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    The Book of Jasher, Part Five: The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Book of Jasher, Part Five: The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection
    The Book of Jasher, Part Five: The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection
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    The Book of Jasher, Part Five: The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection

    By Lon Milo DuQuette

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    Master of modern occultism, Lon Milo DuQuette, (author of Enochian Vision Magick and The Magick of Aleister Crowley) introduces the newest Weiser Books Collection—The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. Culled from material long unavailable to the general public, DuQuette curates this essential new digital library with the eye of a scholar and the insight of an initiate.

    Part five of the Book of Jasher: what some religious scholars think should have been included in the Biblical canon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateAug 1, 2012
    ISBN9781619401105
    The Book of Jasher, Part Five: The Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe, A Weiser Books Collection
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    Lon Milo DuQuette

    Lon Milo DuQuette is the author of Enochian Vision Magick.

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      The Book of Jasher, Part Five - Lon Milo DuQuette

      Introduction

      Behold, it [the Zohar] is like Sefer ha-Yashar, which they printed (without my knowledge and without the knowledge of the sages here in Venice, about twenty years ago). Although I removed the fantasies and falsehoods from it, [eg,] that it is the Sefer ha-Yashar mentioned in Scripture, there are still those who claim that it was discovered during the time of the destruction [of the temple]. But who can stop those who imagine in their minds whatever they wish.

      —LEON MODENA, ARI NOHEM, BEFORE 1648

      Is not this written in the Book of Jasher?

      JOSHUA X. 13

      Behold, it is written in the Book of Jasher.

      2ND SAMUEL I. 18

      The Book of Jasher is the perfect candidate for the Magical Antiquarian Curiosity Shoppe. It is old . . . but we're really not sure how old. To say it is controversial is an understatement. It has been labeled a forgery by scholars, rabbis, and clergy for centuries . . . not to mention there is more than a hint of heresy clinging to its very existence. Yes. The Book of Jasher is, if nothing else, scriptural side-show titillation—a Biblical bearded lady—and a deliciously appropriate offering to the discerning clientele of our virtual reading room.

      But is The Book of Jasher really . . .

      . . . one of the long-lost and long-sought-for sacred books, which should have been included among the other books of the Bible but which was omitted as were many other books.?

      as the Preliminary Explanation to one translation¹ of it asserts?

      Well . . . perhaps it is, and then again, perhaps it isn't. We might admit it has been long-lost and long-sought-for; but really! Many people, including Bible scholars, would find the words should have been included among the other books of the Bible to be a subjective judgment call at best, and, naive, dishonest, and misleading at worst. The Book of Jasher, like The Book of Enoch, or any of the other lost books of the Bible, is of interest to us not so much for what it says but for what it is. It is a document that reads like the Bible, tells the same Old Testament stories, albeit with some interesting variations and additions, and is for all intent and purposes patently Biblical. In fact, it manages to compactly bring us from creation to Joshua and the Judges in a few hundred remarkably readable pages.

      It is lacking, however, the musty linguistic gravitas and King James–ish affectations that season scripture as we are used to tasting it. For me this is refreshing. It is as if we are hearing these familiar stories told to us not in the stuffy monotones of a bored and elderly vicar, but with the intensity of a rabbi who generously peppers his narrative with little details and side plots we were never aware of before.

      In a way, that is exactly what The Book of Jasher is. Its actual title is Toledot Adam and Dibre ha-Yamin Be-Arik, and it belongs to that category of Jewish literature known as Midrash (plural midrashim) meaning, to study, to investigate, and story. The Midrashim are a huge body of work comprised of rabbinical discussions and exegesis on Biblical themes. The Midrashim serve to fill in many of the gaps and ambiguities of scripture that leave most of us scratching our heads. If you've ever wondered where your rabbi or your priest or pastor gets his information about what exactly what was going on in Sodom and Gomorrah, or why Moses's wife rubbed their son's bloody foreskin on his head in the middle of the night, look no further than the commentaries in one the books of the Midrashim that he studied in school or seminary.

      The Book of Jasher, while not being officially endorsed by the Church of Latter-day Saints, is of particular interest to Mormon scholars, who find similarities within the text to certain portions of the Joseph Smith translation of the Holy Bible. This particular translation of The Book of Jasher is in fact one that was first published in Salt Lake City in 1887 by J.H. Parry & Company.

      LON MILO DUQUETTE

      COSTA MESA, CA 2012

      1 The Book of Jasher. The Rosicrucian Order A.M.O.R.C. Photographic Reproduction of the Version by Alcuin. 1934 and 1962.

      Book of Jasher, Chapter 68

      1 And it was at that time the spirit of God was upon Miriam the daughter of Amram the sister of Aaron, and she went forth and prophesied about the house, saying, Behold a son will be born unto us from my father and mother this time, and he will save Israel from the hands of Egypt.

      2 And when Amram heard the words of his daughter, he went and took his wife back to the house, after he had driven her away at the time when Pharaoh ordered every male child of the house of Jacob to be thrown into the water.

      3 So Amram took Jochebed his wife, three years after he had driven her away, and he came to her and she conceived.

      4 And at the end of seven months from her conception she brought forth a son, and the whole house was filled with great light as of the light of the sun and moon at the time of their shining.

      5 And when the woman saw the child that it was good and pleasing to the sight, she hid it for three months in an inner room.

      6 In those days the Egyptians conspired to destroy all the Hebrews there.

      7 And the Egyptian women went to Goshen where the children of Israel were, and they carried their young ones upon their shoulders, their babes who could not yet speak.

      8 And in those days, when the women of the children of Israel brought forth, each woman had hidden her son from before the Egyptians, that the Egyptians might not know of their bringing forth, and might not destroy them from the land.

      9 And the Egyptian women came to Goshen and their children who could not speak were upon their shoulders, and when an Egyptian woman came into the house of a Hebrew woman her babe began to cry.

      10 And when it cried the child that was in the inner room answered it, so the Egyptian women went and told it at the house of Pharaoh.

      11 And Pharaoh sent his officers to take the children and slay them; thus did the Egyptians to the Hebrew women all the days.

      12 And it was at that time, about three months from Jochebed's concealment of her son, that the thing was known in Pharaoh's house.

      13 And the woman hastened to take away her son before the officers came, and she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein, and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

      14 And his sister Miriam stood afar off to know what would be done to him, and what would become of her words.

      15 And God sent forth at that time a terrible heat in the land of Egypt, which burned up the flesh of man like the sun in his circuit, and it greatly oppressed the Egyptians.

      16 And all the Egyptians went down to bathe in the river, on account of the consuming heat which burned up their flesh.

      17 And Bathia, the daughter of Pharaoh, went also to bathe in the river, owing to the consuming heat, and her maidens walked at the river side, and all the women of Egypt as well.

      18 And Bathia lifted up her eyes to the river, and she saw the ark upon the water, and sent her maid to fetch it.

      19 And she opened it and saw the child, and behold the babe wept, and she had compassion on him, and she said, This is one of the Hebrew children.

      20 And all the women of Egypt walking on the river side desired to give him suck, but he would not suck, for this thing was from the Lord, in order to restore him to his mother's breast.

      21 And Miriam his sister was at that time amongst the Egyptian women at the river side, and she saw this thing and she said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and fetch a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

      22 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go, and the young woman went and called the child's mother.

      23 And Pharaoh's daughter said to Jochebed, Take this child away and suckle it for me, and I will pay thee thy wages, two bits of silver daily; and the woman took the child and nursed it.

      24 And at the end of two years, when the child grew up, she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he was unto her as a son, and she called his name Moses, for she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

      25 And Amram his father called his name Chabar, for he said, It was for him that he associated with his wife whom he had turned away.

      26 And Jochebed his mother called his name Jekuthiel, Because, she said, I have hoped for him to the Almighty, and God restored him unto me.

      27 And Miriam his sister called him Jered, for she descended after him to the river to know what his end would be.

      28 And Aaron his brother called his name Abi Zanuch, saying,

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