“The name “[Melkiys.edeq]” means “king of righteousness.” {As booty, he would not demand of >ab-raham “even to a shoelatchet” (B-Re>s^iyt 14:23) for sandals to be worn on the feet.}

{For “calling him [>ab-raham] to its feet” (Ys^a<yah 41:2) : besides ‘righteousness’, the other meaning of \s.edeq\ is (JMS2, p. 423) ‘planet Jupiter’; \Melkiy-s.edeq\ can as readily mean ‘my king [is] planet Jupiter’ : Zeus is king of the gods, much as is Zatik in Armenian mythology (A:AM, cap. iv).}

“Paul says of [Melkiys.edeq] (Hebrews, 7:3) … “… without origin, without beginning or end … .””  

{This is tantamount to asserting that the “Foundation of the World” is “without origin, without beginning or end” :  “as it is written, “And Righteousness is the foundation of the world.”” (Bahir 102 -- 13P“Yesod”)}

“He had a dream in which he saw a stairway … reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending it.”

{Because the word for “musical scale” is the same is many languages as the word for ‘ladder’ (and/or for ‘staircase’), therefore this rather figurative description of a type of dream, may have been intended to imply that the angels were (and regularly are) chanting, with the intonation of their voices ascending-and-descending the musical scale.}

“Mount Sinai, where Yahweh made his revelation to Moses, is literally “the mountain of the moon.”

{The Akkadian moon-god’s name \Sin\ may be cognate with \Sinivali\, the name of a Vaidik moon-phase goddess.}

In esoteric terms, Yahweh is seen as reflecting the sun’s light … .” {In Neo-Platonic philosophy (not in Qabbalah), the moon is regarded as a cosmic mirror.}

{According to the upa-nis.ad post-mortem ascent to the moon will result in samsarik redincarnation, not in heavenly deliverance; thus, Yahweh must be responsible misery-producing ruination of souls.}

“In Jewish mysticism there is a tradition that the first set of tablets that Moses brought down from the mountain contained a different and greater wisdom that that on the second set of tablets he brought down.}

{Because while Miryam and >Ahrown were worshipping the Golden Calf, YHWH was well-aware of this worship, and shewed his approbation of this by issuing the wisdom-promoting 1^st set of tablets. But when Mos^eh interfered with worship of the Golden Calf, YHWH was outraged by such interference, and therefore YHWH substituted a delusive 2^nd set of tablets in order to shew his disapproval against Mos^eh’s impious action.}

“In 1976, … Julian Jaynes of Princeton University published The Origins of Consciousness … . … Jaynes … argues that … In Homer’s text … The men and women do not think about what they are going to do and then decide.”

{The Iliad was cleverly written as a political satire intending to lampoon to hereditary nobility as unthinking brutes, who rush thoughtlessly to slaughter one another, quite mercilessly. As such, the Iliad is very much on a par with the genre of modern anti-war satires.}

“It is also worth noting in this context that when Homer asks the Muses for help in writing, he is not asking for help in writing style {why not the style of extreme irony??}, his is asking factual information {untrue!!} about the course of the war and individual battle. He … writes about people {nobles, as objects to be lampooned} encountering spiritual beings {aequivalent, in this context, to “Uncle Sam” and to “John Bull” -- familiar in our polemic political satire of exaggerated lampoonery} … .”

{There are no “facts” concerning the purely fictitious invasion of the Troad by an imaginary army commanded by one Aga-memnon. On the contrary, these gentile nobility who in real life would be most fastidious to observe all courtly rules of etiquette, are most mercilessly lampooned -- as unthinking brutes of depraved conduct -- by a poe:t (or poe:ts) of ironic expertise, who must have been in the pay of a merchant-guild intent on collapsing the landed aristocracy, and, along with collapsing the aristocracy, eliminating all the restrictions thitherto imposed on free trade.}

“when she first saw him she thought he was standing on water. … She had a secret that a mirrored floor would reveal -- that her feet were webbed like the feet of geese.” {“The text of a twelfth-century German manuscript represents the Queen of Sheba as goose-footed.” (“G-FQuShD”)}

{“on her arrival he received her in a glass house. Thinking that Solomon was sitting in the water, she lifted up her skirt, whereupon he noticed hair on her feet” (2^nd Targum to >ester -- JE, s.v. “Sheba, Queen Of -- Jewish Legends”).}

p.143

“He was lying in the bottom of a ship that was being tossed about on the ocean.

He was being shaken awake

{This is a “false waking” as experienced in a dream.}

by the crew members … . … The boy told the sailors to throw him overboard. He felt the waves close over him … . Suddenly a great whale loomed up and swallowed him

and he remained in the belly of the whale for three days and nights … .

{This would imply that the reference (Matthaios 12:40) “so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the Heart of the Earth” is intended as involving a dream-encased experience.}

And he woke up in the attic to find an man with long hair and a hairy coat staring down at him.””

p.144

“The boy in Elijah’s loft would grow up to become a prophet. Mystical tradition revcals his secret identity : he was Jonah … .”

“Elijah was sheltering in a cave on the side of the mountain when a great wind began … . …

Then the whole mountain was shaken by an earthquake … .

Then a sheet of fire lit up the entrance to the cave … . …

Elijah … wrapped up in his mantle. And as he did so, he heard a still small voice … . This voice … told him to continue his mission and to appoint his successor.”

p.145

“Elijah … was carried up to

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heaven in a fiery chariot drawn by fiery horses. This was watched only by Elisha, whom he had chosen as his successor … .”

p.460, n. 19:5

“Elijah intervenes in what … Jacob Boehme referred to the Outworld … .”