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According to certain Jewish mystics, Moses ascended Mount Sinai three times, remaining in the presence of God forty days each time. During the first forty days the tables of the written law were delivered to the prophet; during the second forty days he received the soul of the law; and during the last forty days God instructed him in the mysteries of the Qabbalah, the soul of the soul of the law. Moses concealed in the first four books of the Pentateuch the secret instructions that God had given him, and for centuries students of Qabbalism. have sought therein the secret doctrine of Israel. As the spiritual nature of man is concealed in his physical body, so the unwritten law--the Mishna and the Qabbalah--is concealed within the written teachings of the Mosaic code. Qabbalah means the secret or hidden tradition, the unwritten law, and according to an early Rabbi, it was delivered to man in order that through the aid of its abstruse principles he might learn to understand the mystery of both the universe about him and the universe within him.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

If Moses climbed Mount Sinai to meet the resident god, then the god he met would have been the moon god Sin, who had been enthroned on that mountain since the rise of Sumeria, and gave his name to it. In fact, Sin gave his name to the whole Sinai peninsula, formerly "the Land of Sinim" (Isaiah 49:12), or the land of the lunar mountain. The original Yahweh was only another form of this "primitive lunar deity of Arabia." Sin became part of the Babylonian trinity along with Shamash the sun and Ishtar the star.

— Jordan Maxwell; Moses The Law Giver view

Sinai, though pointed out to travellers in the Holy Land as a single peak in the drear desert, is no mountain of earth; but the mountain of the gods, the mysterious hill to the clouded summit of which the wisest of mystics have lifted their eyes. It is the mountain of illumination, the high place of realization. The mountain is symbolical of a state of consciousness, the highest degree of final consciousness to which man can ascend.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

At this stage, the location is called Mount Sinai (Exodus 19:11), whereas it was hitherto called Mount Horeb (Exodus 3:1, 17:6)...until the fourth century AD there was no Mount Sinai as such...and the southern peak commonly known as Mount Sinai was given its name by Greek Christian monks 1700 years after the time of Moses. This mountain...was not the sacred Mount Horeb of the Bible, for Horeb was the peak now called Mount Serabit.

— Laurence Gardner; Genesis of the Grail Kings view