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The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, is said to have come to enlightenment “under the bodhi tree,” 15 Brit 265 and 28 Brit 881. This occult metaphor, though heretofore unrecognized as such, is used often in the Bible. See “Under the Tree.” I have noted with considerable interest that the Song of Songs (Solomon) lists three kinds of “trees”—Apple (2,3 and 8,5), Fig (2,13), and Palm (7,7-8).9 Inasmuch as the Song of Songs seems clearly to be an expression of the ecstatic reunion of the higher and lower “I Am” in a holy wedding like the one in Rev 21, these three “trees” could be taken as symbolizing the three stages of spiritual perception, as set out in I-31. Since these three are the same as Isaiah’s “seeing-hearing-understanding” (Is 6,10), and since the second of these deals with “hearing” or “sound,” as in the “Harmony of the Spheres,” the Book of Jashar, if it is a “Book of Song,” could relate to the second stage, namely, “hearing” or “Inspiration” (as would perhaps also be true of the “Song of Songs,” particularly since it is still in the longing state and not yet that of union in the holy marriage).

Finally, I propose that “Jashar” and “Akashic” are the same word from different dialects, their essential common root being “ash,” upon which the emphasis in pronunciation falls. Several factors can be given in support thereof:

  1. They both stand for the highest level of “righteousness.” Thus, in the very section of the Sermon on the Mount in which Christ refers to this higher “law,” he says (Mt 5,20), “For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
  2. They are both of ancient origin, probably contemporaneous.
  3. The roots of the Judeo-Christian religions are “from the east” (Gen 11,2; Mt 2,1-2).
  4. There is a tendency for similar sounds of a given word to carry over from one language to another.
  5. As an elaboration on 2 through 4 above, we have already seen (in “Second Coming” above) how the Oriental term Kali Yuga (“dark age”) was reflected in the West in the name of the god, Deucalion, the son of Prometheus, the “kaliyu” and “calio” both carrying forward the same basic sound. The Bible student should have little difficulty accepting the existence of such roots as evidence of common meaning (Gen 11,1) or accepting that the roots of the Old Testament language sprang “from the east” (Gen 11,2). In The Genius of Language (GL), Lect. 3, Steiner says, “All across the regions where these languages were spoken, we discover that a primeval relationship exists; we can easily imagine that at a very ancient time the primordial origins of language-forming were similar right across these territories and only later became differentiated.” See also The Realm of Language (RL), Changes in the Meaning of Speech (CMS) and 22 Brit 566, “Language.”

In conclusion, it is hard to imagine any serious Bible student thinking that any of the above scriptural references to “book” are speaking of a physical writing anywhere. Rather, all such references seem clearly to refer to a heavenly record of some sort, which is precisely what the “Akashic” is said to be.
   
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