The Mysteries of our
                    Father who is in Heaven are inscrutable. We
                    understand them as He, according to his Holy Will,
                    reveals their understanding and their fulfillment to
                    us, which must lead us to "a fountain beyond
                      the summits of the [Andean] mountains, instead of
                      leading to the sea." Along that current the
                    Holy Apostle Judas of Kerioth lives and serves "so
                    that others also rise up the river of destiny". 
                  
                    "... destiny is
                      not and has never been in the hands of men, but in
                      the will of the Great Hidden Lord in the Highest
                      and Most Sacred of the Mayab, beyond the summits
                      of the Andean mountains." ("The Flight of the
                        Feathered Serpent") 
                  
                  One of these
                    Mysteries is that of the arrival of "the sons of
                    Israel" at the Cordilleras of the Andes and the
                    following colonization in the Andean Mountains and
                    Mounts and Valleys of Antioquia by Sephardic Jews
                    for the resurgence of the stream of Early Gnostic
                    Christianity as in Antioch of Syria in other times.
                  
                  
                    "Antioch [of Syria] becomes the
                        center from where methodical consistent
                        propaganda is made. Among this group of Jews and
                        Gentiles who believe that Jesus has been Jews'
                        Messiah, the Greek word "Christ" is used for the
                        first time, which is the literal translation of
                        Meschiaj (Messiah) and since then the nameless
                        believers have been called Christians."
                        
                        (...)
                        
                        "... Among these doctrines, gnosis featured
                        prominently in Antioch, its philosophical school
                        is a mixture of Christianity, Oriental and
                        Jewish beliefs."
                        
                        "Gnosis had its importance during the early
                        years of Christianity and found many disciples
                        in Antioch. It was a religious philosophical
                        doctrine that sought God's nature and attributes
                        with the intervention of magic; other sects
                        claimed to have an intuitive knowledge of the
                        divine attributes." ("De los Judíos en la
                          Historia de Colombia" por Daniel Mesa Bernal,
                          "Jews in the History of Colombia" by Daniel
                          Mesa Bernal).
                    
                  
                  It was in Antioch of Syria where
                      our Lord Jesus The Christ's Flock began to be
                      called with the name Christians: "... and the
                      disciples were called Christians first in
                      Antioch." (The Acts of the Apostles, 11:26).
                  
                  The spiritual
                    stream of early Christians from Antioch of Syria was
                    very especially contained in the poetic and
                    "markedly optimistic" language of Salvation of the
                    "Odes of Solomon" with content about Essene and
                    Gnostic doctrines of an antiquity that dates back to
                    the year 70 of our Christian Era.
                  The Odes of
                    Solomon are one of the oldest testimonies of Early
                    Christianity Communities.
                  "The Odes of
                      Solomon", containing "a Gnosis in broad
                      sense", range from an Essene Gnosis or
                    Knowledge, rooted in the dawn of Early Christianity,
                    to its new flowering and fruition in the Christian
                    Gnosis and, later, in the Valentinian Christian
                    Gnosis. 
                  The "Odes of
                    Solomon" are regarded by scholars as one of the
                    greatest discoveries "for the knowledge of
                      early Christianity"; "the oldest Collection of
                      Christian Hymns"; "a Gnostic Hymnal of the second
                      century"; containing "a Gnosis in broad sense";
                    or written by an author belonging to the Qumran
                    Essene Community and integrated in the bosom of
                    Early Christianity.
                  
                  
                    "Recently
                      further parallels have been noticed, especially
                      with the Gospel of Truth [of the Gnostic Master
                      Valentine] and the Hodayot [Hymns], the
                      Thanksgiving Hymns of the Qumran Community."
                    
                  
                   The Christian
                    Gnosis of Valentine and the Valentinians continued
                    through Shimon ben Yohai's esoteric language of
                    Kabbalah in the Zohar and Isaac Luria's teachings of
                    Kabbalah (Sixteenth Century, 1534-1572).
                    
                    The explanations transmitted by Isaac Luria to his
                    Disciple Hayyim Vital about the "En Soph" or Holy
                    Infinite (the Infinite Father), his contraction,
                    concentration or withdrawal in Himself and His
                    emanation of the first Light, have many similarities
                    with Gnostics' (Valentinians') conceptions of Early
                    Christianity about the Absolute or Pleroma, His
                    withdrawal (of the Supreme Being, the Inaccessible
                    God, the Absolute Father) in Himself from the exact
                    central point of His Infinite Light and His first
                    emanation: "The Small Idea": Jesus, as it
                    is stated, for example, in "The Books of Jeu"
                      ("Book 1 of Jeu") mentioned by Jesus the
                    Christ our Lord in the "Pistis Sophia",
                    which indicates that they were written in an earlier
                    time, although coming from the same Gnostic Esoteric
                    circle.
                  
                  Isaac Luria's
                    Kabbalistic Doctrine is "deeply related" to the
                    Gnostic Doctrine of true Gnostic Christians of Early
                    Christianity that has its highest and fullest
                    expression in "The Books of Jeu" and the "Pistis
                    Sophia".
                    
                    Isaac Luria was born in Jerusalem in 1534, some 40
                    years after the Jews were expelled from Spain. For
                    many years he dedicated himself to studying Shimon
                    ben Yohai's teachings contained in The Zohar, which
                    he was able to understand thanks to what was
                    spiritually revealed to him by the Prophet Elijah,
                    teachings that He transmitted to his Disciple Hayyim
                    Vital and to other Disciples in Safed, Galilee.
                  Rabbi Shimon ben
                    Yohai was the reincarnation of Prophet Moses' Soul,
                    and Rabbi Isaac Luria was the reincarnation of
                    Shimon ben Yohai's Soul. 
                  Rabbi Hayyim Vital
                    was the reincarnation of Prophet Elijah's Soul.
                  Shimon ben Yohai's
                    and Isaac Luria's teachings prepared the resurgence
                    of the stream of Gnostic teachings in the New Age of
                    Aquarius which began on February 4, 1962.
                  Isaac Luria,
                    explaining what is written in the section of the
                    Zohar (Ray"ah Mehemna, Bereishis 25b; 253), tells
                    Hayyim Vital that Aaron the Priest was (at the time
                    of the Exodus) Moses' Interpreter (As Moses was of
                    "uncircumcised lips"). 
                  And that "In the
                    End of Days", Moses "will return" and will be of
                    "uncircumcised lips" again. But the Prophet Elijah
                    (Eliyahu), who will be reincarnated, "will be his
                    Interpreter", as Aaron was Moses' interpreter.
                  The Prophet Moses
                    was Enoch or Metatron Sar
                      Hapanim Reincarnate:
                  
                    "103" "... none but you may use
                        Metatron Sar Hapanim since your name [MoSheH] is
                        intimated in the initials of his, for the
                        initial letters of the words Metatron Sar
                        Hapanim are Mem shin hei, which spell Mosheh
                        (Moses)." (The Zohar, Parashat Pinhas,
                          Volume I.)
                  
                  The French
                    Kabbalist, Abbot Eliphas Levy, referring to "the
                    coming of the Messianic era", wrote in "Major
                      Arcana and Key of Solomon" in 1860:
                  
                    "Enoch will
                      appear in the year two thousand of the Christian
                      era. Then, Messianism, of which he will have to be
                      the precursor, will flourish on earth for one
                      thousand years. These forecasts are the result of
                      all the prophecies and of all the qabbalistic
                      calculations…"
                  
                  (Moses' Soul was
                    the Reincarnation of the Soul of Abel, Seth,
                    [Enoch], Noah and Shem: "In
                        the beginning, Moshe [Moses] was Hevel [Abel],
                        who was the son of Adam HaRishon. Later, he
                        (Hevel) reincarnated into Shais [Seth], then
                        Noach [Noah], and after that, into Shem son of
                        Noach." [...]. "Noach reincarnated into
                        Moshe,...". Isaac Luria, "Gates of
                        Reincarnation").
                  The Hebrew Prophecies announced
                      that, in the end times, the Prophet Elijah and the
                      Prophet Moses would be reincarnated and that the
                      Prophet Elijah would be like Aaron and as the
                      Precursor of the Prophet Moses:
                  
                    "In the future in the
                        generation of Moshiach [in these Last Days],
                        Moses' Soul will return in a Reincarnation to
                        teach Torah to Israel. The Messiah [Moses or
                        Shiloh] will also be peaceful and not very
                        eloquent [i.e. most of the "People" will not
                        listen to him] as (happened to) Moses; and
                        Eliyahu [Elijah, Elias] the prophet will be a
                        "translator" for him. Eliyahu (Elijah) will be
                        the Reincarnation of Pinchas, the son of
                        Eleazar, the son of Aaron the High priest,..."
                    "The Zohar says (Ray'ah
                        Mehemna, Bereishis 25b; 253) that even though
                        Moshe Rabbeinu was the teacher of all of Israel,
                        his interpreter was Aharon HaKohen, as it says,
                        'He will be a mouth for you' (Shemos 4:16),
                        since Moshe had a 'heavy mouth' and 'heavy
                        tongue.' In the 'End of Days' in the generation
                        of Moshiach, Moshe will return to teach Torah to
                        Israel and will still be of 'uncircumcised
                        lips.' However, Eliyahu, who will 'chai,' will
                        be his interpreter, and this is the sod of the
                        posuk, 'Pinchas the son of Elazar the son
                          of Aharon HaKohen' (Bamidbar 25:11). This
                        is as it is written, 'If [one is drawn] to
                        scoffers, he will scoff' (Mishlei 4:37): when
                        they will need a translator for Moshe, Eliyahu
                        who will be 'chai' will translate and be Moshe's
                        interpreter."
                        
                        "The word for 'scoff' can also mean intrepret;
                        Pinchas became Eliyahu." ("The Gate of
                          Reincarnations", "Thirty-Sixth Introduction",
                          by Isaac Luria.) 
                    "However, this
                      time his interpreter will be Eliyahu, who will
                      live again. Actually, he is Pinchas ben Elazar ben
                      Aharon HaKohen, the brother of Moshe Rabbeinu.
                      This is what it means, 'If (one is drawn) to
                        the scoffers, he will scoff, but (if one is
                        drawn) to the humble he will find favor,' that
                      is, to the interpreters." ("The Gate of
                        Reincarnations", by Isaac Luria.) 
                  
                  - II -
                    From Safed to Amsterdam
                      From Amsterdam 
                      to the Andes of Colombia
                  
                  The Gnostic Christian
                    Stream flowed from Palestine to Antioch of Syria and
                    from there, like in other places, it received a warm
                    reception from Kabbalists of Safed in Galilee, very
                    especially Isaac Luria's teachings transmitted in
                    the writings by his Disciple Hayyim Vital, reaching
                    the circles of Christian and Jewish Mystics of
                    Amsterdam, Holland, wherein he had many followers.
                  In Amsterdam,
                    Menasseh ben Israel (Manoel Dias Soeiro, 1604-1657),
                    Portuguese Jew, was integrated into a wide circle of
                    Jewish and Christian friends, being called for that
                    reason, "the father of Judeo-Christian
                      friendship".
                  In the seventeenth
                    century there were many Jewish converts in Holland.
                    
                    Menasseh ben Israel studied Shimon ben Yohai's and
                    Isaac Luria's teachings of the Kabbalah.
                    
                    Sephardim of Portuguese origin, who in some way came
                    to know the studies of Jewish Mysticism carried out
                    in the Kabbalistic circles of Amsterdam and who were
                    part of the first Jewish settlers arrived in South
                    America, some of them having settled themselves in
                    the mountains of ancient Antioquia (*1), Colombia,
                    undoubtedly conveyed this knowledge to their
                    descendants, enclothing it with names, costumes and
                    traditions adapted to the way of being of their
                    time. The "memories" of those esoteric teachings of
                    the Torah were deposited in the Paisas'
                    (*2) subconscious and in their genetic memory,
                    although they had already lost the memory of them,
                    due to the need that forced them to appear not as
                    Jews before other settlers who were not of Sephardic
                    origin, remaining hidden by the veil of symbolism in
                    many of their customs and traditions.
                  
                  
                    (*1) Here we use
                      the words "ancient Antioquia" as a reference to
                      identify the possible territory in the cordillera
                      where Aaron Levi met a group of Israelites who
                      were already there long before Europeans' arrival
                      and obviously long before that part of the
                      territory within the cordillera was given the name
                      of Antioquia.
                    
                    (*2) "Paisas" is a
                        word that encompasses the native of Antioquia,
                        Caldas, Quindio, Risaralda, Libano (Tolima) and
                        other Departments of Colombia where there was
                        Antioquian colonization.
                    
                  
                   The writer
                    Eduardo Santa who was born in Libano, Tolima
                    Department, widely develops "el fenómeno"
                    de "La Colonización Antioqueña" ["the phenomenon" of "La Colonización Antioqueña"
                        ("The Antioquian Colonization")...],
                    in his book so titled.
                  It must be taken
                    into account that Antioquian territory map has
                    changed several times: 1580, 1644, 1760, 1800, 1813,
                    1824, 1830, 1847, 1851, 1856, 1863, 1886, 1905,
                    1908, 1910, 1926, 1960…
                    
                    A great deal of Antioquians' religious traditions
                    and customs are both Sephardic and Christian,
                    although rooted in ancient Israelite traditions.
                  From the Andes of
                    Colombia the fountain and sprout of the tree of
                    Early Gnostic Judeo-Christianity have sprung up
                    again: there the human persons of the Three Messiahs announced
                          in the Essene Texts from Qumran
                    were born.
                  
                  With
                      the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and
                    Portugal in the late fifteenth century, a new
                    dispersion was originated not only to the Holy Land,
                    Egypt and elsewhere in Europe, but also to America.
                  The
                      expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492
                    coincided with the "discovery of America" in that
                    same year.
                  From the early
                    days of conquistadors' arrival to the Indies after
                    called America, a large number of Portuguese Jews
                    arrived to these lands. "These were deep-rooted
                      in the Mosaic law and their religious faith. They
                      were a nucleus closer than the Spanish".
                  Many Spanish Jews
                    were forced to move to Portugal before they
                    emigrated to America: Argentina, Brazil, the Andean
                    region, the Caribbean Islands and lands, etc.
                    
                    By the year 1882 and thereafter, some "Words
                    ascribed to judge Manuel Antonio del Campo y Rivas"
                    became renowned, we quote some textual paragraphs of
                    them in the way of writing of that time:
                  
                    "We have already
                      said that [marshal] jorge Robledo, one of the
                      lieutenants of Belalcázar..., founded the cities
                      of Anserma..., Cartago, Arma and Antioquia..."
                      
                      "The marshal, who manifested a very striving
                      spirit in all his undertakings, brought many Gypsy
                      families, i.e. of Egyptian origin; as Gypsy in our
                      Romance is but the transformation of that same
                      word. He left fourteen families in Antioquia or
                      Santa Fé, that were moved by Juan de Cabrera to
                      the other side of the great river of Santamarta or
                      Cauca, four in Cartago, then, in Arma and Anserma,
                      he left none, and the other fews in the plains of
                      Buga..."
                      
                      "But gypsies, they all moved down to Aburrá
                      Valley…" (Medellín).
                      
                      "We said that gypsies or Egyptians had settled
                      themselves in the Aburrá valley, and there they
                      have increased in number throughout that vast
                      country; the villa de la Candelaria of Medellín
                      being founded with them... As you should know that
                      these gypsies are Jews established from the time
                      of the Pharaohs in Egypt..."
                      
                      "...The marshal gave them the land of Aburrá as
                      far as the hill called Buriticá [*] that now
                      borders on the civil Government of Popayán..."
                      
                      * [according to the official website of Buriticá
                      in Antioquia, Colombia, the municipality of
                      Buriticá (bordering south on Santafé de Antioquia)
                      is located at a distance of 93 kilometers from
                      Medellín].
                      
                      "Almost all the people who live in that region are
                      from the gypsies we talked about and their
                      mingling with indigenous women, for the marshal
                      indeed forced his soldiers to get married with
                      indigenous women..."
                    
                  
                  These words have
                    arisen many controversies, which some ascribed to
                    the aforementioned "Judge of the Kingdom of
                    Guatemala, Assistant Dean of the Royal Audience of
                    Guadalajara in the Kingdom of Galicia, Viceroyalty
                    of New Spain and collegiate of San Bartolomé de
                    Bogotá..." Others argue that they were wrongly
                    ascribed to him, given that no document was found
                    that confirms their authorship.
                    
                    In any case, among those who accompanied Jorge
                    Robledo from Cartagena to colonize Antioquia, there
                    were Jewish converts.
                    
                    Tradition about Gypsies' Egyptian origin is very old
                    and, although someone has tried to assign them an
                    Hindustan origin, their Religious Laws have many
                    parallels with the Hebrew Torah.
                  
                  In
                        "La Biblia en verso [The Bible in verse] by Ignacio de Luzán [1702-1754]
                      (257 unpublished octaves)..." in "The
                      National Library of Madrid", an ancient
                    manuscript is preserved "under the codex Mss.
                      2528..." In one of its verses, it is written:
                  
                    "XXXV - THE BUSH
                      THAT MOSES SAW"
                    "Oh Moses,
                      barefoot He worships the holy Deity hidden in the
                      fire that was burning the bush.
                    
                    Don't be afraid,
                      ambassador sent to the Gypsy palace 21, for this
                      flame you see will made your words powerful."
                  
                  "21. Gypsy or
                      gipsy, gipcyan = Egyptian."
                  
                  Gypsies revere
                    Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Elijah, Jesus
                    The Christ our Lord and the Virgin Mary.
                  
                  A Gypsy Flamenco
                    Christmas carol called "la Virgen Gitana" ["the
                      Gipsy Virgin"] is dedicated to the Virgin
                    Mary. 
                  Our Venerable
                    Master Samael Aun Weor Clairvoyantly describes the
                    Virgin of Carmel "Mary, the Divine Mother of
                      Jesus of Nazareth" with "Gypsy eyes":
                  
                    "Indeed, Mary
                      was not that worldly beauty painted in all the
                      watercolors. With the eyes of the Spirit we only
                      contemplate a brunette virgin, burned by the
                      desert sun. Before our astonished spiritual eyes,
                      slender bodies and provocative faces of feminine
                      images are blurred away, replaced by a simple
                      young woman, small in stature, with a slim body,
                      small oval face, blunt nose, protruding upper lip,
                        Gypsy eyes, and wide forehead."
                  
                  Gypsies also
                    worship "Saint Sarah Kali", wrongly interpreted as
                    the negative aspect of "Kali" by those unaware of
                    their sacred traditions.
                  "Kali" has two
                    aspects: the Positive Heavenly Kali's aspect is our
                    Divine Mother KUNDALINI, the Serpent that Moses
                    lifted up in the desert. Kali's negative aspect is
                    "the abominable organ Kundartiguador", the dark evil
                    infernal serpent.
                  
                  
                    "In India, Kali the Divine
                        Mother Kundalini is worshipped, but Kali in her
                        black, fatal aspect is also worshipped. These
                        are the two Marys: the white and the black."
                          (Venerable Master Samael Aun Weor's
                          Teachings.)
                        
                        "Christ is always the Son of the Divine Mother
                        Kundalini. She always conceives her Son through
                        the work and grace of the Third Logos. She is
                        always Virgin; before the birth, during the
                        birth and after the birth. Among the Egyptians,
                        the Virgin is Isis; among the Hindu, Kali (in
                        her positive aspect); among the Aztecs,
                        Tonantzin. She is Rhea, Cybele, Maria, Adonia,
                        Insoberta, etc., etc., etc." (Venerable
                          Master Samael Aun Weor's Teachings.)
                    
                  
                   The Virgin "Saint
                    Sarah Kali" of the Gipsies represents Kali's
                    Positive aspect, the Divine Mother Kundalini.
                    
                    The Virgin "Saint Sarah" of the Gipsies represents
                    Abraham's Wife, Sarah, and Brahma's Wife, Saraswati.
                    
                    As for the first cities founded by Jorge Robledo
                    bearing the names of Cartago and Antioquia in
                    Colombia, these names evoke ancient stories and
                    great events with deep imprints left on the memory
                    of the Jewish and Christian People of Israel.
                  
                  A Cartago City
                    district in Valle del Cauca Department in Colombia
                    is called "Modín". In relation to the name "Villa de
                    Medellín", that some ascribe to the "Count of
                    Medellín" (of Jewish origin), others ascribe its
                    origin to "Villa de Medeín" or "Modín" of the Priest
                    Matityahu and his sons the Maccabees.
                  In Antioquia,
                    Colombia, there are many names of Hebrew origin that
                    were given to a large number of towns by their
                    founders.
                    
                    Biblical names are very common among Antioquians.
                    Their way of speaking has much in common with the
                    Sephardic accent. The treatment of "Usted" and "Vos"
                    is almost generally used until the present day.
                  
                    "The familiar form of address
                        does not exist among Sephardim and practically
                        it was not used in Antioquia." [...] "It has
                        been said that the way Antioquians speak and
                        their accent are present in some Sephardic
                        communities..." ("De los Judíos en la
                          Historia de Colombia" por Daniel Mesa Bernal
                          ["Jews in the History of Colombia", by Daniel
                          Mesa Bernal]).
                    
                  
                  Traditions and
                    customs of Sephardic origin are preserved by family
                    tradition. Antioquian bread is the traditional and
                    original "arepa", handmade with corn and
                    water, without yeast and salt, flat or round, or the
                    bread corresponding to the "Matzah", the
                    unleavened bread and without yeast of the People of
                    Israel of the night of Exodus in the "Pesach"
                    celebrations or "Jewish Passover". The preparation
                    to make "arepas" is called "la masa"
                    [the dough], phonetically similar to the word "the
                      Matzah". The corn for our "Matzah" is left to
                    soak in water overnight before cooking to be further
                    processed in dough in the manual "grinding machine
                    (mill)".
                  
                  "Hanukkah"
                    celebration in Antioquia, Colombia, was perpetuated
                    in the traditional "Fiesta
                        de los Alumbrados" ["Festival of Lights"] or
                    Day of the "Little Candles" on December 7
                    and 8 every year, in "remembrance" of the
                    celebration of "The Eight Days of Milah"
                    or "The Eight Days of Hanukkah" (Tikunei Zohar,
                      13) to commemorate the Covenant of the
                    Alliance.
                    
                    "Eight"... days after the celebration of our
                    "Hanukkah" or "Chanukah" and before the "manger"
                    with its humble Sukkah (Booth or hut wherein the
                    "Small and Beautiful Savior" will be "born"), the
                    traditional "Novena de Aguinaldos" [Christmas
                    Novena] by Franciscan friar Fernando de Jesús
                    Larrea, born in Quito to Colombian father and
                    Ecuadorian mother, which are inspired "by Medieval
                    Christmas Carols", begins in many households.
                    
                    In "Compendium and description of the West
                      Indies", written around the year 1629
                    (published in 1948), Antonio Vásquez de Espinosa
                    said:
                  
                    "... It is no
                      slight evidence in favor of our thesis that when
                      they conquered the Provinces where at present the
                      city of Antioquia has been founded, in the new
                      Kingdom [of Granada], the local King (or Cacique)
                      was named Isac and his wife ludit (Judith)."
                  
                   In the book "De
                      los Judíos en la Historia de Colombia" ("Jews
                      in the History of Colombia"), the writer
                    Daniel Mesa Bernal says:
                  
                    "There is the
                      common belief that during the Conquest and
                      Colonization many converted Jews arrived from
                      Portugal as far as the Mountain (as they used to
                      call Antioquia). Luis Eduardo Agudelo Ramírez
                      believes that "Therefore, whether people of
                      Antioquia have few or much in common with Jews, it
                      was due to the heritage of this first century,
                      resulting not so much from Andalusians,
                        Extremadurans and first Basques, but
                      rather from Portuguese Jews or Christians of
                      Lusitanian origin, who, in
                        their majority, were none other than
                      Sephardic refugees in Portugal after the expulsion
                      from Spain, still awaiting for an objective
                      analysis of their secret history and their real
                      influence on the new American society.".
                  
                   Antioquians'
                    Hebrew origin is in dispute according to
                    genealogical studies. But we must consider that the
                    Israelites who arrived in Antioquia used to change
                    their names and "surnames" to protect themselves
                    against the tribunals of Inquisition, possibly
                    destroying any document where their former names
                    appeared. One example is the surname "Acosta" which
                    formerly was "de Acosta".
                  In the book "Cherokee
                        DNA Studies Real People Who Proved the
                        Geneticists Wrong", written by "DONALD
                        N. YATES and TERESA A. YATES", they say:
                  
                  
                    "Chief Black Fox
                      [*1], my ancestor, was a Scotsman descended from
                      Blacks and Foxes. I believe all these families
                      were Scottish crypto-Jews. They were heavily
                      intermarried, generation after generation."
                    "I ran a search
                      for matches on Bowles DNA in the Y-STR Haplotype
                      Reference Database. There were 17 matches in
                      Europe—Albania, Berlin, Budapest, Bulgaria,
                      Bydgoszcz in northern Poland, Cologne, Colombia
                      (2), Freiburg, Latium, Pomerania, Stuttgart,
                      Sweden, Tyrol, Umbria, Warsaw and Westphaia. A
                      "one-off" mutation produced Freiburg and Lombardy.
                      The picture that emerged was one that closely
                      echoed the distribution pattern for the Gothic
                      invasions that repeopled Italy, France and Spain.
                      To the contrary, the predominant matches in our
                      Melungeon surname study have led to the Iberian
                      Peninsula and to places like Antioquia, Colombia,
                      where Marranos [*2] and crypto-Jews emigrated.
                      Here was a Jewish haplotype that, historically
                      speaking, seemed to have traveled out of
                      Scandinavia and the Baltic region, passed through
                      Italy to Spain and Scotland and migrated on to the
                      Americas, where it mingled with the Indians."
                  
                  *1: Cherokee Chief
                    Black Fox (c. 1746-1811).
                    
                    *2: Among Jewish converts or "Crypto-Jews" ("Hidden
                    Jews") slanderously called "marranos", it was
                    customary to change names and surnames. 
                  In Colombia,
                      Paisas are even today given the term of "Berracos"
                    with labial "B", although in Castilian it is written
                    with labiodental "V".
                    
                    "Verraco" is a name that stands for "Wild
                      Boar".
                    
                    In the Far East the Wild Boar is one of
                    the symbolic forms of incarnation of Hindu Lord
                    Vishnu, called "the Varaha Avatar" or "the
                      Boar Avatar".
                    
                    In Spain and Portugal there are megalithic monuments
                    called "Verracos" ["Boars"] with
                    zoomorphic shapes of bulls, wild boars, etc.
                    
                    "Vettones'" Culture of Celtic origin is
                    also called "Boars' Culture".
                    
                    In the Anglo-Saxon epic poem called "Beowulf",
                    translated into Spanish, the word "Boar", which was
                    the animal sacred to the Norse God Frey, is
                    mentioned several times. 
                  
                    "... Frey is the
                      God of Sun and Rain, and the patron of bountiful
                      harvests... He is also the Ruler of the Elves.". 
                    "Frey (Frode,
                      is) the harvest and Boar God,...". 
                  
                  In "THE
                      YOUNGER EDDAS OF STURLESON", the Boar of Frey
                    is "named Gullinbursti [Gold Mane] or
                      Slidrugtanni..."
                   Venerable Master
                    Samael Aun Weor calls the current... 
                  
                    "...
                        'Maha-Manvantara' or Great Cosmic Day the
                        'Maha-Manvantara of the Boar', a completely
                        Sanskrit word..." (Venerable Master
                        Samael Aun Weor). 
                    "... Vishnu [...] in his first
                        Avatara [assumes] the form of a boar, in order
                        to raise the earth on the surface of the waters
                        of space." (H. P. Blavatsky, Volume V of
                          "The Secret Doctrine").
                    
                  
                  To the Paisas
                    of Colombia the epithet "Berraco" ["Boar"]
                    is not offensive; on the contrary, it has positive
                    meanings. The consciousness of
                      the Crypto-Jewish Soul of Antioquia was
                    able to turn the offensive epithet "marranos"
                    applied to the converted Jews by the Inquisition
                    into the complimentary epithet (not in academic
                    Castilian but in the traditional one of the Paisas)
                      "verraco" or "berraco" ["boar"] spoken and
                    written by the Paisas with labial "b", but
                    written in Castilian with labiodental "v", perhaps
                    as a kind of subconscious "Crypto-Jewish" rebellion
                    against its meaning in Castilian with "v" as it
                    appears in the academic dictionaries of Spanish
                    language.
                    
                    Despite the denial of several writers, including
                    those from Antioquia and other departments of
                    Colombia, of a strong Jewish heritage among
                    Antioquians, "Several Israelis have defended
                      the Jewish influence on the Paisas. Let us
                      remember Isch Ivri, Itic Croitoru Rotbaum, Julio
                      Guberek, Paul Link, Alberto Gerchunoff and Simon
                      Wiesenthal, among others". ("De los
                      Judíos en la Historia de Colombia" ["Jews in the
                      History of Colombia"], by Daniel Mesa Bernal.)
                  - III -
                  The Hope of Israel
                   The following narrative is
                    taken from the work "The Hope of Israel", written in
                    Amsterdam by "Menasseh Ben Israel" (Wise very
                    Learned Hebrew of Portuguese origin, Polyglot,
                    Commentator of Holy Books and Talmud and dedicated "...
                      among others, to Rabbi Joseph da Costa, Deputy
                      Parnassim of Kahal Kadosh of Israel."). 
                  The work contains
                    the narrative of the Jew "Aharon Levi" (who called
                    himself Antonio de Montezinos) of the encounter with
                    approximately 300 "sons of Israel" in the Cordillera
                    Mountains of Ancient Antioquia in Colombia by the
                    year 1642.
                    
                    It was believed that this encounter happened in a
                    territory divided by La Miel River that runs between
                    the present Departments of Antioquia and Caldas,
                    Colombia. At that time the territorial boundaries
                    were not definitively established and many changes
                    have occurred since then. In any case, the encounter
                    must have taken place at the banks of one of the
                    rivers of the Cordillera Central of the Andes,
                    formerly populated by Indigenous Pijao, Panche and
                    Nutabe, among others.
                  Chronicler Fray
                    Pedro Simon in Volume V, Chapter XLI, of his "Historical
                      Notices of the Conquest of Tierra Firme in the
                      Western Indies", describes an Indigenous
                    Christian woman Pijao "white-skinned face, tall
                      body, thin and looking no older than fifty,... her
                      name was Anica,...", whom the Pijaos of
                    Cacique Calarca called "Bota Anica" or "Mother
                      Anica".
                  "Relation of
                    [Aharon Levi, alias,] Antony Montezinus":
                    
                    "In the 18th of the Month of Elul: the 5404 year
                    from the Worlds creation, and according to common
                    compute, in 1644, Aaron Levi, otherwise called
                    Antonius Montezinus came into this City Amsterdam,
                    and related to the Sieur Menasseh ben Israel, and
                    other cheifetains of the Portugal Nation,
                    Inhabitants of the same City, these things which
                    follow."
                    
                    "That it was two years and a halfe, since that he
                    going from the Port Honda [on the west bank of the
                    Magdalena river, in present Tolima Department in
                    Colombia] in the West-Indies, to the Papian
                    jurisdiction [in the present Cauca Department], he
                    conducted some Mules of a certaine Indian, whose
                    name was Franciscus Castellanus, into the Province
                    of Quity, and that there was one in company with him
                    and other Indians, whose name was Francis, who was
                    called by all Cazicus. That it happened that as they
                    went over the Mountaines Cordilleræ, a great tempest
                    arose, which threw the loaden Mules to the ground.
                    The Indians being afflicted by the sore tempest,
                    every one began to count his losses; yet confessing
                    that all that and more grievous punishments were but
                    just, in regard of their many sins. But Francis bad
                    them take it patiently, for that they should shortly
                    injoy rest: the others answered, that they were
                    unworthy of it; yea that the notorious cruelty used
                    by the Spaniards towards them, was sent of God,
                    because they had so ill treated his holy people, who
                    wer of al others the most innocent;..."
                    
                    Indigenous Francisco then spoke to Montezinos about
                    the help that they would receive "via hidden
                    people..."
                    
                    Some time later, and having traveled to the City of
                    Cartagena in Colombia, Montezinos was taken prisoner
                    by the Inquisition.
                  In prison he
                    promised himself, if he would be freed from there,
                    he would go back to the same place where he talked
                    with the Indigenous Francisco, "he sought out
                      Franciscus beleeving that hee would repeat to him
                      againe what he had spoken; he therefore being set
                      at liberty, through Gods mercy went to the Port
                      Honda, and according to his desire, found him...".
                    
                    We include the following paragraphs of the book "The
                      Hope of Israel" written by "Menasseh Ben
                      Israel":
                    
                    "... But I having curiously examined what ever
                      hath hitherto been writ upon this subject doe
                      finde no opinion more probable, nor agreeable to
                      reason, then that of our Montezinus, who saith,
                      that the first inhabitants of America, were the
                      ten Tribes of the Israelites, whom the Tartarians
                      conquered, and drove away; who after that (as
                    God would have it) hid themselves behind the
                    Mountaines Cordilleræ [of the Ancient Antioquia
                    Department]. ... as also other people of the
                    East-Indies came by that Streight which is between
                    India, and the Kingdome of Anian. But that people,
                    according to our Montezinus, made warre upon those
                    Inhabitants the Israelites, whom they forced up [the
                    Aboriginal Israelites of the Andes of Colombia] unto
                    the mountaines, and the in-land Countries, as
                    formerly the Brittaines were driven by the Saxons
                    into Wales... I see not anything that comes
                      nearer truth..."
                    
                    The Indigenous Cacique Francisco, after testing
                    Montezinos to know if he was sincere, led him
                    through a very difficult and thoroughly dangerous
                    journey by foot, across the Cordillera Mountains of
                    Ancient Antioquia in Colombia for over a week,
                    starting from the Port Honda, located on the west
                    bank of Magdalena river, in present Tolima
                    Department, Colombia.
                  "They being thus
                    accoutred, travelled the whole weeke, unto the
                    Sabbath Day; on which day they resting, the day
                    after they went on, till Tuesday, on which day about
                    eight a clock in the morning, they came to a River
                    as bigge as Duerus [possibly "la Miel" River, in the
                    present boundaries between the Departments of
                    Antioquia and Caldas], then the Indian said,
                      Here you shall see your Brethren, and making a
                    signe with the fine linnen of Xylus, which they had
                    about them instead of a Girdle; thereupon on the
                    other side of the River they saw a great smoke, and
                    immediately after, such another signe made as they
                    had made before; a little after that, three men,
                    with a woman, in a little Boat came to them, which
                    being come neare, the woman went ashore, the rest
                    staying in the Boat; who talking a good while with
                    the Indian, in a Language which Montezinus
                    understood not; she returned to the Boat, and told
                    to the three men what she had learned of the Indian;
                    who always eying him, came presently out of the
                    Boat, and embraced Montezinus, the woman after their
                    example doing the like; after which, one of them
                    went back to the Boat, and when the Indian bowed
                    downe courteously, and talked a good while with him.
                    After that, the Indian bid Montezinus to be of good
                    courage, and not to looke that they should come a
                    second time to him, till he had fully learned the
                    things which were told him at the first time. Then
                      those two men coming on each side of Montezinus,
                      they spoke in Hebrew, the 4th.ver. of Deut.6.
                      SEMATH ISRAEL, ADONAI ELOHENU ADONAI EHAD; THAT
                      IS, HEARE O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE GOD.
                    Then the Indian Interpreter being asked, how it was
                    in Spanish, they spoke what followes to Montezinus,
                    making a short pause between every particular:" 
                  "1 Our Fathers are
                    Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Israel, and they
                    signified these foure by the three fingers lifted
                    up; then they joyned Reuben, adding another finger
                    to the former three."
                  "2 We will bestow
                    severall places on them who have a minde to live
                    with us."
                  "3 Joseph dwels in
                    the midst of the Sea, they making a signe by two
                    fingers put together, and then parted them." 
                  "4 They said
                    (speaking fast) shortly some of us will goe forth to
                    see, and to tread underfoot; at which word they
                    winked, and stamped with their feet."
                  "5 One day we
                      shall all of us talke together, they saying, Ba,
                      ba, ba; and we shall come forth as issuing out of
                      our Mother the earth."
                  "6 A certaine
                      Messenger shall goe forth."
                  "7 Franciscus
                    shall tell you somewhat more of those things, they
                    making a signe with their finger, that much must not
                    be spoken."
                  "8 Suffer us that
                    we may prepare ourselves; and they turning their
                    hands and faces every way, thus prayed to God, DO
                    NOT STAY LONG."
                  "9 Send twelve
                    men, they making a signe, that they would have men
                    that had beards, and who are skillfull in writing."
                  "The Conference
                    being ended, which lasted a whole day, the same
                    returned on Wednesday, and Thursday, and spake the
                    same things againe, without adding a word; at last
                    Montezinus being weary that they did not answer what
                    he asked them, nor would suffer him to goe over the
                    river, he cast himself into their Boat: but he being
                    forced out againe, fell into the River, and was in
                    danger to be drowned, for he could not swim; but
                    being got out of the water, the rest being angry,
                    said to him; attempt not to passe the River, nor to
                    enquire after more than we tell you; which the
                    Indian interpreted to him, the rest declaring the
                    same things both by signs, and words." 
                  "You must observe,
                    that all those three dayes the Boat, stayed not in
                    the same place, but when those foure who came went
                    away, other foure came, who all as with one mouth,
                    repeated all the fore-mentioned particulars, there
                    came and went about three hundred."
                  
                  "Those men are
                    somewhat scorched by the Sun, some of them weare
                    their haire long, downe to their knees, other of
                    them shorter, and others of them much as we commonly
                    cut it. They were comely of body, well accoutred,
                    having ornaments on their feet, and leggs, and their
                    heads were compassed about with a linnen cloath."
                  "Montezinus saith,
                    that when he was about to be gone, on Thursday
                    evening, they shewed him very much courtesie, and
                    brought him whatever they thought fit for him in his
                    journey, and they said, that themselves were well
                    provided with all such things, (sc. meats, garments,
                    flocks, and other things) which the Spaniards in
                    India call their owne. The same day, when they came
                    to the place where they have rested, the night
                    before they came to the River, Montezinus said to
                    the Indian; You remember Francis, that my Brethren
                    told me, that you should tell me something,
                    therefore I entreat you, that you would not thinke
                    much to relate it. The Indian answered, I will tell
                    you what I know, only doe not trouble me, and you
                    shall know the truth, as I have received it from my
                    fore-fathers; but if you presse me too much, as you
                    seeme to doe, you will make me tell you lyes; attend
                    therefore I pray, to what I shall tell you. Thy
                      Brethren are the Sons of Israel, and brought
                      thither by the providence of God, who for their
                      sake wrought many Miracles, which you will not
                      beleeve, if I should tell you what I have learned
                      from my Fathers; we Indians made war upon them
                    in that place, and used them more hardly then we now
                    are by the Spaniards; then by the instigation of our
                    Magicians (whom we call Mohanes) [*] [priests] we
                    went armed to that place where you saw your
                    Brethren, with an intent to destroy them; but not
                    one of all those who went thither, came back againe;
                    whereupon we raised a great Army, and set upon them
                    but with the same successe, for againe none escaped;
                    which hapned also the third time, so that India was
                    almost bereft of all inhabitants, but old men, and
                    women, the old men therefore: and the rest who
                    survived, beleeving that the Magicians used false
                    dealing, consulted to destroy them all, and many of
                    them being killed those who remained promised to
                    discover somewhat that was not knowne; upon that
                    they desisted from cruelty, and they declared such
                    things as follow:"
                  
                  "That the God
                      of those Children of Israel is the true God, that
                      all that which is engraven upon their stones is
                      true; that about the end of the World they
                    shall be Lords of the world; that some shall come
                    who shall bring you much good, and after that they
                    have enriched the earth with all good things, those
                    Children of Israel going forth out of their Country,
                    shall subdue the whole World to them, as it was
                    subject to them formerly; you shall be happy if you
                    make a League with them."
                  
                  "Then five of the
                    chiefe Indians (whom they call Cazici who were my
                    Ancestors, having understood the Prophesie of the
                    Magicians, which they had learned of the Wise men of
                    the Hebrewes, went thither, and after much entreaty,
                    obtained their desire, having first made knowne
                    their minde to that woman, whom you saw to be for an
                    Interpreter, (for your Brethren will have no
                    commerce with our Indians) and whosover of ours doth
                    enter the Country of the Brethren, they presently
                    kill him; and none of your Brehtren doe passe into
                    our Country. Now by the help of that Woman we made
                    this agreement with them." 
                  
                  "1 That our five
                    Cazici should come to them, and that alone at every
                    seventy moneths end."
                    
                    "2 That he to whom secrets should be imparted,
                    should be above the age of three hundred Moones, or
                    Months."
                    
                    "3 And that such things should be discovered to none
                    in any place where people are, but only in a Desart,
                    and in the presence of the Cazici; and so (said the
                    Indian) we keep that secret among our selves,
                    because that we promise our selves great favour from
                    them, for the good offices which we have done to our
                    Brethren, it is not lawfull for us to visite them,
                    unlesse at the seventy months end: Or if there
                    happens any thing new, and this fell out but thrice
                    in my time; First, when the Spaniards came into this
                    Land; also, when Ships came into the Southerne Sea;
                    and thirdly, when you came, whom they long wished
                    for, and expected. They did much rejoyce for those
                    three new things, because that they said, the
                    Prophesies were fulfilled."
                  
                  "And Montezinus
                    also said, that three other Cazici were sent to him
                    by Franciscus, to Honda, yet not telling their
                    names, till he had said, you may speake to them
                    freely, they are my fellowes in my Function of whom
                    I have told you, the fifth could not come for age,
                    but those three did heartily embrace him; and
                    Montezinus being asked of what Nation he was, he
                    answered, an Hebrew, of the Tribe of Levi, and that
                    God [Adonay] was his God, etc. which when they had
                    heard, they embraced him againe, and said; Upon a
                    time you shall see us, and shall not know us; We are
                    all your Brethren, by Gods singular favour..."
                  
                  [*] The "Mohanes"
                    were the Priests or Spiritual Guides of the ancient
                    Indigenous Pijao of the Cordillera Central in
                    Colombia.
                  After having made
                    a long exposition on the places of the Planet where
                    "The Lost Tribes of Israel" might have taken refuge,
                    Menasseh ben Israel says later in his book:
                    
                    "SECT. 23. Hitherto we have shewed that the ten
                    Tribes are in divers places, as in the West-Indies,
                    in Sina; in the confines of Tartary, beyond the
                    river Sabbathion, and Euphrates, in Media, in the
                    Kingdome of the Habyssins; of all which the Prophet
                    Isaiah is to be understood, in Isa. 11. 11, [when
                    dealing with the coming of the Messias, he says,] It
                    shall come to passe in that day, that the Lord shall
                    set his hand the second time to recover the remnant
                    of his people, which shall he left from Assyria,
                    from Egypt, from Pathros, from Ethiopia, from Elam,
                    from Sinear, from Hamath, and from the Islands of
                    the Sea." (11. "And it shall come to pass at that
                    time, that the Lord shall use a second time His
                    might to redeem the remnant of His people, which
                    shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and
                    from Pattros, and from India, and from Elam, and
                    from Babylon, and from Hamath, and from the islands
                    of the sea." (Targum of Isaiah, XI: 11)."(...)"
                    
                    "... Hamath, there are many Hamaths mentioned in the
                    Scripture, many understand it of Antioch; [and so
                    says the Chaldee Paraphrase.]"
                  Menasseh ben
                    Israel remarks:
                    
                    "... no opinion more probable, nor agreeable to
                      reason, then that of our Montezinus,..." (Menasseh Ben Israel in "ORIGEN
                        DE LOS AMERICANOS esto es Esperanza de Israel
                        [Origin of the Americans this is The Hope of
                        Israel]." Madrid, 1881).
                    
                    The narrative of Montezinos, who himself asserted
                    its veracity until the last days of his life, seems
                    unlikely to some people, arguing that there is no
                    evidence or that it is unscientific. But these
                    arguments do not prove that his narrative was not
                    true.
                  At that encounter
                    in the Cordillera (Central) of the Andes, the
                    Israelites mentioned by Montezinos did not speak
                    either Montezinos' Hebrew or Spanish. Montezinos
                    "understood not" what they said. The Indigenous
                    Francisco was the interpreter for both, which would
                    mean that either the Israelites spoke Indigenous
                    Francisco's language or Francisco knew something of
                    the Israelites' language unknown to Montezinos, who
                    spoke more by signs and gestures than words,
                    although they said few words in Spanish learned from
                    the Indigenous Francisco "the Indian Interpreter
                      being asked, how it was in Spanish,..."
                  How did the
                    Hebrews of the Cordillera of the Andes and
                    Montezinos, who was Jew, not understand each other
                    in their language?
                    
                    Ancient Hebrew Language was lost. Even at the time
                    of the Babylonian Exile, the Books of Moses were
                    rewritten by Ezra... as since long time the Original
                    Books were already "lost" or hidden... "and in the
                    transmission they did not remain intact" as they
                    were distorted...
                    
                    The Indigenous Francisco bore witness that the
                    Israelites of that Cordillera of the Andes wrote
                    everything on stone: "all that which is engraven
                      upon their stones is true;..."
                    
                    The language spoken by "the sons of Israel" of the
                    Andes, if it was Hebrew, was an unknown Hebrew to
                    the Jew Aharon Levi or Montezinos "an Hebrew, of the
                    Tribe of Levi,..."
                    
                    How did the "sons of Israel" come to the Cordillera
                    of the Andes? What traces did they leave behind
                    them? Why did they not reappear? etc., are queries
                    that some have made to question the veracity of
                    Montezinos' testimony, not considering that the
                    ancient inhabitants of what is today called America
                    spoke about communications, even over long
                    distances, through caves, caverns, tunnels, pathways
                    and cities within the Earth...
                    
                    Archaeological investigations made in the present
                    Tolima Department (in the Cordillera Central of the
                    Andes of Colombia) have reported that this region
                    was already inhabited by Aboriginals more than
                    twelve thousand years ago.
                    
                    The Indigenous (Pijao?) Francisco gave Montezinos a
                    hint that those "sons of Israel" were already there
                    when Indigenous arrived "in that place": "we
                      Indians made war upon them in that place, and used
                      them more hardly then we now are by the
                      Spaniards."
                    
                    It is possible that the "sons of Israel" were
                    referring to the Hidden World Within the Earth as
                    their place of origin in the following words:
                  "4 They said
                      (speaking fast) shortly some of us will goe forth
                      to see, and to tread underfoot; at which word they
                      winked, and stamped with their feet." 
                  "5 One day we
                      shall all of us talke together, they saying, Ba,
                      ba, ba; and we shall come forth as issuing out of
                      our Mother the earth."
                  Another evidence
                    (not far off) of the coming from within the Earth of
                    the "forefathers" of the Indigenous Aborigines of
                    the Cordilleras of the Andes, whose priests were
                    called "Mohanes", can be found in Chronicler Fray
                    Pedro Simon's following words:
                  
                    "... indians who are called
                        Pijaos in this Kingdom (on whom we will dwell at
                        length in our third part) say that their
                        forefathers were born in the center of the
                        earth, and that they came to this world through
                        the mountains located between Cacataima river
                        and Anaima valley." ("Noticias Historiales de
                        las Conquistas de Tierra Firme en las Indias
                        Occidentales" [Historical Notices of the
                          Conquests of the Tierra Firme in the Western
                          Indies] by Fray Pedro Simon of the Order of
                          St. Francis of the New Kingdom of Granada",
                          "Part Two", edition of "1891").
                    
                  
                  The "Mohanes" of
                    the Indigenous People to whom Indigenous Francisco
                    (possibly an Indigenous Pijao) belonged were also
                    "Mohanes" or Pijao Priests whose ancestors came from
                    within the Earth through the mountains.
                    
                    Going back to the colonization and expansion of the
                    descendants of the people who settled in the Andes
                    of Colombia, "people who" settled "in that region"
                    of "The Villa de la Candelaria of Medellín", due to
                    their rapid colonization, many other centers were
                    formed in different places of Colombia, one of which
                    we will briefly mention as related to the Messianic
                    Hopes of the Israel of the Andes of the spiritual
                    part: 
                  
                    "... A
                      significant number of settlers crosses the
                      Cordillera Central, penetrating into Tolima
                      Department..."
                      
                      […]
                      
                      "In 1851, there was already a small village known
                      as Aldea del Líbano [Tolima Department, Colombia],
                      a hamlet that was colonized by Antioquians. Paisas
                      who, by pick and ax, cut down precious-wood trees
                      such as cedar, to build there a small village of
                      good-natured lands to which many Antioquian
                      families arrived little by little, factor that
                      constitutes Paisa idiosyncrasy which characterizes
                      Lebanese people." (From the book "La
                        Colonización Antioqueña" ["The Antioquian
                        Colonization"] by Eduardo Santa). 
                  
                  There, in the
                    "Aldea del Líbano", Tolima, Colombia, transformed
                    into a City years later, the Human Person of our
                    Venerable and Beloved Master Rabolú or the Prophet
                    Elijah reincarnate (who was the Great Matityahu of
                    "Villa de Modiin" or "Medein" in others times) was
                    born with strong Sephardic genetic heritage from
                    Antioquia, whose melting pot of Indigenous people,
                    Jews, Gypsies, Basques "and
                        tornadizos [turncoats, renegades] moors and
                        moorish" was gradually formed in
                    Villa de la Candelaria of Medellín (Villa de
                    Medeiin, Modeiin o Modiin?), Antioquia, in the
                    Cordilleras of the Andes in Colombia.
                  The Human Person
                    of V.M. Thoth-Moisés' Bodhisattva (Luis Bernardo
                    Palacio Acosta [De Acosta, D'Acosta)]) and
                    his Beloved Wife Gloria María del Socorro Vélez de
                    Palacio, also were born there, in Villa de la
                    Candelaria of Medellín.  (*)
                  
                  * (Herencia
                          Genética Sefardita en los Andes de Colombia).
                   Colombian Poet
                    Jorge Isaacs, author of the Novel "María" and born
                    into an Israelite family, in his Poem "La Tierra de
                    Córdoba" ["The Land of Córdoba"], extols Antioquian
                    women's beauty where he says:
                  
                    "... your daughters are
                        beautiful and pride of Israel."
                    
                  
                  Elijah and Moses
                    are, according to one key [of interpretation], the
                    Two Witnesses of the Apocalypse, the Two Lights on
                    both sides of the "Golden Candelabrum" of Seven
                    Branches or Menorah which, integrated into a whole,
                    form a Nine-Branched Candelabrum or Hanukiah, whose
                    Feast or Festival of Lights is celebrated by
                    tradition in Modeiin or Medeiin; and with a great
                    display of Lights in Villa de la Candelaria in
                    Medellín, in all Antioquia and the rest of Colombia.
                    
                    The name "Antioquia" was given to this department of
                    the Andes of Colombia in remembrance of "the
                    disciples" of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus the
                    Christ who began to be called Christians first at
                    Antioch of Syria.
                  From the Andes of
                    Colombia, the "Tikkun" or Restoration of the
                    spiritual part of Israel of the Andes begun and,
                    from there, a new "Tikkun" or "Restoration" of the
                    Spiritual Temple of the Holy One, Blessed Be, and of
                    the Holy Shekinah also begun through all that is
                    symbolized and represented by the Menorah or
                    Candelabrum of Seven Lights, with Two more Lamps on
                    both sides that represent the Two Witnesses, Elijah
                    and Moses, integrating to shape the Hanukiah, or
                    Candelabrum of nine lighted lamps, to enlighten with
                    the Light of Christ, the Son of Man who is in the
                    midst of the seven golden candelabra, the Occult
                    Wisdom (Gnosis) of the Holy Torah.
                    
                    In 1917, in the "Barrio Egipto [Egypt Quarter]" of
                    Santafé de Bogotá, Cundinamarca department, in
                    Colombia, the Human Person of our Venerable and
                    Beloved Master Samael Aun Weor's Bodhisattva, "The
                    Lion of the Tribe of Judah", the Warrior Priest King
                    Messiah announced in the Essene Texts found in the
                    caves surrounding Qumran, was born.
                  In 1926, in "El
                    Líbano", Tolima department, in Colombia, "colonized
                    by Antiochians", the Human Person of our Venerable
                    and Beloved Master Rabolú's Bodhisattva, the Ruler
                    King Messiah announced in the Essene Texts found in
                    the caves surrounding Qumran, was born.
                  
                  In 1951, in
                    Medellín, Antioquia department, in Colombia, the
                    Human Person of V.M. Thoth-Moisés' Bodhisattva, the
                    Prophet King Messiah announced in the Essene Texts
                    found in the caves surrounding Qumran, was born.
                  Then, Our
                    Venerable and Beloved Master Judas of Kerioth's
                    announcement in "The Flight of the Feathered
                      Serpent" is being in part fulfilled, where
                    He says:
                  
                    "And the Mayab
                      of the Andes be then the cradle of the new
                      civilization".
                  
                  Likewise, the
                    beginning of "The Hope of Israel", the Israel of the Andes, of Latin
                      America, of the spiritual part, is also
                    being fulfilled.
                  
                    "Only through the Great Arcanum
                      can we be saved and receive the name of the Father
                      on the forehead. The people of Zion are the people
                      of Israel (God's spiritual people). These
                            people are formed by all those who practice
                            sexual magic (people of chastity)."
                      (Venerable Master Samael Aun Weor's Teachings
                        in "The Message of Aquarius").
                    "Actually, here
                      Latin America, that is, the Andes, is called to
                      become the Cradle of Civilization, that is, of the
                      Spiritual part, it is called to accomplish a great
                      mission, as was accomplished by this..., in
                      Israel, over there, in Egypt... [*]" (Venerable
                        Master Rabolú's Teachings).
                    
                    [*] - "Ah!, yes,
                      Israel in Egypt, Moses and all of Them..."
                  
                   Shimon ben Yohai,
                    explaining Patriarch Jacob's prophecy in the Book of
                    Genesis, 49: 10 esoterically, says in The Zohar (we
                    place some explanations of ours in brackets):
                  
                    "... 'The
                      sceptre shall not depart from Judah nor the
                      ruler's staff from between his feet', 'the
                      sceptre' referring to the Messiah of the house of
                      Judah [the Warrior Priest King Messiah, 'the Lion
                      of the Tribe of Judah', Venerable Master Samael
                      Aun Weor, 'the Initiator Word of the New Age of
                      Aquarius'], and 'the staff' to the Messiah of the
                      house of Joseph [the Ruler King Messiah, the
                      Prophet Elijah Reincarnate, our Venerable Master
                      Rabolú]. 'Until Shiloh cometh': this is
                          Moses [the Prophet King Messiah, V.M.
                      Thoth-Moisés], the numerical value of the two
                      names Shiloh and Moses being the same." (The
                        Zohar).
                  
                   The study and
                    practice of the esoteric teachings contained in the
                    Zohar (studying them with "sharp eye" because there
                    are adulterations and interpolations that were
                    introduced throughout time) and in the light of
                    Venerable Master Samael Aun Weor's, Venerable Master
                    Rabolú's Gnostic teachings and V.M. Thoth-Moisés'
                    testimonies, contain the keys that allow us to
                    become "Sons of Israel" of the spiritual part, since
                    whoever incarnates Tiphereth,
                    who is the Son of Man, the Interior Inner Christ,
                    becomes an Israelite in his soul
                      and heart.
                  
                  Shimon ben Yohai,
                    situating his prophetic teachings in a future,
                    though fulfilled before (one of the forms of
                    prophetic interpretation that can also be found in
                    the Essene Texts from Qumran), referred to the
                    Supreme Messiah's arrival in those times:
                  
                    "... the Messiah
                      has revealed himself in the land of Galilee. And
                      all who are diligent in the study of the Torah
                      —and there shall be few such in the world— will
                      gather round him." (The Zohar).
                  
                   The previous
                    words, in an Interpretation, refer to our
                          Lord Jesus The Christ, the Supreme
                    Messiah who revealed Himself "in the land of
                      Galilee".
                    
                    In these end times, the eschatological "Galilee" is
                    Latin America, the lands from where the Three
                    Messiahs sent by the Supreme Messiah who is our Lord
                    Jesus The Christ, the Only-Begotten Son of the
                    Absolute Heavenly Father, our Father who is in
                    Heaven, sprouted.
                  We have finished
                    writing this Study with the Help of God on Friday,
                    Shabbat Eve, July 19 and on Shabbat Day, July 20,
                    2013.
                  - New revision and
                    expansion completed, with the Help of God, on
                    SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2015 -
                    We Love all Beings, all Humanity. 
                    Every Human Being is also Humanity.
                    "May all Beings be Happy!"
                    "May all Beings be Blessed!"
                    "May all Beings be at Peace!"
                  With all my Heart
                    for all Poor Suffering Humanity 
                    Luis Bernardo Palacio Acosta 
                    Bodhisattva of V.M. Thoth-Moisés
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