Moses and biblical patriarchs

Use in the book

Moses is associated with Egyptian initiation and the Kabalah. Noah belongs to the account of a primitive tradition surviving catastrophe. Jacob’s ladder supplies the image for ascent, while Abraham and Jacob are cited in an interpretation of oath-taking. These episodes are collected as parts of a single wisdom history, although their scriptural wording and the later symbolic inferences should remain distinct.

Places to read

1. Mystic Masonry · Block 59… “stated, the Kabalah of the Ancient Hebrews, which Moses derived by initiation into the Mysteries of Egypt and Persia, and which Albert Pike and many others declare was identical among the” …
2. Masonic Symbolism · Block 27“233. The religious philosophy of Masonry is as old as is the First religion, for Masonry itself is founded on the Mysteries of Antiquity, which was already taught on the lost” …
3. Masonic Symbolism · Block 61… “signification was well understood in the days of Moses, we learn from that passage of Exodus where the angel of the Lord, at the burning bush, exclaims to the patriarch, 'Draw” …
4. Masonic Symbolism · Block 117“320. "The lodge as a representation of the world, is, of course, supposed to have no other roof than the heavens; and it would scarcely be necessary to enter into any” …
5. Masonic Symbolism · Block 143… “were of a reverential and religious kind. When Abraham, as mentioned in Genesis, in asking his servant to take a solemn oath, makes him lay his hand on his parts of” …

In this edition

The biblical names follow the source. The author’s under-the-thigh interpretation is not silently substituted into a quoted biblical text.

Reading the argument

A biblical narrative can be identified precisely without accepting every interpretation added to it. Read the wording first, then the author’s proposed meaning. This is especially useful where the book moves from a physical gesture to a claim about generative symbolism.

Related texts

Genesis 24:2–9 and 47:29 give the under-the-thigh oath gesture; Genesis 28:12 gives Jacob’s ladder without a numbered series of rungs. The sexual interpretation and specific ladder schemes belong to later commentary.¹⁵

Moses

“Moses” — 12 occurrences in 11 text blocks: M.54, 59; F.121, 132, 150, 152, 157; S.12–13, 61, 154.

Abraham

“Abraham” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: S.143.

Jacob

“Jacob” — 2 occurrences in 2 text blocks: S.118, 143.

Noah

“Noah” — 1 occurrence in 1 text block: S.108.