Amon with the solar monotheism of Aton who was regarded as the only true God who created everything that ever existed. Moses is well known as a charismatic leader who was also an oracular prophet, but few people know he was also an ecstatic magician trained in the masonic tradition.
The Bible continues on with “Leviticus”, which was the tribe’s name that was entrusted with the regulations, rules and animal sacrifices of the laws of Moses when he created the national religion. In “Numbers” the tribe’s census is conducted and the prophets of Moses build the tabernacle to house God’s words. “Deuteronomy” is the second of laws which repeats the first five books and Moses’ death speech which declared the descendants of Abraham would be given a Promised Land of their own to live in. Closing out the Old Testament are the “Books of History” which written by Moses also contain poetry of the Holy Scriptures and prophecy of the sacred writings.
It was within these books that we hoped to find our very first words that were meant to lead to a million more of our utmost for His highest.
YAHWEH SPOKE
In the beginning after creating the world, Yahweh next spoke to Abram and created a covenant that was not a contract. Mankind would have free will that could be rewarded by proper worship.
After this cosmic conversation the 75-year-old Abram’s name was changed to Abraham and his wife, Sarah, would now be known as Sarai. Three modern day religions now claim to have Abraham’s origins, although the Jews, Christians and Muslims never agree on much of anything else.
Abraham and Sarai gave birth to Isaac who was the first born son later renamed Esau. He sold his birthright to the second born son named Jacob for a bowl of soup. Jacob had twelve sons and Abraham’s great grandchild named Joseph was a great dreamer who intensified the sibling rivalry. Without telling the father, the other children sold him into slavery instead of killing him for his ambitious dreams of leading the family to fame and fortune. The traveling merchants who bought him ended up in Egypt. Many years later after overcoming great difficulties and almost beyond belief, Joseph became vice-regent of all of Egypt and reconciled his father and brothers by introducing and inducting them all into the free mason society.
Three hundred years later Jacob’s original family of seventy members grew into thousands and their strength and solidarity of their Masonic Code greatly threatened the control of the current Egyptian pharaoh. Now being in the leader’s state of disfavor, the family was reduced from proud and privileged servants to the state of despised slaves.
This story parallels many of the models of mythological heroes who have fallen from the favor of gods or kings and suffers until a new generation of heroes is born. Many years passed before this family’s hero would be Moses. During his early life he was miraculously saved from the pharaoh’s ordered massacre during which every slave’s son born that year was to be killed. The magical Masonic fortunetellers of the king’s court had foretold of a future leader arising from the slaves who would end the pharaoh’s rule if not killed as a child.
As a newborn baby Moses was placed in a papyrus basket and in this boat of reeds was set adrift in the river before he could be discovered by the king’s guard who would have slaughtered him on sight. Good fortune smiled upon him as he drifted into the queen’s reach and as God intended she fell in love with the newborn and was raised by the pharaoh as one of his own sons. Moses became the greatest of the free masons and while overseeing the construction of a temple for his adopted father and mother’s pleasure, he accidentally killed an Egyptian soldier who was beating a Hebrew. Moses was disgraced and exiled from Egypt to live in the Midian Desert and kept sheep for his father-in-law, Jethro, who was the high priest of the desert. While Moses was paying his penance for his crime, he witnessed a burning bush that was not being consumed by the flames. This sensational sight drew his curiosity and it is here that God commissioned Moses to return to Egypt and bring his family out of slavery. This is before Moses gains the divine revelation of the divine name of Yahweh, and the messenger is only known to him as “I am who I am”.
Even without knowing the speaker’s name, Moses is still greatly impressed and returns to tell the pharaoh, “Let my people go”. The king didn’t want to lose all of his free labor and thus the Lord started this kingdom’s prolonged period of misery. Plague after plague continued on until the tenth calamity of the death of all first born children and then the pharaoh relented and the Israelites left town for a new beginning.
But then the pharaoh changed his mind and chased them down to the Red Sea. The sea of reeds’ waters parted for the Israelites but closed over the pursuing Egyptians and drowned their army.
But this was just the start of troubles for Moses and his people. The tribe quarreled with each other, Moses and even God. Not even miracles such as water from a rock or bread from heaven could stop all the complaining. But, after all, forty days and nights in the desert is bound to try anyone’s patience.
So at Mount Sinai after hearing that some of the Israelites wanted to return to Egypt, God in the midst of a smoke and fire episode that echoed Moses’ earlier burning-bush experience, gave the Ten Commandments to Moses. His people’s doubts soon faded after this experience.
After a tabernacle was constructed to hold God’s words, the tribe took off to the Promised Land. They were now led by a priesthood which was composed of a subset of the Levites which was responsible for the tabernacle, religious services and instructions for the preparation of food. They also oversaw medical attention and religious holidays such as Passover, which celebrated the angel of death passing over the Israelites’ homes and only killing the first born of Egypt’s children.
During the next year while the priesthood was being ordained and animals were offered as burnt offerings, a census of the tribe was taken. At the end of the count it was determined that 603,550 men over the age of twenty now populated the twelve tribes. These men would become the united army of Moses and eventually attack the citizens of Canaan who occupied the Promised Land. But the Levites and priests would not become part of the army because they would be too busy with sacrifices, teaching the law of Moses, and furnishing the tabernacle to engage in combat.
After a year of preparations the army broke camp, but disorder soon again became the rule of each day as the internal squabbling broke down the chain of command. The troops were tired of the food and didn’t like Moses telling everyone what to do. Even God became frustrated because His earlier miracles had failed to convince His chosen people that they could overcome the hostile environment and conquer the Canaanites.
Since neither God’s miracles nor Moses’ marching order could convince the twelve tribes to move onward, at this point Moses sent forth twelve spies to scout the Promised Land. One was commissioned from each tribe and they spent the next forty days searching and spying out the land. When the spies returned they were impressed with the richness of the land, but scared to death of the people who populated and protected the Promised Land. By a vote of ten to two they sent forth their opinion that twelve tribes could not win this war.
Both God and Moses were angry and frustrated by the tribes’ fears. The decision was soon reached that since neither the Lord’s miracles nor the might of Moses could convince the tribes to attack, then they would use the test of time to turn the opinion of the tribes. God decided to wait for the next generation of Israelites to enact His plan and commanded Moses to remain in the desert one year for each day that the scouts spent spying out the Promised Land.
During the next forty years of wandering the desert the old generation died out and was replaced with new blood. Although God was angry with His chosen children He never failed to keep them clothed and fed well.
During the forty years of preparing for their forthcoming battle, the troops of Moses first attacked each of the bordering nations to prepare them for the ultimate
