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Alexander's Secret Quest for Immortality | Enoch, Anunnaki Gods, and the Waters of Life PODCAST 45 · Anunnaki Origins Podcast

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  Alexander was invited in to the Creator and overseer of the
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  entire universe. He went within and saw a fire,
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  bright haze and seated on a throne, the God whom he had once
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  seen worshipped by men of Rakotide, the Lord Sorapis.
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  In the Greek version, it was the God Dionysus.
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  Alexander saw his chance to bring up the matter of his
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  longevity. Lord God, he said, How many
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  years shall I live? But there was no answer from the
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  God. Then Sasanchusis sought to
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  console Alexander, for the God's silence spoke for itself.
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  Though I myself have joined the ranks of the gods, Sasanchusis
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  said, I was not as fortunate as you, For although I have
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  conquered the whole world and subjugated so many peoples,
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  nobody remembers my name. But you shall have great renown.
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  You will have an immortal name even after death.
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  In this manner, he consoled Alexander.
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  You shall live upon dying, thus not dying, immortalized by a
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  lasting reputation. Disappointed, Alexander left the
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  caves and continued the journey to be made to seek the advice of
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  other sages to find an escape from immortal's fate, to
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  indulate others who before him did succeed in joining the
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  immortal gods. According to one version, among
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  those whom Alexander searched out and met was Enoch, the
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  biblical patriarch from the days before the deluge, who was the
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  great grandfather of Noah. It was a place of mountains
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  where Paradise, which is the land of the living, is situated,
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  the abode where the Saints dwell.
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  Atop a mountain there was a glittering structure from which
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  there extended skyward a huge stairway made of 2500 golden
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  slabs. In a vast hall or cavern,
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  Alexander saw golden figures, each standing in its niche, a
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  golden altar, and two huge candlesticks measuring some 60
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  feet in height. Upon a couch near by reclined
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  the form of a man who was draped in a coverlet inlaid with gold
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  and precious stones, and above it worked in gold were branches
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  of a vine, having its cluster of grapes formed of jewels.
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  The man suddenly spoke up, identifying himself as Enoch.
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  Do not pry into the mysteries of God, the voice warned Alexander.
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  Heeding the warning, Alexander left to rejoin his troops, but
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  not before receiving, as a parting gift, a bunch of grapes
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  that miraculously were sufficient to feed his whole
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  army. In yet another version,
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  Alexander encountered not one but two men from the past, Enoch
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  and the prophet Elijah, two who, according to biblical
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  traditions, have never died. It happened when Alexander was
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  traversing an uninhabited desert.
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  Suddenly his horse was seized by a spirit which carried horse and
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  rider aloft, bringing Alexander to a glittering Tabernacle.
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  Inside he saw the two men. Their faces were bright, their
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  teeth whiter than milk. Their eyes shone brighter than
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  the morning star. They were lofty of stature, of
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  gracious look. Telling him who they were, they
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  said that God hid them from death.
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  They told him that the place was the city of the storehouse of
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  life, from where the bright waters of life emanated.
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  But before Alexander could find out more or drink of the waters
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  of life, a chariot of fire snatched him away and he found
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  himself back with his troops. According to Muslim tradition,
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  the Prophet Muhammad was also carried heavenward 1000 years
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  later, riding his White Horse. Was the episode of The Cave of
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  the Gods as the other episodes in the histories of Alexander?
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  Pure fiction, mere myth, or perhaps embellished tales based
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  on historical fact? Was there a Queen Candace?
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  A royal city named Shamar? A world conqueror named
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  Cesanchusis? In truth, the names meant little
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  to students of antiquity until relatively recently.
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  If these were names of Egyptian royal personages or of a
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  mystical province of Egypt, they were as obscured by time as the
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  monuments were obscured by the encroaching sands.
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  Rising above the sands, the pyramids and the Sphinx only
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  broadened the enigma. The hieroglyphic picture, words
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  undecipherable, only confirmed that there were secrets not to
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  be unlocked. The tales from antiquity, passed
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  on via the Greeks and Romans, dissolved into legends.
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  Eventually they faded into obscurity.
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  It was only when Napoleon conquered Egypt in 1798 that
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  Europe began to rediscover Egypt.
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  Accompanying Napoleon's troops were groups of serious scholars
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  who began to remove the sands and raise the curtain of
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  forgetfulness. Then, near the village of
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  Rosetta, a stone tablet was found bearing the same
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  inscription in three languages. The key was found to unlock the
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  language and inscriptions of ancient Egypt, its records of
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  pharaonic feats, the glorification of its gods.
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  In the 1820s, European explorers penetrating southward into the
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  Sudan reported the existence of ancient monuments, including
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  sharp angled pyramids at a site on the Nile River called Merawi.
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  A royal Prussian expedition uncovered impressive
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  archaeological remains during excavations in the years 1842 to
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  1844. Between 1912 and 1914, others
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  uncovered sacred sites. The hieroglyphic inscriptions
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  indicated one of them was called the Sun Temple, perhaps the very
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  place where the spies of Cambises observed the table of
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  the Sun. Further excavations in this
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  century, the piercing together of archaeological signs, and the
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  continued decipherment of the inscriptions have established
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  that there indeed existed in that land a Nubian Kingdom in
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  the first Millennium BC. It was the biblical land of
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  Cush. There indeed was a Queen
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  Candace. The Hyroblyphic inscriptions
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  revealed that at the very beginning of the Nubian Kingdom,
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  it was ruled by a wise and benevolent queen.
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  Her name was Candace. Therefore, whenever a woman
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  ascended the throne, which was not infrequent, she adopted the
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  name as a symbol of great queen sheep.
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  And farther South of Merrily, Within this kingdom's domain,
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  there was a city named Sinar, possibly the Shamar referred to
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  in the Alexander tale. An image of Candace can be found
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  in the bonus PDF under Figure 5. And what about Cesentiusus?
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  It is told in the Ethiopic version of Pseudocalistenes that
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  journeying to or from Egypt, Alexander and his men passed by
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  a lake swarming with crocodiles. There an earlier ruler had built
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  a way to cross the lake, and behold, there was a building
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  upon the shore of the lake, and above the building was a heathen
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  altar, upon which was written I am Kosh, the king of the world.
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  the Conqueror who crossed this lake.
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  Who was this world conqueror Kosh, namely the king who ruled
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  over Kush or Nubia. In the Greek version of this
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  tale, the Conqueror who had commemorated his crossing of the
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  lake described as part of the waters of the Red Sea was named
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  Cessanchusis. So Cesentiosis and Kosh were one
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  in the same ruler, A pharaoh who had ruled both Egypt and Nubia.
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  Nubian monuments depicted such a ruler as he receives from a
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  shiny God the fruit of life shaped like date palms.
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  A depiction of this exchange can be found in the bonus PDF under
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  Figure 6. Egyptian records do speak of a
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  great pharaoh who, early in the second Millennium BC was indeed
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  a world conqueror. His name was Sanusert, and he
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  too was a devotee of Ammon. Greek historians credited him
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  with the conquest of Libya and Arabia, and significantly also
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  of Ethiopia and all the islands of the Red Sea, of great parts
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  of Asia penetrating the east even farther than the later
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  Persians, and of invading Europe via Asia Minor.
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  Paroditus described the great feats of this pharaoh, whom he
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  names Cesotres, stating that Cesotres erected memorial
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  pillars wherever he went. The pillars which he erected,
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  Herodotus wrote, are still visible.
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  Thus, when Alexander saw the pillar by the lake, it only
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  confirmed what Herodotus had written a century earlier.
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  Cesentiusus did indeed exist. His Egyptian name meant he whose
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  births live, for by virtue of being a pharaoh of Egypt he had
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  every right to join the company of the gods and live forever in
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  the search for the waters of life or of eternal youth.
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  It was important to assert that the search was surely not
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  futile, for others in days past had succeeded in the quest.
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  Moreover, if the waters flow from a Paradise Lost, would not
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  finding those who had been there be a means of learning from them
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  how to get there? It was with that in mind that
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  Alexander sought to reach the immortal ancestors.
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  Whether he indeed encountered them as not too important.
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  The important fact is that in the centuries preceding the
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  Christian era, Alexander or his historians, or both, believed
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  that the immortal ancestors indeed existed, that in days
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  that to them were ancient and olden mortals could become
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  immortal if the gods so wished. The authors who are editors of
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  the Histories of Alexander relate various incidents in
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  which Alexander encountered Sassanchuses, Elijah and Enoch,
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  or just Enoch. The identity of Sassanchuses
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  could only be guessed, and the manner of his translation to
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  immortality is not described. Not so with Elijah, the
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  Companion of Enoch and the Shining Temple.
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  According to one Alexander version, he was the biblical
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  prophet who was active in the Kingdom of Israel in the 9th
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  century BC during the reign of Kings Ahab and Ahaziah.
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  As his adopted name indicated, Eli Yah My God is Yahweh.
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  He was inspired by and stood up for the Hebrew God Yahweh, whose
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  faithful were finding themselves harassed by the followers of the
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  Canaanite God Bal. After a period of seclusion at a
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  secret place near the Jordan River, where he was apparently
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  coached by the Lord, he was given a mantle of hair cloth of
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  magical powers and was able to perform miracles, residing first
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  near the Phoenician town of Sidon.
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  His first reported miracle, as related in First Kings chapter
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  17, was the making of a little cooking oil and a spoonful of
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  flour. Last a widow who gave him
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  shelter the rest of her lifetime.
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  Then he prevailed on the Lord to revive her son after he had died
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  of a violent illness. He could also summon the fire of
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  God from the skies, which came in handily in the ongoing
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  struggle with the kings and priests who succumbed to Pagan
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  temptations of him. The scriptures say that he did
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  not die on earth, for he went up into heaven in a whirlwind.
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  According to Jewish traditions, Elijah is still immortal, and to
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  this very day tradition requires that he be invited to come into
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  Jewish homes on Passover eve. His ascent is described in the
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  Old Testament in great detail, and as reported in Second Kings
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  chapter 2, the event was not a sudden or unexpected occurrence.
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  On the contrary, it was a planned and prearranged
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  operation whose place and time were communicated to Elijah in
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  advance. The designated place was in the
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  Jordan Valley on the eastern side of the river, perhaps in
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  the very area where Elijah was ordained as a man of God as he
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  began his last journey to Gilgal, a place commemorating an
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  earlier miracle. As the Bible tells, he had a
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  tough time shaking off his devoted chief disciple, Elisha.
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  Along the way, the two prophets were repeatedly intercepted by
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  disciples, sons of prophets, who kept asking, Is it true that the
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  Lord will take Elijah heavenward today?
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  Let the biblical narrator tell the story in his own words.
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  And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah into
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  heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went up with Elijah from
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  Gilgal. And Elijah said unto Elijah,
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  Tarry here, I pray thee, for the Lord has sent me to Beth El.
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  And Elijah said unto him, As the Lord liveth, and by thy life I
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  will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth El, as
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  the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel, came forth to
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  Elijah, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will
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  this day take the master from above thee?
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  And he said, yeah, I know it too, but keep silent.
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  Now Elijah admitted to Elijah that his destination was Jericho
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  by the Jordan River, and he asked his colleague to stay
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  behind. But again Elijah refused, and
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  went along with the prophet. And so they came to Jericho.
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  And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho approached
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  Elijah, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Lord will
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  this day take the master from above thee?
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  And he said, Yeah, I know it too, but keep silent.
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  Foiled thus far in his attempt to proceed alone, Elijah then
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  asked Elijah to stay behind in Jericho and to let him proceed
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  to the river's bank unaccompanied, but Elijah
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  refused and would not part. From Elijah encouraged, 50 men
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  of the sons of the prophets went along, but they stopped and
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  stood apart as the two Elijah and Elijah reached the Jordan.
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  And Elijah took his mantle and rolled it together, and struck
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  the waters, And the waters parted, hit her and thither, and
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  the two of them crossed over on dry ground.
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  Once they were across, Elijah asked that Elijah imbue him with
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  the divine Spirit. But before he could get an
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  answer, as they continued to walk on and to talk, there
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  appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and the two were
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  separated. And Elijah went up into heaven
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  in a whirlwind. And Elijah saw, and he cried
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  out, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel and its
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  horsemen. And he saw it no more.
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  Distraught, Elijah sat stunned for a while.
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  Then he saw that the mantle of Elijah was left behind.
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  Was it by accident or on purpose?
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  Determined to find out, Elijah took the mantle and returned to
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  the banks of the Jordan, and called the name of Yahweh and
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  struck the waters. And lo and behold, the waters
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  parted. Hit her and thither, and Elijah
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  crossed. And the sons of the prophets,
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  the disciples who stood back on the western side of the river in
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  the plain of Jericho, saw this. And they said, The inspiration
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  of Elijah doth rest upon Elijah. And they came toward him and
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  prostrated themselves before him.
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  Incredulous of what they had seen with their own eyes, the 50
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  disciples wondered whether Elijah was indeed taken
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  heavenward for good. Perchance the Lord's wind had
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  blown him only some distance, and he was thrown upon a
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  mountain or into some ravine. They asked.
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  Over the objections of Elijah, they searched for three days,
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  and when they returned from the futile search, Elijah said, Did
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  I not say unto you, Go not? For he well knew the truth that
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  the Lord of Israel had taken Elijah up in a chariot of fire.
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  The encounter with Enoch which the histories of Alexander
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  claimed for him, introduced into the search for immortality an
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  immortal ancestor specifically mentioned in the Old and New
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  Testaments alike, the legends of whose ascent to the heavens
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  predated the Bible and were recorded in their own right.
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  According to the Bible, Enoch was the 7th prediluvian
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  patriarch in the line of Adam through Seth, as distinct from
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  the accursed line of Adam through Cain.
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  He was the great grandfather of Noah, the hero of the Deluge.
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  The 5th chapter of the book of Genesis lists the genealogies of
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  these patriarchs, the ages at which their rightful heirs were
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  born, and the ages at which they died.
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  But Enoch was an exception. No mention at all is made of his
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  death explaining that he had walked with the Lord.
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  The book of Genesis states that at the actual or symbolic age of
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  365, the number of days in a solar year, Enoch was gone from
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  earth, for the Lord had taken him.
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  Enlarging on the cryptic biblical statement, Jewish
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  commentators often quoted older sources which seemed to describe
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  an actual ascent by Enoch to the heavens, where he was by some
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  versions translated into Metatron, the Lord's Prince of
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  the Countenance, who was stationed right behind the
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  Lord's throne. According to these legends, as
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  brought together by IB Lavner in his Coal agedoth Israel, all the
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  legends of Israel, when Enoch was summoned to the Lord's
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  abode, A fiery horse was sent for him from the heavens.
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  Enoch was at the time preaching righteousness to the people.
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  When the people saw the fiery horse descending from the skies,
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  they asked Enoch for an explanation, and he told them,
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  Know ye that the time has come to leave ye and ascend to
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  heaven. But as he mounted the horse, the
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  people refused to let him leave, and followed him about for a
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  whole week. And it was on the 7th day that a
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  fiery chariot, drawn by fiery horses and angels, came down and
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  raised Enoch skyward. While he was soaring up, the
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  angels of heaven objected to the Lord.
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  How comes a man born of a woman to ascend unto the heavens?
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  But the Lord pointed out the piety and devotion of Enoch, and
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  opened to him the gates of life and of wisdom, and arrayed him
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  in a magnificent garment and a luminous crown.
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  As in other instances, cryptic references in the Scriptures
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  often suggest that the ancient editor assumed that his reader
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  was familiar with some other more detailed writings on the
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  subject at hand. There are even specific mentions
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  of such writings, the Book of Righteousness or the Book of the
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  Wars of Yahweh, which must have existed, but were entirely lost.
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  In the case of Enoch, the New Testament augments a cryptic
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  statement that Enoch was translated by the Lord that he
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  should not see death, with a mention of a testimony of Enoch
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  written or dictated by him before his translation to
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  immortality. Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 5,
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  Jude 14 referring to the prophecies of Enoch is also
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  taken as referring to some actual writings by this
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  patriarch. Various Christian writings
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  throughout the centuries also contained similar hints or
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  references, and as it turned out, there have in fact
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  circulated since the 2nd century BC several versions of a Book of
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  Enoch. When the manuscripts were
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  studied in the 19th century, scholars concluded that there
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  were basically two sources. The first, identified as One
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  Enoch and called the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, is an Ethiopic
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  translation of a previous Greek translation of an original work
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  in Hebrew or Aramaic. The other identified, AS2 Enoch,
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  is a Slavonic translation from an original written in Greek,
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  whose full title was the Book of the Secrets of Enoch.
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  Scholars who have studied these versions do not rule out the
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  possibility that both one Enoch and two Enoch stem from a much
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  earlier original work and that there indeed could have existed
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  in antiquity a Book of Enoch. The Apocrypha and Pseudopigrapha
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  of the Old Testament, which RH Charles began to publish in
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  1913, is still the major English translation of the Books of
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  Enoch and the other early writings which were excluded
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  from the canonized Old and New Testaments.
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  Written in the first person, the Book of the Secrets of Enoch
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  starts with an exact place and time.
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  On the first day of the first month of the 365th year, I was
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  alone in my house, and I rested on my bed and slept.
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  And there appeared to meet two men very tall, such as I have
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  never seen on earth, and their faces shone like the sun, and
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  their eyes were like burning lamps, and fire came forth from
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  their lips. Their dress had the appearance
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  of feathers. Their feet were purple, their
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  wings were brighter than gold, their hands whiter than snow.
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  They stood at the head of my bed and called me by my name because
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  he was asleep when these strangers arrived.
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  Enoch adds for the record that by then he was no longer
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  sleeping. I saw clearly these men standing
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  in front of me, he states. He made obeisance to them and
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  was overtaken by fear, but the two reassured him.
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  Be of good cheer, Enoch, be not afraid.
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  The everlasting God hath sent us to thee, and lo, today thou
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  shalt ascend with us into heaven.
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  They then told Enoch to wake up his family and servants and
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  order them not to seek him till the Lord bring thee back to
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  them. This Enoch did, using the
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  opportunity to instruct his sons in the ways of righteousness.
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  Then the time came to depart. It came to pass, when I had
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  spoken to my sons, these men summoned me and took me on their
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  wings and placed me on the clouds.
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  And lo, the clouds moved. Going higher I saw the air, and
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  going still higher I saw the ether.
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  And they placed me in the 1st heaven.
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  And they showed me a very great sea, greater than the earthly
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  sea. Ascending thus unto the heavens
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  upon clouds that move, Enoch was transported from the 1st heaven,
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  where 200 angels ruled the stars, to the second gloomy
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  heaven, then to the 3rd heaven. There he was shown a garden with
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  a goodliness in its appearance, beautiful and fragrant trees and
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  fruits in the midst therein. There is a tree of life in that
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  place on which the God rests when he comes into paradise.
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  Stunned by the tree's magnificence, Enoch manages to
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  describe the tree of life in the following words.
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  It is beautiful more than any created thing on all sides and
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  appearance. It is like gold and Crimson,
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  transparent as fire. From its root go 4 streams which
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  pour honey, milk, oil and wine, and they go down from this
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  heavenly paradise to the paradise of Eden, making a
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  revolution around earth. This 3rd heaven and its tree of
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  life are guarded by 300 very glorious angels.
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  It is in this 3rd heaven that the place of the righteous and
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  the terrible place where the wicked are tortured are
• 24:22
  situated. Going further up to the 4th
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  heaven, Enoch could see the luminaries and various wondrous
• 24:28
  creatures and the host of the Lord in the 5th heaven.
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  He saw many hosts in the 6th bands of angels who study the
• 24:36
  revolutions of the stars. Then he reached the 7th heaven,
• 24:41
  where the greatest angels hurried about, and where he saw
• 24:44
  the Lord from afar sitting on his throne.
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  The two wind men and their moving cloud placed Enoch at the
• 24:52
  limits of the 7th heaven and left, whereupon the Lord sent
• 24:56
  the Archangel Gabriel to fetch Enoch into his presence.
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  For 33 days Enoch was instructed in all the wisdoms and all the
• 25:04
  events of the past and the future.
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  Then he was returned to earth by an awful Angel who LED a very
• 25:11
  cold appearance. In total he was absent from
• 25:14
  earth 60 days. But his return to earth was only
• 25:17
  so that he might instruct his sons in the laws and
• 25:20
  commandments. And 30 days later he was taken
• 25:24
  up again unto the heavens, this time for good.
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  Written both as a personal testament and as a historic
• 25:32
  review, the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, whose earliest title was
• 25:36
  probably The Words of Enoch, describes his journeys to heaven
• 25:39
  as well as to the four corners of earth.
• 25:42
  As he travelled N toward the north ends of earth, he saw
• 25:45
  there a great and glorious device, the nature of which is
• 25:48
  not described. And he saw there as well as at
• 25:52
  the western ends of earth. 3 Portals of heaven open in the
• 25:56
  heaven in each place, through which hail and snow, cold and
• 26:01
  frost blew in. And thence I went to the South
• 26:05
  to the ends of the earth, and through the portals of heaven
• 26:08
  there blow in the dew and rain. And thence he went to see the
• 26:12
  eastern portals, through which the stars of heaven pass and run
• 26:16
  their course. But the principal mysteries and
• 26:20
  secrets of the past and the future was shown to Enoch as he
• 26:23
  went to the middle of the earth and to the east and to the West
• 26:27
  thereof. The middle of the earth was the
• 26:30
  site of the future Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
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  On his journey E Enoch reached the Tree of Knowledge, and going
• 26:37
  West he was shown the Tree of Life.
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  On his eastward journey Enoch passed mountains and deserts,
• 26:44
  saw water courses flowing from mountain peaks covered by clouds
• 26:48
  and snow and ice, water which flows not, and trees of diverse
• 26:53
  fragrances and balsams going farther and farther E he found
• 26:57
  himself back over mountains bordering the erythrean Sea, the
• 27:01
  Sea of Arabia, and the Red Sea. Continuing, he passed by Zotiel,
• 27:06
  the Angel guarding the entrance to Paradise, and he came unto
• 27:10
  the Garden of Righteousness. There he saw among many
• 27:14
  wonderful trees the Tree of Knowledge.
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  It was as high as a fir, its leaves were as that of the
• 27:21
  carob, and its fruit like the clusters of a vine.
• 27:25
  And the Angel who was with him confirmed that indeed it was the
• 27:29
  very tree whose fruit Adam and Eve had eaten before they were
• 27:32
  driven out of the Garden of Eden.
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  On his journey, W Enoch arrived at a mountain range of fire
• 27:38
  which burnt day and night beyond it.
• 27:41
  He reached a place and circled by 6 mountains separated by deep
• 27:45
  rough ravines. A 7th mountain rose in their
• 27:49
  midst, resembling the seat of a throne, and fragrant trees
• 27:53
  encircled the throne, and amongst them was a tree such as
• 27:57
  I had never smelt, and its fruit resembles the dates of a palm.
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  The Angel who accompanied him explained that the middle
• 28:05
  mountain was the throne on which the Holy Great One, the Lord of
• 28:10
  Glory, the Eternal King, will sit when he shall come to visit
• 28:14
  earth. And as to the tree whose fruits
• 28:17
  were as the date palms, he said, As for this fragrant tree, no
• 28:22
  mortal is permitted to touch it till the Great Judgement.
• 28:25
  Its fruit shall be for food for the elect, its fragrance shall
• 28:29
  be in their bones, and they shall live a long life on earth.
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  It was during these journeys that Enoch saw in those days how
• 28:38
  long cords were given to those angels, and they took to
• 28:42
  themselves wings, and they went towards the north.
• 28:46
  And when Enoch asked what this was all about, the Angel who
• 28:50
  guided him said They have gone off to measure.
• 28:53
  They shall bring the measures of the righteous to the righteous,
• 28:56
  and the ropes of the righteous to the righteous.
• 28:59
  All these measures shall reveal the secrets of the earth.
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  Having visited all the secret places on earth, Enoch's time
• 29:07
  had come to take the journey to heaven.
• 29:09
  And like others after him, he was taken to a mountain whose
• 29:13
  summit reached to heaven and to a land of darkness.
• 29:17
  And they, the angels, took me to a place in which those who were
• 29:21
  there were like flaming fire, and when they wished, they
• 29:24
  appeared as men. And they brought me to a place
• 29:27
  of darkness and to a mountain the point of whose summit
• 29:30
  reached to heaven. And I saw the chambers of the
• 29:34
  luminaries, and the treasuries of the stars and of the Thunder,
• 29:38
  and the great depths, where were a fiery bow and arrows and their
• 29:42
  quiver, and a fiery sword, and all the lightnings.
• 29:46
  Whereas at such a crucial stage immortality slipped out of
• 29:50
  Alexander's hands because he had searched for it.
• 29:52
  Contrary to his proclaimed destiny, Enoch, as the Pharaohs
• 29:57
  after him, was proceeding with divine blessing.
• 30:00
  Thus at this crucial moment he was deemed worthy of proceeding.
• 30:04
  So they, the angels, took me to the waters of life.
• 30:08
  Continuing, he arrived at the House of fire, and I went in
• 30:13
  till I drew nigh to a wall which is built of crystals and
• 30:16
  surrounded by tongues of fire, and it began to affright me.
• 30:21
  And I went into the tongues of fire, and drew nigh to a large
• 30:25
  house which was built of crystals.
• 30:28
  And the walls of the house were like a tessellated floor of
• 30:31
  crystals, and its groundwork was of crystal.
• 30:35
  Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings,
• 30:39
  and between them were fiery cherubim, and their heaven was
• 30:44
  as water. A flaming fire surrounded the
• 30:47
  walls, and its portals blazed with fire.
• 30:51
  And I entered into that house, and it was hot as a fire and
• 30:54
  cold as ice, and I beheld a vision.
• 30:58
  Behold, there was a second house greater than the former, and the
• 31:02
  entire portal stood open before me.
• 31:05
  Then it was built of flames of fire, and I looked therein and
• 31:09
  saw a lofty throne. Its appearance was as crystal,
• 31:13
  and the wheels thereof as the shining sun.
• 31:16
  And there was the appearance of cherubim, and from underneath
• 31:21
  the throne came streams of flaming fire, so that I could
• 31:24
  not look thereon. Arriving at the river of fire,
• 31:28
  Enoch was taken aloft. He could see the whole of earth,
• 31:32
  the mouths of all the rivers of earth, and the cornerstones of
• 31:36
  earth, and the winds on earth carrying the clouds rising
• 31:40
  higher. He was where the winds stretch
• 31:43
  the vaults of heaven and have their station between heaven and
• 31:46
  earth. I saw the winds of heaven which
• 31:49
  turn and bring the circumference of the sun, and all the stars
• 31:53
  following the paths of the angels.
• 31:56
  He reached a point in the firmament of heaven above, from
• 31:59
  which he could see the end of earth.
• 32:01
  From there he could view the expanse of the heavens, and he
• 32:05
  could see seven stars, like great shining mountains, 7
• 32:09
  mountains of magnificent stones. From wherever he was viewing
• 32:14
  these celestial bodies, three were toward the east, where
• 32:18
  there was the region of heavenly fire.
• 32:20
  There Enoch saw rising and falling columns of fire,
• 32:25
  eruptions of fire which were beyond measure, alike toward the
• 32:29
  width and toward the depth. On the other side, 3 celestial
• 32:33
  bodies were toward the South. There Enoch saw an abyss, a
• 32:37
  place which had no firmament of the heaven above and no firmly
• 32:41
  founded earth below. It was a void and awesome place.
• 32:46
  When he asked the Angel who was carrying him aloft for an
• 32:49
  explanation, he replied. There the heavens were
• 32:53
  completed. It is the end of heaven and
• 32:55
  earth. It is a prison for the stars and
• 32:58
  a host of heaven. The middle star reached to
• 33:01
  heaven like the throne of God, having the appearance of
• 33:04
  alabaster and the summit of the throne as of sapphire.
• 33:08
  The star was like a flaming fire journeying on in the heavens.
• 33:13
  Enoch said. I proceeded to where things were
• 33:15
  chaotic, and I saw there something horrible.
• 33:19
  What he saw was stars of the heaven bound together, and the
• 33:24
  Angel explained to him, These are of the number of stars of
• 33:28
  heaven which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and
• 33:31
  are bound here till 10,000 years are consummated.
• 33:35
  Concluding his report of the first journey to heaven, Enoch
• 33:39
  said, And I Enoch alone saw the vision, the ends of all things,
• 33:45
  and no man shall see as I have seen.
• 33:49
  After being taught at the heavenly abode all manner of
• 33:52
  wisdom, he was returned to earth to impart teachings to other
• 33:57
  men. For an unspecified length of
• 33:59
  time Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew
• 34:03
  where he was hidden and where he abode and what had become of
• 34:08
  him. But when the deluge neared, he
• 34:11
  wrote down his teachings and advised his great grandson Noah
• 34:15
  to be righteous and worthy of salvation.
• 34:18
  After that, Enoch was once again raised aloft from among those
• 34:23
  who dwell on earth. He was raised aloft on the
• 34:26
  chariot of the spirits, and his name vanished among them.
• 34:33
  The adventures of Alexander and his search for the immortal
• 34:36
  ancestors clearly comprised elements which simulated their
• 34:41
  experiences caverns, angels, subterranean fires, fiery horses
• 34:47
  and Chariots of fire. But it is equally clear that in
• 34:51
  the centuries preceding the Christian era it was believed by
• 34:56
  Alexander, or by his historians, or by both, that if one wished
• 35:00
  to attain immortality, one had to emulate the Egyptian
• 35:04
  Pharaohs. Accordingly, Alexander's claim
• 35:07
  to semi divine ancestry was evolved from a complicated
• 35:11
  affair by an Egyptian deity rather than by simply claiming
• 35:15
  affinity to a local Greek God. It is an historical fact, not
• 35:21
  mere legend, that Alexander found it necessary as soon as he
• 35:24
  broke through the Persian lines in Asia Minor, not to pursue the
• 35:28
  Persian enemy, but to go to Egypt, there to seek the answer
• 35:32
  to his purported divine roots, and from there to begin the
• 35:36
  search for the waters of life. Whereas the Hebrews, the Greeks,
• 35:41
  and other peoples in antiquity recounted tales of a unique few
• 35:45
  who were able to escape a mortal's fate by divine
• 35:48
  invitation, the ancient Egyptians developed the
• 35:51
  privilege into a right. Not a universal right, nor a
• 35:55
  right reserved to the singularly righteous, but a right attendant
• 36:00
  on the Egyptian king, the Pharaoh, by sole virtue of
• 36:04
  having sat on the throne of Egypt.
• 36:07
  The reason for this, according to the traditions of ancient
• 36:09
  Egypt, was that the first rulers of Egypt were not men but gods.
• 36:15
  Egyptian traditions held that in times immemorial, gods of heaven
• 36:20
  came to earth from the celestial disk.
• 36:23
  When Egypt was inundated by waters, a very great God who
• 36:27
  came forth to earth in the earliest times arrived in Egypt
• 36:32
  and literally raised it from under the waters in mud by
• 36:35
  damming the waters of the Nile and undertaking extensive diking
• 36:39
  and land reclamation works. It was therefore that Egypt was
• 36:43
  nicknamed the Raised Land. This olden God was named Puttah,
• 36:49
  the developer. He was considered to have been a
• 36:51
  great scientist, a master engineer and architect, the
• 36:55
  chief Craftsman of the gods, who even had a hand in creating and
• 36:59
  shaping man. His staff was frequently
• 37:01
  depicted as a graduated stick, very much like the graduated rod
• 37:05
  which surveyors employ for field measure in nowadays.
• 37:09
  Images of the gods of Egypt can be found in the bonus PDF under
• 37:14
  Figure 7. The Egyptians believed that Ptah
• 37:17
  eventually retired South, where he could continue to control the
• 37:21
  waters of the Nile with sluices he had installed in a secret
• 37:25
  cavern located at the first cataract of the Nile, the site
• 37:29
  of today's Aswan Dan. But before leaving Egypt, he
• 37:34
  built its first hallowed city and named it On in honour of the
• 37:39
  God of the heavens, the Biblical, on whom the Greeks
• 37:42
  called Heliopolis. There he installed as Egypt's
• 37:47
  first divine ruler his own son RA, so named in honour of the
• 37:52
  celestial globe. RA, a great God of heaven and
• 37:56
  earth, caused a special shrine to be built at On.
• 38:00
  It housed the Benben, a secret object in which RA had
• 38:04
  purportedly come down to earth from the heavens.
• 38:07
  In time, RA divided the Kingdom between the gods of Cyrus and
• 38:11
  Seth, but the Sharon of the Kingdom between the two divine
• 38:15
  brothers did not work. Seth kept seeking the overthrow
• 38:19
  and death of his brother Osiris. It took some doing, but finally
• 38:23
  Seth succeeded in tricking Osiris into entering A coffin,
• 38:27
  which Seth promptly set to seal and drown.
• 38:31
  Isis, the sister and wife of Osiris, managed to find the
• 38:36
  coffin which had floated ashore in what is nowadays Lebanon.
• 38:40
  She hid Osiris as she went to summon the help of other gods
• 38:44
  who could help bring Osiris back to life.
• 38:47
  But Seth discovered the body and cut it to pieces, dispersing
• 38:51
  them all over the land. Helped by her sister Neftis,
• 38:55
  Isis managed to retrieve the pieces, all except for the
• 38:59
  phallus, and to put together the mutilated body of Osiris,
• 39:03
  thereby resurrecting him. Thereafter, Osiris lived on,
• 39:07
  resurrected in the other world. Among the other celestial gods
• 39:11
  of him, the sacred writings said he entered the secret Gates, the
• 39:15
  glory of the Lords of Eternity, in step with him who shines in
• 39:19
  the horizon on the path of RA. The place of Osiris on the
• 39:24
  throne of Egypt was taken over by his son Horace.
• 39:28
  When he was born, his mother Isis hid him in the reeds of the
• 39:32
  river Nile, just as the mother of Moses did, according to the
• 39:35
  Bible, to keep him out of the reach of Seth.
• 39:39
  But the boy was stung by a scorpion and died quickly.
• 39:42
  The goddess, his mother, appealed to Thoth, a God of
• 39:45
  magical powers, for help. Thoth, who was in the heavens,
• 39:50
  immediately came down to earth in Roz's barge of astronomical
• 39:53
  years and helped restore Horus to life.
• 39:57
  Growing up, Horace challenged Seth for the throne.
• 40:01
  The struggle ranged far and wide, the gods pursuing each
• 40:04
  other in the skies. Horace attacked Seth from a
• 40:07
  gnar, a term which in the ancient Near East meant fiery
• 40:12
  pillar. Depictions from predynistic
• 40:15
  times showed this celestial chariot as a long cylindrical
• 40:19
  object with a funnel like tail and a bulkhead from which rays
• 40:24
  are spewed out. A kind of a celestial submarine.
• 40:28
  In front the gnar had two headlights were eyes which
• 40:32
  according to the Egyptian tales, changed colour from blue to red.
• 40:36
  An image of this vehicle can be found in the bonus PDF under
• 40:40
  Figure 8. There were ups and downs in the
• 40:43
  battles which lasted several days.
• 40:45
  Horace shot at Seth from out of the Gnar, A specially designed
• 40:49
  harpoon, and Seth was hurt losing his testicles.
• 40:54
  This only made him matter in the final battle over the Sinai
• 40:58
  Peninsula. Seth shot a beam of fire at
• 41:00
  Horace, and Horace lost an eye. The great gods called a truce
• 41:05
  and met in council. After some wavering and
• 41:08
  indecision, the Lord of Earth ruled in favour of giving Egypt
• 41:12
  to Horace, declaring him the legitimate heir in the raw
• 41:15
  Osiris line of succession. Thereafter, Horace was usually
• 41:19
  depicted with the attributes of a Falcon, while Seth was shown
• 41:23
  as an Asiatic deity symbolized by the ass, the burden animal of
• 41:28
  the nomads. An example of this can be found
• 41:32
  in the bonus PDF under Figure 7. The accession of Horus to the
• 41:37
  reunited throne of the Two lands, Upper Egypt and Lower
• 41:41
  Egypt, remained throughout Egyptian history.
• 41:44
  The point at which kingship was given its perpetual divine
• 41:47
  connection, for every pharaoh was deemed a successor of Horus
• 41:52
  and the occupier of the throne of Osiris.
• 41:55
  For unexplained reasons, the rule of Horus was followed by a
• 41:59
  period of chaos and decline. How long this lasted, no one
• 42:03
  knows. Finally, circa 3200, BCA
• 42:07
  dynastic race arrived in Egypt and a man named Meanies ascended
• 42:12
  the throne of a reunited Egypt. It was then that the gods
• 42:16
  granted Egypt civilization and what we now call religion.
• 42:21
  The kinship that was begun by Meanies continued through 26
• 42:25
  dynasties of Pharaohs until the Persian domination in 525 BC,
• 42:31
  and then through Greek and Roman times when the famed Cleopatra
• 42:34
  reigned. When Meanies, the first pharaoh,
• 42:38
  established the United Kingdom, he chose a midpoint in the Nile,
• 42:42
  just South of Heliopolis, as the place for the capital of the two
• 42:46
  Egypts. Emulating the works of Pata, he
• 42:50
  built Memphis on an artificial mound raised above the Nile's
• 42:54
  waters and dedicated its temples to Pata.
• 42:58
  Memphis remained at the political religious centre of
• 43:00
  Egypt for more than 1000 years, but circa 2200 BC, great
• 43:06
  upheavals befell Egypt, the nature of which is not clear to
• 43:09
  scholars. Some think that Asiatic invaders
• 43:12
  of around the country, enslaving the people and disrupting the
• 43:15
  worship of their gods. Wherever semblance of Egyptian
• 43:19
  independence remained, it was retained in Upper Egypt, the
• 43:23
  less accessible regions farther South.
• 43:26
  When order was restored some 150 years later, political,
• 43:31
  religious power, the attributes of kinship, flowed from Thebes,
• 43:35
  an old but until then unimposing city in Upper Egypt on the banks
• 43:40
  of the Nile. Its God was called Amen, the
• 43:44
  Hidden One, the very God Amen, whom Alexander had searched out
• 43:48
  as his true divine father. As supreme deity he was
• 43:52
  worshipped as Amen RA, the Hidden RA, and it is not clear
• 43:57
  whether he was the very same RA but now somehow unseen or
• 44:01
  hidden, or another deity. The Greeks called Thebes
• 44:06
  Diaspolis the city of Zeus, for they acquainted Ammon with their
• 44:11
  supreme God Zeus. This fact made it easier for
• 44:14
  Alexander to affiliate himself with Ammon, and it was to Thebes
• 44:19
  that he rushed after he had received Ammon's favourable
• 44:22
  Oracle at the Oasis of Siwa. There at Thebes and its
• 44:27
  precincts, now known as Karnak Luxor Diaarel Bahari, Alexander
• 44:33
  came upon the extensive shrines and monuments to Ammon,
• 44:37
  impressive to this very day. Although they stand empty and in
• 44:41
  ruins, they were built mostly by 12th dynasty Pharaohs, one of
• 44:46
  whom was probably the Cessan Chooses who had searched for the
• 44:50
  waters of life 1500 years before Alexander.
• 44:54
  One of the colossal temples was built by Queen Hatshepsut, who
• 44:59
  was also said to have been a daughter of the God Ammon.
• 45:02
  Such tales of divine parentage were not unusual.
• 45:05
  The Pharaohs claimed to divine status based on the mere fact of
• 45:09
  occupying the throne of Osiris was sometimes augmented by
• 45:13
  assertions that the ruler was the son or the brother of this
• 45:16
  or that God or goddess. Scholars consider such
• 45:20
  statements to have only symbolic meaning, but some Egyptian
• 45:23
  Pharaohs, such as 3 kings of the 5th Dynasty, maintained that
• 45:28
  they were actually physically the sons of the God RA, begotten
• 45:32
  by him when he impregnated the wife of the high priest in his
• 45:36
  own temple. Other kings attributed their
• 45:39
  descent from RA to more sophisticated means.
• 45:42
  It was claimed that RA embodied himself in the reigning Pharaoh,
• 45:46
  through which subterfu she could then have intercourse with the
• 45:49
  queen. Thereby the heir to the throne
• 45:52
  could claim direct descent of RA.
• 45:55
  But apart from such specific claims to be of divine seed,
• 45:59
  every pharaoh was theologically deemed to be the incarnation of
• 46:02
  Horus, and thus by extension the son of the God Osiris.
• 46:07
  Consequently, the Pharaoh was entitled to eternal life in the
• 46:10
  very same manner experienced by Osiris, to resurrection after
• 46:15
  death to an afterlife. It was this circle of gods and
• 46:20
  God like Pharaohs that Alexander longed to join.
• 46:24
  The belief was that RA and the other immortal gods managed to
• 46:28
  live forever because he kept rejuvenating himself.
• 46:32
  Accordingly, the Pharaohs bore names, meaning, for example, he
• 46:36
  who repeats birds and repeater of births.
• 46:39
  The gods rejuvenated themselves by partaking of divine food and
• 46:44
  beverage at their abode. Therefore, the kins attainment
• 46:47
  of an eternal afterlife called for his joining the gods in
• 46:51
  their abode so that he too could partake of their divine
• 46:55
  sustenances. The ancient incantations
• 46:58
  appealed to the gods to share with the deceased king their
• 47:02
  divine food. Take ye this king with you, that
• 47:05
  he may eat of that which ye eat, that he may drink, of which ye
• 47:09
  drink, that he may live on that whereupon ye live.
• 47:13
  And more specifically, as in a text from the pyramid of King
• 47:16
  Pepee, give thou sustenance to this king Pepee, from thy
• 47:20
  eternal sustenance, thy everlasting beverage.
• 47:24
  The departed Pharaoh hoped to draw his everlasting sustenance
• 47:28
  in the celestial realm of RA. On the imperishable * There, in
• 47:33
  the mystical field of offerings, or field of life, there grew the
• 47:36
  plant of life. A text in a pyramid of Pepe the
• 47:40
  first describes him as getting past guards with the appearance
• 47:44
  of pluned birds, to be met by the emissaries of Horus.
• 47:48
  With them he travelleth to the great lake, by which the great
• 47:52
  gods alight these great ones of the imperishable star.
• 47:56
  Give unto Pepe the plant of life, whereon they themselves do
• 48:00
  live, so that he may also live their own.
• 48:04
  Egyptian depictions showed the deceased sometimes with his
• 48:08
  wife, at this celestial paradise, sipping the waters of
• 48:12
  life, out of which there grows the tree of life with its life
• 48:16
  giving fruit the date pong. A depiction of this can be found
• 48:20
  in the bonus PDF under Figure 9. The celestial destination was
• 48:25
  the birth place of RA, to which he had returned from earth.
• 48:29
  There RA himself was constantly rejuvenated or reawakened by
• 48:34
  having the Goddess of the Four Jars pour him a certain elixir
• 48:37
  periodically. It was thus the King's hope to
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  have the same goddess pour him too the elixir, and therewith
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  refresh his heart to life. It was in these waters named
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  Water of Youth, that Osiris rejuvenated himself.
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  And so it was promised to the departed king Peppy, that Horus
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  shall count for thee a second season of youth, that he shall
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  renew thy youth in the waters whose name is Water of Youth.
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  Resurrected to afterlife, even rejuvenated, the pharaoh
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  attained a paradocyical life. His provision is among the gods.
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  His water is wine, like that of RA.
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  When RA eats, he gives to him. When RA drinks, he gives to him,
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  and in a touch of 20th century psychotherapy, the text adds, he
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  sleeps soundly every day. He fares better today than
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  yesterday. The pharaoh seemed a little
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  bothered by the paradox that he had to die first in order to
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  attain immortality. As supreme ruler of the two
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  lands of Egypt, he enjoyed the best possible life on earth, and
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  the resurrection among the gods was an even more attractive
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  prospect. Besides, it was only his earthly
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  body that was to be embalmed and entombed, for the Egyptians
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  believed that every person possessed a BA akin to what we
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  call soul, which rose heavenward like a bird after death, and a.
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  California variably translated double ancestral spirit essence
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  personality through which form the Pharaoh was translated into
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  his afterlife. Samuel Mercer, in his
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  introduction to the Pyramid Texts, concluded that the ka
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  stood for the mortal's personification of a God.
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  In other words, the concept implied the existence and man of
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  a divine element, a celestial or godly double who could resume
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  life in the afterlife. But his afterlife was possible,
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  it was not easily attained. The departed king had to
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  traverse a long and challenging road and had to undergo
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  elaborate ceremonial preparations before he could
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  embark on his journey. The deification of the Pharaoh
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  began with his purification and included embalm and
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  mollification so that the dead king would resemble Osiris with
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  all his members tied together. The embalmed Pharaoh was then
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  carried in a funerary procession to a structure topped by a
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  pyramid, in front of which there stood an Oval shaped pillar.
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  An image of the funerary procession can be found in the
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  bonus PDF under Figure 10. Within this funerary temple,
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  priestly rites were conducted with a view to achieving for the
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  pharaoh acceptance at journey's end.
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  The ceremonies, called in the Egyptian funerary texts the
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  opening of the mouth, were supervised by a Shem priest,
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  always depicted wearing a leopard skin.
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  This is shown in Figure 11 in the bonus PDF.
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  Scholars believe that the ritual was literally what its name
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  implies. The priest, using a bent copper
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  or iron tool, opened the mouth of the mummy or of a statue
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  representing the departed king. But it is clear that the
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  ceremony was primarily symbolic, intended to open for the
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  deceased the mouth or entranceway to the heavens.
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  The mummy by then was tied up tight in many layers of material
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  and surmounted by the King's golden death mask.
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  Thus, the touching of its mouth or that of the King's statue
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  could have been only symbolical. Indeed, the priest intoned not
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  the deceased but the gods to open the mouth so that the
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  pharaoh could ascend toward eternal life.
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  Special appeals were made to the Eye of Horus, lost by him in the
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  battle with Seth, to cause the opening of the mouth, so that a
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  path shall be opened for the Cain among the shiny ones, that
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  he may be established among them.
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  The earthly, and thus by conjecture only temporary tomb
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  of the Pharaoh, according to the texts and actual archaeological
• 52:45
  discoveries, had a false door on its eastern side, IE the masonry
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  was built there to look like a doorway, but it was actually a
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  solid wall purified with all limbs tied together opened of
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  mouth. The Pharaoh was then envisioned
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  as raising himself, shaking off earth's dust and exiting by the
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  false door. According to a pyramid text
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  which dealt with the resurrection process step by
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  step, the Pharaoh could not pass through the Stonewall by
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  himself. Thou standest at the doors which
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  hold people back, the text said, Until he who is chief of the
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  department, a divine messenger in charge of this task, comes
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  out to thee, he lays hold on thy arm and takes thee to heaven to
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  thy father. Aided thus by divine messenger,
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  the Pharaoh was out of his sealed tomb through the false
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  door, and the priests broke out in a chant.
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  The king is on his way to heaven.
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  The king is on his way to heaven.
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  The king is on his way to heaven.
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  The king is on his way to heaven on the wind.
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  On the wind he is not hindered. There is no one by whom he is
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  hindered. The king is on his own son of
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  the gods. His bread will come on high with
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  RA. His offering will come out of
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  the heavens. The king is he who comes again.
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  But before the departed king could ascend to heaven to eat
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  and drink with the gods, he had to undertake an arduous and
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  hazardous journey. His goal was a land called
• 54:17
  Netter Kurt, the land of the mountain gods.
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  It was sometimes written pictorially in hieroglyphic by
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  surmounting the symbol for God Netter upon a ferry boat.
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  And indeed, to reach that land, the Pharaoh had to cross a long
• 54:32
  and winding lake of reeds. The marshy waters could be
• 54:36
  crossed with the aid of a divine fairyman.
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  But before he would ferry the Pharaoh over, he questioned the
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  king about his origins. What made him think he had the
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  right to cross over? Was he a son of a God or a
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  goddess? Beyond the lake, past a desert
• 54:52
  and a chain of mountains, past various guardian gods, lay the
• 54:56
  Duat, a magical abode for rising to the stars, whose location and
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  name have baffled the scholars. Some view it as the nether
• 55:05
  world, be abode of the spirits, where the king must go, as
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  Osiris did. Others believe it was an
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  underworld. And indeed much of its scenes
• 55:14
  were of a subterranean world of tunnels and caverns with unseen
• 55:18
  gods, pools of boiling waters, eerie lights, chambers guarded
• 55:23
  by birds, doors that open by themselves.
• 55:27
  This magical land was divided into 12 divisions and was
• 55:31
  traversed in 12 hours. The Duat was further perplexing
• 55:36
  because in spite of its terrestrial nature, it was
• 55:39
  reached after crossing through a mountain pass or subterranean
• 55:43
  aspects. Its name was written
• 55:45
  hieroglyphically with a star and a soaring Falcon as its
• 55:50
  determinatives or simply with a star within a circle denoting A
• 55:54
  celestial or heavenly association.
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  Baffling as it has been, the fact is that the Pyramid Texts,
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  as they followed the Pharaoh's progress through his life,
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  death, resurrection, and translation to an afterlife,
• 56:07
  considered the human problem to be the inability to fly as the
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  gods do. One text summed up this problem
• 56:15
  and its solution in two sentences.
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  Men are buried, the gods fly up, 'cause this king to fly to
• 56:22
  heaven, to be among his brothers, the gods.
• 56:25
  A text inscribed in the pyramid of King Teti expressed the
• 56:29
  Pharaoh's hope and appeal to the gods.
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  In these words men fall. They have no name.
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  Seize thou King Teti by his arms.
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  Take thou King Teti to the sky, that he die not on earth among
• 56:43
  men. And so it was incumbent upon the
• 56:46
  king to reach the hidden place and go through its subterranean
• 56:51
  labyrinths until he could find there a God who carries the
• 56:55
  emblem of the Tree of Life and a God who is the herald of Heaven.
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  They will open for him secret gates and lead him to the Eye of
• 57:03
  Horus, A celestial ladder into which he would step, an object
• 57:08
  which can change shoes to blue and red as it is powered.
• 57:12
  And then himself turned into the Falcon God, he would soar
• 57:16
  skyward to the eternal afterlife on the imperishable star.
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  There RA himself would welcome him.
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  The gates of heaven are opened for thee.
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  The doors of the Cool place are opened for thee.
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  Thou shalt find Rah standing waiting for thee.
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  He will take your hand. He will take thee to the dual
• 57:36
  Shrine of Heaven. He will place thee on the throne
• 57:39
  of Osiris. Thou shalt stand supported,
• 57:42
  equipped as a God among the Eternals on the Imperishable
• 57:46
  Star. Much of what is known to day on
• 57:49
  the subject comes from the Pyramid Texts.
• 57:52
  Thousands of verses combined into hundreds of utterances that
• 57:56
  were discovered, embossed, or painted in the hieroglyphic
• 58:00
  writing of ancient Egypt on the walls, passages, and galleries
• 58:04
  of the pyramids of five Pharaohs, Unas Teti, Pepe the
• 58:08
  First Mirenra, and Pepe the Second, who ruled Egypt from
• 58:13
  circa 2350 BC to 2180 BC. These texts were sorted out and
• 58:19
  numbered by Kurt Seth in his masterful The Altagiptician
• 58:24
  Pyramidine Texte, which has remained the major reference
• 58:29
  source, together with the English counterpart, the Pyramid
• 58:33
  Texts by Samuel AB Mercer. The thousands of verses that
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  make up the Pyramid Texts seem to be just a collection of
• 58:41
  repetitious, unconnected incantations, appeals to the
• 58:45
  gods, or exhortations of the king to make some sense of the
• 58:49
  material. Scholars have developed theories
• 58:51
  about shifting theologies in ancient Egypt, a conflict and
• 58:55
  then a merger between a solar religion and a sky religion, a
• 58:59
  priesthood of RA and one of Osiris, and so on.
• 59:03
  Pointing out that we deal with material that has been
• 59:05
  accumulated over millennia. To scholars who view the mass of
• 59:10
  verses as expressions of primitive mythologies, segments
• 59:14
  of the imagination of people who cowered in fear as the wind
• 59:17
  howled and the Thunder ward, and called these phenomena gods, the
• 59:22
  verses remain as puzzling and confusing as ever.
• 59:26
  But these verses, all scholars agree, were extracted by the
• 59:29
  ancient scribes from older and apparently well organized,
• 59:33
  cohesive and comprehensible scriptures.
• 59:37
  Later inscriptions on sarcophagi and coffins, as well as on
• 59:41
  papyrus, the latter usually accompanied by illustrations,
• 59:46
  indeed show that the verses, utterances and chapters bearing
• 59:49
  such names as Chapter of Those Who Ascend were copied from
• 59:53
  Books of the Dead, which bore such titles as that which is in
• 59:58
  the Duat, the Book of the Gates, the Book of the Two Ways.