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Kundalini in the Tanakh (Old Testament Bible)?

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21 When the Canaanite, king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negeb, learned that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he engaged Israel in battle and took some of them captive. 2 Then Israel made a vow to the LORD and said,"If You deliver this people into our hand, we will prescribe their towns." 3 The LORD heeded Israel's plea and delivered up the Canaanites; and they and their cities were proscribed. So that place was named Hormah.

 

4 They set out from Mount Hor by way of the Sea of Reeds to skirt the land of Edom. But the people grew restive on the journey, 5 and the people spoke against God and against Moses,"Why did you make us leave Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread and no water, and we have come to loathe this miserable food." 6 The LORD sent seraph serpents against the people. They bit the people and many of the Israelites died. 7 The people came to Moses and said,"We sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD to take away the serpents from us!" And Moses interceded for the people. 8 Then the LORD said to Moses,"Make a seraph figure and mount it on a standard. And if anyone is bitten looks at it, he shall recover." 9 Moses made a copper serpent and mounted it on a standard; and when anyone was bitten by a serpent, he would look at the copper serpent and recover.

taken from The Jewish Study Bible, Tanakh Translation, Numbers 21:1-9

verse 6. Seraph serpents, based on the verb means "burning serpents" because of their poisonous bite.

 

verse 9. A copper serpent more likely refers to one made of bronze, a copper-tin alloy. Heb "nehoshet" (copper) resembles the word for snake,"nahash." Rabbinic interpreters were disturbed by the nature of this cure, and suggested that it was the glance of the afflicted to their father in heaven, rather than the snake which effected the cure (b. Rosh Hash. 29a, cited in Rashi).

 

18 In the third year of King Hoshea son of Elah of Israel, Hezekiah son of King Ahaz of Judah became king. 2 He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Abi daughter of Zechariah. 3 He did what was pleasing to the LORD, just as his father David had done. 4 He abolished the shrines and smashed the pillars and cut down the sacred post. He also broke into pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made, for until that time the Israelites had been offering sacrifices to it; it was called Nehushtan.

taken from The Jewish Study Bible, Tanakh Translation, 2 Kings 18:1-4

 

verse 4. Elimination of the open shrines concentrated worship in Jerusalem. The author describes Nehushtan, a form of the word for serpent, as an ancient relic associated with the miraculous healings in the wilderness (Num. 21: 8-9) held sacred by Israelites. Noting that the Heb actually says "he called it" (and not it was called), Rashi suggests that Hezekiah, the active subject of the sentence, labeled it "bronze serpent thing," "nehushtan" in Hebrew, as a pejorative.

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Yes the Whole line of prophets back to Adam where given specific teachings from the "Creator".

 

And they all deal with "Awakening". And opening Kundalini.

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11 "Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

taken from The New Oxford Annotated Bible, NRSV with the Apocrypha, John 3:11-14

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Its always dicey knowing how far to go in metaphysics without displaying disloyalty to Yaweh.A common enough mistake the ancient Israelites made over and over,especially with Baal worship.In the secret books of Enoch it reads the ''serpent'' landed in India.Who?...no not the Doctor but the one who fell to the earth as a bolt of lighting.In chineese culture the dragon is a sigh of wisdom, in the bible it is a sigh of the devil.This is one reason I prefer qi gung to most Indian systems...they tend to be based on natural forces rather than names of deities..even if those names just represent natural forces.

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Yes the Whole line of prophets back to Adam where given specific teachings from the "Creator".

 

And they all deal with "Awakening". And opening Kundalini.

 

Fascinating. I just finished reading Caduceus: A New Perspective on Historical Knowledge and the Spirituality of Man , and the author basically reaches the same conclusion about Kundalini and how it might have affected Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, etc etc.

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