We are the temple of the Holy Breath.9. We need no more a tent within the wilderness; no more a temple built with hands.10. We do not seek the Holy Land, nor yet Jerusalem.11. We are the tent of God; we are his temple built without the sound of edged tools.12. We are the Holy Land; we are the New Jerusalem; Allelujah, praise the Lord!13. And when the song was done the multitudes exclaimed, Praise God.14. And Jesus said, Behold the way!15. The sons of men have groped for ages in the darkness of Egyptian night.16. The Pharaohs of sense have bound them with their chains.17. But God has whispered through the mists of time and told them of a land of liberty and love.18. And he has sent his Logos forth to light the way.19. The Red Sea rolls between the promised land and Egypt's sands.20. The Red Sea is the carnal mind.21. Behold, the Logos reaches out his hand; the sea divides; the carnal mind is reft in twain; the sons of men walk through dry shod.22. The Pharaohs of sense would stay them in their flight; the waters of the sea return; the Pharaohs of sense are lost and men are free.23. For just a little while men tread the wilderness of Sin; the Logos leads the way;24. And when at last men stand upon the Jordan's brink, these waters stay, and men step forth into their own.
So Herodotus makes the Nile answer to the Ister, and the valley of the Nile to the Red Sea.
The Hebrews crossed the Red Sea not by parted waters (against nature) but by collective faith and energy that allowed them to walk without wetting their feet—aligning with natural laws.
Moses, a Hebrew raised in Egypt, is called at a burning bush to liberate the Israelites from bondage (Exodus 3). Traditionally, he meets “Elohim” (3:4), receives the name “I AM WHO I AM” (3:14), and later YHWH leads them through plagues, the Red Sea, and the wilderness.
Pharaoh pursued with chariots, but Jehovih parted the Red Sea with wind, letting Israelites cross dry land.
I asked if he had the story of the Red Sea and whether it was the same as the story we are accustomed to.
Do you mean when that they crossed the Red Sea?
D : Do you think the Ark of the Covenant had something to do with their ability to cross the Red Sea?
According to our Biblical versions, after they crossed the Red Sea the Hebrews were led by a cloud of smoke by day and a cloud of fire by night.
Pharaoh pursued with chariots, but Jehovih parted the Red Sea with wind, letting Israelites cross dry land.
The Red Sea parts (14), and YHWH drowns the Egyptians (14:27)—a warrior God triumphing.
After leading his people across the Red Sea, Moses ascends Mount Sinai, where, amidst thunder and fire, he receives the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20)—introduced by "Elohim" (20:2).
Nechaô (Necho II): A famous pharaoh of the 26th Dynasty, known for his military campaigns and for commissioning a canal connecting the Nile to the Red Sea.
In wetter times, areas like the Red Sea or surrounding lakes may have been shallower or seasonally exposed due to fluctuating water levels.
In fact, kindred races, with the same arts, and speaking the same tongue in an early age of the world, separated in Atlantis and went east and west--the one to repeat the civilization of the mother-country along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, which, like a great river, may be said to flow out from the Black Sea, with the Nile as one of its tributaries, and along the shores of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf; while the other emigration advanced up the Amazon, and created mighty nations upon its head-waters in the valleys of the Andes and on the shores of the Pacific.
You has encompassed Pharaoh and his hosts; they are swallowed up in the sea, his chosen captains and his warriors in the Red Sea.
The sea-king of the Tyrians brought them altogether through the strait which at that time ran into the Red Sea (now re-established as the Suez Canal).
Exodus 14:2 (and 14:9) uses the place-name Baal-zephon on the Egyptian / Red Sea route.
Exodus 14:2 and 14:9 name Baal-zephon as a cult place on the Egyptian / Red Sea route.
When the ancestors of the Quiches migrated to America the Divinity parted the sea for their passage, as the Red Sea was parted for the Israelites.
The establishment of the colonists in the Punjab in 1551 before Christ, and their journey thither, we find fully described in Adela’s book; and with the mention of one most remarkable circumstance, namely, that the Frisian mariners sailed through the strait which in those times still ran into the Red Sea.[xiv]
With regard to this question, it is certainly of importance to fall in with an account in this Frisian manuscript, from which it seems that in the sixteenth century before Christ the connection between the Bitter Lakes and the Red Sea still existed, and that the strait was still navigable.
For this purpose Nearchus was to sail up the Red Sea, and on his arrival at Suez was to find 200 elephants, 1000 camels, workmen and materials, timber and ropes, &c., in order to haul the ships by land over the isthmus.
The sea-king of [105]the Tyrians brought them altogether through the strait which at that time ran into the Red Sea (now re-established as the Suez Canal).
He himself went with the rest of his people along the coast, through the barren wilderness; that is, through the land that Irtha had heaved up out of the sea when she had raised up the strait as soon as our forefathers had passed into the Red Sea.
When we came to the Euphrates, Nearchus went ashore with the soldiers and a large body of people; but he soon returned, and said, The King requests you, for his sake, to go a voyage up the Red Sea; after that each shall receive as much gold as he can carry.
Rudolf Steiner began by addressing a question regarding the miracles associated with Moses in the Bible, specifically the parting of the Red Sea.
Ammenon: The fourth epoch, during which Oannes, a fish-man, came from the Red Sea to teach mankind.
Known for attempting to dig a canal linking the Nile to the Red Sea.
"Phison," he tells us, "denotes a multitude; it ran into India; the Euphrates and Tigris go down into the Red Sea while the Geon runs through Egypt."
For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.” ’According to this account, Lilith uttered the name of God (a sign of great power), took flight in the air and left the Garden of Eden, flying to the Red Sea coast, which she made her new home.
They occupied a large tract of country in Southern Arabia, extending from Umman at the mouth of the Persian Gulf to Hadhramaut and Yemen at the southern end of the Red Sea.
D : Do you think the Ark of the Covenant had something to do with their ability to cross the Red Sea?
Plagues of Egypt and the Red Sea
When the ancestors of the Quiches migrated to America the Divinity parted the sea for their passage, as the Red Sea was parted for the Israelites.
A midrash states that when Pharaoh pursued Israel at the Red Sea, God took a cherub from the wheels of His throne and flew to the spot, for God inspects the heavenly worlds while sitting on a cherub.
An old subject for debate is: Why is the Red Sea so named?
The Red Sea has a deep blue color.