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of Josiah and the new law provides an example of how the Old Testament was not produced in the manner commonly portrayed but represents the work of several hands or schools. The early stories basically constitute ancient myths mixed with the tribal "histories," with a number of people over the centuries re-writing them for propagandistic purposes, long after their purported era. The fact is that the Hebrews/ Israelites were polytheists before and after the supposed finding of the law, and that the law itself was variously interpreted by the different tribes/nations. In addition to the variety of gods and doctrines represented by the biblical writers are these various tribes, with the Elohist, for example, affiliated with the kingdom of Israel and the Jahwist, Judah. The differing accounts, then, were combined in an attempt to unify the kingdoms, and the tribe/god whose scribes wrote the stories was elevated above the rest. As Robertson says, "Yahweh (or Yah, or Yaha) was simply a local worship aggrandized by the [tribal] king and imposed on the fictitious history of the Hebrews long afterwards."45

Doane sums up the state of Israel during biblical times:

It is supposed by many-in fact, we have heard it asserted by those who should know better-that the Israelites were always monotheists, that they worshiped One God only-Jehovah. This is altogether erroneous; they were not different from their neighbors-the Heathen, so-called-in regard to their religion. In the first place, we know that [the Israelites] revered and worshiped a Bull, called Apis, just as the ancient Egyptians did. They worshiped the sun, the moon, and the stars and all the host of heaven. They worshiped fire, and kept it burning on an altar, just as the Persians and other nations. They worshiped stones, revered an oak tree, and "bowed down to images." They worshiped a "Queen of Heaven" called the goddess Astarte or Mylitta, and "burned incense" to her. They worshiped Baal, Moloch, and Chemosh, and offered up human sacrifices to them, after which in some instances, they ate the victim.46

The Hebrews were thus not distinct from their polytheistic neighbors, except after centuries of programming and conditioning that eventually caused them to become a "race separate and apart from the rest of the world." Stone relates:

As George Mendenhall writes, "Ancient Israel can no longer be treated as an isolated independent object of study; its history is inseparably bound up with ancient oriental history, whether we are concerned with religion, political history or culture."47

The Levant, in fact, was a melting-pot of ideologies and gods of all sorts from around the known world, out of which would arise a "king of kings" and "lord of lords" to beat them all.

1. Wheless, FC, 70.

2. Pike, 612.

3. Roberston, 17-18.

4. Higgins, I, 62.

5. Wheless, 69.

6. Walker, WEMS, 895.

7. Taylor, 21.

8. Potter, 42.

9. Walker, WEMS, 84, 125, 271-2.

10. A. Churchward, 318.

11. A. Churchward, 318.

12. Jackson, 183-4.

13. Higgins, 1, 238.

14. Higgins, II, 289.

15. Walker, WEMS, 84.

16. Blavatsky, SD, i, 397fn.

17. Anderson, 79.

18. Higgins, I, 259.

19. Hazelrigg, 20.

20. A. Churchward, 280.

21. Higgins, I, 327.

22. Walker, WDSSO, 202.

23. Stone, 122-3.

24. Stone, 123.

25. Taylor, 2-2.-

26. Walker, WEMS, 180-1.

27. Walker, WEMS, 163.

28. Walker, WDSSO, 372.

29. Walker, WDSSO, 236.

30. Walker, WEMS, 581.

31. Walker, WEMS, 829.

32. Walker, WEMS, 815.

33. Hazelrigg, 20-21.

34. Walker, WEMS, 236-7.

35. Walker, WEMS, 874.

36. Carpenter, 47.

37. Wheless, FC, 78.

38. Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas, The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus, marlowe.wimsey.com/-rshand/streams/thera/canaan.html

39. Larson, 210.-

40. Walker, WDSSO, 196.

41. Higgins, II, 194.

42. Higgins, II, 193.

43. Walker, WEMS, 464.

44. Friedman, 91-92.

45. Robertson, 17.

46. Doane, 108.

47. Stone, 103.

The Characters

We have seen that there is no evidence for the historicity of the Christian founder, that the earliest Christian