Isaiah Asserts that those who Sacrifice
Animals
Are as the People of Sodom and Gomorrah
Who Deserved Destruction.
"Hear the word of the Lord you rulers
of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching
of our God, you people of Gomorrah!
What to me is the multitude of your
sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had
enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of fed beasts; I do not
delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs,
or of he-goats." 1: 10-11.
"You have not... satisfied me with the
fat of your sacrifices. But you have
burdened me with your sins, you have
wearied me with your iniquities."
43: 24.
Isaias Accepts The Covenant with All Flesh in Genesis 1: 29-30.
Isaias' views above
are precisely those of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch,
in which Deity comes to convict all
flesh. The notion of convicting all flesh also exists in the Old
Testament, but it is ambiguously expressed, merely
saying that all flesh has corrupted
the earth and committed violence on the
earth. Isaias refers directly
to the very first chapter of the Ethiopic Book of
Enoch in Chapter 40, which is also
quoted by Jesus when he refers to
John the Baptist.
"A voice cries: `In the wilderness prepare
the way of the Lord, make
straight in the desert a highway for
our God. Every valley shall be lifted
up, and every mountain and hill be
made low; the uneven ground shall
become level, and the rough places
a plain. And the glory of the Lord
shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together. (emphasis mine)'" 40: 3-5.
So Isaias sees the glory
of the Lord to be revealed to "all flesh." In the
Ethiopic Book of Enoch, we have
the following scriptures, from which
the scriptures of Isaias are obviously
derived:
"And the high mountains shall be shaken,
And the high hills shall be made low..."
1: 6
"And behold! He cometh with ten thousands
of His holy ones
To execute judgment upon all,
And to destroy all the ungodly:
And to convict all flesh
Of all the works of their ungodliness
which they have ungodly committed,
And of all the hard things which ungodly
sinners have spoken against
Him." 1: 9 [R. H. Charles edition]
Isaias obviously accepts
Genesis 1: 30 as a valid covenant for the
creatures of the earth:
" 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. (emphasis mine).
The Orthodoxies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Overlook or Marginalize the Significance of Genesis 1: 30
Many readers tend to overlook
the significance of 1: 30, namely that the scripture bluntly states that
God is making a covenant with all creatures and not simply with humans.
Covenants are not made with beings unless they have sentience and free
will. Therefore, one understands the reason why orthodoxies overlook this
covenant. It shows that the original Jews regarded animals in the
same manner as the vegetarian Hindus, who regarded animal incarnations
as simply a specific manifestation necessary for the progress of the immortal
spirit within the animal. It shows also that the Deluge was meant
to wipe away all creatures who had broken the covenant, and like humans,
had spilled the blood of other creatures.
Isaias makes it clear that All Sentient Life is Sacred:
"He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man." 66:3.
Contrast the above
scripture with Paul's "Is it for oxen that God is
concerned?" 9: 9, Romans. The truthful
Isaias would have answered Yes.
And had Paul truly accepted the Old
Testament as he claimed he did, as a
Jew, he would have seen that his refusal
to acknowledge the sacredness
of the ox was sacrilegious. Paul's
hardness of heart typifies the hardness
of heart towards the animals of creation
that exists in the orthodoxies of
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Isaias Condemns the Mere Lip Worship
Which Typifies the Orthodoxies.
To purify themselves the Jews must
stop sacrificing animals.
"...even though you make many prayers,
I will not listen; your hands are
full of blood. Wash yourselves,
make yourselves clean; remove the evil of
your doings from before my eyes; cease
to do evil, learn to do good; seek
justice, correct oppression...
l: l5-17.
Just As Perfect Harmony Existed Among
All Creatures
Before the Fall, Isaias Sees the Final
Times
As Recapturing that Harmony.
The book of Isaiah prophesied
that in the final times, as in the
beginning, all animal creation would
be at peace:
"The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the
kid, and the calf and the lion and
the fatling together, and a little child shall
lead them. The cow and the bear
shall feed; their young shall lie down
together; and the lion shall eat straw
like the ox. The sucking child shall
play over the hole of the asp, and
the weaned child shall put his hand on
the adder's den. They shall not
hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain;
for the earth shall be full of the
knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover
the sea." ll: 6-9.
The reference to the holy
mountain is significant to those who
understand the Hindu origins of Judaism,
for the original Jews were
Sabeans worshipping Shiva who lived
on Mt. Kailessa, and who preferred
to live in the mountains and wilderness,
rather than the cities.
Another Reference to All Creatures Living
in Harmony,
None being Subdued or Dominated. Humans
in High Places are Brought
Low. This too is a reference to the
Ethiopic Book of Enoch.
"Man is bowed down, and men are brought
low, and the eyes of the
haughty are humbled. But the
Lord of hosts is exalted in justice, and the
Holy God shows himself holy in righteousness.
Then shall the lambs
graze as in their pasture, fatlings
and kids shall feed among the ruins." 5:
l5-l7.
The Book of Enoch makes it clear that there is to be no elitism on earth, that all humans are to be seen as equal, and that those who try to be kings, or those who are mighty, for example, the presidents and prime ministers of our day, the governments of the world, all of whom we know are supported by the rich and mighty, by the corporations, are all evil, by the very fact that they create resentment-breeding societies of rich and poor.
"3 When the secrets of the righteous
shall be revealed and the sinners
judged, And the godless driven from
the presence of the righteous and
elect,
4 From that time those that possess
the earth shall no longer be powerful
and exalted: And they shall not be
able to behold the face of the holy,
For the Lord of Spirits has caused
His light to appear On the face of the
holy, righteous, and elect.
5 Then shall the kings and the mighty
perish
And be given into the hands of the
righteous and holy."
From Chapter 38 of the Ethiopic Book
of Enoch, the R. H. Charles edition.
It should be obvious
to the reader who has read the other pages of this
site that the scriptures of the Ethiopic
Book
of Enoch were a part of the
tradition of the pure remnant of Judaism,
and that the Book was deemed
to be apocryphal because it showed
the lies being promoted in the Torah.
Also, the Book of Enoch clearly
relates the Sabean Ethiopians with the
original Jews. This was recognized
by numerous late prophets.
Isaias' view of the
final times is similar to the vision of the Hopis, some
of whose connections with the Hindus
are described in the articles of the
web site Viewzone.com. Like the Hopi
account of the creation in the
beginning, in isaias' vision all the
animals live peacefully together. None
are subdued or had dominion over, as
advocated in the inserted
scriptures of Genesis 1: 26-28.
Isaias did not see
himself as an idealist, a utopian, or unrealistic. His
vision is totally in keeping with the
Vegetarian Covenant of Genesis 1:
29-30, which is the only valid dietary
covenant that exists in the Old
Testament. The covenant sanctioning
carnivorism with the Noah is so
fraught with contradictions and sloppy
scriptures that only a true believer
orthodox person in denial could possibly
believe that covenant was valid.
For that covenant sanctioning carnivorism
makes the God of the Torah
out to be ignorant of nutrition, and
devoid of compassion.
That God and God's creation,
all God's creatures, were intimately
related, that the beings of creation
could choose once again to be pure and loving, and that God had destined
creation on earth in the future to be free of the karma of oppression--all
these were part of isaias' consciousness, just as they are part of the
Hindu, Buddhist, Hopi and Mayan tradition, as well as of indigenous traditions
throughout the world which affirm that all creation is sacred. The
Hopi tradition, with its own chakra and meditation system, and its account
of an original creation in which there was total peace for all creatures,
sprang from a similar if not the identical matrix as that of the Hindus
and Buddhists.
Isaias 7
How the Roman Bishops Under the Auspices
of the Brutal Emperor Constantine
Ignored the Vegetarianism of Isaiah
in the New Testament.
Christian Scholar Frend Mentions that
the early Christians argued
As to whether "Leviticus" or "Isaias"
7 Taught the Right Diet.
Because isaias' scriptures
were passionately vegetarian, they were
excised of their vegetarian emphases
by the Roman Catholic
compilers/revisers of the scriptures
that finally made up the New Testament. For example, Isaiah
7: 14 is highlighted as a prophecy foretelling Jesus' appearance. But notice
that 7: 15 is purposely omitted by the compilers of the New Testament.
It doesn't fit the Pauline party line of carnivorism; instead it affirms
that the coming one will be a lacto-vegetarian, which is the typical diet
of mainstream Hindus and Buddhists, and the diet of most of the heresies
named by Epiphanius.
"Behold, a young woman shall conceive
and bear a son, and shall call his
name Immanuel. He shall eat curds
and honey when he knows how to
refuse the evil and choose the good.
7: 14-15.
For example, Isaiah 7:
14 is highlighted as a prophecy foretelling Jesus'
appearance. But notice that 7:
15 is purposely omitted by the compilers
of the New Testament. It doesn't
fit the Pauline party line of carnivorism;
instead it affirms that the coming
one will be a lacto-vegetarian, which is
the typical diet of mainstream Hindus
and Buddhists.
"Behold, a young woman shall conceive
and bear a son, and shall call his
name Immanuel. 7: 14.
"He shall eat curds and honey when he
knows how to refuse the evil and
choose the good." 7: 15.
The same Chapter 7 ends with a vision
of a place of freedom for the
animals, "where cattle are let loose
and sheep tread."
Frend, author of
Martyrdom
and Persecution in the Early Church
admits that early Christians argued
with Jews as to whether Isaiah
7: 14 or Leviticus 11 contained the
correct dietary laws. Frend, like
other scholars of early Christianity,
refuses to delineate on the fact
that Isaiah 7: 14 is lacto-vegetarian,
whereas Leviticus 11 is
typically carnivorous.
Though suppressing the
vegetarianism of the early Christians, Frend does point out that
some Christian martyrs were dressed like Ceres, goddess of grains, and
Saturn, god of the cornucopia, both representatives of vegetation, before
they were fed to the beasts. No doubt because of pressure, many Christian
scholars suppress the topics of vegetarianism versus carnivorism and egalitarianism
versus elitism, though these are the two basic religious dramas all religious
cultures are all faced with: how to relate to the other creatures of creation,
and how to relate to our own human kind.
The Name Immanuel Shows the Hindu Origins
of Judaism.
Isaias' Prophecy of Jesus as Immanuel.
The Name Immanuel may be Divided
into Three Parts:
Im = With
Manu = the Hindu Noah
El = the Name of God
The name Immanuel itself
is a direct connection to the Hindu Manu and
Laws of Manu that existed among the
Hindus as well as among the earliest
Jews. Im means With in ancient
Hebrew. Manu is the Hindu Noah and
Lawgiver, and El is God. So Immanuel
the savior shall be a person in
conjunction with both Manu the human
lawgiver, and El, God. The
scriptures are interpreted by Christians
to refer to Jesus as a savior and
lawgiver as well.
Isaiah Affirms the Vegetarian Option
as Godly,
And the Carnivorous Option as Unjust.
"For in the vineyard of the Lord of
hosts is the house of Israel, and the
men of Judah are his pleasant planting;
and he looked for justice, but
behold, bloodshed..." 5: 7.
Over and over again plants
are considered people's natural food, and
agriculture, planting, is emphasized
as humanity's natural labor, not
raising animals for slaughter, milk
and honey being the only two "animal
foods" acceptable to the later prophets.
The following passages
emphasizing tilling the soil are just
a few of many scattered throughout
the Old Testament.
...does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,
and put in wheat in rows and barley
in its proper place, and spelt as the
border? For he is instructed aright; his
God teaches him. 28: 25-26.
How Cholesterol Impedes Not only the
Organ of the Heart
But the Organ of the Brain as Well.
Isaias Describes the Stupor of those
Sacrificing Animals
And Eating Them.
Reading the texts of Hinduism
and Buddhism, one discovers that it was
known from time immemorial that the
"flesh of slain beasts was harmful to humans and that the moral discernment
of humans became progressively distorted by eating the slain carcasses
of creatures. Though this knowledge has been suppressed in mainstream
Jewish, Christian, and Islamic cultures because of their adherence to carnivorism,
our society's growing understanding of the harmful effects of animal fat
makes isaias' reference to fat even more emphatic in its irony.
"Make the heart of this people fat,
and their ears heavy, and shut their
eyes; lest they see with their eyes,
and hear with their ears, and
understand with their hearts, and turn
and be healed." 6: 10.
The Stupor of Carnivorism:
The Inability to have Moral Discernment
Regarding Which Scriptures are True
and Which are False,
The Inability to Test the Spirit.
"Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor,
blind yourselves and be blind! Be
drunk, but not with wine; stagger,
but not with strong drink! For the Lord
has poured out upon you a spirit of
deep sleep, and has closed your eyes,
the prophets, and covered your heads,
the seers. And the vision of all this
has become to you like the words of
a book that is sealed. When men
give it to one who can read, saying,
'Read this," he says, "I cannot, for it is
sealed.'" 29: 9-11.
Burning the Now Unneeded Bloody Clothes
Of Those Killing and Dismembering Animals--
The Vegetarian Lawgiver of the Jews
is to be like
Manu the Vegetarian Lawgiver of the
Hindus.
Similarly, the first clause
in the following scripture is omitted in the New
Testament, except by John in
"Revelations," yet the passage following it is well known as a prophecy
of the messiah. The imagery of white garments
symbolizing purity is used by other
Old
Testament prophets as will
because it is not just a reference
to spiritual purity, but white clean
garments are literally a sharp contrast
to the bloody garments of the
priests sacrificing animals, or to
the butchers' garb. The prophecy clearly
tells of a vegetarian messiah to come.
"...and every garment rolled in blood
will be burned as fuel for the fire. For
to us a child is born, to us a son
is given; and the government will be
upon his shoulder, and his name will
be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince
of Peace." Of the increase of his
government and of peace there will
be no end, upon the throne of David,
and over his kingdom, to establish
it, and to uphold it with justice and with
righteousness from this time forth
and for evermore." 9: 5-7.
Isaias like Enoch and Noah in the Ethiopic
Book
of Enoch,
Condemns the Exploitation Involved
in Constructing Cities
The intrinsic
evil of industry excavating land inhabited by living
creatures, cutting down trees, virtually
all of which are havens for
insects, birds and other animals, or
otherwise invading the air and water
of earth, the fact that the buildings,
roads, and other structures of industry
are gravestones of vast numbers of
creatures was seen by the prophets.
The Rechabites described by Jeremiah
vowed to live in tents all their days
and vowed not even to invade the earth
haven of other creatures through
cultivating the earth.
"May the descendants of evildoers nevermore
be named! Prepare
slaughter for his sons because of the
guilt of their fathers, lest they rise
and possess the earth, and fill the
face of the world with cities." 14: 20-21.
"Behold, Damascus will cease to be a
city, and will become a heap of
ruins. Her cities will be deserted
for ever; they will be for flocks, which will
lie down, and none will make them afraid."
17: 1-3.
"For the palace will be forsaken, the
populous city deserted; the hill and
the watchtower will become dens for
ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of
flocks; until the Spirit is poured
upon us from on high and the wilderness
becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful
field is deemed a forest. Then
justice will dwell in the wilderness,
and righteousness abide in the fruitful
field. And the effect of righteousness
will be peace, and the result of
righteousness, quietness and trust
forever....Happy are you who sow
beside all waters, who let the feet
of the ox and the ass range free." 32:
14-20.
Isaias Prophecies a Vegetarian Future
That Acknowledges Kannan, who is Krishna,
or Vishnu.
It was Canaan which was
the original domicile of Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and it is the language of Canaan,
known as the land of "milk and
honey," and known for its agriculture
and vintners, that Isaiah says will
exert a unifying influence over the
Jews. Now this prophecy makes even
more sense today, now that we understand
that the Canaanites were
vegetarians worshiping Kannan, the
Tamil Hindu name for Krishna.
"In that day there will be five cities
in the land of Egypt which speak the
language of Canaan and swear allegiance
to the Lord of hosts." 19: 18.
Isaias, The Vegetarian Covenant of Gen.
1: 29-30,
and the Ethiopic Book of Enoch
all concur:
In the Final Times All Bloodshed Will
be Forbidden.
...and the earth will disclose the blood
shed upon her, and will no more
cover her slain. 26: 27.
God is angered that his people,
who should be ascetic, are instead
indulgent,
And derive pleasure from the killing
and eating of flesh:
"In that day the lord God of hosts called
to weeping and mourning, to
baldness and girding with sackcloth;
and behold, joy and gladness,
slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating
flesh and drinking wine. "Let us eat
and drink, for tomorrow we die."
The Lord of hosts has revealed himself
in my ears: Surely this iniquity
will not be forgiven you till you die," says the Lord God of hosts."
22: 12-14.
Isaias Denounces the False Prophets of Orthodox Judaism.
"For they are a rebellious people, lying
sons, sons who will not hear the
instruction of the Lord; who say to
the seers, "See not"; and to the
prophets, "Prophesy not to us what
is right; speak to us smooth things,
prophesy illusions..." 30:9-ll.
For orthodox Jews in denial,
animal sacrifices, male chauvinism, bigotry
towards homosexuals, and slavery are
all acceptable practices, just as
they are for the orthodox Christian
and Muslim.
A Repeated Theme Among the Late Prophets:
Those who Sacrifice Animals Shall be
Sacrificed.
The sword of Jehovah's justice will
satisfy itself by sacrificing those who
have sacrificed animals:
"For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens; behold, it descends for judgment upon Edom, upon the people I have doomed. The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood, it is gorged with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom...Their land shall be soaked with blood, and their soil made rich with fat. 34: 6-7.
Cleansed of carnivorism
the desert shall become fruitful, and the healing
that results from cleansing the world
of animal sacrifices is a recurring theme. Certain exegetes
see passages referring to the dry land becoming watery as a direct reference
to our own time, in which there is the large-scale desertification of the
soil by cattle raised for slaughter who not only eat vast amounts of vegetation
humans could consume, but use inordinate amounts of water that could be
used more efficiently by humans and other animals.
"Then the eyes of the blind shall be
opened, and the ears of the deaf
unstopped; then shall the lame man
leap like a hart, and the tongue of the
dumb sing for joy. For waters
shall break forth in the wilderness, and
streams in the desert; the burning
sand shall become a pool, and the
thirsty ground springs of water; the
haunt of jackals shall become a swamp, the grass shall become reeds and
rushes. And a highway shall
be there, and it shall be called the
Holy Way; the unclean shall not pass over it, and fools shall not err therein.
No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it..."
35: 5-9.
In a passage cited
in the New Testament as a prophecy of John the
Baptist preparing the way for Jesus,
it is clear that John and Jesus and the Essenes who influenced them were
to continue the legacy of Isaiah and the other vegetarian prophets. They
were to spread the purity of the vegetarian remnant of Israel, which involved
a leveling of all hierarchies between human and human, and human and beast,
and thereby establish peace, "salvation," for all flesh. "Every mountain
and hill shall be made low" is once again a reference to the Book of
Enoch.
"A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare
the way of the lord, make
straight in the desert a highway for
our God. Every valley shall be lifted
up, and every mountain and hill be
made low; the uneven ground shall
become level, and the rough places
a plain. And the glory of the Lord
shall be revealed, and all flesh shall
see it together." 40: 3-5.
Paradise
Paradise in
Isaiah and in the "Book of Revelations" in the New
Testament is a place of glorious
vegetation to be brought about partially
by inundations of water changing the
topography of the earth.
Greenpeace and other explorations in
our polar regions indicate polar ice
is melting at a faster rate than anticipated
because of global warming.
Those who have read the Ethiopic Book
of Enoch know that a number of
chapters are dedicated soley to describing
trees, as one might expect of a
document propounding vegetarianism.
Isaias does the same in the
following scriptures.
"I will open rivers on the bare heights,
and fountains in the midst of the
valleys; I will make the wilderness
a pool of water, and the dry land
springs of water. I will put
in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive; I will
set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together; that men
may see and know, may consider and understand
together, that the hand of the Lord
has done this, the Holy One of Israel
has created it." 41: 18-20.
The stupor of addiction to eating animal
flesh.
The sacrificer by the very act of sacrifice
is blind
to the sanctity of God's creation,
is so attached to his own evil that
he suppresses a true judgment of it.
"They know not, nor do they discern;
for he has shut their eyes, so that
they cannot see, and their minds, so
that they cannot understand."
Isaias Attacks the Passover Sacrifice.
Isaiah directly attacks
the passover sacrifice, and (like Jeremiah)
connects it with the sin of Adam and
Eve, as well as with the cannibalism
associated with Molech. In isaias'
compassionate mind, the killer of a
lamb is as one who kills a human.
The definition of harlotry is often broadened by the prophets to include
such unfaithfulness to animal creation. Killing an animal, splitting
open its body, which is similar to their own animal bodies, Adam and Eve
saw a type of themselves, innards exposed; their own existence with its
physical frailty is out in the open, naked. To the original Jew, as to
all genuine vegetarian cultures, the
killing of animals is as the killing
of humans.
"Upon a high and lofty mountain you
have set your bed, and thither you
went up to offer sacrifice. Behind
the door and the door post you have set
up your symbol; for, deserting me,
you have uncovered your bed...you
have loved their bed, you have looked
on nakedness. You journeyed to
Molech..." 57: 7-9.
Isaias' View of the Last Judgment
is Taken from the Book of Enoch.
Isaiah concludes
with a vision of peace for all animal creation, and with
a reminder of, and a warning to, those
who sacrificed and ate animals.
Isaias once again directly refers to
the Book of Enoch, in which the Last
Judgement is described as taking place
in a valley in which the
unrighteous exist suffering, and the
righteous observe them from both
sides. For as the new heavens and the
new earth which I will make shall remain before me, says the Lord; so shall
your descendants and your name remain. From new moon to new moon,
and from sabbath to sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me,
says the Lord. And they shall go forth and look on the dead bodies
of the men that have rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die,
their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all
flesh. 66: 22-24.
At the Final Judgment, All the Righteous
Shall Be on the High Land
Surrounding the Unrighteous in the
Valley Between them.
From Chapter 10 of the Book of Enoch:
And again the Lord said to Raphael:
'Bind Azazel hand and foot, and cast
him into the darkness: and make an
opening 5 in the desert, which is in
Dudael, and cast him therein. And place
upon him rough and jagged
rocks, and cover him with darkness,
and let him abide there for ever, and
cover his face that he may 6,7 not
see light. And on the day of the great
judgment he shall be cast into the
fire.
And the Lord said unto Michael: 'Go,
bind Semjaza and his associates
who have united themselves with women
so as to have defiled
themselves
12 with them in all their uncleanness.
And when their sons have slain one
another, and they have seen the destruction
of their beloved ones, bind
them fast for seventy generations in
the valleys of the earth, till the day of
their judgment and of their consummation,
till the judgment that is 13
for ever and ever is consummated. In
those days they shall be led off to the
abyss of fire: and 14 to the torment
and the prison in which they shall be
confined for ever. And whosoever shall
be condemned and destroyed will
from thenceforth be bound together
with them to the end of all 15
generations.
Book of Enoch
[Chapter 27]
1 Then said I: 'For what object is this
blessed land, which is entirely filled
with trees, and this 2 accursed valley
between?' Then Uriel, one of the
holy angels who was with me, answered
and said: 'This accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever:
Here shall all the accursed be gathered together who utter with their lips
against the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things. Here
shall they be gathered together, and here 3 shall be their place of judgment.
In the last days there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgment
in the presence of the righteous for ever: here shall the merciful bless
the Lord
of glory, the Eternal King. 4 In the
days of judgment over the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in
accordance with 5 which He has assigned them (their lot).' Then I blessed
the Lord of Glory and set forth His glory and lauded Him gloriously.
THE MARTYRDOM OF ISAIAH
The reader is well aware
that Isaias was vegetarian and saw the killing of
God's creatures as horrendous and bloody
atrocities, sacrileges against not only the creatures themselves, but against
the Creator of all life. I will quote the entire apocryphal work,
"The Martyrdom of Isaiah" because these passages further confirm what the
later prophets, and in fact, what the earliest Jews believed, that the
vegetarian covenant was in fact the only legitimate dietary covenant with
God, and that the covenant with Noah after the Deluge was a hoax.
I recommend the web site at which readers may obtain for themselves other
apocryphal works edited by
by R. H. Charles, works which now public
domain.
When Isaias and the other
prophets retreat to the mountain top, clothe themselves in hairy garments
and eat nothing but boiled herbs, they mimic the original deity of Judaism,
Shiva, lord of austerities, vegetarian, who, like his followers in the
account below, preferred the mountains and wilderness to the cities.
THE MARTYRDOM OF ISAIAH
[Chapter 1]
2 called Manasseh his son. Now he was his only one. And he called him into the presence of Isaiah the son of Amoz the prophet; and into the presence of Josab the son of Isaiah.
6b, 7 And whilst he (Hezekiah) gave commands, Josab the son of Isaiah standing by, Isaiah said to Hezekiah the king, but not in the presence of Manasseh only did he say unto him: 'As the Lord liveth, whose name has not been sent into this world, [and as the Beloved of my Lord liveth], and as the Spirit which speaketh in me liveth, all these commands and these words shall be made of none effect by Manasseh thy son, and through the agency of his hands I shall depart mid the torture of
8 my body. And Sammael Malchira shall serve Manasseh, and execute all his desire, and he shall
9 become a follower of Beliar rather than of me. And many in Jerusalem and in Judaea he shall cause to abandon the true faith, and Beliar shall dwell in Manasseh, and by his hands I shall be
10 sawn asunder.' And when Hezekiah heard these words he wept very bitterly, and rent his garments,
11 and placed earth upon his head, and
fell on his face. And Isaiah said
unto him: 'The counsel of
12 Sammael against Manasseh is consummated: nought shall avail thee.' And on that day Hezekiah
13 resolved in his heart to slay Manasseh
his son. And Isaiah said to
Hezekiah: ['The Beloved hath made of
none effect thy design, and] the
purpose of thy heart shall not be accomplished,
for with this calling have I
been called [and I shall inherit the
heritage of the Beloved].'
[Chapter 2]
1 And it came to pass after that Hezekiah
died and Manasseh became
king, that he did not remember the
commands of Hezekiah his father but forgat them, and Sammael abode in Manasseh
2 and clung fast to him. And Manasseh
forsook the service of the God of
his father, and he served
3 Satan and his angels and his powers.
And he turned aside the house of
his father which had been
4 before the face of Hezekiah the words
of wisdom and from the service of
God. And Manasseh turned aside his
heart to serve Beliar; for the angel of
lawlessness, who is the ruler of this
world, is Beliar, whose name is
Matanbuchus. And he delighted in Jerusalem
because of Manasseh, and
he made him strong in apostatizing
(Israel) and in the lawlessness which
was spread abroad in Jerusalem
5 And witchcraft and magic increased
and divination and augulation, and
fornication, [and adultery], and the
persecution of the righteous by
Manasseh and [Belachira, and] Tobia
the Canaanite, and John
6 of Anathoth, and by (Zadok the
chief of the works. And the rest of the
acts, behold they are written
7 in the book of the Kings of Judah
and Israel. And when Isaiah the son of
Amoz saw the lawlessness which was
being perpetrated in Jerusalem
and the worship of Satan and his wantonness,
he
8 withdrew from Jerusalem and settled
in Bethlehem of Judah. And there
also there was much
9 lawlessness, and withdrawing from
Bethlehem he settled on a mountain
in a desert place. [And Micaiah the
prophet, and the aged Ananias, and
Joel and Habakkuk, and his son Josab,
and many of the faithful who
believed in the ascension into heaven,
withdrew and settled on the
mountain.]
10 They were all clothed with garments
of hair, and they were all prophets.
And they had nothing with them but
were naked, and they all lamented
with a great lamentation because of
the going
11 astray of Israel. And these eat nothing
save wild herbs which they
gathered on the mountains, and having
cooked them, they lived thereon
together with Isaiah the prophet. And
they spent two years of
12 days on the mountains and hills.
[And after this, whilst they were in the
desert, there was a certain man in
Samaria named Belchlra, of the family of
Zedekiah, the son of Chenaan, a false
prophet whose dwelling was in
Bethlehem. Now Hezekiah the son of
Chanani, who was the brother of his
father, and in the days of Ahab king
of Israel had been the teacher of the
400 prophets of Baal,
13 had himself smitten and reproved
Micaiah the son of Amada the
prophet. And he, Micaiah, had been
reproved by Ahab and cast into
prison. (And he was) with Zedekiah
the prophet: they were
14 with Ahaziah the son of Ahab, king
in Samaria. And Elijah the prophet
of Tebon of Gilead was reproving Ahaziah
and Samaria, and prophesied
regarding Ahaziah that he should die
on his bed of sickness, and that
Samaria should be delivered into the
hand of Leba Nasr because he had
slain
15 the prophets of God. And when the
false prophets, who were with
Ahaziah the son of Ahab and
16 their teacher Gemarias of Mount Joel
had heard -now he was brother of
Zedekiah -when they had heard, they
persuaded Ahaziah the king of
Aguaron and slew Micaiah.
[Chapter 3]
1 And Belchlra recognized and saw the
place of Isaiah and the prophets
who were with him; for he dwelt in
the region of Bethlehem, and was an
adherent of Manasseh. And he prophesied
falsely in Jerusalem, and many
belonging to Jerusalem were confederate
with him, and he was a
Samaritan.
2 And it came to pass when Alagar Zagar,
king of Assyria, had come and
captured Samaria and taken the nine
(and a half) tribes captive, and led
them away to the mountains of the Medes
and the
3 rivers of Tazon; this (Belchira) while
still a youth, had escaped and
come to Jerusalem in the days of Hezekiah
king of Judah, but he walked not in the ways of his father of Samaria;
for he feared 4 Hezekiah. And he was found in the days of Hezekiah speaking
words of lawlessness in Jerusalem.
5 And the servants of Hezekiah accused
him, and he made his escape to
the region of Bethlehem.
6 And they persuaded . . . And Belchlra
accused Isaiah and the prophets
who were with him, saying: 'Isaiah
and those who are with him prophesy
against Jerusalem and against the cities
of Judah that they shall be laid
waste and (against the children of
Judah and) Benjamin also that they
shall go into captivity, and also against
thee, O lord the king, that thou
shalt go (bound) with hooks
8 and iron chains': But they prophesy
falsely against Israel and Judah.
And Isaiah himself hath
9 said: 'I see more than Moses the prophet.'
But Moses said: 'No man can
see God and live':
10 and Isaiah hath said: 'I have seen
God and behold I live.' Know,
therefore, O king, that he is lying.
And Jerusalem also he hath called
Sodom, and the princes of Judah and
Jerusalem he hath declared to be
the people of Gomorrah. And he brought
many accusations against Isaiah
and the
11 prophets before Manasseh. But Beliar
dwelt in the heart of Manasseh
and in the heart of the
12 princes of Judah and Benjamin and
of the eunuchs and of the
councillors of the king. And the words
of Belchira pleased him
[exceedingly], and he sent and seized
Isaiah.
[Chapter 5]
1b, 2 And he sawed him asunder with
a wood-saw. And when Isaiah was
being sawn in sunder Balchlra stood
up, accusing him, and all the false
prophets stood up, laughing and rejoicing
because
3 of Isaiah. And Balchlra, with the
aid of Mechembechus, stood up before
Isaiah, [laughing]
4 deriding; And Belchlra said to Isaiah:
'Say: "I have lied in all that I have
spoken, and likewise
5 the ways of Manasseh are good and
right. And the ways also of Balchlra
and of his associates are
6, 7 good."' And this he said to him
when he began to be sawn in sunder.
But Isaiah was (absorbed)
8 in a vision of the Lord, and though
his eyes were open, he saw them .
And Balchlra spake thus to Isaiah:
'Say what I say unto thee and I will turn
their heart, and I will compel Manasseh
9 and the princes of Judah and the people
and all Jerusalem to reverence
thee.' And Isaiah answered and said:
'So far as I have utterance (I say):
Damned and accursed be thou and all
thy powers and
10, 11 all thy house. For thou canst
not take (from me) aught save the skin
of my body.' And they
12 seized and sawed in sunder Isaiah,
the son of Amoz, with a wood-saw.
And Manasseh and
13 Balchlra and the false prophets and
the princes and the people [and]
all stood looking on. And to the prophets
who were with him he said before he had been sawn in sunder: 'Go ye to
the region
14 of Tyre and Sidon; for for me only
hath God mingled the cup.' And
when Isaiah was being sawn in sunder,
he neither cried aloud nor wept,
but his lips spake with the Holy Spirit
until he was sawn in twain.
From The Apocrypha and Pseudepigraphia
of the Old Testament
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