Shabuwa: Meaning & Where to Read

Pronunciation: shuh-BOO-uh

What It Is

Moses himself asked the Lord, “What is the sevenfold covenant that I am hearing spoken of?” And the Lord answered: “It is Shabuwa. And it is the covenant that joins all the spirits of life in creation, who are the Eerkodeshiy, to those who walk in The Way of Jeshurun in righteousness, in rich bonds of affection. And by these means all creation will join together to obey the instructions given to them in holiness of their heart on the Day of Instruction. And the purity of the intent of those who instruct must be done in such a way that is only for the good pleasure of Anokeesed.” And the Lord said, “The foundations of Shabuwa are the fruit of the Tree of Life. And the twelve positions you are now seeing your father Jacob making are the waymarks of the Law where one must walk in order to return to Eden.” (Moses 6:53–55)

The Meaning of the Name

The Handbook finds the word in Strong’s as Hebrew #7620, meaning “sevened, week (of years).” It comes from #7650, shaba, “to be complete; to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times),” making the oath complete and irrevocable. When Shem set the covenant in place, he said it “shall be ascribed to and set in place seven times, it being acted upon every seventh day for seven weeks of days. Therefore it shall be called Shabuwa. And it is a covenant of the bonds of affection between mankind and creation.” (Melchizedek 12:101)

Its Roots in Cavah

Cavah, the first mother, was the first to use sevening, declaring the joy of her forgiveness seven times in the dance by raising up. “And thus the foundation of the Religion of Shabuwa was given birth by that which our first mother established” (Grandmothers 1:59; see also Enoch, Seth 7:98). She did more than dance: “she also joined all the Eerkodeshiy together enabling the Covenant of Shabuwa to be established” (Little Book 1:19). The Ten Guidances carry the same pattern: “You are to purify yourselves by sevens in all things… And it was that which Shabuwa was founded upon” (Grandmothers 3:13).

The First Great Sevening

From Cavah, sevening went to all the spirits of life in creation. In the First Great Sevening, the watchers of heaven chose which example they would follow, and the two-thirds who sevened themselves to be like the righteous became the Eerkodeshiy (Handbook pp. 127–128). Enoch’s note draws the line between the two events: “This sevening was when all the Watchers chose in relation to man. Shabuwa is when Shem had the Eerkodeshoi choose in relation to Motsah the Lamb.” (Enoch, Bedal 8:20 n. 113)

Its Founding on Mount Pethach

Nearly a year after the waters of the Flood abated, Shem and Sedeqetelebab went up Mount Pethach, which the Decadarchoi call Hermon, and prepared an altar. There Shem blew the Trump of Summons and called forth all the Eerkodeshoi one by one, and for a jubilee of days he caused all their host to enter into a solemn covenant seven times. Week by week for seven weeks they promised to follow, obey and love the Man Who is Worthy, to resist evil, and to suppress the Decadarchoi for all generations of the earth. But Semihazah and his band would not. For forty-nine days Shem prayed mightily to call forth the great covenant of righteousness among the Watchers of Heaven, and Semihazah and the Decadarchoi hid themselves. The covenant “was completed on the sixty-fifth day of the season which is called the Feast of Weeks for the jubilee of seven weeks but is called Shabuwa because of the covenant.” Because of it, the Lord bestowed upon Shem the name Melchizedek. (I Achee 1:41–49)

The Book of Melchizedek tells the close of that jubilee. In the last ten days, the Eerkodeshiy came to Pethak “and just stayed there and none of them wanted to leave”; the birds did not sing and the trees were silent, because their spirits were assembled there. On the fiftieth day, the Day of Instruction, a multitude of the righteous had gathered on the mount, and “the seventh repetition of the oath of Shabuwa was repeated by all of them and by all of the concourse of heaven… and they all thus sevened themselves which sevening became eternal,” and at sunrise Anokeesed sang with them. “And year by year Shabuwa began to be called the Day of Instruction.” (Melchizedek 12:135–141) Shem is Michael the Archangel “because of him establishing Shabuwa” (Melchizedek 12:144).

A Covenant of Affection

“Shabuwa is the salvation of the Eerkodeshiy, and by it they are saved from being overcome with sorrows” (Melchizedek 2:134). Through it the righteous “will be identified and laid claim to by the Eerkodeshiy and singled out from among the wicked to be preserved and protected and multiplied” (Melchizedek 11:95). Its token is the rainbow: one end joined to the Eerkodeshiy and the other to the righteous, “promising that the Eerkodeshiy will never again come to the place where they want to die from utter loneliness” (Melchizedek 12:123). The Council of Elda set seven foundations for the covenant of Shabuwa in any holy community, the first being to “love and join with the Eerkodeshiy and look to them as companions” (Melchizedek 9:84).

Its Power Against Evil

Shabuwa “became the strongest force to suppress the adversary and all his hosts. They could not stand up against it, and Bad hid himself.” For this reason “the powers of evil consider Shabuwa to be their foremost enemy.” (Handbook pp. 128–129) After the Flood, the band of Semihazah “were greatly subdued by Shabuwa and by the diligence of the Eerkodeshoi to fight against them” (I Achee 13:2).

Renewed Year by Year

“Man is thus commanded to renew his covenant year by year forever with the Eerkodeshoi on the selfsame day of Shabout.” The trump is to sound in all the camps of the righteous “each Sabbath sunrise for seven Sabbaths until sixty-fifth day of the season of spring, at which time the great covenant of Melchizedek shall be renewed” (I Achee 1:60–62). As a boy of twelve, Achee went with his grandfather Shem up Mount Pethach to renew Shabuwa “from the rising to the setting of the sun” (I Achee 1:64). In the days of Enoch this day was called the Day of Instruction, “but after Shem it was called Shabuwa” (Enoch, Bedal 13:119). In New Testament times it was called Pentecost, “the 50th day” (Handbook p. 351).

The Forty-Nine Days

There is a jubilee of fifty days between each holy day, “and the 49 days preceding each day is time for preparation to formulate the intervention and prepare the elements of righteousness” (Handbook p. 334). The Day of Instruction falls fifty days after Miloo’s Day, on the 65th day of spring (Handbook pp. 337, 351).

Carried Across the Ages

In a vision at Bethel, Moses beheld Jacob in worship, “where he used Shabuwa to put The Way back to Eden into all the fabric of creation” (Moses 6:52). When Moses told Reuel about the sevenfold Covenant of Shabuwa, Reuel spoke of “some knowledge of Shabuwa among the old order Midianites that had survived down through the ages” (Moses 6:62). Achee carried the Trump of Shem to the Promised Land, and there he and Tipharah proclaimed the Covenants of Shabuwa for the first time, establishing “that Shabuwa would be the religion of the Promised Land” (I Achee 11:87–100).