Ancient Orders
Dear L,
When I first read about Joseph Smith's marrying of wives belonging to other men my impression was that he had really gone off the deep end. The general consensus about his marrying under-age women is viewed as his being a sexual pervert. Well there is no doubt that he was a pervert, in that he had unrestrained sexual desires in view of his banging Emma's maid out in the barn long before Kirtland. But in Kirtland is where it takes an interesting twist.
Very little is written about Rabbi Joshua Seixas in church history, other than that he was involved with the School of the Prophets (a seeming oxymoron since why would prophets need a school to be a prophet, who by definition are called of God? So perhaps it was really intended to provide an education to those who desired prophetic status as their ignorance was seeping through the cracks of their "prophecies."). However, in discovering the ancient royal genetic practice it now appears fairly certain that what Joseph was doing was an attempt to restore the ancient royal cult. It explains a lot of seemingly disconnected things he did. And there is no doubt, even though direct evidence is missing, that Joseph got all this history that appeared in the church from the Rabbi in Kirtland. There is no other source whereby he could have obtained such ideas, and have botched them so badly from an historical perspective.
A little historical background is required. The Anunnaki priest-kings, overlords of Sumer, were an ancient people that apparently derived from a highly advanced civilization decimated by a world-wide cataclysm. They were known as the "Shining Ones" because of their advanced understanding of Nature and technological skills. I believe there is more to this metaphor, but have yet to discover suitable evidence. It was the custom of the Anunnaki to pass the right to rule to the first born son, who also had to be of pure blood descent. To accomplish this the son had to marry a direct descendent of the matrilineal blood line in order to obtain kingship. This practice resulted in the marriage of half-sister with half brother, both having a common father. For those siblings after the first born son the choice often became one of their first cousin.
When I took Sociology 101 at the UofU extension, it was taught by a Libyan professor. He happened to mention one day on the topic of marriage that it has been the custom of Libyans (as well as most other related Arabians) to marry their first cousin, which practice was in decline with the Westernizing of Arab culture and the spreading notion of marrying for "love." This transition alone is enough to destabilize millennia of cultural stability and a good reason for their hatred of Western influence.
Zooming ahead a few thousand years to Abraham. It turns out that Abraham was the son of Terah by his wife Yawnu, and Sara was the daughter of Terah by his wife Tohwait. Yawnu's ancestry derives through a zig-zag route to Lamech, while Tohwait's is more direct through Nimrod the Mighty Hunter and TubalCain the master craftsman. Tohwait's line had right to the throne of Egypt. Tohwait's son was Amenemhet I of the 12th dynasty, apparently by way of Terah. It was Amenemhet's son Senusret I who came after Sara to take for a wife--she was the rightful matrilineal line for his kingship (and his direct sister too!). Abraham feared for his life as the Pharaoh's staff wanted to kill Abraham. Sara ends up marrying Senusret in a plea-bargain arrangement that keeps Abraham from getting nixed. The story of Abraham being saved by an angel of God may have some merit if one gets rid of the Mormonized notion of an all powerful God overthrowing the sacrificial bed, and substitute a priest-king such as his father Terah or uncle Harran as the "angel" (which in Mesopotamian culture was a messenger of the priest-king). I doubt the story has any validity since the Facsimile of Abraham was debunked as funerary rite in the middle '60s.
It is also important to recognize that these marriages were often consummated when the matrilineal blood line was too young to bear offspring so that the male could obtain his kingship, and later they would produce offspring. Sara was apparently in this position when she married Abraham, as she initially could not have children. It was a law passed down by the Anunnaki that in such instances she could allow her husband to have children by another woman, and in Abraham's case it was Hagar. Hagar was also of matrilineal descent through Nimrod, so more than just a handmaid, Sara and Hagar were distant cousins. In such an event, if the 2nd wife produced a son, he did NOT have right to the throne as priest-king. This accounts for the feud between Isaac and Ishmael. Ishmael was first born, and chaffed at the Mesopotamian law of succession.
So what you have here is Joseph Smith trying to establish a dynastic line similar to the Egyptians, who were direct descendents of the Anunnaki priest-kings. It explains why he had himself anointed king over all Israel and took other men's wives as well as young women to wife. Mormonism has been about priest-kingship to this day, albeit the understanding of the caste system has been lost to the Mormon authorities, and the bastardized plural marriage practice implemented by Joseph Smith by his association with Rabbi Joshua Seixas has been further corrupted. There is a certain method to all this madness, and the interesting thing is, it follows in the footsteps of the fraudulent practices of the Levite priests who attempted to wrest the land of Canaan from their distant cousins the descendents of Canaan as their "promised land" under their fraudulent history and non-existent genealogy. So much for King Josiah. They started all this crap under which the present world now groans.
Seth Smee
REFERENCES
The Origin of God Laurence Gardner 2010
Genesis of the Grail Kings Laurence Gardner 1999
The Older Testament Margaret Barker 2005
The Great Angel Margaret Barker 2005
The Controversy of Zion Douglas Reed 1955
