DID MOSES REALLY BAN DIRECT SPIRITUAL CONTACT AND SPIRITUAL MEDIUMSHIP?

By Stephen William. He is a UK based Medium and Healer and

Author of “Nostradamus His Prophecy Finally Explained.”

Available on Kindle now.By Stephen William. He is a UK based Medium and Healer and

available on Kindle now.

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One of the problems many mystics and spiritualists encounter from conventional

religious people who follow the main Abrahamic religions (Christianity , Islam,

Judaism etc.) is the claim our direct spiritual contact and our contact with the

deceased is somehow “irreligious” or even evil! The basis for this accusationprimarily, are the verses in the Book Of Leviticus which forbids contact with the

deceased. Here is one of them:

 Leviticus 19:31: “Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be

defiled by them”ther ones of a similar vein , but you get the vibe, contact with the

deceased is prohibited. Statements like this have dominated Abrahamic conventional

thought for many centuries. However the traditional supposed author of Leviticus is

Moses , who is one of the greatest mystics of all time and was contacted himself

after his passing in the Transfiguration in the New Testament!. Also Moses himself

said this in Numbers 11:29 when Joshua reported to Moses some Israelites for

making “unauthorised” prophecies. Yet Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake?

I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would put his

Spirit upon them all!” This is puzzling for not only mystics , but also for some

conventional religious believers. So why would Moses make such contradictory

statements?

Firstly I would like to establish the probable existence of Moses himself. As many of

you may have read ,some cynics of all spirituality say, that outside of the Bible ,

there is no independent proof of Mose’s existence and he is probably a mythical

figure. However, this is not completely true.In ancient Egyptian records of the time

Moses is said to have lived, there is mention of a Levantine Semite called Irsu (Israel

is in the Levant) who was hugely influential and had a life which mirrored that closely

of Moses . He is mentioned in both the Harris Papyrus and the Elephantine Stele,

which date from the time Moses is supposed to have lived. He is also mentioned in

Egyptian records after this time.

Some scholars and historians identify Irsu (also called Arsu), a powerful Semitic

official in late 19th Dynasty Egypt, as a potential historical basis for the biblical

Moses. .

Key Points of Similarity

Foreign Origins, Irsu self-made Levantine or Semitic official who rose to immense

power during a period of Egyptian decline (circa. 1190 BCE), paralleling

Moses’ status as a high-ranking Hebrew within the Egyptian court.

 Period of Turmoil:

The Great Harris Papyrus describes Irsu’s era as one of “chaos and years.

of empty,” during which a foreigner seized power and suppressed Egyptian

religious traditions, a narrative that mirrors the biblical plagues and societal

breakdown.

Role as a Leader of Asians.

There are other Ancient Egyptian accounts of Irsu leading a group of “leprous”

or “polluted” Asians out of Egypt after a period of dominance and conflict.

Israel was a West Asian territory in the Levant at that time according to the

Ancient Egyptian records.

Linguistic Connections

Some argue Irsu meaning “the one who made himself” is an Egyptian

rendering of a figure born without a traditional Egyptian lineage, while “Moses”

is an Egyptian suffix meaning born of with preceding god name, suggesting a similar man without a father.

Worship of Yahweh

Some theories connect Irsu to the Shasu nomads, who Egyptian records indicate

may have a connection to the ancient Israelites, Many scholars suggest that the

early Israelites were a subset of the Shasu, a group of Semitic-speaking pastoral

nomads or wanderers in the Late Bronze/Early Iron Age Levant. Egyptian texts

specifically identify a group called the “Shasu of Yhw” (Yahweh), indicating a

potential link to the origin of the Israelite religion.

“Shasu of Yhw”.

Egyptian inscriptions from the 15th-13th centuries BCE refer to Shasu tribes

located in Edom and Seir as inhabiting the land of the “Shasu of Yhw”. Many

scholars, believe this group introduced the worship of Yahweh to the northern

Canaanite highlands.

Lifestyle.

The Shasu were nomadic or semi-nomadic, fitting the biblical narrative of a

wilderness-wandering period better than that of the settled, urbanized

Canaanites. Their lifestyle appears to resemble the lifestyle of earlier Biblical

patriarchs such as Abraham and Jacob.

Overlap with Other Groups:

The Shasu were not exclusively early Israelites; they were a broader

demographic that included, or was closely connected to, other groups like the

Edomites and Midianites.

In summary, it appears some of the early Israelites were likely part of a larger,

nomadic Shasu movement in the region of Edom/Midian, particularly those known for

worshipping the deity Yhw. As you will notice, Shasu people were partly resident in

Midian. As the Bible clearly states, Moses lived part of his adult life in Midian and

married the Midianite priest Jethro’s daughter Zipporah. I think we can safely say

that Moses and Irsu were one and the same person, even if some the events

attributed to him are possibly inaccurately reported in both Biblical and Egyptian

records through political,religious and national bias etc.

So what has this to do with modern day mystics you may ask? Well many of the

modern spiritually inclined people of modern times are discouraged from direct

mystical contact through some of the teachings attributed to him and supposedly

written by him. This prevents them from experiencing direct spiritual contact , not

only to reaffirm their own faith- based belief in a spiritual dimension to existence, but

also to demonstrate to people who have no spirituality in their life, that spirituality is

not a bygone tradition that has no place in the modern world.

However there is an understandable solution to why an obviously mystical man such

as Moses or Irsu should appear to contradict himself or ban a practice himself that

he himself may have performed ? Moses’s traditionally is credited with writing

the first five books of the Bible. These books are collectively known as the Torah in

Hebrew or the Pentateuch in Greek.

The five books are:

 Genesis: Creation and the early history of humanity and the patriarchs.

 Exodus: The Israelites departure from Egypt and the receiving of the Ten

Commandments.

 Leviticus: Laws regarding rituals, sacrifices, and moral codes.

 Numbers: The 40-year journey of the Israelites through the wilderness.

 Deuteronomy: Moses; final speeches and instructions before the Israelites

entered the Promised Land .

However modern Biblical scholars have identified some discrepancies with

this tradition.

In Deuteronomy there is a commentary on Moses’s death and funeral. Moses

cannot have written this as he was dead. The stories in the early part of

Genesis, such as Adam and Eve and Noah’s Ark etc. strongly resemble

similar tales from the old heathen and idolatrous religion of the Sumerians,

predecessors to the Babylonian inhabitants of Babylonian Mesopotamia.

These may have been known to Moses, but surely he would not include them

as connected to Yahweh who he apparently had directly spoken with.

Throughout these five books are different writing styles indicating different

authors and events and practices which would not have been known in

Moses’s time according to Biblical scholars.

Modern biblical scholarship generally holds that the Torah (the first five books

of the Hebrew Bible) was compiled and edited during the Babylonian exile (6th

century BCE) and the subsequent Persian period. It was not written entirely during

that time. Instead, the Torah is understood as a compilation of several older,

independent written sources and oral traditions that were brought together, rather

than a new creation written from scratch in Babylon and the following Persian period

(5th century BCE). his was many centuries after Moses or Irsu died . He according

to both Israelite and Egyptian sources lived and died over 500 years before this

period.

Facing the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and then deportation to

Babylonia, the Jewish elite in Babylon likely compiled the texts to preserve their

identity, culture, and religious laws without a central sanctuary such as the Temple.

Therefore they probably edited out general direct spiritual contact. Why? Well as

modern mystics by our personal knowledge we know, direct spiritual contact

transcends religious cultures and always has done. Why would Biblical law ban it if it

did not exist? Yet the ancient monotheistic Jewish elite knew that as captive exiles

in a polytheistic foreign land ,with a very different moral and behaviour tradition

(some of it very cruel) started to have a spiritual influence over their people, their

people and their religion would eventually disappear into the mists of history. They

were obviously correct in their judgement at that time , as the Jewish religion and

culture still exist and flourish despite centuries of unfair persecution. However, the

ancient Babylonian religion and often cruel practices have disappeared into the

pages of history.

Nonetheless this successful survival strategy of that time , perhaps inhibits spiritual

development in our time. Spirituality is under assault in the modern world for the

mainly conventional faith only religions. They offer no proof of a spiritual dimension

to existence. Modern logic often demands proof before believing in such a

fundamental commitment to belief in an invisible presence. Yet our natural allies in

spiritual belief refuse to accept the evidence we can provide. They would rather lose

“believers”, than review the meaning of a teaching ,which they believe to be over

3000 years old and addressed a situation that applied specifically to the situation the

ancient Jewish people in exile were in at that time.

Their position seems to be that “Okay Moses and his successors such as Samuel,

Elijah etc. had direct spiritual experiences ,but they did not contact the dead.” Well

the answer to that is they are not recorded by others as contacting the dead.

However Moses, Samuel and Elijah have all allowed themselves to be contacted

since they have died ,according to the Bible itself, so it cannot be that sacrilegious !

One of the virtues of having a direct spiritual experience is that is there is required

evidence of the experience of the contact to ensure that other people accept that you

have had one. For example anyone can say they have been visited by an angel or

God Himself. But unless you can provide evidence of this “visitation” ,even

conventionally religious people may think you are delusional or suffering from a form

of psychosis. For example, vicious criminals sometimes in court, in the hope of

lessening their blame for their crime blame “voices in their head told them to do it “ or

even “God told them to do it.” Sometimes they are genuinely suffering a mental

illness , but in other cases it is seen a sign of their dishonesty and guilt and also

disregarded as an excuse for their behaviour.

Moses, according to the Bible demonstrated his spiritual/supernatural abilities to the

ancient Israelite people such as ,outperforming the Ancient Egyptian court magicians

and the visitation of the Plagues on the Egyptian people etc.etc. So why in modern

times are not modern people not allowed to have evidence of the Afterlife and a

spiritual dimension to life? The concept of modern religion is built upon spiritual proof

in the past ,but not in the present. However mysticism and specifically spiritual

mediumship can give proof of the spiritual dimension and Afterlife. When you have

evidence of the post-death survival of loved ones or someone else close to you and

the information given cannot be possibly guessed at , you have evidence of the

spiritual dimension. What people do with that evidence is up to them. They do not

have to become spiritualists or mystics themselves(but it would be nice if they did!)

and they may try to put it down to “telepathy” (which has not been scientifically

proven to exist!) but they cannot deny they have not been given evidence.

Yet for some people whether conventionally religious or of no belief such evidence is

transforming, as it should be. To the religious it demonstrates that their belief is not

mistaken or old- fashioned nonsense and the non-religious are confronted with a

new dimension to their concept of existence. In both groups it is a Revelation or as it

is referred to in Biblical terms . an Apocalypse, albeit a personal one!

Something I discovered when researching this article, is that most major famous

religious teachers both in Abrahamic and in other religions did not write down their

own teachings! Even those who we know to be probably literate and well educated,

such Moses/Irsu himself. Generally speaking their teachings were transmitted to

their close followers orally who then orally transmitted them to their followers. In

many cases their teachings were not actually written down by professional scribes

until many decades or even centuries after the original teacher or prophet’s death.

You can check this out by your own research for your own religion or others. This of

course leads to incorrect memory of the original teachings or deliberate alteration.

The reasons why it took long periods of time for them to written down vary, but

remember paying scribes to write them down and then copy them again and again

was expensive. Printing was not invented until about 200 -300 CE(AD) in China and

did not really spread to the West until the Middle Ages. You needed a large paying

audience to justify scribes churning out many manuscripts and the religion had to

become widespread for that to happen. That generally would not happen near the

originator’s lifetime.

We now live in a world where we are interconnected with people of other faiths and

national backgrounds through migration and trade. In fact many of us in the West live

and work in environments ,which are full of products from non-Abrahamic countries.

They also buy many products from us. Therefore we are interdependent on each

other . Spiritual mediumship and mysticism can bring us together also. People of

different religious backgrounds by the actual knowledge of a spiritual dimension can

relate to their religious background anew. Most religions preach some form of

kindness and respect for fellow human beings. So whatever religious background

you have , that will be enhanced by actual spiritual knowledge. It may also

encourage you to examine other religions teachings and look for the similarities

rather than the differences. Some major religions in the Eastern world never rejected

personal mysticism as part of their religious practice. Perhaps the West will now

rediscover that as well?

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