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The Hebrew word Ur means Light, fortress or castle. 472 All
Hebrew names commencing with Ur generally have some interpretation
relative to light. Uriel means fire of God, Urija the flame of Yahweh and
the Uriah the light of Yahweh.
The widespread honour accorded Abraham leaves us with an
impressive portrait of the man. In contrast, the Bible humbly paints him
as an unassuming herder and reluctant Patriarch. It is perhaps most
appropriate to regard Abraham as an archetype of the emergent proto-
Israelite political identity.
Harran became the most successful centre of worship for the
planetary gods from at least the time of Abraham until the Mongol
Genghis Khan destroyed its last temple in 1260CE. The priests of Harran
blended planet-worship with practical alchemy and with the Greek
philosophies of Pythagoras and Plato over a period of at least three
thousand years. Their gods included Hermes and the Good god
Agathodaimon. Hermes is also the Muslim Prophet Seth, the third son of
Adam. Agathodaimon is the prophet Idris or Enoch, and similar to Osiris.
The Caliph Al Mamoun of Baghdad called the unusual people of
Harran Sabians in 830CE. 473 When the Caliph noticed the unusual dress
of the people, he challenged the town to establish its credentials. After
some creative thought, the people gave their name as Sabians and their
sacred book as the Corpus Hermeticum.
The great Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135-1204CE) had
nothing but contempt for the excesses of these Sabians. 474 He writes in
his Guide of the Perplexed that the Sabians believed the universe was
eternal rather than created and the stars were the only divine beings. He
confirms that they manufactured ridiculous stories about Adam, Seth and
Noah and attributed the metals and the climates to the planets. He says
that Abraham was the first to recognize the absurdity of the tales in which
he had been brought up. 475 Maimonides says Abraham opposed the
Sabian star religion, proclaiming the name of the Lord, the God of the
Universe.
The Sabians saw the planets as conduits for divine energy and
available for everyone to understand. 476 Within the walls of Harran were
seven temples. These represented the sun, moon and five known planets.
Construction of each temple ensured that the presence of the God infused
the entire structure. Additional temples existed to The First Cause, The
First Reason, World Order, Necessity, The Soul and to Hermes
Trismegistus.
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