The bible tells a different story.

[lemex]

Remember what went on is set in that time period. Personally I would not have any of it today. Today, many acts that fill the OT in general would lead to some kind of examination of facts and probable prosecution legally. What story does it tell you?

Not sure but the way it was back then was pretty violent, you were "warned" not to and could you be stoned to death. Just want to make sure we aren't sugar coating this stuff. Today is it still taught it is wrong, I know it use to be. What is taught today and would you follow it if you thought it was wrong versus told it was.

[Amilius777]

What a lot of people don't know is that the People of Israel were created by initiates and practitioners. They turned into a race, generations upon generations of spiritual gifts, magic, communication, and Divine connection passed down through the Ages of their history.

Abraham wasn't the only monotheistic. Akhenaten was an Egyptian and he could have been considered a "Jew" in a spiritual sense. It was always spiritual awakening to "the One".

Moses was not actually directly linked to Abraham. He was born in the prestigious world of the Egyptian culture and raised on many deities. The story of his miraculous salvation from the purge of Hebrew babies was invented later to explain his direct link to Abraham. The thing is Moses wrote or inspired other scribes to write the original Five Books. He didn't dictate everything. So where did the stories of Abraham and very ancient figures come from? The names are probably not exact but the POINT Moses was trying to make was that his SPIRITUAL lineage of his PEOPLES go all the way back to the very first monotheistic who he named Abraham. And Abraham and Moses were both ....dun dun dun....PSYCHIC

Only a naturally born psychic or initiate of the mysteries could possibly know the One. Moses was also a practitioner of many occult powers and practices. Historically Moses was even raised among the mystery school priests within the Hyksos region of Egypt.
All the things that Moses manifested and did were very much known to other Egyptians. What made Moses such a controversial prophet was that he saw all the forces he was raised on "deities" to be all ONE. When Moses went into the cave and saw the Burning Bush he even asked "who are you?" Moses was asking which God this was because of how he was raised on deities. The voice spoke to Him from within, "I am who I am". This was not "a deity" which is a supernatural force in the universe that comes from another origin, this was the Originless Origin- the One. Moses realized that the Highest Power is in fact the Divine Consciousness Itself, the Supreme Beingness. He later called this highest power- YHWH. YHWH is not spoken but "breathed" as many rabbis say. This is because YHWH is the breath of life, YHWH is Life itself.

Many people of Israel couldn't grasp the totality and universal presence of YHWH and that is why Moses began speaking of Jehovah, Lady Wisdom, or the Lord God, etc. Even though there is only the One, there is also many that manifest from the One. It was a way to agree to disagree or to make everyone happy.

As you see whatever you label as Witchcraft, mediumship, channeling, etc has been around forever and the prophets of the Old Testament were practitioners of such things but all their energy was directed to and from "The One God" unlike the neighboring pagan enemies they had who used the spiritual/natural forces "deities" for their own purposes and divided them. Or a lot of these pagan empires even created their own deities out of their image- negative thoughtforms.