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Mount Carmel plays an important role
in Ancient Christianity
Robert has the
opinion that Christianity has its roots
in ancient Egyptian religion. Next to the
well-known history
of Israel and Western Christian beliefs,
there exist a pattern of secret Christian
history and dogma.
Read about the early Christian temple in ancient
Egypt
It is difficult to find literature of archeological
facts
about Mount Carmel. Mount Carmel is a very
important place
for the secret history of Christianity.
Some things we know. Egyptian sailors went to
the Lebanon
since ancient times. Consequently there existed
the Hathor religion in the area of Mount Carmel
and to the North of mount Carmel. Remnants of
this Hathor temple have been found.
Mount Carmel lies just South of Haifa.
Mountain tops have always played an important
part
in the Moses-Aaron-Mirjam religion. So have the
calf
(which is a cow of less then three years old)
and the snake
around the staff and the moon crescent also
played
an important role in the ancient Hebrew and
early Christian religion.
The calf and the snake are Egyptian symbols of
the goddess.
Lebanon was during millenniums part of the
Egyptian empire.
Ofcourse the mystery of the place of Baalbek
springs
into mind, so does also the place of Ugarit.
Some authors
have the opinion that the book of the Death of
the Egyptians
(Going forth by day) has to do with Baalbek
as one of the places where a communication
device
(piramidion) was present. Anyway the ties
between ancient Egypt
and Lebanon were close.
Another fact is that
on Mount Carmel two temples
were in existence at the same time.
One temple was the
temple of Baal,
the original
pre-christian religion. The other temple was
the temple of El. After being coexistant for
who knows how long,
there starts a
temple war. The priests of El
start at a certain moment
to kill the priests and priestesses of Baal.
About the Baal temple we don't know much,
because the Baal temple was destroyed
together with the
Baal believers.
There are reasons to believe that the Baal
religion
has been the continuation of the Moses-Aaron-Mirjam
religion,
as it was brought out of ancient Egypt with the
Exodus.
The leader of the temple war was a prophet Eli
who later became a prominent leader of the El
religion.
It is from this area again that the written
alphabet
took over from the oral tradition of holy
scripture.
Between the years 900 to 600 BC it is almost
sure
that many religious movements worldwide started
to write down their ancient oral tradition of
holy scriptures.
One of those movements were the tribes of Judah
and Levi
of the El-Jehovah religion.
Since the El-Jehovah priests were the first to
write down
what has been in the oral tradition of the
Hebrew tribes
for at that time maybe two thousand years, they
also changed the text
and stories into their way of thinking
as followers of the El-Jehovah religion. This
does not make
their achievement less valuable, but it is
something
that happened at that time and area. The
writing down
of the oral tradition was completed somewhere
with the return of the exiled Hebrew people
coming back from the exile in Babylon, around
620 BC.
This is not a value
statement of the rightness
of one religion or
the other, just that
the history of
religion is complex and very much influenced
and rewritten by the
mainstream movements within a religious movement.
The former Moses-Aaron-Mirjam religion was
written
out of the Hebrew scriptures of the Old
Testament and
the El-Jehovah religion was written into those
scriptures.
It seems that around 600 BC the kingdom of
Judah
brought a major destructive strike to the old
Moses religion
by destroying the main temple of the old
religion,
as it is written in the Old Testament.
Despite all destruction the Baal temple on
Mount Carmel
seems to have survived for a thousand years.
Later sources seem to indicate that this Baal
temple
became a monastery and stayed in existance to
play
a major role in the conservation of ancient
pre-christian literature.
Mount Carmel was one of the centers of
Christian tradition
long before the NT-groups pushed forward the Jesus
tradition
and destroyed all non-NT Christian settlements.
Certain is again
that the crusaders found on Mount Carmel
an ancient Christian
monastery that claimed to be
in existance on that
same place since 800 BC,
since times before the temple war with the
El-temple.
In the turmoil of
the crusade wars the belongings
of this Mount Carmel
monastery were brought to Europe.
Through this
monastery one of the knight orders of Europe
found their
inspiration. Even so this monastery on Mount Carmel
was the original start of the Orders of the
Carmel.
The Carmelites are
also today a much respected religious order.
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Updated
August 27, 2007
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