On the origins of Christianity, Boethus and the bright light

Jesus’ parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus has often been interpreted as talking of Sadducees. Caiaphas is the Rich Man, who is rich and has the purple robes of the High Priest. He was the son of the High Priest Ananus ben Ananus, and he had five brothers, who also become High Priests. In the parable Abraham tells the Rich Man that his brothers would not believe even if Lazarus would raise from death, which suggests that Caiaphas and, the still very influential Ananus, were involved in the plot to have Lazarus killed that John mentions. This Lazarus may be the High Priest Eleazar ben Boethus (High Priest 4-3 BC). The Boethus family was resurrected in a figurative sense: during Herod Agrippa I’s reign two members of this family served as High Priests, Simon Cantheras, son of Boethus (41-43 AD) and Elioneus, son of Simon Cantheras (43-44 AD). The House of Ananus and the House of Boethus competed of the High Priest position. Herod Agrippa I had ended up in great debts before being appointed as a king by Caligula. When he was made the king of Judea by Claudius in 41 AD, he immediately appointed a High Priest from the House of Boethus.

            It has been suggested that Lazarus of Bethany was Eleazar ben Boethus. Eleazar’s father was Simon Boethus, whom Herod the Great appointed as the High Priest, though earlier he was not a high ranking person. Eleazar had the sister Mariamne, daughter of Boethus, the third wife of Herod the Great, know as Mariamne II. In some Gnostic texts Maria Madgalena is called Mariamne. Magdalena, Migdal, means a tower. It may refer to a village in Galilee, but it may just as well refer to the tower of Mariamne, which Herod the Great built in honor of his Hasmonean wife Mariamne I, but which probably could also be associated with Mariamne II as also she was the queen for some time. The village was in Galilee, while the family of Lazarus, Maria and Martha lived in Bethany, close to Jerusalem. If Maria of Bethany was Maria Magdalena, then Magdalena most probably refers to the tower in the palace of Herod, and therefore Maria Magdalena was Mariamne II. Maria of Bethany poured oil on Jesus, which would be something that a daughter of a High Priest and a former queen could do, not a deed of a commoner. Maria Magdalena supported Jesus economically, so she was rich.

            Additionally, history knows of Martha, daughter of Boethus, the richest woman in Jerusalem in the time of the war 66-73 AD. Martha most probably was not a sister of Eleazar, but in a symbolic way they make a family of Boethus. Martha bought the High Priest position to her husband Joshua ben Gamla (High Priest 64 AD).

            From  Simon Cantheras and his son Elioneus we see that Herod Agrippa I has some connection to the Boethus family. The Boethus family has a connection with the sect of Boethusians. According to Pharisees this sect did not believe in afterlife and resurrection in the natural sense, which would make them candidates for faking a resurrection for political goals. However, they may have believed in afterlife and resurrection in some different sense.

            What Boethusians are said to have believed is that a human should not expect a reward from what he does in this life. He should follow God’s will without expecting to be paid for it. Some scholars have identified Boethusians with Essenes and the Dead Sea Sect, as the leaders of the Dead Sea Sect were Zadok priests and the doctrine in the sectarian writings resembles Boethusian teachings in Talmud. This identification seems to me very possible. Jesus’ disciples resemble Essenes in Josephus, though the tone of Dead Sea sectarian texts clearly differs from the tone in the New Testament. This difference may be more illusionary than real. If Jesus was the prophet Messiah of Essenes, he had the right to change the doctrine. Thus, the Dead Sea sectarian texts forbid lifting during the Sabbath an animal, which has fallen to a well, while Jesus accepts it. Overcoming the difference in tone, the teaching of Jesus are not unlike these sectarian doctrines.

            Then there is the question of afterlife and resurrection. Boethusian rejection of these concepts seems to be in conflict with Jesus’ words, but this may not be so. The conflict may be mainly in Paul’s interpretation of Jesus’ words.

            The Pharisee understanding is that each human has the body and the soul, and depending on how we live our soul may go to the Heaven or to the Hell. Yet, several places in the New Testament support predestination: some are children of light, who are called, while others are children of darkness, who are not called. Thus, a person does not have a free will to be good or bad. There is also a question if the deeds done in a finite time on the earth should result into an eternal punishment – the punishment should correspond to the crime. And there also is a problem with judgment and mercy. A major evildoer has caused much more suffering than someone with very minor sins, but if both are saved by mercy, how is fair judgment delivered?

            There is a simple solution to this dilemma. We should assume that there is a soul, as the material world cannot produce consciousness or free will. The soul existed before the body was born, and formed an association with the body at some point, maybe when the brain was developed enough. Yet, this soul can be a copy of the original soul. The soul we have dies with the body and whatever deeds we do in the life, the judgment is the same: a person dies, both his body and his soul. But the original soul, which is identical to the soul, and in fact the same soul, does not die. It is not responsible for any deeds of the person, as those deeds were done by the copy of the soul. This original soul has done no sin and needs no punishment. In this case, both major sinners and minor sinners get the same judgment: the punishment of sin is always death, but both also get the maximal reward: both souls are given mercy and no judgment is delivered to them, but it is to the souls that have not sinned. We can make this model even easier by assuming that there is only one original soul: it is the same soul to all people and to all animals, which have consciousness, like mammals, birds and so on. Some animals, like bacteria, probably do not have consciousness and are only material.

            We can add to the model the possibility of a connection between the original soul (which we now assume there is only one) and the copy soul. As this connection is not physical, we will assume it is what Jesus calls love. It is a kind of spiritual connection. If a person has love to God, to the original soul, he has in fact two souls in his body: the original one through the connection of love, and the copy soul through some other connection. He should make these two into one. He should lose the copy soul in order to gain his original soul, because only that lives forever. Jesus comes to this model as a person, who managed to unify the two souls. Thus, the only way to eternal life is the way Jesus did it, and the soul a person should love, is the soul of Jesus, as Jesus managed to unify his soul with the original soul. In this way, the soul of Jesus is love, way and life. It follows that the original soul is like the soul of a small child, it knows nothing of this world, so we should become like small children. Jesus, the original soul, is the tree and we are the leaves, ort the original soul is the seed that grows into a huge tree, or leaven that ferment the dough.

            `What then is the purpose of life? Why are souls confined to a body? Paul writes that he would prefer to go to heaven instead of staying in this body. The Pharisee explanation is that life is something like a test fro us: some are found good and go to heaven, some are found bad and go to hell. Why should God make such a test, where most humans fail in any case? But this can also be given a simple explanation. It is not any test. The original soul, the only one which actually is alive, is extending to the material world. The effect on the material world is what the material beings do. As they have souls, they strive for goodness, justice, truth, and slowly the material world will be changed to better. This is the task of the copies of the original soul: they build a better world. The world gets better because life accumulates information: poor solutions are discarded, good solutions remain. It happens in the genetic material by natural selection (and by other mechanisms). It happens in human societies by science: truth is increasing as false concepts slowly get debunked and rejected.

            Our simple model would already be good enough, but we have to add one feature as Jesus in Gospels and Paul in his letters explicitly mentions it. A soul is sleeping after death and woken in the Last Judgment when it will be judged, some for life, some for death. This is the second death, which saved souls do not have to experience. In our model this means that the copy soul is not destroyed when a person dies but it becomes defunct. It remains in a frozen state. Later, there is garbage collection at some breakpoint, when each defunct copy soul is investigated. If it has remained without sin, it will be identified (probably with the connection of love) with the original soul, else it is discarded.

            There is the experience of conversion. Early Christians, like Paul, Peter, James the Just, and many others, had experienced a true conversion. They felt that they had got Jesus Christ in their heart. Thus, they felt they had two souls. We cannot explain why humans fee4l anything, automatons do not feel. We cannot explain the feeling of having a soul. We cannot explain the feeling of two souls in us, for those who feel having Jesus in their soul. For all we know, this can all be true: there can be the original soul, a connection with love, we can have Jesus Christ in our soul. The soul of Jesus, having become identical with the original soul, is then the same soul that can be experienced in any other religion whether they have ever heard of Jesus or not. In general, the assumption of something like a soul is necessary for explaining consciousness. Then one may try to find the most logical model for the world of souls and the material world. Starting from moral philosophy of the first century Roman Empire, you come to something like this model. But as the model reflects our time, it cannot be exactly what first century people thought. I gave it as an example way of understanding Jesus’ words and fitting them to the little we know of Boethusians. Boethusians did not believe in afterlife and resurrection in the way Pharisees did, yet they had to believe in them in some other way. 

            Conversion is a real phenomenon. There are conditions that make conversion more probable. Christian conversion is often a response to a crisis, feeling of worthlessness, compassion for the suffering of Jesus. In some other conversions, like conversion to Communism, there are other enabling conditions, like experience of injustice. Crucifixion was therefore an enabling condition, but Jesus was crucified because Jewish prophecies seemed to say that the prophet Messiah will be crucified. All Jewish sects, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes/Boethusians, believed in prophecies. Essentially redemption by the death of the firstborn son is just the old religion of Canaan. The high God of the sky and times, El, the Canaanite version of Titan Cronus, ate his children in his effort to stop the times from ending. From these mythical origins Jewish priests and prophets developed the redeeming sacrifice. It may not originally had any role in Jesus’ teachings, but in the last years he accepted his role as the sacrificed Savior instead of the king Messiah. It does not have any relevance to the truth of Christianity if Jesus’ resurrection was faked by the House of Boethus for some political goal. Herod Agrippa died 44 AD and after that time the House of Boethus must have been behind the plot. Most rebellions have financiers and the House of Boethus is the most likely financier of the rebel of 66-73 AD. Paul took help from his gentile congregations to Jerusalem at the time of the famine, but his gift was overshadowed by a larger gif given by Queen Helena of Adiabene. Helena was first converted by people, who did not demand circumcision from men. They may have been Christians of Antioch, but not Paul directly. Both the Christian tradition and Josephus mention Ananius as a person involved in Helena’s conversion. In Acts Ananius is an Antioch Christian, who first meets Paul after his conversion. Later, judaizers convinced Helena’s son, the king of Adiabene, to circumcise himself. Adiabene aided Zealots in the war by sending some troops to the Jewish side.   

            The disciples of Jesus, including Paul, most probably were sincere converts. Conversion remains as a real phenomenon, and what they believed may have been the truth even if resurrection was faked. Yet, it does look like they had seen the resurrected Jesus. Acts mentions in two places that Jesus appeared to Paul as strong light and a voice. In the original letters Paul does not explain his resurrection experience in detail, but when discussing the character of a resurrection body, he explains that it is different from a normal body, something unexplainable. It is quite possible that he indeed saw bright light and heard a voice.

            This is not the only reference to bright light. Revelation 13:13 tells that the false prophet “maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men”. The false prophet cooperated with Romans, as the beast is Rome in the Revelations. Here the bright light is not from God. The false prophet appears to mean Sadducee priests and it states that they could make strong bright light.

            Are there any references external to the New Testament talking of bright light in the early centuries? Gnostics had a light ritual, but Gnosticism was still Christian, though heretic. There is another: the Mithras cult.   

            The Roman cult of Mithras has several similarities with Christianity. Though neither of these two beliefs seems to have borrowed from the other, both must derive from the same Near Eastern source. What is interesting with respect to light is that Mithras was the God of Light, not the sun god, as is sometimes claimed. One may expect that the rites of Mithras had to include strong light. Yet, the God of Light was worshipped in underground temples, where all light had to be artificial. Light was manipulated in Mithraic rites in their underground temples, but we would expect that there had to be stronger artificial light than candles and torches. Is there any evidence that Mithras worshippers knew how to make bright light? 

            Every temple of Mithras has a relief where Mithras slaughters a bull, called tauroctony. There is no evidence that the rite of sacrificing a bull was ever performed in the Roman Empire. Mithraic temples were small underground places where there was room for at most 100-200 men. Killing and burning a bull in such a small temple would hardly have been possible: burning the animal requires lots of wood and time and the place would have been full of smoke. Taurobolium, killing of a bull in the worship of Cybele, happened in an outside altar. Persian Mithra religion, the origin of the Roman Mithras cult, does not mention a sacrifice of a bull.

            Tauroctony was symbolic and one should find a symbolic interpretation for it. Compare the following hypothetical magical and astrological ritual to tauroctony. A bull is symbolized by two horns, which are small items of two minerals. These two horns are magically slaughtered by breaking them into small grains. The mixture of the two substances is closed in a container and burned by heating it with a torch, pictured in the relied as torchbearerer twins. The container is submerged in a well in order to cool the mixture fast, the temple always had such a well. The container is opened, and grains of two substances are found, pictured in the relief as a dog and a serpent. Grains of the second material are collected to a bag resembling testicle bag of a bull. The bag is suspended into a support, which resembles thongs, pictured as a scorpion biting the genitals of the bull. The bag is lit by a torch and it shines bright white light, describing the light of Mithras, the god of Light. The astrological interpretation, first noticed by Karl Bernhard Stark, is that the bull is Taurus, scorpion is Scorpio, dog is Canis Minor, twins is Gemini, and so on. This does not mean that the rite is not magical. A magical ritual very often has an astrological correspondence. The astrological explanation stresses that Mithras is light of the heaven above the stars.

            The two substances in this hypothetical magical ritual are magnesium oxide, a naturally occurring magnetic mineral, which was well-known to alchemists, and ferrosilicon, a byproduct of heating iron with quartz sand. Heating these substances to 1000 Celsius in a closed container and fast cooling the result produces metallic magnesium, which burns with bright white light.

            Let us look at the Mithraic Liturgy in the Greek Magical Papyrus, copied from [1]. I abbreviate the text to show how it can be read as an alchemic text. The person talking is not a worshipper of Mithras. It is Helios, the fire-maker.  “O Primal Origin of my origination; Thou Primal Substance of my substance; First Breath of breath, the breath that is in me; First Fire, God-given for the Blending of the Mendings in me, [First Fire] of fire in me; First Water of [my] water, the water in me; Primal Earth-essence of the earthy essence in me;”

            The text mentions blending (mixing) of substances. That there has to be fire (torch), water (well) and earth (container) to do this ritual.

            “If, verity, it may seem good to you, translate me, now held by my lower nature,”

               The goal of this ritual is to release the light in the substance. 

               "For I am to behold to-day with Deathless Eyes - I, mortal, borm of mortal womb, but [now] made better by the Might of Mighty Power, yea, by the Incorruptible Right Hand - [I am to see to-day] by virtue of the Deathless Spirit the DeathlessMon, the master of the Diadeins of Fire -I with pure purities [now] Purified,"

               The substance is to be purified with fire. 

               "For that it is beyond my reach that, born beneath the sway of Death, I should [unaided] soar into the Height, together with the golden sparklings of the Brilliancy that knows no Death."

               The goal is to release brilliant light.  

               "And straightway let me pass beyond the Need implacable that presses on me; for that I am His Son; I breathe; I am!"

               Helios is the son of Mithras.  

               "thou shalt see thyself being raised aloft, and soaring towards the Height, so that thou seem'st to be in midst of Air."

               Support the substance with something so that it is in mid-air. That is, for heating it form below.  

               "all things thou shalt see will be immortal."

               This ritual brings out the immortal god of light.  

               "And through his Disk - the God's, my Father's - there shall be seen the Way-of-going of the Gods accessible to sight."

               The disk is where you heat this substance.  

               "And in like fashion also [shall be seen] the Pipe, as it is called, whence comes the Wind in service [for the day]."

               You will see some jets of gas coming out of the substance. 

               "And thou shalt see the Gods gazing intently on thee and bearing down upon thee. Then straightway lay thy dexter finger on thy lips and say: Silence! Silence! Silence! Protect me, Silence! t! Next "hiss" forth long: Sss! Sss! Then "puff saying: f!"

               If it is boiling too much, cool it down. The substance makes some pops and hisses. 

               "And thereon shalt thou see the Gods gazing benignly on thee, and no longer bearing down upon thee, but proceeding on the proper order of their doings."

               That's the way it should heat up.  

               "When, then, thou see'st the Upper Cosmos clean and clear, with no one of the Gods (or Angels) bearing down on thee, expect to hear a mighty thunder-clap so as to startle thee. Then say again: O Silence! Silence!"

               If you hear more sounds, cool it.  

               "am a Star, whose Course is as your Course, shining anew from out the depth. Upon thy saying this, straightway His disk will start expanding."

               The disk shines and expands.

               "And after thou hast said the second utterance - to wit, twice. Silence and the rest - "hiss" twice, and "puff' twice; and straightway shalt thou see a mighty host of stars, five-pointed, emerging from His Disk, and filling all the Air. Then say again: O Silence! Silence!"

               If comes sparkles of light, cool it. This substance is heated in an open disk, not closed. 

               "And when His Disk is opened [fully] out, thou shalt behold an infinite Encircling and Doors of Fire fast closed."

               The substance is circulating because of the heat.  

               "Straightway set going then the utterance that follows, closing thy eyes:"

               Ultraviolet light is dangerous to eyes, you better close them.  

               "Hear me, give ear to me - N. N., son of N. N. (fem.) - O Lord, who with Thy Breath hast closed the Fiery Bars of Heaven; Twin- bodied; Ruler of the Fire; Creator of the Light; O Holder of the Keys; Inbreather of the Fire; Fire-hearted One, whose Breath gives Light; Thou who dost joy in Fire; Beauteous of Light; O Lord of Light, whose Body is of Fire; Light-giver [and] Fire-sower; Fire-loosener, whose Life is in the Light; Fire-whirler, who sett'st 

the Light in motion; Thou Thunder-rouser; O Thou Light-glory, Light-increaser; Controller of the Light Empyrean; O Thou Star- tamer!"

               You got metallic magnesium. It is Helios, the light maker.  

               "Oh! Open unto me! For on account of this, the bitter and implacable Necessity that presses on me, I do invoke Thy Deathless Names, innate with Life, most worshipful, that have not yet descended unto mortal nature, nor have been made articulate by human tongue, or cry or tone of man: eed • oeed • ido..." 

               The substance cries that it is not ready yet. 

               "Utter all these with Fire and Spirit once unto the end; and then begin again a second time, until thou hast completed [all] the Seven Immortal Gods of Cosmos."

               You have to heat it for some time.  

               "When thou hast uttered them, thunders and crashings shalt thou hear in the Surround, and feel thyself a-shake with every crash. Then once more utter Silence! [and] the utterance [following it]."

               It is not clear, but you must cool this substance in water so that the reaction does not go to the reverse direction. Putting the disk to water would make thunder and crashings.  

               "Thereon open thy eyes ; and thou shalt see the Doors thrown open, and the Cosmos of the Gods that is within the Doors; so that for joy and rapture of the sight thy Spirit runs to meet it, and soars up."

               When it has cooled, you can open the eyes. You should have solid metallic magnesium. 

               "Therefore, hold thyself steady, and, gazing steadily into thyself, draw breath from the Divine. When, then, thy Soul shall be restored, say: Draw nigh, OLord! Upon this utterance His Rays shall be turned on thee, and thou shalt be in midst of them. When, then, thou hast done this, thou shalt behold a God, in flower of age, of fairest beauty, [and] with Locks of Flame, in a white Tunic and a scarlet Mantle, wearing a Crown of Fire. 

Straightway salute Him with the Salutation of the Fire:"

               Lighten the metal, it will burn with bright white light.   

               "Hail Lord! O Thou of mighty Power; O King of mighty Sway; Greatest of Gods; O Sun; Thou Lord of Heaven and Earth; O God of Gods! Strong is Thy Breath; strong is Thy Might!"

               It is done.  

               "O Lord, if it seem good to Thee, make Thou announcement of me unto God Mosthigh, who hath begotten and created Thee! For that a man - N.N., son of N.N., born of the mortal womb of N.N., and of spermatic ichor, yea, of this [ichor], which at Thy Hands to day hath undergone the transmutation of re-birth."

               Helios announces to Mithras that you managed to do the transmutation. 

               "Upon this utterance He shall come to the Pole, and thou shalt see Him moving round as on a path."

               Now the magnesium is burned, Mithras appears. 

               "Then gaze intently, and send forth a prolonged "bellowing," like to a horn-note, expelling the whole breath, with pressure on the ribs, and kiss the amulets, and say first to that upon the right:"

               You thank god you did not blow your self up doing this.  

               "When thou hast uttered this, thou shalt behold the Doors thrown open, and, issuing from the Depth, Seven Virgins, in byssus-robes, with serpent-faces, and golden sceptres in their hands. These are they who are the so-called Heaven's Fortunes (Tychai). When thou dost see these things, make salutation." 

               "There come forth others, too - Seven Gods, with faces of black bulls, in linen loincloths, with seven golden fillets on their heads. These are the so-called Heaven's Pole lords. And in like fashion unto each of them thou must make salutation."

               It starts burning better.   

               "Now when they [all] are present in their order, here and there, gaze in the Air intently, and thou shalt see lightnings down- flashing, and lights a-quiver, and the earth a-shake; and [then] a God descending, [a God] transcending vast, of radiant Presence, 

with golden Locks, in flower of age, [clad] in a Robe of brightness, with Crown of gold [upon His Head], and Garments [on His Legs], holding in His Right Hand the golden Shoulder of the Calf." 

               Burning well.

               "Then shalt thou see lightnings leap from His Eyes and from His Body stars." 

               It is very bright.

               "Being born from out the state of birth-and-death that giveth birth to [mortal] lives, I now, set free. Pass to the state transcending birth, as Thou hast stablished it, according as Thou hast ordained and made, the Mystery."

               Helios Mithras is reborn. 

The liturgy more or less works as a alchemic receipt. Let us add that this my interpretation is naturally not widely accepted: nobody knows what the Mithraic rites were and what to say of the Mithraic Liturgy of the Papyrus. There is another rite, Sword of Dardanos, that looks like a receipt in the Greek Magic Papyrus. Notice that the papyrus was found in Egypt, but magnetic stones were imported goods in Egypt. This rite may very well be of Greek origin. Magnesium oxide can be found in Greece. Sword of Dardanos is  a love spell. 

               "Take a magnetic stone which is breathing and engrave Aphrodite 

sitting astride Psyche and with her left hand holding on her hair bound in curls. And above her head: "ACHMAGE RARPEPSEI"; and below Aphrodite and Psyche engrave Eros standing on the vault of heaven, holding a blazing torch and burning Psyche. And below Eros these names: "ACHAPA ADONAIE BASMA CHARAKO lAKOB lAO E PHARPHAREI." On the other side of the stone engrave Psyche and Eros embracing one another and beneath Eros's feet these letters: "SSSSSSSS," and beneath Psyche's feet: "EEEEEEEE." Use the stone, when it has been engraved and consecrated, like this: put it under your tongue and turn it to what you wish and say this spell:"

               Take magnesium oxide and a torch. You combine Psyche and Eros, two lovers. 

               "I call upon you, author of all creation, who spread your own wings over the whole world, you, the unapproachable and unmeasurable who breathe into every soul life-giving reasoning, who fitted all things together by your power, firstborn, founder of the universe, golden-winged, whose light is darkness, who shroud reasonable thoughts and breathe forth dark frenzy, clandestine one who secretly inhabit every soul. You engender an unseen fire as you carry off every living thing without growing weary of torturing it, rather having with pleasure delighted in pain from the time when the world came into being. You also come and bring pain, who are sometimes reasonable, sometimes irrational, because of whom men dare beyond what is fitting and take refuge in your light which is darkness. Most headstrong, lawless, implacable, inexorable, invisible, bodiless, generator of frenzy, archer, torchcarrier, master of all living sensation and of everything clandestine, dispenser of forgetfulness, creator of silence, through whom the light and to whom the light travels, infantile when you have been engendered within the heart, wisest when you have succeeded;"

               Mentions light and torchbearerer. The unknown god may be Mithras and the firstborn may be Helios, whose light is hidden in the materia.  

               "I call upon you, unmoved by prayer, by your great name: AZARACHTHARAZA LATHA lATHAL Y Y Y LATHAI ATHA, LLALAPH lOIOIO AI AI AI OUERIEU OIAI LEGETA RAMAI, AMA RATAGEL, first-shining, night-shining, night rejoicing, night-engendering, witness, EREKISITHPHE ARARACHARARA, EPHTHISIKERE lABEZEBYTH IT, you in the depth, BERIAMBO BERIAMBEBO, you in the sea, MERMERGO U, clandestine and wisest, ACHAPA ADONAIE MASMA CHARAKO IAKOB IAO, CHAROUER AROUER LAILAM SEMESILAM SOUMARTA, MARBA KARBA MENABOTH EIIA. Turn the 'soul' other NN to me NN, so that she may love me, so that she may feel passion for me, so that she may give me what is in her power. Let her say to me what is in her soul because I have called upon your great name." 

               Turning a woman to love to you seems to require strong magic.

               "And on a golden leaf inscribe this sword: "One THOURIEL MICHAEL GABRIEL OURIEL MISAEL IRRAEL ISTRAEL: May it be a propitious day for this name and for me who know it and am wearing it. I summon the immortal and infallible strength of God. Grant me the submission of every soul for which I have called upon you." 

               The rest of the rite is just magic, but the boldface names are partially from Judaism. 

To be continued...

References:

[1] Greek Magical Papyrus:

https://archive.org/stream/Papyri_Graecae_Magicae/Papyri_Graecae_Magicae_djvu.txt