As Messiah, my task is to teach knowledge of God and bring peace to the earth; the latter will follow in consequence upon the former. This file, which I have titled simply Messiah, contains the bulk of my work and furnishes the materials requisite to fix the earth, spiritually and politically.
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The Shape of Ancient Thought - Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies
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My interest in spiritual matters derived from four sources. First, my family was rich but my father ran off with a twenty-seven-year-old secretary, leaving my mother with no money, even cutting off her bank account and credit cards, causing her to have something like a nervous breakdown when I was nine or ten. So I always hated him and had no respect for him, and he was an atheist who worshiped money, so I was rebelling against that. Also, both my parents' second marriages were disastrous, lasting less than two years. The whole scene was of people who were rich but miserable, and I said to myself "There has got to be something more to life than what these people are getting out of it."
Secondly, I'd had a lot of spiritual experiences on psychedelics, so I became something of a mystic by default at a young age.
Thirdly, I had literary aspirations and wanted to be a competent writer, maybe even an author, so I wanted to have a fairly broad base of general knowledge, and this would of course include questions of religion and spirituality.
And lastly, I became dissatisfied with myself in my mid-20s, so I applied myself and studied, and did some austerities. In terms of austerities, some people need more and some less, so I don't want to influence anyone in that regard - that is something you have to figure out on your own. I also volunteered at animal shelters, the botanical gardens, and a nursing home. Service is something that should be stressed more than navel-gazing, in my opinion. At any rate, I gravitated toward Eastern philosophy, because it's more about experience. I have a pet theory about the East and West being like the right and left hemispheres of the brain, respectively; even languages like Japanese and Mandarin are pictorial. It was the West's role to conquer and subdue the earth, so it makes sense that until recently, there has been little emphasis on experience in the West, but that is changing. I should say, I did this stuff pretty intensively for several years, and eventually felt I'd done enough, except for the program of Alcoholics Anonymous, which I can't praise highly enough.
Here I want to insist on a point. When Jesus said "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God," in no way was this meant to imply that unless you die impoverished and wretched, you will be denied access to heaven after your death. Not at all. This should be read together with a line from the Gospel of Thomas, "unless you fast from the world, you will not enter the kingdom." He is talking about entering the kingdom in this life. A rich man, constantly occupied with business and responsibilities, surrounded by family and friends and acquaintances and colleagues, will not find sufficient solitude for serious study. I am a loner by nature, quite antisocial even, so this is natural for me.
In connection with this point, I cannot see any spiritual value in secret societies, who lure dupes with the trappings of mysticism, but whose real aims are political and subversive. I have a strong dislike of ritual, even routine, I generally only know what day of the week it is so I can leave the garbage out. So I never had any interest in those groups; although I was involved in something like a secret society, trafficking psychedelics, I did not like the kind of people who joined fraternities and sororities, and I can see only evil that has come from them. Particularly Freemasonry, with their stupid gloves and aprons and grandiloquent titles "Grand Majestic Captain of the Golden Throne" and what not. I think they should all be put down, forcibly if necessary.
A new argument for the existence of God - and why we can be sure Jesus is the Jewish Messiah
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This is Francis Bacon, the most influential person to have lived since Jesus. In his teens, he invented the first binary code while living with the English embassy in France, as a means to send secret messages back home. He was the principal theorist of the Scientific Revolution and wrote some of the greatest literature the world has ever seen; no one has had a bigger influence on the English language. For almost two centuries he has been the victim of a massive disinformation campaign (see the 600-page Francis Bacon: The History of a Character Assassination published by Yale University Press), so don't be surprised if you never heard his name in school, I didn't either. They still fear him.
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616, Strasbourg), which has often been attributed to Bacon, contains a passage strongly suggestive of the "four spiritual ways" scheme described in the 20th century by George Gurdjieff. It represents a remarkable level of spiritual sophistication: |
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By us doth the Bridegroom offer thee a choice between four ways, all of which, if thou dost not sink down in the way, can bring thee to his royal court. The first [the way of the fakir, physical austerities] is short but dangerous, and one which will lead thee into rocky places, through which it will be scarcely possible to pass. The second [the way of the monk, the heart, bhakti yoga] is longer, and takes thee circuitously; it is plain and easy, if by the help of the Magnet, thou turnest neither to left nor right. The third [knowledge, jnana yoga] is that truly royal way which through various pleasures and pageants of our King, affords thee a joyful journey; but this so far has scarcely been allotted to one in a thousand. By the fourth shall no man reach the place, because it is a consuming way [i.e., by fire, alchemy], practicable only for incorruptible bodies.
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There is an old debate in Hinduism over which is the superior, bhakti yoga (the yoga of the heart) or jnana yoga (knowledge, pronounced gnana with a hard G), with most coming down in favor of the former. However, a combination of mild physical austerities, heart work (service), and refining the mind through knowledge - this is probably the best way. The fourth way, alchemy, has to do with drugs. I have no idea where Bacon came by this knowledge, but it is right there in black and white.
Bacon attended Trinity College, Cambridge from the ages of twelve to fifteen (1573-76). While there he conceived an intense dislike of Aristotle, resolving to overthrow what he would later call "that worst of sophists." In 1620 he published his Novum Organum or "New Organon," explicitly challenging Aristotle's Organon, then the standard text on epistemology or logic. Aristotle's method was deduction, a top-down method that begins with a premise assumed to be true universally. Bacon advocated for induction, a bottom-up method of establishing truth progressively.
Bacon published a number of alchemy tracts under the pseudonym Eugenius Philalethes (lover of truth). In these he attacks Aristotle severely, abandoning his customary restraint; Anthroposophia Theomagica:
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Aristotle is a poet in text; his principles are but fancies, and they stand more on our concessions than his bottom. Hence it is that his followers, notwithstanding the assistance of so many ages, can fetch nothing out of him but notions . . . their compositions are a mere tympany of terms. It is better than a fight in Quixote to observe what duels and digladiations they have about him
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Anima Magica Abscondita:
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Away then with this Peripatetical Philosophy, this vain babbling, as St Paul justly styles it . . . the spirit of error—which is Aristotle’s—produceth naught but a multiplicity of notions . . . His followers refine the old notions but not the old creatures. And verily the mystery of their profession consists only in their terms. If their speculations were exposed to the world in a plain dress, their sense is so empty and shallow there is not any would acknowledge them for philosophers. In some discourses, I confess, they have Nature before them, but they go not the right way to apprehend her. They are still in chase but never overtake their game; for who is he amongst them whose knowledge is so entire and regular that he can justify his positions by practice.
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Euphrates:
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I have often wondered that any sober spirits can think Aristotle’s philosophy perfect when it consists in mere words without any further effects; for of a truth the falsity and insufficiency of a mere notional knowledge is so apparent that no wise man will assert it . . . did not Aristotle’s science—if he had any—arise from particulars, or did it descend immediately from universals? . . . I have learned long ago, not from Aristotle but from Roger Bacon, that generals are of small value, nor fitting to be followed, save by reason of particulars. And this is evident in all practices and professions that conduce anything to the benefit of man.
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By contrast, Moses Maimonides, the greatest of Jewish philosophers, admired Aristotle and tried to reconcile the Torah with him. Personally, I clearly remember the last time I read Aristotle, twenty years ago; I opened the book and my eyes landed on the sentence "A chair does not produce another chair." I closed the book and never went back.
Pregnancy portrait of Elizabeth I, Hampton Court Palace
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Bacon's real mother was Elizabeth I, the "virgin queen" of England; this role was intended as a Protestant alternative to the Virgin Mary. Like Jesus, Bacon was a born king, but not of this world; because of the political and religious situation - the Reformation was by no means a done deal in England - Elizabeth could not or would not acknowledge him, so he wrote "I have taken all knowledge for my province" and "my library [is] dukedom enough." Elizabeth had another son, Robert Devereaux, the Earl of Essex; after he attempted to seize the throne by force in early 1601, Bacon was compelled to prosecute him. These parallels with Jesus are just the beginning of this mystery, explored more fully in my essay "Francis Bacon and the Rank-Raglan Mythotype." |
Elijah/John the Baptist
The Hebrew Bible concludes thusly: "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he will turn the hearts of the children to their fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to their children, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse." Jesus identified Elijah with John the Baptist: “Elijah truly shall first come, and restore all things. But I say unto you that Elijah is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed.”
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This is Herman Melville and Jerry Garcia, born 123 years apart to the day, August 1st which is aces and eights, dead man's hand or chai. You'll recall that Melville wrote the greatest novel in the English language, Moby-Dick, when he was just thirty. You'll also recall that the novel deals with Captain Ahab, and the prophet Elijah fought against Israel's king Ahab and his wife Jezebel, a Phoenician priestess of Baal. Melville actually started as a novelist, writing about his adventures in whaling and living among the natives in the Pacific. When his work took an experimental turn, beginning with Moby-Dick, the public was not receptive, and he eventually turned to writing shorter pieces; the first, Bartleby the Scrivener, is widely considered the greatest American short story.
Garcia was the greatest spiritual force of the twentieth century. He said "I'd rather people not agonize over what I was when I'm gone"; he denied he was God but he radiated divinity. His soul was so large it somehow comprehended all of humanity; at his shows you could see Hell's Angels next to toddlers. When I noticed the 123-year gap between him and Melville, I started wondering if they were the same soul, and I'm pretty sure that's the case. For example, there's a record called Pizza Tapes, with Garcia, Tony Rice, and David Grisman. Well, Melville had a book called Piazza Tales.
My baptism, so to speak, was at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh; during set break there was a big lightning storm (one person outside the show was struck by lightning and killed), then when they came on and started to play "Rain" by the Beatles, it just poured.
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Garcia's lyricist Robert Hunter was born Robert Burns, same name as Scotland's national poet, who wrote the New Year's song Auld Lang Syne. Same soul. |
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"Elias Artista — A Precursor of the Messiah in Natural Science" - Herbert Breger:
The history of Elias artista is the history of an almost forgotten utopian concept in natural science. The advent of the modern age brought with it a widespread belief amongst physicians and chemists, particularly in Germany, that God in a not too distant future would be sending a person, capable of revealing all nature’s secrets to humanity, that person being Elias artista. His disclosures were to coincide directly with the end of this iniquitous world and the beginning of a messianic age (a golden world or the millennium).
Paracelsus, Book Concerning the Tincture of Philosophers:
Nothing is concealed that shall not be revealed. There are many more secrets concerning the transmutation, though they are little known, for if they are revealed to someone their fame is not immediately common. With this art, the Lord bestows the wisdom to keep it secret until the advent of Elias Artist. Then shall be revealed what has been concealed.
Eirenaeus Philalethes, An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King:
My Book is the precursor of Elias, designed to prepare the Royal way of the Master; and would to God that by its means all men might become adepts in our Art - for then gold, the great idol of mankind, would lose its value, and we should prize it only for its scientific teaching. Virtue would be loved for its own sake.
Walter Pagel, The Paracelsian Elias Artista and the Alchemical Tradition:
To Paracelsus Helias represents various features of an ideal through which enlightenment and happiness will descend upon future generations and lift the veil of obscurity which still blinds him and his age. Helias is the perfect adept to come . . . Paracelsus’s Helias artista with his messianic associations and the vision of a super-chemistry coming true in a distant future ties up with a strong mediaeval tradition.
Reincarnation
This will surprise you, but Christian theology teaches reincarnation. Have you not read? “Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of the light.” Souls who have incarnated more in these conditions are more worldly-wise. This is very easy to understand, I don’t know how it passed unnoticed for so long. Furthermore, this is the only possible scenario which does not make a fool out of Jesus, who said "all these things shall come upon this generation," "truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened." They are still here.
Reincarnation is a fact, and it settles many questions regarding race and gender. Souls may not necessarily incarnate as both male and female, but they can. And I’m sorry to inform you, the vast majority of babies are not born innocent; if you still think the Blank Slate hypothesis is tenable, watch the documentary Three Identical Strangers. You have to pay your dues and do your incarnations; if you do well, you will proceed, if not, you will find yourself in worse circumstances. This is not meant to say that the poor deserve to suffer, or that those who are in pleasant circumstances have necessarily earned their place; in any case, virtue itself is a gift from God, so we shouldn't pride ourselves too much about anything. And intelligence, while it marks an older soul, is only a liability with God; just as we make a distinction between manslaughter and murder, namely in the latter case you know what you're doing, just so will the understanding be judged more harshly. Nevertheless,
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Plato, for example, says (Laws X.903d) that the process of katharsis—purification through successive reincarnations—shifts “the character that is becoming better to a better incarnation, and that which is growing worse to a worser, each according to its due.” The Chandogya Upanishad (V.10.7) similarly says, “Those whose conduct here has been good will quickly attain a good birth . . . But those whose conduct here has been evil will quickly attain an evil birth” Plato and the Upanishadic teacher may mean different things by good, but in any case the idea of karmic accumulation with positive-negative polarity is in effect in both texts.
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In this sense, it is mistaken to suppose that human nature is unchanging. We are evolving, morally speaking; whether by the easy way, voluntarily, or through hard experience, everyone will be brought to learn.
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Moses and Monotheism
A couple years ago I read Sigmund Freud's Moses and Monotheism, and I think it's an important and neglected book. As far as I know, with all his babbling Jordan Peterson has never brought it up, it seems to be off bounds. His new program on Exodus, with all those "scholars" - we well see if Freud comes in. Basically Freud's book says the patriarchs are probably mythological, but there really was an Exodus from Egypt, after Akhenaten's failed imposition of monotheism. For example, circumcision comes from Egypt, that's certain. Freud talks about the Moses story in the context of the heroic archetype, which had previously been explored by one of his former students, Otto Rank.
This scenario would account for the abstract intelligence of the Jews, if they had enough rational faculties to up and leave their home over the issue of monotheism. It would also account for the ferocity in the Torah, if monotheism was a serious enterprise undertaken by God, and had failed after twenty years in Egypt (as did happen), maybe he said Damn the torpedoes. Here is a PDF of the book, it's not a long read and it's fascinating.
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One interesting parallel that emerges from this scenario is that between the birth of monotheism and the Late Bronze Age Collapse, and the birth of Christianity and the fall of the Roman Empire. The devastation of the eastern Mediterranean region followed directly upon the Exodus; whether or not the genocidal commands of the Torah are directly linked, their origins (if not their composition) are coterminous. Monotheism arose in Egypt very soon after they had conquered swathes of land and become an empire, and it nearly destroyed their empire. A similar, but not identical, situation occurs with Rome and Christianity.
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Many people are under the impression that the Hebrew Bible is a litany of unstinting praise for Israel. Nothing could be further from the truth, in fact you could say God never raises a prophet but to rail against the Jews. If it were written today, the Hebrew Bible could never be published, it would be labeled "antisemitic stochastic terrorism." Well, take a look for yourself:
And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 11:9
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. Daniel 9:11-12
Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel. Amos 5:1
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Nahum 3:4-6
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. Ezekiel 5:8
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Daniel 9:13-14
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? Exodus 32:21
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. Nehemiah 9:30
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, they turn aside the poor in the gate. Amos 5:12
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. Zechariah 1:4
For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed her. Lamentations 4:6
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Isaiah 1:4-5
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Micah 3:8-10
And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, unto this very day. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shat say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briars and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, not be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. Ezekiel 2:3-7
We have sinned, and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. Daniel 9:5
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Amos 3:1-2
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Hosea 14:1
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Zechariah 1:2
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. Lamentations 5:22
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Nehemiah 9:33
And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 11:9
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. Daniel 9:11-12
Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel. Amos 5:1
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Nahum 3:4-6
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. Ezekiel 5:8
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Daniel 9:13-14
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? Exodus 32:21
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. Nehemiah 9:30
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, they turn aside the poor in the gate. Amos 5:12
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. Zechariah 1:4
For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed her. Lamentations 4:6
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Isaiah 1:4-5
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Micah 3:8-10
And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, unto this very day. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shat say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briars and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, not be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. Ezekiel 2:3-7
We have sinned, and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. Daniel 9:5
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Amos 3:1-2
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Hosea 14:1
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Zechariah 1:2
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. Lamentations 5:22
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Nehemiah 9:33
Ending Islam peacefully
Let me preface this by saying that the Sufi tradition has one of the most important bodies of religious literature on earth, of inestimably greater value than that wretched Torah. But Islam is only the most successful of many heresies invented by Jews to try to destroy Christianity, everything from Gnosticism to Calvinism to Mormonism. It will easily be possible to end Islam by placing this book into the hands of all responsible Muslim scholars of good faith; no one can walk away from it thinking the Koran is a legitimate document. Mohammed thought the Christian Trinity was Allah, Jesus and Mary. His religious knowledge was thoroughly rabbinic. This book was done by Charles Cutler Torrey, who was chair of the Semitic languages department at Yale and a serious polyglot, he had command of at least half a dozen languages.
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Henry Miller
I will go ahead and include interviews with Henry Miller. He was a big influence on me when I transferred my ambitions from music to literature. He's fundamentally a spiritual writer, although his reputation is otherwise.
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