| The Latin Ezra and the Zohar 2 Esdras (also called 4 Esdras, Latin Esdras, or Latin Ezra) is the name of an apocalyptic book in many English versions of the Bible which was written supposedly by a priest named Ezra. Scholars debate his birth but assume it to be anywhere from 500 BC to 218 AD, around the time the documents were compiled. (102) In the next passage, Ezra is given a drink which was colored like fire, and which led to a pouring forth of understanding: (37) I took the five men, as he had commanded me, and we went out into the field and remained there. (38) So it happened to me on the next day that a voice called me: “Ezra, open your mouth and drink what I give you to drink.” (39) So I opened my mouth, and a full cup was set before me. It was full of something like water, but its color was like fire. (40) I took it and drank, and when I had drunk it my heart poured forth understanding, and wisdom increased in my heart, for my spirit retained memory. (41) My mouth was opened and wasn’t shut anymore. (42) The Most High, YAHWEH, moreover, gave understanding to the five men, and they wrote in turns what was dictated, in characters that they didn’t know, and they sat for forty days. They wrote by day, (43) but by night they ate bread; however, I spoke by day and wasn’t silent by night. (44) Ninety-four scrolls were written in the forty days. (45) Then when the forty days were completed, the Most High said to me, “Make public the ones you wrote first so that the worthy and unworthy may read them. (46) But keep the last seventy so that you may transmit them to the wise among your people. (47) In these are the fountains of understanding, the source of wisdom, and the river of knowledge.” (48) And so I did. (2 Esdras 4:37-48) In 2 Esdras, Ezra meets the Lord, under an old oak tree, an interesting place to bump into the Lord: (1) On the third day I was sitting under an oak tree (2) when a voice came out of a bush opposite me and said, “Ezra, Ezra!” I said: “I’m here, Lord!” and I got up on my feet. He said to me: (3) “I revealed myself in a bush and spoke to Moses when my people were enslaved in Egypt. (4) I sent him and brought my people out of Egypt, and I led him to Mount Sinai, and I kept him with me for many days. (5) I told him many wondrous things and showed him the secrets of the times and the end of the times. I commanded him, saying, (6) ‘You will make these words public, but you will keep these other words secret.’ (7) Now I say to you, (8) the signs that I showed you, the dreams that you saw, and the interpretations you heard—place them in your heart! (9) You will be taken from among human beings, and you will associate from now on with my Son and with those who are like you until the times are finished.” (2 Esdras 14:1-9) What this last passage implies to me is that once you have tasted the fruit of knowledge you will be unlike those around you. You will be thinking on new levels, listening to new music, and making a whole new set of friends. This is only my interpretation, but remember, for two thousand years, the speculative interpretations we have been given have not only been diabolically misleading and nonfactual, but they have not been very entertaining, either. |
In Ezekiel, the prophet is given a scroll by the Lord to eat. This familiar sequence is played out in Egypt when Nut is feeding the Ankh to the initiate. Furthermore, we learn this scroll is “sweet as honey”: (9) Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, (10) which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe. (1) And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before you, eat this scroll; then go and speak to the people of Israel.” (2) So I opened my mouth, and he gave me the scroll to eat.” (3) Then he said to me, “Son of man, eat this scroll I am giving you and fill your stomach with it.” So I ate it, and it tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth. (Ezekiel 2:9-10; 3:1-3) From the Zohar we read about manna as well. (Sidenote - Compare this with Miolner, the hammer of Thor, of Scandanavian mythology): (429) From a Light-Bearer of insupportable brightness proceeded a Radiating Flame, dashing off like a vast and mighty hammer those sparks which were the Prior Worlds. (430) And with most subtle ether were these intermingled and bound mutually together, but only when they were conjoined together, even the Great Father and the Great Mother. ….. (432) And it was connected with a light-bearer, which went forth from that Light-Bearer of insupportable brightness, which is hidden in the bosom of Aima, the Great Mother. … (435) For as the Most Holy Ancient One is found to include equally in Himself the Three heads (Chokmah and Binah included in Kether-sidenote), so all things are symbolized under the form of the Three Heads as we have stated. (436) Into this Skull (of Microprosopus) distilleth the dew from the White Head (of Macroposopus), and covereth it. (437) And that dew appeareth to be of two colors, and by it is nourished the field of the holy apple trees. (438) And from this dew of this Skull is the manna prepared for the just in the world to come. (It is to be noted that this word is MNA, Manna, and is a metathesis of the letters AMN, Amen, which has been shown in the “Book of the Concealed Mystery” to be equal by Gematria to YHVH ADNI. (Yahweh Adonai) (439) And by it shall the dead be raised to life. (Zohar 429-440) That is all there is from the Zohar at this juncture but the text goes on to discuss the manna in Exodus, so as to not leave any doubt the Zohar was discussing the same subject matter. (102) Mystery of manna, p. 66 |