Moorish Paradigm: Book 12

“The Journal of the Moorish Paradigm, Book 12” by Hakim Bey deepens his series’ historical and metaphysical analysis, continuing The Bible Deception theme by arguing that much of Judeo-Christian history was rewritten during the Babylonian captivity by Ezra and his school. The book combines archaeological citations and Moorish scholarship to challenge the idea of ancient Israel’s uniqueness, asserting that Israelites were culturally and racially continuous with the Canaanites and that biblical monotheism emerged only later under King Josiah’s political reforms. Midway, it shifts into metaphysical science, exploring the pineal gland and DMT as biological gateways to spiritual dimensions and ancestral memory, linking these phenomena to African and Moorish esoteric traditions. The final chapters profile Paschal Beverly Randolph, the 19th-century Moorish Rosicrucian master, portraying him as the hidden father of modern occultism and the New Age movement, before closing with reflections on paradigms, tolerance, and the evolution of collective consciousness.