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Secret Society of Moses: The Mosaic Bloodline and a Conspiracy Spanning Three Millennia Paperback – Illustrated, 15 Feb. 2010
- Print length504 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherInner Traditions International
- Publication date15 Feb. 2010
- Dimensions15.24 x 3.05 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101594772738
- ISBN-13978-1594772733
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- Publisher : Inner Traditions International; Illustrated edition (15 Feb. 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 504 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1594772738
- ISBN-13 : 978-1594772733
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 3.05 x 22.86 cm
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To justify this quite preposterous claim he postulates that certain priestly groups, originally centred around the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the 1st century CE, infiltrated for their purposes, firstly Christianity and used it as a `creature' for the their ambitions and also the cult of Mithraism, and then exploited the Templar movement in the middle ages, and on into the Freemasonry movement.
As a journey through the evolution of how Judeo-Christian biblical values spread across emerging civilisations the book is quite effective in retelling the story, although there is much repetition and temporal inconsistency. There are also many inaccurate statements and strident speculations which tend to undermine the credibility of the thesis. For instance on page 15 he says at the time of Israel's entry into the promise land: `...Palestine, which was still an Egyptian province, it is implicit that the Israelites must recognize Egyptian authority.' Archaeological evidence and the latest consensus places the entry at around 1180-90 BC, when there was no longer an Egyptian presence in what Barbiero calls Palestine. It was, of course, known as Canaan at the time.
When he comes to talking about the Copper Scroll, an area I have studied intensely and written about, he maintains that the treasures it lists were under the control of the priestly families at the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and that they simply handed them over to the Romans. Barbiero talks about 74 hidden locations, whereas the Copper Scroll only refers to 64, and he gets other facts wrong.
One episode in history, pertinent to his priestly transmission scenarios (on page 339) is the massacre of the Templars. `It was a decision taken unanimously by the leading exponents of the priestly family under the control of the Pope and the king of France.' The author's explanation for this tragic series of events makes little sense. Why would one strand of the 'Mosaic line' sanction the destruction of their own kind? Barbiero says the Templars were `small fry' and were expendable, whereas they were enormously wealthy with interests all over the western and eastern world, had a fleet of ships, and huge power and influence.
Most of Barbiero's claims he concedes are speculative and fraught with ifs and buts. His `ace in the hole' however, is a complicated analysis of DNA profiles for modern Jewish families which he says proves they all originated from 24 priestly families in Jerusalem of the 5th century BC. He says that a paper in Nature of January 1997 gives a common ancestry date for the priests as originating between 2,100 and 3,250 years ago. This he claims fits in with his historical reconstructions. He quotes one source of the DNA studies, but he ignores the significance of the data which conflicts with the figures he quotes. A later revision of these figure, given in the American Journal of Human Genetics, in 2003, has the Common Modal Hapolyte for a common ancestor to be between 2,100 and 3,900 years ago ie around 100 BC and 1,900 BC with an origination of the Y chromosome defining Cohanim (priestly) group as dating to a unique evolutionary event dated to between 29,000 and 34,000 years ago.
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And “Shakespeare’s Secret Messiah” (sequel - discusses how the Trinity was formed using same typological analysis from Caesar’s Messiah).
This book about an ethnic bloodline conspiracy adds a new perspective that in my opinion will / can work along with the Joe Atwill thesis.
I highly recommend this important work.