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Chapter Nine

Into Canaan
Circa 600 B.C., there was a power struggle in the solar temples of the Serpents of Wisdom. It eventually resulted in the prophet class of the high priests of Israel leaving Jerusalem circa 300 B.C. They resettled in the wilderness of Damascus and Galilee in northern Palestine, the same area where Jesus ministry was based. According to Victoria LePage, the Levites disavowed the ancient Judaic mysteries based on the Egyptian religion and exiled the Zadokite prophets to the wilderness areas and forbade them under pain of death to teach under the name of any prophet later than Ezra. At the same time, the four hundred years of the Israelite’s lives in Egypt was excised from the Old Testament. And it was also at that time that the serpent, once the symbol of the Holy Spirit’s wisdom, became the enemy of God and was no longer seen as the sacred symbol of Higher Mind, or God.

The Zadokite prophets exiled to the wilderness of Syria and Damascus were our ancestors, the high priests. They became the Essenes when Moses gave Israel its laws. The Ten Commandments and books of Law went to the majority of Israelites, and the esoteric teachings Moses learned in Egypt went to men hand-picked by him. As the Essenes, they moved to the wilderness of Galilee under the leadership of the prophet Elijah. The high priests of the temple in Jerusalem at the time of Jesus were the usurpers to the high priesthood. They were our family’s enemies, aligned with the Romans, and were in fact, quite evil. They are still around today - they are the ‘power-elite’.

We learn more about this tumultuous period from the book; The Great Angel; a Study of Israel’s Second God by Margaret Barker. Barker discusses the changes made to the Jewish religion circa 597 B.C., which is the period of the Israelite captivity by the Babylonians. She cites the preface to the book of Deuteronomy in the Old Testament as showing what the Levites removed from Israel’s religion. p 13 She writes that first, they were to have the Law instead of Wisdom. Deuteronomy 4:6. She asks the question; “Israel had had wise men of her own, so how did their Wisdom teachings relate to the reformed religion, and what was the Wisdom which the Law replaced?” Second, they were only to think of the formless voice of God giving the Law. Deuteronomy 19:12. Margaret asks the question, “Israel had long had a belief in the vision of God, when the glory had been visible on the throne in human form, surrounded by the heavenly hosts. What happened to the visions of God?” Thirdly, the Israelites were to leave the veneration of the host of heaven to people not chosen by Yahweh. Deuteronomy 4:19-20. Margaret asks “Israel had long regarded Yahweh as the lord of the hosts of heaven, but the title Yahweh of Hosts was not used by the Deuteronomists. What happened to the hosts, the angels?”

P 14 She cites the first book of Enoch, a Zadokite text, which was for several hundred years a part of our Bible, which remembers the period of the Israelite exile and restoration as a time of disastrous apostasy, “a time when Wisdom was despised and impurity installed in the Temple.” Margaret wrote that the Deuteronomists are recognized as the source for the monotheistic texts in the Old Testament and were the first to suppress anthropomorphism or the belief that God becomes physically manifest in/as humans. Margaret asks; “If the Deuteronomists do not represent the mainstream of Israel’s religion, was the mainstream of that religion not monotheistic and did it have anthropomorphic theophany at its center?”

P 15 She points out that Josiah and the Deuteronomists had hidden the ark, the anointing oil, the jar of manna and Aaron’s rod at that time. She says that from this, we can conclude that the reforms of Josiah not only removed the objects associated with Baa’l, Asherah and the host of heaven, but also objects associated closely with the cult of Yahweh. In Margaret’s words; “The ark had been the place of his presence, he spoke to Moses from above the cherubim (Exodus 25:22) and the sacred oil had consecrated the one who wore his name and was his anointed, i.e. his Messiah.”

Margaret says that their reform seems to have been a time when more than pagan accretions were removed from the Israelite religion. Our Mother the Holy Spirit, known as Wisdom, was eliminated. The heavenly ascent and the vision of God were forgotten. The host of heaven, the angels, were removed, and the Ark and the presence of Yahweh which it represented were removed. The role of the high priest was altered so that he was no longer considered the anointed or Messiah. Margaret makes the important point that; “All of these features of the older cult were to appear in Christianity.” I will add that many of those features did not last in Christianity either, because the patriarchal side took it over too.

P 58 In remarking on the importance of the tree symbol to the prophets, Margaret wrote that originally the fruit of the tree in Eden gave knowledge and life and “the serpent spoke well to Eve when he said that the fruit would open their eyes and make them like the Elohim. This was the original role of the heavenly knowledge; it transformed the human into the divine and thus gave life which was not subject to mortality.” The fruit of the tree is Gnosis. It’s not knowledge about agriculture or mathematics or jewelry making or any of that. It is constant consciousness with God. The fallen side of the family, the ones who took over the role of high priests circa 300 B.C. - were the priests of the Jerusalem temple at the time of Jesus. They are the ones who don’t want humans to have Gnosis. When Jesus was talking to the false high priests, he said to them; “You are like your father the devil.” He said that because he believed that the devil had taken over Yahweh’s house. One of the reasons Jesus came was to restore the worship of Yahweh to Israel.

Margaret writes that it was the Deuteronomists who evicted Adam and Eve from the garden p 59 once they had acquired knowledge, “so that they would not also acquire life, and thus the heart of the older belief was destroyed. Humankind could not become divine just as the divine could not become human. Separation was the key to true religion, and knowledge, said the new men, did not transform the wise into gods, but rather drove the disobedient from the presence of God.” But Margaret points out that the Wisdom writings remembered older ways; Wisdom did give life – “he who finds me finds life.” Proverbs 8:35. And this was immortality; “Because of her I shall have immortality or the life to be restored to the faithful at their resurrection.” “And the righteous shall arise from their sleep, and Wisdom shall arise and be given unto them.” 1 Enoch 91:10.

What we see here in the words of this author, is the schism between the prophet and priest class of the Israelites - the same schism that exists today between the patriarchal and matriarchal forms of religion. One says there is a vast chasm between humans and God, and that intermediaries are needed between them. The other knows that God dwells within humans and there is in reality no separation between humans and God. In the Jeshua channelings, Jeshua says that the angry, vindictive God of the Old Testament “is a construction of human minds.” Those humans were the Deuteronomists, the lawgivers, those purveyors of the patriarchal religion who’s Old Testament of the Bible we still use today. Barker wrote that the roots of Christian Trinitarian theology can be found in pre-Christian Palestinian beliefs about the angels. She says that there were many in first century Palestine; “who still retained a world view derived from the more ancient religion of Israel in which there was a High God and several Sons of God, one of whom was Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel.” She goes on to say that Yahweh could be manifested on Earth “in human form, as an angel or in the Davidic king.” She remarks that it was as a manifestation of Yahweh that Jesus “was acknowledged as Son of God, Messiah and Lord.” Margaret asks a very good question;

P 7 How is it that Jubilees⁴¹ and Job have an account of the creation which includes the angels, which Genesis does not mention, even though it does have an evil serpent figure of whose origin we are told nothing?

What Margaret refers to when saying “which includes the angels” is that the angels, i.e. Elohim, or heavenly host, were very instrumental in the creation we live in and in creating humans themselves, as related by Jeshua earlier. We are to venerate the heavenly host, not worship them, but recognize the role they play in our lives and honor them for that. We learn something important in these next words of Margaret Barker. That is, that Yahweh is the father of Israel. This means that he is also called Yahweh Sabaoth.

P 10 “Yahweh was the father of Israel. … “Some called on Yahweh as their Father and Redeemer even when the rest of Israel did not acknowledge them.” Isaiah 63:16.

This verse from the Old Testament, is biblical proof that the Israelites were divided as to which Father and Redeemer they followed. Margaret states that all the texts in the Hebrew Bible distinguish clearly between the divine sons of Elohim/Elyon and those human beings who are called sons of Yahweh. She points out that this must be significant. It must mean that the terms originated at a time when Yahweh was distinguished from whatever was meant by El/Elohim/Elyon. She states that there are many texts that continued to distinguish between El Elyon and Yahweh who were Father and Son. Margaret believes that Israel’s ‘second God’ can be recovered by tracing these patterns through a great variety of material and over several centuries.

Barker believes that the Deuteronomists intentionally blurred the lines between the Gods in the Old Testament so that El, Yahweh, the Lord, Adonai, etc. were all considered one. She says that they did this by assimilation, that is, by attributing aspects of one deity to another. Another author said the same thing earlier. In the uncorrupted Qumran or Dead Sea Scroll version of Deuteronomy 32:8, it says that Yahweh received Israel for his portion when El Elyon divided the nations among the sons of God. At the time of the Flood, many of the Anunnaki left the Earth and went back to Niburu. The Mesopotamian texts make it clear that at that point, they knew that God intended them to be caretakers of the Earth and its people. Barker also mentions that the patriarchs set up rural altars and had sacred trees and pillars and that the Deuteronomic reformers prohibited them. In the Kabbalah, which is the Hebrew Old Religion, and in Freemasonry, these symbols are of the utmost importance. The tree symbol, as stated earlier, is symbolic of the structure of the sacred anatomy built into the human body, i.e. the chakras. The pillar is significant, I believe, as a symbol of standing solitary. This refers to being at one with God.

P 23 Barker talks about the book Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic by F.M. Cross which uses Ugaritic material to set the Old Testament in its ancient context. According to Cross, even in ancient times of the people, Yahweh was judge and war leader. He is the one who revealed himself to the patriarch Moses and led Israel out of Egypt and into Canaan. But Cross notes that there is another strain that entered Israel’s primitive religion, that of the high and eternal one, El the creator of Heaven and Earth, the Father of all. Barker asks the question; “How did the book of Daniel in the Bible have a tradition of the Baal traditions of Ugarit, and how could it employ pagan ideas?” She then says that; “the answer must surely be that these ideas were not pagan, but deeply rooted in the most conservative of Israel’s traditions.”

Hopefully the reader will have some understanding that there may be more than one deity figure in the Old Testament. It is, after all, the story of the Hebrew people and like the other nations, who all had their god who chose them, Yahweh not only chose Israel, but physically incarnated and literally fathered them as well. In trying to understand the relation of Yahweh to others mentioned in the Bible, it’s important to note that Yahweh of Hosts is described as sitting on his throne surrounded by Seraphim. I think we can assume that this would mean that Yahweh, Lord of Hosts is none other than Adonai (Lord) Sabaoth - the one who created the Seraphim, the seventy-two angels/gods of the people of Earth, Israel, Judah - his “choice vine” and Jesus. Yahweh is the Father in Heaven who Jesus refers to. In the gnostic texts, he is the Father-Mother in Heaven. He reigns with a wife. Call her Asherah, Ninhursag, Isis, Diana, Sophia, Mary, or whatever name you like. I call her Mother. In the gnostic text titled Pistis Sophia, it says that Yahweh Sabaoth rules in the Seventh Heaven. Jesus sits on his right and the Virgin of the Holy Spirit sits on his left. Yahweh Sabaoth is the son of Ialdabaoth who rebelled against him and was the first to be repentant and forgiven. He was installed in the Seventh Heaven and rules over everything below that, which includes our Earth and heavens. Therefore, he is our God.

This is all very confusing because this puts us in a position where we don’t think we belong. In our thinking, we worship the highest God, the only God. The Old Testament itself in at least two places says that seventy-two sons of God were put over the different people but I don’t believe people think about the ramifications of that. They don’t understand that this still applies today. Does it say in the Bible that that ended? The sons of God were meant to be to the seventy-two different peoples of Earth, their ‘God’. What the Deuteronomists did was to obscure the different divinities in the Old Testament and assimilate them all to Yaldabaoth/Enlil/Jehovah. The majority of the Israelites, the ten tribes not including Judah and Benjamin, were subjected under the Levites to Yaldabaoth/Enlil/Jehovah and his anger and wrath. The prophet class knew that Yaldabaoth/Jehovah was not the highest God. As stated previously, Yahweh was made God over Israel when Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. However, at the time of the lower priests uprising some eight hundred years later, the majority of Israel was again made subject to Yaldabaoth/Enlil/Jehovah. Since we were sent specifically to overcome his kingdom on Earth and wrest human souls from his control, Yaldabaoth has tried and often succeeded, in ruling over us and has often convinced us to believe he is God - when he is not. Consequently, many Christians, Jews and Muslims have been made subject to him as well. Jesus struggled to teach the esoteric precepts to his disciples, because they had been raised as patriarchal Jews.

According to Barker Yahweh manifested in the Davidic kings. She remarks that “Yahweh’s incomparability lay in his wisdom.” I cannot stress how important a clue that statement is. The Mystery religions are also called Wisdom religions. It is Enki/Ea/Ia/Yah/Yahweh/Sabaoth who is known as the Lord of Wisdom. The understanding I have is that Yaldabaoth’s mother, Pistis Sophia, in conjunction with Sabaoth/Yahweh/Ea, introduced the matriarchal religion in order to remind the angels embedded in matter of their former high estate and enable them to re-acquire that estate, as angels and co-creators with God.

p 48 Barker talks about Philo, a well-known Jewish Christian who lived in the middle of the first century C.E. Philo has been accused of being a Hellenizer of Judaism, but his beliefs were just like Jesus’ own beliefs. In his written works, Philo describes a second God of Israel with two aspects represented by the two cherubim on the top of the Ark of the Covenant. Philo wrote that both cherubim represented the divine mediator or the two aspects of the God of Israel who was the son of El Elyon. Philo believed they were male and female and that creation was the work of both of them. He stated that the mother figure was called Knowledge or Wisdom.

This last paragraph is important to our understanding of the God of Israel. In the original gnostic texts, Jesus refers to his Mother-Father in Heaven, something removed by the patriarchal church fathers of the early Christian era. The Babylonian Talmud says that it was the androgynous Yahweh who created Adam and Eve in his/her image. In the ancient Mesopotamian texts it is Enki/Ea and his half-sister Ninhursag who create Adam and Eve. Enki uses an egg from a black-headed female, his own sperm, and Ninhursag serves as a surrogate. In the Jeshua channelings, which also feature messages from Mary Magdalene, Mary said; “As for the void and chaos, these are the primordial ground from which God has created; and the one creating is the demiurge. For in truth, what God creates is emanation, and the emanations of God create. Therefore, Yahweh emanated and Elohim created. There is not beginning to this, nor is there an end. Consider this when you meditate on the End of Days.”

I have used the term demiurge for Yaldabaoth. Demiurge literally means half maker, which means that the demiurge creates with materials which God has provided. What is interesting is that Mary said that Yahweh emanated, indicating that Yahweh is the highest God. Could it be that the highest God stepped in to help sort out this troubled creation? Christians believe that God is a Trinity composed of Father, Holy Spirit and Son. They also believe that God actually manifested in the world in the person of Jesus. This is the anthropomorphism that Barker mentioned. The previous author, who equated Ia/Sabaoth with Yah, or Yahweh, was correct in his conclusion.

In the Jeshua channelings, Jeshua makes the statement to the effect that; “God chose Israel because he had to start somewhere.” (!) Could it be that the highest God is the God of Israel? Could the God of Israel be the Mother-Son portion of the highest Trinity? I believe that answer just might be yes. Margaret Barker goes on to talk about the androgynous Yahweh who is both Yahweh and Asherah or as known by the Freemason’s and other Gnostic’s as Sophia-Wisdom. She is the Holy Spirit and the mother of Pistis Sophia and Christ and the other Aeons. The Logos is their father. The Logos and Sophia/Holy Spirit, are two-thirds of the Trinity and according to Margaret, together they are Yahweh. In the following, Margaret quotes from ancient texts called the Book of Wisdom, the Book of Esdras, and Sirach;

P 63 She had formed everything, for Wisdom, the fashioner of all things taught me. The power to create or to control and order the creation was intimately bound up with knowledge of the creation. It was this issue of creative power which lay at the heart of the crisis in Israel’s Wisdom tradition. Knowledge of the natural order gave power over the creation and thus gave to the wise man a godlike status.

The issue of creative power and its extensions, which, on this earthly plane are temporal power, wealth, control and influence, is not only a crisis in religion but has resulted in a great tragedy and travesty where humankind is concerned. Humans have been the pawns in a struggle they are unaware of, and these two sides have been battling for ages for and against their well-being.

The Wisdom texts and traditions state that Wisdom/Sophia empowered and inspired the kings and prophets. Solomon was given the Spirit of Wisdom and said; “Therefore I prayed and understanding was given to me; I called upon God and the spirit of Wisdom came upon me.” Wisdom 7:7. The Spirit of Wisdom lived in the heavenly counterpart of the king, in the Elect One who was to be ruler and judge. “The Elect One standeth before the Lord of Spirits and in him dwells the Spirit of Wisdom and the Spirit which gives insight and the spirit of understanding and of might and the Spirit of those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.” 1 Enoch 49: 2-3. Enoch refers to us in that last verse. We are “those who have fallen asleep in righteousness.” p 64 Margaret remarks that; “The Spirit of Yahweh was the spirit of Wisdom and the spirit of the fear of Yahweh. How the Spirit of Yahweh could be both is not easy to imagine, but this pattern of plurality meets us at every turn.” One source said that at the ‘end’ our Mother will appear out of Heaven with “witless wrath” and exact vengeance and justice on the people of Earth.

Margaret says that not only were the king’s embodiments of Yahweh, they were the vehicle of the sevenfold Spirit. I believe the seven-fold Spirits are the Elohim, the seven archangels. Wisdom 7:27 reads; “In every generation she passes into holy souls and makes them friends of God and prophets.” This is the gift of the Spirit of Yahweh in the Old Testament texts. As Margaret says; “The Spirit gave warnings through the prophets but had been ignored. The seventy elders prophesied after the Spirit came upon them. The Spirit entered into Ezekiel and he saw visions. The Spirit inspired Balaam and Saul.” Wisdom is Israel’s guardian angel. She was incarnate in the high priest and she was the consort or royal spouse of the king. She was driven from the Temple and the lives of the Israelites by the Levitical Deuteronomists. In return, the Israelites were given minute details regulating every aspect of their lives and the priests were given authority and power over their ‘subjects’. Because the priests had no spiritual authority or power, they used temporal authority and power instead. Jesus came to relieve Israel of the venal oppression they were under. That is why he says in the Bible that he came for his own, and sent his disciples to witness to the lost sheep of Israel. Israel has scattered to all parts of the Earth. I believe that’s why the Great Commission tells us to spread the Word to all parts of the Earth. The majority of Israel has no idea who they are.

P 66 In the ancient Mesopotamian texts, it’s Ea/Enki who saves Noah from the Flood. In the Wisdom traditions it’s our Mother who did that. This is not a contradiction, because Yahweh is both the Logos and Holy Spirit. She is the one who guided Jacob and protected Joseph from being killed by his brothers. She led Israel out of Egypt and she drowned their oppressors. As Margaret says; “The expulsion of Wisdom and her corruption was seen by the apocalyptists as the key to understanding the evils of their age.” To get some understanding of the false high priests corruption during the time of Jesus, look up the story of the false high priest Jonathan Annas/Ananus. You will be shocked at how evil he was.

Margaret informs us that Wisdom, or the female aspect of Yahweh, was not forgotten. She was known to the first Christians. Paul described Jesus as the; “Power of God and the Wisdom of God,” a two-fold incarnation. In 1 Corinthians 1:24 and Romans 10:6-10, Paul uses words which in Deuteronomy 30:12-14 are said of the Law and in the Wisdom text Baruch 3:29-30 of Wisdom, and applies them to Jesus. Margaret says that in each case “there was something or someone who was not inaccessible in heaven or far away but on Earth and near at hand.” She says that the evangelists imply that Jesus spoke as Wisdom. She wrote; “the words which Matthew 23, 24 attributes to Jesus, Luke 11:49 attributes to Wisdom.” Margaret states; “It is only by recognizing this double aspect of the ancient Yahweh that we can begin to understand the writings of the first Christian centuries with their trinity of El Elyon, Yahweh and Wisdom. (Father, Son and Mother)

According to the Deuteronomists, the Earth has been corrupted because Adam and Eve wanted knowledge. Yet the ancient texts of our ancestors show that it’s the fallen angel’s corruption of the heavenly Gnosis that was the cause of the corruption and bloodshed on Earth. The fallen side of our family has taken the secrets of Nature and used them to enslave humanity. In the Jeshua channelings, Jeshua says that the corruption on Earth started as corruption in Heaven. He says that humanity is innocent, and God and the Host of Heaven are on the side of humans in the battle. Margaret makes the statement that a scholar named Suter did a study of the fallen ones that showed that the fallen angels were the priests of the second temple, the one existing at the time of Jesus. Those fallen angels are our kin. Their identity today is the power elite and world bankers.

Laurence Gardner agrees that it was circa 600 B.C. that the Israelite’s God was made mean. He wrote that the original compilers of the Old Testament kept the names of the gods/Gods separate and that it was later translators who jumbled them. In summation of the reforms of the Jewish religion, Barker wrote;

P 71 The reform of Israel’s religion was like a great shipwreck; fragments of the older ways surfaced in later literature for centuries, and it is only the earlier beliefs about the manifold presence of Yahweh the second God which can explain the diversity but consistency in later texts.

We find something very interesting in Margaret’s book;

P 73 There was one angel who was chief captain of the heavenly host and first minister before God, but he was also Jacob. If one accepts from the Apocrypha presently in use among the Hebrews the one entitled ‘The Prayer of Joseph’ he will derive from it exactly this teaching…that those who have something distinctive from the beginning when compared to men, being much better than other beings, have descended from the angelic to human nature. Jacob, at any rate, says I, Jacob who am speaking to you, am also Israel, an angel of God and a ruling spirit. Abraham and Isaac were created before any work. But I, Jacob, whom men call Jacob but whose name is Israel, am he whom God called Israel, a man seeing God, because I am the first born of every living thing to whom God gives life. Am I not Israel, the archangel of the power of the Lord and the chief captain among the sons of God? Am I not Israel the first minister before the face of God?

If Jacob-Israel is claiming that he is the chief captain among the sons of God this is additional confirmation that he is also Adonai (Lord) Sabaoth, leader of the heavenly host. I learned very early in my research to look for multiple identities for the same person/soul. According to the Phoenician historian Sanchoniathon, Jacob-Israel is Kronos, whom I believe is Enki, Lord Sabaoth. According to the Phoenicians and Greeks, Kronos is the same being as El Elyon/El. This would be correct because Wisdom and Yahweh, the Mother and Son, are two thirds of God, they are Gods manifest aspect. Some of the various identities I know for Enki or Yahweh are Ea, Oannes, Dagon, John, Poseidon, Atlas, Neptune, Ahura Mazda, Yam, Kerabu, Skanda, Jnana Pandita, Manda dHiya, Melchizedek, Enoch, Joshua, Joseph, Seth, Jacob-Israel and Jesus. To give this some perspective, Yahweh can manifest in an innumerable number of beings in innumerable places at the same time. These characters in Gods great drama span ages of time.

P 78 Margaret also notes how; “the Great Angel lives in the 7th Heaven.” Margaret calls Israel’s God, the Great Angel. This is a very important clue to the identity of the Great Angel. According to the Nag Hammadi text The Pistis Sophia, it is Lord Sabaoth who was enthroned in the Seventh Heaven to rule over the Host of Heaven. From the ancient Gnostic text On the Origin of the World, we again read of Pistis confrontation of Yaldabaoth;

Then when Pistis saw the impiety of the chief ruler, she was filled with anger. She was invisible. She said, "You are mistaken, Samael," (that is, ‘blind god’). "There is an immortal man of light who has been in existence before you, and who will appear among your modeled forms; he will trample you to scorn, just as potter's clay is pounded. And you will descend to your mother, the abyss, along with those that belong to you. For at the consummation of your (pl.) works, the entire defect that has become visible out of the truth will be abolished, and it will cease to be, and will be like what has never been." Saying this, Pistis revealed her likeness of her greatness in the waters. And so doing, she withdrew up to her light.

What we are seeing here is Yahweh, Mother and Son, incarnating into Ea/Ia/Enki/Sabaoth and his half-sister Ninhursag, who create Adam and Eve a supernal humanity, of the Hebrew, Muslim and Jewish faiths, some of whom descend to Jacob-Israel and the Israelites. In this, we see the preparation of bodies for the souls of the Ecclesia, the heavenly church, to incarnate into. It is from this line that the “immortal man of Light,” i.e. God - in the person of Jesus – appeared, who “trampled Yaldabaoth to scorn, just as potter’s clay is pounded.”

Now when Sabaoth, the son of Yaldabaoth, heard the voice of Pistis, he sang praises to her, and he condemned the father [...] at the word of Pistis; and he praised her because she had instructed them about the immortal man and his light. Then Pistis Sophia stretched out her finger and poured upon him some light from her light, to be a condemnation of his father. Then when Sabaoth was illumined, he received great authority against all the forces of chaos. Since that day he has been called ‘Lord of the Forces’.

He hated his father, the darkness, and his mother, the abyss, and loathed his sister, the thought of the prime parent, which moved to and fro upon the waters. And because of his light, all the authorities of chaos were jealous of him. And when they had become disturbed, they made a great war in the seven heavens. Then when Pistis Sophia had seen the war, she dispatched seven archangels to Sabaoth from her light. They snatched him up to the seventh heaven. They stood before him as attendants. Furthermore, she sent him three more archangels, and established the kingdom for him over everyone, so that he might dwell above the twelve gods of chaos.

In this last paragraph the father and prime parent is Yaldabaoth, the darkness. We also see here the cause of the war in heaven. I would like to point out that we do not see the name of Satan mentioned here, but we clearly see that it was Yaldabaoth/Enlil/Jehovah and his authorities who made the war in heaven because of their anger at Sabaoths elevation. Since Satan is said to be the one responsible for the war in heaven, I think it’s safe to assume that Yaldabaoth is the ‘true’ Satan.

Now when Sabaoth had taken up the place of repose in return for his repentance, Pistis also gave him her daughter Zoe (Life), together with great authority, so that she might instruct him about all things that exist in the eighth heaven. And as he had authority, he made himself first of all a mansion. It is huge, magnificent, seven times as great as all those that exist in the seven heavens. And before his mansion he created a throne, which was huge and was upon a four-faced chariot called ‘Cherubim’. Now the Cherubim has eight shapes per each of the four corners, lion forms and calf forms and human forms and eagle forms, so that all the forms amount to sixty-four forms - and seven archangels that stand before it; he is the eighth, and has authority. All the forms amount to seventy-two. Furthermore, from this chariot the seventy-two gods took shape; they took shape so that they might rule over the seventy-two languages of the peoples. And by that throne he created other, serpent-like angels, called Seraphim, which praise him at all times.

Thereafter he created a congregation of angels, thousands and myriads, numberless, which resembled the congregation in the eighth heaven; and a firstborn called Israel - which is, "the man that sees God"; and another being, called Jesus Christ, who resembles the savior above in the eighth heaven, and who sits at his right upon a revered throne. And at his left, there sits the virgin of the Holy Spirit, upon a throne and glorifying him. And the seven virgins stand before her, [...] possessing thirty harps, and psalteries and trumpets, glorifying him. And all the armies of the angels glorify him, and they bless him. Now where he sits is upon a throne of light.

We also see that it was Sabaoths seventy-two angelic sons, who incarnated as human sons, who were made to rule over the seventy-two languages of the people of Earth. These gods were made to rule over the people after the tower of Babel incident when the people’s languages were confounded. These sons were the sons, i.e. descendants, of Noah. The Bible seems to contradict itself because it states in one place that the seventy-two sons of Noah were put over the Earth and in another place it says that the seventy-two sons of Israel were put over the seventy two languages or people of the Earth. The answer to this conundrum is this; the angelic Israel first incarnated as Noah and later as Jacob-Israel. To the Bible’s prophet author’s, he is the same being. We learned earlier that Noah looked like a child of the angels. His mother swore she didn’t have sexual relations with an angel. I believe that this is possibly a case of artificial insemination with ‘divine’ dna. I believe Enki/Sabaoth saved Noah because Noah was Enki’s son and because Noah had been created specifically to be the carrier of the true human dna. I think that new thing spoken of by Enoch regarding Noah’s birth, was to shepherd a chosen people who have dna that is one tenth of one percent different from the rest of humanity.

When I was struggling intensely for years really, sorting out the identity of Enki/Ea, just recently I was given one of what I call my ‘j’ revelations from Jeshua. These are words I come across with a random ‘j’ or ‘J’ inserted in or at the end of sentences. These are the words he gave me in one message;

Worship neither throne nor angel which belongs to the six heavens - for for

this cause I was sent to conduct thee j - until I tell thee in the seventh heaven.

Yaldabaoth/Enlil/Jehovah is unrepentant. He is still exerting his influence over the lower six heavens and the Earth. Ia/Ea/Enki/Sabaoth/Yahweh is the God of justice and vengeance who reigns in the seventh heaven. From the ancient Gnostic Christian text On the Origin of the World we read;

Now Pistis Sophia set him (Sabaoth) apart from the darkness and summoned him to her right, and the prime parent (Yaldabaoth) she put at her left. Since that day, right has been called justice, and left called wickedness. Now because of this, they all received a realm in the congregation of justice and wickedness. ...Thus, when the prime parent of chaos saw his son Sabaoth and the glory that he was in, and perceived that he was greatest of all the authorities of chaos, he envied him. And having become wrathful, he engendered Death out of his death: and he was established over the sixth heaven.

In this last paragraph we plainly see that Sabaoth, who is on the right, is considered justice and on the left, Yaldabaoth, i.e. the prime parent, is considered wickedness. The reason I stress this is two-fold. First of all, there are some who believe Sabaoth/Enki, is Satan or the ‘wicked one’. Second, some people think that the God of justice and vengeance in the Old Testament is a repentant Yaldabaoth. Sabaoth, the Lord of Hosts, which in essence means Lord of all Spirits, is the one who attains justice on behalf of God. He is righteous in his anger and wrath. We see too in the previous paragraph what we all plainly know, that the world we live in is a “congregation of justice and wickedness,” and we see where both of those opposing factions come from; Sabaoth - justice and Yaldabaoth - wickedness.

And what is for me, the absolute confirmation that Yaldabaoth/Enlil/Jehovah is not repentant and is the king over the six lower heavens is in the words; “and he (the prime parent) was established over the sixth heaven.” This is who Jeshua is telling me not to worship, the king of the sixth heaven – Yaldabaoth/Jehovah/Enlil. He is specifically telling me not to worship the throne or angel. The throne could only be Yaldabaoth/Jehovah. To repeat that quote from Jeshua;

Worship neither throne nor angel which belongs to the six heavens - for for this cause I was sent to conduct thee j.

As far as I know I have never worshipped Yaldabaoth who is king of the lower six heavens. I was raised a Christian and Southern Baptist. As far as I know I have never worshipped a fallen angel or elemental spirit. So why would Jeshua say this to me? In saying this to me, he is also saying this to you. Have we been unknowingly worshipping fallen angels and their fallen leader? This is the claim many people have made. The reason Jeshua is telling me this is so that I can understand and point out to you, the reader, that Jeshua is specifically telling us not to worship a god of the Law.

We are not to worship a god who tells us in the minutest details, as Yaldabaoth/Enlil/Jehovah did in the Old Testament, what to do, what to eat, what rituals to perform, when we can have sex, the exact dimensions of our churches, what our punishments should be, or who we can marry. We are not to worship a god who tells us to sacrifice our sons or animals or tells us to stone others to death. We are not to worship a god who himself opened up the gates of our cities to our enemies because he was not happy with us. We are not to worship a god who is jealous of his partial creation, i.e. early humans, and so curses them and the Earth as to make their lives miserable. We are not to worship a god who brought death and disease and decay into a world because he was not happy with the way things turned out. We are not to worship a god who orders his people to go to war or tells us that others are our enemies.

We are to worship a God of love. We are to live in love, not in fear. We need to recognize who our rulers are and we need to reject them. We need to listen to Christ Jesus our Savior who came and suffered a cruel death in order to bring the light of God to a dark world. Jeshua says that Satan can only be overcome by love and empathy. He says that if the people of Earth would stop being self-centered and would truly love God and all other people, we could vanquish the powers of darkness without a fight. Jeshua tells us to renounce the god of this world and his creation.

P 79 Margaret Barker wrote; “The belief that a human being could be transformed into an angel when he experienced the presence of God is one of the characteristics of texts which retained the patterns of the royal cult.” What is portrayed in the texts is that what had formerly been the ascent of the king became the ascent of the mystic. The ascent transformed him, that is enlightened him. p 101/2 Margaret wrote that when the reformers denied that Yahweh was present in the Temple, that he had a voice but no form, they removed from their tradition, “what was to become the taproot of Christian theology, namely belief in incarnation.”

What is even more incredible to me is that not only had the Name become a substitute for Yahweh’s presence, the Name was forbidden to be spoken! In this, the Deuteronomists made themselves intermediaries between their ‘subjects’ and God. How can one pray to a God she can’t name or identify with? Margaret cites a scholar named Mettinger who wrote; “In the Name theology, not only the Sabaoth designation but also the cherubim throne have disappeared. God himself is no longer present in the temple, but only in heaven. However, he is represented in the temple by his Name. When Yahweh was no longer Yahweh Sabaoth, the host of heaven also disappeared and thus we see how the three vital strands of the older cult, the angels, the presence and the human form, were suppressed.”

If Enki is Kronos and Yahweh Sabaoth, you might wonder “How can two-thirds of the Trinity need to be repentant and forgiven?” The explanation to this conundrum is this; Yahweh, i.e. Sophia and Logos, incarnated into Enki, Sabaoth, Jesus, Enoch, Seth, Shem, Melchezedek, Maat, Eve, Norea, Miriam, Mary, etc. and came into this world to rescue a creation gone wrong. When he/she did this, they came into the world blind just as we do. They are subject to the same unchangeable laws of this creation as everyone else. They committed themselves to endless incarnations in human bodies so that they could figure out how to heal angel-humans, how to extricate them from matter. To do that, they needed to know exactly what angel-humans go through. Edgar Cayce said that in Adam the Christ fell and in Jesus he redeemed himself. Jesus redeemed himself by living a selfless life in service to others. He redeemed himself by giving his own sense of self over completely to God, “Not my will, but your will be done.” Jesus, in redeeming himself, became the pattern for the rest of us angel souls trapped in earthly incarnation, so that we too can know how to redeem ourselves.

Victoria LePage stated that she believed Jesus Way of transformation was psyche oriented. I pondered what she meant by that. What I have come to believe is that Jesus understood that we are pioneering angel souls who are still suffering from the effects of our first separation from God. Actually, we are not and never have been, separate from God, but to our minds, we are. The Jeshua channelings are all about bringing psychological healing to angel-humans. Evidently that is what Sophia/Logos learned through his/her incarnations into the human psyche and body. We need to know who we are, we need to know that we have been given internal technologies to allow us to re-connect with God and we need to heal ourselves and move forward in evolution.

Jeshua says our particular soul group of Light workers, are very involved with Terra, the new Earth. It will be a new experience made possible by our journey of the last four and a half billion years. I have a picture of the famous painting by W. Strutt titled; ‘Peace’ which shows the child, the lion, the lamb, the wolf and other animals who will all live in peace with each other in the New Earth. It’s my inspiration and I look forward to that time, which I believe will be here soon.

Barker says that according to Philo, the menorah is the symbol of the presence of Yahweh. Philo taught that Wisdom, the Holy Spirit, was the first to be brought forth and the Logos was the firstborn. In our family’s myths this has led to some uncomfortable stories because Sophia, or Isis or Asherah or whoever else represents our Mother, is represented as the mother, sister and spouse of the Logos, who is the son, brother and spouse of his mother. It appears to me that our ancestors took this a little too literally throughout time, as evidenced in their relational patterns.

Philo taught that Wisdom pervaded and penetrated all things and the Logos was the bond of the universe. He also taught that Wisdom and Logos were given Israel for their inheritance, so that again is confirmation that they are Yahweh Sabaoth. That means that Jesus’ Father in Heaven is the highest God after all. In the Jeshua channelings, Jeshua says that he and Israel are one. The Christ is literally our Oversoul. We are extensions into material reality by Christ, the syzygy of Pistis Sophia. We don’t realize it, but he is constantly aware of what we are doing and thinking. Jeshua tells us that there isn’t one authority over us. We are God and angel and the beings closest to the throne of God. We are literally among God’s first-born.

In the Jeshua channelings, Jeshua points out that humans are not at fault for all the problems in the world. He says that it’s the errant angels who have brought evil and strife into the world. Believe me, humans are just pawns in the drama that has been playing out for thousands of years. In the Jeshua channelings, Jeshua’s mother Mary says that God forgives people’s sins before they commit them.

All the Gnostics believed that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was a good thing, not evil, that the knowledge Adam and Eve gained was beneficial. Margaret Barker states; p 186 “The myth of Eden had originally described the holy mountain and the judgment of the proud heavenly beings, but the historicization of Israel’s religion, along with its new emphasis on personal responsibility for sin and the centrality of the Mosaic Law led to this myth being incorporated into the history of Israel. It described the disobedience of human beings, rather than the cosmic disaster of disobedience in heaven.”

Jeshua says that he came to be an example of the greatness of humanity. He tells us we can do everything he did and more. Sadly, I believe the majority of Christians don’t believe that. They believe, as my own sister said, that Jesus was able to attain those powers because he was sinless and because humans are unable to attain sinlessness, they are unable to attain those powers. If Jesus was sinless then why did he need to be baptized and have his sins ‘washed away’? So what my sister and other Christians who think like her are saying, is that Jesus is a liar, because in the Bible, Jesus does say that his followers will be able to do everything he did and more. He reminds us in the Bible that we are gods! If you don’t believe that humans are capable of being like Jesus in every way, including his miracle working powers, then you won’t strive to be like Jesus. Jesus own doctrine has been corrupted by the belief that humans are intrinsically sinful and that Jesus came to save us from our sins. It was the law makers, the Deuteronomists who claimed that people were at fault for the problems of the world. It could be that the Deuteronomists didn’t understand the Eden allegory themselves. They would not have been privilege to its secret meaning. It’s the forces of darkness in the false high priesthood of Judaism that have called the gift of knowledge, i.e. Gnosis, a sin. They know that it makes people like God, which is what God wants, but the forces of darkness don’t.

P 166 Margaret states that she believes that the Garden of Eden myth was rewritten to teach that human disobedience and the craving for knowledge were the source of evil rather than pride in heavenly places as found in the Eden of Ezekiel, the priest of the first temple. She states that not everyone accepted the reformed teachings of the Israelites who returned to Palestine after their release by Nebuchadnezzar. Margaret asks the question; “How might these other people have perpetuated and adapted their ancient beliefs?”

She says that many of them would have left their homeland and become scattered into the Diaspora. She adds that you would probably find expressions of anger felt by worshippers of Yahweh who had been excluded by the purists of the restored community. The restored community refers to the Israelites who returned to Palestine after being freed by the Babylonians. The purists declared that Yahweh and El were one, that in effect there was not a Trinity. This conveniently did away with our Mother the Holy Spirit and her representative embodiment of Asherah, the consort of Yahweh. Margaret says we should expect to find hostility to the Jews, “since this was the name by which the returned exiles were known.” She states that we should expect to find a belief in the plural nature of Yahweh, a cult of angels and an origin of evil such as that found in the stories of the fallen angels. Also found would be hostility towards the Mosaic Law. She wrote that all these elements can be found in the Gnostic texts that followed the period. I will confirm that all these elements are found in the beliefs of the gnostic Essenes and the gnostic Jewish-Christian sects that followed them. Margaret writes; “Modern scholars are now returning to the idea that the Gnostics were, in fact, rooted in Judaism.”

Margaret discloses that at that time, Wisdom left the Earth and went back to Heaven. She writes; p 188 “Wisdom would be given back to the Elect at the end of time when they awoke from their sleep.” Enoch 91:10. That’s what I am trying to do with this book. This is the end of time, and I am trying to wake up the Elect and remind them of our Mother! Margaret makes the important statement, “Here, surely, is a root of the gnostic myth; the gift of Wisdom and resurrection are closely linked.”

“The possession of knowledge was the key to eternal life.”

This word translated as knowledge is really Gnosis, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Margaret continues to explore what she terms the near God and the far God and relates that both of them are termed father, which has led to further confusion. One has sons that are angels the other has sons that are humans. Also, I know that it is confusing that the nation’s gods were meant to be, to them, their ‘Gods’. They were given national gods in order to have a God that their more primitive minds could relate to. An abstract, unseen God wasn’t relatable to a more primitive people.

Margaret goes on to cite early Christian writings that corroborate the doctrine of the two Gods in early Christianity. She writes that the first Christians identified Jesus as the God of the Jews and that the Son of God was their name for Yahweh. Yahweh manifested in the Davidic Kings and in Jesus. As part of the key to deciphering the terminology of the Bible, she says that when the ‘Lord’ is referred to, it’s Yahweh being spoken of. She says that Paul sees this distinction and relates this in 1 Corinthians 8:6: “There is one God, the Father...and one Lord, Jesus Christ.”

Margaret says that the confusion between the two Gods led to centuries of conflict in the early years of Christianity over the belief that Jesus had been equal with God. When Jesus was baptized, the Spirit of the Logos descended upon him. Thus at that time, Jesus was the Son of God and a part of the Trinity of Father-Mother-Child. Previous to that - Jesus, or Jeshua, was just a Jewish man. Southern Baptist’s say that Jesus was “fully human and fully God” - which is absolutely true.

P 25 Margaret explains that the substitution of Yahweh for El would be natural once Yahweh became the principal cult name. She explains that we have inherited a double distortion. The reformers edited much of what we read in the Hebrew Bible and then modern interpreters have told us what the whole of the Hebrew Bible was saying. Modern interpreters have also blurred the identities of the deities. I might add that many if not most of those interpreters did not know the codes used in creating the Bible and so had no understanding of it themselves. Margaret asks the question; “How was it that Christian theology grew so quickly into a complex system if the greater part of that system had not existed within the Judaism from which it grew?”

P 31 As examples, Margaret writes that when we read Isaiah we are reading texts which envisaged more than one deity; there was the High God El Elyon, there were the angels or gods of the nations, and there was Yahweh “the avenging angel, protector and judge of his people.” p 46 Margaret makes the statement that; “the evidence of the Old Testament must be allowed to speak for itself and we must be prepared to read it as its first users did.” She comments that the original readers of the Old Testament knew differently. They knew that Yahweh was one of the sons of Elyon. They knew that Yahweh and the Angel of Yahweh were identical. They knew that it was Yahweh who was present at the Exodus, and they knew that Yahweh and Elohim were not identical but represented different aspects of the second deity. The Elohim were the seven spirits or archangels, who were manifestations of the second God. They also knew that Yahweh was manifested in human form as high priest, king and judge. Margaret states that in the centuries between the exile circa 597 B.C. and the Christian era, both fusion and confusion occurred. Yahweh was identified with Elyon and his angel was considered a separate entity with no name. Anthropomorphism and the vision of God were suppressed.

Margaret explains that the gnostic texts show that their system originated in the temple cult. She writes; “Fragments of many philosophies can be seen; we even recognize some of the ancient gods of Egypt. But underlying all is the world of the ancient temple.” She says that the Gnostics testify to the belief in the second God who was the Creator, the Logos, the Man. (Adam Kadmon) She says that the crucial information the gnostic texts supply is that they identify the second God with the God of the Jews. p 190 She notes that several writers of the first three Christian centuries believed that El Elyon was God the Father and Yahweh, God of Israel, was the Son and identified with Jesus.

Margaret says that; “the evidence that the first Christians identified Jesus with the God of the Jews is overwhelming.” She says it was their customary way of reading the Old Testament. The appearances of Yahweh were seen as manifestations of Christ. She believes this is seen in Paul’s works, as he applied several Lord text’s to Jesus. She remarks; “This is, to say the least, a remarkable contradiction of Deuteronomy 6:4, if he understood that verse in the way that we do, as a statement of monotheism. If, on the other hand, it was a statement of the unity of Yahweh as the one inclusive summing up of all the heavenly powers, the Elohim, then it would have been compatible with belief in God Most High also.” I will say again that in reality it is ALL GOD! All those gods and Gods are just manifestations of God! There is only one God who to keep His/Her mind active has divided Him/Herself into more multiplicities than a human mind could ever imagine.

Victoria LePage says that El is an;

P 366...androgynous impersonal cosmic Power, the Mother-Father God of the whole of creation who would one day be rediscovered by Qabalist’s and Christian Gnostics. Far from being extinguished by the cult of Yahweh, the worship of El Elyon remained a very powerful influence in the princely courts of Samaria and Judah and in the legend of the United Monarchy preserved in the Hebrew scriptures. (1 Samuel 2-3)

I have spoken of titles for our soul group that stem from their Serpent or Masters of Wisdom designation. Some that would apply more specifically to our Israelite identity, according to the biblical scholar Robert Eisenmann are; The Sons of Light - the Sons of Truth - the Sons of Zadok or Zaddikim (Zadokite) - the Men of Melchizedek - the Ebionim (the Poor) - the Hassidim (the Essenes) and the Nozrim (the Nazoreans). According to Eisenmann, these are all one and the same - not different groups, but different metaphors or titles for essentially the same group. Eisenmann wrote; “The primary objective of this movement seems to have been oriented towards the dynastic legitimacy of the high priesthood. In the Old Testament, the High Priest of both David and Solomon is called Zadok, either as a personal name or as an official title. He is traditionally associated, very closely with the Messiah, the anointed one, the rightful king. More specifically he is associated with the Davidic Messiah.”

I am including the next selection from the text The Pistis Sophia for unusual reasons. In the books Laurence Gardner wrote about our family, he often speaks of certain most foul rites, not his words, but mine. Let’s just say there is no doubt some of our ancestors performed them, but that didn’t make them acceptable. One rite was imbibing menstrual blood for reasons of heightening the function of the pituitary gland. They did this because the pituitary gland is associated with the chakra that is called the Christ Center and when it is opened, it enables seership, clairvoyance, prophecy, and heightened perception.
Those familiar with the Bible will remember the story of the brothers Esau-Edom and Jacob-Israel and how Esau sold Jacob his birthright for a bowl of red lentil soup. The story never made sense. How hungry could he be?! It was during a time of famine, but we are still only talking about one bowl of soup! Esau’s birthright as eldest son was the inheritance of all his father’s possessions. Again, how hungry could he be?! Interestingly, Jeshua has something to say about this. From the ancient Gnostic Christian text The Pistis Sophia;

P 386/7 Thomas said: "We have heard that there are some on the Earth who take the male seed and the female monthly blood, and make it into a lentil porridge and eat it, Saying; 'We have faith in Esau and Jacob.' Is this then seemly or not?"

Jesus was wroth with the world in that hour and said unto Thomas: "Amēn, I say, this sin is more heinous than all sins and iniquities. Such men will straightway be taken into the outer darkness and not be cast back anew into the sphere, but they shall perish, be destroyed in the outer darkness in a region where there is neither pity nor light, but howling and grinding of teeth. And all the souls which shall be brought into the outer darkness, will not be cast back anew, but will be destroyed and dissolved.
Now we know what Jesus thinks of the practice!
The birth of Jesus was anticipated by the Serpents of Wisdom of all the Earth and no doubt by the Celestial Serpents of Wisdom as well. Jesus was the crowning glory of their teaching. He was the Grand Master of the Serpents of Wisdom at the time. He was the first human to be Christed, that is, to be re-joined with his angelic higher self. Victoria LePage gives us some insight into the time and place;
P 114 The entire region around the Sea of Galilee was, in the first century, the home of deeply held beliefs centered on the old Mystery religions. p 115 The people were of mixed Samaritan-Jewish stock, the psychology was independent and individualistic, and the religious and political orientation was anti-Jerusalem and anti-temple clergy. …the whole territory was impregnated not only with the immemorial legends and myths of this ancient land but also with the amalgam of religious doctrines and philosophies borne into it along the great trade routes from Babylonia, Persia, and India on the one hand and from the Mediterranean civilizations of the other.

P 117 She goes on to say that the region around Nazara was at the heart of Nazorean country. It had formerly been the land of the Aramaeans, “a people whose language was said to be that of the angels, and was the language of Jesus and his family.” She says that Jesus family might have lived for generations there in the midst of a community “that had a long prophetic and messianic tradition behind it.” She tells us that Nazara or Nazarene means ‘Truth’.

P 119 She explains that Jesus brother James was left as leader of the new Christian movement, but he was murdered by Ananus, a (false) high priest of the Jerusalem temple. I believe this is the same person as Jonathan Annas or Ananus. James was followed by Jesus’ brother Juda who was also assassinated, and then by Jesus brother Simeon. Simeon was crucified by the Romans and Simeon’s grandsons were interrogated under guard by the emperor Domitian in Rome. They were released after convincing Domitian they had no political aspirations. They showed their hands, calloused from farming and hard work - as proof.
By this you can see that our family had good reason to conceal their identities and whereabouts. Both the Romans and Jews wanted every member of our family killed. Victoria states that the religion of Jesus’ family was a branch of; “A far greater spiritual movement that had mysteriously originated in Egypt and spread throughout the Diaspora.” She states that this was the Hasidean movement. The Hasidim were “mystics, prophets, healers, exorcists, and rainmakers who, like Jesus, infuriated the rabbinic herbalists to the south by working their healing miracles by no other means than the power of prayer, the laying on of hands, and the forgiveness of sins - even though, according to the rabbis, only God had the power to forgive sins.” “Their supernatural powers”, says Vermes, “were attributed to their immediate relation to God independent of any institutional mediation, and were seen as of divine origin.”
P 126 Some of the Essenes later split up into the Pharisees and Sadducees. The Therapeutae of Egypt, the descendants of the Great White Brotherhood, was also a branch of the Essenes. Other branches were spawned at the same time, such as the Nazoreans, the Ophites, and the Ebionite’s. Victoria wrote that the immediate aim of the Hasidim; “was to reinstate the Davidic line on the throne of Israel and the rightful Zadokite high priesthood to the Jerusalem temple, but beyond these goals, they sought the return of the prophetic tradition in new Kabbalistic guise. ...The Gnosis, the Hasidim insisted, must return to Israel; the messianic ideal must be enshrined again in the heart of Judaism and the Goddess given new meaning, dignity, and relevance as the Angel of Wisdom.” Notice that the very name ‘Israel’ is a clue to Israel’s ultimate identity. In the name we find; Isis, Ra and El, or Mother, Father and Highest God, a.k.a. the Trinity.

Victoria states that all these sectarian groups shared the same revolutionary social ideals of the New Covenant, “as well as the same Gnostic, messianic, and apocalyptic ideas; all were related by bonds that went back to Israel’s old Mystery tradition. …And at the very heart of the dispute, the hidden engine that drove it, lay the Hasidic opposition to a patriarchal religious creed that failed to give due honor to the Mother of the World.”

I hope you will think about that last sentence very carefully. The worship of our Mother had become highly degraded. Our family’s aim was to restore her dignity by worshipping her as Wisdom rather than as a fertility goddess. The doctrines of the Gnostic Christians, Templars and early Freemasons are a testament to that. What is very troubling to me is that the successors of these groups, the Baptists, Freemasons, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and others, are all very patriarchal. I wonder do any of them really know that the Holy Spirit is feminine? Do they have enough conviction and courage to state it if they do?