Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-07-31
HRoCHR0NICLE.
FATHER BAAL.


That the primary religion of the
race was monotheistic it would seem
there could be no doubt, since all re-
ligions which have had any history
go back to one original uncreated and
controlling cause. The prolegomena
to the special history of the children
OF Eber, which is contained in the
first eleven chapters of the Book of
Genesis, or all that precedes the COM
ing of Abram into Palestine, belongs
to the general history of the race. It
is the account handed down to us
through the Hebrews, of an original
religion, forming the background of
traditions of every primitive people
The original monOtheistie God of
the Semites and Hamltes was EI, wor-
SHIPPED as "Ab Ell 1t is easy to see
how out of this the appellative Bel
or Baal, would arise in the worship
of the sun as the father of physical
life. The name Ell early became to
the nature worshiPpers Bel or Baal.
Tr=eSs of the very earley rise of BAIL
ism are probably found in the fourth
chapter of Genesis where the term
FL, a constituent of names in other
families, suddenly changes to Bel or
Baalin the line ofthe Cainite Lamech,
in the names Jubal, Tubal, etc. The
sister Of Tubal-Cain is spoken of as
Naamah, "the lovely" which name
appears in the line of the Baalaths
from earliest antiquity. The goddess
Ashtaroth of Tyre, the original of the
-Grecian Venus, was Ashtaroth Naa-
nah, 1.-The lovely star" and the flow
er named after her nemdnln, Zane
none was ~consecrated 10 Adonis.
The original Ell worship seems to
have been like the church in the
wilderness at the period of the COM
ing of Abram into Palestine. BAIL
ism then reigned supreme, not only
throughout the great empire of Chal-
dea on the lower Euphrates, from
which he came, and that of Egypt on
the Nile, but it had possession of the
whole of Arabia and of the land of
nov held by the Canaanites,
bringing with them their form of
Baalism from the shores of the Per-
sian Gulf. The Ell worshippers were
at this time a scattered band, repre-
by Abram himself in lower
Chaldea, an Ell worshipper in a Baal-
st family. In the land of Uz, on the
borders of Sabea, dwelt Job, amid
group Of FL worshippers,
who pleads that when he beheld the
in his glory and the moon walk
in brightness, he had not kissed
his hand, and so denied the Ell who
s above. Melchisedek, in the land
# Canaan, was also an old monothe-
site, a high priest of FL, officiating
n that capacity probably, according
o the patriarchal custom, TO a limit
d humber of Ell worshippers, REM
of the primitive Semitic inhab-
of that part ofSyria, or decend-
nts of Shem, before the arrival there
f the Hamitic Canaanites, or del
eendants Of Ham.
When the Israelites, under Joshua,
anne into the land of Canaan, the
Torship of El, the one most high 4
iod, had been fairly extinguished,
be sun, as lord ofnature. being every
here wOrshipped as the great Baal, !
nl each particular lOcalityOr separate Q
lanifesfatiOn of nature-fOrce hav- I
IL is own Baal will. It's special sym :
DIS. The Mosaic ritual, instituted 4
nder the external pressure OF Baal- =
NJ, had for its object the restoration
The worship of Ell, represented by
pe personal and local Jehovah, A
hrmed to be higher than all the I
aals, and destined to become univeT- :
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