Several times the writer has put to herself the question: “Is the story of Exodus — in its details at least — as narrated in the Old Testament, original? Or is it, like the story of Moses himself and many others, simply another version of the legends told of the Atlanteans?” For who, upon hearing the story told of the latter, will fail to perceive the great similarity of the fundamental features? The anger of “God” at the obduracy of Pharaoh, his command to the “chosen” ones, to spoil the Egyptians, before departing, of their “jewels of silver and jewels of gold” (Exod. xi.); and finally the Egyptians and their Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea (xiv.). For here is a fragment of the earlier story from the Commentary: —
This sounds a good deal like the original material upon which the similar story in Exodus was built many hundred thousands of years later. The biography of Moses, the story of his birth, childhood and rescue from the Nile by Pharaoh’s daughter, is now shown to have been adapted from the Chaldean narrative about Sargon. And if so, the Assyrian tile in the British Museum being a good proof of it, why not that of the Jews robbing the Egyptians of their jewels, the death of Pharaoh and his army, and so on? The gigantic magicians of Ruta and Daitya, the “lords of the Dark Face,” may have become in the later narrative the Egyptian Magi, and the yellow-faced nations of the Fifth Race, the virtuous sons of Jacob, the “chosen people.”
- Helena P. Blavatsky: The Secret Doctrine (1888) II:428-429
Mutilations of the Jewish sacred books in translation
From the first to the last chapters, the translators of the Jewish Sacred Books misconstrued this meaning. They have even changed the spelling of the name of God, as Sir W. Drummond proves. Thus El, if written correctly, would read Al, for it stands in the original אל — Al, and, according to Higgins, this word means the god Mithra, the Sun, the preserver and savior.
Sir W. Drummond shows that Beth-El means the House of the Sun in its literal translation, and not of God. “El, in the composition of these Canaanite names, does not signify Deus, but Sol.”‡ Thus Theology has disfigured ancient Theosophy, and Science ancient Philosophy.§
§ The absolute necessity for the perpetration of such pious frauds by the early fathers and later theologians becomes apparent, if we consider that if they had allowed the word Al to remain as in the original, it would have become but too evident — except for the initiated — that the Jehovah of Moses and the sun were identical. The multitudes, which ignore that the ancient hierophant considered our visible sun but as an emblem of the central, invisible, and spiritual Sun, would have accused Moses — as many of our modern commentators have already done — of worshipping the planetary bodies; in short, of actual Zabaism.
- Helena P. Blavatsky: Isis Unveiled (1877) I:13.
Comm.: Was Moses actually a Jew, or merely a reimagined, pirated-copied Sargon? Either lying has always been the supreme principle, in which case no modern territorial claims can be derived from it. Or if one accepts the mystery language of the initiates and thus the esoteric interpretation that something different is meant in the background than the superficial cover story, then these are not lies, but rather a mystical-mythical narrative technique. But even from this, no modern territorial claims can be derived.
Further information
- A Comparison of the Institutions of Moses with those of the Hindoos and other Nations (1799).
- German quote: War Moses ein Jude?