Table Of ContentThe
BABYLONIAN
CONNECTION
Between
Ancient and Modern
Religions
by
Stephen E. Jones
copyright, 1978
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Ancient Assyrian drawing of Adam and Eve
partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The Origin of "Mystery Babylon" p. 1
II. Babylonian Pantheism p. 2
III. The Divine Pymander p. 5
IV. The Serpent and Immortality p. 12
A. The Serpent's Lie p. 12
B. The Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 15
C. The Soul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 17
D. The Spirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 20
E. Pre-Existence p. 23
F. A Historical Sketch p. 28
V. The Sexual Interpretation of "The Fall" p. 34
A. What Did the Mystery Religions Teach? p. 34
B. Who Was the Serpent? p. 34
C. Was Eve "Seduced" Physically? p. 38
D. What Were the Trees in the Garden? p. 42
E. How Did Adam Sin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 46
F. What Was the Tree of Knowledge? p. 49
G. What Was the Fruit? p. 50
H. What Was the Tree of Life? p. 57
I. Why Were They Ashamed of Their
Nakedness? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 60
J. The Conflict Between the Two Seeds p. 64
K. Why Was Cain "Of That Wicked
One?" p. 68
L. Is Work a Curse? p. 71
M. Conclusion p. 76
N. Genetics and Telegony p. 77
VI. The Babylonian Religion and Genesis p. 86
VII. Canaanite Religion: Ancient and Modern p. 93
A. The Groves p. 93
B. Sodomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 95
C. The Modern "Feminist" Movement p. 98
D. Abortion p. 101.
E. Unintentional Baal Worship Today p. 106
VIII. Babylonian Religion in the Upper Degrees p. 113
IX. Why All the Mystery? p. 126
X. Mystery Babylon and Judaism p. 129
A. Origin of the Talmud p. 129
B. Mystery Babylon in the Talmud p. 131
C. Mystery Babylon in the "Zohar ha
Sepher" p. 141
XI. Conclusion p. 151
I.
THE ORIGIN OF "MYSTERY BABYLON"
Religions or worship-rituals alien to the true worship of the
God of creation have been widespread since before recorded
history. However, the first organizer of false religions appears
to have been Nimrod, the grandson of Ham, who was the
second son of Noah (Gen. 10:6-8). Nimrod founded Babel
(Babylon) after the flood and organized a combination of
religion and politics, by which he took under his control much
of the old world.
His success in organizing this world-government, and his
claims about himself, gave rise to the teaching that he was the
promised "seed of the woman" (Gen. 3:15) that had been
prophesied to come and save mankind from the results of
Adam's transgression and establish the Kingdom of God upon
the earth. He was thus called Zoroaster, which in the Chaldee
(Babylonian) language means "the seed of the woman."
Nimrod's doctrines and rituals of worship thus became
known as the religion of Babylon, or Biblically, "Mystery
Babylon." From there, Nimrod's religion spread into Egypt,
India, China, and later to all other parts of the world.
As we shall see, Nimrod and his priests taught a false
interpretation of the religious history of Adam and Eve and of
the nature of man. Since the entire educational system in
ancient Babylon was controlled by Nimrod's priesthood, the
educated class of people were soon all well indoctrinated in the
misinterpretation of Genesis 1-3.
All false religions have distinct similarities in doctrine or in
ritual to this religion of Nimrod and Babylon. Once we see how
Nimrod misinterpreted or mistaught the true Biblical account,
we will be able to discover and expose Babylonian falsehoods
in modern religions. The key to unlocking the shackles of the
Babylonian deception is in the true interpretation of the first
three chapters of Genesis.
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you
free (John 8:32).
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II.
BABYLONIAN PANTHEISM
The original inhabitants of Babylonia were the swarthy-
skinned Accadians. They were "animists," believing that
each object in nature was inhabited by a different spirit, or
god. They prayed to the spirits that they thought might
benefit them, and they appeased those that they believed
were malignant.
It is very likely that Nimrod was the man who conquered
the Accadians. He did not kill them all or drive them out of
the land, but rather absorbed them into his new empire.
Babylon thus became the first integrated society, and the
effects of this integration proved to be disastrous upon their
later civilization.
This conquest is known to historians as the "Semitic"
conquest, although it was not strictly Semitic. The term
"Semite" in the Biblical sense refers to the descendants of
Shem, excluding those of Japheth and Ham, the grandfather
of Nimrod. But the modern historians classify them all as
Semites, because they all spoke the Semitic language. One
such historian is Professor Sayce. Commenting on the
religious significance of this conquest, he says:
The result was a form of creed in which the old
Accadian faith was bodily taken over by an alien race,
but at the same time profoundly modified. It was
Accadian religion interpreted by the Semitic mind
and belief (Assyria, Its Princes, Priests, and People,
p. 84).
Nimrod combined Semitic monotheism with Accadian
animism to produce "pantheism." He taught that God is
nature itself, and each nature-spirit is a part of God.
The immediate result of their adoption of pantheism was
the suppression of the Creator-God, who was then interpret
ed as being the Universe itself. God was the earth which
nourished man, the water which moistened the earth, the air
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(ether, or spirit of life), and the fire of the sun which gave
light and heat. Thus creation itself was worshipped as God,
or the "Universal Soul." Paul denounced those who taught
this perversion:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and wor
shipped and served the creature more than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (Rom. 1:25).
It was anciently believed that nature was made of four
elements: earth, water, air (ether), and fire. To each of these
natural elements was assigned an elemental, or nature-
spirit: Gnomes, Undines, Sylphs, and Salamanders. Each
class of nature-spirit was said to be composed of only one of
the four elements, and at death they simply disintegrated
into that particular element. They were said also to have
personalities corresponding to one of the four fixed
astrological signs: Taurus, Scorpio, Aquarius, and Leo
(respectively). The elementals were thought to live from 300
to 1000 years, but they were not thought to be immortal.
We see then that to the Babylonians, "God" was nature
as a whole, consisting of numerous gods called elementals.
The elementals were, of course, invisible under most cir
cumstances. This was, they taught, because they consisted
only of one element, and so lived in an entirely different
vibratory rate than man. The elementals were thought to
become visible to those who took certain drugs, and thus the
priests were often called "Sorcerers," which word comes
from the Greek meaning pharmacist, druggist, or poisoner.
A good share of modern medicine is based upon the same
drugs and poisons used years ago and has its roots in the
Mystery Religions of the ancient world. Salvarte informs us:
These unctions were exceedingly frequent in the an
cient ceremonies . . . Before consulting the oracle of
Trophonius, they were rubbed with oil over the whole
body. This preparation certainly concurred to pro
duce the desired vision (The Occult Sciences, p. 282).
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Hislop says:
They were also anointed with "magical ointments"
of the most powerful kind; and these ointments were
the means of introducing into their bodily systems
such drugs as tended to excite their imaginations and
add to the power of the magical drinks they received,
that they might be prepared for the visions and
revelations that were to be made to them in the
Mysteries (The Two Babylons, p. 166).
These mysterious drinks used in the Mysteries were
composed of wine, honey, water, and flour and were drunk
from a golden cup. Of this wine mixture, Hislop says:
From the ingredients avowedly used, and from the
nature of others not avowed, but certainly used, there
can be no doubt that they were of an intoxicating
nature; and till the aspirants had come under their
power, till their understandings had been dimmed,
and their passions excited by the medicated draught,
they were not duly prepared for what they were
either to hear or to see (Ibid., p. 5).
The belief in the elementals was probably the result of
hallucinations brought about by the use of these intoxicating
drinks. The drugged priest or initiate had all sorts of visions
and hallucinations but believed he was seeing normally-
invisible creatures (the elementals). They did not stop to
consider that if these elementals were composed of tangible
earthly elements, they should be able to see them or
otherwise sense them as easily as the real elements
themselves.
The ancients believed that drugs and mysterious gases
from cracks in the earth were proper means of contacting the
supernatural. But they were deceived by their own
imaginations, just as many drugged people are today.
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III
THE DIVINE PYMANDER
One of the earliest writings of the mystery religions
available today is "The Divine Pymander of Hermes
Mercurius Trismegistus." Though our present copy was
probably revised during the first centuries A.D., it does
contain much of the ancient religion. The story claims that
Hermes received his teachings from the Great Dragon, the
personification of "Universal Life." Because this was his
source of "wisdom," it takes no great imagination to
connect it with the Edenic serpent. The Mysteries taught
that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was actually God
Himself, or as the text reads, "Poimandres, the Mind of the
Universe, the Creative Intelligence, and the Absolute
Emperor of all."
Some defend this doctrine that the Serpent is a symbol of
God on the grounds that God chose this symbol in the
wilderness to heal the Israelites. Israel had complained
against God near the land of Edom:
And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people,
and they bit the people; and much people of Israel
died.
Therefore the people came to Moses and said, We
have sinned .. . pray unto the Lord that he take away
the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the
people.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery
serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to
pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh
upon it, shall live.
And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon
a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had
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