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Chapter 5-Jeremiah and the Persians  
     
1.
 Two of the greatest religious figures of Judaism are Jeremiah and Baruch.  
2.
 Unlike many of the people mentioned before them in the Old Testament, we know with certainty that they were real people having been released by the Babylonians and charged with some kind of official duties with some kind of time limit around the end of the 7th Century BCE.  
3.
 We also know that a number of other people were also handed to his charge, including a man by the name of Baruch son of Neriah who was the scribe to the prophet Jeremiah. Baruch's full name must have been Berekhyahu. He was the son of Hilkiah, a priest of Anathoth.  
4.
 What is not well known, nor clear from the Bible itself is that Jeremiah clearly lived under the reign of one of the wisest of ancient kings- Nebuchadnezzar. In fact, the Bible is positively schizophrenic in its dealings with the Persians.  
5.
 On the one hand they are despised as an evil race and cursed by the Jews, and yet on the other hand they fully funded the restoration of the temple and also seemed to have given great authority and funding to Jeremiah and later to the authority of Nehemiah and Ezra on some religious task to curb evil practices.  
6.
 Jeremiah’s writings are collected in the Book of Jeremiah and, according to tradition, the Book of Lamentations. Jeremiah is also famous as "the broken-hearted prophet" (who wrote or dictated a "broken book", which has been difficult for scholars to put into chronological order), whose heart-rending life, and true prophecies of dire warning went largely-unheeded by the people of Judah. God told Jeremiah, "You will go to them; but for their part, they will not listen to you".  
7.
 What is even less well understood is that three of the books of the Bible that we now call the Torah, or the five Books of Moses only really appear in reference to the time of Jeremiah.  
8.
 In fact it appears around the end of the 7th Century that he was sent on a mission with these books already produced!  
9.
 Now given the Pharisees are positively fanatical about claiming the antiquity of the Bible and the authenticity of the stories as being historical fact, it makes sense why they claimed, as their descendents, the Rabbinical Jews do today that they are the oldest sect and the Sadducees were younger.  
10.
 For if Jeremiah and Baruch are the architects of the Five Books of Moses and not Moses. Indeed, if these books are more a set of parables designed to curb evil behaviour and less about historical fact, then the claims by the Pharisees and even by the Paul of Tarsas who founded Christianity are terrible lies.  
11.
 The Pharisees, from which the Rabbinical school and modern Judaism sprung has spent two millennia painting the Pharisees as the oldest of the classic three sects (Essenes, Sadducees and Pharisees).  
12.
 To protect their scholars and the sacred texts they constructed around 610 BCE to 410 BCE, they are at pains to depict the Pharisee movement as the oldest of the three, therefore rendering any clear understanding of the motives and/or historic fact of Sadducean and Essene criticisms of Pharisees as having any validity.  
13.
 The truth is the opposite. The Pharisees are by far the youngest of the three sects, but the most zealous in safeguarding its history, even at the expense of constant re-writing of history and elimination of contrary evidence.  
14.
 Why then did Jeremiah and the Persian King feel it necessary to create a new religion based on the historic stories of the Israelites from Ugarit and Ebla combined with Zoroastrianism? What terrible secret has been hidden from history from all these years? What happened to Jeremiah and Baruch?  
15.
 There are two stories- one fable like that is considered largely myth and one which includes historical artefacts still viewable today and with an actual tomb of Jeremiah.  
16.
 The first, the myth says that upon the execution of all the ancient royal family (excluding those that magically escaped under "Ishmael", the Jews stoned Jeremiah to death.  
17.
 The other, a rich and detailed set of accounts state that upon seeing the barabarity of the Persians in systematically executing the Royal family and nobles did "take" a royal princess away from the Persian guards and spirit her to the ancestral home of ancient Kings in Ireland.  
18.
 Prophet Jeremiah along with Princess Tamar, Baruch (the editor of the first Old Testament), boarded a ship belonging to the Iberian Danaan at the Port of Baal-Boaz (now Bilboa), along with a massive, strongly-secured and mysterious Chest or Case, which they regarded with the utmost reverence and guarded with jealous care, a Golden-colored Flag or Banner, having blazoned upon it the device of the Red Lion of Jerusalem, and a large rough Stone.  
19.
 In or about the year 593-592 B.C. (some four years after the Destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar), they arrived at the Port in the North-East of Ireland, now known as Carrickfergus.  
20.
 At the time Eochaid Heremon ("Heremon," or Head King of Ireland), son of Ailill Finn, from the line of Firbolgs and therefore the Ui Cualann of the South, the Holy Ones and traditional divine kings of Ireland, was a legendary High King of Ireland. He became king when his father was killed by Airgeatmhar and his ally, Duach Ladhgrach.  
21.
 Jeremiah presented the last of the bloodline of the Kings of Judah in the form of Princess Tamar including the Stone of Destiny, the stone upon which all the kings of Jerusalem had been anointed, the Ark of Akhenaten (Moses), the royal harp of Kings and their dynastic symbol as well as the royal colours of the ancient Jerusalem lion.  
22.
 To King Eochaid of the Ui Cualann, the gifts themselves, let alone the gift of yet another royal bloodline was a momentous and historic event. However, the Prophet Jeremiah did not release them until the King swore to rid Ireland of the ancestral practices taken from the time of the Ugarit exiles of worship to Baal (Satan), of human sacrifice, cannibalism and the worship of blood.  
23.
 King Eochaid agreed in a historic act and renamed the capital Ath Cliath i Cualu to Tara “Torah” which means Hill of Law.  
24.
 Furthermore he instituted a more regular form of government, promulgated just laws and statutes fixed and regulated the feasts according to Prophet Jeremiah’s instructions, and founded schools; thus laying the foundations of that collegiate and advanced educational system known to have existed in Ireland long into the Christian era.  
25.
 The rough, square Stone, brought with the Princess, also played an important part in the marriage ceremony, for the royal couple of King Eochaid and Princess Tamar were united before this "Stone of Destiny" as a silent witness of their solemn union; and they were subsequently crowned upon it.  
26.
 The impact of Jeremiah in uniting Ireland was never forgotten and upon his death he was venerated as Irelands first “saint” buried on Devenish Island, the "Holy Isle" in the Lower Lough Erne, two miles from Enniskillen upon which no private house was ever permitted, then or since. You can still see the ruins of an ancient Priory and a still older Abbey - in the latter of which the sarcophagus of Jeremiah the Prophet may still be seen.  
     
 
 
 

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