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The Kabbalah interprets the name-question: What is it? as the
word manna. 1341 It comes from Genesis and Exodus, which are probably
the greatest alchemical texts ever written. Exodus tells the history of the
Israelites and their reliance on manna for sustenance of the spirit: 1342
And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered
the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.
And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of
the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar
frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they
said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was.
And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath
given you to eat.
With the Word of the Lord, the manna, the Israelites did not grow
old nor suffer illness, suggesting a ritual experience: 1343
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led
thee these forty years in the wilderness ... And he humbled thee,
and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou
knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee
know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. Thy
raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these
forty years.
The Egyptian and Tigris-Euphrates Valley societies both
symbolized the Philosophers' Stone as an elongated pyramidal or conical
shaped stone, about twice as tall as it is wide. It was similar to the Ben
Stone and the point of Thutmose III's column, now the misnamed
Cleopatra’s Needle in London. 1344
In Harran, in the Commagene, the 550BCE stele of Nabnoidus of
Babylon depicts the royal sceptre topped with a similar wedge shape
representing revealed wisdom of the Moon God Sin. Chapter 5 showed
the same cone shape is the symbol of the Sumerian KUR and Q're. 1345
In Chapter 3 we looked at the sacred treasures of King Solomon's
Temple recorded in the Temple of the Al Karnak, particularly the plunder
from the Palestine campaign of Thutmose III. Detailed examination of
these treasures shows the same elongated pyramidal or conical shapes
under the items of gold. This is white bread or shewbread. 1346 This same
shape is shown even earlier in the White Chapel at Karnak, where the
twelfth dynasty Pharaoh Sesôstris I presents the conical shewbread to
Amun. 1347
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