Baal was ‘theLord’ among the ancient Semites and consort of Mother Astarte. Old Testament Jews worshipped many baalim and shared their gods’ temples for a long time. Baal was also consort to the Goddess Zion, according to Walker. Walker says they worshipped Melchizedek, the god of Salem. However, he was not a god. He was Machiventa Melchizedek, one of the sons of Christ Michael who took human form to stimulate the faith in One God. He came in the time of Abraham and strongly influenced his belief in One God. Abraham’s father had been a priest of the Anunnaki gods in Mesopotamia and had a roomful of statues of the gods. Walker also says that Jesus called out to the god ‘El’, the Sun god Helios, when he was on the cross (my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?). Actually, he said no such thing. He, before he died, told John, the only disciple who stayed with him during the crucifixion, that he should take care of his mother, who was also at the crucifixion. He was in complete control of himself until he drew his last breath. Walker also says that Joseph, Jacob and Israel were not men; they were tribal gods. Scholars probably have concluded this, because the coat of many colors is highly symbolic and being left in a pit is deeply mythological, but if that’s the case, where did the 12 tribes of Israel come from? Levi/Cohen is the tribe of priests, even I know that.
In pre-Christian times the Goddess was in charge of childbirth, and in the Hebrides, the Goddess’s protective ritual is still used to preserve children during the perilous pre-baptismal period: a torch is daily carried around the cradle up into modern times. The time between birth and baptism was dangerous because, if the baby died, it would go to hell, per the Church. But people who have had NDEs have seen children of all kinds happily playing; they may have been aborted or may have died before receiving baptism, and children will be with their parents when they arrive.
The word ‘Bible’ came from Byblos, the city of the Great Mother, hers being the oldest continuously occupied temple in the world. The Goddess, called Astarte and other names, patronized learning, and her priestesses collected a library of papyrus scrolls. So byblos came to mean any holy book: hence Bible. The Old Testament has a sublayer of Semitic matriarchy in the book of Ruth. Ruth tells her mother-in-law that “where you go, I will go”, and she courts Boaz in her mother-in-law’s way. Also, the book of Judges has a matriarchal system of judgship. The women act as judges, which means they arbitrate when there is a feud between two parties. Deborah was a famous judge. According to Walker, in several books of the OT, the word translated into ‘God’ is really a feminine plural, ‘Goddesses’; especially in references to the matriarchal functions of lawgiving, avenging crimes, and bestowing the imperium of leadership.
The miracles of biblical heroes were copied from older myths of the Goddess. Joshua’s arrest of the sun was formerly paused by priestesses of the Great Mother. Moses’ tablets of the law were symbols of the ancient Goddess. His miracle of drawing water from a rock was first performed by Mother Rhea after she gave birth to Zeus. Moses’ drying of the river bed was earlier performed by Isis. Scholars have concluded that Moses didn’t exist; however, if they had read the Urantia Book, they would know he exists, because Jesus talked to him during his bestowal experience and during the Transfiguration (Mtt 17:2). I don’t see any reason to doubt the history of the Jews. They were disobedient to God many time; they could have told a story about how great they were, how obedient they were, but they told the truth, they told it like it was. The same goes for the NT. The disciples were dumb and dumber. They didn’t understand a word Jesus said to them, and they made the religion about Jesus instead of the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus never got through to them. It was never his intention for his disciples to form a cult with him as the focus. They were supposed to preach about the kingdom of Heaven, but he must have known that was too abstract. What wasn’t abstract was their Messiah actually rising from the dead.
In Matriarchal times there was no intercourse from the onset of pregnancy to the end of lactation. This could take years, which allowed for the spacing of children. Of course, later Judeo-Christian cultures insisted on the male control of female bodies. The Church taught that children belonged to God. This idea made women less possessive of their children, and child care went into decline. So mothers often left their unwanted children for God to take care of. In the 18th C. the Hospital of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris reported as many as 5000 infants annually deposited on God’s doorstep. Infant corpses were commonly found among the rubbish of western cities. Foundling hospitals were so busy that they set revolving boxes in their walls so infants could be passed through. Yet foundling hospitals seldom saved the infants they were given. In practice, they solved the problem of excess births by killing babies by the thousands, all under the sanction of male dominated officialdom.
In more modern times Margaret Sanger was an activist who tried to bring some sense into the situation of birth control or its lack. She believed that “excess people, not acts of God, created poverty, famine…All society would gain…if birth control were allowed to shut off the spigot that floods the world with weaklings. When sick and unfit mothers are not forced to breed, there would be an end to unwanted children who grow up to fill our prisons and asylums.” What’s scary is that the MAGA Republicans are talking about a nationwide ban on abortion. Some on the far right are even making noises about birth control. Trump just burned to the ground a warehouse full of birth control devices that would have gone with the USAID funds which he cut off. He is the cruelist president and cruelist man, but this country elected him, so this country deserves him. Unless he stole the election, which is a possibility. I guess the swing-state votes are not adding up, according to people who are geniuses at computers and statistics. I don’t begin to understand it, but if a vote is not tampered with, the heat signature on a screen is right in the middle. But the ones he showed us from various districts were all over the place, indicating vote tempering. Our country is in so much trouble.
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