IT AIN'T  NECESSARILY  SO

 

 

Last Sunday I gave a talk before a group .

 

For the most part it was an older group and they were very nice,

 but there was one question in particular that I would like to comment on.

 

One gentlemen seemed to take a little exception when I presented the statement of

archeologist Zeev Herzog of  Tel Aviv University in Israel that the stories of the

Old Testament never happened.

 

ZEEV HERZOG UNIVERSITY OF TEL AVIV, ISRAEL

 

 

He said, ya know there are other scholars that would disagree.

 

Well they may disagree based on their faith, but based on archeological research

as Professor Herzog says, there simply is no evidence.

 

As you can see he makes the point that research has tried to find everything and

have found nothing.

 

But there is another voice that supports Herzogs findings.

 

I don't know how many

of you have ever heard of Moses Maimonides

 

MOSES MAIMONIDES

 

 

This is actually a portrait of him.

 

Who was he?

 

 

 

 

He is a cornerstone of Jewish thought and study.

 

In considering that Archeologist Zeev Herzog says the stories never happened, what

does Moses Maimonides say

 

 

 

The statement in the upper part is of Galileo commenting on problems with the religious

people ,and the fact that Biblical passages may contain a different sense, as he puts it.
 

But as you can see, Moses Maimonides who is considered the cornerstone of Jewish

thought and study, comes right out.

 

When you read something that seems nonsensical

such as talking snakes etc, the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply

mysterious truth.

 

Focus on that phrase, a profound allegory.

 

In other words, it does not mean what it

says.

 

So we have the archeologist who is Jewish and teaches at a university in the middle

of Israel at Tel Aviv, saying the things in the Bible did not actually happen ,and then

we have the Jewish Philosopher Moses Maimonides considered the cornerstone

of Jewish thought saying  the Bible is allegory.

 

What does allegory mean?

 

ALLEGORY

 

 

 

Symbolic fictional figures. That is allegory, and that is what the cornerstone

of the Jewish Faith said the scriptures are.

 

If that is not enough let us go to the Bible itself.

 

 

 

This  is one of the most famous stories in the Bible and its not true.

 

What tip does the Bible itself give that this is not a literal story?

 

ABRAHAM AND SARAH

 

 

He is a hundred and she is 90, and they're going to have a baby.

That's the tip that this is allegory.

 

Remember what Moses Maimonides said?

 

 

 

Of course the story never happened.

 

Just as Moses Maimonides said, the story is a profound allegory veiling

a deeply mysterious truth and the Bible itself explains what the truth is.

 

The story is about Abraham who has intercourse with his wifes maid  whose

name is Agar .

 

Where the Bible says which things are an allegory means that you have to look

for a deeper meaning.

 

A symbolic meaning, and in the Book of Galatians the

explanation is given.

 

 

 

So there we have confirmation that the story means something else other then the

scripture words. It is allegory as the Bible says ,and  it defines for

us the nature of the story and what it really means.

 

 

 

It is a story of the struggle between the physical 3 dimensional

side of the human being against the non physical invisible quantum or spiritual side.

 

This is the nature of every story in the Bible.

 

 They did not happen but they do happen.

 

Every one of us is Abraham whether we are male or female. And in a figurative sense

we intercourse with Agar and produce off spring in the realm of thought and actions

that can be both positive and negative.

 

In our meditations many of us intercourse with Sarah and there is produced in the

quantum world of what we call spirit, the child of promise. Who in this case turns

out to be the symbolic Isaac.

 

You see, this is a quaint story about a family made up of Abraham and Sarah who

had no children. But Sarah had a maid named Agar or Hagar.

 

 

When Abraham was 86 Sarah brought Hagar to him so they might have sex and

Abraham might have a son because Sarah was barren.

 

 

 

 

You can see Abe here saying to Sarah, well if I must I must. This painting is

labeled as Sarah brings Hagar to Abraham. If you notice Abe didnt waste any

time putting his hand on Hagars shoulder.

 

Anyway about 14 years later God promises to give Sarah a baby even though

she is 90 and Abe is 100.

 

This is the child of promise which is always given in the Bible to a woman who

is either barren or a virgin. In other words it is a spiritual child.

 

So Isaac is born and becomes the father of the Jewish people . But before

this birth takes place Sarah tells Abraham to drive Hagar and Ismael away

into the wilderness of the desert.

 

 

 

Now there are two sides to this story.

 

The Hebrew side has Isaac being the father of the Jewish Religion and the other

side has Ismael becoming the father of the Muslim religion.

 

So the Bible portrays Ishmael in a negative light whereas the Quran portrays

him in a positive light.

 

The problem with this however is the fact that the Bible as we have seen tells

us this is an allegory and that Hagar represents the physical realm and Sarah

represents the spiritual realm or the Jerusalem which is above.

 

Once we can accept that this is mythology we then can unravel the story as

a deep explanation of what goes in in the quantum or invisible sub atomic

realm within us all. .

 

We formulate our minds based on our physical contacts from birth. Our parents,

our school, our church, our government, our employers, our friends. This is

Hagar.

 

We never bother with the inner higher mind which is accessible through meditation.

 

There is where we are barren because we have never gone there. But regardless

of the amount of time we leave it barren, when finally we will enter into our meditation

separate from thought and enter the place of absolute nothing, the child of promise

will be born to us and will then lead us into a new higher dimension of existence.

 

That is what the story is all about.

 

It has nothing to do with people. It has nothing to do with sex.

 

It is a symbolic story of the human mind and whether we are to be led in our

life by the physical 3 dimensional material realm, or the higher realm which

appears barren to us when we separate from thought but is actually

where the child of promise is born.

 

That is exactly what the story of the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary is about. The very

same thing. It is a symbolic story of the mind.

 

Everyone was born with the right side as a beautiful garden. That is why children spin

and tell us of their secret friends that we cannot see.

 

But we instruct them that it is only their imagination and soon they

become just like us and that beautiful garden

of the mind becomes barren.

 

The Bible speaks of this place within us. It is the place of meditation where we separate

from thought where the child of promise is born and where so few of us go anymore

mainly because we are consumed by religion.

 

Thus this place of meditation has become a wildnerness.

 

A barren place that was once a beautiful garden because so few look

 within themselves. See what the Bible says.

 

And what it says is quite startling.

 

 

THE PASTORS ARE AT FAULT

 

 

 

Do you see the words here? Many pastors have made the pleasant portion

of the human mind a desolate wilderness because they have told people

not to separate from thought as Jesus instructed.

They have told people not to energize the single eye as Jesus instructed.

 

They have told people that the Kingdom of God is not within them as Jesus said.

 

And so the place is barren. Like Sarah. But regardless of how barren it may be

when one goes there it will bring forth the child of promise Isaac.

 

That is the whole meaning of the many stories in religious cultures of virgins giving

birth or those who are like Sarah and barren giving birth.

 

Thus if we read the story of Abraham and Sarah and Hagar literally as if it really

happened then we have a version of the Young and the Restless or As the World

Turns.

 

On the other hand if we understand this story as mythology we are aware that

if we will move into the wilderness of meditation and separate from all thought from

the left side of the physical then the child of promise will come alive within us.

 

That is how important it is to understand these things not in the realm of history

but in the realm of quantum or spirit.

 

This mythological pattern was even revealed in the teachings given through Jesus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So what do we have.

 

We have the archeologist from Tel Aviv University in Israel saying the Biblical stories

never happened. We have the man considered the conerpost of Jewish literature and

law Moses Maimonides saying these things didnt happen.

 

 We have the Bible saying

the classic tale of Abraham and Sarah is allegory and we have Jesus never talking

but in a symbolic parable.

 

And I told you where the Bible was written, in the center of Greek and Egyptian

mythology, Alexandria Egypt.

 

All of the Bible stories are mythological.  They mean something other then what they

say. The people never existed. The things never happened.

 

But the things do exist now and the things do happen now.

 

Let us look at a few.

 

Noahs Ark

 

 

 

Noahs ark never happened. But it does happen.

 

The ark is the right hemisphere of the brain where you go in meditation. You

take the two kinds of animals. Meaning you take your entire physical nature

both positive and negative and seal yourself in the ark of meditation.

 

That ark will protect you through the external storms pounding on you and will

lift you so that you step out on to the mountain top having overcome.

 

Taking the unclean beast by 2 is a reference to the positive and negative nature and

taking the clean by 7 is a reference to the seven chakras or seven seals.

 

The ark then rises up the spine to the mountaintop which is the higher mind. The

flood came upon the earth in 7 days which is another reference to the 7 chakas

or seals.

 

You are Noah and the ark is your inner place of meditation.

 

Joshua and the walls of Jericho

 

 

JOSHUA AT JERICHO

 

 

The walls represent those parts of your inner being that keep you

 from the holy place which is the temple of meditation. How can you

 get to that holy inner place that is also the ark.

 

Think again about the 7 chakras or the seven seals and consider

 this scripture of Joshua.

 

 

 

There are other things to see here besides the number 7.

 

Notice that the trumpets are from Rams horns. The Ram is the symbol of Amun

or Amen the Egyptian sun god. It is the symbol of the power of enlightenment

or the power of light.

 

The trumpet is the symbol of harmony that flows from the breath.

 

So we have the meditation with the 7 chakras or 7 seals causing the wall to fall

that blocks us from the God side within us. We have the power of the light

or enlightenment that we receive from within the place of our breath.

 

That is what brings down the mythical walls.  Now another clue to this as

meditative mythology is this.  Again I refer you to Zeev Herzog of the

Archeological Department of Tel Aviv University in Israel.

 

 

There were no cities there and no walls.

 tead of dwelling on a story that literally is silly we consider its meaning and

we then march around the wall 7 times in our meditation as the energy drives

up throh the 7 chakras or seals and the wall to the city falls and we are

then with God.

 

JONAH AND THE WHALE

 

Now if you are prone to take everything literally I think even this one would be a bit much

for you. This man lived inside the whale 3 days and 3 nights.

 

The story is about us again. We are Jonah. We have an initial God connection when we

are born but because of the external physical attractions we run from the God connection

and try to find it in church etc.

 

The story has Jonah trying to run away from God by sailing on a ship. But when he

gets on the ship a big storm comes up and the other people on the ship connect it to God.

 

God must be angry with somebody. It certainly couldnt be them. It must be the new guy.

 

They throw Jonah overboard and as soon as they do the storm stops.

 

Now we are in the water which as I have shown you over and over this is the

second stage of meditative consciousness, Earth Water Air Fire and the new mind.

 

 

 

 Here are the 5 stages so you can see that it is very important that we go into the

water so we may come up into the air and then be touched by fire.

 

It is the true meaning of Baptism. And the Jonah story is play on that same theme.

 

THE FISH GOD

 

In this case, once Jonah is in the water he is swallowed by the big fish.