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Welcome to the Stoned Templar's blog!

I'm a bit of an old fart; just a good ole country boy, who's not much into high tech anymore or up to speed on social media and all the new fangled apps and what not. So, I don't know much about this blogging thingy but figured I'd give it a go. To be sure, I'll share ideas, thoughts, and opinions (got lots of those) sprinkled with my warped sense of humor. Mostly though, since we're not trompin' on a mountain, chewin' the fat around a campfire and because I'm really not much of a raconteur, I'll share stuff I'm working on. You know, secret stuff; esoteric and mystical stuff you share in hushed whispers away from prying eyes in private coz it might get you in trouble if the wrong folks found out. Lawd a mercy and bless their heart should that happen! Them old hens would be a cacklin' and it'd be all over church as fast as they could text it. Oh, I can just hear 'em now, "did you hear what they was talkin' 'bout?" Yep! But we're gonna talk about it anyway, conspiracy theories and forbidden stuff like ancient aliens, evolution, primal theology, the divine feminine, the Philosophers' Stone, alchemy, meditation, consciousness, shamanism, suppressed history, and secret societies like the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and the Knights Templar. It's gonna be entertaining and informative, but you gotta keep it hush hush. Ready?

BTW, for those of you who are curious, the cliffs in the image at the top of the page are are called White Rocks. They're located down in Lee County in far southwest Virginia. Back in the 1700s when Daniel Boone was blazing Wilderness Road, when he saw those cliffs he knew he had about a day's march to the Cumberland Gap on the Kentucky boarder. 

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The First Temple of Solomon

  • Writer: Richard Kretz
    Richard Kretz
  • Sep 12, 2023
  • 1 min read

Updated: Apr 12

Prior to their exodus, the Israelites were kept in captivity in Egypt for roughly 430 years. During that captivity the Israelites were immersed in Egyptian culture, religious customs, practices, and deities as part of their subjugation. Yes, they venerated the vague unnamed god of Abraham, but they were not yet monotheistic. They were moving in that direction but were still polytheistic. They incorporated veneration of other deities, inclusive of Mesopotamian and Egyptian gods and practices. Even after Moses was introduced to Yahweh by Jethro in Midian and his encounter with the one, unnamed, God on Mount Sinai, the Israelites, as exemplified by the golden calf incident, remained polytheistic and worshipped multiple deities up until the reforms of Josiah that enforced monotheism. So, while the First Temple of Solomon may have been dedicated to Yahweh, other deities were worshipped there as well​.


The First Temple of Solomon
The First Temple of Solomon

 
 
 

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