…midwifery, which is not quite authentic. We may also put under the same heading the mysterious sixth and seventh books of Moses, of which the prophet undoubtedly knew nothing. Yet there was a time when Ted Penney's productions had fascination for the public…

…gates, or roads, which lead to the ineffable. And it was said in the ancient Jewish lore that the secret behind the fact that Moses was not able to enter the land of Canaan was because this land represented the 50th gate, and Moses was only able to…

…secret behind the fact that Moses was not able to enter the land of Canaan was because this land represented the 50th gate, and Moses was only able to pass through 49 gates, the square of seven. was reserved for the Messiah, the one who was to come,…

…all have in some sense. The Christian has it in the Sermon on the Mount. The Orthodox Jew has it in the Ten Commandments of Moses. The Moslem has it in the Code of Mormon. The Roman had it in the Justinian Code. Codes of Honor. Codes of Character and…

…merely turned to the Bible. From the Bible you learned of the wanderings of Israel in the wilderness. You learned of the light of Moses and the prophets. You went back behind this to the story of Jacob. and further on perhaps to the Garden of Eden and…

…certain measure of free thought, such conclusions were impossible. But without the proper relationship for example between the books of Moses and the Chaldean culture which preceded the culture of the Israelites, we have lost an important link in history. We…

…forever. And another great symbol of the mind who has just been brought to the motion picture screen in the Ten Commandments, Moses. Symbol of wisdom. Symbol of the guiding spirit of his people. The leader of the great pilgrimage out of Egypt and toward…

…hoping to be led to security. But when they came at last to the entrance to the promised land, mind could not go in. And Moses went to sleep in the hills of Moab. And Jehoshua, the son of Nun, led the children of Israel into Canaan. The mind cannot…

…or subhuman something beyond our immediate pen of comprehension a great study was made for example of the familiar figure of Michelangelo's Moses and it has been pointed out that if this figure should stand up it would be the most disproportioned piece of…

…beyond and above man came by way of mediators came by way of persons who through one circumstance or another were brought like Moses or Zoroaster into the presence of the Most High and received the direct word of truth from those roots and sources which…

…the condition, the factor which the word itself has been applied to. Thus, for example, in the Old Testament, the name of Moses is something which contains within it a Kabbalah, a secret meaning. And those possessing the knowledge of the Ark may take from…

…true meaning of the thing represented by the symbol. Thus, the true identity of this person, whom we know was not actually named Moses, but to whom this name was given, the identity is concealed in the name. The same was true of Pythagoras himself. He…

…They represent unworldliness produced by distortion. Michelangelo recognized this in art, and we know that his great figure of Moses gains its tremendous authority by its deformity. For if this figure stood up, it would be in completely disproportionate.…

…or Osiris Lord, indicates perhaps that from the temples of the Egyptians it may well be true, according even to the biblical story, that Moses learned a great deal, for it is said of him that he was learned in the wisdom of Egypt. We know that the…

…This mystery is unfolded in great detail along the way of our story. So Odin stands forth as a kind of hero. Odin and Moses have something very interesting in common. was permitted to come as far as the mountain of Moab and there look across upon the…

…the tablets of the Law. Therefore it remained for Jehoshua, the son of Nun, to lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land. Moses saw the land from afar and lay down upon the hills of Moab and was gathered unto his father. So Moses, although he…

…the Promised Land. Moses saw the land from afar and lay down upon the hills of Moab and was gathered unto his father. So Moses, although he led the children of Israel as a great lawgiver, having upon the tablets of the law those very laws that were…

…name of Jesus, the son of the fish. Nun, meaning fish. So we have a strange, mysterious analogy there that someone else besides Moses, the hero of the world, by prophecy, must lead the children of Israel into the promised land. It is the same with Odin.…

…drummer of grace Oedipus Rex which gives us another important commentary on this matter. Oedipus is one of the deities that, like Moses and Sargon and many others, including Romulus, was discarded by its parents or his parents and sent out to die. was…

…they pierced its feet so that it would always have great trouble in walking. Raised in the family of a neighboring king, like Moses, and not aware that these were his foster parents and not his own young Oedipus became aware of the story of the oracle…

…day of rest the Sabbath represents ascending ultimate union with consciousness descending the rest of death therefore when the time came for Moses to die the Lord had promised him that he would not send to him the angel of death therefore the Lord came…

…Moses to die the Lord had promised him that he would not send to him the angel of death therefore the Lord came himself and gave Moses the kiss of sleep and he went to sleep in the hills of Moab but till downward the rest is a silence that comes at…

…all human codes, was accredited to the god Nebo. The Pentateuch tells us that the Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, is credited to Moses as writing out from the hand of God. All these codes were originally conceived as divinely inspired. but I think we can…

…leaders who have sought to bring to mankind a higher level of life. We know the great world teachers. We know Buddha and Moses and Confucius and Lao Tzu and Jesus, Muhammad, all the great teachers that have come to serve us. We know that almost all…

…be in awe. We would fall on our knees because we would be standing in the presence of that blazing bush which Moses saw. we would see God moving through the tremendous involvement of our structure more wonderful, more beautiful, more strange to us than…

…But it is simply advice to keep the rules to keep the faith to read the scripture to follow the commandments of Moses and Jesus and that if individuals will do these things most of their problems will evaporate but our present generation is made…

…science is regarded as a kind of physical god. The sciences are regarded as infallible, far more important than the revelation to Moses on the crest of Sinai. Science, however, in the course of time, like nearly everything else that lives, began to wane…

…moral laws of ethics. And these are very, very important. The Ten Commandments are a good example of this. Presumably given to Moses on Mount Sinai by the very hand of God. Actually, those Ten Commandments were as old as time. The most primitive people…

…God. The God that wrote the in living fire the tablets of the law on the crest of Sinai. This deity was not visible to Moses, but Moses is supposed to have been a lawgiver, and he seems to have been wise in the wisdom of the Egyptians and other…

…God that wrote the in living fire the tablets of the law on the crest of Sinai. This deity was not visible to Moses, but Moses is supposed to have been a lawgiver, and he seems to have been wise in the wisdom of the Egyptians and other strange people…

…or less fall apart en route. There won't be very many people in our generation who will be able to accomplish what Grandma Moses did And I understand that she passed today at 101. She had been in this world since the administration of Abraham Lincoln.…

…Vishnu slept through the seven eternities. Here was the winged serpent of the ancient lands of the Euphrates, the serpent raised by Moses in the wilderness. And even as late as the time of Jesus, he admonished his disciples to be as wise as serpents…

…or accepted the two symbols. as in the case of the raising of the brazen serpent, where according to the ancient records, Moses raised the serpent upon the T-cross of the Egyptians. Here, two symbols originally far separate met for the first time, perhaps,…

…over all else. The only directives that we have that are adequate are directives based upon such principles as the Decalogue of Moses or the Sermon on the Mount or the famous disciplines and commandments of Buddhism or the essential moral code of Vyasa or…

…the time or else regard the investment as unprofitable. But somewhere along the line, creativity must break through. It broke through Grandma Moses when she was 100 years old, but it can. Now, there's no real reason why it has to be achieved only by…

…were happening all the way along that could have helped. In the midst of all of this we also had the Mosaic Code. Now Moses was not a graduate with a Phi Beta Kappa P. Moses was a wandering shepherd. Jesus never went to the university. But his rules,…

…the midst of all of this we also had the Mosaic Code. Now Moses was not a graduate with a Phi Beta Kappa P. Moses was a wandering shepherd. Jesus never went to the university. But his rules, laws, and principles were greater and more noble and more…

…intellectualism of the last 2,000 years. And out of it all has come a tremendous moral influence on mankind. Between Moses and Jesus, the foundations of the morality of the West were established. Both of these were simple persons. comparatively unknown…

…group or some individual can lead them to the promised land. Up to the present time, no one has been too successful in that. Even Moses was not permitted to go into the promised land himself. He showed the way, but he could not go in. And it is the…

…find anything intelligent about and that is 1200 BC this 1200 BC is the age of two great teachers Akhenaten in Egypt and Moses in Israel They came in the beginning of a year of the cycle of the Phoenix. Moses never entered the Promised Land. Akhenaten…

…great teachers Akhenaten in Egypt and Moses in Israel They came in the beginning of a year of the cycle of the Phoenix. Moses never entered the Promised Land. Akhenaten died on the altar of his deity, the Aton. Both of these were great picture people.…

…died on the altar of his deity, the Aton. Both of these were great picture people. They were great sources of tradition. Moses has descended as a living force into modern religion and is one of the most powerful links uniting Christianity and Judaism in…

…of the most powerful links uniting Christianity and Judaism in the great religious buildings of Europe figures, paintings, representations of Moses abound and therefore we must regard the Ten Commandments which he brought with him from the flaming crest of…

…to this day have never been broken with impunity. The principles they stand for, we do not know where they came from. Moses certainly did not invent them. They either came from some mysterious internal revelation of the eternal. or else they arose from…

…down the idea of equalities and enslave humanity. Now about the same time as Akhenaten was flourishing in Egypt for a while, Moses received the tablets of the law from the peaks of Sinai. And the Ten Commandments or the Decalogue is about 3,000 years,…

…with the profit system be good to the stranger take in the hopeless and the homeless and feed them oh no not now and Moses didn't have any social security to back him up either Moses said thou shalt not kill thou shalt not bear false witness all these…

…the hopeless and the homeless and feed them oh no not now and Moses didn't have any social security to back him up either Moses said thou shalt not kill thou shalt not bear false witness all these things but that was three thousand or more years ago…

…God dwelt upon mountains, or in the high places of the Lord, even as it was upon a mountain that God spake unto Moses. So, mountains and mountain worship became very sacred, and the concept of the world mountain, whether it be Olympus, or Miru, or…

…foundations were already there. And the early students of Jewish metaphysics were convinced that their great mystical traditions descended from Moses, who had received not only the tablets of the law and the form of the structure of Jewish religious…

…invisible worlds. That it was even possible for man to approach the very presence of God and return to earth alive, as Moses had done from the blazing crest of the mountain. These people seemed to feel that man could wander into the inscrutable regions…

…death. That they were picked up in righteousness, as was Enoch, and carried into the presence of God. The angel that appeared to Moses to invite him to ascend the mountain to receive the tablets of the law, told Moses to rise and follow him into the…

…presence of God. The angel that appeared to Moses to invite him to ascend the mountain to receive the tablets of the law, told Moses to rise and follow him into the presence of God. And Moses was afraid, according to the old legend, and said that he…

…him to ascend the mountain to receive the tablets of the law, told Moses to rise and follow him into the presence of God. And Moses was afraid, according to the old legend, and said that he did not dare to go. That he was not worthy to be brought…

…where a great deal of the wisdom of the old Jewish people seems to have originated. Especially as we are told definitely that Moses was most learned in the wisdom of the Egyptians. Last week we took up the stage of attempting to understand the rise of…

…spirits. Many legends and much lore accumulated, and somewhere along the line the infamous sixth and seventh books of Moses were invented. This invention was comparatively recent. In Germany, tabalistic books were publicly burned, not because of anti-Semitism,…

…the law. We are of the opinion that the term Torah should be applied to the Pentateuch, the first five books of Moses, and sometimes the sixth volume. Not, however, the sixth or seventh book which I just mentioned. This Torah, to the tabellists therefore,…

…brought back to man in the Kabbalah, that man himself, though of the greatest righteousness, and of most saintly nature, even Moses himself, could not in all things keep the law. Therefore, being unable to fully comprehend that which was in excess of…

…Sephahazohar, or the Book of the Splendors. This was first given to the world around the 12th or 13th century by Rabbi Moses de Leon. He insisted that he transcribed it from an ancient work. For nearly 300 years, perhaps 400 years, historians have thrown…

…ancient work. For nearly 300 years, perhaps 400 years, historians have thrown the lie to his teeth. They have said that Rabbi Moses wrote the work himself, but it had no root in antiquity, and probably little, if any, roots in tradition. However, in the…

…benefit to abstractions. Their article on the Kabbalah states as the modern point of view that it is very probable that Rabbi Moses of Lyon either was in possession of an earlier manuscript, or was in possession of a valid oral tradition, and that in…

…truthful in attributing the Zohar to a very much earlier date than the medieval scholars had admitted. According to Rabbi Moses, this work was actually written about the beginning of the Christian era, just at this particularly critical time during the…

…of the Sovereign Infinite. And this Sovereign Infinite consists of the forty-nine paths of the Sefer Yetzirah, which it is said Moses, the beloved of God, walked the forty-nine paths, which were the mysterious numbers of the seven times seven. And at the…

…time before the day, when the Mishnah was given. And the third time before the day, when the Kabbalah was given. But Moses was forbidden to preach the Kabbalah in life. Therefore, for many centuries, it was perpetuated only by the high priests. Only one…

…and thus actually the Zephan Zohar was compiled much later during the period of the Jewish metaphor entrained by one rabbi, Rabbi Moses of Nihon. I think we are far more likely to be faced with this situation. Namely, that the books of Simeon, Samuel,…

…around with them from the time they left for us for the final settlement in Navarre. So the fact most likely is that Rabbi Moses of Lyon either came into the possession of a very ancient magistrate, or else, that he was able to gather together some of…

…and four or two short of being the complete seminary. Now, as I also mentioned, The six and seven books of Moses, as they are now available, are supposedly under distribution, but actually only brim-wise. That is, they are productions of magic, originating…

…actually only brim-wise. That is, they are productions of magic, originating in the Middle Ages. They are not actual, genuine productions of Moses, or of the period in which Moses lived. The same is true of the Keys of Solomon, a work of magic lenders,…

…from the Lord. He realized that there were great and wonderful men in Israel whom the Lord had wonderfully blessed. You've blessed Moses, and yet Moses makes two or three very serious mistakes. You've cost him his privilege and right to join the children…

…He realized that there were great and wonderful men in Israel whom the Lord had wonderfully blessed. You've blessed Moses, and yet Moses makes two or three very serious mistakes. You've cost him his privilege and right to join the children of Israel in…

…rise of a constant attitude in Jewish mysticism itself. This attitude is perhaps best exemplified in the writings of Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon, or Maimonides, the great Jewish scholastic, whose so heavily influenced the thinking of Ernest Magnus of San Antonio.…

…of the people, even as far back as the time of the prophets. This is quite conceivable, inasmuch as it is assumed that Moses was learned in the wisdom of the Egyptians. And very definitely, he may have been aware of the Egyptian secret systems of…

…Holies, or the inner place, which contained the ark, the turrets, and originally was supposed to have within it the tablets of Moses and the budding rod of Aaron. This wood, this mysterious box of kingdom wood, overlaid with gold and capped upon spades in…

…is a strong and definite revelation of the liturgy. If there's no sense of an intercession in one particular, when compared with Moses, It is deficient in heart quality. It is deficient in anthropology. In other words, it does not carry into its own…

…The second point for consideration is the authenticity of the sentence. The sentence is generally referred to as the five books of Moses. We have, however, no absolutes proposed for their author, nor do we give such an evidence or proof cover the even…

…of the grammatical problem used last time. We see, likewise, however, that the internal, or the same traditional evidence proves that Moses was the actual author of these words. He is a strategically accepted author. It is not impossible that he is like…

…a third group, occupying a Fort Horace middle ground, that point out that, according to the custom and the propriety of the time, Moses undoubtedly would have made use of Christ, in the way he probably would not have written the books for his own hands.…

…is quite possible. Although we know beyond any reasonable doubt that although we might submit the authorship of the Pentateuch to Moses, that there are fragments, sections, and parts of it but are almost certainly derived from older sources. Some of these…

…that makes a story We have discussed the Pentateuch, by which the Jewish law was established, under the Torah or the books of Moses. But this law, essentially, was the law of the monotheistic theism, a law which declared that the law of God and the law…

…therefore we say that if you worship Allah you really have to go on a holy war against Brahma or if you believe in Moses you have to go into a holy war against Zoroaster All of these names become frightfully important. The fact that they all taught…

…this work. We know that it was first circulated in Europe about the year 1305. At that time, the principal exponent was Rabbi Moses of Leon. And for a long time, it was assumed that he had fabricated the great Kabbalistic book, the Sefer HaZohar, or the…

…his information elsewhere. It just became too large a subject to be encompassed within the life and ability of one person. Rabbi Moses was a very busy man. His life was fairly well known. There was not much possibility that a work of the magnitude…

…his conviction that it should be brought together and made available to the world. To explain the origin of the work, Rabbi Moses ben Leon, therefore, took the attitude, or held forth the belief, that is more or less contained within the text itself, that…

…the Pentateuch, the Talmud and the Mishnah, then it follows that by this same divine authority, by this same divine wisdom revealed by Moses and the prophets, man is in the likeness of his Creator. Thus, to see man, in a sense, is to see the Creator,…

…that must carry him without death into the presence of the Most High. The same concept is carried in the three mysterious visions of Moses on Mount Sinai, in which in the end Moses is picked up and carried into a crowd. And as he passes through the…

…of the peculiar and mysterious ultimate sacrifice of man, the relinquishing of the principle of intellectual selfhood. The mind must die like Moses on the hill of Moab, for it cannot enter into the promised land. So wisdom dies. But the great sage, like…

…end of the mental existence. We sometimes use the analogy that is found in the Pentateuch relating to this. For we know that Moses, who represents the elder mind of Israel, was permitted to see the Promised Land, but he could not enter, and was required…

…to sleep in the hills of Moab. And Jehoshua, the son of Nun, led the children of Israel into the land of Canaan. Moses, the great lawgiver, the great teacher, the symbol perhaps of the great philosopher of Israel, could not enter into the promised land,…

…this union. They were not absorbed into it. They were not forever one with beings. They have perceived it. They experienced it as Moses standing upon the hill of Moab, looked out into the promised land but did not enter. He knew of the land by some…

…system was the power of the divine soul, or the presence of the mystery of God as the Shekinah, given inwardly to Moses. This, in the Eastern philosophy, parallels the idea that the purified Kamarupa becomes, so to say, the Beatrice who must lead Dante…

…They can result in improvements of society and the evolution of human culture. But the experience itself, like the experience of Moses on the height of Sinai, is something that cannot be actually communicated. And in the silence of his contemplation, the…

…including the hero must die. Because that which dies is the partile self. It is said in the ancient wisdom of Israel. That Moses ascended through the 49 gates. But the 50th gate he could not pass. And because he had angered the Lord. By the smiting…

…Upon the land of Canaan. But Joshua the son of Nun. Led the children of Israel into the promised land. And upon the mountain. Moses the hero. Died. And was taken to his God. And because God had promised that the angel of death should never come unto…

…Moses the hero. Died. And was taken to his God. And because God had promised that the angel of death should never come unto Moses. God came himself and took him. Now Moses is the hero. But the hero must die upon the hill of Moab. Because another…

…God. And because God had promised that the angel of death should never come unto Moses. God came himself and took him. Now Moses is the hero. But the hero must die upon the hill of Moab. Because another leader must carry the twelve tribes. The twelve…

…the patriarchal image, an image which is a combination of some contemporary sense of sageness, and perhaps the mental image of Moses or one of the prophets. For most prophets or teachers, the creation of anthropomorphic likeness is not too difficult. Any…

…ultimately come to the point in which the mind must sacrifice itself for his salvation. This mind is like the ancient patriarch Moses, who was permitted to gaze upon the promised But because he had sinned against the laws of God, he was not permitted…

…withheld from him and bestowed upon Joshua, the son of Nun. He led the children of Israel to the land of milk and honey. Moses is the man which from the lonely heights of Moab may contemplate the blessedness of people that may not enter in. That which…

…religious writings, therefore, quite frequently some simple statements such as, I am. And we find this in the story of the visit of Moses to the court of Theriot in Egypt, when Moses And Aaron wanted to have the authority to appear. They wanted to know…

…such as, I am. And we find this in the story of the visit of Moses to the court of Theriot in Egypt, when Moses And Aaron wanted to have the authority to appear. They wanted to know who had authorized them to go before Pharaoh. And God answered…

…the degrees of sanctity or divinity present in the various representations that they made. Whether it is the great Michelangelo's Moses or the tremendous symbolical value of the Raphael and Rembrandt sacred paintings. It's always the same. A sacred picture to…

…will only end in suicide. Actually, then, we have a great new science coming. It is not now the tablets of the law revealed to Moses from the crest of Sinai. It is now the infinite plan of things as written in every grain of sand. a plan that is…

…Therefore, the great period of revelation is not now. The great period of revelation gave the world Pythagoras and Akhenaten and Moses Zoroaster, Buddha, Krishna, all the great scholars and wisdom teachers of the past. Now, why was that the way it is?…

…us the great religions of the world, brought from the inner life of themselves or from space itself something like the Decalogue of Moses that was given by the finger of God in the clouds of Sinai. There have been revelations by means of which The…

…plains of our South West, had just a sphere of insight into a spatial value as is to be found in the cultures of Simeon, Moses, or Amalek. He had learned something that we do not realize, namely that culture is in terms of some man, but he is not.…

…the highest aspects of contemplative wisdom, we have exhausted the power of the world soul to carry us further. We then stand as Moses stood, overlooked in the promised land, but he could not enter. Therefore he lay down and died upon the lonely hills of…

…had been searching for religion. He learned something of the old Jewish religion, learned something of the heroic figure of Moses standing out against the background of that struggle. Later, through the Nestorians, he learned a great deal about the life…

…the biblical descent of history. The early church historians were not interested in Egypt, except for the interludes of Joseph and Moses, or perhaps the flight of Jesus into Egypt. Egypt as itself was only part of a framework. These same historians had…

…and regretting that he cannot live to see it so that he becomes a teacher but cannot behold the glory of the great fulfillment Moses was able to bring the children of Israel to the gates of the promised land but he was not permitted to enter all these…

…Therefore, they could not be converted to Christianity because the religion or the faith had not arisen. On the other hand, like Moses and Aaron, and many of the patriarchs of the Old Testament, they were persons of virtue. They could not be disregarded.…

…heroic deeds. But the scriptures tell us, and Lao Tzu told us, Buddha told us, and Confucius told us, Zoroaster told us, Moses told us, and Jesus told us, that the actual problem is the accomplishment of quietude. a complete silence, a strained quietness,…

…but it is simply advice to keep the rules to keep the faith to read the scripture to follow the commandments of Moses and Jesus and that if individuals will do these things most of their problems will evaporate but our present generation is made…

…world and it is nearly always represented as a radiant heroic being with long wavy hair symbolizing its rays usually blonde or red-headed Moses is said to have had red hair this strange reddish golden light the symbol of the mane of the royal lion of…

…of sacraments, where certain sacraments were for the laity and certain only for the priesthood. The ancient Kabbalah says that originally Moses wrote seven books, of which five are the Pentateuch and the others are lost. so-called sixth and seventh book of…

…this story of the moon divinity. We have, for instance, the interesting note that when Michelangelo made his magnificent heroic figure of Moses, He placed lunar horns upon the forehead of the great lawgiver of Israel. No one knows why this occurred. But we…

…Elohim, or the builders. And these two were originally separate religions, but they were blended together. The horns upon the forehead of Moses remind us also of the horns upon the altars of the tabernacle, the horns upon the crown of Osiris, The horns…

…cuneiform described as the lord of the writing table the lord of the writing table and moses died upon nebo And Moses himself is remembered particularly because of the two tables of the law. These analogies get dim in interpretation, but the roots…

…beginning of this discipline was to a degree simple religious virtue. The individual standing in the presence of the Decalogue delivered by Moses, or listening gently and quietly to a reading of the Beatitudes, was moved not by reason, but by faith. by the…

…or a familiar form picture. We use distortion exactly as Michelangelo used distortion to create a dynamic. If Michelangelo's figure of Moses stood up, we would see that it was a totally disproportionate figure. Yet because of his arrangement of mass, it…

…He was working for a consciousness dimension, just as Michelangelo wished to convey the terrific impact of the great Mosaic lawgiver in his Moses. He wasn't trying to be a master of anatomy, although he had to be a master of anatomy to do what he did.…

…also the degrees of their development within the school. We learn from this book, for instance, that according to the alchemical tradition, Moses was an addict. We learn that Solomon was an addict, and this brings us very close to the fact that Solomon…