Of all my discoveries on the Internet, Gene Matlock's essay remains in my top 10 best finds of all time, contributing to my life-long journey to learn of Abraham's origins. In the essay below, Gene explores evidence and implications from various sources pointing at South Asian origins of Abraham and his cult. His premise includes the presumption that Rama was an actual historical figure, whereas Rama and the Ramayana were stories, katha, to convey lessons, and in this case, stories created by Aryans, originating from the Steppes, to induce inferiority complex among Dravidians and others while conveying them as subhumans, as monkeys, as sham, despite Dravidians and Austrics having a far more evolved society than the Aryans.
That Abraham and Judaism originated from larger Indian influences has been rather common knowledge in the region for millennia while it has been so long since his presence on Earth so much of what occurred then has been obscured with time.
To the contributions from this essay I can add a few bits of information from my guru. Judaism originated in a small village in southern area of what is known as Afghanistan today. While Matlock refers to extensive flooding, perhaps a continuous monsoon, contributive to Judaism's journey westward, the westward migration also had to do with people of that village converting to Shaevite Tantra. Others in the surrounding area retaliated toward them, initiating the first of a string in the story line of Judaism about "persecution". I anticipate that the village was surrounded by Zorastrians, one of the oldest religions in the world, extant today, and among the earliest to postulate or assert monotheism, as does Tantra.
The hexagram, commonly known as Mogen David in Judaism, had long been an important device in Shaevite Tantric practice for thousands of years before Abraham, and was quite common in Egypt and areas north of Egypt before the arrival of Judaism to the area. Shaevite Tantra is Tantra further systemized by SadaShiva nearly 7,000 years ago, Tantra evolving thousands of years before that, originating from Dravidian, Mongolian, and Austric cultures, applying scientific methods to every realm of life, not just inanimate physics as is often the conceit of modern times.
It has been said that Abraham could directly communicate with God. Dhyana is how he did so, part of core of yogic practice, of Ashtaunga yoga, the Eightfold Path, a birthright to practice for all humans. Dhyana and dharana were taken to China by Bodhi Dharma, a key part of his introduction of Tantra and Buddhism to Taoist practitioners of the time, a meditation method which later became known as "Chan" in China's monosyllabic language, and later known as Zazen in Korea, and as Zen in Japan.
Before its desctruction, the temple in Israel of which the "Wailing Wall" remains had a chamber for initiates within which descriptors of the Universe were engraved, including the acoustic root of the Universe, the phoneme "aum", "om", "omn", "the word", om'kara in Sam'skrit. Reciting the sound, in prescribed manner, greatly facilitates psycho-spiritual development, intuitional gestalts.
Guest article
Who Was ABRAHAM?
A paper by Gene D. Matlock, B.A., M.A.
Gene D. Matlock, B.A, M.A.
In his History of the Jews, the Jewish scholar and theologian Flavius Josephus (37 - 100 A.D.), wrote that the Greek philosopher Aristotle had said: "...These Jews are derived from the Indian philosophers; they are named by the Indians Calani." (Book I:22.)
Clearchus of Soli wrote, "The Jews descend from the philosophers of India. The philosophers are called in India Calanians and in Syria Jews. The name of their capital is very difficult to pronounce. It is called 'Jerusalem.'"
"Megasthenes, who was sent to India by Seleucus Nicator, about three hundred years before Christ, and whose accounts from new inquiries are every day acquiring additional credit, says that the Jews 'were an Indian tribe or sect called Kalani...'" (Anacalypsis, by Godfrey Higgins, Vol. I; p. 400.)
Martin Haug, Ph.D., wrote in The Sacred Language, Writings, and Religions of the Parsis, "The Magi are said to have called their religion Kesh-î-Ibrahim. They traced their religious books to Abraham, who was believed to have brought them from heaven." (p. 16.)
There are certain striking similarities between the Hindu god Brahma and his consort Saraisvati, and the Jewish Abraham and Sarai, that are more than mere coincidences. Although in all of India there is only one temple dedicated to Brahma, this cult is the third largest Hindu sect.
In his book Moisés y los Extraterrestres, Mexican author Tomás Doreste states,
Voltaire was of the opinion that Abraham descended from some of the numerous Brahman priests who left India to spread their teachings throughout the world; and in support of his thesis he presented the following elements: the similarity of names and the fact that the city of Ur, land of the patriarchs, was near the border of Persia, the road to India, where that Brahman had been born.
