I don’t understand… What is the origin of the drawing/writing on the lead tablets? Is it something someone saw in a vision, a trance, a hallucinogenic state or what? I think she said the priest or oracle had to interpret the tablets, but what was the inspiration or source of what was drawn/written?
A week? I am impressed that something is here that is beyond , beyond. So how should one begin this study (the knowledge of Margaret Barker), from one who is somewhat familiar with introductory Kabbalah from the perspective of an average layperson? I think indeed this seems like the real deal, the roots of Israel and Christianity and Abraham.
"The Two Sprouts" was the name for the constellation Gemini in Arabic, according to star lore. So, she's a Kabbalah witch, eh? Nothing good can come from this.
I wonder if Demuth is linked with Dmuta in Mandaeism? The accepted origins of Mandaeism are that it preserves the pre-monotheistic form of Israelite religion, see Dr. James F. McGrath. For example the Holy Spirit is the wife of Adonai in Mandaeism. Their pantheon includes: -Yoshamen (sometimes spelled Yushamin), derived from Yah(u) Shamayim, “Yah of Heaven,” related to/ analogous with Ba’al Shamen. -Yukabar (“Yah is Great”, cp. Ba’al-kabar) -Yusmir (smir denotes “kept, safeguarded” in Mandaic, Hebrew) -Yuzataq (from “Yah is just?”) is an epithet for Manda d-Heyya (“Knowledge of Life”) -Yurba (“Yah the Great”) is also called Adonai, identified with the Sun (Shamish) -Ruha d-Qudsha (“Holy Spirit”), identified with Libat/Venus, also called ‘stira, i.e. Ishtar/Astarte -Abatur has a secret name Turel or Tauriel (perhaps from “Bull-El”) -Ptahil (Ptah+El, aka Gabriel) -Anath-Haijē (Anat, as in Anat-Yahu known from the Elephantine Papyri). The Dmuta are the heavenly or idealized human counterparts of humans on earth, they are their divine doubles, their angels. Makes you wonder if in the Gospels there is the idea of Jesus as the double of the Son of Man, they are the same one, but one exists in the spatial-temporal world whilst the other exists in the unseen eternal world of aionion time. Jesus often refers to the Son of Man in the third person. For example, Luke 24:7 “the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again” and “I tell you, everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God; but he who denies me in the presence of men will be denied in the presence of God’s angels.” Luke 12:8-9. Jesus refers to the Son of Man in the third person. “He said to him, “Most certainly, I tell you all, hereafter you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.” John 1:51 and “No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.” John 3:13 We are told that the Son of Man “who is in heaven” is the same One who “ascended into heaven” and who “descended out of heaven”. Yet his current location is “in heaven”. This idea seems to be present within Acts where we read: “They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.” Acts 12:15. When they heard Peter knocking on the door they thought it was Peter’s Angel rather than Peter! His divine double. His heavenly or idealized human counterpart. Peter’s “end” his idealized final form, the one he is becoming who he was always meant to be! Perhaps Creation itself (Day One) is the fall of the dmuta’s from their ends to their beginnings. Their end is fixed in eternity but creation is their creation in time of the beings that they will become. There is a clear Mirroring seen between the earthly reality and its heavenly counterpart. Jesus says in Matthew 18:10 “See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.” Jesus also says that in the Resurrection we will be like the angels. (Mark 12:25) On earth they are “little ones” in heaven “their angels always see the face of my Father” this again links to the expectation that Peter’s Angel could just appear and Jesus’s words “everyone who confesses me before men, the Son of Man will also confess before the angels of God” Luke 12:8. Jesus is confessed before men. The Son of Man before the angels. There is a clear Mirroring here, as in Heaven, so on Earth. The spatial-temporal human Jesus, Mary’s son, the One hung on a Cross, is the double of the Son of Man “who is in heaven.” John 3:13. How you treat the One is the reflection (as in a Mirror) of how you treat the other, because, they are One. Luke 24:7 “the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again”. There is in reality only one subject. Jesus is the Son of Man. The Son of Man is Jesus. This theory has two parallel spheres of time. Aionion time (eternal time) and limited time. Jesus is the Son of Man in eternal time and can therefore touch all time, even appear in the past. Perhaps as the Image of God even appearing in the Old Testament!
Mandaean isn't Hebrew. Mandaeans don't believe in Moses or circumcision. They believe Jesus was a false messiah. Their religion preserves Zoroastrian and Babylonian elements. They identified with the Egyptians who drowned in the Red Sea, and had a day, or a ritual, remembering them. Their religion had secrets, known only to the initiated priests. (From Drower's book, last century.)
"I dreamed I saw St Augustine alive with fiery breath & I dreamed I was amongst the ones that put him out to death. Oh, I awoke in anger, so alone and terrified, I put my fingers against the glass & bowed my head & cried..." Bob Dylan, 1968
