So I have embarked on a mission of reading The Bible with an eye to the esoteric or occult gems hidden in there and believe me it's got it! The Bible I use is The Jerusalem Bible (check it out, one of the contributor's to the translation was J.R.Tolkien). I don't know how all these Xtians are so against Magick when it is all over their book! So I started with Daniel. This book is like a summer blockbuster movie y'all. It has magick, intrigue, lion's den's, angels in firey furnaces and dragons (?) Even a prophet getting picked up by the hair (OUCH!) by an angel and transported that way to Babylon to deliver Daniel a message. But that's getting ahead of the story.
Daniel's main thing is he will not give in and worship stone idols or the King, he won't sell out YHWH. However, Daniel somehow has the best nose for sniffing out the meaning of dreams in the area and this is going to save him.
So old Nebuchadenezz' wants to pick the best of these Israelite males to be like his own private think-tank:
"a certain number of boys of either royal or noble descent; they had to be without any physical defect... trained in every kind of wisdom..."
Now what is "every kind of wisdom"? For all the studying into the History of Religion and The Occult I have done I immediately think we are talking about Qabalah here. I think you could make a pretty good case that the Israelites were into the Qabalah at least since the time of Moses. Moses who was trained in all the magick of the Egyptians... So let's start with at least the impression that Daniel was performing magick and divination of some sort, probably a early form of Qabalah.
So these special boys of King Neb's are to eat and drink the food and wine left from the King's own table. Sounds good! But not to Daniel. YHWH has given some pretty strict dietary guidelines and Daniel is not about to break his diet. Daniel comes up with a brilliant plan, he is almost like the first personal trainer... "Please allow your servants a ten day's trial, during which we are given only vegetables and water to drink. You can then compare our looks with the boys who eat the King's food..."
Daniel is throwing it down. You wonder if any of the other Israelite boys were "foodie's" and if they felt like maybe Daniel had been a little hasty with all this water and vegetables craziness! So these four Israelite boys get their six packs a little tighter than the other gluttons and when The King asks to see their ab's Daniel says: "Here's the situation King!" Gradually these four become prominent members of The King's Court.
So now we get to the action. King Neb has a crazy dream and gets all his magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and Chaldeans (?) together to interpret this dream. But King Neb is tricky. He tells these Scryer's they must first tell him what his dream was and then interpret it. Obviously these dudes are a little taken back by this challenge, they thought they were going to be hearing a story and then doing some vague semantic dances with occult symbolism. Instead they don't get to hear what the original dream was; and like Charles Mingus said; "you can't improvise off nothing!" The King takes it to another level and really gets the Diviners shaking when he says; "... if you cannot tell me what I dreamt and what it means I will have you torn limb from limb and your houses razed to the ground (and your family forced to go on the Daniel Diet of vegetables and water)"
So the Sorcerers mumble a faint: "Let the King tell his dreams to his servants and we will reveal it's meaning."
This standoff repeats itself a few times until the Sorcerers say that what the King asks is impossible and well, that's it dudes. This backfires on all the sages in the land as the King now wants them all killed. Daniel finds out about this though through a connection and takes the initiative and goes home and has himself a night vision of the resolution to the King's dream.
Daniel then goes before the King and interprets his dream which has to do with a statue made of different metals which represents different ages of man, The Gold Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age and Iron and Earthen-ware Ages. I am just going to say this; it seems that if you are interpreting a dream for a King you really can't go wrong in assigning all the meaning to the King and his reign, I mean, King's are self-centered anyway, so this is just going to fit right in, basically you play on their vanity. And of course as the symbol of King Neb's reign is the Golden Head of the Statue it is inferred that after his reign it's all downhill...
So King Neb has a new top Magician... find out what happens in the next exciting Post!
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