Oh rubbish!

The ancient Hebrews were a nomadic tribe (much like Arab nomadic tribes that exist even today) that wandered the whole of Middle East with their goats and sheep. Some Jews wanted to settle down and become farmers, but this was initially rejected. This conflict is symbolically described in the tale of Cain and Abel where Cain's fruit and vegetables offering is rejected by Yahweh in favour of Abel's animal sacrifice. Later, the Jews did want to settle and thus needed a "Promised Land" of milk and honey.


As the Jews wandered, they of course encountered the religious beliefs of various settled peoples such as the Canaanites and they chose to embrace most of the Canaanite pantheon. One other God they acquired on their travels was Yahweh, and, over time, he became more and more identified with the special God of the Jews, their "patron God" so to speak, thus setting the scene for a future coup by the Yahweh loyalists to overthrow the Canaanite Gods.


The Jews of course shared the same Gods as the Canaanites (because they had directly absorbed them from the Canaanites when they were on good terms), but when the Jews wanted Canaanite land, bloody war erupted (as described in the Old Testament).


The fact that El was the original supreme God of the Hebrews is actually enshrined in the very name Isra-EL, as it is in Beth-EL, Gabri-EL, Rapha-El, Micha-EL, and countless other places and names.


In Exodus 6:3, Yahweh actually has to explain why he was once a completely different God with a completely different name!!!


"I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself fully known to them."

Cunning, huh!? How to rewrite history, to rewrite yourself INTO history. So, why didn’t he make himself “known”? Why does he feel the need to justify and explain himself now, and make himself known? Isn’t he God? This statement is clearly fabricated by a human being who is trying to reassure his audience that they believe in the same God the Jews have always believed in and not some impostor. And if this is fabricated then the whole thing is – hence has nothing to do with “God”.


So, those studying Jewish religious history are always confronted with the problem of which Jewish God is actually being referred to... El or Yahweh. Also, El was frequently referred to in the plural to reflect the fact that he was the leader of a group of Gods. "Elohim" is the plural of El and Genesis 1:1 says, "In the beginning, Elohim created the earth." - meaning a group of Gods did the work, not one!


The "angel religion" is much more closely connected to the El rather than the Yahweh religion (though the latter stole a lot of it, as usual).


Solomon belonged to the El faction (which became increasingly linked to the earliest form of the Greek mystery religion of Orphism via a mysterious group called the Dionysian Artificers who actually designed the Temple of Solomon), not the Yahwehists (hence why Solomon has a very ambivalent role in the Jewish Bible - being more or less described as an apostate). The Temple of Solomon wasn't for Yahweh but for the angel religion - it was where men and women could be transformed into angels (raised from the dead - resurrected in the same body!).


The Temple was designed as a microcosm of the universe, and a journey through it to the holy of holies was a journey to the centre of the divine mystery of existence.


In the first stages of the Temple, the transition to demi-angel could be ritually enacted. The culmination of this ritual was an open mouthed kiss between the High Priest of the demi-angels and the initiate (symbolizing the transmission of the "breath of life" to the "dead"). In the final stage of the cosmic Temple - the holy of holies itself - the High Priest of the Angels gave a blood-drawing bite on the neck to a demi-angel to symbolically represent the transmission of life-giving angelic blood to the "undead".


We might say that stage one (human to demi-angel) involved a French kiss and stage 2 (demi-angel to full angel) involved a love bite! With the neck bite and reverence for blood, we are of course deep in the heart of the VAMPIRE MYTHOS!


Of course, they didn't call themselves vampires or bloodsuckers, or anything like that, but their enemies mutated and perverted their pagan rituals to portray them as exactly that. Note that vampires are said to fly (just like angels!), and are thus associated with wings (or fluttering capes, which are a wings substitute).


So, in the holy of holies, the most deserving (meritorious) demi-angels were turned into full angels. Being "raised from the dead" was about being transformed into the demi and then full angelic state. Some Christian Gnostic sects said that when Jesus Christ raised Lazarus "from the dead" he was performing the ritual to convert him into an angel. Many ordinary humans did not want to be "dead" and longed for life everlasting, so they craved being turned into angels.



What is resurrection in the common understanding? - a person coming back from the dead and rising from the grave. In other words, a zombie or vampire!



Spiritually, resurrection simply meant being raised to a higher state of soul. It had nothing to do with rotting corpses walking around in the Night of the Living Dead.



The "Angel Religion" was centred on an immensely powerful ritual that could ultimately make you an angel, that elevated your soul to the condition of angelic divinity, that transformed mortal humans into the immortal divine. Becoming an Angel is simply the older way of talking about BECOMING GOD! (which seemed too presumptuous for many.)