"And I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."  16: 17-18.

I will set shepherds over them who will care for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be missing...  23: 1-4.

    In earlier more accurate versions of the Old Testament, there were no doubt many more explicit denunciations of animal sacrifices and the meat industry such as the following:
 

"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.

   Zechariah's name itself may etymologically be broken down into Zayin, or Z and acharya, that is Z acharya. This may be seen clearly by consulting the Peshitta Aramaic web site. An acharya is a Hindu teacher, one who knows the rules. Once again the Hindu origins of Judaism are affirmed.
 

"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.

"...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.

"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.

"He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man."  66:3.

   Contrast the above creation-centered view with Paul's human-centered view,"Is it for oxen that God is concerned?" 9: 9, Romans, or with the statements falsely attributed to Jesus which state "are you not more than many sparrows," and not more than the ox rescued from the pit? The Jesus of the Gospel of the Nazarenes condemns the enslaving, injuring or killing of other animals, and whenever telling humans to love their neighbors as themselves, tells them to extend their respect and love to all creatures, not just to humans.
 
 

   Like other scribes of Old Testament times and the Essenes, Nahum uses the lion as a symbol of carnivorism.  Strangling animals, such as fowl I presume, was common among some Jews, though it was technically forbidden by law.

"Where is the lion's den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?  The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh....Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard."  2: 11-13.
 
 

"I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.  Even though you offer me your burnt offerings...I will not accept them and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon.  5: 2l-22.

"Woe to those who lie upon beds of ivory and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall..."  6: 4.

"What is the transgression of Jacob?  Is it not Samaria?   And what is the sin of the house of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?   Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards; and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.  All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste..."  1: 6-7.

"With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high?  Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?  Will the lord be pleased with thousands of rams....Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?  He has showed you, O man what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?"  6: 6-8.

"The visions of my head as I lay in bed were these: I saw, and behold, a tree in the midst of the earth; and its height was great.  The tree grew and became strong, and its top reached to heaven, and it was visible to the end of the whole earth.  Its leaves were fair and its fruit abundant, and it was food
for all.  The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the air dwelt in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it."  4: 10-12.

  "Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief of eunuchs had appointed over Daniel, Hanani'ah, Mish a el and Azariah, "Test your servants for ten days; let us be given vegetables to eat and water to drink.  Then let our appearance and the appearance of the youths who eat the king's rich food be
observed by you, and according to what you see deal with your servants."  So he hearkened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.  At the end of ten days it was seen that they were better in appearance and fatter in flesh than all the youths who ate the king's rich food.  So the steward took
away their rich food and the wine they were to drink and gave them vegetables."  1: 11-16.

The king tests Daniel and his vegetarian friends and...

"In every matter of wisdom and understanding he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom."  1: 20.
 

                                                                    Joel

  In the "Book of Joel" the people of Judaism have not only been overcome by carnivorous nations, but have chosen to adopt their ways, and consequently suffer nature's displeasure, for the ways of nature are controlled by God.

"For a nation has come up against my land, powerful and without number; it's teeth are lions' teeth, and it has the fangs of a lioness.  It has laid waste my vines, and splintered my fig trees; it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down; their branches are made white....The cereal offering and the drink offering are cut off from the house of the Lord....The fields are laid waste, the ground mourns; because the grain is destroyed, the wine fails, the oil languishes."  1: 6-10

   Joel, typical of the late prophets, sees the devastation as karmic, as coming from the fact that the Jews have adopted the ways of their carnivorous conquerors, and Joel echoes the same message of the other prophets and of the vegetarian Moses whom we see clearly in the Dead Sea Scrolls, a
message which states: remain vegetarian, even when those around you are not.

"Behold, I am sending to you grain, wine and oil, and you shall be satisfied... 2: l9.

"Fear not, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green; the tree bears its fruit, the fig tree and the vine give their full yield."  2: 22.

And Joel succinctly sees the same vision of peace for all animal creation that Isaiah sees, and that exists in Revelations, namely peace for all creation:

"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh..."  2: 28.

   Once again, seeing all flesh, that is, all creatures flesh and blood, as recipients of salvation is a Hindu concept and was the belief of the original Jews, but it is not the belief of orthodox Judaism.

"For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God, rather than burnt offerings. But at Adam they transgressed the covenant; there they dealt faithlessly with me."  6: 6-7.

Commentary: Saying 85 of the Nag Hammadi "Gospel of Thomas" states "Adam came from great power and  great wealth, but he was not worthy of you.  For had he been worthy he would not have tasted death."  The "Gospel of Philip" states that Adam fell because he ate from the "Tree of Animals."  The "Gospel of Philip" also says "This world eats corpses" but Jesus did not. Eating the corpse of a sacrificed animal, Adam tasted death.

"They love sacrifice; they sacrifice flesh and eat it; but the Lord has no delight in them."  Hosea 8: l3.
 
 

"For there is no truth in their mouth; their heart is destruction, their throat is an open sepulchre..." Psalm 5: 9.
 
 

    Pliny in section 151 of Apologia Pro Judaeis affirms that the Essenes commonly had centenarians among them. The Essenes were vegetarian. Some lived to be 120.

    Students of Buddhism know that when Buddha described the longevity of his vegetarian flock he described their life expectancy as being merely that of a hundred years (for example in the Dhammapada), and he did this over and over again.

    Psalm 90 from the Old Testament, however, commenting on the life expectancy of the orthodox carnivorous Jew, describes it as "three-score and ten" and occasionally eighty.  Neither Buddha nor the author of Psalm 90 was focussing on the longevity of their people with the express purpose of
comparing the longevity of their own culture with that of another culture.  They were each simply describing a fact of life in their respective cultures, and the facts speak for themselves.

   Who wrote Psalm 90?

   Moses, who lived to be 120 years old!, which in itself virtually proves what later prophets and commentators have said, that Moses' real words were changed in order to fit the desires of evil men seeking to profit from animal sacrifices.  Moses, who denounced the Israelites craving flesh in Exodus sees longevity as the result of vegetarianism.

"I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him; for that means life to you and length of days..." Moses, Deuteronomy 30: 19-20.

   Though it is "The Words of Moses" in the Dead Sea Scrolls  that documents a vegetarian Moses and directly aligns him with the vegetarian tradition, even the Old Testament's orthodox Moses asserts that longevity was a proof of virtue, which in itself is dramatic evidence that the original Moses, who lived to be 120, was vegetarian.  Moses' age of 120 years was not uncommon among the vegetarian Essenes.  Moreover, even sections of the notorious "Pentateuch" are barely revised versions of the original vegetarian scriptures.  For example,  scriptures in Exodus dealing with the Israelites' craving for flesh, and their eating of the quail which brings on them the plague, clearly not only suggests but denotes clearly that their craving for flesh is evil.  Even in "Leviticus" (which, like most of the Pentateuch, would make a very effective horror movie) God's words are sometimes more like the words of Essenes and late Jewish prophets than they are like the Jehovah-turned-demon who commands the animal sacrifices.

     Who with a rational mind will doubt that the scriptures were revised? Jehovah never changed. But the portrayals of Jehovah did. The all-loving Jehovah of the first verses of "Genesis," according to its scriptures, suffers a moral breakdown and begins sanctioning animal sacrifices which were formerly condemned.  An all-perfect deity, by definition, would never do this.

  And who is so naive as to believe that the rich would not lie especially about religion?

     God is the ultimate sanction. If the masses can be fooled into believing that slavery is desired by an all-loving God, that sexism, and the slaughtering of animals are justified by God, then all these will become the norms of society, as they have for the orthodox Jews, Christians and Muslims. Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad must be quite amused to see their visions perverted into the death-dealing religions of orthodox Judaism, orthodox Christianity, and orthodox Islam.
 
 

   The  works called the Apocrypha of the Old Testament are much like the gnostic and heretical gospels of the New Testament.  They often contained scriptures that were disliked by the orthodox.  Specifically, of course, apocryphal works often denounced brutality towards animals and the animal sacrifices.
 
 

    Sirach succinctly summarizes the difference between the human-oriented perspective of orthodox Jews, Christians and Muslims, and the creation-oriented attitude of Hindus and Buddhists.

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

    Baruch's truthfulness like that of the real Ebionite Jesus no doubt infuriated the Jewish orthodoxy, which is doubtlessly the reason his scriptures were judged to be apocryphal.  Baruch links the sorrow-filled history of orthodox Judaism, a history of misery which persists to this day, with its insistence on conducting animal sacrifices, which he equates with demon-worship.

"Take courage, my people, O memorial of Israel!  It was not for destruction that you were sold to the nations, but you were handed over to your enemies because you angered God.  For you provoked him who made you by sacrificing to demons and not to God."  4: 5-7.

"He who prepared the earth for all time filled it with four-footed creatures."  3: 32.
 
 

    The Values in the Ethiopic Book of Enoch are the Values of Hinduism,
                                          Jain Buddhism and Buddhism,
                       not the Values of what we call Orthodox Judaism.
                                         That is Why the Book of Enoch
                        Was Relegated as Apocryphal by Orthodox Jews.
       Enoch and Noah both totally denounce animal sacrifices and industry
            As do the Shauvite, Vaishnava, and Renunciate Traditions of India.

    In his study of the Enoch literature on the Internet James C. VanderKam, a man recognized for his knowledge of the Enoch material and who is described as being the world's foremost authority on "Jubilees" asks: was God justified in sending the universally destructive flood? And, puzzled by  the value system expressed in the Book of Enoch, he asks: And where is the Torah? In other words, where are the values of the Torah? It is in fact a very legitimate and good question.  And, if it had come from the mouth of a vegetarian, I would take the question to be rhetorical and/or sarcastic.  For
it is very obvious that the Book of Enoch, like Genesis 1: 30, regards all creatures as being conscious and as having wills of their own, and flesh and blood living beings with values.  Genesis 1: 30 is a very deliberately ignored scripture, because it reflects an attitude that strikes a lethal blow at the very
heart of the orthodoxy of Judaism, the religious parent of orthodox Christianity and orthodox Islam.
 
 

"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: 30.

    This verse is perhaps one of the least discussed scriptures in the Old Testament, because it in fact crushes the philosophical and religious foundations of orthodox Judaism, as well as the foundation of all religions that claim that only humans have souls and therefore meaningful lives.  Genesis 1: 30 shows God well aware of not only the consciousness but the will power of all creatures. In other words, creatures are not portrayed as instinctual automatons, which is the way orthodox religions and industrialists want them to be portrayed, so that we will--hopefully in their minds--not be bothered by oppressing, enslaving and killing these creatures.

  VanderKam quotes the following rationale for the flood. Notice that the earth's creatures are described as "all flesh" which would include humanity as well: "the earth was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon the earth" (6:12) Therefore the universal destruction, for universally, flesh and blood creatures of all types were acting in evil ways.

    In other words, to answer VanderKam's question, Was God justified in sending the universally destructive flood?, the All-Just Deity did not turn its back on justice by destroying all creatures on land. All creatures have free will and the power to discriminate between what is good and what is evil,
and also to attract to themselves the very karma they exude.  We had begun to discover personality in other creatures more fully during the latter half of the twentieth century.  Jane Goodall's observations on the personal nuances of the primates she lived with are mind-boggling.  Some of the primates ate grubbs. Others were strict vegetarians. Very beautifully so, the author of Genesis, the late Jewish prophets and the Essenes and the real Ebionite Jesus, who is seen clearly only in the Gospel of the Nazirenes, kept alive this recognition, not only of the uniqueness and sacredness of all creatures, but of the fact that they have consciousness and free will.
 
 

    But the businessmen of Judaism, Christianity and Islam had to squelch such consciousness, had to describe it as foolish.  So orthodox persons, some even dubbing themselves intellectuals, spout the most non-intellectual and nonsensical stuff about other creatures: "If animals were intelligent
they'd be speaking to us, they'd invent tools, they'd live in houses, they'd start civilizations."  No, they wouldn't, is the answer.  The intelligent creatures live with creation as it was made. Nature is the Creation of the Divine. Industry is the creation of Fallen Humanity.

    And then we have absolutely inane utterances coming from supposedly brilliant individuals, Descartes saying animals are like clocks, Thomas Aquinas saying animals have no souls. And businessmen of every carnivorous creed saying that the other creatures are here for us to use, to subdue, to have dominion over, even to eat. These very persons, and the traditions they represent, are the proof positive of what nonsense can come from the individual brain or the collective brain of a culture feeding itself cholesterol.

    To say in one breath that God is all-compassionate and in the next breath that God wishes us to exploit and kill other animals is not really to be logical, to be moral, or really, even to be sane.

    But it is and has been the teaching of orthodox Judaism, Christianity, and Islam for thousands of years.  We know that cholesterol hurts our hearts. But the cholesterol junkie in denial really doesn't want to look at what's obvious, that cholesterol hurts and hinders the brain as well.

   Mainly, human-oriented humans are refusing to admit that the lives of other creatures have value in themselves. To orthodox Jews, other animals have value only insofar as they may be used by humans. Eating flesh is a cause of human merriment, says the orthodox Jew. Never mind that the orthodox Jew's merriment came at the price of the other animal being bludgeoned, or cut in half, or decapitated or suffocated.

    So it was no doubt businessmen who very strategically inserted Genesis 1: 26-28 right before Genesis 1: 29-30 in an attempt to detract from the very clear and forthright Vegetarian Covenant.

"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 first verse is the "Vegetarian Covenant (for humans) which even orthodox Jewish Rabbis have admitted was the Dietary Law for all humans until after the Deluge, when God according to the Old Testament gave humans permission to eat all manner of flesh, and when God said that now all
animals would live in dread, or in fear or terror of humanity.  However, quoted constantly by the orthodox are the following notorious scriptures, which industrialists and slaughterhouses and vivisection labs and hunters quote constantly, Genesis 1: 26-28, which are quoted even more often than God's words to Noah after the Deluge, in order to justify the exploitations of industry and the meat industry in particular.

   Then God said "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.  So God created man in his own image, in the image
of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." Genesis 1:
26-28.

   Verses 26 through 28 are examples themselves of the logic of Fallen Humanity, and these verses are proof themselves of the Fall, the disassociation from the original harmony, a time in which all creatures were seen as "good" and none was to eat any other, to a condition in which humans may oppress and kill other beings and eat them.  Although some orthodox Rabbis assert the real sanction for flesh-eating occurred later, after the Deluge to Noah, the fact is that some apologists for carnivorism use these scriptures even more often than God's purported covenant of carnivorism
with Noah and his lineage.

    Before the fall, all animals were blessed and their creation was seen by God as good.  After the fall, which most of the late Jewish prophets, the Book of Enoch, and the Gospel of Philip, to name just a few works, say was the institution of animal sacrifices, God says to the serpent: "cursed are you
above all cattle, and above all wild animals." 3: 14.
 
 

       Everyone interested in religion must read Baruch, whose scriptures are designated as apocryphal.  In beautiful lines making me think of Keats' "Ozymandias," Baruch attacks those Jews to subdued the earth and had dominion over other creatures and asks:

Where are the rulers of the nations, they who lorded it over the wild beasts of the earth, and made sport of the birds of the heavens: they who heaped up the silver and the gold in which men trust; of whose possessions there was no end? They schemed anxiously for money, but there is no trace of
their work: they have vanished down into the nether world... 16-19

 

Scriptures Inspired by Demons,
The Fallen Angels of the Book of Enoch,
Angels Sanctioning Brutality towards God's Creatures
And the Disease-Promoting Diet of Carnivorism.

     It can easily be seen, through using methods of literary criticism examining the context and tone of these scriptures, that these scriptures are obvious revisions or inserts.  Thematically and tonally they are misfit scriptures in a eulogy expressing praise to the Creator and dwelling on the goodness
of all creatures.  These "outlaw" scriptures, Genesis 1: 26-28, with their admonition to have dominion and subdue, are an obvious insertion meant to subvert the command or covenant to be vegetarian, and were purposely placed immediately before the first powerful statement of God's vegetarian
covenant, Genesis 1: 28-30, a passage which describes the Tree of Vegetation that will feed all creatures equally with its vegetation.  The insertion, verses 26 through 28,  interferes with the tone and theme of the eulogy to God and creation, interrupts its flowing movement, and is a definite
blemish on an otherwise beautiful and inspiring poem.

     Those who refer to these outlaw, misfit scriptures, do so in order to find a scriptural basis to oppress, enslave, exploit, and slaughter animals, and even to enslave and exploit humans.  And it is these people, these who subdue other animals and kill them, and who even subdue other humans as slaves or as wage slaves,  who are the chief transgressors against the Creator who created all creatures, all creation, and saw that it was good.  And they comprise the majorities in orthodox Judaism, Christianity and Islam as well as in some forms of Brahmanic Hinduism which promote carnivorism and the caste system; these groups are the heretics, the rebels against God's law. God's law is equality.  It is the elitist, the rich, the industrialists, and those in governments who support such evils who are demonic.  There are, we know vegetarian and egalitarian minorities within each of these faith.  These groups are the pure remnant remaining true to the original ideals of their religions.

    False religions are those which claim that their God is so special that "he" will only associate with the likes of themselves.  These demonic creeds (that we call  religions only because we have been historically conditioned to regard them as such) are houses divided among themselves, and, elitists that they are, they order their reality to be divided between the chosen people, themselves, and the infidel or pagans, all others.

   However, when I read Hindu and Buddhist texts, what comes through is a recognition by them that Deity is in all traditions.

    I always wondered why the Eastern religions didn't directly attack the carnivorism of the portrayals of Moses, Jesus and Mohammed in their respective scriptures.  Did they know something I didn't? Yes, they did: whether intuitively or through historical deduction they knew that the origins of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were vegetarian and egalitarian.  They knew, because it was their cultures that started these pure traditions that were later corrupted.

     It was obvious to me when reading the Old Testament account of Noah and the Arc and the Deluge, that the orthodox Old Testament's version of what occurred was a cover-up for what actually happened, and when I read the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, this was confirmed: God cleansed the earth of an evil culture that fed on animal sacrifices, that mined the earth, disregarding the creatures living in that earth, and that made weapons of war and destruction with their metals. And women and perhaps men as well became unnatural through using cosmetics as well.

 

Who is the God of the Ethiopic Books of Enoch and Noah?
      Shiva Pasupati, Lord of Creatures and Protector of Cattle

                  Shiva, the Lord of the Trees, and Tu B'shevat, Feast of the Trees

  The Jews minimally retained this special attention to trees, at least in their Feast of the Trees, Tu B'shevat.  Who is the God of the Ethiopic Book of Enoch which contains the account of the Fall of the Angels and the Deluge? None other than Shiva, who was Sheba, Seba and Saba to the Ethiopians, and whose Hindu name is not even disguised in Tu B'shevat (my underlining), just as it is not disguised in Shavu ot, the Jewish Feast of Weeks and the Christian Pentecost.  Both holidays are, as one can infer from the names themselves, dedicated to Shiva, whose attributes in Hinduism include emanating tongues of fire, which is associated with Pentecost, and being Lord of the Trees.

     This view of humanity's transgressions against other creatures and among themselves coincides rather well with Isaiah's classic denunciation of animal sacrifices, a denunciation which links the animal sacrifices with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The Apocryphal "The Martyrdom of Isaias" portrays Isaias as leaving Jerusalem and Bethlehem and as living in the mountains with others who have renounced the evils of orthodox Judaism. They live off cooking roots and herbs.  Called back into civilization by the rulers of his day, the rulers tempt Isaias to recant or at least revise his denunciations of the Jewish orthodoxy.  And Isaias, true to his heroic form, and he, like Jesus, indeed was heroic both in expression and in action, tells the ruler to be damned.  For that act, Isaias is martyred, sawn in half. This is the method of his Ascension, a martyrdom that had occurred in the Jewish past, and that was to occur numerous times in the future among those who opposed the animal sacrifices of the orthodox Jews.  The Maccabees, Jesus, his brother James, Stephen, Polycarp, and numerous other people described in Greek and Roman histories were to share the same martyrdom.

    Hey--Businessmen don't like being challenged.  They don't like to have the fact pointed out that their animal-sacrificing ancestors killed vegetarians and rewrote the scriptures to sanction the immoral but profitable bloody atrocities involved in the meat industry.
 
 

   Since being brutally slaughtered is no good for the animal, and eating cholesterol is no good for you, how can murdering animals and eating their corpses be something that you would morally or nutritionally pursue?

   Carnivorous religion is a fiction made up by those wishing to profit from selling the slaughtered corpses of animals to eat, or from oppressing, displacing and killing creatures through industry. Both of these are forbidden by the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, and both of these were condemned by
the original Jews.