"... In his books on the important information about Moses, Danish writer and Moses researcher Ove von Spaeth presents important information on the life of Moses and Moses' significance to the origins of Judaism. For this reason, von Spaeth's extensive, highly respected research and extremely well-documented conclusions are a weighty contribution to the debate on and understanding of the Jewish people. - Refreshing by exposing this new, unprejudiced view of the background of a problem which has plagued humanity for such a long time ...".

Randi Christiansen, expert opinion, contributor to DR (National) radio programme "Herrevaerelset", permanent text at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's website  -  www.dr.dk/p1/herrevaerelset/forslag.asp?id=292  -  (15.Mar.2003)

The new volume about Moses:  It is highly impressive what you have accomplished in this field. And I understand, a succeeding volume is to be expected. Is it internationally known what is obtained here about an essential period in the history of our civilization? Unfortunately, Danish language is not spoken or read by so many outside the frontiers of this country. I give the best wishes for your work - and send many greetings,

Bent Melchior, former Chief Rabbi of Denmark, 1360 Copenhagen K - (5.Apr.2004)

After having read about the history of reincarnation, I have picked up orientation further into your work and from the library I have also got your other books about Moses - indeed, they are impressive.

Aage Henriksen, Professor, Ph.D., University of Copenhagen  -  (20.jul.2006)

It is with the greatest pleasure I have read volume 2, 3, and 4 of your inspiring book-series, Assassinating Moses.
          When is the sold out volume one expected to be reprinted? And I would like to know when the last book of the series, the fifth volume, is expected to be published?

Torben Borg, Associate Professor, CIEK, University of Aalborg, Denmark - borg@hum.aau.dk  &  borg@sprog.auc.dk  -  (21.May,2004)

As has been known for some time our "www.visdomsnettet.dk" shows from Volume four (The Secret Religion) of your book-series an extended version of its Chapter 24, i.e. "The Religion's Lost Dimension". We have just received this comment from Kenneth Knigge, a Student of Theology, about the chapter's subsection on later Jewish reincarnation science - that the text is:
          "... defective. The reference to Josephus (Antiquitates) is Book 18, but not Chapter 3, verse1, but the contrary, i.e. Chapter 1, verse 3. Yet the problem is that these Josephus lines do not deal with reincarnation but with resurrection (which is something different). Cf . the Maccabees 7:9, in which the term "anabiàsis" is used corresponding to Josephus's verb "anabioà". Here the meaning is quite clear, i.e. that this is about resurrection. ..."
          No, the meaning is absolutely not clear. It is, indeed, possible to use the same word in two different meanings, and you yourself also quote Josephus's more detailed explanation about reincarnation - now from the Essenes. Therefore I should like to add a comment to the review of the student of theology:
          - Considering how many and serious disclosures you present in your texts it gives one food for thought that he can only find one possible reverse of chapter and verse and a different interpretation of resurrection as an idea. This should be conceived a tremendous praise of your research and the argumentation in your text.

Erik Ansvang, Lecturer, Writer, Tour Guide  -  www.visdomsnettet.dk  -  (8.Jul.2005)

If I had begun my research on Moses before I attempted the translation of Genesis, I probably would not have completed the translation. There is much viable research into the origins of the first five books of the Old Testament to indicate that Moses was probably a composite of several historical characters.
          If I had accepted the premise that Genesis was a compilation of myths recorded by several persons, then the idea of translating the text, letter by letter, to find its underlying mathematical and conceptual formulas, would reflect the same lunacy as placing a thousand monkeys in front of typewriters to reproduce Shakespeare. I would have had to disregard the concise mathematical formulas embedded in the precise arrangement of the letters...

          Where would an original manuscript of such importance come from? Moses is not a Hebrew name ... - The Danish writer, Ove von Spaeth, has written five books on Moses entitled: 'The Suppressed Record', 'The Enigmatic Son of Pharaoh's Daughter', 'The Vanished Successor', 'The Secret Religion', 'Prophet and Unknown Genius'. The first three of these have been published as of this writing. All are in Danish. Unfortunately, I have not been able to read all of his work. But based on what I have read, and through communication with the author, I'm confident he has historically located the individual that wrote the chapters translated in this manuscript. He places Moses in Egypt in 1500 BC. The Anointed One in question was important enough that his birth was prophesized by the stars.
          It is von Spaeth's, as well as my contention that he either rewrote, or used as a basis, manuscripts from an age much wiser than his own.

          There is more than enough evidence architecturally, historically, and mythically, to postulate an extremely advanced civilization ... The idea that we have evolved from some ambitious amoebas, but have somehow been endowed with a soul, stems from the underlying dogma of the separation of spirit and matter. Matter is a direct reflection of Spirit. - The sooner we recognize our divine heritage, the sooner we can claim the beauty we really are, and accept the responsibility of our existence.
          Moses' manuscript is an excellent example of superior concepts being relayed from some more advanced prior civilization that we are only now coming to realize on many fronts. He relayed, through his exquisite alphabet, both the verbal and numeric rendering of these concepts, concisely and poetically.

Dianna Padgett, Transframe, - www.geocities.com/dianna217.geo/transframe.htm  -  & - www.geocities.com/dianna217.geo/msmoses.htm  - & - www.geocities.com/dianna217.geo/home.htm  -  (March 2003)

(ed.note:  Dianna Padgett is the author of the book: "V I AMR, Becoming Manifest Transformation . A Qabalistic and Egyptian Analysis of the Formula of Creation as Found in Genesis 1-4".   Tiamat Press  2003,   Denver, Colorado, www.geocities.com/dianna217.geo/home.htm )

          Boondoggles of Belief - Links for A Thousand Avenues of Inquiry - Religion Research: Pagan Influence on Old Testament: - Moses and Osiris: http://www.moses-egypt.net/book1/moses1-cap2_en.asp

Religion Research, Boondoggles of Belief, - http://www.control-z.com/pages/boondoggles.html  -  (summer 2003)

Interests: World Enlightenment. Try: Moses * Egypt * Spaeth = www.moses-egypt.net,

http://pp.asianavenue.com/KINGSOULOFMAN/  -  (May 2005)

Aspiranten - Theosophical Magazine. Aspiranten is published by Theosophical Center Oslo, Norway, and is the membership magazine for members of Theosophical Center Oslo, Norway, and Theosophical Association Naestved, Denmark. Issues: February, May, September and November.
          Articles in the November issue - have been specially chosen: "The Lost Dimension of the Religion" - part 1, by Ove von Spaeth (externly published, expanded offprint of chapter 24 from his book "The Secret Religion"). - © 2000-2003 Theosophical Center Oslo, Norway.

Aspiranten, Theosophical Magazine, Oslo, Norway, - http://teosofi.info/aspiranten/index.php?l=en & http://teosofi.info/aspiranten/aspiranten-2.php?l=en - (November 2003)

With great pleasure I am reading this fourth volume of your work. Your argumentation and the material are extremely interesting, and quite a number of intriguing things are being revealed. - You have so many brilliant ideas and long, clear coherences, and you say something that a much general public usually pass over in silence. - I admire your work and in every respect I agree with the direction and the idea.
          I believe that some of the professional academics' opposition you meet is due to your way of argumentation, e.g. when you use a humongous amount of sources. You provoke the "idiots". That is fine - and yet I want to refer to Hans Christian Andersen in his "The New ABC", where under "calf" and "bull" he tries to explain to children the coherence just by saying, "How can I explain that to children?" Now, however, I want to go on with the reading - and that really becomes me. And what a wonderful book cover - it deserves a price in itself.

Jurij Moskvitin, Philosopher, Writer, Mathematician, Concerto Pianist, - c/o Gomide, Rua Voluntarios da Patria 166, Apt. 1302, 22270-010 Rio de Janeiro, Botofogo, Brasil  -  (22nd August, 2004)

(Editor's note: Jurij Moskvitin's most famous book, "Essay on the Origin of Thought", Ohio University Press, 1974, was established soon as a true classic)

For members of the Society of Europe's History there is news about Moses and the Egyptian Heritage in the Past and Present: Ove von Spaeth's book, ""The Secret Religion"", Assassinating Moses, vol. 4.
          For centuries, the Bible was at the top of the church's blacklist. Previously, some of the hidden teachings had reappeared among Egyptian Gnostics and in the cults of Antiquity, and subsequently in the Hermetic Books that contributed to the Renaissance, as well as in our times. New knowledge is revealed in the subjects about the religion's lost dimension. See info:  www.moses-egypt.net

History Journal Europe, Europe's historiy on the Interrnet (- & Genealogy on the Internet) - www.europashistorie.dk  -  (7.Oct.2004)

Carl Bloch:  - Comment to a web-publicated text, web-publicated expanded version of volume 4's cap. 24 in Ove von Spaeth's book, "The Secret Religion", 18 Januar 2006 - concerning reincarnation - has been a "hot potato". Her is a guide to how to collect knowledge and arguments. ...

          At www.rooms-of-spirit.dk there is a long and exiting article in two parts, "Religion's Lost Dimension", by Ove von Spaeth who states:
          - The idea of reincarnation appear all over the world, but i The Near East and Europe until present, this concept has nostly been shared by individual persons and various sects.
          - Several Fathers of Church and also bishops of the Christian Church were in reality supporters of the idea - for example Clemens, Origenes and Justin Martyr - but  this belief was condemned at the big, stormy Church council of Nichaea in the year of 325 - and finally by a coup at a synod in Constantinople in the year of 553. Among the people of the Church many were not agreeing, and the voting was mostlypolitical.
          - Later, the idea reappeared by the Cathars - and the Albigensians - who, so brutally, were slaughtered i the 12th century.
          - Also, Ove von Spaeth discuss the concept of karma in all the fasets and present various historical views. There is presented similarities with the prohibitions and trauma known in psychology, and with Christianity's concept of sin and grace as well as free will and beliefs in faith.

          "... On tombstones fra the Greek world of antiquity can be sen depicted "cocoon and butterfly" (the Greek term psyche both means 'soul' and 'butterfly') where, by a person's death, the butterfly with its beautiful wings is illustrating the liberation of the soul from it earthly holster, i.e. the body is symbolized as a cocoon. This picture was widely known - also in Asia, e.g. in China by the Taoistic mystic writer and supporter of reincarnation, Chuang Tzi, in the 3rd century AD, in his work 'The Soul and the Butterfly'...", according to Ove von Spaeth.

Carl Bloch, NytAspekt.dk, Jan.-Feb.2006, 38. year, pp. 14-15,  - & -  Forum, Internetsp@lten, concerning web-publicated expanded version of volume 4's cap. 24, - 18 Januar 2006 - comment on by Forum, internetsp@lten, - http://www.nytaspekt.dk/spalte/spalten.html  -  (18.Jan.2006)

Moses and the Egyptian Heritage in the Past and Present: Understanding vital conditions behind the oldest contents of the Bible. Exclusive, cultic knowledge from a mystical and cosmological superstructure of Moses' religion is still evident in the Bible - and with connections that it has not been possible to demonstrate till now. Down through the ages an initiated elite upheld these secret, partly Egyptian, teachings that had been passed on by Moses to the Israelites.
          The Bible also appears to have served as a 'mystery text', and a special language was developed ‘between the lines' of the Biblical texts. This language has since been forgotten - but did anyone else besides the old priests know how to readthe concealed language?
          Up to now the "Egyptian factor" has been underemphasised in Biblical research, but now it can widely established as one of the most important prerequisites for understanding the vital circumstances behind the oldest contents of the Bible.
          - Ove von Spaeth: The Secret Religion - Assassinating Moses, vol. 4.

Theosophical Society Stavanger, Norway, - esoteriske boker - Mollegaten 37, Stavanger, - http://www.teosofi.no/131.html  -  (Nov.2004)

Moses - we all know bout Moses, and he has been the inspiration of novels and films about the exodus from Egypt to israel. Many people are still doubting if Moses have ever lived. Now, this has clearly been proven by Ove von Spaeth.
          A great loss the world of today suffers from is the loss of the sacred woman, The Patriachal Church dismissed her 1,600 years ago and made her a sinful being. A human being consists of a masculine and a feminie side. Two halves make one whole (see Corpus Hermeticum's Logie 48).
          One more subject is "the lost dimension" which Ove von Spaeth writes about in his books about Moses, i.e. the knowledge of the eternal soul always being on its way to its divine origin, through experience, reincarnation.
          Use the links to Ove von Spaeth's very fine texts, their adresses presented at ../zenith-files_en/zenith-netbase_en.asp . for instance, read Ove von Spaeth's texts about the enigmatic Golden calf made out of Egypt's gold. It is so important for new readers or students to get a genuine basis of fundamental knowledge in these matters to operate from in order to profoundly reaching the enormous comprising subject.

Thorstein Mikael Frank, - http://frankerne.dk/The_Holy_Grail.htm - (september 2004)

The Bible informs us about the Arc of the Covenant given to Moses and later placed in the Temple of Solomon - and was last seen 2700 years ago.
          The first Temple, founded by Solomon, may also hold an ancient archive - secret documents dating back to Moses and Egypt. Historians find this hypothesis likely. If so - what knowledge was contained in this archive? What happened to it? Could it be found? The answer is: it might have been found - and concealed again.

          Hypothesis:  - The Jews possessed secret knowledge kept in an archive founded by Moses.
This archive contained secret religious documents, which Moses got access to, when he plundered the Egyptian temples prior to the exodus. (see:  www.moses-egypt.net ).
Moses supplied the archive with his own handwritten books - the Book of Moses. The archive is the original Jewish "bible" - the original Old Testament. Only the initiated - selected member of the priesthood - had access.
         
          The Jewish King Hizikaija made an incredible work of engineering tunneling water app. 500 meter through a mountain of solid rock (known as Sion) from the spring of Gihon (Virgin Fountain) to the pool of Siloam inside Jerusalem. Convincing evidence exist for simultaneous constructions of secret hiding places connected to the channel from deep inside the Sion mountain.
          The archive was hidden at this prepared places just before the Babylonians sack Jerusalem and brought the tribe of Judah to its exile in Babylon around 585 BC. From their Babylonian exile - which lasted 40 years - the Jewish priesthood reconstructed important part of the documents of the archive. To day this reconstruction is the basic for the Jewish holy scriptures and the Christian Old Testament.

          But the original archive remained untouched - until year 1118, when a secret mission of nine European knights used nine years to get access to the hiding places. These nine knights were the founders of the enigmatic order of the Knights Templar. - Part of the archive was brought to Europe by the nine founders in 1127. 

Erling Haagensen, author and documentary director, www.merling.dk (& merling@merling.dk )  -  (12.Mar.2003)

::   OvS's reply:    In "The Vanished Successor; Rediscovering the Hidden War Leading to Exodus" (for the present, only in Danish) - the volume 3 of my book-series on Moses - I have just accentuated the probability of the existence of the ancient material in question. And especially that it may have been deposed at least at three places at the time of Moses.
          And in the volume 4, "The Secret Religion", I have presented several traces of what seem to be some important contents of the hidden text material.

          The carefully hidden depots are to be found, according to my book, at those places where Moses and the Israelites occupied their protected bases: In the valley of the Sinai Mountain, the valley of Petra, and the valley at Mount Nebo. At this last place the tomb of Moses is extremely well hidden, according to the Bible (in Deuteronomy).
          One more hiding place in this connection is to be found, a late fourth collection, placed in - only partly rediscovered - the tunnel system in the mountain under the Jerusalem Temple place.

          More information on this and similar topics concerning the heritage from Egypt, see my article in the Swedano Journal (Oct.2000, updat. May2002): "The Knights Templar's Knowledge from Egypt"  - & - "Pattern, Universe, and Ancient Knowledge".

          Readers wanting more information on the Knight Templars: cf. Henry Lincoln & Erling Haagensen's "The Templars' Secret Island" (1992) is recomended (cf. www.merling.dk and www.Amazon.com ).  - Erling Haagensen produced and directed the four episode TV-series "The Secret of the Templars" (1993), written and presented by Henry Lincoln. The series has been broadcast in most parts of the world - for instance by Discovery US and Discovery Europe.
          In any case, Moses represents the first important link in a chain of handing over, through the centuries, a special heritage of knowledge - which seem to contain parts of Egyptian initiated wisdom and science.

OvS.

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Ulla Runchel, Senior Member, Join Date: Mar 2005 - Location: u.r. - Posts: 106 - #8 - www.shirleymaclaine.com/encounter/showthread.php?t=196076  -  (03-19-2005, 10:21 AM)

(Editor's note: Ulla Runchel is the author of "The Crystal Universe", (2003), - Universal Growth Publishing, Phoenix, Arizona)

The last two gems I might point out to you before I sign off for a long vacation ...

          The most accurate research on Moses ... http://www.moses-egypt.net/book-series/moses-survey_en.asp
          If you mention my name and web site he might forward to you his English pre-translation of the first book if you ask. I will vouch for you if I get email from him about you. I have not read the latter books of his series. They have not yet been translated. I can only say that the first book is very well researched and I agree with his conclusions in the first book. Our research was independent but many of our conclusions were the same.

          And of course for Revelations read no one else but Corsini. He died before I tried to contact him - but we recognized similar structure in Revelations. Uncanny. I have permission from his publisher and family to post this copy (however missing a few pages and no time yet to correct that) for private study. Our research was independent - our conclusions were the same. - http://www.thegenesisletters.com/PrivateLibrary/Corsini/Corsini.htm

          And this man also finds a like structure in the dialogs of Plato. - http://www.plato-dialogues.org/
          But don't bother to mention my name as we came to disagree - He is French and the current social fad there is despise Christianity and America as a land of oppressed poverty by the super rich. But his research on Plato's dialogs as an ennead is very sound. Our research was independent. I had never looked at the dialogs in that way. But I immediatly recognised that he was right. By the time of Plato the literary devise of the ennead had morphed... but was still the common form to use for such subjects. - Yup. Now it is time for me to vacation from the Byzantine Forum.

RayK (Member # 1014) - forum 4. East-N-West at The Byzantine Forum,. - www.byzcath.org/cgibin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=4;t=001207 - 11:14 AM -  (14.9.2004)

           "... Ove von Spaeth enchants us with age-old knowledge rewritten in contemporary language so everyone can participate in following the promising journey of Moses on several levels many thousands of years ago - cf. www.moses-egypt.net . A masterpiece that simply must be read, and readers will benefit and advance even further by reading it more than once. ..."
          Ulla Runchel, futurologist, researcher, writer
          -  www.forvandlingskuglen.webbyen.dk -  (27.Sep.2004)
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          "... As far as research is concerned, Ove von Spaeth has passed the major test of apprenticeship long ago with his treatise on the ancient Egyptian star map, the oldest star map in the world (publ. in "Centaurus" (42,III, 2000) - and in addition the master test with his five volume work about the historical Moses, the series' title "Assassinating Moses" (1999-2005) - cf., too, www.moses-egypt.net . A hallmark of quality, also striking in his many articles - now to be published as e-books, too.
          All seeking persons can find answers in Ove von Spaeth's texts. They inform women and men of today, the teacher, the vicar, and in particular the researcher - here, everybody can find the most unique and subtle information. Such a knowledge concentrated in such a way of clarity and wisdom is hard to find elsewhere. ..."

Merete Gundersen, writer, holistic SIQ-therapist  -  www.siqintelligens.dk  -  (24.Jun.2005)
 

By  OVE VON SPAETH, Writer, Researcher

Will new discoveries, which are being generated and developed outside the established institutions, risk an unwelcome receipt? In present research, Moses is often reduced to being only a myth. However, the new-orientating book-series, 'Assassinating Moses', transfers Moses from the myth back to his place in history.


These books present and put into perspective the rediscovered parts of a still current and important historic connection - as well as the relation to religion and philosophy. This has also provoked a debate, which - besides the useful counter-reasoning - have caused scientific prejudices throwing their irrational shadows.

          The aim of science is not to establish a self-defence! Yet, the reception of the books has often been what one could call 'interesting' due to certain peculiar reactions. The following survey may present the detached reader for the chance to know the counter-arguments to the criticism - yet, however, also being risking to get an appetite to read the books about the dramatic faith of Moses and his influence on history of later times.


Heretical?

The essence of science is critical scrutiny. Therefore, it is both natural and desirable that new discoveries introduced in the present books-series about Moses are subject to even very close criticism and analysis. And it is extremely important that possible errors are tried, because you can relate to errors, whereas a case of the recipients' confusion may have an unfortunate influence on the appraisal of the contents of the books.

          One volume after the other has constantly presented further data and concrete examples. Therefore, it is strange that this new research is still being criticised with undocumented statements - even repeated ones used in an eternal circuit and already presented by strangely indignant university people, when the first volume of the book-series about Moses was published. (Documentation can be seen on  www.moses-egypt.net , the book's own web site). - But the books are presenting exact results on the basis of acknowledged facts, and everybody can see for himself that they also are legitimately in accordance with arguments based on relevant data. This being done in a non-polemic way. Yet - the contents are considered heretical by certain parties.

          From the very beginning it was presented as basically inflammatory that an independent, untraditional researcher using a general superior point of view, is trying - from new angles and cutting across the dividing lines between subjects - to call attention to some major historical connections. This unorthodox messenger is hardly the right target. The real target should be the very ancient material - by it self re-orientating - which is seriously challenging parts of the conventional science. Thus, on the basis of their naturally limited specialities certain groups of university people refuse dogmatically and - alas - arrogantly to consider such general connections.

          In principle the basis of all science is wondering; yet, if the agents of science are without criticism towards the hitherto accepted and acknowledged, they are not able to wonder. Progress may be blocked by "too much knowledge" - and blocking somebody even to take a glance at something new.

          Focus of science is not establishment of a self-defence! The books have been welcomed in different and sometimes also aggressive ways - to which there is nothing else to be said but - peace be with it! Please note that on further undocumented criticism of the same general kind, exact answers can be found on these pages - and already given on several occasions. But of course new criticism will be met with a reply.


Sources and Myths, - and to Distinguish 'Relative' From 'Absolute'

A number of exact examples show that some of the critics have focused, unfortunately, on their own profiling and theories as being the main thing instead of the subject dealt with. On this basis the present work's comprehensive material of evidence appears to create the fear by these critics that acceptance of its results may cause matters in their own works to be subject to doubts.

1.       Normally no exact dating is known for the said historic period of Moses, yet the dating used in the book-series on Moses is without further proof accused of being unacceptably incorrect. That is wrong. But in this field, science is often maintaining that dating of ancient information should only be fixed to the (relative) moment of time, where the physical recording was done. This especially because such available and thus relative moments of time for the very recording of the old texts unfoundedly have been "made to be" a valid truth.
          Instead, when trying to approach a real, i.e. absolute age of the said historic facts, this may cause a somewhat changed estimate of time for the Egyptian and Jewish historical periods in question. Many researchers will see this as "undesirable", because it may lead to some readjustments within the, so far used, concept called relative chronology.

2.       Without any basis of documentation the books are being accused in general of using erroneous sources. That is not correct. Among the methods used in the books is that by handling the material in an unprejudiced way it can be avoided to drop apparently strange and myth-like sources. At first examination is carried out to see if circumstances in the account of the source can be realistic at all in historic reality. By, for instance, checking time data (not least astronomical data) of a source, you can of course better clarify or reject its reliability. And only if the result is found acceptable, it may form the basis for taking at least one step further in the investigation of the source. Well known and highly respected researchers have always used that method. So, why should the method not be recognised in this case?

3.      When the books use sources like for instance the rabbinical writings, being recorded much later than the time of the theme in question, then again and again in the criticism from certain researchers it is called an erroneous use. It is wrong to claim this without scrutinising the context (presented openly in the books).
          A point by the books' use of the rabbinical writings is that in these writings are presented handed-down comments concerning some events only rediscovered in present time and documented in historic detail - i.e. events that have taken place more that 1,000 prior to a more late written recording of the text. Therefore the (tradition-)writers in question cannot possibly themselves have experienced or been aware of these events rather than as references from traditions of an earlier date. Especially in such cases nobody would be able to reject the rabbinical source as unreliable or a hallucination.
          (For instance, in northern Europe, place names can be 500 to 2,000 years older than the time when recorded in our oldest historical sources. When an oral tradition can be much older than texts handed down, nobody would insist on dating a place name, for instance the Danish city Odense attached to the god Odin, so distinctly late as the first written sources about that place from maybe of the 15th century).

4.       Also, some areas about which almost no sources are known to exist, they are, therefore, less researched so far. Yet, because of their importance they have been researched in the books. But a number of critics have been trying to create a foundation for a rejection of the presented results by claiming there is a lack of contradicting sources that otherwise should have been presented simultaneously. This despite the fact that this are the cases where such sources do not exist. When in this way a researching tool is being emphasised totally automatically, also when - like here - it cannot be used, it becomes a somewhat parodic procedure having nothing to do with true research. Characteristically, the critics in question have not yet pointed out and substantiated just one example of their claims that erroneous sources have been used for the books.

5.       The biblical so-called myths about, for instance, the Hittites proved to be true history after excavation of the capital of this nation. In the same way, great archaeologists and discoverers have decoded other claimed unhistorical myths - and thus found, for instance, Troy, "the tomb of Agamemnon", Knossos, the Labyrinth, and even an entire ancient people, the Minoans, as well as the linear-B tables in primary Greek, etc. Until his tomb was opened in the 1950ties, King Midas was considered a myth. Some of the greatest archaeological findings all over the world have been found in the same way on the basis of exact information of myths and legends several thousand years old. Even Buddha was called a myth, until British archaeologists' excavations in 1880ties in northern India disproved this with exact proofs.
          When the Exodus of Moses and the Israelites from Egypt, and their invasion into Canaan, are rejected by researchers only by claiming these events to be myths, because no traces have been found of this invasion - also this is absolutely wrong. These rejections are unscientifically founded on a contradictory mix-up - how could anybody at all be in possession of an exact trace of an Israelite emigration having definitely not taken place? And even concerning Israel as one of the archaeologically most excavated sites, it is a fact that 95 per cent of that country has not yet been excavated/examined.
          At the universities a paradoxical phenomenon is concretely existing (accentuated, now when also the Humanities are designated "science", so that Physical Science then have to be designated Exact Science - being an absolute science), because in the studies of theology, biology, and anthropology etc. completely different explanations are given about common large, central subjects; for instance about the origin of history. Absolutely no firm academic unity can be found here.
          On this background, and when the claim against the subject of the books so often is put forward with the most severe firmness that "Moses belongs to myths", the critics ought to answer, first of all, the following questions, "Just how do you know? Have you ever investigated it?" Yet, the question of myth is almost never put forward as being a question, but stated as an unshakeable law of nature. But of course no consensus can be valid as a final scientific  decision. Once it was a consensus of knowing for sure that the earth was flat.

6.       A lot of documentation is in existence concerning the mystery plays by the ancients, but only little research has been done into this topic. Insight on the mystery elements is the very key to the many less understandable parts of the Bible and other ancient texts. What was said and done through acting the parts of these plays, influenced on both politics and on linguistic phrases as well.
          Exact examples on all this are presented in these books on Moses - from a knowledge normally not appearing on the schedule of the universities. A young Egyptologist, a text researcher of the University of Copenhagen, with an proclaimed dislike of the books has in the media attacked the books for use of this knowledge of exposing a special rite in Egypt. He seriously used as evidence that "he has never come across this" - probably more arrogant than his few years of research experience were able to justify. Therefore, a decisive point is to develop a better historical consciousness about the major importance attached to the performance of ancient times' mystery plays, where the participants performed and lived through such mythological actions of the gods.


Vital Element

Of course it can in no way be in the readers' interest to receive erroneous versions of the subjects and goals of the books, a goal which instead is aiming at new thinking and re-examining of dogma. But normally, the critics - who can of course not be omniscient - should anyway ought to be sober-minded and fair as well.

          But it is regrettable to learn that critics and editors, many from different research backgrounds, attack the books on subjects not even dealt with, and to excess repeating other's incorrect criticism without having read the books at all - perhaps as a kind of lemming effect. They should not be beyond the responsibility required in other areas of our society, where most of us are subject to, for instance, our Marketing Act, section 2 - so important in everyday life; this law makes it completely illegal to use incorrect, misleading, and unfairly insufficient statements risking to influence an acceptance by the public. According to section 2, clause 4, the accuracy of statements about actual conditions are obliged to be documented. If the respect for such a codex or the like is ignored, it is, unfortunately, going to be easier for the critics to refrain from relate truthfully to the facts.

          In addition to establishing of explicit facts, the books also are implicating as a vital element: the very communication - especially the readability and the relevance. But even though this has contributed to improved interest for the books in broad circles, this very fact by itself are considered to be another suspect point as far as university people are concerned (quotation: "cock-and-bull-story", "fiction", etc). However, a significant number of exact examples are being presented in the books together with an unusual amount of sources, this including sources of the kind which were ignored.

          Instead of rejecting the books in general and their accurately developed basis, a disregard without to feel being obliged to presenting some accurate argumentation, it would be more than welcomed if an opportunity should emerge to answer all the actual questions. Many debates might develop from the comprehensive collection of material of the books. The information in the books is made to be at disposal in order to that especially broad circles may get acquainted with the collection of material.


Interdisciplinary Research

So far, traditional research has not in general been open for the curiosity to this new step, thus it has not being made included as an innovative proposal to a dialog and made use of the effect, which could stimulate the public interest for the scientific area in question. Nor has anybody considered using the source material - however exceptional - in order to find elements which could be useful in a further research.

          Among, for instance, the environmental or industrial research it is quite normal to make unified evaluations based on data collected from a number of exact-scientific disciplines. But within the Humanities - which often were very unaccustomed to inter-disciplinary research - it can be observed by several cases that their researchers make it easy for themselves to ignore factual results. Because, if a scientist discovers that his occupational competence is not in compliance with realities of the world, he may for instance give up any wish he might have here to possess a kind of knowledge monopoly, and instead update his knowledge - or he may turn away and mark the new knowledge as being reprehensible.

          Thus, here the said conduct must be less compatible with the essence and concept of science itself when, for instance, academics and scholars - even with remarkable titles and so-called highly responsible appointments, ignore to use a cool scientific attitude and - it cannot be concealed - take on an agitated indignation and sometimes making unfair tricks (again, several unbecoming examples). This being done in spite of the existence of both a public and the specialists' forum for genuine debates on presented results.

          The academics in question might believe that they have some special interests to defend - sometimes based on an implicit ‘authority' to decide what should be the correct view. Unfortunately, such arbitrary, self-confirming attempts to control opinions - invisible from the outside - are strictly against precious traditions for freedom of research and speech.

          Several of such critics are even acting as "experts" in areas far away from their own occupational limits, as if they know for sure that the book-series about Moses is wrong, and they are so sure that they do not have to read the books more definite or check some sources. In his much respected standard work, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" from the early 1960ties, Thomas Kuhn has thus explained about the immanent occupational resistance against renewals. This is basic scientific theory material at today's universities.

          It is fair to ask, what kind of mechanisms is able to produce such an irrational behaviour? Leon Festinger, the American grand expert of Social Psychology, established in a famous study in 1950ties that the already existing human stocks of knowledge and attitudes have a severe influence on how persons are interpreting new information.

          This theory about the way the brain is processing the kind input called "inharmonious" information is still an appreciated classic within social psychology (besides now being a part of several serious systems of therapy, the essence was for instance already known in ancient Indian Vedanta philosophy several thousand years ago). In the long run it may be paralysing for a person if he cannot deal with what he can see immediately - and that goes also for, exactly, the preoccupied ideas preventing him from seeing what apparently everybody else can see clearly.

          When a group of researchers only have to believe that they are being attacked, then we can see this kind of a defence mechanism gets into action. In this case irrespective of the fact that the book-series is not polemic. When specialists' knowledge which might be naturally limited within their fields is thus extended with inter-disciplinary perspectives given by an outsider, this is indeed an indispensable practise which can contribute to not loosing the breath of outlook or not making us become victims of particular interests of individual groups with their definite world picture. This because there is not necessarily a coherence between even serious university learning and the relevance of a genuinely existing knowledge and experience.


Against the Nature of Science

The contents of a 4,500-year papyrus-scroll ("Surgical Papyrus Edw. Smith") demonstrates the knowledge of Exact Science in ancient Egypt, and it shows the base of it (quotation:) by "to weigh and measure correctly". Today the concept is extended, but still in principle a starting point in developed science. Still, it is also natural by scientific research having built-in a close investigational scepticism, otherwise anything would be able to be accepted.

          When criticizing other kinds of research - perhaps being regarded as competitive - such a criticism must be founded by seriousness and respect, exactly like the very execution of serious scientific research. Superficial generalizing and irresponsible emotional outbursts ignoring rational analysing evaluations, do not belong here at all.

          Arguments and decisive decisions must be dealt with quite separately by the opponent - like the way the law separates the accusing and the judicial power. If there is used condemning arguments (quotation: "This is a book that we are going to fight for many years to come") and there is used accusing judgements (quotation: "The very publishing is deeply disgracing and deeply untrustworthy"), these statements constitute a case of criticizable and unscientific confusion, such as - in this case - testing of abilities of the premises of the work, and the very evaluation of the work. These confusions are against every scientific analytic principle and, unfortunately, it is providing good "safety" for not achieving any trustworthy conclusion.

          During a lawsuit the accused is innocent until proven guilty. Nevertheless, the opposite principle can be seen now and then with a number of scientific representatives and institutions. On such self-staging judgemental power, the sentence is pronounced in advance and is published far and wide, all without a prior test of the material and have thrown light on it carefully and nuanced. When severe untrustworthy allegations and judgements then prove to be invalid, they are not being withdrawn formally and apologized for. When being placed in a wild jungle you are well aware that it may result in death if you are carrying arrogance with you. And in research? Nobody by carrying such kind of luggage will be able to do or to evaluate research. This blockade will in advance kill new in-sights.

          However, the number of published millimetres per column of scientific texts can not decide the competence of a researcher, neither the number of visiting scientific conferences will be most important, if - as is the case here - consequences of a rather unusual source material in the book-series should be evaluated. Basically, science as such has never been a case - based on some kind of accountancy ideal - of having something new necessarily to fit into an established pattern. Otherwise so many great steps forward could never have been achieved. By nature, science is a self-correcting system - and new things appear every day.

          The book-series on the Moses research, which decisively is built on qualitative methods - for instance by the intensive, and unprejudiced, source investigations - could not be without a thorough and scrutinizing opposition. Not least because, naturally, new results have to be accounted for to a higher degree than the well known results.

          No books are immaculate. However, when the author of the books takes full responsibility for his work and over the years stands up in defence of the main characteristics in this, and at the same time adopt being constructive to criticism - this also leads to a knowledge about the problematic parts of the opposition and the animosity: - it cannot be right that any author or researcher must limit himself to being "political correct" and should avoid doing research in advanced ways causing the risk of crossing the boundaries of some academic bureaucratic routines and perhaps throw commotion into the somewhat tranquil waters of certain areas of research.


New In-Sights

What is being non-conventional and alternative, will only remain so when new. And within a number of other specialist areas there is not the same fear of giving attention to unorthodox research, when it comes to searching for new in-sights. Research and methods of analysis based on the precious existing scientific tradition must be upheld and at the same time be modified with the necessary extension of its preconditioned ways of thinking (paradigms). So, hereby no reluctance against the existing science and world of scientists, but a wish from the undersigned that the more and more necessary extension of the perspective will be a reality. Therefore, instead of for instance diversionary attacks against knowledge of other kind, already now a broader attitude could be taken into use. It will a part of the future anyway.

          The very designation ‘research' and its related prestige expressions have, of course, nothing to do with quality. Possibly some of the more irrelevant problems connected to this could be reduced - for instance by doing like Alexander Calder, who originally got the idea to make his sculptures being named objects, in order to avoid the frequent debate about accusations that his works were not art. And the very book-series about the historic Moses - which according to the preface in each volume, rather is to be considered as an offer  to other researchers - likewise could have outdistanced this kind of problem by being denounced perhaps like "history enlightening annotated" or simply "records". Yet again, it can not be a main objective to avoid causing offence.

          In its own right it is not of special interest that the books are being attacked with undocumented accusations, however, a concentration on the essential - in contrast to such forms of a scientifically diffuse criticism - is here what really counts: that this research on Moses has produced exact results, are facts that is beyond debate. They speak for themselves.

          The results are  present and concrete, they can be measured, analysed, debated, and opposed. Certain parts may be changed or rejected, nobody is flawless, other parts may be consolidated. They exist - in fact for the first time - contrary to the situation hitherto, where a plenty of hypotheses are existing, but never concrete facts containing substantial evidences.

          Nevertheless, many have erroneously anticipated that the most well-known hypothesis, through the times, about Moses - namely a Moses being placed in other, later centuries, or a Moses as a total myth - were the veritable reality. Therefore, a special, defensive criticism comes up, when these constructions do not fit into the new results. But it has simply been forgotten that they only were - and are - unproved hypotheses, i.e. a case founded on beliefs.

          And, although this additional book-promotion coming from the more "peculiar" critics very well can be useful, we should rather be looking forward to a more generous perspective. And that is to extend the fields of subjects to comprise the experience from a broader area than so far, now in order to constructively and competently pave the way for a broader openness - in everybody's interest. 

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