Prof. Page Smith observed in his book Killing the Spirit. Higher Education in America: “Rosenstock-Huessy had experienced the resentment and hostility of his Harvard colleagues (one of them referred to him as “that little squirt”) because he refused to genuflect to two of the reigning deities of the academic world, Marx and Freud, and occasionally spoke favorably of God. (...) Academic fundamentalism is at issue, the stubborn refusal of the academy to acknowledge any truth that does not conform to professional dogmas”.(pp.XII and 5)
January 19, 2006 Ian Fisher and Cornelia Dean in their article In 'Design' vs. Darwinism, Darwin Wins Point in Rome wrote: “The official Vatican newspaper published an article this week labeling as “correct” the recent decision by a judge in Pennsylvania that intelligent design should not be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution.” It took the Vatican 10 months to “persuade” the Senate of the Warsaw University to express its support for the Vatican's decision.
Desirous to defend pope John Paul II's scientific legacy and his prospective canonization (Holy Evolution!) the Senate of the Warsaw University issued on October 19, 2006 a declaration warning that “No reasonable scientists dares deny the theory of evolution.” They reminded the stubborn rebels who tried to throw the evolution out of the schools that in 1950 Pope Pius XII declared that there is no conflict between evolution and the Magisterium (official doctrine of the Church) and that pope John Paul II in his statement of October 22, 1996 said: "...les nouvelles connaissances conduisent a reconnaitre dans la theorie de l'evolution plus qu'une hypothese"
One George Wood expressed John Paul's statement in more practical terms: “Basically what the Vatican said was that they are not scientists, and that God created Reality. If Science observes reality to be different from religious beliefs, then people should listen to the Scientists and ignore their previously held religious beliefs.” Let me remind here that Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn dismissed in a New York Times article John Paul's 1996 statement as “rather vague and unimportant” and seemed to back intelligent design.
Creationism or evolutionism is a life or death problem for modern Israel. The Torah view of history is that history had a beginning and that the beginning is in God's hands. Therefore, what comes thereafter is invested with meaning and purpose; the creator is not the prime mover of ancient philosophy and therefore we have no reason to be afraid of the bleak exhaustion of resources or the running down of the sun. God's will and Personality dominate everything and make of history a moral arena.
The Sages commented on the verse: “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.” (Gen 1:1) as follows:
Why does it start with the Creation? So that if the nations of the world say to Israel, “You are robbers, because you have seized the land of the seven Canaanite nations,” Israel can answer, “The whole world belongs to the Holy One. He created it and gave it to whom He pleased, He gave it to them and He took the land from them and gave it to us.” God revealed to Israel the works of Creation in order to give them the heritage of nations (Ps 11.6). If the world belongs to Evolution, the earth, including the Holy Land, is the possession of the most favored race sometimes called transhumans which has the same meaning as Nietzsche's Uebermenschen.
Well, John Paul's double rehabilitation of heliocentrism and evolutionism has to be viewed in the context of his political postulate of 1984 regarding establishment of an “independent” Palestinian state. In the aftermath of the Annapolis Final Solution Conference (AFSC) Cardinal Renato Martino, who heads the Vatican's office for migrants, said that Palestinian refugees have the right to return to their homeland, and said he hoped Israeli-Palestinian peace talks would address the issue. That would mean the end of the Jewish state in the Middle East
Consider these revealing facts. Just one day after the Annapolis conference at which the PA recognized the State of Israel's right to exist in peace and security, the PA's official TV station screened a map that shows a Palestinian state in place of Israel. At the same time M. Abbas reiterated his rejection of Israel' s demand to recognize it as a Jewish state. It turns out that the “moderate” PA leader who gets billions of dollars from international donors for his “moderate” attitude embraced Hamas leader Haniyeh's plan of annihilation of Jewish state.
On Tuesday July 11, 2006 Haniyeh wrote in his article for the Washington Post: “Israel must resolve issues raised by its existence to bring about peace. It's not enough for Israel to address its occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.” In reaction to this article Radio Israel quoted Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni as saying: “He is implying claims against the existence of the State of Israel.”
A week later, on Tuesday July 18 The Washington Post's columnist Richard Cohen introduced into the US mainstream media what can be considered as the most serious attempt at de-legitimization of the state of Israel. His opening salvo went like that: “The greatest mistake Israel could make at the moment is to forget that Israel itself is a mistake. It is an honest mistake, a well-intentioned mistake, a mistake for which no one is culpable, but the idea of creating a nation of European Jews in an area of Arab Muslims (and some Christians) has produced a century of warfare and terrorism of the sort we are seeing now. Israel fights Hezbollah in the north and Hamas in the south, but its most formidable enemy is history itself. (...) The smart choice is to pull back to defensible – but hardly impervious – borders. That includes getting out of the most of the West Bank – and waiting (and hoping) that history (!) will get distracted and move on to something else.”
A nation of European Jews? I would say, it was a state for survivors of death camps that were supervised by Love Inc. and and a million of refugees from Arab countries who were occasionally decimated by the order of the All Merciful sharia.
Mr. R. Cohen substitutes history for God to avoid mentioning that it was God who promised this land to His people. Of course, Mr. Cohen's history is the Natural History which is reigning supreme from its throne in the Museum of Natural History. Unlike the Guardian of Israel who never slumbers Mr. Cohen's Evolving History can be outsmarted and distracted to move on to something else like, for instance, evolving a new species of frogs for the French cuisine. Similarly, Mr. Cohen's History evolved the Freedom fries!
Unfortunately, Mr. Cohen himself was distracted and he missed a very important event which happened one day earlier i.e. On July 17. On that day, according to Xinhua agency's report Chinese President Hu Jintao, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held a trilateral summit meeting, the first of its kind among the three countries. At the summit, Hu said China, Russia and India, who have set up bilateral strategic partnership among them, have vital influence on the international and regional affairs. These are the countries that have the worst memories of the British colonial power and are not ready to welcome the return of this power to the Middle East or to any other part of the world, for that matter.
The Russians remember that The British used the Palestine mandate as a stronghold to foment political strife inside the czarist and then the Soviet empire. So, when the opportunity occurred, the Soviet empire struck back. Mightily, from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The best way to subvert the British power in the Middle East and its colonial possessions in Asia was to undermine their stronghold in the Middle East by recognizing the Independent Israel established by the United Nations' decision to divide Palestine into two states one for the Jews and the other for the Arabs. If this was a mistake, as Mr. Cohen assures us, then this mistake was also committed by the USA that immediately recognized the Jewish state. Now, somebody could get impression that Mr. Cohen signalized by his article that the USA might withdraw some day its recognition of the Jewish state because Natural History supported by the Vatican became its “formidable enemy.”
But on December 12, 2007 the former organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Pravda sang a requiem over this “formidable enemy”. The requiem was entitled Natural Selection not the same as Evolution and was penned by Babu G. Ranganathan who was introduced by the editor of the paper to his international readers as an experienced Christian writer. Mr. Ranganathan has his B.A. with academic concentrations in Bible and Biology from Bob Jones University. As a religion and science writer he has been recognized in the 24th edition of Marquis Who's Who in The East. The author's articles have been published in various publications including Russia's Pravda and South Korea's The Seoul Times. The author's website may be accessed at: www.religionscience.com. On the last page of his article Mr. Ranganathan gave a link to an excellent article by scientists and biochemist Dr. Duane T. Gish entitled A Few Reasons An Evolutionary Origian of Life is impossible (http://icr.org/article/3140/). If you want to read the original piece in Pravda go to: http://english.pravda.ru/print/science/earth/102720-natural_selection_evolution-0.
While reading this article I recalled the words of a Chinese scholar who pointing to the difference between China and the USA said, In China you cannot criticize the government, but you can criticize evolution. In America it is the other way around, you can criticize government, but you cannot criticize evolution. The political impact of this publication may be assessed by the Vatican's sudden postponement of canonization of pope Pius XII who started this whole political flirtation with evolutionism, because he was scared to death by the emergence of Jewish state in the Middle East.
Now, the sense of intellectual superiority over and the contempt for the “barbaric” Hebrew Bible will be significantly reduced. Unimaginable event occurred just before our eyes; Pravda which so recently was defining the thinking of hundreds of millions of people throughout the world by its “scientifically proved Truth” now is recanting this alleged Truth. Pravda, however, did not recant in the scenery of a fake trial like that of Galileo's. What Pravda did reminds me of the death of Samson:
“And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. (...) And he bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell upon the lords, and upon all the people that were therein.” (Jud. 16:29-30). Let the neo-Philistines rest in peace process together with their evolution and heliocentrism.
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
The Biblical Geology: Hosts of L-rd
The Biblical Geology: Host of YHWH
Belittling the Creative Power of YHWH
Rome was determined to exclude the Jews from the land of Judah, which by now was desolate of its sons. Even in the Galil the gentiles had become very numerous. The old order, wherein Israel had been a people on its own land, was rapidly vanishing. In a few generations the entire Jewish community in the land of Israel would be destroyed, and the center of the Torah would shift to the far-off Bavel.
The Minim were intensifying their efforts to harass the Jews spiritually and physically, and they were busy inciting Rome against them. In Hullin 87A we read the following report: “A min said to Rabbi: He who formed mountains is not the one who created the wind, for it is written 'Behold He forms mountains and He creates the wind' – Amos 4:13. (According to the Gospel of John it was Logos and not YHWH who created the heaven and the earth). Rabbi replied: Foolish one, go to the end of the verse, which states: 'The L-rd of Hosts is His name'”.
That this was a matter of great gravity is evident from the fact that when the Min promised to reply after three days, Rabbi fasted during the ensuing three days until the report came that the Min had taken his life because he found no reply.
G-d blessed the seventh day, and He declared it to be holy, for it was on this day that he ceased from all the work which G-d created to make. (Bereshis 2:3) In other words, as rabbi Leo Baeck observed, G-d created the world in order to continue the work of creation. Let us see how G-d continues to create the earth. Because G-d id not stop to create after six days of creation. G-'s day of rest suggests His continued activity. The Guardian of Israel won't slumber.
The Biblical Secretaries of G-d assigned meteorites to the vast category called “Hosts of the YHWH.” Indeed, if we take into consideration frequency of the meteorite falls, we can compare this phenomenon to rain or dew; that's why the scientific literature speaks about “meteorite showers.” Meteors occur in the earth's atmosphere every day. These and invisible meteorites are estimated to add more than 1,000 short tons (910 metric tons) daily to the earth's weight. But who counted them? Did anybody count bacteria or viruses? Yeast is always there when we need it.
Approximately, 15 billion tons of continental material reaches the outlets of rivers and streams annually. Most of the detritus is trapped near the outlets and on continental shelves and only a few billion tons actually escapes into the deep sea. Together with the biological material in the sea it contributes about 3 billion tons of sediments in the ocean floor each year. Obviously, the Host of YHWH have to balance the yearly disappearance of the continental material into sea depths. And, in fact, they do.
The river Rhone in southern France flows through a plain of sands and gravels, but buried far beneath these deposits, lies a deep channel. It can be traced down the Rhone valley, sinking over deeper as it goes, until near the Mediterranean coast it is 3,000 feet below the present sea-level.
A similar buried channel underlies the valley of the Nile. In the Delta, it sinks so far beneath the thick layer of sediments deposited by the river that it seemed untraceable. Recently, oil geologists located it – 8,000 feet beneath the city of Cairo
The great Sphinx of Giza, as a 19th-century photograph shows has spent a large part of its known history covered up to its neck in desert sands. Whilst thus covered, its body has not been subject to wind-erosion, yet the body is heavily weathered. Could there have been some weathering agency at work?
Indeed, the meteorite showers may consist of no more than 5 meteors in an hour but may reach as many as 75. On occasions, the sky may be lit by thousands of meteors per hour. Some 35,000 or so meteors fell one hour during the Leonid meteor shower of November 1833. This spectacular display of the Host of YHWH terrified most everyone who witnessed it. On Feb. 8, 1969, a 30-ton meteor broke up over the town of Pueblito de Allende in northern Mexico. Some of the 5,000 objects larger than a baseball are currently being tracked around the earth – the natural satellites.
Without rain, snow, dew, the earth would not put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind (Gen 1:11), which means that life would not be possible. We don't perceive the life-fostering function of the meteorite showers because it covers much longer periods of time. The language of the Bible does not sound like the jargon of the modern Science, nonetheless the thoughts of many Biblical verses match exactly conclusions of the present-day geologists.
For instance, the verse: “And G-d said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear'” (Gen. 1:9) express the same phenomenon which the modern geologists discovered when they saw that rocks formed blow the seas are now high in the mountains and that mountain chains have been raised repeatedly at different places and then worn away.
Climbers in Switzerland, Austria, and Croatia, as they ascend more than a mile above sea level, pass decks of ice-crusted rock made from the skeletons of sea creatures that once lived in the Mediterranean. More than 3,000 years ago, the trodos ophiolite on Cyprus was mined extensively by the Greeks for its copper and tin. In essence, the Greeks were minding the ocean floor that had been conveniently brought up the the surface by G-d.
The deposits were formed by the precipitation of metals from hot-water solutions that were rich in silica and metal and were discharged through the sea floor by hydro-thermal springs. The ophiolites have been identified in various parts of the world: on the Apennines of Norther Italy, the northern margins of the Himalayas in southern Tibet, the Ural Mountains, the eastern Mediterranean, the Afar Desert of northeastern Africa, the Andes of South America, and islands of the western Pacific such as the Philippines, uppermost Newfoundland, and Point Sol along the Big Sur coast of central California.
At the same time, as the Greeks were mining for ophiolites, Celtic miners burrowed through rock and clay of the Salzberg (lit. salt-mountain) and dropped shafts more than 1,000 feet long to extract the salt. An underground mine about 1,000 feet below the surface of Detroit produces more than 1 million tons of salt a year.
There are fossils in Cheops's limestone blocks. One can spend days and nights cataloging the different kinds of sea life in these blocks. The skeletons of microscopic animals accumulated to form beds of the clear, white lime the Egyptians found so attractive for building pyramids. And now, consider the fertile Delta; once, this delta was a bay; patiently the broad Nile filled it up so that peasants could grow enough cotton to export hundred million dollars' worth of it every year.
Most of what is now Louisiana was once part of an ancient bay of the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana is a “gift” of the Mississippi River. The 350 million cubic yards of sediments carried down by the mighty river each year would cover the entire state of Connecticut, if spread in a layer one inch thick. The many tons of mud, sand, and gravel which the great river dumps into the Gulf of Mexico each day would fill a freight train 150 miles long.
Under the microscope, most of chalk resolves into a coarse powder. Embedded in it, however, are myriads of skeletons of one-celled animals called foraminifera. When the crushed foraminiferal skeletons are subjected to heat and pressure they turn into limestone. A huge chalk and limestone deposit make up much of the southeastern part of England. The Latin name of England Albion (White Island) is derived from the color of these deposits. They are, in turn, part of a much larger deposit, some of which has been worn away or overlain by other types of rock, that stretches from the Baltic through the Low Countries to northern France. At the 22,000-feet level on Mount Everest in the Himalayas there is a 200-feet stratum of foraminiferal limestone. It is used to make roads and in building. Michelangelo's David was once a collection of tiny foraminifera living on the sea bottom.
If it not were for the meteorite showers that the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth sends upon the surface of organic sediments, coal could not have been formed. Coal consists chiefly of carbon, derived directly from organic carbon compounds of vegetation. The carbon in the plants that later formed coal was not obtained from the soil by way of plant roots, but from the air by way of leaves. Being the only known natural agency known capable of abstracting large amounts of carbon from the air, plants employ it in the construction of their tissues and store up for future use. Coal is fossilized plant material, preserved by burial and altered by earth forces. In order that the organic sediments could have been transformed into coal they had to be covered by billions upon billions tons of earth sent as meteorite showers, which made possible compaction and condensation. The distribution and amount of meteorite dust falls are controlled by the air current and winds in the upper atmosphere and then are dispersed by the different systems of air streams, which could be compared to rivers in the ocean.
The radar pictures taken by Columbia belied all those who explained the covering of the Great Sphinx as a result of engulfing it by the shifting sands of Sahara. Now we know that the Sphinx disappeared from the face of the earth similarly as the stone age camp sites – covered by mountains of sand. For the first time the Sphinx was excavated during the reign of the pharaoh Thutmose IV about 1450 B.C. And then, it had been covered again and again. In the 19th century, when it was found by the archaeologists it was again largely engulfed in sand. Indeed, the Creator accurately distributed His host on the face of the earth.
The design of human eye and also of ear and nose points to G-d who continues His creation by enlarging the earth for growing populations of diverse creatures. Tears which are produced by lacrimal glands help to clear eyeballs of foreign particles, such as dust, and keep them from drying out, which would result in blindness. Each time the eyelid blinks, it sucks a little fluid from the glands. After the tears pass across the eyeball, they flow out through two lacrimal ducts that open at inner corner of each eye. They lead to a lacrimal sac and then to the nasal duct. This duct runs the length of the nose and finally opens into it.
The external auditory canal is the opening you see if you look directly into the ear. The outer third of the canal is lined with fine hairs and with the tiny glands that produce wax. The hairs and wax trap dust and other small particles.
Both nasal passages have a lining of soft, moist mucuous membrane covered with microscopic, hairlike projections called cilia. The cilia wave back and forth constantly, moving dust, bacteria, and fluids from the nose to the throat for swallowing.
We perceive the same designing “Mind” behind the oil-producing process. Large reservoirs of oil and natural gas are dependent on the existence of certain geological conditions, such as a sedimentary source for the oil, a porous rock to serve as a reservoir, and some kind of confining sediments. The source material is generally organic carbon in fine-grained, carbon-rich sediments. Porous and permeable sedimentary rock such as sandstone provides the reservoir, and diverse geologic structures that result from folding or faulting of sedimentary layers (earthquakes!) can serve as dams to pool the oil. In order for organic material to be transformed into oil, at least one or two conditions must be met. Either the rat of accumulation must be so high or the oxygen in the bottom water must be so low that the material is not oxidized before it is buried. Oxidation causes decay, which destroys organic material; therefore, areas where there are high rates of accumulation of sediments rich in organic material are the most favorable sites for the formation of oil-bearing rock.
Referring to famine as a check on population, Bishop Malthus wrote in the following incredibly sincere passage from the revised sixth Edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population (1862):
“...We should facilitate, instead of impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality; and if we dread the frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction which we compel nature to use. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits.” Now you understand better why certain people hate Moses and the Torah.
As the 1972 Club of Rome's Project Report on The Predicament of Mankind made us all aware, there are “limits to growth”, and if the world's major industrial powers continue to pursue economic growth and to foster an ethic based on ever-increasing production and consumption of goods the planet's resources will rapidly be depleted and the environment irremediably polluted. To create “a steady state of economic and ecological equilibrium,” the Report concluded, will require a Copernican revolution of the mind” and if the human species is to survive “man must explore himself – his goals and values – as much as the world he seeks to change. So now, at last you know what the Copernican revolution really means.
In the Biblical cosmology “G-d divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament” (Gen. 1:7). Accordingly, we learn from Ex 16:31 that “when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing., fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.” This was the “Bread” which YHWH had given them to eat. In the logic of the Bible, the thought that the G-d who created life on the earth have fed his people with “manna which they knew not, neither did their fathers know” (Dt. 8:3), can be regarded as a miracle only in the sense that this food of Heavenly Restaurant had been sent precisely when it was needed for their survival. The idea of the survival of the fittest, or the strongest does not fit into Biblical scheme of things.
Isidore of Seville's Originum sive Etymologiarum contains Herodot's and Diodor's statements that geometry had been invented by the Egyptians to measure land after the disappearance of boundary markers in the Nile floods. Then the Egyptian gymnophysists taught Eudoxos, Pythagoras and Plato all the mysteries of Thoth, a Great Lord of magic which was also called mathematics. Translating the curvatures of the earth into ideal shapes of spheres, triangles and squares they were trying to ascertain the extent of the earth. But how can you find out the extent of the earth knowing that G-d keeps enlarging its size? Reading the list of annual meteor showers which G-d sends to earth, remember the revealing questions contained in the Book of Job: “Where were thou when I founded the earth? Tell if you have understanding.” “Who determined its dimension if thou knowest? Or who stretched the measuring line over it?”
Belittling the Creative Power of YHWH
Rome was determined to exclude the Jews from the land of Judah, which by now was desolate of its sons. Even in the Galil the gentiles had become very numerous. The old order, wherein Israel had been a people on its own land, was rapidly vanishing. In a few generations the entire Jewish community in the land of Israel would be destroyed, and the center of the Torah would shift to the far-off Bavel.
The Minim were intensifying their efforts to harass the Jews spiritually and physically, and they were busy inciting Rome against them. In Hullin 87A we read the following report: “A min said to Rabbi: He who formed mountains is not the one who created the wind, for it is written 'Behold He forms mountains and He creates the wind' – Amos 4:13. (According to the Gospel of John it was Logos and not YHWH who created the heaven and the earth). Rabbi replied: Foolish one, go to the end of the verse, which states: 'The L-rd of Hosts is His name'”.
That this was a matter of great gravity is evident from the fact that when the Min promised to reply after three days, Rabbi fasted during the ensuing three days until the report came that the Min had taken his life because he found no reply.
G-d blessed the seventh day, and He declared it to be holy, for it was on this day that he ceased from all the work which G-d created to make. (Bereshis 2:3) In other words, as rabbi Leo Baeck observed, G-d created the world in order to continue the work of creation. Let us see how G-d continues to create the earth. Because G-d id not stop to create after six days of creation. G-'s day of rest suggests His continued activity. The Guardian of Israel won't slumber.
The Biblical Secretaries of G-d assigned meteorites to the vast category called “Hosts of the YHWH.” Indeed, if we take into consideration frequency of the meteorite falls, we can compare this phenomenon to rain or dew; that's why the scientific literature speaks about “meteorite showers.” Meteors occur in the earth's atmosphere every day. These and invisible meteorites are estimated to add more than 1,000 short tons (910 metric tons) daily to the earth's weight. But who counted them? Did anybody count bacteria or viruses? Yeast is always there when we need it.
Approximately, 15 billion tons of continental material reaches the outlets of rivers and streams annually. Most of the detritus is trapped near the outlets and on continental shelves and only a few billion tons actually escapes into the deep sea. Together with the biological material in the sea it contributes about 3 billion tons of sediments in the ocean floor each year. Obviously, the Host of YHWH have to balance the yearly disappearance of the continental material into sea depths. And, in fact, they do.
The river Rhone in southern France flows through a plain of sands and gravels, but buried far beneath these deposits, lies a deep channel. It can be traced down the Rhone valley, sinking over deeper as it goes, until near the Mediterranean coast it is 3,000 feet below the present sea-level.
A similar buried channel underlies the valley of the Nile. In the Delta, it sinks so far beneath the thick layer of sediments deposited by the river that it seemed untraceable. Recently, oil geologists located it – 8,000 feet beneath the city of Cairo
The great Sphinx of Giza, as a 19th-century photograph shows has spent a large part of its known history covered up to its neck in desert sands. Whilst thus covered, its body has not been subject to wind-erosion, yet the body is heavily weathered. Could there have been some weathering agency at work?
Indeed, the meteorite showers may consist of no more than 5 meteors in an hour but may reach as many as 75. On occasions, the sky may be lit by thousands of meteors per hour. Some 35,000 or so meteors fell one hour during the Leonid meteor shower of November 1833. This spectacular display of the Host of YHWH terrified most everyone who witnessed it. On Feb. 8, 1969, a 30-ton meteor broke up over the town of Pueblito de Allende in northern Mexico. Some of the 5,000 objects larger than a baseball are currently being tracked around the earth – the natural satellites.
Without rain, snow, dew, the earth would not put forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit-tree bearing fruit after its kind (Gen 1:11), which means that life would not be possible. We don't perceive the life-fostering function of the meteorite showers because it covers much longer periods of time. The language of the Bible does not sound like the jargon of the modern Science, nonetheless the thoughts of many Biblical verses match exactly conclusions of the present-day geologists.
For instance, the verse: “And G-d said: 'Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear'” (Gen. 1:9) express the same phenomenon which the modern geologists discovered when they saw that rocks formed blow the seas are now high in the mountains and that mountain chains have been raised repeatedly at different places and then worn away.
Climbers in Switzerland, Austria, and Croatia, as they ascend more than a mile above sea level, pass decks of ice-crusted rock made from the skeletons of sea creatures that once lived in the Mediterranean. More than 3,000 years ago, the trodos ophiolite on Cyprus was mined extensively by the Greeks for its copper and tin. In essence, the Greeks were minding the ocean floor that had been conveniently brought up the the surface by G-d.
The deposits were formed by the precipitation of metals from hot-water solutions that were rich in silica and metal and were discharged through the sea floor by hydro-thermal springs. The ophiolites have been identified in various parts of the world: on the Apennines of Norther Italy, the northern margins of the Himalayas in southern Tibet, the Ural Mountains, the eastern Mediterranean, the Afar Desert of northeastern Africa, the Andes of South America, and islands of the western Pacific such as the Philippines, uppermost Newfoundland, and Point Sol along the Big Sur coast of central California.
At the same time, as the Greeks were mining for ophiolites, Celtic miners burrowed through rock and clay of the Salzberg (lit. salt-mountain) and dropped shafts more than 1,000 feet long to extract the salt. An underground mine about 1,000 feet below the surface of Detroit produces more than 1 million tons of salt a year.
There are fossils in Cheops's limestone blocks. One can spend days and nights cataloging the different kinds of sea life in these blocks. The skeletons of microscopic animals accumulated to form beds of the clear, white lime the Egyptians found so attractive for building pyramids. And now, consider the fertile Delta; once, this delta was a bay; patiently the broad Nile filled it up so that peasants could grow enough cotton to export hundred million dollars' worth of it every year.
Most of what is now Louisiana was once part of an ancient bay of the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana is a “gift” of the Mississippi River. The 350 million cubic yards of sediments carried down by the mighty river each year would cover the entire state of Connecticut, if spread in a layer one inch thick. The many tons of mud, sand, and gravel which the great river dumps into the Gulf of Mexico each day would fill a freight train 150 miles long.
Under the microscope, most of chalk resolves into a coarse powder. Embedded in it, however, are myriads of skeletons of one-celled animals called foraminifera. When the crushed foraminiferal skeletons are subjected to heat and pressure they turn into limestone. A huge chalk and limestone deposit make up much of the southeastern part of England. The Latin name of England Albion (White Island) is derived from the color of these deposits. They are, in turn, part of a much larger deposit, some of which has been worn away or overlain by other types of rock, that stretches from the Baltic through the Low Countries to northern France. At the 22,000-feet level on Mount Everest in the Himalayas there is a 200-feet stratum of foraminiferal limestone. It is used to make roads and in building. Michelangelo's David was once a collection of tiny foraminifera living on the sea bottom.
If it not were for the meteorite showers that the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth sends upon the surface of organic sediments, coal could not have been formed. Coal consists chiefly of carbon, derived directly from organic carbon compounds of vegetation. The carbon in the plants that later formed coal was not obtained from the soil by way of plant roots, but from the air by way of leaves. Being the only known natural agency known capable of abstracting large amounts of carbon from the air, plants employ it in the construction of their tissues and store up for future use. Coal is fossilized plant material, preserved by burial and altered by earth forces. In order that the organic sediments could have been transformed into coal they had to be covered by billions upon billions tons of earth sent as meteorite showers, which made possible compaction and condensation. The distribution and amount of meteorite dust falls are controlled by the air current and winds in the upper atmosphere and then are dispersed by the different systems of air streams, which could be compared to rivers in the ocean.
The radar pictures taken by Columbia belied all those who explained the covering of the Great Sphinx as a result of engulfing it by the shifting sands of Sahara. Now we know that the Sphinx disappeared from the face of the earth similarly as the stone age camp sites – covered by mountains of sand. For the first time the Sphinx was excavated during the reign of the pharaoh Thutmose IV about 1450 B.C. And then, it had been covered again and again. In the 19th century, when it was found by the archaeologists it was again largely engulfed in sand. Indeed, the Creator accurately distributed His host on the face of the earth.
The design of human eye and also of ear and nose points to G-d who continues His creation by enlarging the earth for growing populations of diverse creatures. Tears which are produced by lacrimal glands help to clear eyeballs of foreign particles, such as dust, and keep them from drying out, which would result in blindness. Each time the eyelid blinks, it sucks a little fluid from the glands. After the tears pass across the eyeball, they flow out through two lacrimal ducts that open at inner corner of each eye. They lead to a lacrimal sac and then to the nasal duct. This duct runs the length of the nose and finally opens into it.
The external auditory canal is the opening you see if you look directly into the ear. The outer third of the canal is lined with fine hairs and with the tiny glands that produce wax. The hairs and wax trap dust and other small particles.
Both nasal passages have a lining of soft, moist mucuous membrane covered with microscopic, hairlike projections called cilia. The cilia wave back and forth constantly, moving dust, bacteria, and fluids from the nose to the throat for swallowing.
We perceive the same designing “Mind” behind the oil-producing process. Large reservoirs of oil and natural gas are dependent on the existence of certain geological conditions, such as a sedimentary source for the oil, a porous rock to serve as a reservoir, and some kind of confining sediments. The source material is generally organic carbon in fine-grained, carbon-rich sediments. Porous and permeable sedimentary rock such as sandstone provides the reservoir, and diverse geologic structures that result from folding or faulting of sedimentary layers (earthquakes!) can serve as dams to pool the oil. In order for organic material to be transformed into oil, at least one or two conditions must be met. Either the rat of accumulation must be so high or the oxygen in the bottom water must be so low that the material is not oxidized before it is buried. Oxidation causes decay, which destroys organic material; therefore, areas where there are high rates of accumulation of sediments rich in organic material are the most favorable sites for the formation of oil-bearing rock.
Referring to famine as a check on population, Bishop Malthus wrote in the following incredibly sincere passage from the revised sixth Edition of his Essay on the Principle of Population (1862):
“...We should facilitate, instead of impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality; and if we dread the frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction which we compel nature to use. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits.” Now you understand better why certain people hate Moses and the Torah.
As the 1972 Club of Rome's Project Report on The Predicament of Mankind made us all aware, there are “limits to growth”, and if the world's major industrial powers continue to pursue economic growth and to foster an ethic based on ever-increasing production and consumption of goods the planet's resources will rapidly be depleted and the environment irremediably polluted. To create “a steady state of economic and ecological equilibrium,” the Report concluded, will require a Copernican revolution of the mind” and if the human species is to survive “man must explore himself – his goals and values – as much as the world he seeks to change. So now, at last you know what the Copernican revolution really means.
In the Biblical cosmology “G-d divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament” (Gen. 1:7). Accordingly, we learn from Ex 16:31 that “when the layer of dew was gone up, behold upon the the face of the wilderness a fine, scale-like thing., fine as the hoar-frost on the ground.” This was the “Bread” which YHWH had given them to eat. In the logic of the Bible, the thought that the G-d who created life on the earth have fed his people with “manna which they knew not, neither did their fathers know” (Dt. 8:3), can be regarded as a miracle only in the sense that this food of Heavenly Restaurant had been sent precisely when it was needed for their survival. The idea of the survival of the fittest, or the strongest does not fit into Biblical scheme of things.
Isidore of Seville's Originum sive Etymologiarum contains Herodot's and Diodor's statements that geometry had been invented by the Egyptians to measure land after the disappearance of boundary markers in the Nile floods. Then the Egyptian gymnophysists taught Eudoxos, Pythagoras and Plato all the mysteries of Thoth, a Great Lord of magic which was also called mathematics. Translating the curvatures of the earth into ideal shapes of spheres, triangles and squares they were trying to ascertain the extent of the earth. But how can you find out the extent of the earth knowing that G-d keeps enlarging its size? Reading the list of annual meteor showers which G-d sends to earth, remember the revealing questions contained in the Book of Job: “Where were thou when I founded the earth? Tell if you have understanding.” “Who determined its dimension if thou knowest? Or who stretched the measuring line over it?”
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Why G-d Designed Solstices
The famous German scientist Alexander von Humbold's declared in private: “I have known, too, for a long time, that we have no arguments for the Copernican system, but I shall never dare to be the first to attack it. Don't rush into the wasp's nest. You will bring upon yourself the scorn of the thoughtless multitude. If once a famous astronomer arises against the present conception, I will communicate too, my observations; but to come forth as the first against opinions which the world has become fond of – I don't feel the courage.” He knew all too well who was relentlessly promoting Copernicus's helicentriusm and that in this promotion the fake Galileo trial played an important role.
Reading the proceeding of numerous symposia, one is struck by the difference in the speeches of European and Arab parties. The Europeans employ cautious language, admiring and flattering Islam. The Arab faction, on the contrary, adopts the tone of a schoolmaster wielding the stick, confident of the tolerance, humanism and greatness of its civilization, the spiritual and scientific fountainhead of Europe. Keep in mind, the Phallic architecture of Al-Aqsa Mosque foreshadowed Averroes' heliocentrism, embraced by St. Thomas Aquinas and then by Copernicus and the Catholic Europe.
Hitler used the Copernican heliocentrism as the proof of the racial superiority of the Aryans which gave him the right to exterminate “racially impaired Jewish vermin” expressed in the Vatican-inspired slogan Juda verrecke. It came then as no surprise that he found his most loyal collaborator in the person of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin whose clan encompassed the family of the future Nazi terrorist Y. Arafat.
YHWH vs. Arab Science
Since Plato, all heliocentrists use the same deceiving trick: whenever they cannot explain certain phenomena in terms of heliocentric philosophy they revert to geocentric language or intermingle heliocentrism with geocentrism. The following excerpt from Wkipedia (entry: Solstice) is a typical sample of this doubletalk: “A solstice occurs twice a year, whenever Earth's axis tilts the most toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun to be farthest north or south at noon. The name is derived from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstice, the Sun stands still in declination, that is, its movement north or south is minimal.
According to the British National Maritime Museum, the solstices are the time when the Sun is at its furthest from the celestial equator and these occur in mid-summer and mid-winter. Incidentally, the British celebrate their midsummer's day on either the 23rd or 24th of June, although their scientists assert that the longest day actually falls on the 21st of June and Wikipedia stresses that “Solstitial celebrations still centre upon 24 June, which is no longer the longest day of the year”.
In geocentrism, we would say: since the month of June the sun travels ever so slightly southward in the ecliptic each day for some six month of the year and each day the daylight becomes shorter. In December the sun halts for a few days in its journey before commencing the slow ascension northward once more for the next six month.
The sun moves in two cycles: 1) it is spiraling downward toward the tropic of Capricorn where the winter solstice occurs and 2) it is spiraling upwards toward the tropic of Cancer where the summer solstice occurs. Amazing thing is that when it reaches these two tropics it stays, for a few days, on the same orbit, or in other words, the sun stands still in declination.
The Inca Festival of the sun (Inti Raymi) marked the winter solstice and a new year in the Andes. One ceremony performed by the Inca priests was the tying of the sun. The ceremony to tie the sun to the stone was to prevent the sun from escaping to the North Pole. In Machu Picchu there is still a large column of stone called an Intihuatana, meaning “hitching post of the sun” or literally for tying the sun. The Roman Church, in order to prevent all critical reflection on Copernicus's book, ordered the Spanish conquistadors to suppress all Inti Festivals, and to destroy all the intihuatana. One was preserved because the Spanish conquest never found Machu Picchu.. The perennial Roman heliocentrism is reflected in the pagan wheel of the year on the surface of St. Peter's Square in front of St. Peter's Church (see www.canadafirst.net/our_heritrage/solstice/). Since 1944, a theatrical representation of the Inti Raymi has been taking place at Sacsayhuaman (one mile from Cusco) on June 24 of each year, attracting thousands of local visitors and tourists.
The main change caused by the Copernican Revolution was the acceptance of the belief that “Science” has disproved the Bible. And thus, the Copernican Revolution began a process of replacing the Bible with “Science” as the new source of Absolute Truth proclaimed especially by the Moscow Pravda. “The geocentric Jew lacks soul” declared the chief Nazi ideologue A. Rosenberg inspired by Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit paleontologist and hoaxer who was mourning his Church’s unwillingness to incorporate what Science had discovered, into its understanding of the world, criticizing especially the “geocentricity” to which she clung psychologically for four hundred years after she had ceased to support it astronomically. E Chardin wrote: “Christianity’s only chance to grow lay in her being born again among the Gentiles because only the Gentiles had retained their pagan taste for the Earth.” Indeed, the Nazis demonstrated their pagan taste for the earth” by hugging it before every battle, exactly like Pope John Paul II did on his every “pilgrimage.”
The Roman historian Pliny observed in his Natural History: “We are so much at the mercy of chance that Chance herself, by whom G-d is proved uncertain, takes the place of G-d”. Like in Ch. Darwin's books. In contradistinction, the Torah stresses: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” (Ecc 3:1) So, G-d designed the solstices for a purpose. Can this purpose be discerned? The answer is a resounding yes. The solstices are the most convincing proof of the truth of the G-d inspired Torah's astronomy. If the sun, having reached the solstitial tropics, reversed its spiral movement without staying on the same orbit for a few days we would not have this formidable argument against the heliohoax.
In order to fully comprehend this problem imagine substituting the speeding earth for the spiraling sun. The dead end arises when you try to explain a few days of the same length in the helioscheme. Because in this scheme the earth moves on the circular orbit of the ecliptic i.e. it moves downward or upward which also means that for half a year the days age growing shorter or on the upward turn – longer. They never stay the same, not on a few consecutive days of the year. In order to explain the solstices in heliocentrism we have to assume that at a certain point of of its travel the earth comes to a sudden stop, or, that its speed goes down from 20 miles per second to 0, and after a few days it suddenly jumps from 0 to 20 miles per second. Apocalyptic consequences of such an assumption for the life on earth are obvious unless you are so blinded by your helioreligion that you reject any rational argument. And besides, such an assumption thrashes the boondoggle of Newton's Principia.
If the earth stands still for a few days it means that after that it has to increase its speed to make up for this delay, but that also means that covering more distance, thanks to the increased speed, would result in disproportionate increase of daylight on the upward travel of the earth and respectively decrease on the downward turn. Keep in mind the difference: the trajectory of the sun in geocentrism is spiral; the trajectory of the earth in the helioscheme is circular or elliptical if you prefer Kepler and Newton to Copernicus and Galileo.
When you introduce the moon into the solstitial equation, you'll have to conclude that the solstitial areas are governed by a totally different set of physical laws that contradict the boondoggle hidden behind the Newton's apple.
The authors who by their tables of date and time of solstices and equinoxes point to the empirically verifiable fact of the “sun” reaching the highest or lowest points in its travel around the earth miss the point, namely that it is the earth that stands still in declination (See, for example, the table of summer and winter solstices set up by the British National Maritime Museum at www.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.3843) . The assertion that the summer solstices are the longest and shortest days of the year, and, that after the solstice, the days begin to get shorter or longer are simply not true. But on such false descriptions the helioboondoggle thrives since centuries.
Let me confront them with astronomical facts that totally destroy these deceptive manipulations. I will use for my presentation a Soviet calendar of the year 1989 because the Soviet astronomers are beyond any suspicion that they might manipulate the astronomical data. Copernicus being highly praised by K. Marx and F. Engels was embraced by them as a patron “saint” of their materialistic, atheistic ideology.
Here is their time of sunrises and sunsets on a few consecutive days in June and December of 1989: on June 20 the sun rose at 4.43 and set at 22.20; on June 21 again, sunrise at 4.43 and sunset at 22.20; on June 22, the same, sunrise at 4.43 and sunset at 22.20 and finally, on June 23 still the same, sunrise at 4.43 and sunset at 22.10. So, in effect we have not one longest day but four. Only on June 24 the sun rose one minute later (at 4.44) and set one minute later (at 22.21). We have the same situation on June 25, which means that we have 6 longest days of 17 h 37' daylight. For four consecutive days the earth stood still in declination, which literally means that it did not move upward on its elliptical trajectory. Then it moved a little bit up to stood again for two days.
In the same year the Soviets had seven shortest days of 6 h 57' daylight between December 18 and 24 although not in the same time frame: on Dec. 18 and 19 the sun rose at 8:58 and set at 15.55; on Dec. 20 and 21 the sun rose at 8.59 and set at 15.56; on Dec. 22 and 23 the sun rose at 9.00 and set at 15.57 and on Dec 24 the sun rose at 9.01 and set 15.58
In other words, in 1989 the earth stood still for 13 days. In helioscheme the earth covers the distance of 1, 728.000 miles per day and night and that means that on the remaining part of its trajectory the earth had to make up for over twenty million miles. Nobody, so far, explained the causes of these sudden stops and jump start accelerations.
In the year 2002 the Poles had only two longest days: on June 20 (sr 4.14- ss 21.01)* and on June 21 (sr 4.14 – ss 21.01). June 22 was one minute shorter. During the winter solstice they had the shortest day on December 21 (sr 7.43 – ss 15.25). But here is a surprise, December 22 was one minute longer (sr 7.43 – ss 15.26) but December 23 was, contrary to the rule, one minute shorter, exactly like the shortest day, although in a different time frame sr 7.44 – ss 15.26). December 24 was one minute longer (sr 7.44 – ss 15.27) but December 25 was again one minute shorter (sr 7.45 – 15.27). The Polish proverb says that it is only on New Year's Day that the daylight is really longer “by a ram's jump” (Na Nowy Rok przybywa dnia na barni skok).
*According to the table set up by the National Maritime Museum the summer solstice in 2002 occurred on 21 June, 13.24
*According to the same source, the winter solstice occurred 22 December, 07.04
Consider in this context the dogmas of Copernicus's contradicted by the results of Kepler's researches.. The Polish Bombastes Furioso aka Sir Lucius O'Trigger hypothesized:
Planets move in perfect circles
Planets move in constant speed
Sun at the center of these orbits
But Kepler showed:
Planets move in ellipses
Planetary speed varies constantly
Sun is not quite at the center of the planetary orbits
Which “heliotruth” do you believe in? Is International Space Station moving in a perfect circle or rather in a perfect ellipse? Does it move in constant speed or rather its speed varies constantly? How do you drink weightless water in zero gravity? How do you get rid of water after taking bath in a bathtub? Is a shower possible in zero gravity? I reflect on these question day and night since I saw the picture of the toilet installed aboard the ISS. Believe me,. it's a real monster.
But, of course, there is more evidence that the earth is not moving and I will share this evidence with you.
The above described facts prove beyond any doubt that the geocentric astronomy of the Torah is true and truly G-d's inspired teaching. The book of the Copernican astrology was supposed to convince humankind that G-d of the Bible is an ignoramus or that the claims of Jews in presenting their Book as G-d inspired are nothing but a delusion. Which also means that Jewish claims to the G-d Promised Land are totally baseless and, therefore, the World has a right to ignore them, which they demonstrate by their Goliath conferences. So now if your trust in Science of the Bible has been restored, you'll read the following prophecies with your hearts ready to embrace them.
“Even if you are dispersed to the ends of the heavens, from there will YHWH your G-d gather you and from there will He take you up. And YHWH your G-d will bring you to the Land which your ancestors have inherited and you shall inherit it. And He will do well by you, and make you more numerous than your ancestors.” (Dt.30:4,5)
And the prophet Jeremiah said the same:
“The days are coming,” declares YHWH, “when men will no longer say, ‘as surely as the Lord lives who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ but they will say, ‘as surely as YHWH lives who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the North and out of all the countries where he banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land that I gave to their forefathers…Then they will know that my name is YHWH.” Jer. 16:14-16, 21).
No human effort can thwart G-d’s purpose. An ancient wisdom says that one of G-d's side is a majority.
Reading the proceeding of numerous symposia, one is struck by the difference in the speeches of European and Arab parties. The Europeans employ cautious language, admiring and flattering Islam. The Arab faction, on the contrary, adopts the tone of a schoolmaster wielding the stick, confident of the tolerance, humanism and greatness of its civilization, the spiritual and scientific fountainhead of Europe. Keep in mind, the Phallic architecture of Al-Aqsa Mosque foreshadowed Averroes' heliocentrism, embraced by St. Thomas Aquinas and then by Copernicus and the Catholic Europe.
Hitler used the Copernican heliocentrism as the proof of the racial superiority of the Aryans which gave him the right to exterminate “racially impaired Jewish vermin” expressed in the Vatican-inspired slogan Juda verrecke. It came then as no surprise that he found his most loyal collaborator in the person of Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin whose clan encompassed the family of the future Nazi terrorist Y. Arafat.
YHWH vs. Arab Science
Since Plato, all heliocentrists use the same deceiving trick: whenever they cannot explain certain phenomena in terms of heliocentric philosophy they revert to geocentric language or intermingle heliocentrism with geocentrism. The following excerpt from Wkipedia (entry: Solstice) is a typical sample of this doubletalk: “A solstice occurs twice a year, whenever Earth's axis tilts the most toward or away from the Sun, causing the Sun to be farthest north or south at noon. The name is derived from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still), because at the solstice, the Sun stands still in declination, that is, its movement north or south is minimal.
According to the British National Maritime Museum, the solstices are the time when the Sun is at its furthest from the celestial equator and these occur in mid-summer and mid-winter. Incidentally, the British celebrate their midsummer's day on either the 23rd or 24th of June, although their scientists assert that the longest day actually falls on the 21st of June and Wikipedia stresses that “Solstitial celebrations still centre upon 24 June, which is no longer the longest day of the year”.
In geocentrism, we would say: since the month of June the sun travels ever so slightly southward in the ecliptic each day for some six month of the year and each day the daylight becomes shorter. In December the sun halts for a few days in its journey before commencing the slow ascension northward once more for the next six month.
The sun moves in two cycles: 1) it is spiraling downward toward the tropic of Capricorn where the winter solstice occurs and 2) it is spiraling upwards toward the tropic of Cancer where the summer solstice occurs. Amazing thing is that when it reaches these two tropics it stays, for a few days, on the same orbit, or in other words, the sun stands still in declination.
The Inca Festival of the sun (Inti Raymi) marked the winter solstice and a new year in the Andes. One ceremony performed by the Inca priests was the tying of the sun. The ceremony to tie the sun to the stone was to prevent the sun from escaping to the North Pole. In Machu Picchu there is still a large column of stone called an Intihuatana, meaning “hitching post of the sun” or literally for tying the sun. The Roman Church, in order to prevent all critical reflection on Copernicus's book, ordered the Spanish conquistadors to suppress all Inti Festivals, and to destroy all the intihuatana. One was preserved because the Spanish conquest never found Machu Picchu.. The perennial Roman heliocentrism is reflected in the pagan wheel of the year on the surface of St. Peter's Square in front of St. Peter's Church (see www.canadafirst.net/our_heritrage/solstice/). Since 1944, a theatrical representation of the Inti Raymi has been taking place at Sacsayhuaman (one mile from Cusco) on June 24 of each year, attracting thousands of local visitors and tourists.
The main change caused by the Copernican Revolution was the acceptance of the belief that “Science” has disproved the Bible. And thus, the Copernican Revolution began a process of replacing the Bible with “Science” as the new source of Absolute Truth proclaimed especially by the Moscow Pravda. “The geocentric Jew lacks soul” declared the chief Nazi ideologue A. Rosenberg inspired by Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit paleontologist and hoaxer who was mourning his Church’s unwillingness to incorporate what Science had discovered, into its understanding of the world, criticizing especially the “geocentricity” to which she clung psychologically for four hundred years after she had ceased to support it astronomically. E Chardin wrote: “Christianity’s only chance to grow lay in her being born again among the Gentiles because only the Gentiles had retained their pagan taste for the Earth.” Indeed, the Nazis demonstrated their pagan taste for the earth” by hugging it before every battle, exactly like Pope John Paul II did on his every “pilgrimage.”
The Roman historian Pliny observed in his Natural History: “We are so much at the mercy of chance that Chance herself, by whom G-d is proved uncertain, takes the place of G-d”. Like in Ch. Darwin's books. In contradistinction, the Torah stresses: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” (Ecc 3:1) So, G-d designed the solstices for a purpose. Can this purpose be discerned? The answer is a resounding yes. The solstices are the most convincing proof of the truth of the G-d inspired Torah's astronomy. If the sun, having reached the solstitial tropics, reversed its spiral movement without staying on the same orbit for a few days we would not have this formidable argument against the heliohoax.
In order to fully comprehend this problem imagine substituting the speeding earth for the spiraling sun. The dead end arises when you try to explain a few days of the same length in the helioscheme. Because in this scheme the earth moves on the circular orbit of the ecliptic i.e. it moves downward or upward which also means that for half a year the days age growing shorter or on the upward turn – longer. They never stay the same, not on a few consecutive days of the year. In order to explain the solstices in heliocentrism we have to assume that at a certain point of of its travel the earth comes to a sudden stop, or, that its speed goes down from 20 miles per second to 0, and after a few days it suddenly jumps from 0 to 20 miles per second. Apocalyptic consequences of such an assumption for the life on earth are obvious unless you are so blinded by your helioreligion that you reject any rational argument. And besides, such an assumption thrashes the boondoggle of Newton's Principia.
If the earth stands still for a few days it means that after that it has to increase its speed to make up for this delay, but that also means that covering more distance, thanks to the increased speed, would result in disproportionate increase of daylight on the upward travel of the earth and respectively decrease on the downward turn. Keep in mind the difference: the trajectory of the sun in geocentrism is spiral; the trajectory of the earth in the helioscheme is circular or elliptical if you prefer Kepler and Newton to Copernicus and Galileo.
When you introduce the moon into the solstitial equation, you'll have to conclude that the solstitial areas are governed by a totally different set of physical laws that contradict the boondoggle hidden behind the Newton's apple.
The authors who by their tables of date and time of solstices and equinoxes point to the empirically verifiable fact of the “sun” reaching the highest or lowest points in its travel around the earth miss the point, namely that it is the earth that stands still in declination (See, for example, the table of summer and winter solstices set up by the British National Maritime Museum at www.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.3843) . The assertion that the summer solstices are the longest and shortest days of the year, and, that after the solstice, the days begin to get shorter or longer are simply not true. But on such false descriptions the helioboondoggle thrives since centuries.
Let me confront them with astronomical facts that totally destroy these deceptive manipulations. I will use for my presentation a Soviet calendar of the year 1989 because the Soviet astronomers are beyond any suspicion that they might manipulate the astronomical data. Copernicus being highly praised by K. Marx and F. Engels was embraced by them as a patron “saint” of their materialistic, atheistic ideology.
Here is their time of sunrises and sunsets on a few consecutive days in June and December of 1989: on June 20 the sun rose at 4.43 and set at 22.20; on June 21 again, sunrise at 4.43 and sunset at 22.20; on June 22, the same, sunrise at 4.43 and sunset at 22.20 and finally, on June 23 still the same, sunrise at 4.43 and sunset at 22.10. So, in effect we have not one longest day but four. Only on June 24 the sun rose one minute later (at 4.44) and set one minute later (at 22.21). We have the same situation on June 25, which means that we have 6 longest days of 17 h 37' daylight. For four consecutive days the earth stood still in declination, which literally means that it did not move upward on its elliptical trajectory. Then it moved a little bit up to stood again for two days.
In the same year the Soviets had seven shortest days of 6 h 57' daylight between December 18 and 24 although not in the same time frame: on Dec. 18 and 19 the sun rose at 8:58 and set at 15.55; on Dec. 20 and 21 the sun rose at 8.59 and set at 15.56; on Dec. 22 and 23 the sun rose at 9.00 and set at 15.57 and on Dec 24 the sun rose at 9.01 and set 15.58
In other words, in 1989 the earth stood still for 13 days. In helioscheme the earth covers the distance of 1, 728.000 miles per day and night and that means that on the remaining part of its trajectory the earth had to make up for over twenty million miles. Nobody, so far, explained the causes of these sudden stops and jump start accelerations.
In the year 2002 the Poles had only two longest days: on June 20 (sr 4.14- ss 21.01)* and on June 21 (sr 4.14 – ss 21.01). June 22 was one minute shorter. During the winter solstice they had the shortest day on December 21 (sr 7.43 – ss 15.25). But here is a surprise, December 22 was one minute longer (sr 7.43 – ss 15.26) but December 23 was, contrary to the rule, one minute shorter, exactly like the shortest day, although in a different time frame sr 7.44 – ss 15.26). December 24 was one minute longer (sr 7.44 – ss 15.27) but December 25 was again one minute shorter (sr 7.45 – 15.27). The Polish proverb says that it is only on New Year's Day that the daylight is really longer “by a ram's jump” (Na Nowy Rok przybywa dnia na barni skok).
*According to the table set up by the National Maritime Museum the summer solstice in 2002 occurred on 21 June, 13.24
*According to the same source, the winter solstice occurred 22 December, 07.04
Consider in this context the dogmas of Copernicus's contradicted by the results of Kepler's researches.. The Polish Bombastes Furioso aka Sir Lucius O'Trigger hypothesized:
Planets move in perfect circles
Planets move in constant speed
Sun at the center of these orbits
But Kepler showed:
Planets move in ellipses
Planetary speed varies constantly
Sun is not quite at the center of the planetary orbits
Which “heliotruth” do you believe in? Is International Space Station moving in a perfect circle or rather in a perfect ellipse? Does it move in constant speed or rather its speed varies constantly? How do you drink weightless water in zero gravity? How do you get rid of water after taking bath in a bathtub? Is a shower possible in zero gravity? I reflect on these question day and night since I saw the picture of the toilet installed aboard the ISS. Believe me,. it's a real monster.
But, of course, there is more evidence that the earth is not moving and I will share this evidence with you.
The above described facts prove beyond any doubt that the geocentric astronomy of the Torah is true and truly G-d's inspired teaching. The book of the Copernican astrology was supposed to convince humankind that G-d of the Bible is an ignoramus or that the claims of Jews in presenting their Book as G-d inspired are nothing but a delusion. Which also means that Jewish claims to the G-d Promised Land are totally baseless and, therefore, the World has a right to ignore them, which they demonstrate by their Goliath conferences. So now if your trust in Science of the Bible has been restored, you'll read the following prophecies with your hearts ready to embrace them.
“Even if you are dispersed to the ends of the heavens, from there will YHWH your G-d gather you and from there will He take you up. And YHWH your G-d will bring you to the Land which your ancestors have inherited and you shall inherit it. And He will do well by you, and make you more numerous than your ancestors.” (Dt.30:4,5)
And the prophet Jeremiah said the same:
“The days are coming,” declares YHWH, “when men will no longer say, ‘as surely as the Lord lives who brought the Israelites up out of Egypt,’ but they will say, ‘as surely as YHWH lives who brought the Israelites up out of the land of the North and out of all the countries where he banished them.’ For I will restore them to the land that I gave to their forefathers…Then they will know that my name is YHWH.” Jer. 16:14-16, 21).
No human effort can thwart G-d’s purpose. An ancient wisdom says that one of G-d's side is a majority.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
About Myself
Roman Pytel, Ph. D.
1958-1962 - Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland; was majoring in Hebrew Language and Biblical Studies.
1961-1972 - Researcher at the Jewish Museum in Cracow.
1964-1965 - Scholarship awarded by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1972-1974 - Head of the Library at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
1974-1975 - Lecturer at the Institute of Religious Studies of the Cracow University.
1981 - After 6 years of unemployment and every possible humiliation forced to leave the country.
2000-2009 - Security Guard.
1982-1996 Editorial Assistant Life of Polonia, weekly Brooklyn, NY
Evaluated editorial submission for publication.
Wrote and contributed editorial content to the magazine
1981-1982 Cataloging Assistant Yale University Library, New Haven, CT
Pre-catalogue searching and cataloging books
My Most Important Publications
Exegese von Psalm 135:17; in: Folia Orientalia, XI (1969)
Psalm 151; in: Proceedings of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences 1969)
Unknown Jewish Diary Found in Auschwitz; decipherment and translation into Polish;
in: Zeszyty Oświęcimskie (1970)
Psalm 139:15 – Versuch einer neuen Deutung; in: Folia Orientalia, XIII (1971)
A New Explanation of Psalm 21 – Lecture in: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (1979)
Secrets of Medieval Art: Crucifixion of Jesus – Lecture in: Association of Polish Jews (1979)
The Trial of Jesus: History and Mythology – the same place (1980)
Hieroglyphs of the First Chapters of the Book of Bereshit (Genesis) and their anti-Christian Significance; in: Association of Polish Jews (1980)
Who Was Krak? – Lecture about unknown rudiments of Christianity in Poland; in Polish Associations of Friends of Cracow (1978). Krak was to first Polish ruler who killed the pagan helioreligion. The oldest Polish coins the so-called brakteats bear Polish inscriptions with Hebrew characters, for instance: Meszko, kral Polski (Mieszko, King of Poland) The earliest historical evidence about existence of mines of salt, silver and gold is contained in Rashi's commentary on the Book of Prophet Nahum. Latin evidence comes from a later period.
Unknown Portrait of Krak (the First Polish Christian King) and its Significance for the History of Poland – article in Dziennik Polski (Polish Daily News) May 31, 1980 (this portrait was published by a Jewish publishing house).
Unknown Document for the History of Jews in Cracow (The oldest Polish Synagogue the so-called Alte Shul in Cracow was a part of the oldest Polish University which had been destroyed by radical Catholic mob in the XIV century – Lecture in: Association of Polish Jews (1979)
Zapomnina Astronomia z Kięgi Joba (The Forgotten Astronomy of the Book of Job; with special attention to the heliocentric diagram of Canaan unearthed by Israeli archaeologists) – Lecture in: Polish Oriental Society, May 25, 1977
Symbolism of Mythological Dragon and of Serpent of Gan Eden – Lecture in: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978)
On 25 May 1977 I delivered at the Polish Oriental Society a lecture about Geocentric Astronomy of the Book of Job –"He stretched out the North over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7) – A heliocentric diagram from the period before Joshua's conquest unearthed in Israel confirms that the ancient Jews knew the heliocentric system elaborated later by Pythagoras, but rejected it (The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish mentions that the sun god Marduk established the orbit of the earth around the sun). The Biblical Secretaries of God knew about the relativity of the sunlight and therefore could not accept the heliocentric sun as the Light of the World and a Visible God. My article "At the Sources of the Copernican Heliocentrism" was printed in the "Urania" 1/1981/LII, monthly of the Polish Association of the Friends of Astronomy. Belief in Heliocentrism means belief in the sun god "seated on the royal throne" and ruling the world. (De revol. I,10)
Heliocentrical Astronomy before Copernicus – Lecture in: Polish Astronautical Association (1980)
From My Archive:
On March 26, 1982 Dean F. Fischer, Assistant Secretary in the State Department wrote to me replying my message to Secretary Haig regarding the U.S. Response to recent events in Poland:
“...We have been working closely with our Allies on the Polish issue. At a January Special Ministerial Session of the NATO Council, the Allies issued a Declaration on Poland in which the agreed to: 1) condemn Soviet complicity in the suppression of internationally recognized human rights in Poland, 2) discuss Poland at the Madrid Meeting of the conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), and 3) identify possibilities for action in planning further restrictions on Polish and Soviet diplomatic missions and in reducing scientific and technical exchange activities. We have also been in touch with other countries on the question of providing sanctuary to Polish refugees...I am pleased to enclose a copy of recent speech by Secretary Haig which outlines our policy on Poland.”
On April 29, 1993 Father Gregory Mustaciuolo, Secretary to the Cardinal wrote to me:
On behalf of Cardinal O'Connor, I acknowledge receipt of your letter of 27 April. His Eminence is always grateful to those who are willing to share with him their thoughts and concerns.
Know that His Eminence will remember you in his prayers as he offers the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Please pray for him, as well, as he continues in his enormous responsibilities as the Archbishop of New York. With prayerful best wishes.
President G.W. Bush honored the late John Cardinal O'Connor, with the Congressional Gold Medal (New York Post, July 11, 2001)
On July 25, 1993 Eitan Haber wrote to me,
On behalf of the Prime Minister, Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, thank you for your letter dated July 6, the contents of which have been noted.
On August 22, 1994, Pavel Seifter Director Foreign Policy Department of Czech Republic wrote to me,
On behalf of President Vaclav Havel, please allow me to reply to your letter of March 14. Firstly, I hope you will forgive the delay in replying.
President Havel would agree with you that, in this rapidly changing and transforming era, it is necessary to find some basic values which can bring greater security and meaning to life. He has often warned of the danger of those who think of man as the center of the universe, thus separating humans from the world around us and making it appear that we have no one to whom we answer. Because of such philosophies, the former regimes throughout the region left behind environments that were deeply damaged and societies which can form the basis of strong and healthy democracies of the modern age. The President supports those, like you, who are engaged in this important task. He joins me in wishing you all the best. Please accept also the assurances of my highest regards.
1958-1962 - Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland; was majoring in Hebrew Language and Biblical Studies.
1961-1972 - Researcher at the Jewish Museum in Cracow.
1964-1965 - Scholarship awarded by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
1972-1974 - Head of the Library at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
1974-1975 - Lecturer at the Institute of Religious Studies of the Cracow University.
1981 - After 6 years of unemployment and every possible humiliation forced to leave the country.
2000-2009 - Security Guard.
1982-1996 Editorial Assistant Life of Polonia, weekly Brooklyn, NY
Evaluated editorial submission for publication.
Wrote and contributed editorial content to the magazine
1981-1982 Cataloging Assistant Yale University Library, New Haven, CT
Pre-catalogue searching and cataloging books
My Most Important Publications
Exegese von Psalm 135:17; in: Folia Orientalia, XI (1969)
Psalm 151; in: Proceedings of Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences 1969)
Unknown Jewish Diary Found in Auschwitz; decipherment and translation into Polish;
in: Zeszyty Oświęcimskie (1970)
Psalm 139:15 – Versuch einer neuen Deutung; in: Folia Orientalia, XIII (1971)
A New Explanation of Psalm 21 – Lecture in: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (1979)
Secrets of Medieval Art: Crucifixion of Jesus – Lecture in: Association of Polish Jews (1979)
The Trial of Jesus: History and Mythology – the same place (1980)
Hieroglyphs of the First Chapters of the Book of Bereshit (Genesis) and their anti-Christian Significance; in: Association of Polish Jews (1980)
Who Was Krak? – Lecture about unknown rudiments of Christianity in Poland; in Polish Associations of Friends of Cracow (1978). Krak was to first Polish ruler who killed the pagan helioreligion. The oldest Polish coins the so-called brakteats bear Polish inscriptions with Hebrew characters, for instance: Meszko, kral Polski (Mieszko, King of Poland) The earliest historical evidence about existence of mines of salt, silver and gold is contained in Rashi's commentary on the Book of Prophet Nahum. Latin evidence comes from a later period.
Unknown Portrait of Krak (the First Polish Christian King) and its Significance for the History of Poland – article in Dziennik Polski (Polish Daily News) May 31, 1980 (this portrait was published by a Jewish publishing house).
Unknown Document for the History of Jews in Cracow (The oldest Polish Synagogue the so-called Alte Shul in Cracow was a part of the oldest Polish University which had been destroyed by radical Catholic mob in the XIV century – Lecture in: Association of Polish Jews (1979)
Zapomnina Astronomia z Kięgi Joba (The Forgotten Astronomy of the Book of Job; with special attention to the heliocentric diagram of Canaan unearthed by Israeli archaeologists) – Lecture in: Polish Oriental Society, May 25, 1977
Symbolism of Mythological Dragon and of Serpent of Gan Eden – Lecture in: Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (1978)
On 25 May 1977 I delivered at the Polish Oriental Society a lecture about Geocentric Astronomy of the Book of Job –"He stretched out the North over the empty place and hangeth the earth upon nothing" (Job 26:7) – A heliocentric diagram from the period before Joshua's conquest unearthed in Israel confirms that the ancient Jews knew the heliocentric system elaborated later by Pythagoras, but rejected it (The Babylonian epic Enuma Elish mentions that the sun god Marduk established the orbit of the earth around the sun). The Biblical Secretaries of God knew about the relativity of the sunlight and therefore could not accept the heliocentric sun as the Light of the World and a Visible God. My article "At the Sources of the Copernican Heliocentrism" was printed in the "Urania" 1/1981/LII, monthly of the Polish Association of the Friends of Astronomy. Belief in Heliocentrism means belief in the sun god "seated on the royal throne" and ruling the world. (De revol. I,10)
Heliocentrical Astronomy before Copernicus – Lecture in: Polish Astronautical Association (1980)
From My Archive:
On March 26, 1982 Dean F. Fischer, Assistant Secretary in the State Department wrote to me replying my message to Secretary Haig regarding the U.S. Response to recent events in Poland:
“...We have been working closely with our Allies on the Polish issue. At a January Special Ministerial Session of the NATO Council, the Allies issued a Declaration on Poland in which the agreed to: 1) condemn Soviet complicity in the suppression of internationally recognized human rights in Poland, 2) discuss Poland at the Madrid Meeting of the conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), and 3) identify possibilities for action in planning further restrictions on Polish and Soviet diplomatic missions and in reducing scientific and technical exchange activities. We have also been in touch with other countries on the question of providing sanctuary to Polish refugees...I am pleased to enclose a copy of recent speech by Secretary Haig which outlines our policy on Poland.”
On April 29, 1993 Father Gregory Mustaciuolo, Secretary to the Cardinal wrote to me:
On behalf of Cardinal O'Connor, I acknowledge receipt of your letter of 27 April. His Eminence is always grateful to those who are willing to share with him their thoughts and concerns.
Know that His Eminence will remember you in his prayers as he offers the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Please pray for him, as well, as he continues in his enormous responsibilities as the Archbishop of New York. With prayerful best wishes.
President G.W. Bush honored the late John Cardinal O'Connor, with the Congressional Gold Medal (New York Post, July 11, 2001)
On July 25, 1993 Eitan Haber wrote to me,
On behalf of the Prime Minister, Mr. Yitzhak Rabin, thank you for your letter dated July 6, the contents of which have been noted.
On August 22, 1994, Pavel Seifter Director Foreign Policy Department of Czech Republic wrote to me,
On behalf of President Vaclav Havel, please allow me to reply to your letter of March 14. Firstly, I hope you will forgive the delay in replying.
President Havel would agree with you that, in this rapidly changing and transforming era, it is necessary to find some basic values which can bring greater security and meaning to life. He has often warned of the danger of those who think of man as the center of the universe, thus separating humans from the world around us and making it appear that we have no one to whom we answer. Because of such philosophies, the former regimes throughout the region left behind environments that were deeply damaged and societies which can form the basis of strong and healthy democracies of the modern age. The President supports those, like you, who are engaged in this important task. He joins me in wishing you all the best. Please accept also the assurances of my highest regards.
Rome's Perennial Heliocentrism
Frank Cumont in his Astrology and Religion Among the Greeks and Romans wrote: “From astronomical speculations the Chaldeans had deduced a whole system of religious dogmas. The sun, set in the midst of the superimposed planets, regulates their harmonious movements. As its heat impels them forward, then draws them back, it is constantly influencing, according to its various aspects, the direction of their course and their action upon the earth. Fiery heart of the world, it vivifies the whole of this great organism, and as the stars obey its command, it reigns supreme over the universe. The radiance of its splendor illuminates the divine immensity of the heavens, but at the same time in its brilliance there is intelligence; it is the origin of all reason, and, as a tireless sower it scatters unceasingly on the world below the seeds of a harvest of souls. Our brief life is but a particular form of the universal life…This coherent and magnificent theology, founded upon the discoveries of ancient astronomy in its zenith, gradually imposed on mankind the cult of the “Invincible Sun” as the master of all nature, creator and preserver of men.”
Vitruvius with reference to Varro (116-27) explains, in his presentation of astronomy, the forward and backward movements of stars in this way: “Like heat, at first loosens and then attracts to itself all things…for the same reason the powerful influence of the sun attracts with its rays the stars to itself and does not let them move forward, but forces them to return to itself.” Vitruvius was a Newton of classical Rome.
There is an interesting issue connected with the conflict between the Torah and philosophical science. It was Aristotle’s belief that there are rules which objects are, by their very nature, forced to obey without the need for divine intervention. It is this idea that is prevalent in science today; there are natural laws that determine the behavior of inanimate objects without the intervention of higher authority. It is always possible to argue who or what determines these natural laws, whether there is some underlying will behind all of this. But that lies beyond the reach of science (at least in its present form), not because the question is of no interest, but because it cannot be probed using the reliable framework provided by the scientific method.
The logic of natural laws goes like that: Before the beginning of the earth, before the primal generation of anything, the law of gravity existed sitting there, having no mass of its own. We believe the disembodied words of Sir I. Newton were sitting in the middle of nowhere billions of years before he was born and that, magically, he discovered these words. They were always there even when they applied to nothing. Gradually the world came into being and then they applied to it. We can identify these disembodied words with the Logos of the Gospel of John. Actually Newton himself did that when he identified gravity with the spiritual body of Jesus Christ in his article De aere et aethere.
The gist of Einstein’s view on religion was summed up by himself in 1941, as follows: “ In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god,…that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself.” And that explains why Copernicus’ identification of the sun with a personal god of mythology is unacceptable for the modern scientists. Such identification turns their science into a form of divination practiced in the shrines of ancient sun gods. And that explains why scientists censor the most important passage in Copernicus's book in which he expressed the Renaissance return to pagan sources of the Roman religion. The scientists cannot do their math if the world is ruled by personal God and the simple folks cannot stand the emptiness of the world ruled by their mathematical equations.
And that also explains another important phenomenon in the human history: the identification of the Roman law with the Natural Law in contradistinction to the revelation of the Biblical Law by Personal God bearing personal name YHWH.
In an aristocratic, militaristic, landed society, the interests of the ruling class can be expressed in terms of law. Law cannot deal with perceptions and emotions – with love, beauty, joy, or sadness – but it deals well with family property, state power, class privilege, and military force. A familial, paternalistic state is rule conscious, and its most meaning is expressed in rules. Even today, the dominant legal tradition of Europe, from Paris to Moscow, is Roman; every western country has a legal system based on Roman Natural Law i.e. law emanating from their sun god.
In Thomas Digges's translation of The Revolutions the sun is “like the king in the middest of al who reigneth and geeveth lawes of motion to ye rest.” In this translation the sun stands for abstract Nature, or the essential inherent force formed by the assumption of a single prima cause, like the Aristotelian Prime Mover. In the world of Prime Mover character of man is produced by “gym rooms”. This was also the doctrine of the English public schools in spite of the fact that human actions are not simply bodily movements. Natural man was a child of natural philosophy according to the dogma of natural selection.
Natural Man portrayed in Tharsymachean guise has two main characteristics. His psychological make-up is simple: he is out to get what he wants, and what he wants is narrowly circumscribed. Power and pleasure are his exclusive interests. But to get what he wants this wolf has to wear the sheep clothing of the conventional moral values. His masquerade can only be carried through by putting the conventional moral vocabulary to the service of his private purposes. He must say in the law courts and the assembly what people want to hear, so that they will put power into his hands. Thus the arête of such a man is to learn the craft (special skill), the techne, of molding people by rhetoric. He must take them by the ear before he takes them by the throat.
On the highest theoretical level, Roman law was believed to be a reflection of reason, or of “natural law”. The concept of natural law (taken from Stoic philosophy) assumes that the world operates according to rational principles, that there are universal principles of reason. The law of the state was regarded as the positive, detailed implementation of natural law, and any law that was repugnant to reason had to be a bad law. That’s why impersonal sun god of heliocentrism defined as abstract ‘Mind’ and ‘Ruler of the Universe’ is so important in this system! And that also explains Paul's aversion to Jewish Law (Torah). The Roman Commonwealth was to be ruled by the impersonal Natural Laws.
Emperor Septimus Severus proposed to bring all his subjects together under the worship of Sol Invictus – the Unconquered Sun – and to subsume under that worship all the various religions and philosophies then current. All gods were to be accepted, as long as one acknowledged the Sun (Now referred to as Energy) that reigned above all.
The Pagan Heliocentrism Was Always Present in the Scholastic Philosophy
T. Campanella in his Apologia pro Galileo (Defense of Galileo) Frankfurt 1623 argued as follows, According to the testimony of Laertius, Plutarch, Aristotle, and Galen, Pythagoras first announced to the Gentiles his marvelous doctrine of the motion of the earth, of the sun in the center, and of systems in heaven. He informs them that the moon is another earth, and that the four elements, not to mention water, exist in the stars. Copernicus began to develop his system from the preceding contributions of the Pythagoreans, motivated by the observations of Francesco Maria. The disciple of Pythagoras, Timaeus Locrus, demonstrated by mathematics the diurnal rotation of the earth, and Philolaus of Crotona – the annual revolution of the earth (also by mathematics!) Copernicus then added the motion of libration from the pattern of the motion devised by Thebit of Babylon and King Alphonso of Spain. That such a motion was necessary St. Thomas Aquinas also suggested in Metaphysics from statements of Simplicius. Aquinas's embrace of heliocentrism was brought about by the Arab atheist philosopher Averroes
Aristotle testifies, that Pythagoras, who located the place of punishment in the center of the earth and made fire the cause of motion, described the earth as mobile and animate. So Ovid believes in “Metamorphoses”, Origin in his commentary on Ezechiel, and Plato. It is essential, if hell be in the center of the earth, for earth to be hot within, and, according to Gregory and others cited in the argument of St. Thomas, to be mobile. The interpretation of Galileo does not oppose the belief of St. Gregory, but rather that of Aristotle.
If the Fathers are correct when they say the firmament stand unmoved, the stars stand with it. When the Master of the “Sentences,” St. Chrysostom, and other fathers declare, in harmony with Catholic faith that the firmament is unmoved, it is necessary that they state the same of the stars much more vigorously. Since the stars are immobile it follows that the earth is carried about as a ship, and that stars appear to be moved just as from a ship an island or a tower on the shore seems in motion.
Roman Church's Patronage of Copernicus
The pressure of the official churchmen, who urged Copernicus to publish his work is manifest in a letter of 1536 to the author by Nicolaus Cardinal Schoenberg, a high ranking member of the Vatican curia: “...For I had learned that over and above your excellent knowledge of the theories of the ancient mathematicians you have founded a new world according to which you state that the earth is moving and the sun is occupying the lowest, i.e. the central place in the universe, and that the eighth heaven is immobile and forever fixed... Thus, learned Sir, I hope that I will not be deemed a nuisance when I urgently request you to communicate your discovery to the learned world.” This letter was published together with Copernicus's book.
Tiedman Giese, bishop of Kulm insisted for a long time on publication representing it to Copernicus as his duty toward science and mankind. Thanks to these encouragements Copernicus dedicated his work to Pope Paul III and in his dedication expressed his hope that the Pope by his “infallible judgment” will be able to silence all critical opinions. And that's what really happened.
On the 16th of August 1820, the Congregation of the Holy Office (formerly known as Inquisition) reported that Settele, the professor of astronomy at Rome and Washington might teach (Venia legendi) the Copernican system as truth established. This meant promotion of T.Paine’s anti-Semitism based on his admiration for heliocentrism of the Greek philosophers and contempt for “barbarity” of Jewish Biblical culture. Quite recently Pope John Paul II recognized evolutionary hypothesis also as truth established. As long as Pope Benedict XVI was one of many cardinals he expressed his criticism of Galileo, but after his election he recanted, which means that evolutionism and heliocentrism are two pillars of of Roman Catholicism.
Already Plato wanted to defend his dogmas with the help of an inquisition. And this tradition endured. The editor who decided to publish Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision” which undermined the heliocentric scheme was dismissed from Doubleday. “Respectable and reputable professors deluged Doubleday with letters threatening to boycott their textbooks if 'Worlds…' was not withdrawn.” (See Norman Storer, Scientists Confront Velikovsky). When a fossil preparatory in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution started speaking out against evolution, he was sacked in this “Land of the Free”. That’s how the American Inquisition works.
Vitruvius with reference to Varro (116-27) explains, in his presentation of astronomy, the forward and backward movements of stars in this way: “Like heat, at first loosens and then attracts to itself all things…for the same reason the powerful influence of the sun attracts with its rays the stars to itself and does not let them move forward, but forces them to return to itself.” Vitruvius was a Newton of classical Rome.
There is an interesting issue connected with the conflict between the Torah and philosophical science. It was Aristotle’s belief that there are rules which objects are, by their very nature, forced to obey without the need for divine intervention. It is this idea that is prevalent in science today; there are natural laws that determine the behavior of inanimate objects without the intervention of higher authority. It is always possible to argue who or what determines these natural laws, whether there is some underlying will behind all of this. But that lies beyond the reach of science (at least in its present form), not because the question is of no interest, but because it cannot be probed using the reliable framework provided by the scientific method.
The logic of natural laws goes like that: Before the beginning of the earth, before the primal generation of anything, the law of gravity existed sitting there, having no mass of its own. We believe the disembodied words of Sir I. Newton were sitting in the middle of nowhere billions of years before he was born and that, magically, he discovered these words. They were always there even when they applied to nothing. Gradually the world came into being and then they applied to it. We can identify these disembodied words with the Logos of the Gospel of John. Actually Newton himself did that when he identified gravity with the spiritual body of Jesus Christ in his article De aere et aethere.
The gist of Einstein’s view on religion was summed up by himself in 1941, as follows: “ In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god,…that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself.” And that explains why Copernicus’ identification of the sun with a personal god of mythology is unacceptable for the modern scientists. Such identification turns their science into a form of divination practiced in the shrines of ancient sun gods. And that explains why scientists censor the most important passage in Copernicus's book in which he expressed the Renaissance return to pagan sources of the Roman religion. The scientists cannot do their math if the world is ruled by personal God and the simple folks cannot stand the emptiness of the world ruled by their mathematical equations.
And that also explains another important phenomenon in the human history: the identification of the Roman law with the Natural Law in contradistinction to the revelation of the Biblical Law by Personal God bearing personal name YHWH.
In an aristocratic, militaristic, landed society, the interests of the ruling class can be expressed in terms of law. Law cannot deal with perceptions and emotions – with love, beauty, joy, or sadness – but it deals well with family property, state power, class privilege, and military force. A familial, paternalistic state is rule conscious, and its most meaning is expressed in rules. Even today, the dominant legal tradition of Europe, from Paris to Moscow, is Roman; every western country has a legal system based on Roman Natural Law i.e. law emanating from their sun god.
In Thomas Digges's translation of The Revolutions the sun is “like the king in the middest of al who reigneth and geeveth lawes of motion to ye rest.” In this translation the sun stands for abstract Nature, or the essential inherent force formed by the assumption of a single prima cause, like the Aristotelian Prime Mover. In the world of Prime Mover character of man is produced by “gym rooms”. This was also the doctrine of the English public schools in spite of the fact that human actions are not simply bodily movements. Natural man was a child of natural philosophy according to the dogma of natural selection.
Natural Man portrayed in Tharsymachean guise has two main characteristics. His psychological make-up is simple: he is out to get what he wants, and what he wants is narrowly circumscribed. Power and pleasure are his exclusive interests. But to get what he wants this wolf has to wear the sheep clothing of the conventional moral values. His masquerade can only be carried through by putting the conventional moral vocabulary to the service of his private purposes. He must say in the law courts and the assembly what people want to hear, so that they will put power into his hands. Thus the arête of such a man is to learn the craft (special skill), the techne, of molding people by rhetoric. He must take them by the ear before he takes them by the throat.
On the highest theoretical level, Roman law was believed to be a reflection of reason, or of “natural law”. The concept of natural law (taken from Stoic philosophy) assumes that the world operates according to rational principles, that there are universal principles of reason. The law of the state was regarded as the positive, detailed implementation of natural law, and any law that was repugnant to reason had to be a bad law. That’s why impersonal sun god of heliocentrism defined as abstract ‘Mind’ and ‘Ruler of the Universe’ is so important in this system! And that also explains Paul's aversion to Jewish Law (Torah). The Roman Commonwealth was to be ruled by the impersonal Natural Laws.
Emperor Septimus Severus proposed to bring all his subjects together under the worship of Sol Invictus – the Unconquered Sun – and to subsume under that worship all the various religions and philosophies then current. All gods were to be accepted, as long as one acknowledged the Sun (Now referred to as Energy) that reigned above all.
The Pagan Heliocentrism Was Always Present in the Scholastic Philosophy
T. Campanella in his Apologia pro Galileo (Defense of Galileo) Frankfurt 1623 argued as follows, According to the testimony of Laertius, Plutarch, Aristotle, and Galen, Pythagoras first announced to the Gentiles his marvelous doctrine of the motion of the earth, of the sun in the center, and of systems in heaven. He informs them that the moon is another earth, and that the four elements, not to mention water, exist in the stars. Copernicus began to develop his system from the preceding contributions of the Pythagoreans, motivated by the observations of Francesco Maria. The disciple of Pythagoras, Timaeus Locrus, demonstrated by mathematics the diurnal rotation of the earth, and Philolaus of Crotona – the annual revolution of the earth (also by mathematics!) Copernicus then added the motion of libration from the pattern of the motion devised by Thebit of Babylon and King Alphonso of Spain. That such a motion was necessary St. Thomas Aquinas also suggested in Metaphysics from statements of Simplicius. Aquinas's embrace of heliocentrism was brought about by the Arab atheist philosopher Averroes
Aristotle testifies, that Pythagoras, who located the place of punishment in the center of the earth and made fire the cause of motion, described the earth as mobile and animate. So Ovid believes in “Metamorphoses”, Origin in his commentary on Ezechiel, and Plato. It is essential, if hell be in the center of the earth, for earth to be hot within, and, according to Gregory and others cited in the argument of St. Thomas, to be mobile. The interpretation of Galileo does not oppose the belief of St. Gregory, but rather that of Aristotle.
If the Fathers are correct when they say the firmament stand unmoved, the stars stand with it. When the Master of the “Sentences,” St. Chrysostom, and other fathers declare, in harmony with Catholic faith that the firmament is unmoved, it is necessary that they state the same of the stars much more vigorously. Since the stars are immobile it follows that the earth is carried about as a ship, and that stars appear to be moved just as from a ship an island or a tower on the shore seems in motion.
Roman Church's Patronage of Copernicus
The pressure of the official churchmen, who urged Copernicus to publish his work is manifest in a letter of 1536 to the author by Nicolaus Cardinal Schoenberg, a high ranking member of the Vatican curia: “...For I had learned that over and above your excellent knowledge of the theories of the ancient mathematicians you have founded a new world according to which you state that the earth is moving and the sun is occupying the lowest, i.e. the central place in the universe, and that the eighth heaven is immobile and forever fixed... Thus, learned Sir, I hope that I will not be deemed a nuisance when I urgently request you to communicate your discovery to the learned world.” This letter was published together with Copernicus's book.
Tiedman Giese, bishop of Kulm insisted for a long time on publication representing it to Copernicus as his duty toward science and mankind. Thanks to these encouragements Copernicus dedicated his work to Pope Paul III and in his dedication expressed his hope that the Pope by his “infallible judgment” will be able to silence all critical opinions. And that's what really happened.
On the 16th of August 1820, the Congregation of the Holy Office (formerly known as Inquisition) reported that Settele, the professor of astronomy at Rome and Washington might teach (Venia legendi) the Copernican system as truth established. This meant promotion of T.Paine’s anti-Semitism based on his admiration for heliocentrism of the Greek philosophers and contempt for “barbarity” of Jewish Biblical culture. Quite recently Pope John Paul II recognized evolutionary hypothesis also as truth established. As long as Pope Benedict XVI was one of many cardinals he expressed his criticism of Galileo, but after his election he recanted, which means that evolutionism and heliocentrism are two pillars of of Roman Catholicism.
Already Plato wanted to defend his dogmas with the help of an inquisition. And this tradition endured. The editor who decided to publish Velikovsky’s “Worlds in Collision” which undermined the heliocentric scheme was dismissed from Doubleday. “Respectable and reputable professors deluged Doubleday with letters threatening to boycott their textbooks if 'Worlds…' was not withdrawn.” (See Norman Storer, Scientists Confront Velikovsky). When a fossil preparatory in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution started speaking out against evolution, he was sacked in this “Land of the Free”. That’s how the American Inquisition works.
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