Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00299)

Peter Merriott wrote:

> The ancient Jews got all their knowledge -- religious as well as profane --
> from the nations with which we see them mixed up from the earliest periods.
> Even the oldest of all sciences, their kabalistic "secret doctrine," may be
> traced in each detail to its primeval source, Upper India, or Turkestan, far
> before the time of a distinct separation between the Aryan and Semitic
> nations.

    This fits in well with the Kabballistic legend about Abraham and his sons.
The Bible says that Abraham gave to Isaac everything he had, and gave gifts to
his other sons who went to the East. This seems rather strange; if you give away
all you have, how do you have anything left to give as gifts? The answer is the
one thing you can give away and still have: wisdom. The concept is that Abraham
gave his sons occult wisdom, in particular, who proceeded to spread the wisdom
throughout the East.

    Bart Lidofsky



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