THE HORNS ON MOSES
“As Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the covenant in his hands, he did not know that the skin of his face had become radiant..”
When St. Jerome translated the Hebrew account into Latin it originally read “his face was horned from the conversation with the Lord.” Some say that St. Jerome mistranslated qeren- “to shine” into qaran- “to have horns.” However, anyone who knows anything about St. Jerome knows what a competent scholar he actually was.
The horns were meant to symbolize Ajna Chakra had been activated and that Moses Third-Eye was open. Naturally, that’s a pretty safe assumption considering he’d just came down from the Mountain after communing with God. The mountain representing the Temple that rests within Ajna Chakra.I mean, El Shaddai (אֵל שַׁדַּי) literally means “Lord of the Mountains.”
Besides, the overall meaning changes very little.To shine with radiance after communing with God can be translated the same exact way. We’re still talking about the activation of Third-Eye and awakening to the Divine presence within.
