“The Israelites have been proved to have worshipped Baal, the Syrian Bacchus, offered incense to the Sabazian or Aesculapian serpent, and performed the Dionysian Mysteries. And how could it be otherwise if Typhon was called Typhon Set, and Seth, the son of Adam, is identical with Satan or Sat-an; and Seth was worshipped by the Hittites? Less than two centuries B.C., we find the Jews either reverencing or simply worshipping the “golden head of an ass” in their temple; according to Apion, Antiochus Epiphanes carried it off with him. And Zacharias is struck dumb by the apparition of the deity under the shape of an ass in the temple!
El, the Sun-God of the Syrians, the Egyptians, and the Semites, is declared by Pleyte to be no other than Set or Seth, and El is the primeval Saturn, Israel. Siva is an Aethiopian God, the same as the Chaldean Baal, Bel; thus he is also Saturn. Saturn, El, Seth, and Kiyun, or the biblical Chiun of Amos, are all one and the same deity, and may be all regarded in their worst aspect as Typhon the Destroyer. When the religious Pantheon assumed a more definite expression, Typhon was separated from his androgyne, the good deity, and fell into degradation as a brutal unintellectual power.
Such reactions in the religious feelings of a nation were not unfrequent. The Jews had worshipped Baal or Moloch, the Sun-God Hercules, in their early days, if they had any days at all earlier than the Persians or Maccabees; and then made their prophets denounce them. On the other hand, the characteristics of the Mosaic Jehovah exhibit more of the moral disposition of Siva than of a benevolent, “long-suffering” God. Besides, to be identified with Siva is no small compliment, for the latter is God of Wisdom.
Wilkinson depicts him as the most intellectual of the Hindu gods. He is three-eyed, and, like Jehovah, terrible in his resistless revenge and wrath. And, although the Destroyer, “yet he is the recreator of all things in perfect wisdom.” He is the type of St. Augustine’s God who “prepares hell for pryers into his mysteries” and insists on trying human reason as well as common sense by forcing mankind to view with equal reverence, his good and evil acts.
Notwithstanding the numerous proofs that the Israelites worshipped a variety of gods, and even offered human sacrifices until a far later period than their Pagan neighbors, they have contrived to blind posterity in regard to truth. They sacrificed human life as late as 169 B.C., and the Bible contains a number of such records. At a time when the Pagans had long abandoned the abominable practice, and had replaced the sacrificial man by the animal, Jephthah is represented sacrificing his own daughter to the “Lord” for a burnt offering.
The denunciations of their own prophets are the best proofs against them. Their worship in high places is the same as that of the “idolaters”. Their prophetesses are counterparts of the Pythiae and Bacchantes. Pausanias speaks of women-colleges which superintend the worship of Bacchus, and of the sixteen matrons of Elis. The Bible says that “Deborah, a prophetess… judged Israel at that time”, and speaks of Huldah, another prophetess, who “dwelt in Jerusalem, in the college”; and 2 Samuel mentions “wise women” several times, notwithstanding the injunction of Moses not to use either divination or augury.
As to the final and conclusive identification of the “Lord God” of Israel with Moloch, we find a very suspicious evidence of the case, in the last chapter of Leviticus, concerning things devoted not to be redeemed. …A man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast. …None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed, but shall surely be put to death… for it is most holy unto the Lord.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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