Asherah: The Queen of Heaven

by Baal Kadmon

Asherah has always enchanted me. I recall when I was young and learning the Jewish faith that much of my Sephardic father’s family followed, I remember reading verses from the bible; more specifically, the Old Testament that would mention her name. It was one of the very first times I encountered the actual names of other Gods in the Old Testament. Instead of being repelled by her, I was drawn to know more about her. I discovered that she was at least as important as the other Canaanite Gods Baal and El. She is, of course, far more than just a Canaanite Goddess. Canaanite religion has always been interesting to me because it seemed so elusive and dark. The fact that it was in direct opposition to the Hebrew faith gave me a wee bit of satisfaction at the time. What can I say? Sacrilege and Blasphemy started early for me. In the bible, we find that the Israelites had many enemies. The two that appear most prominently in the Bible are the Egyptians and the Babylonians. However, I would like to counter that claim. Yes, the Hebrews were enslaved by the Egyptians, at least according to the bible, and yes, the Babylonians sent the Israelites into a cruel exile which left lasting impressions we still see in modern Judaism to this day. However, the biggest enemy, in my estimation were the Canaanites. I say this for two reasons. Archeologically speaking, it appears that perhaps many Israelites themselves were breakaway Canaanites, so it was in their blood so to speak. This is a popular view amongst those who ascribe to the biblical minimalist school of thought. I personally have one foot in biblical Minimalism myself. Although that certainly makes sense to me, it is still not 100% proven. Archeology is still very much on top of this issue. I could go on and on about this, but this is not the book for that. By far the greatest threat to the Israelites was the Canaanite religion and its ever-present theological threat. As much as the Israelites tried to resist, the Canaanite religion would either seep into the Hebrew faith in covert ways OR they were tempted to worship Canaanite gods outright. Israelites backslide time and time again to the religion of the Canaanites. Even when they emerged from it, Canaanite ideas were well transcribed into the DNA of Israelite religion. This is where Asherah comes in. Notice I do not call it Judaism; Judaism emerges from the Hebrew/Israelite faith but cannot really be called Judaism proper until much later. Israelite faith and later, by extension, Judaism, at least ON THE SURFACE, does not have a divine feminine within its theological practices and beliefs. However, upon closer examination, we find that they couldn't suppress the divine feminine completely. It was Asherah who emerged as consort to the Hebrew God. This is, of course, quite scandalous, yet, some interesting evidence is present to suggest this. A few books exist on Asherah so I am going to jump in and add my two cents. I found the others to be rather complex. I will do my best to deconstruct it all in this book, but for the sake of brevity I can’t go to deep. Like all my books, I will cover the texts and history. I have many old notes that I will clean up and present here. We will discuss Asherah’s wide-ranging presence from Akkadian sources all the way through Arabian ones and a few more. We will start with the Old Testament sources first since that is essentially what put her on the map of Intellectual history so to speak. We will also learn more about ways to call upon her and tap into her ancient power. She is, after all, the divine consort of God, the Queen of the Heaven. We wil preform the following 1. We will call upon her to vanquish our enemies. 2. We will Use Her to Attain Love. 3.

58 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 30, 2017

About the author

Baal Kadmon is an Author, and Occultist based out of New York City. In addition to the Occult, he is a Religious Scholar, Philosopher and a Historian specializing in Ancient History, Late Antiquity and Medieval History. He has studied and speaks Israeli Hebrew · Classical Hebrew · Ugaritic language · Arabic · Judeo-Aramaic · Syriac (language) · Ancient Greek and Classical Latin.

Baal first discovered his occult calling when he was very young. It was only in his teens, when on a trip to the Middle East that he heeded the call. Several teachers and many decades later he felt ready to share what he has learned.

His teachings are unconventional to say the least. He includes in-depth history in almost all the books he writes, in addition to rituals. He shatters the beloved and idolatrously held notions most occultists hold dear. His pared-down approach to magick is refreshing and is very much needed in a field that is mired by self-important magicians who place more importance on pomp and circumstance rather than on magick. What you learn from Baal is straight forward, with no frills. Magick is about bringing about change or a desired result; Magick is a natural birthright…There is no need to complicate it.

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Reviews

[Steve Cran · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book, I mean I really love it. The book gives a reader a good broad historical over of witch’s spirit flight and the witches sabbath. The book also teachers techniques on how to achieve spirit flight. When the inquisition began in like the 13 century there was hardly any mention of the spirit flight or witches sabbath. Then a couple of centuries later the inquisition record are filled with stories of the witches flight and the witch’s sabbath. Yet how accurate are these records. The accused suspect were mostly women who were old poor widows with no one to defend them. Their stories were given under conditions of extreme torture. The inquisitors also asked leading questions. While most were innocent, they told these outlandish stories to escape from being tortured, burned and killed. If these accounts are so inaccurate, then why do modern witches invest so much time studying them.
There could be some facts to this. To appease their tormentor, the victims may have pulled some folklore from their memories in order to concoct these tales. What the Catholic church said about these witches was abominable. Witches were accused to blighting crops, causing sickness, poisoning wells, eating unbaptized babies, and engaging in orgiastic behavior. These accusations were nothing new. In fact, the Romans used to say the same thing about the Christians. Later when Christianity became the dominant religion of Europe and Catholicism was the main faction the church would turn it’s attention to heretical sects of Christianity. The first to go were the Cathars and then next the Waldensian. The same charges were leveled against them. Later on lepers would be targeted.
Spirit flight has some basis in reality or mythology I should say. There was the spirit flight of the Dame Holda or Herodia or Diana, where in their parade of women would fly through the sky. They would fly to a sabbath or festival or they would raid someone’s house and if food was left for them, they were blessed if not their wine would be turned to vinegar. Then there was the wild hunt usually led by Odin, Herne or Gabriel. They would fly though the sky picking up anyone who was unlucky to be out. Then there were the strix owls. Some thought they were witches but none the less these owls took flight entered people’s houses and stole their children. Then they would boil the children in a cauldron and eat them.
Obviously, spirit flight is not a physical thing rather a mental thing. Some experts back in the day believed that the spirit left the body in order to join the festivities. Other experts thought it was a delusion. The methods for arriving at the sabbath included applying a flying ointment on oneself or on a broom and that would transport the witch. Sometimes they would ride a goat or transform a person to an animal and use them instead.
The Sabbath could take place in a variety of locations. Sabbaths could be held in churches, open fields, in houses , out in nature. The traveling witch would not only find other witches but they would find the Deevil himself leading the festivities with the sabbath queen sitting quietly by his side. One could also
find, demons, fairies, ancestors and witches long since deceased their.

[James Crawford · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are people who believe in a God and, of those, there are at least a few that believe that God, the male aspect, had a wife, the female aspect. Humans, created in the image of God, have two sexes so why not whoever/whatever created them also having two sexes?

Asherah is a goddess that some people believe was the wife of God. Belief in a female companion to God goes back a long, long time in human history and this female companion has been known by a variety of names, Asherah being one of them.

She is mentioned 40 times in the Bible which implies that whoever she was she existed (otherwise why mention her 40 times?). The name is also a reference to poles that, themselves, were mentioned in the Bible.

There is even an inscription which goes something like a person being blessed in the name of Yahweh and his Asherah. This implies that Asherah existed although it does not whether that name applies to a being or a pole.

Some of the various things this book talks about include:

Biblical minimialism.
How the concept of a Mother goddess was gradually elminated.
Various other names for Asherah and various related goddesses.
This include goddesses in Syria, Egypt, Arabia and other places.
The concept of sacred sexuality.
Rituals involved with Asherah.

Then the book goes into some rituals and here is where I have a major problem for the first one is about how to deal with your enemies. Something needs to be understood here and that is the use of dark energy. Rituals fueled by hate and bent on destruction have a very strong tendency to come back to haunt the caster.

Any type of ritual which tries for destruction or negative control of another person is something that should not be done. Period. Wicca, for example, has a couple of things related to this. 'An ye harm none, do what ye will.' Also, there's the 3-fold principal that what you do to others will come back to you in three-fold strength, good or bad depending on the aim of the ritual. I really don't think this shoud have been added to the book because otherwise it's a well-done book.

[R.John Edwine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyable and useful to the "max"

A most pleasant and non tedious read. I enjoyed this book greatly from beginning to end. Although the rituals are easy to do ,I'm wondering if not using the statue will be OK as well. Don't let the mention of a statue put you off , its a miniature manageable sized statue available on amazon .com. If ordering from amazon is a problem because of ones means and geographical location,then you can make your own or get one made for you ,after a brief study of her images on the internet. Great book all the way through. P.s./ a picture of her image will do as well.

[Brett Folkman · Rating 1 out of 5]

I've been reading several real books on the topic and saw this on Amazon, so bought it. It doesn't have page numbers, so I think there are 28 pages of text, double spaced, it's really more of a pamphlet than a book. You can pretty much just read the Wikipedia page on Asherah and you'll know what's in this small pamphlet. Very disappointed.

[Ozifer Eris]

Loved it. I especially loved when the author would get Biblical, showing verses and cultural context for Asherah in the bible and in bring up the history of those times and areas.

[Megan Gurney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eye opening and very informative.

This book was very informative. For anyone seeking guidance or just historical knowledge it was very well researched. I would recommend it.

[Bonnie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Just wish there was more information available on her. The book was very informative. Gave me a lot of information to research on my own.