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Post by Malcolm on Jul 22, 2013 17:47:09 GMT -5
Author and researcher Ralph Ellis has written extensively on the subject of Mount Sinai so we have to thank him for what he has found on the most important mountain in the Bible.
As Ralph points out this is God's Sacred Mountain. It is the mountain he came down on and gave his commandments to Moses.
One would think that the location of Mount Sinai would be known the whole world over and revered, yet the Bible tells us nothing more as to where it is. This void of information is a sure sign that its actual site is being hidden, just as all other Egyptian names and places are covered up in the sacred texts.
Nevertheless there are various descriptions which make it loud and clear that Mount Sinai was never a mountain in the normal sense. It could never have been a mountain nor even a hill of any size.
Here is the first give-away:
And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, 'take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever touches the mount shall be surely put to death. There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through. (Exodus 19:12)
Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it...but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them. (Exodus 19:24)
THERE IS NOT A MOUNTAIN ON THIS PLANET THAT HAS CLEARLY DELINEATED BORDERS.
Just think about it. What mountains do you know that rise straight from the ground without any surrounding lower slopes? How could anyone possibly pick out the border of the bottom of a mountain? It doesn't make sense.
Even if we could find a mountain that did have such a border, the bounds would be hundreds or even thousands of kilometres long. It would take months or years to 'set the bounds'.
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Post by Malcolm on Jul 23, 2013 16:28:07 GMT -5
Ralph Ellis also makes an extremely relevant point in that whilst the Bible makes so much of the Hebrew people being in Egypt, there isn't one single mention of the greatest monuments ever built on Earth, THE PYRAMIDS.
The subject is completely evaded and where a hint is reluctantly allowed it is played down like this:
1 Samuel 6:18/19, "......even unto the Great Stone of Abel, whereon they set down the Ark of the Lord; which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-Shemite.
In Sumerian writings we are given the very same story as is told in 1 Samuel about the Ark being captured and then returned. The Bible version leaves us in no doubt and places Israel directly in and around the city of Cairo, yet once more going all around the mulberry bush to avoid saying it out straight.
We are then told in no uncertain terms that God himself is Egyptian: Hosea 13:4 Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.
Nor is there any doubt at all that the Son of God was revered in Egypt:
Revelations 11:8 And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
If the biblical crucifixion took place in Egypt as we are clearly told here, then again we know that Israel was Egypt.
That Sacred 'Mountain' couldn't be anywhere else.
There is still one vital clue to be examined before we move on to Massey and this will tell us something very important about the 'Mountain'.
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Post by Malcolm on Jul 24, 2013 17:35:42 GMT -5
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about Mount Sinai is that Moses was able to go INSIDE it.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount (Sinai), and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone. (Exodus 24:12)
And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai. (Exodus 34:32)
These are the statutes and judgements and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses. (Leviticus 26:46)
These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai. (Leviticus 27:34)
Now if we are talking about something natural like a Cave, then what God could be found inside a cave? In that case it could only be some old hermit spinning mystery and tall stories. However we have already discovered that this is no normal mountain because it has sharply defined boundaries.
If it was a mountain style Temple then we have to be talking about the Pyramids.
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Post by Malcolm on Jul 24, 2013 17:39:38 GMT -5
Look a little further in the bible and we can totally dismiss the idea of god being some old cave dwelling Hermit.
And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran. (Deut.33:2)
There is only one body that this could be, THE SUN.
One of the things about the Pyramids that isn't so well known is that they have a unique property in the way they define the shadows of the setting Sun, and THE SETTING SUN WAS THE GOD AMEN.
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Post by Malcolm on Jul 24, 2013 17:45:51 GMT -5
Gerald Massey:
" The mount upon which Moses stood in conversation with Ihuh is identified with the celestial height, when it is said to the children of Israel, “Ye yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven”.
This, again, is celestial as the mount on which the pattern of the divine dwelling, or ark and tabernacle of the Lord, was shown to Moses. In the Ritual it is the mountain of Amenta that touches the sky. It is said almost in the opening of the book of Exodus, when the call is made to Moses by Ihuh, “When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain” (Ex. III. 12), which is here called Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.
It is also said of the chosen people, in this ancient fragment of the mythos, “Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of their inheritance, the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for them to dwell in, the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established”, where “the Lord shall reign for ever and ever”.
This was in the mount of Jerusalem on high, the celestial mount of the gathering and congregating together in the Aarru-Salem = Aarru-Hetep in Jerusalem below by those who built the city as outcasts or colonists from Egypt. The mountains are several. Elsewhere it is Mount Zion or Sinai. But the mountain of God, the holy mountain, is one, because it was astronomical; therefore in the eschatology it is the mount for which they were bound as spirits, and not as leprous and abominated mortals fleeing from the land of the Pharaohs.
In making the passage from Amenta, the supreme object of attainment is the mount of peace and plenty, called Mount Hetep in Egyptian. Hetep is a word of various meanings besides peace and plenty. It is the mount of the oblations, [Page 676] one sign of which is a table piled with provender. The mount itself presents the oblations to the gods and the glorified upon the summit, on a scale that is worthy of the eternal feast. And this, we would suggest, is the prototype of the Oblation described by Ezekiel (48), which is colossal in its magnitude.
It is commanded that a huge oblation shall be offered to the Lord, with the sanctuary in the midst thereof. It is to be “an oblation from the oblation of the land”, just as Hetep was the oblation to the heaven from the offerings made by the worshippers on earth as contributions to the table of the Lord. The mound-builders raised their mount or mound of oblation in Britain the size of Silbury Hill. Here it is to be a city the size of paradise, or the New Jerusalem, the eternal city built upon the square, and therefore a heaven of the four quarters, raised upon twelve pillars erected round the mount.
The difficulty of identifying Sinai as a geographical mount, according to the book of Exodus, may be explained when we know that the beginnings were not geographical, and that the mount on which Shu-Anhur shared the throne of Ra his father was the mountain in Amenta, not on earth. It was the stellar mount of glory in the eschatology which had been the mount of sunrise in the mythology.
After the passage of the Red Sea, in the exodus, the children of Israel arrive at “the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai” (Ex. XVI. 1). This wilderness can be identified in the Ritual with Anrutef, the region of sterility. After passing the red pool, lake, or sea, we come to the desert of Anrutef, which is said to be near Sheni. Here there is some evidence to show that the Hebrew Sinai is derived from the Egyptian Sheni. Ra, the solar god, is designated lord of Sheni in the Ritual. The speaker in chapter 36 says, “I am Khnum, the lord of Sheni”, or Shennu, equivalent to Sinai in Hebrew. When Osiris becomes the supreme lord of the mountain in Amenta he is also described as the “commander in the region of Sheni.” He is a form of that lord over all who gave the Commandments on Mount Sinai.
Horus also issues from the region of Sheni with the other divine chiefs who repulse the enemies of Osiris in these battles against his enemies. He also is the lord who came from Sinai. The word Shennu or Sheni in Egyptian also denotes an orbit, the circuit or circle, to turn and return. Hence the solar god was designated lord of Sheni. Mount Sheni, as the place of turning and returning, is the mount of the equinox. This was the mount of the two lions, and these also are the Sheni by name. Ra may be Khnum or Amen or Atum, according to the cult. The Ra of Annu was Atum, otherwise Huhi, whom we also identify as the Hebrew god Ihuh.
In the vignettes to the Ritual, Atum-Ra, the one god living in truth, is portrayed upon the summit of the mount of glory, with the seven spirits praising him upon the mount (Naville, Todtenbuch, Kap. 16, A.), the mount of the circle of turning and returning and of the lions, therefore Mount Sheni=Sinai. The mount of glory in the Ritual is represented in the book of Exodus as a mount of fire or the mount on fire — that is, with the solar glory. The circuit of fire about the mount is the “sheniu of fire”. This occurs as the title of a chapter in the Ritual. Thus the sun-god Ra or Atum-Huhi=Ihuh was the lord of Sheni. His throne was on the [Page 677] mount of glory where he sat surrounded by the Sheniu who form the divine circle of the celestial court.
“The Sheniu of this chapter”, says Renouf, “are living personages who attend upon the Osiris and greet him (on the mount of glory) with their acclamations. The word is often translated ‘princes,’ ‘officers,’ but it signifies those who are in the circle of a king or god, hence ‘ministrants,’ ‘courtiers,’ as in the rubric to ch. CXXV”. (Renouf, Book of the Dead, XXX. Note 1).
These Sheniu constitute the upper circle round the throne of God upon Mount Sheni in Egyptian, or Sinai in Hebrew. Here it may be noted that the Japanese call their divine Kami, the 7+1 primeval powers, the Shin, whence came the Shintu gods, which as stellar correspond to the Egyptian Sheniu, who are a group of gods in the upper celestial circle, and of whom it is said “the Sheniu marshal the Osiris” on his way to the “mount of glory” (Rit., ch. 130). The descriptions of Mount Sinai in the book of Exodus show that it was the mount of glory in the solar mythos — that is, the mount of sunrise in the daily course, and the mount of the equinox as the horizon of the annual sun. Various meanings of the word Sheni coincide in showing that the typical Mount Sinai, Sin, or Ba-Shen was the Mount Sheni in the Egyptian astronomical mythology."
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