The Book of Mormon Likened Unto
the Story of the Garden of Eden
The Book of Mormon as an "Inspired Prophetic Parable" about America,
and the "Symbols" in the Garden of Eden Story Plainly Explained
by Aenon E. Moss
(i.e. The Holy Order of Enoch)
This article will present The Book of Mormon as a divinely-inspired "parable" like the Story of Adam and Eve. This article will also
"explain in plainness" the "symbols" in the Story of Adam and Eve; such as the plain
meaning of Adam's "rib", the meaning of the talking "snake", the meaning of the "forbidden fruit" and the meaning of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil". These "symbols" are based upon literal people, things, and events, that occurred in Egypt about 3800 years ago. I will reveal these literal people, places, and events in this article.
2I believe that The Book of Mormon is TRUE! I do not believe it is "history". I believe it is a true inspired story or "parable". Many of the characters and events in the book are based upon historical people and real historical events, but the "story" itself is a non-historical parable. I base this upon 30 years of intensive research on whether the book was ancient history or not. I do not believe in the dicotomy of "The book must be historical to be true!" I think that is a false dichotomy. I believe the book is true because it is a parable, and not only a parable but a "prophetic parable" about America and the "utter destruction" of the white race in America in the future. I will explain.
3A "parable" is not
"history" but usually has charactors which are based upon real people and events. For example, in Jesus' "Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus" He tells a story of a unrighteous rich man and a righteous poor man named Lazarus. In the parable, the Lazarus died and goes to Abraham's Bosom, and the rich man dies and goes to Gehenna, and the rich man cries to Lazarus to dip his finger in the water and put it upon his tongue because he is suffering so. The story is not literal, but a parable. Yet, a rich man once asked Jesus what he needed to do to become His disciple. Jesus told him to sell all that belonged to him, give it to the poor, but the rich man said he could not do that. Also, the Gospels tell us that Jesus raised a man from the dead named "Lazarus". So, the "rich man" and "Lazarus" were real people, but the parable itself was not historical, but an "inspired story".
4I believe that "The Book of Mormon" is an "inspired story" like any parable in the Bible, and some books in the Bible are not "historical" but in fact "parables".
5I will give the example of "The Book of Job" in the Old Testament. It is a poem! It is
highly doubtful that Job sang to his accusers or vice versa. This is not to say that
Job, or a man like Job, did not actually live. The Book of Job was written as a fictional
story to inspire people with faith that God ultimately rewards the righteous, even if
bad things happen to the righteous. The issue that Job actually existed is irrelevant
to the "message" of The Book of Job. The Book of Jonah (Jonah and the Whale) is probably
also an "inspired parable" as is probably also The Book of Esther, The Book of Tobit, The Book of Judith, Bel and the Dragon, and other books in the original Old Testament (Tobit and Judith and Bel and the Dragon were removed from Protestant Bibles). None of the books mentioned are "historical" but they were read and believed by billions of Christians for many centuries as "history". Yet, they are not "history" but "inspired stories".
5Could it be possible that The Book of Mormon is also an "inspired story"? But not
just an inspired story, or parable, a "prophetic parable" about America. In other words,
could The Book of Mormon be a "warning"...a "prophecy" regarding the future of America? I believe it is.
6In The Book of Mormon, we have the white-skinned "Nephites" being utterly destroyed (save a few souls) by the much more numerous dark-skinned "Lamanites" about 400 years after the Nephites are visited by Jesus Christ. Why were the Nephites destroyed? The book tells us they were "utterly destroyed" because of their materialism (worship of riches), pride, arrogance, greed, and "whoredoms". Do we, in America today, see an increase in materialism, pride, arrogance, greed, and whoredoms? I believe that Jesus Christ "visited" America, as a "thief in the night", in 1884-1991! I'll explain why I believe this later. But, my point is, that if you add 1912 and 400 years, one comes to the year 2284-2291 A.D. I believe that date, give or take a few years, is the date for the final annihilation of the "Nephites"; which I believe is a "symbol" for the white races in America. By that time, the white race in America will become a small minority just like the Nephites were, and the dark-skinned races will be the vast majority.
7Most Mormons believe that "The Book of Mormon must be historical to be true!" I once believed that. Most Bible-believing Christians believe that the story of Adam and Eve, the rib, the talking snake, the apple (or fig), must be "history" to be true. But I don't believe that. I believe that an "inspired parable" can be "true" without being literal history. I also believe that "Adam" and "Eve" existed as real people who lived on this planet about 3800 years ago, but I do not believe the story of Adam and Eve as it is found in the Bible is literal history and literally true. I believe it contains "symbols". I will explain.
8All non-mormon historians have declared The Book of Mormon "fiction". Also, most liberal Mormon historians declare the same thing. Book of Mormon animals such as cows, donkies (asses), sheep, and oxen did not exist anywhere in the Ameicas before the 16th century A.D. when they were brought over by the Spanish, French, Dutch, and English. Horses went extinct in ancient America about 8,000 B.C., and were the size and weight of deer. They were used for food only. There is "zero" evidence the Nephites ever existed. All archaeologists who have studied ancient America tell us that the Nephites (nee-fights) never existed. DNA from Native Americans show they have no Semitic (Jewish or Arab) lineage. They are the descendants of Asians originally from Siberia; closely related to Mongolians and Tibetans. They have no "Hebrew" or "Arabic" blood in them whatsoever. They are not, nor have they ever been, the descendants of Lehi (lee-high) the Hebrew nor Ishmael the Arab.
But, because The Book of Mormon is not historical, we should not conclude the book cannot be an inspired parable.
9I believe that the Story of Adam and Eve is a "parable" and not literally true. Eve was not created from a rib, there was no talking snake who offered an apple or fig to a naked woman. But the Parable of Adam and Eve is still true! It is simply not literal "history". By "Adam" is meant "all men" and by "Eve" is meant "all women". The "serpent" refers to attachment to the human world (i.e. the desire for sex), and the "forbidden fruit" is that which hangs from the human tree, contains "seed" and is "most desireable". The "knowledge" that is both "good" and "evil" is "carnal knowledge".
The Story of the Garden of Eden is a "parable" and not "historical"; the "rib", the "talking snake", the "forbidden fruit" and "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" and "the tree of life" are all "symbols" or "metaphors" and not "literal".
10The Story of Adam and Eve is based upon King Aye of Egypt and Queen Khiyah who lived about 3800 years ago in Egypt. Aye was a Prophet of Aten (the One God), and he commanded his son-in-law, Akhenaten, to build the Garden of Aten on the banks of the Nile. The Garden of Aten was a great temple and garden complex, with many fruit trees, which was watered by canals from the Nile. Akhenaten was married to Nefertiti, the daughter of Aye (Ah-Yeh). Akhenaten and Nefertiti had a son named Tutenaten (later Tutenamun) and princess Khiyah (close to the Hebrew name for Eve which is "Khivah"). Akhenaten died, and then Nefertiti died, and then Tutenamun died. Being the only male of the Royal House left, Aye became Pharoah. Khiyah desires to become queen and to wear the "cobra crown" (symbol of the "Wisdom of the Gods" by which the Pharoahs ruled). The cobra-serpent crown "tempted" her. The only way for her to become queen of Egypt was to marry her grandfather, Pharoah Aye (Ah-yeh). So, she "tempted" Aye with her "forbidden fruit" and he "fell" for this temptation and married her. The priests of Amon rebelled, and they cast Aye and Khiyah out of the Garden of Aten, and they destroyed the temples of Aten, and stopped up the canals that watered the Garden let the Garden go back to desert. Paradise lost!
Aye, Nefertiti, Ankhenaten, Khiyah
The Cobra-serpent was the symbol of the "Wisdom of the Gods" by which the kings and queens
of Egypt ruled (the "third eye"). It was made of gold and precious stones. Eve was "tempted by the Serpent" and had to marry Aye to get the Cobra-crown; which meant great wealth, power, and status to her. She "partook" of this temptation ("gave in" to it). So she tempted Aye (Ah-yeh) with her "forbidden fruit". Aye "partook" ("gave in" to the temptation) and married Khiyah, his own grand-daughter.
11We must interpret the Story of Adam and Eve "metaphorically" and not literally:
Metaphor: Adam made from the ground. Literal meaning: Adam was made from earthly elements.
Metaphor: Garden of Eden. Literal meaning: State of innocence, without sin as small children are without sin, without the knowledge of carnality.
Metaphor: Eve created from Adam's rib. Literal meaning: Eve was from the loins of Adam ("tsela" in Hebrew means "beam" or "rib" or "penis" depending upon the context it is used in)
Metaphor: Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Eve. Literal meaning: The human tree, from which "fruit" hangs, that has "carnal knowledge" that may be for good (marriage and family) or evil (fornication or adultery or taboo sex).
Metaphor: The Serpent (talking snake): Symbol of the "Wisdom of the Gods" or "Third Eye". The "reptile" brain that governs our basic instincts, such as the sex instinct. Some sex is allowed, other sex is "forbidden".
Metaphor: Forbidden fruit: That which hangs from the human tree, and contains juices or seed, delicious to the taste, and is "forbidden" in some cases, not forbidden in others.
Metaphor: Cast out the Garden. Literal meaning: loss of innocence, and entrance into the sin nature with a "knowledge" that can be both good or evil depending upon how it is used.
Metaphor: Adam and Eve loved Satan more than God: Literal meaning: They obeyed their reptile brains (their "egos"....their desire for wealth and sex) and sinned instead of obeying their spirits (God).
12In other words, Moses took a story he knew (he was "learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians"), the story of Aye and Khiyah which occurred hundreds of years before Moses lived, and how they dwelt in the beautiful Garden of Aten, but were "cast out" because of sin, and made that story into a parable. "Aye" becomes "all men" and "Khiyah" becomes "all men". All men "sin" because of the "fruit" of women. All women "sin" because they desire riches and high-standing (as Khiyah desired the Cobra-Crown). "Aye" sinned because of his desire for "forbidden" sex. "Khiyah" sinned because she was literally a "gold digger" and tempted Aye to sin, which was the only way she could become queen and wear the Cobra-servant Crown which "tempted" her like a new fancy car "tempts" us and whispers to us "Buy me, buy me".
13The Parable of Adam and Eve is still "true" because the "principles" it teaches are true. The story is just not "literally" true. Moses "borrowed" from literal historical events (the true story of Pharoah Aye and Queen Khiyah), and turned these events into a parable about the fallen nature of men and women. Could Joseph Smith had done the same with The Book of Mormon?
14I do not believe that The Book of Mormon is a literal history of colonies of Israelites who sailed to America and lived here for a thousand years. Rather, I see it as a prophetic parable about America. Parables may be "inspired" without being historically true. In other words, the "Nephites" (nee-fights) are a symbol for the white race in America, who, because of "the pride of their skins", materialism (worship of Mammon or "riches"), and "whoredoms" (polygamy and concubinage), they are ultimately destroyed by the "Lamanites" (lay-man-nights....i.e. the colored races). In another 200 years, the white race (nee-fights) will become a small minority in America, and the Hispanics ("lay-man-nights") will become the dominant race in America, just like in The Book of Mormon just before the Nephites are utterly destroyed by the Lamanites in the Battle of the Hill Cumorah.
15I believe that Jesus Christ visited America in 1884-1891 as "a thief in the night", and 400 years after that would be 2284-2291 a.d.; which I believe is the "date" for the ultimate race war in America, and the whites (a small minority by then) will lose that war. This "utter destruction" will happen, unless the "Nephites" repent of their materialism (love of wealth and money), racism, and "whoredoms" (worship of pornography, adulteries, fornication, polygamy, and concubinage).
Metaphor: Nephites (white-skinned Jews in ancient America). Literal meaning: the white races in America who become rich, arrogant, proud of their skins, reject the prophets who come to warn them, practice whoredoms, are utterly destroyed by the Lamanites 400 years after Jesus (the Word) visits them. All Anglos have a "little" Jewish ancestry in them because the Anglo-Saxons (a Germanic tribe that conquered Britain in the 6th century) had a little Jewish blood in them.
Metaphor: Lamanites (dark-skinned Jews in ancient America). Literal meaning: the Hispanic race in America, who become the great majority, become more righteous than the Nephites, and utterly destroy the Nephites. All Hispanics have a little "Jewish" blood in them, because they are part Spanish, and all Spaniards have a little Jewish ancestry from the thousands of Jewish forced-converts (Marranos) to Catholicism during the Spanish Inquisition. The children of these forced Jewish converts married gentile (non-Jewish) Catholics and, over many centuires, all Spaniards have some Jewish lineage.
16I believe that Joseph Smith wrote The Book of Mormon, not based upon plagarisms, but based upon things he saw in the seerstone. He probably truly blieved it was ancient history. But it is not. It is a prophetic parable about the future of America; not its past. I believe when he looked into his seerstone, he could actually "see" things. The Lord told Joseph Smith:
"Behold, thou wast called and chosen to write the Book of Mormon, and to my ministry; and I have lifted thee up out of thine afflictions, and have counseled thee, that thou hast been delivered from all thine enemies, and thou hast been delivered from the powers of Satan and from darkness!" (D&C 24:1)
17Then there is the question of the "Angel Moroni" and "Peter, James, and John", and "John the Baptist" and the "gold plates". Did Joseph Smith lie about all these things? Were they meant to be taken "literally" or perhaps they are "symbols" or "metaphors"? I believe that the "Angel Moroni" existed and his name was Ethan Smith. I believe "Peter, James, and John" who restored the Melchizedek Priesthood refers to Peter, James, and John Whitmer. They lived three miles from the Ephrata Commune; a commune of Rosicrucian monks who claimed since 1677 to be the heirs of the Order of Melchizedek. I believe "John the Baptist" was a symbol for Sidney Rigdon. I believe the "gold plates" existed, but they were not made of gold. They were printing plates. They had the "appearance" of gold as polished brass appears as "gold" but is not gold.
18I believe that when Joseph Smith put his seerstone into his hat, and covered his face with his hat, he could "see" things in it! Not just imagine things, but truly see things. I know of other "Seers" who use seerstones in times past, and even one man today, a man in Tennesee, who uses a seerstone quite effectively, and this man is not a Mormon, never was a Mormon, and has no intention of becoming a Mormon. He is a Bible-believing Christian from Tennesee.
19Like Moses took the Egyptian story of Aye (Ah-yeh) and Khiyah and the Garden of Aten, and changed it into the Story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden, Joseph Smith took historical events from the Bible and the Apocrypha and a novel on printing plates (that had the "appearance" of gold) from a "messenger" (The Rev. Ethan Smith) who visited Palmyra in 1827, and re-wrote them into a parable; a prophetic parable about America and the future of America, with the "Nephites" as a metaphor for the white race, and the "Lamanites" as a metaphor for the colored races, and a prophecy and warning that the white race would be "utterly destroyed" 400 years after Jesus visited them in America, because of their materialism (love of wealth and oppression of the poor), racism, pride, arrogance, greed, and whoredoms (pornography, adultery, bestiality, etc).
This is how Joseph Smith "received" The Book of Mormon
20Joseph Smith did not hide his face in his hat and dictate "for hours" just from memory or his own imagination. He "saw" things in his Seerstone!
21The Book of Mormon is not literal history, but a parable. The American Indians are not Semites, but Asians and have no Semitic blood in them; not a drop. The animals mentioned that the Nephites had ( oxen, asses, mules, and sheep) did not exist in the Americas before the Spanish brought them over, and American horses all went extinct about 8,000 B.C. The LORD told Joseph Smith that he was divinely inspired "to write the Book of Mormon" (D&C 24:1). Joseph Smith "thought" it was literal history! Just like he sincerely thought that the Garden of Eden was in America, or that the Lost Tribes lived at the North Pole, or that Negroes were "the sons of Cain" or that the Earth had "wings". His "thoughts" were not infallible; only the verbal Revelations he received were infallible, and only when interpreted correctly.
22Joseph Smith prophesied that "the Son of Man" would come in the year 1891, and He did, as a thief in the night, to Utah, but Mormon leaders rejected Him, because He came not flying in the clouds of the sky, with angels blowing trumpets, but He came "as a man like ourselves".
"I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God; wherefore, gird up your loins and I will suddenly come to my temple. Even so. Amen." (D&C 36:8)
"Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you that mine eyes are upon you. I am in your midst and ye cannot see me; But the day soon cometh that ye shall see me, and know that I am; for the veil of darkness shall soon be rent. Wherefore, gird up your loins and be prepared." (Doctrines and Covenant, 38:7)
"I am in your midst but ye cannot see me. And the day cometh that you shall hear my voice and see me, and know that I am. Watch, therefore, that ye may be ready." (Doctrines and Covenant, 50:44)
"When the Savior shall appear we shall see Him as He is; as a man like ourselves." (D&C 130:1)
Aenon E. Moss
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