Intellectual Poverty of Heliocentrism

From Qahal Yahweh to Church of the Lord of the Rings
In the New Testament, Yahshuah, or Jesus perpetuated Israel’s righteous worship. The apostolic assembly was composed of ethnic Israelites. The worship of the true Mighty One Yahweh was restored through Jesus in the assembly of His called –out ones. The True Worshipers are called by the name of the Father: “For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Master Yahshua Messiah, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,” (Eph 3:14-15) They bear the same name that the True Worshipers of Israel bore in the Old Testament.
Aurelian (270-275 A.D.) had essayed to establish an official religion broad enough to embrace all the cults of his dominions and which would have served, as it had among the Persians, both as the justification and the prop of imperial absolutism. His hopes, however, were blasted, mostly by the recalcitrance of the Christians. But the alliance of the throne with the altar, of which the Caesars of the third century had dreamed, was realized under another form; and by a strange mutation of fortune the Church itself was called upon to support the edifice whose foundations it had shattered. The work for which the priests of Serapis, of Baal, and of Mithra had paved the way was achieved without them and in opposition to them. Nevertheless, they had been the first to preach in Occidental parts the doctrine of the divine right of kings, and had thus become the initiators of a movement of which the echoes were destined to resound even “to the last syllable of recorded time.”
Declaring Independence from YHWH in the Bible Translations
When persecution of the Christians was undertaken by Diocletian (303-311), it was because he wanted to establish a church-state in the worship of the sun-god. 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.
The New Testament declares that the future of the cosmos is being determined by the church: “And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church (The Vulgate translation of the Grek word 'ekklesia') the manifold wisdom of God.” (through the church should be made known the all-embracing wisdom of God.” - “the many phases of God's wisdom”...”soul now see the complex wisdom of God's plan being worked out through the Church” (Eph 3:9-10)
The English word church has no etymological relationship to the Greek ekklesia. The word ekklesia does not refer to a building; rather, it specifies a group of called out believers. It was used to translate the Hebrew word qahal in the Old Testament. The word qahal means a group of called out believers. Probably from this word came out the English word call.
In Dt 23, the Hebrew term Qahal Yahweh (assembly of Yahweh) is found six times. It is translated congregation in the King James version. The Greek Septuagint translated it ekklesia. We must conclude that the True Worshipers, who composed the ancient congregation of Israel, bore the name Assembly of Yahweh. Israel was the people of the True Mighty One. They were the assembly in the wilderness, Acts 7:38. They were called by his name – Yahweh (2 Chr 7:14)
The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language shows that the root of the word church is circe. The authors claim to be unable to tie the Old English word circe to ancient languages. But Dr. E. L. Bullinger, in Appendix 186 of his Companion Bible, adds this meaning to the word circe: “Compare Hebrew kikkar (a circle), a circuit or disc.” Undoubtedly the relationship he sought to establish was that the word circe in Anglo-Saxon, or Old English, Greek, and Hebrew, pointed toward ancient pagan sun worship. Consequently, it is obvious that the Lord meant the sun and that “the Lord’s house” (church) was the location where the sun was worshiped.
The Greek word for 'circle' (KUKLOS) is never used in the New Testament. The word 'church' derives from the Druidic circle or fairy ring. The 'circle' is very important in the Druid tradition. Sar (circle, saros) is the Babylonian god of the sky. He is also Assaros or Asshur (the son of Shem), and Zero -- Zero-ana, the chakkra, or wheel, boundless time.
The equilateral triangle symbolizing in the Hindu tradition Maha Deva or Shiva, that is, the element of fire (Acts 2:3) was embraced as the perfect representation of three-in-one, The Trinity. Similar triangle is worn on God’s head on the front page of the Vulgate published in Rome, 1592. The bust of this god is placed in a circle. During the celebration commemorating 500th anniversary of birth of Copernicus (1973), in Frombork, Poland, an icon of Copernicus was displayed evoking the features of Jesus Christ of the Shroud of Turin. The Polish caption is even more revealing of the intentions of the organizers of this celebration, which was also attended by the then Card. K. Wojtyla. It reads: “Truly, this divine masterpiece of the Greatest and Best Being is immense.” The triangle bridging the caption and the icon is the Pythagorean triangle whose sum of the powers has been appointed as the origin of the generation of the cosmic elements.
"The origin of the Trinity is obvious to anyone who will observe the daily manifestations of the sun. This orb, being the symbol of all Light, has three distinct phases: rising, midday, and decay ... God the Father, the Creator of the world, is symbolized by the dawn. His color is blue ... God the Son, the Illuminating One sent to bear witness to His Father before all the worlds .... Yellow is His color and His power is without end. God the Holy Ghost is the sunset phase when the orb of day, robed in flaming red ..." (Manly P. Hall, "The Secret Teachings of All Ages", Ibid.)
Many are asking why the color red was so pronounced during Pope John Paul II's funeral? The commentator at the funeral stated that Roman Emperors had given permission to the Vatican for the Popes to count themselves among Royal Kings. Red is a sign of dignity. Well, Other kings proclaimed themselves to be kings by God's grace, not by Roman Emperor's grace. (What Did Pope John Paul II's Funeral Reveal
www.cephas-library.com/catholic/catholic_what_did_john_paul_2_funeral_reveal)
Also the radiate crown which, in imitation of the Seleucids and the Ptolemies, the emperors had adopted since Nero as the symbol of their sovereigntywas symbolical of the Splendor of the Sun and of the rays which he gave forth, it appeared to render the monarch the simulacrum of the planet-god whose brilliancy dazzles the eyes.
What was the sacred relation established between the radiant disc which illuminated the heavens and the human image which represented it on earth? The loyalist zeal of the Orientals knew no bounds in its apotheosis. The Sassanian kings, as the Pharaohs before them, proclaimed themselves “brothers of the sun and the moon”; and the Caesars were almost similarly regarded in Asia as the successive Avatars of Helios.
Nevertheless, the conception that the Sun had the emperor under his protection and that supernatural effluvia descended from the one to the other, gradually led to the notion of their consubstantiality.
According the World Book Dictionary the term 'consubstantiality' means identity of substance, especially of the Persons of the Trinity.
Testimonium Flavianum: “Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man. For he was doer of wonderful works.” The Slavonic Josephus hastens to add that he “would also not call him an angel.” Rightly so, because Moses who was also doer of wonderful works was never recognized by Jews as a supernatural being “homoousios” (consubstantial) with God who created the heaven and the earth. The above quoted passage mirrors the problems of Christology brought about by the Nicaea Council of 325. The split between the Nicene Trinitarians and the Arian Christians seems to reflect a rough division between those believing more in a powerful, ruler modeled on a Roman Emperor and those in need of a loving advocate and friend.
The Vulgate cross (as a match of the Greek 'stauros') also originates from the Sun-worship, just like the 'church'. The Solar cross (on the Roof of the Islamic Temple Mount) is probably the oldest religious symbol in the world, appearing in Asian, American, European, and Indian religious art from the dawn of history. Composed of a equal armed cross within a circle, it represents the solar calendar- the movements of the earth, marked by the solstices. Sometimes the equinoxes are marked as well, giving an eight armed wheel. (The swastika is also a form of Solar cross.)The sun cross in its most simplified form is known in Northern Europe as Odin's (Eg. Aten was a variant name of Nordic Odin) cross, after the Chief God of the Norse pantheon. It is often used as an emblem by Asatruar, followers of the Norse religion. The word "cross" itself comes from the Old Norse word for this symbol: kros. The Celtic cross is a symbol of the Celtic Christian Church, borrowed from the pre-Christian Celtic Pagan emblem of the sun God Taranis.
Many Hebrew names of the Old Testament prophets have been “Hellenized” when these names were rewritten in the Greek New Testament. Thus, Isaiah became Isaias, Elisha became Elissaios or Elisseus (Elisus), and Elijah became Helias. The king James Version has retained some of these Hellenized names, but the newer English versions have ignored these Hellenized named , and have preferred, to render them as they are found in the Hebrew Old Testament, namely: Isaiah, Elisha and Elijah. Incidentally, the similarity between the Hellenized Helias (instead of Elijah) and the Greek Sun-deity Helios, gave rise to the well-known assimilation of these two by the Church. (Dr. A.B. Cook, in his book Zeus – A Study in Ancient Religion, vol. I p. 178-179, elaborates on this, quoting the comments of a 5th century Christian poet and others, on this)
Anticipating the Religious Revolution of the Renaissance
Another important change explains the ease of changing the God of Old Testament into the philosophical sun god. The name YHWH has been substituted in Latin translations with the title “Lord” some 6823 times. This title “Lord” is applied to all heathen deities, if the word “god” is not used for them. In most cases “lord” and “god” are used interchangeably for pagan idols. There was an Etruscan house deity whose name was Lar, which signified “Lord”, also known as Larth, who later on became very popular in Rome and became known as Lares, because in Rome the idol statues were usually in pairs. Another name for Zeus eas Lrissaeus, which also was another name for Apollo. Zeus was also known as Larasios or Lariseus, while Larasios was also a surname of Helios. Typical of the syncretism and polytheism of those days, we read of the emperor Alexander Severus (222-235) who “had images of Abraham, Christ and Alexander the Great among his household Lares.” These Lares are to be found in the East as well, seen in niches in Hindu houses.
LORIDE: Thor was the well-known Teutonic war-deity. He was also known as a Sun deity. His surname was Hlorridhi, or Loride. The latter also taken to be Thor's son, who had a wife with the name “Gloria”. This Loride could easily have been contracted from the form “Lord”, or perhaps it could only have served to establish religious syncretism with Larth, and Lord. The prophet Hosea prophesized (2:16-17) “And it shall be, in the day,” says YHWH, 'That you will ... no longer call Me: My Baal, for I will take from her mouth the names of the Baals, and they shall be remembered by their name no more.”
Let me quote in this context the final passage of Arthur Koestler's Sleepwalkers: “The dials on the laboratory panels are turning into another version of the shadows in the cave. Our hypnotic enslavement to the numerical aspects of reality has dulled our perception of non-quantitative moral values; the resultant end-justified-the-means ethics may be a major factor in our undoing. Conversely, the example of Plato's obsession with perfect spheres, of Aristotle's arrow propelled by the surrounding air, the 48 epicycles of Canon Koppernigk, and his moral cowardice, Tycho's mania of grandeur, Kepler's sun-spokes, Galileo's confidence tricks, and Descartes' pituitary soul, may have some sobering effect on the worshipers of the new Baal, lording it over the moral vacuum with his electronic brain.”
The “Wisdom of God” Proclaimed by the Church
According to Tomaso Campanella, the author o the earliest apology of Galileo entitled Apologia pro Galileo the scholastic philosophy was all about the philosophical heliocentrism of the Greeks:
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*.
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.
The Galileo Trial? What Trial? Plutarch writes that the heliocentric hypothesis of Aristarchus of Samos was apodeiknumi (i.e. dogmatically proclaimed) by a certain Seleucus of Seleukia. When a pope proclaims something “ex cathedra” it is like a heliocentric hypothesis i.e. for a thoughtless multitude…
*This Simplicius became one of the protagonists of Galileo's Dialogue of the Great World Systems.
** J. Kepler wrote about anima telluris
Th. Aquinas' Philosophical Foundation of the Church Heliocentric Atheism
Aristotle argued that a given, finite force cannot move a mobile over an infinite distance or for an infinite time (You know what distance you can make on a gallon of gas).. The implications of this statement for cosmology – in particular, for the motion of the celestial spheres, which derive their eternal motion ultimately from the “First Mover”, in accordance with the maxim “all things that are in motion must be moved by something else” - had been challenged by the Doctor Angelicus, who became the Philosopher of the Papal Court.
Th. Aquinas considered the posibility of a finite and yet invariable moving force, which, being immutable acts always in the same manner (vis infatigabilis, i.e. Perpetual motion)*, and thus he dogmatically** conceived of force as a moving agent independent of and separated from a constantly rejuvenating source, a notion essential for the future conception of the universe as a clockwork in action without the need of a constant supply of additional energy.
Following in the footsteps of Aquinas men like Roger Bacon, Nicolas of Cusa, William of Ockham and Jean Buridan, were “moderns” compared to Copernicus. The Ockhamist school in Paris, which flourished in the 14th century had made considerable advances in the study of motion, momentum, acceleration and the theory of falling bodies – all of which are basic problems of the Copernican universe. They had shown that Aristotelian physics with it “unmoved movers” its “natural” and “violent” motion, was empty verbiage; and they had come very close to formulating Newton's Law of Inertia. In 1337 Nicolas of Oresme had written a Commentary on Aristotle's De Coelo – in fact, a refutation of it – in which he attributed the daily round of the heavens to the rotation of the earth. Copernicus was the last of the Aristotelians among the great men of science.
Jean Buridan, following in the footsteps of John Philoponus and Avicenna, proposed that motion was maintained by some property of the body, imparted when it was set in motion. Buridan named the motion-maintaining property impetus. Moreover, he rejected the view that the impetus dissipated spontaneously, asserting that a body would be arrested by the forces of air resistance and gravity which might be opposing its impetus. Buridan further held that the impetus of a body increased with the speed with which it was set in motion, and with its quantity of matter. Clearly, Buridan's impetus is closely related to the modern concept of momentum. Buridan saw impetus as causing the motion of the object. Buridan anticipated Isaac Newton when he wrote:
...after leaving the arm of the thrower, the projectile would be moved by an impetus given to it by the thrower and would continue to be moved as long as the impetus remained stronger than the resistance, and would be of infinite duration were it not diminished and corrupted by a contrary force resisting it or by something inclining it to a contrary motion
*Kepler himself later added that his whole system of celestial physics made perfect sense “if the word soul (anima) is replaced by force (vis). So he boldly pointed the way from the world under God's care to a mechanical explanation of the universe. “spirits” and “celestial intelligences” would be replaced by forces.
Might it not be possible, Kapler asked, “to show that the celestial machine is not so much a divine organism but rather a clockwork ... inasmuch as all the variety of motions are carried out by means of a single magnetic force of the body, just as in a clock ll motions arise from a very simple weight.”
When the English physician William Gilbert (1544-1603) published his work on magnetism in 1600, Kepler thought that at last he saw the force that accounted for celestial movements.
**Statements of speculative philosophy (‘knowledge of good and evil’) were termed by Latin writers decreta, scita, placita, axiomata, enunciata, effata. Cicero replaced all these terms by one: dogmata. Inquisition was not an invention of Catholic Church; already Plato wanted to defend his dogmas with the help of such an institution. Two German adjectives ‘apodiktisch’ and 'unfehlbar’ (infallible) are synonymous.
And thus the foundation of the heliocentric system was laid and the system itself was suggested in the Aquinas's statement that “the geocentric system is only a hypothesis, and that celestial movements are perhaps susceptible of explanations by theories yet to be discovered by man (Summa Theologica 1a 2ae p. IX, art. 5). Kepler's magnum opus, published in 1609 bears the significant title:
A NEW ASTRONOMY Based on Causation
or PHYSICS OF THE SKY
derived from the investigation of the
MOTIONS OF THE STAR MARS
Founded on Observations of THE NOBLE TYCHO BRAHE
They were the first “natural laws” in the modern sense; particular phenomena, expressed in mathematical terms. They divorced astronomy from theology, and married astronomy to physics. Aquinas's wish had been granted.
And that explains why Leibnitz referred to Newton's entire concept of gravity mockingly as “the rebirth in England of a theology that is more than papist and a philosophy entirely scholastic since Mr Newton and his partisans have revived the occult qualities of the school with the idea of attraction.”
Aquinas' contempt for the Biblical geocentricism is echoed in Laplace's answer to Napoleon's comment on his book on celestial mechanics: “I do not find mention of God in this work.” To that Laplace answered haughtily: “I found no need of that hypothesis.”
The atheistic implications of the system suggested by St. Thomas Aquinas and “discovered” by N. Copernicus are obvious if it is remembered that gravity which replaced the Copernican impetus and Kepler's “anima telluris” was considered by Hegel as the “eternal phenomenon” (Urphaenomenon) of matter. And thus Heraclitus' theory of flux (cp. Newton's fluxions) was vindicated. The notion of freely-falling bodies and of planets in their orbits are immediate result of this primary quality of matter and are thus “absolute free” (i.e. Independent of God's will) motions. One has to keep in mind the German proverb When the apple falls, God has broken the stalk, to grasp both sides of the problem.
Following Tillich, Bishop Robinson tells us that we must give up belief in God as somebody 'out there' just as Copernican astronomy made people abandon 'the Old Man in the sky.' B. Mlinowski spoke of the state of mind of an unbeliever like himself as 'tragic and shattering.' Not only does the absence of God make the universe 'lonely' 'soulless', and 'tragic' but it also deprives it of love. The wild genocide on the arenas of the ancient Rome was an outcome of this Godless universe with its persistent tendency to assimilate human to animal nature. And that's what atheism really means.
On 28 April 1536 Cardinal Nicolas Schoenberg resigned from his office at age 63 (a ruse commonly practiced by politicians and signaling an important turn in their political careers) and a few months later on 1 November 1536 he wrote now-famous letter to Copernicus encouraging him to publish his book. Only one year earlier in 1535 he was elevated to Cardinal by Pope Clement VII.
Interestingly in the same year (1536) the Jesuit Juan de Mariana published his “rehabilitation” of the philosophical evolutionism. Man in the state of nature* would be man stripped of all the clothing time has put upon him, divested of all specific habits and notions that belong to particular times, thrust outside all circumstance that is not permanent, at once an absolute and a mere potentiality. Nothing of man would there remain but which is at all times. There was a time, he says, when men lived as the animals; they lived without law or government and therefore without rights or property as the animals do. In fact they were animals; he implies quite distinctly, that they were not fully human. Perhaps the most original thing in his book is the dim vision of man emerging from the semi-brute (ape-man) of the state of nature into a conscious of himself and of right and so into full humanity. It is perhaps significant that for him the inner light by which we know right from wrong was vox naturae rather than vox Dei. In the English “Dialogues Between Cardinal Pope and Thomas Lupset” written bet. 1536 and 1538 Pole expresses doubt in the life of civility. It seems to him that man was not born for civilization, but rather to live in a wild forest, then mere following the study of virtue, as it is said men did in the Golden Age. “A time there was, Master Lupset,” says Pole, “when man without city or town, law or religion, wandered abroad in the wild fields and woods, not otherwise than you see now brute beats to do”. In this condition he “long continued for many years, till he came at length to some order and civility and so gradually, “in long time, by little and little to the civilization that is now.” Darwinism is, obviously, an old hat!
*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 sheeps 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.
After Diogenes the Cynics became a religious order without religion; they made a rule of poverty, lived on alms, tempered their celibacy with promiscuity, and opened schools of philosophy. They had no homes, but taught and slept in the streets or the temple porticos. They thought that they could turn and live with the animals, like Darwinists. They were Greek Franciscans without theology.
In philosophy heliocentrism went hand in hand with evolutionism and that explains the double rehabilitation of heliocentrism and evolutionism by Pope John Paul II.
Joscelyn Godwin, professor of music at Colgate University and th author of over fifteen highly-regarded books on music, harmony and the Western esoteric traditions wrote in The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance: “During the Renaissance, a profound transformation occurred in Western culture, fueled in large part by the rediscovery of the mythological, pagan imagination. While the Greek gods and goddesses had never been entirely eclipsed during the 'Dark Ages', with the Renaissance their presence once again became a powerful force in Western civilization.” J. Godwin explains how the European imagination was seduced by the pagan gods, and how people of wealth and leisure began to decorate their villas and places with images of them, write stories about them, and even produce music and dramatic pageants about them. In its deepest and most vibrant form, we discover how the pagan dream of the Renaissance represented nostalgia for a classical world untroubled by sin and in no need of redemption.
Let me remind here that the above mentioned hierarch Schoenberg was appointed Archbishop of Capua on 12 September 1520 by Pope Leo X.. Renaissance Pope Pius II (1458-64) believed that the Roman Empire had fallen because the scholars had deserted paganism for the Papacy. After Giovanni di Medici was elected Pope Leo X (1475-1521) a lampoon was posted on the Pasquino Navona to the effect that Giovanni might make a good Pope if only he believed in God. When he was elevated to the chair, the Eucharist was accompanied by the pagan gods bearing the inscription: “First Venus reigned (the age of pope Alexander VI) then Mars (Julius II) and now (under Leo X) Pallas Athene holds the scepter.” Rome greeted death of Pope Adrian VI’s after only one-year pontificate with great joy. Some believed that he was poisoned by his physician. Rome does not tolerate a Christian Pope.
This Renaissance revival of the classic paganism paraded as Christianity explains this passage in Copernicus's book:
“In the center of all rests the Sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place than this from which it can illuminate everything at the same time? As a matter of fact, not unhappily do some call it the lantern, others, the mind, and still others, the Leader of the World. Trismegistus calls it ‘visible God’; Sophocles’ Electra, ‘that which gazes upon all things.’ And so the sun, as if resting on a kingly throne, governs the family of stars* which wheel around.”
The expression “family of stars” belongs to the teachings of the ancient theogony. A few years ago, Father George Coyne, head of the Vatican Observatory Research Group suggested that we might view stars as God's sperm, which is the basic teaching of the Aryan cosmogony.
"Vishnu in the form of the Solar active energy, neither ever rises nor sets, and is at once, the sevenfold Sun and distinct from it," says Vishnu Purana (Book II., Chap. 1 1). Shiva in his symbol linga is referred to as as fixed or immovable (dhruva). Shiva is worshiped in the form of the linga, in the center of the temple, or inner shrine. The cave temple of Elephanta (6th century) and the rock-cut temple of Ellura (8th century) are perfect examples. A baboon with an erected penis was a divinity in ancient Egypt.
Cicero, whose knowledge of astronomy, like that of Copernicus is entirely based on Greek sources, writes in The Rpublic:
“The sun...ruler, prince and leader of the stars, sole and ordering principle of the universe (is) so large and its light brightens and fills the all ... The orbits of Mercury and Venus follow him as his companions (in other words The Scientific American has to be a Fascist, an admirer of the Fuehrer principle)
Macrobius who lived around 400 AD, comments on the passage from Cicero which I have just quoted:
“He calls the sun the ruler of the other stars because the sun regulates their progression and retrogression within spatial limits, for there are spatial limits which confine the planets in their advance and regress relative to the sun. Thus the force and power of the sun regulates the course of the other stars within fixed limits.”
In Thomas Digges' English translation of The revolutions the sun “like the king in th middest of al reigneth and geeveth lawes of motion to ye rest.”
It seems unlikely that the Cardinal Schoenberg would have gone as far as he did in urging publication of the book entirely on his own initiative; and there is further evidence of early vivid interest in the Copernican theory shown by the Vatican. This has come to light through one of the bizarre hazards of history. There exists, at the Royal library in Munich, a Greek manuscript – a treatise by one Alexander Aphrodisius On the Senses and Sensibilities, which is of no interest to anyone whatsoever, except that the title page contains the following inscription:
“Clement VII, High Pontiff, made me a present of this manuscript, A.D. 1533, in Rome, after I had, in the presence of Fra Urbino, Cardinal Joh. Salviato, Joh. Petro, Bishop of Inturbo, and Mattias Curtio, Physician, explained to him, in the Vatican gardens, Copernicus' teaching about the movement of the Earth. Joh. Albertus Widmanstadius,
Cognominatus Lucretius,
Private Personal Secretary to our serene Lord.”
In 1532, the personal secretary of Pope Leo X gave a lecture on the Copernican system, to a select company in the Vatican gardens, which was favorably received, which the above mentioned manuscript conforms.
The Greatest Scandal in the History of Science
A. Koestler wrote in his book The Sleepwalkers: “Copernicus book was and is an all-time worst-seller.
Its first edition. Nuremberg 1543, numbered a thousand copies which were never sold. It had altogether four reprints in four hundred years: Basle 1566, Amsterdam 1617, Warsaw 1854 and Torun 1873
Kaspar Peucer's textbook on astronomy, published in 1551, was reprinted six times in the next forty years. Ptolemy's Almagest and Peuerbach's Planetary Theory reached altogether about a hundred reprints in Germany till the end of the 16th century – Copernicus' book, one!”
The revealing difference between the heliocentric system ascribed by Cardinal Schoenberg to Copernicus in his Letter and the description of the system by the author himself suggests that this high ranking hierarch had in mind rather the Babylonian heliocentrism of Enuma Elish in which the sun god Marduk establishes the earth’s orbit around himself. Cardinal Schoenberg's Letter gave rise to the all-pervasive use of such expressions as “solar system” and “heliocentrism” being inculcated into the minds of hundreds of millions of children all over the world. Here is the most important passage of his Letter which was published in The Revolutions as a second preface, which even denied the controlling power of the earth over its moon.The power of the church sun god is unlimited. Http://hsci.ou.edu/exhibits/exhibit.php?exbgrp=1&exbid=8&exbg=8
“In it (The revolutions) you maintain that the earth moves; that the sun occupies the lowest, and thus the central, place in the universe; that the eight heaven remain perpetually motionless and fixed; and that, together with the elements included in its sphere, the moon, situated between the heavens of Mars and Venus, revolves around the sun in the period of a year. I have also learned that you have written an exposition of this whole system of astronomy, and have computed the planetary motions and set them down in tables, to the greatest admiration of all.”
The Book of Revelation, has warned us of this in Rev 17, Rev. 18, Rev. 19, and also in Rev. 13, Rev. 14, and Rev. 16, Mystery Babylon. The great harlot has made “the inhabitants of the earth drunk with the wine of her fornication,” “out of the “golden cup” in her hand, “full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication,” Rev. 17, 1-5. She is also described as as “sitting “on a scarlet beast full of names of blasphemy,” verse 3. Tammuz, alias Bacchus, had a surname Ies (Jesus) or HIS. He was also known as the fish (Ichthus), and had the tau, the cross as a sign. These three things have survived, and are still with us!
But the heliocentric diagram made by Copernicus himself tells a different story. This diagram shows the circular orbit of the moon about the earth, and not about the sun. But that doesn't tell them much. They keep in mind the easiest part of Copernicus's book i.e. his diagram, which overwhelms them with the circles, all centered on the sun and don't bother to read the unreadable book in which there lies hidden and astonishing surprise, well-known to A. Koestler:
At the beginning (Book 1, chapter 10), Copernicus had stated: “In the midst of all dwells the sun ...Sitting on the royal throne, he rules the family of planets which turn around him... But in Book III, when it comes to reconciling the doctrine with actual observation, the earth no longer turns around the sun, but round a point in space removed from the sun by a distance of about three times the sun diameter. Nor do the planets revolve round the sun – as every schoolboy believes that Copernicus taught. The planets move on epicycles, centered not not on the sun, but on the center of the earth's orbit. There are thus two royal thrones: the sun, and that imaginary point in space around which the earth moves.”
In Copernicus' book the center of the earth orbit is as divine as the sun; In the Aryan cosmogony puru (point) is a god. In short, the imaginary point appears equal in importance in governing the solar system to the sun god itself, and, in fact, nearly as important as in the Big Bang theory which derives the whole cosmos from an explosion of a point (pellet) of matter. In the beginning Matter exploded...The modern Bigbangcentrism does contradict the Copernican “heliocentrism”; It jammed the religious aspect of the Copernican heliocentrism especially as developed by Kepler who identified the Sun with God the Father of the Christian Trinity and thus tied up heliocentrism with the paganized Christian religion. This baptism of the Copernicus's sun god has been overlooked by the authors of Science textbooks. Similarly, Newton's identification of gravity with the spiritual body of Christ is never mentioned. That's why atheistic science is usually expressed in superficial slogans about 'momentum' 'inertia' and defended by the modern Inquisition as exposed in Ben Stein's video “Expelled.” No patent office has ever accepted Copernicus's perpetual motion machine (machina mundi).
Behind this perverted science lies the Pythagorean dogma proclaiming that extended physical bodies are composed of non extended mathematical points. Accordingly, Zeno argued that everything in the universe is both infinitely large and has no size at all. The infinite divisibility of any physical body regardless of size means that it is composed of an infinite number of elements and thus is infinitely large. On the other hand, the body has no size at all because no number of non extended units can produce an extended body. Pure schizophrenia!
In other words there is no reason to call the Copernican system the Solar System, since we have two centers of the world; the heavenly bodies do not all move round the same center. The above passage also confirms and at the same time contradicts Copernicus's self-contradictory axioms published a few year earlier in his Commentriolus:
That the heavenly bodies do not all move round the same center;
That the earth is not the center of the universe, only of the moon's orbit and of terrestrial gravity;
That the sun is the center of the planetary system and therefore of the universe.
And that's the main idea of the monarchical dictature of heliocentrism. A true dictator doesn't share his power
with anybody. And besides, if the sun is a god, as Copernicus believed it was, how can he be so ignored by his subjects?
Copernicus, like the post-Aristotelian astronomers denied the rule of the sun over the planets and affirmed it at the same time; while conscious reasoning rejects such a paradox, it is in the nature of the unconscious that it may simultaneously affirm and deny, say yes and no to the same question; to know and to un-know, as it were. Atheistic philosophy implies an invisible reality not of personal God, but like that of Plato's ideas, underlying the world of experience. But for them, the ultimate organizing principles are thought of as blind, impersonal and unconscious forces acting by chance.
Galileo's “Improvement” on Copernicus
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Galileo’s own drawing of the heavens, published in his Dialogue in 1632, explains why he retained circular orbits of Copernicus and rejected Kepler's ellipses. The circle in the middle of the zodiac is not the sun; it is the orbit of the sun, which is marked by the circlet on the circumference. Galileo, viewed the sun as the mythological sun god driving his chariot in a circle.
Hark, Hark! The lark at heaven’s gate sings,
And Phoebus’s gins arise.
Middle English ginne was short for Old French engine. Gin-horse moves in a circle or track.
Towards the Heliocentric Holocaust
The Sixtine-Clementine edition of the Latin Bible, also known as the Clementine Bible, was for centuries the standard edition of the Bible in that language. It was first published in 1592 at Rome by Aldus Manutius the Younger. Now, let me dwell in the context for a while on the above mentioned portrait of God placed on the front page of this Bible. According to Christian tradition Christianity began on the Pentecost in an act of outpouring of the Holy Spirit which sat on the Apostle's heads in the shape of cloven tongues of fire;
“And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them (Acts 2:3)
Well, a cloven tongue of fire is very suggestive of the shape of a equilateral triangle which symbolized the Hindu god Shiva and which is often depicted on the statues of the Buddha, over his head. In later Christian tradition this triangle of fire was replaced by halos. The Hindu “jamad-agni” is a sage who knows identity of god and fire, which of course is a sun god. And thus the Copernican heliocentrism and the Clementine Vulgate became two pillars of the Fascist ideology hidden behind the mask of “Christianity”.
In Dante’s De monarchia, the “Divine Predestination” of the Roman people as the world ruling power is derived not from interpretations of the Hebrew prophets or from the appointments of Peter but from the genealogical tree of Aeneas and Creusa! Race and not religion is the decisive thing for Dante. Campanella, an early apologist of Galileo observed: “Love is foremost in attending to the change of the race; men and women are so joined together, that they bring forth the best offspring.” Campanella can be considered a father of the modern eugenics which goes hand in hand with the materialism of heliocentrism. Cicero considered Jews a nation condemned to eternal slavery. (nationmibus nati servituti).
Like its predecessor, the Clementine Bible was issued with a new papal bull which forbade the printing of any edition outside the Vatican for ten years, after which no edition could be published unless it had first been collated with a Vatican copy. This secured the position of the Clementine version as the official Bible for the Roman Catholic church. The above mentioned portrait of God in a circle and with a triangle on His head will be properly understood in the context of the following two passages:
The thought that the divinity had written a book moved the theologians to imagine that he had written two, and that the other one was the universe. At the beginning of the 17th c., Francis Bacon declared in his Advancement of Learning that God offered us two books so that we would not fall into error: the first, the volume of the Scriptures, reveals His will; the second, the volume of the creatures, reveals His power and is the key to the former. Bacon intended much more than the making of a metaphor; he believed that the world was reducible to essential forms (temperatures, densities, weights, colors), which formed, in a limited number, an abecedarium naturae or series of letters with which the universal text is written.
Philosophy, Galileo tells Sarsi in the Assayer, is not like the Iliad or Orlando Furioso, books in which the least important thing is whether what is written is true. Galileo’s works abound with the concept of the universe as a book.
The second section of Favaro’s anthology (Galileo Galilei: Pensieri, motti e sentenze; Florence, 1949) is entitled Il libro della Natura. I quote the following paragraph: “Philosophy is written in that very large book that is continually opened before our eyes (I mean the universe), but which is not understood unless first one studies the language and knows the characters in which it is written. The language of that book is mathematical and the characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures.” Can anybody translate the Decalogue into the language of Galileo's Book of Nature? Natural History is obviously cubist evolutionism, because it is ultimately derived from Pythagoras's equilateral triangle.
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Galileo's “chief mathematician” is called “Nature”, not God, and his references to the latter sound like lip-service. Galileo takes the hyperstatization of mathematics a decisive step further by reducing all nature to “”size, figure, number and slow or rapid motion,” and by relegating into the limbo of “subjective” or “secondary” qualities everything that cannot be reduced to these elements – including by implication, ethical values and the phenomena of the mind. Greek Science in the age of decline was faced with an insoluble conflict, which resulted in a split of mind; and this “controlled schizophrenia” continued throughout the dark and Middle Ages, until it came to be almost taken for granted as the normal condition of man. Galileo's world was that of the Cubists* of which the Gnostic Christ in the shape of triangles within the solar orb stood for the Logos of John's Gospel. And this “God” of Galileo became the “god” of the Holocaust.
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* The Cubists proclaimed: “One must treat nature by reducing its forms to cylinder, sphere ans cone, all put into perspective, meaning that each side of an object, each plane, is directed towards a central plane. But whether they painted in terms of cubes, cylinders, or cones, the declared aim of the Cubists was to resolve every object to a configuration of regular geometrical solids. in Picasso's Femme au miroir, the reduction of the model's eyes and upper lip to an interplay of spheres, pyramids and parallelepipedes, displays the same ingenuity and inspired madness as Eudoxus' spheres pivoting within spheres.
Clement VIII was already openly anti-semitic, making the usual link of Jews and usury:
All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a state of poverty, especially the farmers, working class people and the very poor. Then as now Jews have to be reminded intermittently anew that they were enjoying rights in any country since they left Palestine and the Arabian desert, and subsequently their ethical and moral doctrines as well as their deeds rightly deserve to be exposed to criticism in whatever country they happen to live.
Clement VIII's approach towards the Jews had more specific targets. In Cum saepe accidere (February 28, 1592) he forbade the long-established Jewish community of the papal enclave of Avignon to sell new goods, putting them at a disadvantage and fostering the cliché of the Jew as a dealer in secondhand goods. With Caeca et obdurata (February 25, 1593) he confirmed the bull of Pope Paul III (1534–49)(to whom Copernicus dedicated his book) that established a ghetto for the ancient community of Jews in Rome, and reiterated the ban on Jews, who had otherwise been formally expelled from the Papal States by Pope Pius V (1566–72) (in Hebraeorum gens, February 26, 1569) dwelling outside of the ghettos of Rome, Ancona, and Avignon, thus ensuring that they remained city-dwellers. Beyond Papal reach, east of Poland, by contrast, farming communities of Jews remained a familiar feature of the landscape. With Cum Haebraeorum malitia a few days later (February 28) he even forbade the reading of the Talmud [1]. It is alleged that Clement VIII's reference to the "blind (Latin: caeca) obstinacy" of the Jews gave rise to the American religious slur "kike".
The old prayer contained in the Tridentine rite mass, which was recited during the Good Friday service of Easter Week belongs to the same solar anti-Semitism of the Roman heliocentric Church-ianity:
For the conversion of Jews. Let us pray also for the Jews that the Lord our God may take the veil from their hearts and that they also may acknowledge our Lord Jesus Christ. Let us pray: Almighty and everlasting God, you do not refuse your mercy even to the Jews; hear the prayers which we offer for the blindness* of that people so that they may acknowledge the light of your truth, which is Christ, and be delivered from their darkness*
F.R. Johnson in his Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England (Baltimore 1937) had shown that the educated Elizabethan had plenty of textbooks in the vernacular instructing him in the Copernican astronomy.
Shakespeare immediately embraced the fashionable doctrine:
The glorious planet Sol
In noble eminence enthroned and spher’d
Amidst the other…
using it to proclaim the glory of the English monarchy:
The sun not only is the King of the sky
But he is like the King
And the King is like sun.
The correspondence between God, the Sun and the King is confirmed by the “healing power of the English King” derived from the “med’cinable eye of the Sol.” In A Christian Familiar Comfort John Norder compares the state to the heavens and Queen Elizabeth and her Council to the primum mobile or controlling sphere, within whose compass any other motion that of Ireland in particular must be contained. Le Roi Soleil is, indeed, one of the most persistent of all Elizabethan commonplaces and was immortalized in her portrait showing her shining face. In Johnson’s Irish Masque the presence of the king is made to transform the apparent wild Irishmen into civilized courtiers: “As the Sun dissolves the chains of winter, and fosters the spring; it is but standing in his eye, you’ll feel yourselves changed by and by, and come forth new-born creatures all. “Click on the link to see the “consubstantial” Elizabeth I
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Anticipating a New Crusade
In 1965, the catholic Church established a Commission for the New Vulgate and gave the Commission the responsibility to revise the Latin translation on the basis of updated knowledge. The new text was to be used for Catholic services in Latin.
The first section of the new translation appeared in 1969, and in 1979, Pope John Paul II approved the Nova Vulgata. The first edition contained the divine name, Iahveh, in a number of verses, including Ex 3:15 and 6:3. Then, as a one member of the committee put it, the second official edition, published in 1986, “repented ... Dominus ('Lord') was put back, in place of Iahveh.”
In 2001, after four years of work, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments published its Liturgiam authenticam instruction.
According to this instruction, since the Nova Vulgata is the church;'s official edition, it should be used as a model for all other translations, even if it alters what is indicated in the ancient originals. Only by conforming to such direction can a Bible be accepted by the Catholic hierarchy. This instruction says that in Catholic versions, “the name of almighty God expressed by the Hebrew tetragrammaton YHWH) should be rendered into “any given vernacular by a word equivalent in meaning” to Dominus, or “Lord”, as does the second edition of the Nova Vulgata – even though the first edition used “Iahveh”. The prophecy of Zeph (3:9) sounds like a memento to all heliomaniacs: “For then I will restore to the peoples pure language, that they all may call on the Name of YHWH, so serve Him with one accord.”
Who Is Logos of the Gospel of John
The Vedic concept of Saraswati was three-fold: First, she is like the sacred river (Cp. Darwin's little warm pond) which gave birth to the Aryan civilization. Second, she was vak or speech personified, as expressed in the Rig Veda's Vak Sukta . 'Speech' basically refers to the sacred-word or the Vedas themselves.
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A certain Mr. Turretin, in describing the state of Christianity in the fourth century, said “that it was not so much the Roman Empire that was brought over to the Faith, as the Faith that was brought over to the empire, not the Pagan who were converted to Christianity, but Christianity that was converted to Paganism. A further witness to this paganism of the Messianic faith is the emperor Hadrian, who, in a letter to the Consul Servianus, wrote, “There are there (in Egypt) Christians who worship Serapis, and devoted to Serapis are those who call themselves 'Bishops of Christ.'”
The blood relatives of Jesus were called the desposyni meaning literally in Greek Belonging to the Lord. This name was reserved exclusively for his blood relatives and for the first century and a half was highly respected and esteemed. The entire ancient Jewish Christian Church had always been ruled by their own desposynos and each one carried the names traditional in Jesus’ family.
Since Hadrian’s conquest of Jerusalem in 135 CE, all Jews, and seemingly Jewish Christians, had been forbidden to enter Jerusalem. Thus, the doctrinal position of the original system was excluded from Jerusalem which was seen as central to the faith. The Jewish Christians had comprised the only Christian church in Jerusalem until 135 CE. They had left it only once, before the capture of Jerusalem by Titus in 70 CE, when they fled to Pella under Symeon according to most scholars. In 72 CE they returned to Jerusalem. They set up Christian churches all over “Palestine,” Syria and Mesopotamia but they came into conflict with the Greek Christian churches because of the problems with the observance of the law or Torah.
Their system of government was based on that of the congregation (i.e. democratic institution, like a parliament and not not monarchy like the papacy and all other monarchs) was also in issue. In 318 CE, the desposyni asked Sylvester, who now had Roman patronage, to revoke his confirmation of the authority of the Greek Christian bishops at Jerusalem, in Antioch, in Ephesus, and in Alexandria, and to name desposynos bishops in their stead. Sylvester dismissed their claims and said that, from now on, the mother church was in Rome and he insisted they accept the Greek bishops to lead them. This was the last known dialogue with the Sabbath-keeping church in the east led by the disciples who were descended from blood relatives of Jesus.
Their fate is an utter condemnation of the religion that claimed to represent Jesus Christ. They hunted down and killed his blood relatives because they stood in condemnation of the system that purported to represent him. It was totally opposed to all that he taught and practiced.
A Mini crusade Has Landed
Aug. 22, 2008ap and jpost.com staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
Two boats of international activists on a solidarity mission with the Palestinians have reached the Gaza Strip after a two-day journey at sea.
Shortly before their arrival, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aviv Shiron announced that the ships would be allowed to reach the Gaza Strip.
A total of 46 members of the US-based group were on the boats, hoping to reach the shores of Gaza on Saturday with a delivery of humanitarian goods for Palestinians.
The 70-foot (21 meter) Free Gaza and 60-foot (18 meter) Liberty left Cyprus early Friday for the estimated 30-hour trip in a bid to break Israel's 14-month Gaza blockade. The 46 activists from 14 countries include an 81-year-old Catholic nun and the sister-in-law of Mideast envoy and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. She was praying for conversion of the “blind perfidious” Jews day and night. But there was no US senator this time.

Where Steel Turns Into Butter

The Nuremberg Chronicle is a pictorial history of the earth from creation to the 1490s and was published in 1493. Michael Wohlgemuth's pictorial interpretation of the Creation in Genesis shows only circles, like Copernicus's diagram, on the first four consecutive days. And then suddenly in the fifth picture the miracle of colorful life appears: a river, a tree on the bank and a bird singing on its branches. You won't see any trace of life in Copernicus's diagram which is all about movements only. But the greatest surprise expects us in the seventh picture showing God reposing above His finished product – a series of earth-centered spheres with everything in its proper place (2:1-3). The caption of the third sphere sphaera ignis teaches us that the earth is surrounded by a ring of fire. You won't find this ring of fire in Copernicus's book or diagram. It turns out that The Nuremberg Chronicle is right. The modern science confirmed that.
The Thermosphere is the layer above the mesopause. The gases of the thermosphere are even thinner than those in the mesosphere, but they absorb ultraviolet light from the sun. Because of that, the temperatures rise to 3,600º F (2,000º C) at the top. This is at the height of 430 miles (700 km) of the earth's surface.
Now, let me quote a short passage from the Epilogue of the book mentioned previously First on the Moon:
“Look at the command module itself – the only component of the 363-foot-high Apollo-Saturn assembly that does come safely back to earth. A substantial fraction of its weight consists of the massive heat shield that protects it during reentry into the atmosphere, and therefore serves no purpose at all during the last hundred miles of the half-million mile round trip.” We don't know what material was used for this shield because even tungsten or wolfram widely used in space missiles and other equipment that must withstand high temperatures, melts at 3410ºC.
And here is a question and an answer from an interview of Bill Keysing for Nardwuar the Human Serviette:
NTHS: Doesn’t NASA say that the reason there were no stars is because their cameras weren’t set for the proper exposure, isn’t that their line?
BK: That’s their line and that’s pure baloney, because I’ve talked to photographic experts who say that NASA have all the money in the world to have a camera that would have taken magnificent pictures of stars. But there’s a little problem, you know, the temperature on the moon is 250ºF during the lunar day, and a friend of mine put some film in an oven and ran it up to 250º F and the film just curled up. If you notice that the Hasselblad camera is worn outside of the astronaut’s suit and it is not curled in any way. So that camera would have heated up to the temperature to bake cookies in a very short time, because the Sun on the moon is absolutely relentless, there’s no atmosphere to mitigate the heat of the Sun. So it’s obvious that the pictures that they brought back were not taken on the moon, nor could they have actually taken any picture on the moon, even if they had gone there.
The thermosphere extends from an altitude of 100 km, which means that the astronauts sojourned for a while in a fiery furnace 600 km long. There is total silence in their logbook on the stretch between 177 miles and 3,140 miles distances from the earth. The astronauts and most encyclopedias keep mum on the temperature of the thermosphere for obvious religious reasons. According to the Koran, Muhammad ascended to heaven from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on the horse Buraq which had four human heads (In Polish folklore, a certain Twardowski ascended to the moon on a cock). In Soviet artist Belov’s huge painting Space Brothers, c. 1980, the figures on horseback carry the symbols of Soviet Russia triumphantly into space. The Soviets assimilated the Islamic religious imagery for political purposes. Keep in mind that their space missions were launched from the aerodrome at Bajkonur which is in Kazakhstan, a Muslim country. Politically, any mission into space is a minefield.
Religion enters the picture of First on the Moon on July 20. During a service in the Webster Presbyterian Church, of which Buzz Aldrin was an elder, the Reverend Dean Woodruf said in his sermon: “When self-fulfillment and fulfillment are put together perfectly we are what we are meant to be. This is what Nietzsche developed in his idea of the “Superman.” This is not a new biological species but a new kind of man who realizes his capacity for self-transcendence and self-fulfillment. This is what Nietzsche meant when he spoke through Zarathustra: 'Bless the cup which is about to overflow, so that the water, golden flowing out of it, may carry everywhere the reflection of thy rapture. Lo! This cup is about to empty itself again, and Zarathustra will once more become a man.” As you may recall, Nietzsche's Uebermensch (superman) was pictured as a “blond, blue-eyed beast”. Incidentally, N. Armstrong is a blond, blue-eyed man (or beast, if you prefer the Darwinian jargon) and has a statue of the Buddha (with a swastika on his chest) in his apartment. Recently, he paid a visit to Israel.
Well, in the cartoon The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, an episode titled The 'N' Men had Jimmy and his friends careening out of control through the Van Allen radiation belt, giving them all superpowers based on what each was doing at the moment they went through the radiation belt. This situation parodies the origins of the Fantastic Four.
The Reverend Woodruf preached his sermon while the astronauts were traveling through the Van Allen Belts.
Between 50 km and 85 km above the ground Mesosphere extends. The temperatures in this zone drop to -184º F (-120º C) at the mesopause.
A test pilot named Joe Kittinger jumped from 74,000 feet. Near 40,000 feet, his thermometer read 98 degrees below zero, but his pressure suit, which was electrically heated, kept all but his legs warm. When Kittinger landed in the desert, thirteen minutes and 45 seconds after leaving the gondola, only his right hand bore any evidence of his journey from space. On that side, the glove had failed to pressurize, and the hand had inflated to almost twice its normal size. The swelling went down eventually, but the memory of a hostile sky stayed with him.” Man will never conquer space,” Kittinger had told his crew over the radio before he leaped. “He will learn to live with it, but he will never conquer it.” (Burkhard Bilger, Falling The New Yorker, Aug 13, 2007)
William Cooper wrote:
“NASA was created to make interstellar travel believable. The Apollo Space Program foisted the idea that man could travel to, and walk upon, the moon. Every Apollo mission was carefully rehearsed and then filmed in large sound stages at the Atomic Energy Commissions Top Secret test site in the Nevada Desert and in a secured and guarded sound stage at the Walt Disney Studios within which was a huge scale mock-up of the moon. No man has ever ascended higher than 300 miles, if that high, above the earth’s surface. No man has ever orbited, landed on, or walked upon the moon in any publicly known space program. Any intelligent student with a basic physics can prove NASA faked the Apollo moon landings.” http://harvest-trust.org/majestyt.htm
If the Muslims can believe in Muhammad ascending to heaven on a horse, millions of others can believe in the Apollo landing on the moon. People always need to believe in something.

Philosophical Category of Heliocentrism

T. Campanella in his Apologia pro Galileo (Frankfurt 1623) argues, 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 (John Paul II knew what he was doing when he “rehabilitated” Galileo who, like Muhammad, believed in “7 hanging paradises” and 72 virgins awaiting him)*. 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.
Five of the most important philosophers of the Renaissance – Cardano, Telesio, Patrizi, Bruno, and Campanella – were panpsychists. All of them were admirers of classical heliocentrism. They had to be, because heliocentricm in terms of philosophy is panpsychism.
The Renaissance panpsychists were nothing but a new generation of Stoics who insisted that all material objects are “bodies”, and they are in fact “compounds of 'matter' and 'mind' (god or logos). Mind is not something other than body but a necessary constituent of it, “'reason' in matter.”
A short passage from Pliny's Natural History will allow to better grasp the essence of panpsychist world view:
“Upheld by the same vapour between earth and heaven, at definite spaces apart, hang the seven stars which owing to their motion we call 'planets,' although no stars wander less than they do. In the midst of these moves the sun, whose magnitude and power are the greatest, and who is the ruler not only of the seasons and of the lands, but even of the stars themselves and of the heaven. Taking into account all that he effects, we must believe him to be the soul, or more precisely the mind, of the whole world, the supreme ruling principle and divinity of nature. He furnishes the world with light and removes darkness, he obscures and he illumines the rest of the stars, he regulates in accord with nature's precedent the changes of the seasons and the continuous re-birth of the year, he dissipates the gloom of heaven and even calms the storm-clouds of the mind of man, he lends his light to the rest of the stars also; he is glorious and pre-eminent, all-seeing and even all-hearing – this, I observe, that Homer the prince of literature held to be true in the case of the sun alone.”(2-1)
One long-winded Soviet astronomer spoke on a theory that all the great scientific accomplishments – of Newton, Darwin, Einstein, and so forth – were conceived during periods when sunspots were most active. I think that when the sun spots are most active you one can get easily sunstroke instead of a world shattering idea…
Giambattista della Porta, the celebrated Italian alchemist and the first member of the Academy of the Lynxes, modern Europe’s first scientific society founded in Rome in 1603 published in 1569 his book Magia Naturalis in which he tried to show to the world the groundlessness of their accusations of magic being a superstition and sorcery. In the book he based all of the occult phenomena possible to man upon the world-soul which binds all with all, exactly like Newton’s gravity. The latests biographer of Newton titled his book Newton. The Last Sorcerer.
Newton in his Principia based all his speculations upon the "soul of the world," the great universal, magnetic agent, which he called the divine sensorium: "Here the question is of a very subtile spirit which penetrates through all, even the hardest bodies, and which is concealed in their substance. Through the strength and activity of this spirit, bodies attract each other, and adhere together when brought into contact. Through it, electrical bodies operate at the remotest distance, as well as near at hand, attracting and repelling; through this spirit the light also flows, and is refracted and reflected, and warms bodies. All senses are excited by this spirit, and through it the animals move their limbs. But these things cannot be explained in few words, and we have not yet sufficient experience to determine fully the laws by which this universal spirit operates." In the final analysis all motion in the universe is dependent on the activity of a World Soul.
The Fire Baptism
Let me quote here a prayer to the World-Soul, the Famous Gayatri of the Rig Veda, “the holiest verse in the Vedas.” It runs as follows: “Let us adore the Supremacy of that Divine Sun, the Godhead, Who illuminates all, Who recreates all, from Whom all proceed, to Whom all must return, Whom we invoke to direct our Understanding aright in our Progress toward His Holy Seat.” (Sir W. Jone's Works, XIII. 367. “His Holy Seat” suggests the thought that the state where He does not move is fixed.) Let me mention here that the term see denoting a district under a bishop's authority, for instance Holy See, is derived from Old French sie, or sied which, in turn, is derived from Latin sedes, abode (sedere, to sit). According to Webster's Universal Dictionary of 1936 see also denotes the seat of regal authority; a throne.. Copernicus's sun god who rules his family of stars is seated on a royal throne.
The ancient sun-worshippers regarded the Great Spirit as a nature-god, identical with nature, and the sun as the deity, "in whom the Lord of life dwells." Gama is the sun, according to the Hindu theology, and "The sun is the source of the souls and of all life." Agni, the "Divine Fire," the deity of the Hindu, is the sun, for the fire and sun are the same. Ormazd is light, the Sun-God, or the Life-giver. In the Hindu philosophy, "The souls issue from the soul of the world, and return to it as sparks to the fire." None of the ancients, the sun-worshippers included, regarded our visible sun otherwise than as an emblem of their metaphysical invisible central sun-god. Moreover, they did not believe what our modern science teaches us, namely, that light and heat proceed from our sun, and that it is this planet which imparts all life to our visible nature. "His radiance is undecaying," says the Rig-Veda, "the intensely-shining, all-pervading, unceasing, undecaying rays of Agni desist not, neither night nor day." This evidently related to the spiritual, central sun, whose rays are all-pervading and unceasing, the eternal and boundless life-giver. HE the Point (of Bing Bang); the centre (which is everywhere) of the circle (which is nowhere), the ethereal, spiritual fire, the soul and spirit of the all-pervading, mysterious ether.
Composed of fire and air, the Stoic pneuma was put forth as the creative life energy of the universe. This was most evident in human bodies, in which both warmth (fire) and breath (air) were seen as the essential defining characteristics of life and soul. Pneuma was the active principle made tangible, and as such it accounted for all form that was seen in worldly objects. Pneuma was the “creative fire” of the cosmos, a pyr technikon. It had the status of divinity, and was equated with both god and cosmic reason.
It is the same pantheism which inspired the words of John the Baptist: “I baptize with water, but one who is much greater than I is coming…He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.” According to the New Roman catechism “fire” symbolizes the transforming energy of the Holy Spirit, the same fire which Paul urged the Thessalonians not to extinguish (Cp. The undying fire of the Vestal Virgins) – for it is none other than the Holy Spirit Himself (# 696)
Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century dropped the part of the phrase concerning sanctification “by the Holy Spirit and by fire” because “fire” did not have sufficient textual warrant, and this offended those who believed that the Holy Sprit was Himself fire according to the Aryan dogma. “And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them” - Acts 2:3.
Plato represented the planets as moved by an intrinsic Rector, one with his dwelling, like “a boatman in his boat.” Aristotle called those rulers “immaterial substances;” though he rejected the gods as Entities. But this did not prevent him from recognizing the fact that the stars and planets “were not inanimate masses but acting and living bodies indeed…” As if “sidereal spirits were the divine portion of their phenomena, (ta theoitera pon phaneron)” (De Caelo. I. 9). Kepler “baptized” Plato's Rector and called him angelus rector conducting each planet. In his third letter to Bentley Newton mentioned “agent, material or immaterial” as the cause of gravity and later identified gravity with the spiritual body of Jesus Christ.
Well, possibly Newton with Pliny also believed that Spanish mares could conceive by turning their hindquarters to the wind (Natural History IV.35 and VIII.67). That's what panpsychism is all about. In the erotic cult of the Mare-goddess children were believed to enter into women's womb as sudden gusts of wind.
We have similar synthesis of pagan ideas with Christian doctrine in the young K. Wojtyla's Renaissance Psalter. The leading poem of this collection entitled Magnificat unites through imagery the pagan, the medieval, the Renaissance panpsychism and the modern. The ancient worship of the oak tree, becomes transformed into Christian belief without leaving behind the pagan symbolism; rather, it incorporates it. God is present in the ancient soil, in the rocks of the Tatra (like he is believed to be present in the Kaaba), and in the oaks.
In Laws Plato also embraced a soul or souls as the cause of various phenomena:
“Now consider all the stars and the moon and the years and the months and all the seasons: what can we do except repeat the same story? A soul or souls ... have been shown to be the cause of all these phenomena, and whether it is by their living presence in matter ... or by some other means, we shall insist that these souls are gods. Can anybody admit all this and still put up with people who deny that 'everything is full of gods'?” Like those rocks of Tatra and oaks full of gods...
Since time immemorial astrology went hand in hand with the theory of emanationism, philosophical and theological theory that saw all of creation as an unwilled, necessary and spontaneous outflow of contingent beings of descending perfection, from an infinite, unchanged primary substance. In conformity with this theory Kepler wrote about “species immateriata” (which corresponds to Aristotle's “immaterial substances”) which flows out of the sun, inundates all the planets, including the earth, and sets them in whirling motion. Now his angelus rector became Plato's “a boatman in his boat”
Kepler said that he understood perfectly how the Pythagoreans could believe that all the globes disseminated through Space were rational Intelligences¸facultates ratiocinativae, circulating around the Sun. He wrote about anima telluris i.e. soul of the Earth. Copernicus wrote about divines mundi revolutionibus (I, 9). The publisher removed from the printed edition of The revolutions the expression divina corpora and replace it with corpora coelestia. Like Copernicus, also Kepler believed that the stars were born of the semen of the sun god (disseminated is derived from Latin semen, seed). Remember the Hindu sungod in the shape of linga (phallus)? In Hindu myth when the Desire (Kama) arose in it, “the creation” or rather emanation or emission of semen followed.
Heliocentrism and Holocausts of Jews
Philosopher M. Polanyi observed, “Newtonian physics and Darwin’s notion of the survival of the fittest were key elements both in the Marxist concepts of class warfare and of racial philosophies which shaped Hitlerism and scientific world view.”
This enmity against Christianity rooted in the Hebrew Bible on the part of many cultured pagans was not a purely intellectual matter, but was deeply rooted in class prejudice. The “cultured and sophisticated” could not conceive the possibility that the Christian rabble could know a truth hidden to them. Their main objection was that Christianity was a religion of barbarians who derived their teaching, not from Greeks of Romans, but from Jews, a primitive people whose best teacher never rose to the level of Greek philosophers. If anything good is to be found in Jewish Scripture – they said – that is because the Jews copied it from the Greeks. So, the Biblical geocentrism which could not be proved to be copied from the Greeks or any other pagan belief was recognized as an invention of an uneducated, barbaric people. Rome was always heliocentric: “Sun…the leader, the prince and the steerman of the other stars, the soul and the ordering principle of the world, so large that it enlightens and fills up the whole universe…the orbits of Mercury and Venus follow him as his satellites.” This declaration of Cicero attests that the old Pythagorean heliocentrism was ever present in the minds of the enlightened circles of ancient Greece and Rome. Cicero proclaimed that the Jews who believed in the Biblical geocentrism were a nation born to servitude (nationibus nati servituti).
Dio Cassius in his History reported: “Fifty of the strongest fortified places, and 985 of the best towns and villages were ruined. Very few Jews remained alive. 580,000 lost their lives on the battlefield or by the sudden attacks by the Romans, in addition to those without number who perished of starvation and pestilence or who were burned alive. The entire land of Judea was changed into a desolate wilderness” (69:14)
The early Christian chroniclers wrote: “The populace in many other cities were slaughtered or sold into slavery. The multitude for sale as slaves was so great that their price was extremely low, yet there were no enough buyers. At Hebron a great slave market was held; subsequently, the huge remaining number was taken to the slave-market at Gaza, which now because of this became known as Hadrian's Market. Those who could not be sold were shipped to Egypt. In Egypt they fell into the hands of their bitter enemies the Greeks; and instead of being purchased as slaves, many were slain.”
Not long after Hadrian abolished the name of Judea with its potentially subversive overtones, and called the province Syria Palestina instead, he founded in Rome the school of philosophy, oratory and literature which he called Athenaeum, and which conducted the true psychological war against the Jews and their Holy Scriptures. You will grasp better the perennial policy of Rome vis-a-vis Israel when you recall that the goddess Athena was usually portrayed with her dress adorned with swastikas. She was the most beloved goddess of Adolf Hitler.
La Sapienza founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, as a Studium for ecclesiastical continued the tradition of Hadrian's Athenaeum. The statue of Minerva or the Roman counterpart of the Greek of Athena stands in front of the Sapienza.
Gen. John Bagot Glubb, the supreme commander of the Arab Legion in Israel's War of Independence in 1948 regarded the creation of Israel as a crime. Glubb, like most of the British elites, was an unabashed anti-Semite, who firmly believed that the “unlikable character” of the Jews had provoked their persecution throughout history; that most Russian and East European Jews were really Khazar Turks with no connection to the promised land.
You may recall that Darwin in his book castigated the Turkish people as belonging to an inferior race. So when Gen. Glubb put the Jews in the same racial category as Khazar Turks he continued A. Hitler's racial crusade against the Jewish people. So, you see, Pope John Paul II knew very well what he was doing when he was rehabilitating evolutionism and heliocentrism, the “sciences” that were taught in Hadrian's Athenaeum. Once a miniature Palestinian state is created the “civilized world” won't stop there. Only when the last Jew is exterminated its mission civilisatrice will be regarded as fulfilled. Copernicus and Darwin blinded the world to dangers the secularists may encounter while executing this new Holocaust. Exactly, like they blinded A. Hitler.
Hundreds of gravestones were toppled at a Jewish cemetery in New Jersey; hundreds of gravestones were knocked over, some broken from hitting each other. It looked like it was hit by a bomb. The Jews are the one and only people who are not allowed to rest in peace. When moral foundations are shaken, we unleash our instincts. But released instincts belong to the animal world.
If we forget God our country is doomed.
In paper after paper, Teilhard de Chardin, a French Jesuit paleontologist worked out his ideas, mourning his Church’s unwillingness to incorporate what Science had discovered into its understanding of the world, criticizing the “geocentricity” to which she clung psychologically for four hundred years after she had ceased to support it astronomically, and rebuking those religious thinkers who recognized nothing new under the sun since “instantaneous creation”. De 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.” “Christianity must break out of the closed world of Israel into the pagan world”. De Chardin posited above Suess’s biosphere the existence of an even more significant covering of the earth – its “thinking skin”, the “noosphere”. The earth once again became a goddess. De Chardin’s “apostle” in Poland the young K. Wojtyla wrote a poem entitled Material about the “thinking skin”.
Several of the most illustrious thinkers of the postwar period have called for Western religion to forsake the solitary and overpowering, personal deity of the Bible, not for science or rationalism but for naturalistic polytheism of ancient Greece. Sun and Earth are equally encompassed in this metavision.
After a decade of technical articles and studies that began in the 1960s with his work for NASA, Lovelock introduced his Gaia theory to the general public in Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth published in 1979 by the Oxford University Press. Igniting a scientific, environmental, and spiritual movement that has burgeoned through scores of seminars, symposia, and songfest at home and abroad, the Britisher’s opinions on Gaia have since been roundly in demand.
The idea of the living Earth today exercises a profound intellectual enchantment. The notion of our planet as an infinitely integrated super organism has compelled world leaders from Mikhail Gorbachev to Pope John Paul II, R. Reagan to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and UN Secretary General Perez de Cuellar to Norwegian prime minister Gro Harlem Bruntland to write on the theme of global interdependence in the Gaia Peace Atlas, published simultaneously by Gaia Books (London) and Doubleday (New York) 1988, which concludes by thanking Lovelock “for his continuing inspiration.”
Metropolitan Kyrill attacks John Paul II's Scientific Legacy
In an interview for the German Spiegel Online published January 10, 2008 entitled The Bible Calls it a Sin Metropolitan Kyrill, foreign minister of the Russian Orthodox Church asked how he would approach Darwin's theories if he were a teacher, answered: “I would say that the theory has many adherents, but also a few unanswered questions. For instance, no one has provided precise proof of the transition from one species to another. It would be wrong to treat Darwin's theory as the only correct one. It is the leading theory today, but it could be replaced by another theory tomorrow. There was also a time when Marxism considered itself the only correct and scientifically justified theory...”
In a veiled allusion to the Declaration of the Senate of the Warsaw University Metropolitan Kyrill said: “What I am saying is something that the liberal SPIEGEL will never print: You undoubtedly think that this Metropolitan Kyrill is out of his mind and that what he is saying is complete nonsense.”
We also learned from the interview that Vladimir Putin says that he often reads the Bible on his presidential plane during long trips and that in an essay, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has invoked the New Testament to criticize a unipolar world dominated by the United States.
On the Eve of Pres. Bush's Visit to Israel
MOSCOW, January 8 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Navy carrier Su-33 aircraft and combat helicopters have launched a training over the Mediterranean, an aide to the Russian Navy commander said on Tuesday. Defense Minister Anatoly Serdukov said previously that a total of four warships and seven other vessels of Russia's Northern, Black Sea and Baltic Fleets, as well as 47 airplanes and 10 helicopters, would take part in the 12,000-mile expedition.
MOSCOW, December 14 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian foreign minister accused Britain on Friday of violating international law in the latest row over the British Council in Russia.

St. Thomas Aquinas, an Atheist Undercover

Christianity as a religious structure rests upon two fundamentally different and directly hostile “views of existence”: upon Jewish historical faith and upon Indo-European symbolical and metaphysical mythology. The kernel of the Christian religion is the conception of “redemption of man”: this idea has always been and still is strange to the Jews; it absolutely contradicts their whole conception of religion. On the other hand, it is the central idea in all Indo-European religious views; they all revolve around the longing for redemption; the hope of salvation; nor was this idea of redemption strange to the Hellenes; we find it in their mysteries, and in Plato, in the 7th book of the “Republic”, it is clearly recognizable. The idea of redemption embraces two others; that of a present imperfection and that of a possible perfection by some non-empirical, that is, in a certain sense supernatural or transcendental process: the one is symbolized by the myth of degeneration (See, O.Spengler, “The Decline of the West”), the other by that of gracious help bestowed by a higher Being. Paul goes to the root of the matter by calling sin itself a “law” – a law of the flesh, or, as we should say to-day, en empirical law of nature – and by showing in a famous passage (Rom 8), that the Church law has not the least power over sin, which is a fact of nature, over which grace alone can prevail: “And if by grace, then it is no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then it is no more of grace: otherwise work is no more work.” (Tit 3:5). The singer of the Veda already “searches eagerly for his sin” and finds it not in his will but in his condition, which even in his dreams holds evil up before his eyes, and finally he turns to his “God of Grace” who enlightens the simple. The Carirarka-Mimansa considers all living beings as “in need of redemption.” (H. S. Chamberlain The Myth of the 19th Century)
From Krishnamurti to Gandhi
It took a Hindu to teach Christianity its own political strategy. Mahatma Gandhi not only is called the Father of the nation of India, but he is the modern inspiration for the rediscovery of the teaching of Jesus on simplicity, fasting, and non-violence. He loved Jesus, but saw little reflection of him in institutionalized Christianity.
www.cacradicalgrace.org/.../psca/post/cloud.php
Gandhi’s racism. The truth behind the mask. Behold Sergeant Major Gandhi who supported the British in the Boer war, against the Zulu rebellion. Behold the prophet of peace who worked to stratify, by introducing the caste system, the South African society.
Which war did Mohandas Gandhi support? All of them. There wasn’t a war that the "prophet" of Non-Violence did not support. He was Sergeant Major in the British Army & won a medal for his combat service
Gandhi condones Zulu massacres and defends the British. Aug 4 1906
The Guardian, Friday Oct. 17, 2003]
GANDHI BRANDED RACISTAS JOHANNESBURG HONOURS FREEDOM FIGHTER (By Rory Carroll)
It was supposed to honour his resistance to racism in South Africa, but a new statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Johannesburg has triggered a row over his alleged contempt for black people. The 2.5 metre high (8ft) bronze statue depicting Gandhi as a dashing young human rights lawyer has been welcomed by Nelson Mandela*, among others, for recognising the Indian who launched the fight against white minority rule at the turn of the last century.
But critics have attacked the gesture for overlooking racist statements attributed to Gandhi, which suggest he viewed black people as lazy savages who were barely human.
*Incidentally, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela and Kofi Anan became now one team fighting the “Israeli apartheid.”
Haruki Murakami, Japan's top writer scheduled to accept the prestigious Jersalem Prize did not answer an open letter, titled “Don't legitimize apartheid” from the Palestine Forum Japan which urged him to cancel his plans to accept the prize in Jerusalem. (Jerusalem Post Online Edition Feb. 13, 2009)
St. Augustine: “Whatever has been rightly said by the heathen, we must appropriate to our uses.”
The “germination” of the spiritual body from the physical
Like corn decays the mortal, like corn is he born again (Kata Upanishad, 1,8)
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die…All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another…So also is the resurrection of the dead…It is sown a natural body; but it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. (1 Cor. 15:36-44)
In the ancient Egyptian story of Osiris the generative process is personified by the god Osiris, whose death and resurrection form the central theme of the myth. Osiris was associated with flowing water, the life force in plants, the reproductive power in animals, and more generally with the vital activity that maintains and propagates the order of life, all metaphors that collectively imply the notion of order-creating activity. Coffin Text 330 relates Osiris with both process and “the Order,” Mayet, the natural order of the world:
Whether I live or die I am Osiris,
I enter in and reappear through you,.
I decay in you, I grow in you,
I fall down in you, I fall upon my side.
The gods are living in me for I live and grow in the corn
that sustains the Honored Ones.
I cover the earth,
whether I live or die I am Barley,
I am not destroyed.
I have entered the Order,
I relay upon the Order,
I became Master of the Order
I emerge in the Order.
Osiris was preserved from decay by being wrapped in the coils of primordial serpent Nehaher. For most of the duration of the Old Kingdom, the passion of Osiris was concerned with the salvation of human souls, but with the resurrection of divine souls, those of the pharaonic kings. The resurrection ceremony was performed not out of a personal fear of death on the part of ruling class but rather to ensure the continued prosperity of the empire and to celebrate the miracle of creation of the cosmic order. Beginning around 2500 BCE, however, the Osirian ceremonies took on a more personal significance for the masses. A cult of Osiris developed and gained in popularity.
Aryan Evolution: From the Plant up to Brahma
"The first germ of life was developed by water and heat" (Manu, book i., sloka 8).
"Water ascends toward the sky in vapors; from the sun it descends in rain, from the rain are born the plants, and from the plants, animals" (book iii., sloka 76).
"Each being acquires the qualities of the one which immediately precedes it, in such a manner that the farther a being gets away from the primal atom of its series, the more he is possessed of qualities and perfections" (book i., sloka 20).
"Man will traverse the universe, gradually ascending, and passing through the rocks, the plants, the worms, insects, fish, serpents, tortoises, wild animals, cattle, and higher animals. . . . Such is the inferior degree" (Ibid.).
"These are the transformations declared, from the plant up to Brahma, which have to take place in his world" (Ibid.). (Cp. The Aryan Jesus says in Jn. 10:30: “My Father and I are one.” In the Greek, the word “one” is neuter, which means not one person but one substance,).
For example, when the desire of necessity to see arises in the jiva, the eye is manifest. Brahma is said to be the first soul and the repository of all the other jivas, who under his direction evolve upwards through aquatic life, to plant life, etc....Dasavatara Stotram (Ten Incarnations of Vishnu) in terms of evolution almost parallels the Puranic notion of life's evolution from aquatic life upwards Matsya (fish), Kurma (amphibian), Narasinga (both animal and man) etc.
Speculations about invisible dimensions leave room for rationally legitimizing the ontological reality of persons like Brahma and his lotus birth, who are otherwise thought of as merely mythological. Perhaps his chanting of the Gopala mantra can itself be construed as the big bang. After all, those in the scientific community who have embraced the superstring theory describe the world poetically as a musical vibrations, a song in the mind of God*. Bhagavat-gita asserts that life is everywhere (sarva-gatah) and Vedic literature speaks of demigods and other beings enjoying life on other planets including the moon and Mars. Is there a Vedic explanation as to why science can find no evidence of life on the moon and Mars?
*With drum and dance, Shiva represents the world's perpetual unfolding or evolution. The drum in Hindu myth is an agency of cosmic creation*, and dancing is one of the many aspects of Shiva's essence. Dance produced rhythm and that rhythm, Newton thought, must have been observed in his 'scientific” law of gravitation. Similarly, the formulation “cube roots of squares” used in Opticks was known from Kepler's Third Law, deduced again in Principia, to show the average distance of a planet from the sun is proportional to a cube root of the square of the planet's period of revolution. In his Harmony of the World (1619) Kepler calculated from the greatest and the slowest speed of each planet the “divine” musical scales of the planets.
* In an American Christmas carol titled The Little Drummer a little boy brings to new-born baby Jesus the only thing he possessed – his drum. This song, undoubtedly, inspired by the Shivaite mythology turns Jewish Jesus into an avatar of the Aryan god portrayed in American iconography as a blond, blue-eyed Aryan, and not a dark-skinned, Oriental Jesus.
When Vedic scripture speaks of planets on which higher forms of life exist, it speaks more of the macrocosmic mental and intellectual planes of experience than it does of the planets we see in the sky with our physical senses.
Therefore we should not be concerned if the Mars probe return to Earth with no evidence of life...those involved have not gone to a higher planet in the sense that the Vedic scriptures speak about doing so. As interesting as the prospect of going to other planets or experiencing higher realms of material enjoyment may be, we should always be more concerned with sadhana. Sadhana and the grace of saints is infinitely more important than going to Mars.
Www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Hinduism/2004/04/Asak-The-Swami-Dharma-Vs-Darwin
In the Kausitaki Upanishad, the god Indra, incarnating the Absolute, boasts of his apparently wicked deeds and then addresses his worshipers in an Anti-Decalogue
“Understand me as I am…with one who knows me, his world is injured by no deed whatsoever, not by the murder of his father, not by the murder of his mother, not by theft, not by the slaughter of an embryo* (i.e. Abortion. Annie Besant who made this practice palatable in the Western world was a theosophist, or a convert to Hindu polytheism). Whatever evil he does, he does not blanch. We also read in the Brhadarnyaka Upanishad: “He does not become greater by good action, nor inferior by bad action.” (The Eye of Shiva, 8)
*Professor Jean Porter, theologian at the University of Notre Dame in his article Is The Embryo a Person? Arguing with the Catholic Traditions (Commonweal, Feb. 8, 2002) wrote: “The view that even early abortion is equivalent to murder did not begin to dominate official Catholic teachings until the nineteenth century, al;though it had been proposed earlier. Before that point, the majority view in the Western church, as reflected in canon law as well as theological opinion, drew a distinction between early – and late-stage abortions. Certainly, an early-stage abortion was considered to be a grave sin, but it was not regarded as equivalent to murder. This distinction, in turn, rests on the view, defended by Aquinas among many others, that the developing fetus does not receive a rational soul, and therefore does not attain full human status, until after a certain point in the process of development – a view sometimes described as “delayed hominization.”
Anti-Semitism of the Aryan Christianity
In consonance with the traditional anti-Semitism of the British upper classes in his magisterial two-volume work Modern Egypt, Lord Cromer argued that the ‘Oriental’, meaning Semites, was irredeemably childish and the diametrical opposite of ‘us’: “Sir Alfred Lyall once said to me: ‘Accuracy is abhorrent to the Oriental mind. Every Anglo-Indian school always remembers that maxim.’ Want of accuracy, which easily degenerates into untruthfulness, is in fact the main characteristic of the Oriental mind. The European is a close reasoner; his statements of fact are devoid of any ambiguity; he is a natural logician, albeit he may not have studied logic; he is by nature skeptical and requires proof before he can accept the truth of any proposition; his trained intelligence works like a piece of mechanism. The mind of the Oriental, on the other hand, like his picturesque streets, is eminently wanting in symmetry. His reasoning is of the most slipshod description. Although the ancient Arabs acquired in a somewhat higher degree the science of dialectics, their descendants are singularly deficient in the logical faculty. They are often incapable of drawing the most obvious conclusions from any simple premises of which they may admit the truth.” (Quoted in Edward W. Said, Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient New York and London, 1985. p.38)
“The Semitic branch,” Blvatsky, a member of the International Aristocratic Network wrote, “has never been able to develop out of its numerous tongues a language capable of embodying ideas of a moral and intellectual world; whose form of expression and drift of thought could never soar higher than the purely sensual and terrestrial figures of speech, whose literature has left nothing original, nothing that was not borrowed from the Aryan thought and whose science and philosophy are utterly wanting in those noble features which characterize the highly spiritual and metaphysical systems of the Indo-European (Japhetic) races (pp. 434, Isis Unveiled, Vol. II)
To Goebbels, Hitler, Himmler and others, including certain Theologians of the time, the Old Testament was also seen as inferior as the Jews were seen as an inferior and 'past' race..
Richard Weikart's From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany was released in 2004 (paperback edition in 2005) with Palgrave Macmillan in New York, a major publisher of historical scholarship.
In this compelling and painstakingly researched work of intellectual history, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially those pertaining to the sacredness of human life. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary "fitness" (especially in terms of intelligence and health) as the highest arbiter of morality. Weikart concludes that Darwinism played a key role not only in the rise of eugenics, but also in euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination, all ultimately embraced by the Nazis
www.csustan.edu/history/faculty/weikartr/fromdarwintohitler.htm
St. Thomas Aquinas, the premier teacher in the Roman Catholic tradition, like Manu, did not think the early fetus was a person - “ensouled,” in his language. St. Thomas believed the early life in the womb received a spiritual soul - and became a baby - only after three to four months. Thus, embryonic cells in a lab dish or frozen away are certainly not “ensouled.”
It is true that Aquinas did believe that the soul was not infused at the beginning of a pregnancy. This is because Aquinas followed Aristotle’s embryology (circa 300 B.C.) and believed that an embryo was not formed enough to receive a soul until well into its development. However, 21st century embryology provides clear evidence that everything the soul needs is present from the first moment of every human being’s existence - as numerous Catholic scholars have explained. Aquinas would undoubtedly accept this evidence and agree with the Church’s current teaching.
There are two fundamental pillars of evolutionary biology which are important for contemporary discussions of the relationship among biology, philosophy, and theology. The first is the claim of common ancestry: the view that all living things are historically and organically interconnected. Commentators describing the recent publication of a kind of rough draft of the total genetic constitution of the human species, its genome, have been quick to point out that, since human genes look much like those of fruit flies, worms, and even plants, we have further confirmation of common descent from "the same humble beginnings and that the connections are written in our genes." To affirm a fundamental continuity among living things challenges the notion that distinct species were created by God through special interventions in nature. Common descent challenges as well the theological view that human beings, created in the image and likeness of God, represent an ontological discontinuity with the rest of nature.(5) Specifically, it would seem that any notion of an immaterial human soul must be rejected if one is to accept the truths of contemporary biology.
It was politics which dictated this transformation of the theory; in the Hindu theology God is considered a “puru” i.e. geometrical point and this dogma is reflected in the notion of a pellet of matter. (In the Newtonian physics the difference between matter and spirit is that of degree of condensation). Big Bang theory also referred to as Modern “Genesis” retired the Biblical Genesis because the American social Darwinist and a New Ager John Fiske imparted to the enthusiastic audiences his conviction that the political genius of Aryan peoples was the hope of the world. According to this Aryan “Genesis”, we are bundles of atoms i.e. bundles of energy at the quantum level, and bundles of energy consist of 99.99999% empty space. We are all transparent, so to say.
To the Pythagoreans it was the pentagonal geometry (Pentagon) that was sacred. We may speculate that this was because the whole of this geometry was ruled by Φ, a symbol of perfection, which appears to have been honored with the status of god. Exactly, like Π is, by a multitude of mathematicians. Contrary to Newton's speculations, Jesus did not pray, Our Π who art in Heaven...
When the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away (will be superseded) – 1 Cor 13:10
Th. Aquinas began his Summa Theologica with the question: “An Deus sit?” (Does God exist?). In his Summa Theologica Thomas Aquinas mentions two arguments that might be used to prove that “God does not exist.” To quote Aquinas: “What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God’s existence.”
Maritain’s Philosophy of Evolution
What we need is a well-founded philosophical explanation of evolution. Jacques Maritain has left us one, and it came in the form of a lecture he gave to the Little Brothers of Jesus in Toulouse when he was 84. He starts unsurprisingly with some texts of St. Thomas, the chief of which describes an ascending hierarchy of beings and runs: "Prime matter is first of all in potency to the form of the element.
"But existing under the form of the element, it is in potency to the form of the mixed body (or of the compound), elements being the matter of the mixed body.
"And considered under the form of the mixed body, it is in potency to the vegetative soul: for it is a soul that is the act (or the substantial form) of the plant (since a plant is a living being, or a being endowed with immanent activity).
"And likewise the vegetative soul is in potency to the sensitive soul, as the sensitive soul is to the intellective soul: as it appears in human generation, in which the fetus lives first by plant life, then by animal life, and finally by human life.
"But after this form -- the intellective soul -- we do not find, in those things subject to generation and to corruption (or to substantial transformation), any subsequent or worthier form.
"And so the highest degree of the whole order of the movement of generation is the human soul, and it is toward this that matter tends as toward its ultimate form.
"The elements then exist for mixed bodies, which exist for living beings, among which the plants in turn exist for the animals and the animals for man. Indeed man is the end of the whole movement of generation."
Maritain notes that St. Thomas is talking about "the order of ascending forms," but these forms exhibit a trans-categorical tendency towards higher ontological levels, and ultimately towards the human soul because they "tend towards the divine similitude." Here we return to an idea we saw briefly before. Things act according to their own nature, but they also act to transcend that nature and reach a goal that is transnatural in regard to their own nature.
"The Darwinian theory… not only does not oppose, but lends a decided support to, a belief in the spiritual nature of man. It shows us how man’s body may have been developed from that of a lower animal from under the law of natural selection; but it also teaches us that we possess intellectual and moral faculties which could not have been so developed, but must have had another origin; and for this origin we can only find an adequate cause in the unseen universe of Spirit." (Michael Shermer, The Borderlands of Science, p. 187)
St. Thomas naturally had no idea of the modern biological idea of evolution, but Maritain believed that he would not have been disconcerted by it for long, for he would only to have had to add the dimension of time to this ascending journey of the forms in order to arrive at a philosophical understanding of it. Further, the ultimate direction of that process towards the human soul is another way of stating the strong anthropic principle, i.e., the universe tends towards intelligent life and his remark about divine similitude points to the divine causality that underlies the whole process.
"Man will traverse the universe, gradually ascending, and passing through the rocks, the plants, the worms, insects, fish, serpents, tortoises, wild animals, cattle, and higher animals. . . . Such is the inferior degree" (Ibid.).
In the chapter, "The Evidence of the Descent of Man from Some Lower Form," Darwin writes:
Embryonic Development: Man is developed from an ovule, about the 125th of an inch in diameter, which differs in no respect from the ovules of other animals. The embryo itself at a very early period can hardly be distinguished from that of other members of the vertebrate kingdom. At this period . . . the slits on the sides of the neck [of human's embryo] still remain. . .
After this, he states that his observations indicate that a human embryo closely resembles that of an ape, a dog or another vertebrate but that, in later stages of development in the womb, a differentiation occurs. In a letter to his friend, Asa Gray, Darwin considered the evidence from embryology to be "by far the strongest single class of facts in in favor of" his theory.
But Darwin was no embryologist. Never once did he investigate embryos in a comprehensive way. Therefore, in developing his arguments, he quoted individuals whom he regarded as authorities on this matter. In his footnotes, one name was particularly noticeable: the German biologist, Ernst Haeckel, whose book Naturliche Schopfungsgeschichte (The Natural History of Creation) contained various drawings of embryos, together with his comments on them.
This was the "work" that Darwin used as a source in The Descent of Man. However, even before Darwin wrote his book, some noticed a major distortion in Haeckel's "work" and wrote about it. In 1868, L. Rutimeyer published an article in the science periodical Archiv für Anthropologie (Archives of Anthropology) that revealed Haeckel's falsifications. Rutimeyer, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy at Basle University, examined the embryo drawings in Naturlische Schopfungsgeschichte and Über die Entstehung und den Stammbaum des Menschengeschlechts and demonstrated that the drawings in both books had nothing to do with reality.
Despite this, Darwin and other biologists who supported him continued to accept Haeckel's drawings as a reference. And this encouraged Haeckel to try to make embryology a strong support for Darwinism. His observations produced no such support, but he regarded his drawings as more important than his observations. In following years, he made a series of comparative drawings of embryos and composed charts comparing the embryos of fish, salamanders, frogs, chickens, rabbits and human beings. The interesting thing about these side-by-side charts was that the embryos of these various creatures closely resembled one another, at first, but slowly began to differentiate in the course of their development. Particularly striking was the similarity between the embryos of a fish and a human being; so much so that in the drawings, the human embryo had what looked like gills. On the so-called scientific basis of these drawings, Haeckel proclaimed his theory that "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." This slogan represented his belief that in the course of its development, either in the egg or in its mother's womb, every creature repeats the history of its own species, from the beginning. For example, a human embryo first resembles a fish, in later weeks a salamander, then it passes through the reptilian and mammalian stages before "evolving" into a recognizable human being.
P. Sinnet's Rescue Operation
The foremost source for the Aryan myth was H.P. Blavatsky, who founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875. Blavatsky moved the society's operations to India from 1879 to 1885, when she and her fellow theosophists – plagued by charges of spiritual charlatanism – left for London, where she enlisted new disciples among England's upper classes. In 1880 a certain A.P. Sinner by 1851 listed as a “Scholar – London University” and by 1879 the Editor of the Pioneer, the leading English Daily of India was “introduced” by Blavatsky to hear own teachers, an Occult Brotherhood living in trans-Himalayan fastness of Tibet. We could call them The Tibetan Academy of Sciences. During the course of his correspondence which extended over the year 1880 to 1884 Mr. Sinnet received many letters from the Mahatmas M. and K.H. And this correspondence was later published under the title of The Mahatma Letters.
The following is a short passage from the Letter No. 15 received July 10th, 1882:
“Take the human foetus. From the moment of its first planting until it completes its seventh month of gestation it repeats in miniature the mineral, vegetable, and animal cycles it passed through in its previous encasements, and only during the last two, develops its human entity. It is complete but towards the child's seventh year. Yet it existed without any increase or decrease aeons on aeons before it worked its way onward, though and in the womb of mother nature as it works now in its early mother's bosom. Truly said a learned philosopher who trusts more to his intuition than the dicta of modern science. “The stages of man's intra-uterine existence embody a condensed record of some of the missing pages in Earth's history.” Thus you must look back at the animal, vegetable and mineral entities. You must take each entity at its starting point in the manvantaric course as the primordial cosmic atom already differentiated by the first flutter of the manvantaric life breath. For the potentiality which develops finally in a perfected planetary spirit lurk in, is in fact that primordial cosmic atom.” Indeed, the mantra “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny' is sort of the Aryan rosary.
According to the Aryan Anti-Decalogue
At the beginning of the 20th century, it came to light that Haeckel had falsified his drawings and he openly confessed to this, saying, After this compromising confession of "forgery" I should be obliged to consider myself condemned and annihilated if I had not the consolation of seeing side by side with me in the prisoner's dock hundreds of fellow-culprits, among them many of the most trusted observers and most esteemed biologists. The great majority of all the diagrams in the best biological textbooks, treatises and journals would incur in the same degree the charge of "forgery," for all of them are inexact, and are more or less doctored, schematized and constructed.
The fact that Haeckel's drawings were falsifications was loudly expressed only in the second half of the 1990s. The September 5, 1997 edition of the Science magazine published "Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered," an article by Elizabeth Pennisi explaining that his drawings were fabrications. As she wrote:
The impression the Haeckel's drawings give, that the embryos are exactly alike, is wrong, says Michael Richardson, an embryologist at St. George's Hospital Medical School in London. . . So he and his colleagues did their own comparative study, reexamining and photographing embryos roughly matched by species and age with those Haeckel drew. Lo and behold, the embryos "often looked surprisingly different," Richardson reports in the August issue of Anatomy and Embryology.
An article in the October 16, 1999 edition of New Scientist brought Haeckel's embryology myth completely out into the open:
Haeckel called this the biogenetic law, and the idea became popularly known as recapitulation. In fact Haeckel's strict law was soon shown to be incorrect. For instance, the early human embryo never has functioning gills like a fish, and never passes through stages that look like an adult reptile or monkey
As we saw earlier, Darwin discounted other scientists' negative views of Haeckel's interpretative drawings at the time and used them to bolster his own theory. But this was not the only point where Darwinism diverged from the truth. Much more striking is that he presented the views of Karl Ernst von Baer-reputedly the most noted embryologist of the time-as distorted. Jonathan Wells' Icons of Evolution explains in detail that von Baer did not accept Darwin's theory and harshly refuted it. He was also firmly against evolutionist interpretations of embryology, formulating the rule that "the embryo of a higher form never resembles any other form, but only its embryo."He also said that Darwinists dogmatically "accepted the Darwinian evolutionary hypothesis as true before they set to the task of observing embryos." But, after the third edition of The Origin of the Species, Darwin distorted von Baer's interpretations and conclusions and used them to bolster his own theory. As Wells explained
Darwin cited von Baer as the source of his embryological evidence, but at the crucial point, Darwin distorted that evidence to make it fit his theory. Von Baer lived long enough to object to Darwin's misuse of his observations, and he was a strong critic of Darwinian evolution until his death in 1876. But Darwin persisted in citing him anyway, making him look like a supporter of the very doctrine of evolutionary parallelism he explicitly rejected.
Thomas’ views on the development of the human embryo in which the spiritual soul was only infused after conception when the embryo was fit to receive it were widespread during the Middle Ages. In more recent times it has been called delayed hominization, which perhaps is not an entirely felicitous phrase since in Thomas’ mind it wasn’t delayed, but simply came at the appropriate moment. This view was gradually displaced under the influence of the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and the discussions about the morality of abortion, and gave way to the theory of immediate hominization, that is, the infusion of the human soul at conception. Maritain felt that immediate hominization made no philosophical sense. Although the theory of delayed hominization has made some sort of comeback as a possible way to deal with the question of abortion,
When Maritain wants to elucidate this philosophy of evolution further, he focuses on the part of this passage in which St. Thomas describes human generation "in which the fetus lives first by plant life, then by animal life, and finally by human life." While Thomas’ biology which had accompanied his philosophical views of human generation has long since fallen by the wayside, Maritain believed that his philosophy remained sound, and particularly enlightening in regard to the evolutionary process. In fact, he felt that Thomas in a stroke of genius saw that the "evolutive movement" of the human embryo "recapitulates in itself, in the intra-uterine development of that being which is the head of material creation, the evolution of life which after centuries has attained its final end in man." In short, if we could fathom the philosophical nature of the evolution of the human embryo we would be better able to grasp the nature of evolution, itself, and so it was vitally important for him to hold on to St. Thomas’ views on the generation of the human embryo.
Almost every field of science had passed through a stage in its development in which it viewed natural systems as closed systems, that is, as inanimate mechanisms. For example, medical texts in medieval western Europe described human physiology in mechanical terms, comparing the organs of the body to the parts of a complex mechanism consisting of levers, pipes, and pumps. Descartes also expounded this view in his writings during the 17th century. This approach sought to describe the body's physical structure with little reference to the underlying order-creating processes responsible for its formation.
Aryan Lethal Delicatessen
"We must become the change we want to see in the world."
- Mohandas Gandhi
HINDU nationalists in India have launched a marketing exercise to promote cow’s urine as a health cure for ailments ranging from liver disease to obesity and even cancer.
The urine, which is being sold under the label “Gift of the Cow”, is being enthusiastically promoted by the government of Gujarat, one of three states in India dominated by Hindu nationalists.
The urine is collected daily from almost 600 shelters for rescued and wounded cattle set up by the Vishwa Hindu Parisad (VHP), or World Council of Holy men, as part of a government cow-protection programme to save the country’s sacred, but often maltreated, beasts.
Advertised as being “sterilized and completely fresh” it is available for 20 rupees (30p) a bottle at about 50 centres run by the VHP in Gujerat, from 200 of their outlets in neighboring Madhya Pradesh, and at fairs and religious festivals throughout India.It also comes in tablets or a cream mixed with other traditional medicinal herbs. Demand is currently outstripping supply.
In the time period of pedophile scandals rocking the Catholic Church it will be instructive to remind of a 1985 “New York Native” interview with Joseph Sonnabend (“leading AIDS doctor”). “The rectum”, Sonnabend said, “is a sexual organ, and it deserves the respect a penis gets and a vagina gets.” Anal intercourse has been the central activity for gay men and for some women for all of history. The “leading AIDS doctor” did not know that the people of Katmandu suffer from chronic intestinal parasites caused by drinking water contaminated with fecal matter.
From Mahatma M. to Mahatma Gandhi
And now the fifth grandson of India's “legendary” leader, Mohandas K. “Mahatma” Gandhi, (he opposed establishment of Jewish State within its historical boundaries) Arun Gandhi who was president and co-founder of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, at the University of Rochester in New York published in the Washington Post of Feb. 6, 2008 a paper titled Jewish Identity Can't Depend on Violence.
He argues in his paper that Jewish identity in the past has been locked in the holocaust experience – a German burden that the Jews have not been able to shed. It is allegedly a very good example of a community that can overplay a historic experience to the point that it begins to repulse friends...The Jewish identity in the future appears bleak. Any nation that remains anchored to the past is unable to move ahead and, especially a nation that believes its survival can only be ensured by weapons and bombs.
The Indian word 'Mahatma' means a 'great-souled man'. If he inherited such a great soul from his grandfather, how come that he does not see that his own country manufactures WMD to survive in the hostile environment. Did India forget its history? Does any other nation? Don't all nations on this earth commemorate their most tragic and happy events of their history. In what sense are Jews blinded by most tragic event of their history and why should they surgically (?) erase this event from their collective memory? Why should Jews listen to a scion of the corrupt dynasty which was physically exterminated by its own people including its “legendary” founder? Yes, indeed, the Jewish identity in the future would be bleak if they followed A. Gandhi's advice and started venerating Shivalinga ruling from the El-Aqsa mosque.
On Thursday, Feb. 12, 09, leaders of the Conference of Presidents of major American Jewish Organizations met with Pope Benedict in Rome. The Pope told them: “Any denial or minimization of the Holocaust is intolerable...This should be clear to anyone, especially to those standing in the tradition of the Holy Scriptures.” To his credit, Benedict has refused to receive Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
WARSAW, POLAND The chief rabbi of Tel Aviv challenged Iran's Holocaust-denying president yesterday to visit a museum being built in Warsaw that will celebrate Poland's thriving Jewish community before it was obliterated by the Nazis. (Metro June 27, 07)
Poles4israel are not repulsed by by Jewish people commemorating their loved ones even though their innumerable graveyards had been “dug in the air”. Memories stay forever with no particular place to attach to. I never saw graves of my grandfathers, yet I will never forget them. By the way, poles4irael are also friends of the Zulu People.