Jacob’s Ladder The ladder is a pathway to another world, most commonly, a world in the skies. The interesting thing to note here is how Jacob placed a stone under his head before going to bed and having his “vision”: Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. (11) When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. (12) He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. (13) There above it stood the Lord, and he said: “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. (14) Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. … When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.” (17) He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.” (18) Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it. (19) He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz. (Genesis 28:10-19) The word Beth means house, therefore Beth-el is the house of god. Baetylus (also Baetyl, Bethel, or Betyl, from the Semitic bet-el, is the name for sacred stones that were supposedly endowed with life. The official story is that these were supposed to be “meteorites” from heaven. This is a great explanation if you are telling ignorant people why they are worshipping a rock. It came from a meteor from space, and these are rare, are said to embody “god,” later “Allah” in the Muslim communities. Well, maybe because mushroom spores came here on meteors; that’s the only reason I can think of. The Arabic word for mushrooms is ptr, while the Hebrew word is ptrywt and means truffles or fungus. (91) This reminds us of the Rock of Peter. The Golden Calf In Exodus 32, we read: (1) When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.” (2) Aaron answered them, “Take off the gold earrings that your wives, your sons and your daughters are wearing, and bring them to me.” (3) So, all the people took off their earrings and brought them to Aaron. (4) He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up |
out of Egypt.” (5) When Aaron saw this, he built an altar in front of the calf and announced, “Tomorrow there will be a festival to the Lord.” (6) So, the next day the people rose early and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented fellowship offerings. Afterward they sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry. (7) Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. (8) They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.” (Exodus 32:1-8) So the main reason that the god was upset with the Hebrews was because they were still worshipping the cow, out of Egypt, as Io or Hathor. The next part is even more interesting, because the calf which was supposed to be made from gold, was now something that was given to the Israelites to consume: (17) When Joshua heard the noise of the people shouting, he said to Moses, “There is the sound of war in the camp.” (18) Moses replied: “It is not the sound of victory, it is not the sound of defeat; it is the sound of singing that I hear.” (God forbid!) (19) When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. (20) And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it. (Exodus 32:17-20) Now, if I am to read this correct and understand it as proposed, God had Moses ground up the “golden” calf, powder it up, put it on the fire and mixed it with some liquid so it could be drunk…. ?? Am I missing something here entirely? The story of Samson and Delilah is the same story as Hercules, only slightly altered. Instead of fighting a bull as Hercules does, Samson fights with a lion and there is the part of the story which deals with the bees swarming in the carcass of the lion, and in the Hercules tale, the bees are born from the horn of the bull wrestled off by Hercules. The original Hercules (father of Actaeon and son of Chiron the centaur) in the pre-Hellenic era was a Pelasgian named Aristaeus who killed a mountain lion on top of Mount Pelion and from whose flesh wound the first swarm of bees emerged. (92) This is the original myth. The lion was likely intended to replace the bull, as the primary deity, under Greek and Roman Patriarchy. Replacing the bull with the Lion, representing the sun, would lead people away from the original fertility and mushroom connotations. (91) Medical Synony Lists, Book 29, Gerrit Bos, Martina Hussein, Guido Mensching, Frank Savelsburg, 2011 (92) White Goddess, p. 315 |