The Hindu Bindi or Tilaka, the mark on the forehead, was worn by the Israelites leaving Egypt.
Moses and the Israelites wear the bindi, the mark on the forehead, worn by Hindus and Buddhists. This mark on the forehead is not discussed much either by orthodox scholars, for the mark on the forehead worn by Jew shows a definite alliance with the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of India. The bindi was also worn, however, by the elect in Ezekiel's day, by the earliest Christians according to Hippolytus in his work Daniel, and by the elect in "Revelations."
"And it will be a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand." Exodus 13: 16
The Bindi, the Mark
on the Forehead in "Ezekiel" 9 and 16
The bindi is also seen twice in the Book of Ezekiel, in the 9th and 16th chapters. Earlier translations of Ezekiel 16: 12 say God had put a jewel on the forehead of the original vegetarian Jerusalem, personified as a woman; Jerusalem then became a traitor to the God of compassion, however, and sacrificed God's creatures in its temple, and thus Jerusalem is seen as a harlot. The fact that "and I put a jewel on thy forehead' in earlier translations of Ezekiel 16: 12, is omitted in later translations, crown being substituted for jewel on they forehead may be another indication of how Jewish scribes attempted to suppress Judaism's early identification with the vegetarian Hindus. The "jewel on the forehead" translation in Ezekiel 16: 12 may be found in James Strong's Exhaustive Concordance by looking up forehead.
In Ezekiel 9 a wrath-filled God, observing the animal sacrifices, the abominations of Jerusalem, tells his helpers to put the bindi on the foreheads of those who are against the abominations in the Temple of Jerusalem. To a man in white linen with a writing case, perhaps an Essene chronicler, God says:
"And the Lord said to him, "Go through Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it." And to the others he said in my hearing, "Pass through the city after him, and smite; your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity; slay old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one upon whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary." Ezekiel 9: 4-6.In the above scriptures those who have compassion, those who sigh and groan over all the abominations committed in Jerusalem--location of the Temple and its animal sacrifices--have a mark put upon their foreheads. This is Ezekiel's way of describing Judaism's identification with the Hindu-Buddhist tradition. We see John of Patmos making the same link in the "Book of Revelations."
The Bindi in "Revelations"
The bindi is the mark of the blessed and the saved and is mentioned a number of times in "Revelations," a work which sees a time in which there is no more sorrow and death, and therefore no longer any animal sacrifices. For in "Revelations" the creatures above, on and beneath the earth all praise the creator. Now that there is nothing accursed, i.e. that will be oppressed, enslaved and killed, sacrificed, no animal's life is threatened. The time of the brutal demonic morals of the false scriptures the Pentateuch of the orthodox Jews are over.
Then I looked, and lo, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. 14: 1Those familiar with Shaivite Hinduism know that Shiva wore three lines intersecting a circle on his forehead, a symbol of Deity controlling heaven, earth, and patala, or the world below. Also those who know the Quran well know that the pious are described as having a mark on their forehead, ostensibly from having prostrated themselves in prayer with their foreheads to the ground. However, those who understand that the vegetarian Shiites claim that the true lineage of Muslim authority should have passed from Muhammad, whose preferred diet was vegetarianism through the vegetarian Ali, understand that the mark on the forehead mentioned in the Quran may be a remnant of the original Vegetarian Quran.Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God upon their foreheads. 7:3
Then from the smoke came the locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth; they were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green growth or any tree, but only those of mankind who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads...9: 4.
There shall no more be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall worship him; they shall see his face, and his name shall be on their foreheads. And night shall be no more; they need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they shall reign for ever and ever. 22: 3-5
The rider on the white
horse in "Revelations" is derived from the Hindu Prophecy
That Krishna will return
as Kalki on a white horse to help remove evil from earth.
The mark on the
forehead is not the only clear demonstration of the Hindu origins of the
pure remnant of Judaism in "Revelations." The white horse and the rider
on the white horse in the book are a reference to Kalki, the savior on
a white horse who incarnates to destroy the evil in the world. Christians
of course designate the rider as Christ. The earliest Christians not only
wore the bindi but understood that Kalki would incarnate later just
as Jesus had before them.
The Bindi in "Daniel"
by Hippolytus (160-235)
Hippolytus affirms that
the earliest followers of Jesus wore the Bindi.
Those researchers who download Hippolytus' "Daniel" from Catholic web sites, at least those sites I have consulted, will notice that the quoted section below in "Daniel" dealing with the mark of victory or the bindi on the forehead of the earliest followers of Jesus IS OMITTED. True to the suppressive traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, which withheld the Dead Sea Scrolls from public scrutiny for over forty years, the Catholic Church also refuses to print an edition of "Daniel" showing that the earliest followers of Jesus wore the bindi.
A traveler to Asia and to points east, Hippolytus in his Daniel, iv. 9, visualizes a moral battleground between the people who will follow Jesus, representative of God, and the people who will follow Augustus, Emperor of Rome, a worldly king, a representative of Satan. In so doing he describes the earliest Christians as wearing the bindi, the mark of victory on their forehead. His statement that Christians "bear a new name" may refer not simply to the fact that they are called Christians, but also to the tradition of giving initiates a new spiritual name, which Jesus gave to Peter for example, which Jesus did to his disciples in general in the Gospel of the Nazirenes, a practice which is customary in the Hindu and Buddhist, Christian, [and later in the Islamic traditions. Hippolytus states:
"For as our Lord was born in the forty-second year of the emperor Augustus, whence the Roman empire developed, and as the Lord also called all nations and all tongues by means of the apostles and fashioned believing Christians into a people, the people of the Lord, and the people which consists of those who bear a new name--so was all this imitated to the letter by the empire of that day, ruling 'according to the working of Satan': for it also collected to itself the noblest of every nation, and, dubbing them Romans, got ready for the fray. And that is the reason why the first census took place under Augustus, when our Lord was born at Bethlehem; it was to get the men of this world, who enrolled for our earthly king, called Romans, while those who believed in a heavenly king were termed Christians, bearing on their foreheads the sign of victory over death." (Emphasis mine) Daniel iv. 9.So though the original accounts of the Torah were revised and contradicted in order to provide the orthodox Old Testament we have today, the real Moses and Aaron and Elisheva well understood that they were part of the Hindu tradition. Besides the fact that Moses wears the bindi on his forehead, one of the names of Shiva in Hinduism is Moshe, which is identical to Mosheh, the ancient Hebrew name of Moses. Moreover, the icons made by Moses, the Nehushtan (the copper or bronze serpent), and by Aaron (the golden calf), were part of the traditional iconography of Hinduism. The serpent image being the Kundalini power of Shiva, Lord of Yoga, and the golden calf being a version of the sacred cow of India.
The removing
of one's sandals on holy ground, which Moses did at the command of the
voice of God in the burning bush, is a Hindu tradition. The voice
in the burning bush commands Moses to remove his sandals on that holy ground.
And Hindus traditionally remove their footwear when entering their sanctuaries
of worship or ashrams. The Samarians did the same. And the earliest priests
of Judaism did likewise; they performed their rituals barefoot. (Samarya
in India is the source of the name Samaria.)
The Eye of Horus and Vegetarian Egyptians devoted to Osiris (also known as Ausur or Asura)
The bindi
may also be seen in the eye of Horus in Egypt as well as in the uraeus,
the serpent on the forehead of the sphinx. The name Sheba was used
to designate both people and places and where the names Ra and Rameses
are variations, or perhaps prototypes, of Rama. In any case, as one discovers
when reading the Egyptian volume, known variously as The Coming of the
Day, or Book of the Dead, vegetarianism and vegetarian priests offering
purely vegetarian oblations to Unefer aka Osiris were definitely a part
of the tradition in ancient Egypt just as they were the rule among the
mainstream Vaishnavas and Shaivites and devotees of Sakti in India. Seb,
Lord of the Earth among the Egyptians, is a transliteration (or prototype)
and is seen in the Seba, Saba, and Sheba terms which proliferate in the
Torah.
And Seb's sky god father Shu also present in the Torah. For
Abraham named his son Shuah, and thus contradicted the orthodox Jewish
notion that Abraham gave up the polytheistic religion of his father Terah.
It may in fact be the truth that originally the name Torah was given
to the first five books by Moses in honor of Abraham's father, who lived
with his son Abraham as a Sabean in Haran, named after Hara, which is a
designation of Shiva as the Destroyer.
The Bindi among the Mayans following the vegetarian Quetzalcoatl
Moreover, anointing the forehead was common in ancient Mexico among the followers of Quetzalcoatl. Huitzipochtli renamed the indigenous people there the Mexicas, gave them bows and arrows and put a sign on their forehead, and promised them they would become Lords of the Earth. The word Mexicas, or Messicas, meant the "anointed ones," and is virtually identical to Meshica in ancient Hebrew, which designates the Messiah or anointed one. So too we have an aboriginal prophecy that the land known as Michigan, which is a transliteration of Messica, would be an origin of the knowledge necessary to bring about the final age of peace for all creation.
Orthodox Christians destroyed records describing Quetzalcoatl's vegetarianism (he forbade animal sacrifices as well as human sacrifices) but these vegetarian traditions were conserved by the indigenous people of the area, and can be explored even on the Internet today. Not only have they found statuettes of Shiva in ancient Incan tombs, but the theological detective sees that the ancient deities of the Mayans (whom Edgar Cayce says came from the Atlanteans) were of the same prototype. And this, of course is one of the main reasons that the demonic Catholic Church and then later the entire Christian orthodox tradition, suppressed and ignored the great cultures of the Mayans and the Incas for it is obvious that originally these traditions sprang from the same pure tradition from which the vegetarians of Hinduism and Buddhism came.
For those of you unaware of the Hindu influences in Yucatan and the Western
Hemisphere in general in ancient time, see the page on Kali and the Yucatan,
in this study, as well as the pages describing the moral superiority of
aboriginal cultures over industrial cultures. Excellent websites
describing the spread of Vedic teachings throughout the ancient world may
be found at viewzone.com, sword of truth.com, Hinduism Today (the archives)
as well as in the Theosophical Glossaries on the net. Madame Blavatsky
and Annie Besant were pioneers in discovering the fact that Hinduism is
the most ancient universal primal religion of the earth. Wm. Drummond's
Cosmic
Origenes also discusses the fact that Tsabaism, the tradition of Saba
or Shiva, existed in the ancient world of the Hebrews.
The Description of the
Golem and the Emeth in Jewish Folklore
Confirms the Mark on
the Forehead as a means of Spiritual Activation.
In Hebrew the word Golem means a simpleton, fool, or thief. In Jewish folklore, the golem is a lifeless mass in the form of a human until the word emeth, meaning truth is inscribed on its forehead, at which time the golem is given life. The mark on the forehead, the emeth, thus spiritually animates the lifeless human form, making it spiritually aware.
It is not too hard to see that the grass-roots folklore of the original Jews understood that the mark on the forehead was a sign of spiritual animation, the same as the bindi or tilaka was to Moses and Ezekiel in the Old Testament and to John of Patmos and Hippolytus in New Testament times, just as it was to the Mexicans, the Messicos, the anointed ones, the messiahs. To all of these groups the mark on the forehead was a sign of the elect, the saved, the spiritually victorious
We should juxtapose this interesting bit of Hebrew folklore with the religious vegetarian tradition that exists in Genesis 1: 29-30, and in the late prophets like Isaias, who sees cultures practicing animal sacrifices as being like Sodom and Gomorrah, deserving destruction. We can even juxtapose it with the description of the inhabitants of Atlantis by Solon, a description carried on by Plato, which says that the Atlanteans "mingled with mortality," that is, ate death, ate corpses. Those familiar with the Gospel of Philip, know that it was described as Gnostic for a very practical reason. For the Gospel of Philip says in one translation, "This world eats corpses" and in another "This world is a corpse-eater." Both of these point to an axiom of the vegetarian Hindus, that those who are carnivorous in this life, though they are able to cultivate other virtues somewhat, will never gain the highest plateaus of spirituality until they become vegetarian.
Those who have read The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, made into a three part epic movie, deals with the tradition of the golem. Fittingly the golem in the second movie is blatantly carnivorous and has to struggle immensely with schizophrenic tendencies.