The deception is that hell exists. There is no "below" on a sphere. Hell is a mind space in the now. Hell is alienation from goodness, truth, and beauty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_and_Monotheism
Summary
The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes that Moses was not Hebrew, but actually born into Ancient Egyptian nobility and was probably a follower of Akhenaten, an ancient Egyptian monotheist. The biblical story of Moses is contradicted by Freud, who retells the events, claiming that Moses led only his close followers into freedom (during an unstable period in Egyptian history after Akhenaten's death ca. 1350 BCE), that they subsequently killed Moses in rebellion, and still later joined with another monotheistic tribe in Midian who worshipped a volcano god they called Yahweh. Freud supposed that the god of Moses was fused with Yahweh, and that the deeds of Moses were ascribed[vague] to a Midianite priest also called Moses.[vague][1] Freud explains that centuries after the murder of the Egyptian Moses, the rebels regretted their action, thus forming the concept of the Messiah as a hope for the return of Moses as the Saviour of the Israelites. Freud said that the guilt from the murder of Moses is inherited through the generations; this guilt then drives the Jews to religion to make them feel better.
Publication history
Moses and Monotheism was first published in 1939. It appeared in English translation the same year.
Reception
The mythologist Joseph Campbell wrote that Freud's suggestion that Moses was an Egyptian "delivered a shock to many of his admirers". According to Campbell, Freud's proposal was widely attacked, "both with learning and without." Campbell himself refrained from passing judgment on Freud's views about Moses, although he considered Freud's willingness to publish his work despite its potential offensiveness "noble".[2] The theologian Rowan Williams concluded that Freud's accounts of the origin of Judaism are "painfully absurd", and that Freud's explanations are not scientific but rather "imaginative frameworks".[3]
The philosopher Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen and the psychologist Sonu Shamdasani write that in Moses and Monotheism Freud applied to history "the same method of interpretation that he used in the privacy of his office to 'reconstruct' his patients' forgotten and repressed memories."[4]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Merezhkovsky
A friend tipped me off to Freud's book Moses and Monotheism. I looked it up the wiki which was interesting and followed some of the links there. Also the "see also" links which lead to:
Atenism
Joseph and His Brothers
Moses The Egyptian by Jan Assmann
Osarseph
All were interesting in their own right
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_and_Monotheism
That rabbit hole got me here. There are some interesting things in his background but some of his ideas in his books about the lost and rewritten story of humanity and a 3rd testament yet to be written. It's hard to highlight specifics. It's only of those whole is greater than the parts topics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Merezhkovsky#Merezhkovsky's_ideas