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even earlier time of 1950BCE and the twelfth dynasty Pharaoh Sesôstris I.
His profound maxim Know thou thyself! is the distinguishing
characteristic of a modest man engraved at the Temple of Delphos (an
imaginary temple of perfection). 45 The dimension of this statement
became very important in both alchemy and mystery religion.
The Book of the Concealed Mystery of the Zohar describes King
Solomon joining himself to the Daughters of Men. The apocryphal Book
of Enoch describes Azazel in a similar way. 46 The Zohar thus suggests,
surprisingly strongly, that King Solomon is descended from the ancient
Nephilim or their descendants the Anakim, of whom we shall have more
to say in Chapter 17. If this were indeed the case, there would have been
many opportunities for the famous Temple to be built before the
campaign of Thutmose III and perhaps even before the time of Sesôstris I,
who ruled five hundred years before Thutmose III.
In fact, Herodotus maintains that Pharaoh Sesôstris is the
unknown Shishak who sacked the First Temple, a millennium before the
biblical dates. 47 Sesôstris’ campaigns demonstrate that this is plausible.
However, Josephus vigorously denies this contention and he is probably
correct. 48 Herodotus’ Sesôstris is most likely Sese-Ramses II, who some
storywriters call Sesoosis.
Pharaohs such as Tuthmose III and Ramses II liked to compare
their acts to the great Pharaoh Sesôstris, who was the first Egyptian
Pharaoh to pillage Palestine and Anatolia. If Sesoosis is really Ramses II
then Herodotus is dating the destruction of the Temple to the era of the
Battle of Kadesh in 1291BCE.
The Bible dates the sack of the First Temple by an Egyptian king
named Shishak or Sheshech to the fifth year of Rehoboam, the son of
King Solomon. 49 Yet, this Pharaoh Shishak (SHSHK) is absent from
Egyptian records.
It is useful to review the background to the despairing legend of
Shishak. 50 Due to Solomon's idolatry, God declared through the prophet
Ahijah that Jeroboam, an official in Solomon's court, would receive ten
tribes from Solomon. Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, who fled to the
protection of Shishak in Egypt. He returned after Solomon's death to
become the leader of the new northern kingdom of Israel. Solomon’s son,
Rehoboam, ruled the southern kingdom of Judah. After the split, Shishak
invaded both weakened kingdoms.
The inspiration for this story seems to be the splitting of Egypt in
1075BCE by the twenty-first dynasty. High Priests in Thebes continued
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