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Another tablet was discovered in the same place with The Mighty Shem -- Custodian of the
an Iberian Punic script revealing that the chamber was Oracles of God
dedicated to the Phoenician god "Baal." Fell concludes
that the Celtic sun god "Bel" is the same as the Phoeni-
cian god "Baal" and dozens of other inscriptions dis- Most Christians have not the remotest idea of the tre-
covered made it clear that these Celts had built the mendous importance in God's scheme of things, of the
New England megalithic chambers and that Phoenician majestic, shadowy figure from the far-distant past of
mariners were welcome visitors, permitted to worship our Celto-Saxon race. In brief, it was with Shem that
at the Celtic sanctuaries and allowed to make dedica- the Almighty Father recommenced His declared pur-
tions in their own language. Again, we see evidence of pose of bringing His children, ultimately, to the per-
a close association between Celts and Phoenicians in fection of His Kingdom on earth.
North America.
To Shem and his line God entrusted the responsibility
In his book, Barry Fell refers to the Ogam alphabet in for preserving the original revelation of Himself and
the Book of Leinster, compiled by a Bishop who died of His purposes which He had first conferred on the
in 1160 A.D. which is housed in the library of the Uni- erring Adam. The other sons of Noah -- Ham and
versity of Dublin. He points out that the vowels were Japheth -- were not chosen for this tremendous serv-
written as mere dots in the "Semitic manner." He also ice. From Shem were to proceed God's friend, Abra-
refers to the Book of Lecan which dates from 1416. ham, the Hebrew peoples, the nation Israel and, above
This includes a grammatical treatise attributed to all, Jesus Christ, king of Israel under his Father in the
Cennfaclad the Learned who died in 677 A.D., who ob- new age to come.
tained his material from the writings of Druids who
lived before the Christian era. The variety of Ogam is Until the time of Israel's emergence as a nation, it fell
the same as found in the Book of Leinster. Then there to the line of Shem to propagate and preserve the reve-
is the Book of Ballymote which dates from 1370, lation and the primeval worship first revealed to Adam
which contains an ancient Egyptian alphabet unknown and kept alive by the Godly Noah. The Shemites exer-
until modern students rediscovered it in their excava- cised great control and influence in the lands allotted
tions in the Egyptian desert. to them -- Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia -- call
them what we will. Even in Egypt, control of which
Another North American lapidary inscription, lacking was assigned to Ham, Shemite power and influence be-
vowels and coeval with Phoenician inscriptions, is the came apparent at certain periods. This pioneering race
same as an unknown Ogam alphabet in the Book of spread to the ends of the earth.
Ballymote and shows it to be a bronze age predecessor
of the Irish Ogam. The inscription which reads from God did not leave Himself "without wit-
right to left states: "Ships from Phoenicia, Cargo plat- ness" in the world
form." The word used for ships is the Norse word
"longbata." With many other Norse words and personal Thus, it must not for a moment be supposed that God
names found on Celtiberian steles it shows that Norse- had left Himself without witness in the world. He had
men were associating with Celts long before the Vi- created, during the period between the Flood and the
king Age. call of Abraham. Proof of this is seen in the facets of
the original Revealed Faith that seeped down and sur-
Barry Fell has also studied the languages of North vived throughout the centuries which elapsed. In the
American Indians and gives many examples of Celtic, garbled versions which showed themselves in the an-
Egyptian, Libyan and Phoenician words which they cient religions of Babylonia and Egypt there remained
contain. a strong residue of the original revelation. Though the
lines of Japheth and Ham -- particularly the strain of
These are only a few interesting items from a book the accursed Canaan -- had corrupted and contaminated
which deserves intense and prolonged study. It cannot the Faith revealed, the line of Shem continued to hold
fail to interest students of the multiplying evidence of a strong remnant which remained steadfast to the Truth
the origin of the English-speaking and kindred peoples. and kept open the line of communication between man
and his Maker. The leaders of this Godly line are
-- W. F. Finlayson. named in the genealogies in the first chapter of the
first Book of Chronicles: Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,
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