"That puts it into the early part of the Vedic and Brahmanic Dark Ages, Peter," Indira interrupted.

      I nodded. "That's when Deuteronomy was written that still shapes the world, and it was written by the priests. For all we know, those priests might have had an Aryan background since the Aryan invasion from the north would have also flowed into the 'holy land' and not just exclusively into India."

      "The Vedas appear to have been written a thousand years earlier, that established the Brahmin as priests," Indira interjected.

      "But the process was the same," I said, smiling now. "It seems you were pioneers even then. You went through this hell a thousand years sooner. It seems that the Brahmin hadn't actually 'invented' the Vedas either, but had merely taken some of the early Hindu mythologies and had re-written them to their liking. The Hebrews priests evidently did the same. The term Deuteronomy literally means, 'repetition of the law' or the 'rewriting of the law,' or in modern terms, the 'revision of the law.' The dogma of the "chosen people" first appeared in this book that described the revision of the law. The book Deuteronomy, is also historically the latest revision of the Hebrew law. It appears that the emergence of Deuteronomy in the Bible coincides with the beginning of a totally separate development of Jewish law from this point forward, by the incorporation of the perverted law into the Babylonian Talmud. The Babylonian Talmud was essentially completed at around 500 BC. Like Deuteronomy, in its inception, the Talmud became the 'holy book of Zionism.' Of course, the Talmud itself was subjected to repeated revisions for over a thousand years thereafter until about 700 AD. Evidently, there is little left in it now of the original Hebrew religion."

      "That's funny," said Indira, bursting into laughter.

      I shrugged my shoulders. "What's so funny?"

      "It is funny, because it is only possible to revise something that is arbitrary to begin with. Religion is vulnerable to that kind abuse, because it is largely mythological and arbitrary in its doctrines," she said. "The revisions prove it to be arbitrary and therefore worthless. But one can't impose arbitrary revisions of universal principles. One can't revise a principle. Nor can one revise a truth that is reflected in people's life. The truth is that we are all human being together. We are people of a common life, a common human soul, and a common humanity. One can't revise that with lies. At least the revisions won't long endure."

       "That didn't hinder the Hebrew priests from revising the Law of Moses," I interjected.

      "Yes, and the people swallowed the priests' revision, Peter. The fact that this happened tells me that the early Hebrews didn't see the Law of Moses as a statement of universal principles, or else the revision wouldn't have been possible. Am I right, Peter?"

         "You are probably more right than you think," I replied. "The process of revising law, like the Law of Moses, wasn't anything new in the world of religion in this general timeframe. The book of Leviticus, the third book of Moses, gives us a striking example of the political revision of the Law of Moses. It contains in its pages a completely politicized version of the Ten Commandments. The book of this highly successful perversion on the Mosaic law is called Leviticus. The Leviticus version of the Mosaic Decalogue is radically different from the original version that we find in Exodus. The gentle admonitions of the original code become totally perverted in Leviticus and interwoven with edicts for penalization, even the imposition of the death penalty in many cases. This horrendous perversion of one of the greatest platforms in the history of religions takes us far away from the divine code of the universal image of mankind as made in the image of God, already at this early age in civilization. We find the divine code of Moses documented as the core concept of mankind in the very opening chapter of the Scriptures. The Decalogue was evidently built on that core concept of a profound truth that the human being has a divine quality in its nature and its potential."

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