Abegg, Wise and Cook, editors of an edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
maintain that it is quite obvious that there was originally a Vegetarian Bible
that was rewritten as carnivorous, that is, rewritten to sanction the animal
sacrifices.  The editors also maintain that during the earliest days of
Christianity, Jesus and his disciples were vegetarian, as can be seen by
the mission of Jesus being to abolish the animal sacrifices as stated in
"Epistle to the Hebrews."  Abolishing the animal sacrifices was of course
Jesus' intent in the episode of the cleansing of the temple. Just as Jesus,
the teacher of vegetarianism was changed by the Pauline establishmnet and
emperor Constantine into a Jesus  who said "all foods are clean," thereby
justifying the profit making brutality of those who sacrificed cattle and sold their
flesh to eat, so too, did a cattleman cult that enslaved and slaughtered cattle,
change the original Torah, which, as we shall easily ascertain, was filled with
vegetarian lessons, into scriptures that sanctioned profiting from animal
slaughter.
 

 THE TORAH WAS REWRITTEN IN PART TO SANCTION ANIMAL SACRIFICES

               Zechariah Perfectly Exposed Those who Profited
              From Killing instead of Protecting Other Creatures.
                Such was the Nature of Those who Overthrew
                       The Original Jewish Vegetarians.

     "Thus said the Lord my God: `Become shepherd of the flock
     doomed to slaughter.  Those who buy them slay them and go
     unpunished; and those who sell them say,  "Blessed be the
     Lord, I have become rich"'; and their own shepherds have no
     pity on them." 11: 4-5.

  The original Jews were creation-centered rather than human-centered.
The cult that overthrew the vegetarians was speciesist, as Peter Singer would
say, affirming that humans were superior to other creatures, instead of being
their equals. In the quotation below from Sirach, we can see the
human-centered tunnel vision of the cult that became Jewish orthodoxy,
contrasted with the view of a Deity who loves all creation infinitely, and who had
therefore established a vegetarian covenant.

                    The love of a man is for his neighbor,
                but the love of the Lord is for all living beings.
                                Sirach 18: 13.

The clause "The love of a man is for his neighbor" is human-centered.

The clause "but the love of the Lord is for all living beings" is creation-centered.

    Speciesism, the assertion in Genesis 1: 26-28, that humans have the
right to subdue the earth and have dominion over other creatures, instead
of living in harmony with them, defines the fallen state itself.
 

                     THE VEGETARIAN COVENANT OF GENESIS 1: 29-30

1.  We see vegetarianism  in the first chapter of "Genesis,"  in the
vegetarian covenant of 1: 29-30.  Even orthodox Jewish Rabbis admit that
the original diet commanded by God was vegetarianism. Genesis 1: 29-30
makes this indisputable.

     "And God said `Behold I have given you every plant yielding seed
which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit;
you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every
bird of the air and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that
has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.'" l: 29-30.

             The Late Prophets, Jesus, James and the Ebionites,
             All regarded the Animal Sacrifices as Part of the Fall.
                   The "Gospel of Philip" Says the Fall was
                      "Eating from the Tree of Animals,"
            And that "This world eats corpses" but Jesus Did Not.

                          Animal Skins in Paradise?
      The Existence of Animal Skins in a Place that was Formerly Paradise
                    Is in itself Evidence of the Fallen State,
                  The Breaking of the Vegetarian Covenant.

2. We see vegetarianism erased, but rather sloppily, in succeeding
chapters of Genesis, for example, in the description of the Fall of Adam
and Eve, who ate, as the Jewish Christian Philip said, from the Tree of
Animals, a view concurred with by the majority of the late prophets who
denounce the animal sacrifices.  Even the orthodox Old Testament in a
low key manner gives us evidence of what occurred.  For in a
Paradise that was devoid of death, suddenly, after the Fall, God gives
Adam and Eve animal skins, which are derived from killing animals, with
which to clothe themselves. But there was no death before the Fall. In
other words, even the orthodox Old Testament hints that killing other
creatures was part of the Fall.  This is in fact strongly confirmed in the
Ethiopic Book of Enoch.  And for that reason that book was deemed
apocryphal by the Jewish patriarchs who defined orthodoxy.

     Moreover, before the Fall, all the animals were blessed:

     "And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the
cattle according to their kinds, and everything that creeps upon the
ground according to its kind.  And God saw that it was good."  1: 24.  RSV.

    But after the fall they are cursed. God says to the serpent:

 "cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals." 3: 14.
 

                   The Fall of Adam and Eve is No Mystery.

                      The Assertion in Genesis 1:26-28
                    That Humans are to Subdue the Earth
                  and Have Dominion Over Other Creatures
                In Itselfl Defines the Fallen State of Disharmony.

   Except to those attempting to sanctify their addiction to flesh eating, an
addiction which results in supporting brutal evil acts inflicted upon other
creatures, or those wishing to present a divine sanction for their profiting
from the exploitation of other creatures, such as industrialists, the Fall is
no mystery whatsoever.  Before the Fall the animals were blessed; after
the Fall they are cursed, because the Fall instituted animal sacrifices as
well as the notion that other creatures may be subdued or dominated, i.e.
hunted, snaired, displaced, enslaved, killed.

                   Cultures of Dominators and Dominated,
            of Governors and the Governed (of the Rich and Poor),
              Themselves Demonstrate the State of Disharmony.

    If creatures are subdued or dominated, there is no longer a community
of all living creatures living harmoniously together, such as exists in
Genesis 1: 29-30, but a culture in which there is the dominator and the
dominated, the subduer and the subdued.  And, as the history presented in the
Torah demonstrates, this also translates into a culture of rich and poor, the
governors and the governed, masters and slaves, which is the same culture of
all the industrial nations today, which are ruled by governments comprised of
the elite rich.  Therefore resentment-breeding societies are perpetuated.

           In the Original Hebrew Version of the Cain and Abel Story,
      Cain the Vegetarian Farmer Following the Covenant of Genesis 1: 30
                           Was Regarded as Good
               And Abel, the Bible's first Explicit Killer, was Evil.
      Cain was the Zealous Avenger Against the Killer of God's Creatures,
              His Name is the Source of the Talmud's Kanna-im,
                     Meaning Zealot and Avenging Priest.

3. We see Vegetarianism erased in the universal archetypal battle between
the vegetarian Cain and the carnivore Abel, a story which was originally
told from the opposite point of view, namely a vegetarian point of view in
which Cain was the hero, defending the lives of creatures created by the
Creator, Shiva, the Lord of Creatures and Protector of Cattle, by killing
Abel, the killer of creatures.

                Cain's Name is Related to El Kana or El Chanan,
                     A Name of God in the Old Testament.
                  Kannan is the Tamil Hindu Name of Krishna.
            Kannan is the Origin of the Name of the Land of Canaan,
                     The Promised Land of Milk and Honey
              Favorite Foods of the Hindus even in their Antiquity.

   That the name of Cain was regarded with great reverence and respect is
verified in the ancient Hebrew which defines almost every Chan root word
positively, usually with a description of being"favored of God."  Cain's
name is derived from Chanan, or El Chana, the deity of the earliest Jews
whom we now know is Krishna, for Kannan is the Tamil Hindu name of
Krishna (See Michael Jordan's Encyclopedia of Gods). Kana was also
worshipped in Ethiopia as Kanneh, and Cainan. Cain's name is also related to
"kanna im" the Talmud's term for zealot and avenging priest, which was
precisely Cain's function in the original Jewish story of Cain and Abel.  The
existence of Cain as an avatar who has a shining birth, and who is associated
with vegetarianism, is seen in (so called) apocryphal accounts of Adam and Eve
and their family, such as "Vita et Adae" and "Apocalypsis Mosis," found in R. H.
Charles' Pseudepigraphia and Apocrypha of the Old Testament.
 
 

                    A MYSTERY OF THE BIBLE SOLVED:
                  Why Abel's Name is Associated With Evil.

                 Scholars Have Pondered Why Abel's Name
                Is Associated with what is Misty, Vain, Illusory,
            With Leading Astray, with Beclouding or Making Dense.

            The Ab in Abel Functions as Does the Ab in Abnormal.
                   It is a Prefix of Negation. El Means God.
                      Abel, the Killer of God's Creatures,
                    Is one who Negates or  Beclouds God.
                 The Earliest Jews Perfectly Understood This,
       And Ancient Hebrew has Numerous Words in which the Abel Root
               Represents Evil, Suffering, or Being Off the Path.

   While Cain's name is associated with being "favored by God," Abel's name
even in conventional dictionaries is defined as misty, which, in context of the
battle between the Light and Darkness, is on the side of evil, not good.
 

                       Ab(-)Normal Means Not Normal
                               El Means God.
                 Ab(-)El Means Not of God in Ancient Hebrew.

   Moreover in ancient Hebrew, as in modern English, the prefix Ab was used as
a prefix of negation, as it is in the English word Abnormal.  In ancient Hebrew
the prefix of negation is defined as "to becloud or obscure."  El means God
Almighty.  Therefore, Abel's name meant one who obscures or beclouds, or
negates, God.  And that is precisely what Abel did by killing God's creatures and
promoting the disease producing diet of carnivorism.

                    THE NOAH OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
                     COMPARED WITH THE PURE NOAH
                    OF THE ETHIOPIC BOOK OF ENOCH
                 The Old Testament Noah actually Gets Drunk
              and Condemns his Grandson Canaan to be a Slave.

    The Ethiopic Noah Condemns all Interference with God's Creation.
  The Ethiopians were Sabeans, that is, Followers of Saba, Seba or Siva.

4. And we also rather easily see the rewriting of the Vegetarian Bible in the
story of Noah and the Arc and the Deluge, which was originally told more
from the point of view of the Ethiopic Noah, who was adamantly
vegetarian, even more so than the Hindu description of Manu, whose
name Ma-Nu, a contraction of Maha and Nu, or Spirit (just as Vishnu
means the Pervasive (Vish) Spirit (Nu) simply means The Great Nue or
Noah.  The word Noah means comforter and comes from the Hebrew niham, meaning to comfort. . And as the chosen savior of the animals, he was therefore the comforter of Creation, or of Shiva Pasupati's creatures. Noah remains the Comforter in the Ethiopic descriptions of Noah. He condemns the killing of all creatures, and the exploitation of creation that is sanctioned by Genesis 1: 26-28.  According to Enoch and Noah humans are not to mine, not to make weapons, not to wear cosmetics, not even to write. All artifice is forbidden. We are to accept creation as it is. Industry is the artifice of the Fallen Angels. We are simply to live with creation, with other creatures peacefully. Animal sacrifices were taught by the fallen angel (an angel practicing evil) Azazel.

   In the orthodox account of Noah and the arc and the Deluge, which is a
badly rewritten account, we have a number of contradictions.  There are
two versions of the animals to go into the arc. The first one says that a
pair of all the animals, male and female, are to be taken into the arc.  The
second versions spits the animals between clean and unclean animals.
But, according to the scriptures, the Covenant of Carnivorism is given by
God to Noah after the Flood.  Therefore, if Noah and his family had been
eating flesh on the Arc [which would have turned the arc into a floating
slaughterhouses, rather than a vehicle of salvation], they would have
done so without God's sanction, for God had not yet expressly defined
what was clean and unclean.  Interestingly the folk interpretation, and the
story given to children of Noah and the arc, that Noah saves the species of
animals and God saves Noah and his family, is the true story, which is
quite contrary to the story given by orthodox theologians.

    The (obviously rewritten) Old Testament God then tells Noah after the
deluge that all animals are to live in fear and dread of humans now.  In
other words, terror, and not comfort, are now the lot of other animals.
Only those who have something to gain by the evil of this terror would
defend it: namely, those who eat the corpses of murdered animals,  those
who have the lust to hunt them, and primarily, those who profit from the
brutality of killing other creatures and selling their corpses to eat.  The
latter group, the cattleman cult that became orthodox Judaism, is the
group that revised the scriptures.

  I advise all readers to copy the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, which contains
the "Book of Noah" within it, from the net.  The R. H. Charles edition is now public domain. The purity of this Book of Enoch, which teaches vegetarianism, and which is anti-industrial, against trying to improve on nature, and against accumulating wealth, is in stark contrast to the Old Testament, which was quite obviously in great part fabricated in order to sanction what was previously seen as ungodly, namely the subjugation, oppression, or killing of other creatures.

     Let me remind the reader that the industrial revolution has not added
five good years to the longevity of humanity.  In fact, by polluting the
earth, air and waters of the earth, industry has cursed humanity with a
variety of new diseases.  The purported cures for diseases that industry
has invented are diseases that would have been prevented by
vegetarianism and by living in an unpolluted nature.
 

     And the data is in regarding the disease-promoting aspects of ingested
animal flesh. Medical researchers from throughout the world confirm what
the Hindus and Buddhists and vegetarians of every faith have known and
taught for millennia, that vegetarianism is the proper and divinely
commanded diet of humanity.
 

                                ORTHODOX JEWISH RABBIS
                               ADMIT THAT VEGETARIANISM
                 WAS GOD'S ORIGINAL DIETARY COVENANT.

     As we shall see, there is an abundance of evidence showing that, just
as Sanskrit is the mother of Hebrew or Chaldee language, as well as of
Aramaic and Arabic, all of which are languages of the Arabian Peninsula,
so too was the mother culture that spoke the mother language the mother of the culture as well. The Vedic culture then, like the Hindu culture today, has pluralism in religion, its worshipers of Shiva, known as Shaivites or Sabeans, its worshipers of Krishna or Vishnu, who was known as Kana or Cana in the earliest days of Judaism, and its worship of Sakti, or the feminine aspect of deity. Hinduism is a culture which allows every kind of worship within it, but which focusses on vegetarianism and having compassion for all creatures.

    Gene Matlock's India Once Ruled the World and his other writings on
Abraham and the location of the tombs of Jesus and Moses all attest to
the primacy of India in forming the origins of Judaism.

                                Esdras Testifies to the Vegetarian Bible.

  In  "2 Esdras" Esdras says the original patriarchs and late prophets, whom
the Old Testament, as we know it, describes as having radically divergent
views, shared a vision that was commonly agreed upon by all.

     Historically, however, what has come down to us is plainly a split
tradition, that of the Jehovah, represented most emphatically
the first words of Genesis, by well over 90% of the Book of Job, some
psalmists, and by the later prophets; and that of the carnivorous Jehovah,
ostensibly represented by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their patriarchal
line.  As we see in Esdras below, Esdras claims they all believed the same
thing.

"...to them I will give as leaders Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and Hosea and
Amos and Micah and Joel and Obadiah and Jonah and Nahum and
Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, who is also called
Malachi, who is also called messenger of the Lord."  2 Esdras l: 38-40.

The astute, honest and objective reader cannot help but conclude that the
original patriarchs were vegetarian also, but were written over as
carnivorous.  Esdras' scripture is once again support for the contention
that there was an original vegetarian covenant that started the excitement
and healing that we all associate with the origin of religion.

     We can easily read between the lines and understand that not only the
late prophets, virtually all of whom have scriptures denouncing sacrifice,
but the rest of the prophets and patriarchs mentioned in Esdras 2, were
also totally vegetarian originally before they were rewritten as carnivorous.

     Thus, Esdras like the Essenes was probably directly in touch with the
original and vegetarian Bible, an earlier and more pure tradition of the
patriarchs and matriarchs both, before the patriarchal cattleman cult overthrew
the vegetarians, and revised  the original teachings to make it appear that the
exploitation and killing of creatures was permissible, as well as slavery and
elitist societies in which the rich ruled the poor.  Male chauvinism and bigotry
towards homosexuals were included in the new teachings which became
orthodox Judaism.

      Original Judaism was vegetarian, and egalitarian, and honored matriarchs
such as Laksmi and Parvati as well as patriarchs like Shiva and El Kana.  The
moral absurdity of prophets teaching that a Deity of infinite love desired the
slaughter of the very creatures it loved infinitely, and the eating of their corpses.

        Bel and the Dragon, and 2 Maccabees and especially the Ethiopic Book of
Enoch all affirm vegetarianism as the purest form of diet which is no doubt one
of the main reasons why orthodox rabbis relegated these scriptures to the
category of apocryphal.
 

     The fact that the earlier pure vegetarian tradition Esdras refers to was
rewritten as a carnivorous tradition may of course be paralleled with what
happened during the days of early Christianity, when the vegetarian and
egalitarian traditions of Jesus, John the Baptist, James, Peter, John
Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Tertullian, and others were corrupted and
rewritten as carnivorous and elitist by Pauline Christians.  We may look
also to the Islamic tradition where the powers of the world, in the tradition
now known as Sunni, likewise perverted the original pure message of
Mohammed, preserved by his vegetarian cousin Ali who was of a belief that later would be described as Shiite, a word that is related both to Shaivite or Sauvite (both are versions of Sabean), as well as the Hebrew Chivvite or Ivvite. Muhammad, remember, praises the Sabeans at the same time as he praises the real Jews and Christians. Now the fact that it is known that Muhammad actually lived with vegetarian Sabean wilderness communities (See Robert Eisenman's
James the Brother of Jesus), should make even Islamic fundamentalists
reflect.