Circumcision comes up on this site in three very different settings: as a covenant sign in the Hebrew Bible, as an old custom that Ignatius Donnelly traced back to Atlantis, and as a law that the Oahspe first gives and later withdraws.
On Yahweh first emerges as a personal, covenantal deity in the story of Abraham I read the introduction of circumcision, together with the land promises, as a sign that Yahweh was guiding one chosen lineage.
My conclusion there is that circumcision let a man in the door, but it did not make him part of the family line.
On Lilith, male children are said to be at risk of Lilith's wrath for eight days after birth, until circumcision.
Circumcision stamped out the disease in Atlantis; we read of one Atlantean king, the Greek god Ouranos, who, in a time of plague, compelled his whole army and the armies of his allies to undergo the rite.
Tens of thousands of years have passed since the Stone Age; the ages of copper, bronze, and iron bare intervened; and yet to this day the Hebrew rabbi performs the ceremony of circumcision with a stone knife.
On Artificial Deformation of the Skull circumcision is one of the shared customs he counts as proof of a common prehistoric race.
In the Oahspe the Lord gives circumcision as a boundary around his chosen.
Gave I not unto you the mark of circumcision as a limit to the line of my chosen?
The Lords' Fourth Book blames those who did not preserve their seed through the circumcision.
There was a law of circumcision; but I render judgment against that law also, for it hath fulfilled its time.
The same book adds that in this day no mark of circumcision is required, and leaves it to each adult to decide.
On The Churches I describe how Marcion drew on Paul's letter to the Galatians, where Paul criticizes Peter and certain false apostles for promoting circumcision and other Jewish customs.
For every page I tagged with Circumcision, see the Circumcision tag archive.
Circumcision lets a man eat at the table.
Circumcision begins with Abraham, as a covenant sign.
This weakens the idea that circumcision proves you belong to the family.
Here circumcision is openly the gate to marriage.
Circumcision fits this reading too.
A critical Italian review of Biglino's Gli dèi della Bibbia quotes him on circumcision.
So circumcision was never the real test of belonging.
Exodus 12:48 makes circumcision the condition for eating the Passover: "no uncircumcised person shall eat of it." Genesis 17:12–13 gives the same sign to slaves bought from foreigners.
So circumcision marks the covenant, not birth into a tribe.
Daniele Salamone, review quoting Biglino's Gli dèi della Bibbia on circumcision.
In that letter, Paul criticizes Peter and certain false apostles for promoting circumcision and other Jewish customs.
Circumcision (Genesis 17) and the promise of land mark that covenant.
In Galatians 5:12, Paul had become so exasperated with acontinuing argument over circumcision that he expressed the hope that those initiating the controversy would emasculate themselves.
Eddy wrote, “The first Jewish Christiansbelieved that obeying all of the sbingent Jewish religious laws, including circumcision and eating only Kosher food, were necessary for salvation.” Yet according to Eddy, “Paul preached that salvation could be attained through faith and that the Jewish religious laws should not be allowed to impede people bom becoming Christians.
The Egyptians, the Ethiopians, the Phœnicians, the Hebrews, and others of the ancient races, practised circumcision.
Circumcision stamped out the disease in Atlantis; we read of one Atlantean king, the Greek god Ouranos, who, in a time of plague, compelled his whole army and the armies of his allies to undergo the rite.
In this day, no mark of circumcision is required; but men and women should converse on the ways of the Creator understandingly.
There was a law of circumcision; but I render judgment against that law also, for it hath fulfilled its time.
But I give it as a permission to the adult, that he may or may not fulfill the circumcision according to his own judgment.
Whosoever put the mark of the circumcision on a male child should be put to death.
To you*, Hermes, most unflinching of generals, second in rank to Lord, for your*** victories won, I bestow the Inqua.7 To you*, Apollo-ya, I bequeath a bow and arrow, for you should break the bonds of the creed of circumcision, and tempt mortals to wed by no law but by the impulse of the heart.
For they kept not my commandments; nor preserved they their seed through the circumcision.
To which end your*** Lord gave unto them certain rites and ceremonies and pass-words, in addition to the circumcision, which would enable them to distinguish with whom they should mingle according to the commandments of God.
Gave I not unto you the mark of circumcision as a limit to the line of my chosen?
And I gave the circumcision as a measure of the boundary of my chosen.
With the couvade, the practice of circumcision, unity of religious beliefs and customs, folk-lore, and alphabetical signs, language and flood legends, we array together a mass of unanswerable proofs of prehistoric identity of race.
The rite of circumcision dates back to the first days of Phœnicia, Egypt, and the Cushites.
Tens of thousands of years have passed since the Stone Age; the ages of copper, bronze, and iron bare intervened; and yet to this day the Hebrew rabbi performs the ceremony of circumcision with a stone knife.
[paragraph continues]Hebrews, and Egyptians practised circumcision.
Many practices, such as circumcision, likely originated in Atlantis.
It possibly began as a means to control a severe disease that plagued humanity, with circumcision becoming a mandated religious duty to eradicate this ailment.
Historical references, like the story of the Atlantean king Ouranos enforcing circumcision during a plague, suggest the practice's deep roots.
Practices such as circumcision, agricultural fairs, census taking, division of land, and theatrical plays were also shared.
Boys are in danger from her for 8 days after birth (until circumcision) and girls for 20 days.