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Egypt, (on the literal level), is an “evil” domain – a place of idol worship & dark magic. Moreover, like the “kingdoms” of Chaldea and Greece, it typifies Western “Philosophy” (in the old sense of the word) – the “Prisca Theologia”.

Of course, that on the plain level Egypt is Evil. Nevertheless, it is equated with “The Garden of the Lord” (Gen. 13:10), & functions as the haven to which Joseph flees from his family. If Joseph is understood as a “type” of Christ – then, Egypt would be understood, (in this particular context), as a type of “Heaven”, the abode of the “occulted” Christ.

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The idol of the Egyptians, Baalzephon (Exo. 14:2), was – according to Rab Jonas of Eibenschütz – in the shape of an Ox. It was after this Ox-like entity that the Golden Calf was modeled. And yet, the Ox – which signifies Egypt, as well as Edom & Christendom, (in extra-Biblical rabbinic lore) – has an occult, holy side: Joseph is named by Moses as the “Ox”, (the “Firstling of his Bullock” [Deut. 33:17]).

Joseph, who is then “The Firstling of his Bullock”, is first off the “Firstling” – which equates him to Esau (the “Firstborn”) – & then the Bullock (which assigns to him the rulership of Egypt, & the Christendom implicated therein).

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This, then, conforms into my elucidation, in the post about British Israelism, where I did state that the House of Joseph, of which do the English people descend, signifies an Edomite “nature” within Jacob himself.