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left Egypt. The overdue fee at Pharaoh’s library would have been astronomical,
but luckily he escaped payment. The Ancient Word had been in use all the
way down to the time of Israel’s captivity in Egypt, probably around 1,500 B.C.8
Ancient Egypt used that Word, for millennia. How long ago? Scholars now
think that the Sphinx began as a lion dating from around 13,000 B.C, facing
the zodiac of “Leo” in the vernal equinox,9 with Pharaoh Cephes later carving
his own face on it. The mutation of our earth, its wobble, goes through a
2,150 year cycle, after which a new constellation zodiac heaves into the vernal
equinox slot. That was probably why Cephes put his own face there, since Leo
had moved on!
Today, 15,000 years later, we are in the
Age of Aquarius. In any case, that would
place ancient Egypt back to the time of
using the Ancient Word – together with
several city states which nowadays are
nothing but mounds in the desert. Ebla
was found that way, Tell Mardikh, (the
Mardikh mound) dating from 3,200 B.C.,
a pre-pyramid era. There they found clay
tables mentioning King Ebrium and their
God, El and Jah, abbreviation for Elohim
and Jehovah. (Psalm 68.4, 102.18, 118.5), plus many city states, including
Sodom and Gomorrah.10 They, too, must have used the Ancient Word.
So when Moses received inspiration to start writing a “new Word less
remote” than the Ancient Word (Sacred Scripture 102), it was by dictation:
“Hebrew spirits spoke the exact words” into the ear of Moses and all other Old
Testament authors. (Arcana Coelestia 7055, cf. 2533, 2520, Heaven and Hell
254) But the Lord told Moses to stick the Ancient Word up front – the longpreserved spiritual history of the human race.
Thus made-up history merges into actual history, besides Eber, with
Nahor, Terah, and Abram. (Genesis 12) And it was in that made-up story, from
the Ancient Word, that Noah and the Flood was invented. Back then, they
loved to wrap up at great depth doctrinal realities into enigmatic tales with
characters conversing and thus personifying, or depicting, doctrinal realities.
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Abram/Abraham lived ca. 2000 B.C. David ca. 1000 B.C. so everything else, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph,
the Captivity and Exodus, 40 years of wandering, arrival at Canaan, Joshua, Saul, David, Solomon and
the temple, all had to fit in during those 1000 years of history.
9 Image: http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0PDoVxyBOJP4VIA6saJzbkF?p=Sphi
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Image: http://www.homsonline.com/EN/Citeis/Ebla.htm
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