The Israelites

This ancient cult took many guises throughout the centuries. In the West, it has survived as a number of secret societies, most notably the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, and its various fringe organisations. But what all these numerous secret societies have in common is an adherence to what is called the Kabbalah, which is a Jewish adaptation of the ancient worship of the dying-god.

Though Allah sent Moses to the Israelites to guide them to the straight path, they rebelled incessantly. This began with the worship of the Golden Calf, the basis of the name of Surat al Baqara, or “The Cow”, which took place soon after their exodus from Egypt. Scholars have recognised that this calf was the Apis bull, belonging to the worship of Osiris, the Egyptian version of the dying-god.

The worship of the dying god was further reinforced when the Israelites entered the land of the Canaanites, who worshipped a version of the dying-god and goddess, Baal and Astarte. The Israelites were required to conquer their land. Various hints in the Bible suggest that the Canaanites were descendants of the Anakim, in other words the Fallen Angels and the female descendants of Cain.

The Israelites were also commanded to avoid imitating their cult, or intermarrying with them. And yet, they committed both incessantly. Tthe entire nation became committed to Canaanite paganism to an extent that even the sacred Temple itself was polluted with accoutrements of the worship of the dying-god and goddess. These were represented as pillars which were to symbolise the phallus of the god, entwined by a serpent, known as Asherah poles. There were figures of the constellations, and the god was figured as riding on a chariot. In addition, they often practised child sacrifice, dedicated to Moloch, or Saturn.

The true Judaism of Moses was only practised by a handful of orthodox reformers. It was such that numerous warnings were pronounced against the Israelites, warning that if they did not desist from their idolatry, God would send their enemies to punish them. And that is exactly what happened, when first, in the eighth century BC, the Assyrians captured the ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel, and dispersed the Israelites among the Medes, in northern Iran and Armenia.

From then on, Armenia would continue to figure prominently in the history of the occult. Although, the ten tribes, have popularly been considered “lost” ever since, in ancient Jewish sources, their existence was well known. They were believed to have migrated to Armenia, and from there, to southern Russia, to the land of the Scythians, which the ancient Jewish scholar Josephus and others had identified as the descendants of Gog and Magog. ¹⁸

Certain etymologies propose that the word Scythians, from “Sacae”, in turn is derived from “Isaac Sons” or “Sons of Isaac.” Isaac the son of Abraham, and brother to Ishmael, had two sons, Jacob, or Israel, who became the ancestor of the twelve tribes of Israel. Jacob’s other son was Esau, the forefather of the Edomites.

Esau was a red haired, or “red all over like a hairy garment”, and called Edom, which means red. Likewise, the Scythians, according to Herodotus, “have all deep blue eyes, and bright red hair,” and practised mystery rites dedicated to Bacchus, a Greek version of Baal. The legend persisted, such that, during the Middle Ages, German Jews regarded southern Russia and Central Asia as the location of the Lost Tribes, known to them as “Red Jews”, and continued to be identified with Gog and Magog.
In the History of the Nation of Archers, by Armenian historian of the thirteenth century AD, Grigor Akner, corroborated the legend that the Scythians were Edomites:

The Esavites, who are the Scythians, descended from Esau, son of Isaac. They are black, wild, and strange looking. From them descend the Boramichk’ and Lekzik’, who dwell in holes and traps and perpetrate many crimes. And it is said that the Edomites who are the Franks also are descended from him. These three peoples, descendants of Hagar, Ketura, and Esau, mingled together and gave birth to another people, strange looking and wicked, called Tatar [Mongols], which means sharp and light. ¹⁹

Finally, between 598 and 596 BC, Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem, sacked the famous Temple of Solomon, and deported much of the remaining population to Babylon. The Jews would eventually remain in Babylon for half a century, a period known as the Exile, until their release in 538 BC, when nearly 50,000 of them returned to Jerusalem.

In was in that century that certain Jews developed the Kabbalah. The Jews were supposed to have regarded the Exile as a fulfilled prophecy and a reminder to abandon their pagan ways and return to the pure message of Moses. However, a number amongst them seem to have been unwilling to abandon this paganism, and instead incorporated it into their interpretation of Judaism. They took the notion of being God’s “Chosen People” to mean they were destined for paradise, despite what they did, and that the Exile was merely a temporary punishment. Instead, they came to believe, God would eventually return them to the Promised Land, or Zion, at the end of time, with the advent of their promised “Messiah”, who would rebuild the Temple, and make them rulers of the world.

Most importantly, this Messiah was to be the “Son of David”, descended from the royal kingly line of Judah. However, from the earliest times, the Israelites intermarried extensively with the Canaanites, and therefore were considered, according to Kabbalistic interpretation, to also have descended from the Anakim, or the Fallen Angels, that is, the Shayateen. From them, this bloodline inherited certain “occult” powers which were called its “sacred” character, and it was therefore necessary to carefully guard it through extensive intermarriage, a practice that was maintained through the centuries, and was hidden in the aristocratic families of Europe.

This early form of Zionism was also mereged with the ancient pagan beliefs and magic of dying-god worship, to become the Kabbalah. The adoption of magic by the Jews of Babylon is mentioned in the Qur’an, Surah al-Baqara 101-102:

And whenever a messenger from Allah comes to them to confirm what they already have, a group from those who were given the book threw the book of Allah behind themselves as if they did not know it. And they follow that which the Shayateen ascribe to the kingdom of Solomon, yet Solomon did not reject (the guidance), but the devils rejected it, teaching people magic and that which had been revealed to the two angels in Babylon, Harut and Marut; and the two did not teach anyone without saying, “we are a test, so don’t reject (the guidance)”; so they learn from them how to split a man from his wife, but they cannot harm anybody with it except by Allah’s permission; and they learn what harms them and does not benefit them. And they knew already that whoever sells out to it will have no share in the hereafter. Bad is what they sold themselves for if they knew.

The influence of the Kabbalists in Babylon in this century led to the development of the astrology and numerology which the Chaldean Magi of Babylonian became famous for. In fact, in the Book of Daniel, Chapter 2:48, Daniel is made chief of the “wise men” in Babylon, that is of the Magi or Chaldeans, and yet supposedly remains faithful to the laws of his own religion.

In 538 BC, Cyrus the Great led the Persians and conquered Babylon from the Assyrians, and allowed the Jews to leave and return to their homeland. While many returned to Israel, many of these early Jewish Kabbalists dispersed to different parts of the world, resulting in the spread of Kabbalistic doctrines to these areas.

The ancient world at this time knew nothing of the Jews as a separate ethnic identity, but instead knew them as the Chaldean Magi. They were falsely regarded as being priests of the Persian religion of Zoroastrianism, founded by Zoroaster. However, the “Magi” that became popular for their “wisdom” throughout the ancient world were not Zoroastrians, but followed a number of doctrines that were the origin of the Kabbalah, though they were often falsely attributed to Zoroaster. Rather, they practised the occult rites and magic of the same ancient paganism, but in their case, dedicated to a Persian version of the dying-god, named Mithras.20

Footenotes:

18. xiii. 39-45
19 Akner, Grigor. History of the Nation of Archers
20 Livingstone, David. The Dying God: The Hidden History of Western Civilization.