 10 Commandments written on them, what was this event referring to in Old Testament? This is an allegorical understanding, as the 2 tablets represent the 2 sides of the human brain and thus God’s laws were to be directly inscribed into the hearts and minds of men.
He saw men who were accustomed to worshipping Egyptian gods, and like the Aten detractors, they were not willing to succumb to the will of Moses. Why do I get the impression that you argue against your own synopsis?
When Moses came down from his retreat, he saw some men still worshiping graven images and Moses killed them. Again, what does this really mean? Does it make much sense thy way the Bible says a man who had an incredible experience would all of a sudden use anger to kill another? Moses killed no-one but what he did achieve was to destroy his own personal egoism.
You mean you have changed your mind? They were Jews after all?
How many Jews or even Christian’s know this today, let alone during the time of Moses? Is the Torah perfect and has it not undergone some alteration and corruption? The Essenes were indistinguishable from the other Israelites, other than their belief in a God of love and Mercy.
I have no idea who these people are, but they do not make an entire sect followers of Egyptian theology. Nor is this provable:
It is that simple and if you search you will find that Hanna and Joachim were also Essenes who were highly respected by certain Egyptians.
I also note you have avoided all of my references to the DSS, and you specifically claimed that studied same. Instead you offer nothing but conjecture and homily as evidence.
Many of the Egyptian Scribes and Pharisees were Essenes and that’s why the Sanhedrin authorities were cautions not to speak above their breath regarding that hatred they had for the Essenes.
Please provide the relevant fragmentary proof of same.
Joshua Emmanuel the Christ was an Essene or Nazarene Prince and we call him “Jesus of Nazareth” also. The Dead Sea Scrolls confirm this also.
When St. John the Baptist revised the Tree of Life he gave the greatest teachings to the Essenes to keep safe and not to the Church, …
Originally posted by realrepublican
Now one good way to stay away from any “real” discussion is by distraction through entertaining certain non-progressive personalities. You know the correctors who never seem to see the bigger picture perhaps.
Some people, from their first through to their very last post, offer very little of progressiveness and sharing and only seem to present themselves as a "corrector" of error and perhaps think of themselves as an open-minded seeker of truth also? Well, I'm not going to judge anyone...
You are not supposed to believe; you are supposed to come to know. Blind faith is useless to those who know the truth. There are only 4 true elements; yet combinations of the 4 will appear to give you many more. Just like how light passes through a prism and gives us a rainbow of color can you come up with a new color that we have never seen as a combination of white light already?
The Israelites were many people and among them were Galileans, Judeans, Samaritans and others. They spoke Hebrew, Aramaic and some Greek. It is incorrect to label all the Essenes as only Judeans, as the Essenes were Greco-Israelites and they spoke Greek and Aramaic. The Essenes did not want to be separated from their Israelites brothers, thus they also accepted the cruel rule of the Sanhedrin. Why make such a fuss over this and what is your true intention by doing so, huh?
For if you cannot understand Alchemy why bother to discuss with you anything over a flying ship? I say it is not a colossal failure as I have personally seen lead changed into Gold and then back into lead again. Rest assured you should not believe a stranger, so I suggest you learn to do it yourself. It may only take you several lifetimes (with your current approach) but eventually by your attunement and improving of observation skills, you will be able to do it. Of course, the laws of the material worlds prohibit lead to remain as Gold and thus it must return to its original state.
Originally posted by realrepublican
Loungerist,
Here is a link I found on the PROTOCOLS of the LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION."
www.biblebelievers.org.au...[/quot e]
realrepublican
PEZ is a hoax. There are a number of threads on it already at ATS but also information here, here and here. There are also a number of threads on ATS on this subject.
This is quite a laundry list you give me. Knowing and believing should not be confused with each other. Assuming that you believe Jacques Cousteau withheld evidence from his 1972 submarine adventure, Belize is tucked in between Mexico and Honduras, while the Indonesian coast; Minoan waters; The Portugese coast, and Oceana are but a few places said to the location of Atlantis. So how can you know its location, when all these other locations have are held by others as the location of Atlantis?
Less than I wonder why it is that for lightening to strike this supposed capacitor lying smack in the middle of a field would be ruled out; less than why one presumes some energy emission was the cause of death when there is no indication for such; less than why The Bible is silent on what happened to the Arc when the temple spoils were carted off; less than why the Phillistines were able to make off with it when it supposedly has such deadly qualities to the touch. It is highly unlikely that man being the curious sort we are would not utilize any such technology you dare to explain, where is such use in evidence?
While like you I am not convinced that pyramids other than the early mastabas and step pyramids were intended to be used as tombs, I have no doubt that they were connected to the funerary rights; the afterlife and religious secrets of the pharaohs, whom as far as I was concerned were interred within the temple complex of the pyramid…” “skills acquired by the ancient Egyptians, or the slow technology of any alien force. It seems equally evident tjherefore that those who insist on advancing alien intervention either dismiss such evidence or are not aware of same.”
I do believe it was promised that this boat would be finally revealed to the world. That time frame has come and gone. Of course it is always best to blame the impossibility of performance on the Turkish government or some such thing rather than the credulity of the explorator. I see no evidence of higher mathematics within the description in Genesis, anchor stones, or the “proper geographical location” describing Ararat, nor any photographs from pilgrims showing that their visits included more than just standing on a piece of mountain claiming they were there and therefore the Ark was underfoot. Perhaps you will care to expound.
I am at a loss to understand your point here.
And what exactly is wrong with a New World Order? Every time a new empire comes into power it can be considered a NWO. Consider that Americans by and large who by virtue of accepting that their nation is made up of states agreeing to form a whole, take no issue with there being one president and one federal government over their conglomeration of territories. Likewise Canadians, Australians, and The UK. So why exactly if people are so willing to accept their own order of dominion are they more so unwilling to accept the entire world governed by that which is acceptable to them in their land? I don’t see a mass exodus of any of the citizens of these countries opposed to nationalization of their own countries, do you?
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Let us not get ahead of ourselves here. The world after all has from time immemorial had its fill of bad politicians, He is not the first, and not the last.
I am going to have to ask you to provide your proof here as well, since this is a motherhood statement. And while I did not provide that part of your quote, I must point out that you are grasping at straws here and taking this way off topic by talking about whether Bush is a Christian or not.
I am afraid the learned people in hieroglyphs and hieratic script do not agree with you. It is taken to mean “the all.” You are trying too hard to distinguish one myth from another as though a clean slate separates the various god kings. Amun means “the hidden one” It is in the 13th-12th BCE—The Destruction of Humankind myth , where you will find that which eludes you: Ra claiming that his name (Papyrus Chester Beatty) is a secret. But he holds no specific rights to such a claim since Amun-Ra is secreted away behind a shrine because he is too awesome to behold( Red Chapel of Hatshepsut). While you are on the right track, you are looking to find definitives to explain a convoluted society caught up in religion and politics.
I have no thoughts on the similarities between Egyptian and religions of the western hemisphere, save for the fact that I do not understand why when there is a scant 3 mile wide body of water separating Russia from North America, it should come as a shock that man migrated to North America.
You are losing focus, and I do not want you to because there is much in what you write that is backed by evidence and far more available than say; a man named Jesus preaching he is the son of god; or evidence of any biblical character contained within the Pentateuch. Suffice it to say that your comments as quoted directly above are benign.
Pardon me here, if at all you think I get my information from a history book, it would be a far sight better than acquiring same from the likes of a non-historian like Sitchen or whomever feeds you the story that Atlantis was this and that. And I have no idea what you mean to portray with your analogies. So once again, perhaps you would be kind enough to expound?
quote: Multiplicity means ONE, yet many – yet not a multiple!
I do not disagree with this basic principle, that is evident in what I wrote previously, but this has nothing to so with our disagreement.
quote: To say there is no darkness without light is wrong, for can you measure dark?
Actually I made no such contention, I merely brought into focus the obvious: that Egyptian religion focused on duality which requires simply that order requires chaos, and by inference all else that is balanced by its opposite. And to answer your question yes, darkness can be measured when one ditches the notion that darkness is only attainable by the absence of light and not vice versa. Much like the chicken and the egg. You yourself prove this is so by contradicting yourself
quote: …in light of the understanding that darkness is an illusion.
But again you detour, and I want to be sure that detour does not amount to others so I bypass some of your response.
Okay, we agree to disagree, since your definitions are unlike any I am familiar with in the usage of the words. Perhaps they are adjuncts to the British National Corpus in which I am a believer.
The better question in context is: does this mean as you assert, that just because the Gospels impart some Essene teachings, Jesus was an Essene?
Now therein lies a whole other debate, one I might add, I have taken up several times previously and will again I am sure. But I must re-focus you on this thread to the basis of your previous posts which speak to the influence of Egyptian religion on the religions of today. If you contend that Jesus was an Essene, and Essenes were believers in Egyptian theology; that the elite of today have this Egyptian knowledge and hide it from the masses, and that is not a good thing, then I invite you to start a whole new thread for the purpose of discussing exactly why you feel Jesus, an Essene, a descendent/follower of Amun/Aten/Ra, would be fulfilling the laws of Amun/Aten/Ra under the guise of Moses, and how you reconcile that to your previous statement I enclose with " **."
When Moses went up the mountain and retrieved the two tablets with the 10 Commandments written on them, what was this event referring to in Old Testament? This is an allegorical understanding, as the 2 tablets represent the 2 sides of the human brain and thus God’s laws were to be directly inscribed into the hearts and minds of men.
No, in fact it was a simple allegorical reference to Moses at the behest of his father-in-law, attempting to rewrite new laws for those whom he governed. If you pay attention at all you will find that synagogues display these tablets within a rectangle where the tops of same are semi-circular. Have you ever asked why this is so? Have you ever asked how they came to know that the tablets were this shape? I bet you have not, and I bet you have not ever had it register that Egyptian kings at the time of Moses had their names written in a cartouche.
He saw men who were accustomed to worshipping Egyptian gods, and like the Aten detractors, they were not willing to succumb to the will of Moses. Why do I get the impression that you argue against your own synopsis?
You mean you have changed your mind? They were Jews after all?
I have no idea who these people are, but they do not make an entire sect followers of Egyptian theology. Nor is this provable:
I also note you have avoided all of my references to the DSS, and you specifically claimed that studied same. Instead you offer nothing but conjecture and homily as evidence.
Along with providing evidence for this:
quote: When St. John the Baptist revised the Tree of Life he gave the greatest teachings to the Essenes to keep safe and not to the Church, …