Deuteronomy 18:9-11: ""When you enter the land which the LORD your God gives you, you shall not learn to imitate the detestable things of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead." So how do we know child sacrifice is symbolic in Judaism but literal in Canaanite theology? The brazen bull, presented as a gift to Phalaris of Akragas, Sicily from Perillos of Athens. The brazen bull (NSFL), for those unawares, is a torture device designed to roast the unfortunate child sacrifice alive - their screams drowned out by either sacrificial drum-beating, or depending on the sophistication of the actual bull, a series of pipes designed to alter the screams into the bellows of a bull. The practice of burning children in Topheth was ended by Josiah, King of Judah, who “defiled Topheth” as part of his great religious reforms. Akragas also had Carthaginian roots, which will be discussed more under "Bal:" due to the reverence of Carthaginian deity Baal-Haamon. In Judaism, however, the concept became metaphorical, elucidated by the story of Abraham and the attempted sacrifice of his son Isaac on the orders of Yahweh, wherein a request for a sacrifice became a religious test of a subject's free will. In the dating of the origins of Freemasonry, rituals commonly hold that the secret society spiritually owes its existence initially as a continuance of Judaic beliefs – gone underground due to the rise in Roman anti-Zionism (started in the 6th Century BC). In fact, Judaism as a religion goes back to the 1st millennium BC, under the Kingdom of Israel/Judah! However, while there was an eventual endorsement of Christianity (The Edict of Milan) by Constantine I in the 3rd century AD, the Church became oppressive after the fall of the Roman Empire – leading to the Dark Ages, a time when all academic thought counter to the Church was stifled. Indeed, including the later appropriation of Ba’al (or its Medieval resurrection in that case), the earliest Masonic text dates to 1425 (under the Halliwell Manuscript/Regius Poem, the earliest of the Old Charges), and describes events occurring in the early 9th century AD, just before the rise of the Italian Renaissance. At this point, Freemasonry has become a Judeo-Christian stronghold against the religious oppression, carrying the morals for both religions. Bal: The “Bal” in “Jahbalon” refers to “Baal” – the Caananite God of the Phoenicians, its status akin to the Judeo-Christian “Yahweh”. It is arguably the flipside to the coin regarding “Jah”, one where child sacrifices are considered literal in order to successfully pass from the world of the living to the world of the dead. I think it is important to note a distinction regarding Old and New Age Occultism. Old Age Occultism refers to the ancient worship of Baal-Haamon, and Moloch. New Age Occultism refers to the co-opting of Old Age Occultism in a effort to make sense of the ancient cultural rites before any proper methodology for dissemination was discovered. A great example of this is the existence of Sargon of Akkad. Current theological discussion posits that Sargon of Akkad is the original owner of the "baby-sent-through-the-reeds-by-the-high-priestess-mother-in-a-basket" story, the same that appears of Moses's origin story. However, Sargon of Akkad's documented upbringing is New Age Occultism, as the documents that "discovered" the story were found in 1850, and dated to the 7 - 8th century BC. However, the story of Moses originates in the Book of Exodus, dated to the 5 - 6th century BC, and founded in the 400 BC at the latest, and 800 BC at the earliest. Making the Sargon of Akkad story nothing more than revisionist history. The earliest mention of a “Jewish” homeland indeed comes with the Kingdom of Israel, in the 10th Century BC, until it was conquered in 720 BC in the neo-Assyrian Period. Jews were expelled to Babylonian captivity in Egypt, and the first Temple of Solomon was destroyed. Later, in 597 BC, Nebuchadnezzar II of the neo-Babylonian Empire (previously of the Assyrian Empire) invades Judah (which remained a separate city despite the original takeover), and conquers Jerusalem. Within the neo-Babylonian Empire, there is equal worship towards both Baal and Yahweh. However, worship of Baal is also established outside the Old Testament with the historical record supporting the existence of the marriage of King Ahab to the daughter of the ruler of the Phoenician empire, Jezebel. Their union being a sign of the power and prestige of Ahab and the northern Kingdom of Israel, Jezebel (in)famously convinced her husband to abandon worship in Yahweh and convert to the altar of Baal. Onwards, in 539 BC, the Achaemenid Assyrian empire conquers the neo-Babylonian Empire, and in an effort to assert himself as the rightful ruler over the resulting empire, Cyrus the Great not only allows Jews to return from Babylonian exile, but to bring their gods along with them. This enabled Cyrus (the Achaemenid Persian "king of Anshan" in Elam) to assert himself as the avenger of Marduk, the primary Babylonian God, and act as official oversight to both Yahweh, the primary Jewish god, and Ba’al, the primary Caananite God. Interestingly, this is the spiritual birthplace of Jewish mysticism's Kabbalah movement, as some Jews during the Babylonian exile began to blend Old Testament beliefs with Babylonian myths and mysticism! Their version of the Tree of Life, or the 10 Sephirot, is heavily featured in Kim Noble's artwork that adorns the walls of Comet Ping Pong! While Baal may have started out as an innocuous deity worshipped by an ancient civilization, in the 18th century AD it took on a new status by Christians illiterate to the ways of the Old Testament – that of demon-worship, or the occult, within sectarian Christianity, as the lord of the underworld, the prince of Hell. In the New Testament, Baal is referred to as Satan. While it initially was described as a man or a bull, the 18th century co-opt was later described it as both - the man referring to Ba’al Haamon, King of the Gods from the Pheonician colony of Carthage; the bull referring to Moloch and the signifying act of child sacrifice as a means of fertility within their culture. When societies conquer each other, their idols become conflated. This is due to the transmission of cultural ideals between regimes. Therefore, due to the conflation of two separate deities, as they are now referred to by the flipside of the freemasonry, Baal is Moloch, and Moloch is Baal! This is what the Globalists believe. When the DNC staffers profess adulation for Moloch, they literally mean Ba’al. When Hitler expresses a love for the occult, it's because he believes it's real. When Wikileaks is warning us of Marina Abramović's spirit cooking, it's because she literally believes in it. “With fingers crossed, the o  76e6  ld rabbit's foot out of the box in the attic, I will be sacrificing a chicken in the backyard to Moloch...” As an evidentiary side-note, Sex slave victim Cathy O’Brien literally had the face of “Baal” carved into her vagina – NSFL to appease Robert Byrd – who referred to her as “his little witch”. And as /u/Beneficial1 writes: