The Judeo-Christian God – a Jinn?

Gods rarely, if ever, spontaneously pop into existence; they develop naturally and undergo metamorphosis as they absorb qualities transposed from other deities. The first recorded meeting with the God of the Jews and Christians seems strangely cold and threatening. When Moses inquired about His credentials and asked for His name he was being very smart; but it did not work. Moses knew from his Egyptian upbringing that gods were not always superior to humans and if a man could extract the name of the god he would have power over him. In Egypt gods usually had many names ranging from a common, widely known one to increasingly restricted names but their fundamental designation was given to no man or other god. If Moses had received the answer to his question regarding the God's principal name, he would have effectively enslaved the god.

Theology and magic have always been totally synonymous concepts until relatively recent times, when we have managed to draw an imaginary line between the two halves of primitive human mysticism. The concept of the god of the Israelites living in his ark is no different to a genie living in his bottle granting wishes to his friends; both indulge in such activities as flying through the air, dividing whole seas, sending out fireballs and generally ignoring the laws of nature. Today we maintain a frail mental separation between the stories of the Arabian Nights and those of the Bible, but there is no doubt they share a common origin. It will be hard for many people to accept, but if we take what the Bible says at face value, then the creator figure, whom the Western world calls simply 'God', started out as a humble genie living on his wits in the mountains of north-east Africa and south-west Asia.

Fearful for his independence, the Midianite god refused Moses's question as to his name and tried to establish his own importance by telling Moses to take off his shoes and keep back because he is on holy ground. The Book of Exodus tells us that God's reply to the question of His name was:

'Ehyeh asher ehyeh.'

This is usually translated as 'I am who I am' but in the parlance of the authors of the work, this carried a stronger import and would be better rendered as 'Mind your own damned business!' The names Yahweh or Jehovah are both modern pronunciations from the Hebrew description of God as YHWH(the Hebrew language has no vowels).  This was not the god's name; more likely it was a title taken from the given answer meaning 'I am'.


~ excerpt, “The Hiram Key” by Christopher Knight & Robert Lomas(1996), page 158-159