FURTHER REVELATION ON SACRED SECRET
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prophet Ezekiel gives us a peek into the desecrated temple and says : "Behold, there sat the women weeping for Tammuz ." (Ezekiel 8 :14, AS) Yearly, wailing was made for Tammuz the same as for the Grecian god Bacchus, whose name means the "Bewept One" and who is another figure for Nimrod. His death was looked on as a calamity, an injustice, and Noah or the persons responsible were considered wicked representatives of the Serpent ; they were the seed of the Serpent . .'Take note, now, of the deifying of the false seed and his mother . Nimrod's mother was named Semiramis. In Chaldean this name is "Z'emir-amit", and is made up from Ze, meaning "the" or "that", and emir, meaning "b r a n c h", and amit, COIN SHOWING THE BRANCH BEARER meaning "bearer" . So, when its parts are put together, the name means "The Branch Bearer" . At the time that the flood waters subsided, the bird which Noah sent out from the ark and which returned bearing an olive branch was the dove . So the name Semiramis was applied to a wild pigeon . Nimrod's mother, who was said to have been turned into a pigeon,* was given the name in a mystical sense . She was held to be the mother of that human branch who is the woman's seed, the crusher of * "Semiramis in columbam," Ovid's Metamorphoses IV. 3. What was the mystical meaning of the name of Nimrod's mother, and what was the intent of it?