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In fact, there are numerous passages to consider (my emphasis):

Ex 32,32-33: “But now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou has written.” But the Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.”

Josh 10,13: And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar?

2 Sam 1,17-18: And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and Jonathan his son, and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar.

Job 19,23-24: Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! Oh that with an iron pen and lead they were graven in the rock for ever!

Ps 40,7: Then I said, “Lo, I come; in the roll of the book it is written of me.”

Ps 56,8: Thou has kept count of my tossings; put thou my tears in thy bottle! Are they not in thy book?

Ps 69,28: Let them be blotted out of the book of the living; let them not be enrolled among the righteous.

Ps 139,13-18: For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful. Wonderful are thy works! Thou knowest me right well; my frame was not hidden from thee, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth. Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them. How precious to me are thy thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.

Is 29,9-14,18: Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink! For the Lord has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets, and covered your heads, the seers. And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book that is sealed. When men give it to one who can read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot, for it is sealed.” And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.” And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote; therefore, behold, I will again do marvelous things with this people, wonderful and marvelous; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hid.”. . . In that day the deaf shall hear the words of a book, and out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind shall see.

Is 30,8: And now, go, write it before them on a tablet, and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness for ever.

Is 34,16: Seek and read from the book of the Lord; Not one of these shall be missing; none shall be without her mate. For the mouth of the Lord has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.

Dan 7,10: A stream of fire issued and came forth from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.

Dan 9,2: In the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years which, according to the word of the Lord to Jeremiah [Jer 25,11-12] the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.

Dan 10,21: But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth; there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.

Dan 12,1-4: “At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time; but at that time your people shall be delivered, every one whose name shall be found written in the book. And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

Mal 3,16: Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another; the Lord heeded and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and thought on his name.

Phil 4,3: And I ask you also, true yokefellow, help these women, for they have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Heb 10,7: cites Ps 40,7 above.

Rev 3,5: He who conquers shall be clad thus in white garments, and I will not blot his name out of the book of life;

Rev 13,8: And all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.

Rev 17,8: . . . and the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to behold the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.

Rev 20,12-15: And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if any one’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Rev 21,27: But nothing unclean shall enter it, nor any one who practices abomination or falsehood, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

While Job 13,23-27 does not use the term “book,” it is clearly implied by reference to an accounting ledger in which “debits” are recorded to one’s account. In its discussion of Ps 40,7 (there numbered as vs 8), 16 AB 246 says that the Hebrew alay there used in the phrase “in the roll of the book it is written of me” is the same Hebrew word used in Job 13,26, and means “in my debit.” With that in mind, one should contemplate the significance of Job 13,23-27 in the light of Karma and Reincarnation, with the effects the River Lethe has on human memory of past sin as the Prodigal Son enmeshes itself in the “Darkness” of materiality and finds the “soles of my feet” bounded by the earthly circumstantial consequences of its own past. Job 13,23-27 reads:

(23) How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. (24) Why dost thou hide thy face, and count me as thy enemy? . . . (26) For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth. (27) Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.

On the Book of Jashar, mentioned in the Josh and 2 Sam citations, see 3 ABD 646. Since this ABD discussion is generally in the vein of modern Biblical criticism, it does not recognize the heavenly “Akashic” character implied by Steiner’s work, but is nevertheless helpful for what it does disclose. The portion most important for our purposes is the sentence, “The term ‘Jashar’ is a common Hebrew word meaning ‘one who [or that which] is straight, honest, just, righteous, upright.’” How could one more accurately describe the “Akashic,” or heavenly “book”? Or the principle of “Karma and Reincarnation” that gives effect to the perfect justice such “book” envisions? Another point is made: “A third probable excerpt appears in 1 K 8,12-13, a couplet imbedded in Solomon’s prayer at the dedication of the ‘Temple,’ which survives in fullest form in the LXX [Septuagint] where it appears at the end of the prayer, directing the reader to the ‘Book of the Song’ (Gk biblio tes odes).” This excerpt is recognized also in NJB in a footnote on 1 K 8,12-13. With respect to the putative title of “Book of Song,” the ABD comment goes on to say, “If so [i.e., if it was called a “Book of Song”], there is some doubt whether the book ever existed in written form as such.”

   
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