Did the Hebrew priests of Yahweh in 7th century BCE Jerusalem get religious ideas not only from Babylonia and Egypt, but from India as well? Few persons in the three western Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) ever seem to notice the anagrammatic relationship of the name Abraham to the supreme being known as Brahma in Hindu religion and philosophy. In the earliest part of Hindu texts the name of the Hindu initiator of life was spelled Brama, but later the letter H is added thus making it Brahma. To understand the value behind Brahma’s name, the Creator-being of Hinduism, it is found encoded in the word used for the Source and Cause of everything; Parabrahm. There is insider information for the addition of the letter H to the names Brama and Abram—and it was also added to the name Sari, Abram’s sister/wife, as well, changing her identity to Sarah. The letter H or h is inserted to indicate the accomplishment of life with defined matter form.
The story of Abram and Sari appearing in Genesis, the book of beginnings, continues in mythological style the dimensional advance of pre-physical energies that were earlier represented with the characters of Adam and Eve, and which personified primal elements being moved out of Source. In other words, Adam and Eve represent polar activity that is necessary for primal elements to be energized toward life. Abram and Sari literally flesh out the story elements as personifications of the pre-physical energies advancing into material identity. These biblical characters, therefore, were not based on any historical persons; they represent the two polar developmental aspects within creative energy that are responsible for all life attaining matter form.
Abram’s “ancestry” is recorded in chapter 11 of Genesis, the book of beginnings, with a listing of much begatting which ends, finally, with the terse verse 27; “Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.” That’s it. No angelic announcements, no signs in the sky, nothing that commonly attends the introduction of such a major mythic character. Just splat! there he is. For a man held to be the alleged seed bearer of all Israelites this is rather a short shrift. Abram’s father’s name, Terah, has a curious phonetic and suggestive echo to the Latin word terra, which means “earth.”
Abram is depicted as having been the patriarch of “Ur of the Chaldees,” and the name of the city, Ur, means “light” or “fire.” One of the identities in the Chaldean trinity was known as Aur, the god of light. Thus Abram symbolically represents the Life Principle which is active within Creation’s Source, so he represents the same light that all theological interpretations say accompanies energy manifestation toward a defined form.
Abram is thus the personification of the Genetic Principle, and Sarai is the related primal energy-substance that is acted upon. It is identical in plotline and meaning as the earlier Adam and Eve story. Abram was told to leave “…from thy father’s house…” just as Adam was given the bum’s rush out of Eden. And Abram departed “…not knowing whither he went.” Hidden in this line is a scientific truth: genetic energy is not dynamic for the purpose of any particular destiny. Abram departs from Ur and, the authors assert, winds up in Canaan, which is used as a metaphor for energy in proto-matter formation. And he then has a layover at Beth-el, which happens to mean “house of God;” so the characters have not yet left the primal planes of Creation. The source material from which the priest-authors drew inspiration for this claim is obvious, for beth is Egyptian meaning “house,” and el is Babylonian meaning “god.” So Abram and Sarai are still “in the house of god” and not yet endowed with physical identity.
We should note here that the Hindu goddess Saraswati (saras means “flow”) was said to be the sister-consort of Brahma. The Yahweh priest-authors who knew of the Hindu texts were not exactly confident as to what Brama and his sister-consort Saraswati represented. The priest-authors, not knowledgeable of the polar aspect within Creative activity, felt morally bound to refine the idea of a marriage of brother and sister by recasting Sarai as Abram’s half-sister, which was then acceptable according to their law. In doing so the authors wound up mystifying and suppressing the more scientific ancient teachings of how life becomes manifest as matter. The authors did not feel any particular moral guilt in reinterpreting that knowledge into theological-historical context, however.
Thus the story continues that at the alleged age of 75 Abram set out with Sarai, Lot, their servants, cattle and treasures, and journeyed southward to Shechem, a major Canaanite hill country city. There God allegedly appeared to Abram to tell him that his offspring would possess the material future. At this point the priest-authors then had Abram journey into Egypt. But Egypt was commonly used as a metaphor for energy as matter in scriptural myth, and since Abram and Sarai have not yet had the letter H added to their names, the plotline of them temporarily entering the energy plane of matter is out of sequence—they are not yet matter beings! Nonetheless, their priest-inspired adventures illustrate how to gain by deceit, for by having Abram not telling the Pharaoh that Sarai was his wife, and the Pharaoh desired her for his concubine, they gained considerable material wealth. Abram and Sarai are portrayed as using the same scam again on King Abimelech of Gerar. (These episodes were “borrowed” from the Egyptian Tale of the Two Brothers—which also provided a similar storyline regarding Joseph and the wife of Potiphar, in Genesis also, 39:1-20.)
Even after years of marriage Sarai was barren, and so she provided eighty-five year old Abram with her Egyptian bond-woman that he might conceive a son. Thus began the myth of Ishmael. (We should note here that Sarai’s long barrenness is paralleled in the later Genesis myths of Rachel, wife of Jacob, and Rebekah, wife of Isaac.) But then when Abram was ninety-nine, according to biblical reckoning, Abram evolved into Abraham, and Sarai was transformed into Sarah. The transformation into definable matter had occurred. It was then that God is alleged to have told Abraham that his descendants would rule all the land of Canaan.
In Hebrew myth the physical Sarah was said to have remained irresistibly beautiful even after her ninetieth year, which is when she conceived and bore Isaac. And, legend asserts, she even was capable of suckling all her neighbors infant children as well as Isaac. This is not within human capacity, but it underlines the mythic atmosphere that covered the ancient lessons that once taught how energy takes form as matter. “Barren” Sarai personified primordial energy-substance, which can and does suckle all developing life, but Sarah represents matter-life; so these two different personifications of matter-life development are again blurred.
Few who take the Bible literally seldom ponder the implication of this transformation into Abraham and Sarah, or that aging of the body never occurred in any prior biblical tale. And to Abraham and Sarah the son Isaac was born, and it was only after this that conditions of lingering death began to be portrayed. There is no account of Eve dying, for example, because she represents the primal and eternal energy-substance out of which all matter is to be projected into manifestation. On the other hand, Sarah “…died in Kirjath-arba; the same is in the land of Canaan…” (Genesis 23:2), for she represents the energy-substance through which matter-life achieves its expression. With the birth of Isaac, Sarah soon exits the story. Strangely, Isaac is in turn about the most shadowy figure among the other alleged patriarchs.
Isaac fulfills the means for Abraham’s descendents to claim rule of all the land of Canaan, as Yahweh allegedly promised. There is, however, a bizarre last-minute stipulation for them to receive this bequest, the priest-authors recorded, and that was the covenant that every male child was to be circumcised. Ancient Creation lessons from which this practice was instigated had taught that consciousness in matter is to be cut away in order for higher potential to advance into refined being. Circumcision of males offers wise health advantages for males, but it is hardly a reasonable mark of godly favoritism. If God deemed the foreskin to be superfluous or offensive to him, he could, being omniscient, easily eliminate it without imposing pain and scars. Indeed, twelve starring characters in scriptural myths are claimed to have been born already circumcised: Adam, Seth, Enoch, Noah, Shem, Terah, Joseph, Moses, Samuel, David, Isaiah and Jeremiah. Thus the illusion of God’s tendency to favoritism is made to prevail.
Will literalists ever wake up to the fact that such stories as these are not based on historical events? The mythical style used throughout Hebrew scriptures is acceptable only when understood that it illustrates the non-moral genetic nature of Causation.
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