A glancing blow at conspiratorial views of secrets and hidden things.
1/9/12
The title of this essay is grammatically awkward (one doesn't deliver a blow "at" something, one delivers
a blow to something). It's also a bit too long—in an artfully pretentious sort of way.
Many who are inclined to read highbrow essays will only listen (with one ear) to an essayist if their
(other) ear can discern the approving voices of the conferrers of imprimatur. Does authority confer
imprimatur; or does imprimatur invoke authority? It's a complicated—chicken-or-the-egg—relationship
between the two.
One might change the title to, "A Glancing Blow: Toward a Framework for Understanding Conspiratorial
and Occult Thought." Yet then one would also be expected to pay obeisance to the requisite norms of
scholarship throughout the remainder of a twenty-nine-chaptered treatise. This essayist chooses to say
as much as he possibly can, with as few words as he possibly can, to as many or as few who can listen.
Some of these kinds of readers have an inner ear for literary voices that moderates their literary eye.
But those whose scholarly sensibilities would be deeply offended by the brazenness of the essay's
unscholarly assertions are kindly given perfunctory reasons to discard it out of hand. Indeed—scarcely
before the essay is underway—there's a dittographical error meekly trying to hide in plain sight.
Please.
Perhaps this preface would be better left unwritten. The essay wasn't written for the sake of the wise
and intelligent—why not make it easy for them to go? why trouble with a parting word those who would
otherwise assuredly leave on their own? It doesn't matter either way—because this essay cannot be
dismissed—it will continue to stand right where it is, through
the test of time. And all those who leave
it—in whatever way they take their leave of it—will be
compelled by the calendars of men and G-d to
revisit it in due time.
This most recent Rosh Hashana, the first day of the month
of Tishrei, marked fifty years since the Rosh Hashana of
5722 (the day otherwise known on our Gregorian calendar
as September 11, 1961). It seemed to come and go
unnoticed by the world at large—even by those who are
wont to incessantly ascribe all manner of meanings to
numbers. Strange that they should miss it. But this writer
didn't miss it—he actually marked it a bit ahead of time—by
publishing this essay in the solitude of this unpublicized
and anonymous website—on September 11, 2011.
Go figure.
Preface
1961 Press Photo. Rosh Hashana. The Detroit Free Press.
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Just as a child covers his face with his hands and believes
that no one can see him, so we lend our ears to whispering and
and think that we’re in on a secret. Yet, something hidden in
plain sight can be all but invisible to our eyes; and our ears
can listen without hearing. These are the days of old and new
revelations. The occultists think that it’s their long hidden,
so-called, “ancient wisdom” that’s about to be revealed to all
of humanity; but the G-d of Israel, who is the Great Sovereign,
declares that the heart of lawlessness is to be openly exposed.
The G-d of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob---Who Is G-D,
the Creator of the universe---Who has made Himself known to us
as the Redeemer (“HaShem-of-Israel” is His Name), the one true
and living G-d---has crafted the universe with pits and snares
in the places where it is unlawful for His higher creatures to
venture. And He has clearly delineated these boundaries (from
the very beginning of Creation) to every higher creature, both
angelic and human. The fallen angels were without excuse; and
the humans who escape from the pit but are caught in the snare,
are also without excuse. These are things of the mysteries of
lawlessness. Some mysteries of Torah are like complex puzzles
that are said to have a solution, but one known only to HaShem.
Even the chief of the fallen angels, who is occasionally known
as Lucifer, “the Elucidator” (but who is commonly called Satan,
which is rendered specifically in the Hebrew tongue as haSatan,
which means “theAdversary” in the Hebraic way of speech), even
Lucifer in his great genius is unable to completely understand
the mystery of his own lawlessness (who is he in the greatness
of his authority and genius? who is he apart from these gifts?).
The purpose of this essay is not to elucidate hidden things---
such as the mystery of individual lawlessness---or the mystery
of universal lawlessness---or the false wisdom called, Mystery
Babylon---but only to strengthen the distinctions between good
and evil, and between sanity and insanity, and between what is
true and what is imaginary. The image of the beast (what John
wrote about in Scripture) is an imaginary conception, based on
certain elemental mysteries of the Creation, that has no basis
in truth. But to all who willingly reject the revealed truths
of the expressed written word of the G-d of Abraham, and Isaac,
and Jacob (or even to those who willingly suspend their belief
in the clear words of Scripture), the image will be powerfully
persuasive. And they will be deluded by the thoughts of their
imagination. The subtlety that we call, Sanity, is a precious
and fleeting mystery. We take it for granted, even as we lose
it, even as it leaves us (unbeknownst to ourselves, though not
to saner individuals around us). You must love truth, however
painful it may be to you. You must cling desperately to truth
when you find it, or when it finds you. G-d’s written word is
truth. G-d’s truth which is in His creation is hidden. It is
not what you think that your eyes can see that is of the truth,
but what HaShem says is true about things both seen and unseen.
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The end of the world (contrary to any consensus of opinions)
is not near. Even if the twilight of humankind’s long history
is about to transition into the darkness of humanism’s strange
false narratives---nonetheless, this sun of our world will yet
warm this same face of our earth in the morning light of newer
days. For a thousand years of sunrises and sunsets, our earth
will luxuriate in peace between Creator and creation and earth
and heaven and G-d and humanity and Israel and the nations and
Messiah, the King of Israel and every other form of governance---
be it animal or vegetable or mineral, or spiritual, or natural,
or human, or angelic. The stuff of this creation must come to
an end---but that end is so very, very far away; and it’s just
an end of temporal corruptibility and the beginning of eternal
incorruptible living in the incorruptible new heaven and earth
that G-d will create for His Messiah, and for those to whom He
has given His Messiah---all those that He has given to His Son.
But in this age in which we live, everyone’s personal world
must end in death---whether sooner or later---whether in haste
or in leisure---whether in the accelerated destruction of wars
or the accelerated emaciation of disease---whether in the rest
of our beds, in our own homes, surrounded by our long lifetime
of family and friends---nonetheless (or all the more) does our
personal world arrive at its end, in our world---in this world.
Who can live with death in their personal world? Is it any
mystery why so many of us live our day-to-day lives just as if
death doesn’t really exist? just as if we ourselves (among all
who live) won’t ever actually die? we and everyone else who is
a real person in our personal world? Like an atheist who says
in the emotions of his thoughts, “God is not;” and like a fool
who lives his life just as if there is no G-d who judges fools,
so we feel in the irrational depths of our mind as if we won’t
ever actually die; and so we think in the rational shallowness
of our heart that we will never actually experience that final
moment of our life---or those final seconds, or that very last
instant---before that thing we call, Death, becomes real to us.
Who can prepare for death in the midst of their daily lives?
in the midst of their work life and their home life and family
life and dream life and thought life and new life and old life?
Who can make preparations for something that is antithetically
and diametrically opposed to everything that is meaningful and
true and beautiful and good about life and the living of lives?
Death is our enemy. And it’s the enemy of both truth and love.
Death is the division of what should be whole and a separation
from what should be united. There’s a kind of division that’s
necessary to create life and there’s a kind of separation that
is necessary to sustain life. But death is a mystery that has
no explanation that we can understand; and it will achieve its
incomprehensible purpose apart from us; there’s nothing we can
do to save ourselves; we cannot die to save ourselves, nor can
we kill to kill death. Only HaShem can bring the dead to life.
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G-d’s wisdom is not the creation-wisdom of heaven and earth.
We cannot comprehend nor can we understand the image of HaShem.
G-d created adam in His wisdom; but adam is not, and never was,
HaShem’s eternal wisdom. In the very beginning, humankind was
the creation-wisdom of G-d’s unique eternal wisdom; but HaShem
Is unique, and no one is like Him. We are not divine---and we
never will be---not in the immanent wisdom of this age, nor in
the revealed wisdom of the age to come. G-d’s image cannot be
seen by any eye, human or angelic. There are no eyes that can
perceive His image. Yet we can perceive the Father in the Son.
G-d’s revealed truth is not of our image, nor of this creation.
G-d’s hidden truth is discrete and distinct from this creation.
G-d is holy. He created the intrinsic wisdom and knowledge
of this world to be auto-negating, such that the greater one’s
wisdom, the greater one’s understanding that one isn’t wise in
oneself at all; and such that the greater one’s knowledge, the
greater one’s understanding of the vastness of one’s ignorance.
Are you wise? or are you intelligent? Then understand as well
all the wise and intelligent---much wiser and far more knowing
than you---who never realized the truth---for all their wisdom
and knowledge. The full realization of creation-wisdom should
cause us to realize that we are not wise. Yet we think we are
wise. And we believe that we are G-d---in this way or in that
way---or in as many different ways as there are gods to choose
whichever way they choose. But each one is a case of mistaken
identity of the gravest kind. HaShem created natural darkness
because nothing can exist apart from Him without it; yet He is
light and there’s nothing approaching darkness within Him. We
cannot see in the darkness without His revealed truth. So our
eyes must trust His light that shines in our darkness. And so
we must not even trust the things our eyes seem to perceive in
that illumined darkness. Our faith must be in His light alone.
HaShem has hidden His truth in the darkness of creation and
only His revealed truth can illuminate His hidden truth. This
is the wisdom of G-d, toward those who long for Him and search
for Him and live to find Him---in the wonder and the confusion
and in the treasure and the bereavement and in the joy and the
grief and in the labor and the futility and in the meaning and
emptiness of their lives in this creation. Who is your father?
The light that’s in this world is darkness by comparison to
the light of G-d. The brightness of HaShem is blinding to our
eyes. Will a man blame his Maker for not giving him eyes that
are able to see G-d in His brightness? Sensitive eyes can see
with just a little light; and G-d has revealed Himself to just
such sensitive eyes. But He has blinded the eyes of those who
walk in the wisdom of this age. So will a man blame his Maker
for the blindness of his eyes? The times are fast approaching
when men will curse G-d for creating them. But HaShem is soon
to cause a new light to shine in Zion. And every eye will see
it’s brightness. And many will be blinded. And some will see.
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Messiah, the Son of Joseph, the Suffering Servant of Israel,
corresponds to the kind of indirect light that illumines night
landscapes. Lunar light signifies a kind of solar light. And
solar light signifies a kind of original pre-solar light which
G-d created in the beginning of creation, before He made a sun
and moon to explain such a thing as light. And original light
signifies a kind of supernatural angelic light. Angelic light
was before original light; which was before solar light; which
was before lunar light. Lunar light owes its reality to solar
light; and solar light owes its reality to material light; and
material light owes its reality to created supermaterial light.
And created supernatural light owes its reality to the eternal
light of HaShem, Who has no beginning or end. Angels are like
G-d as our moon is like our sun or as our stars are like light
that exists in the sky of earth’s heaven even though the stars
themselves may no longer exist. There is a kind of light that
preceded the stars, just as there remains a kind of light that
outlives the stars. The sophist says, “All light is the light
of G-d, just as all truth is God’s truth.”; and yet “all light”
isn’t G-d’s light, just as “all truth” isn’t G-d’s truth. All
truth is found in the W-rd of G-d. One who walks by the light
of his eyes will stumble in the darkness of his ways. A light
without G-d’s revealed truth is a false light. It is not what
a man thinks that he sees in the light that makes it real, but
whatever G-d says is true and not true about what he thinks he
can see. A righteous man doesn’t trust his own eyes---even in
the light of day; and certainly not in the lights of the night.
Mashiach ben David, the Messiah, the Son of David, is known
as the Reigning Servant of Israel. He corresponds to the kind
of direct solar light that illumines the daytime of this earth.
Yeshua HaMashiach, Melech Yisrael, is the sun of righteousness.
He is the only source in this creation of the eternal light of
HaShem’s righteousness. Idolaters worship our sun as it rises
and sets in the sky of this creation; and the son of idolaters
worships the light of our sun. And the daughter of those same
idolaters worships herself in the light of the moon of the sun.
The eternal light of HaShem is His righteousness; and Jesus is
the Son of His righteousness; and we who have been redeemed by
HaShem worship Him in the righteousness of His Son, even as we
are in His light through His Son. We don’t worship the Son in
Himself Alone; but we worship HaShem in the Son and the Father---
through the Son and in the Son and with the Son; even as He is
with us in Him. These are words of the mystery of G-d and His
mystery remains unrevealed. No one can reveal this mystery of
HaShem in Messiah except for Messiah Jesus Himself; and He has
said that He will not be revealed in His fullness until He has
accomplished all that He deigned to accomplish through Himself.
Even HaShem’s dual witness in the earth and in its heaven will
be subject to misinterpretation before Messiah Jesus, the King,
returns to finish the mystery of G-d. Only in Jesus is shalom.
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The Lamb of G-d who was the light of the world still shines
in the darkness of the night. But the darkness that continues
to exist is not illumined---because it is darkness. And those
who remain in the darkness, even as darkness themselves, can’t
even imagine the Lion of Judah, who is the direct light source.
But who can look directly at the sun within its radiance, even
in the light of day? Those who exist in the darkness of earth
are like the creatures of the night, that hide in the daylight,
and sleep in the daylight. Their presence in the darkest part
of the night is only expressed through the things that they do,
and the sounds that they make. But with the faintest new moon
they seek to solidify their place in the night; and they bathe
themselves in the light of a full moon and exult themselves in
the supremacy of their nocturnal existence. But the moonlight
will fail them in the Day of the Holy One of Israel. And they
will try to hide themselves in the holes and in the caves that
had always protected them so well from the things of the light
of this earth. But their mountains and their holes won’t save
them from the light of His Presence. And then they will curse
Him to His face, these whose hearts have been hardened by good
and by evil---by G-d’s Torah and by their own lies---by wisdom
and by their own folly---by themselves, and the great deceiver.
To commit a sin is not good. But to refuse to confess our sin
is far worse. G-d freely offers repentance and His faith that
saves and restores even the vilest sinner. But the mystery of
lawlessness hardens the heart of the one who holds to goodness
of his own making while refusing to admit to his self-made sin.
For nine words and for ten, even the truest and the kindest
among them in the beginning of judgment---who refuse to repent---
will in the end be revealed as those who would curse the truth
with their last breath, and as those who would curse with spit,
if it were in their power to do so, the face of their Redeemer---
Who Is not their Redeemer---because they will not change their
minds about who and what they think themselves to be, and give
glory instead to the truth that belongs to their Creator Alone,
and not to them. We cannot understand this double-heartedness
of lawlessness---the divided heart of evil, that thinks itself
good. Who has an ear to hear the truth? Repent: then believe.
And be saved from a mystery of a lawlessness that will believe
in anything and everything---except repentance. Why should it
be so impossible for all of humanity to stop right here, where
humanity is right now, and repent? A man can live his life as
if he will never die because he lives and dies for the glories
of humankind---a joint humanity which will never cease to grow,
advancing upward, from his ever ancient glories to his present
glory and onward to far greater glories. But the darkness has
fallen on humanism. And Jesus comes like a thief in the night.
They say that a God of love will save everyone in the Light
of the Day of Judgment. But if they won’t repent in the light
of this age then they will instinctively recoil from the Light.
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Just yesterday, in the light of the lunar calendar of Torah,
all heaven remembered the Passover and the foundation of Torah;
and the Lamb that was slain on Day One; and the vine that grew
in the darkness of Creation; and the wheat that grew from seed
sown in the darkness of Day Three. Shall we believe that such
a thing is possible? that the life-force of vegetation existed
before the sunlight that sustains it? Can anyone believe that
this universe has been created “out of order” as it were? even
this universe of ours? this Universe that appears to have been
stretched-out long before we ever became cognizant of its ways
as an entropically self-regenerating, and semi-self-sustaining
wonder that cradles a vitality called, Life, even while devoid
of any inherent explanation for its origin and forsaken of any
hard evidence in any other place than on our speck of Earth of
the existence of such a thing? Or who can believe in the soft
reality of a Day Seven (unlike every other Day) so much unlike
every other Day that it should almost be called something else?
Or who can believe in the promised reality of the new light of
Day Eight? that existed before the light of Day Four? and even
before the life of Day Three? and even before the light of Day
One? Or who has believed our report? that the flesh and blood
and bone Messiah, of a flesh-and-blood-and-bone people, raised
Himself from the dead? in the darkness of the third day of one
unique Passover? in one unique place? and one unique time? and
for one unique action? Who can understand the life-force that
is in the blood of adam? or the life that exists in the breath
of his flesh? Who can understand the life-force of the “blood
of grapes”? or the life that is in the “germ of wheat”? We do
not understand G-d’s mysteries; but we can know them by simple
faith in the simple certainty of His Word to us. Yeshua arose
from the dead---literally and physically---not figuratively or
symbolically. And He is coming back, literally and physically,
to the literal and physical city of Jerusalem, in the Judea of
the literal and physical land of Israel---to reign as the King
of the literal and physical Jews, and as the ruler of creation.
And on this good Friday, in the light of the solar calendar
of the nations, the commonwealth of Israel---scattered like so
many lost sheep among the mountains of the earth---gathers two
or three together, here and there, to remember the Roman death
of a Jew, who appeared to die the death of a sacrificial solar
Christ. But Y’shua, the Messiah and the King of the Jews, did
not suffer the asphyxiation of crucifixion; His legs which had
sustained His breath were not broken; because He bled to death.
He gave up His life-force that was in His blood and He gave it
up as the Passover Lamb of the G-d of the Jews. And those who
worship a crucified Christ must now come to faith in a Messiah
of the Jews who isn’t hanging on a Roman cross---but who lives
even now and for all eternity---and who didn’t die on this day
in the history of our solar calendar, but who had already been
raised from the dead---as the first fruit of the seed of faith.
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Knowledge is a funny thing---it expands an unleavened truth
and reorders it in such a way that makes it palatable to human
taste. The bread of affliction is a most difficult truth; but
wisdom is the bread of life. The double-portion of the loaves
of Shabbat challah was given to Jacob by their G-d before that
Day of Eternity began at sundown on the Sixth Day. The double-
portion was a one-of-a-kind pair---a unique creation of double-
something of one-of-a-kindness: the one-of-a-kind pairing that
G-d gave to a one-of-a-kind people to eat on the one-of-a-kind
Day called “The Day of the Signification of the unique pairing
of the names of Israel and their G-d.” It was a Day to simply
be together as Jew and G-d, and to enjoy each other’s presence---
regardless of where or wherever they found themselves laboring
during the days leading up to it. This double-portion of that
Sixth Day is as different from the single portion of the Fifth
and the Fourth Days; and the Third Day and the Second Day; and
the First Day, as manna is different from bread---so different
that we could almost call the double-portion of manna by a new
name entirely. That is to say, the manna of the Sixth Day was
entirely different---in its one-of-a-kind way---from the manna
of the rest of the week; the difference having something to do
with the mystery of that Seventh Day for which it was given: a
Day unlike all the others---a Day of eternity---a moment apart
from time---a timeless moment of eternity---a moment shared by
G-d and His creation, outside the temporal-spatial constraints
of this material existence---a recurrent pause in the story of
G-d’s telling---a story only He can tell, called “Creation and
Redemption”---a story too beautiful for the written word alone---
a story sung by G-d Himself, in human flesh: the song of Moses
and the Lamb---one song of songs---unlike any other---heaven’s
duet with earth.
But for now it is time, once again, to get back up from our
respites and our reveries and continue on our way through time.
Leaven is a funny thing in its own way---it wizens a wisdom
when that wisdom really isn’t wisdom at all: it begins to turn
the uneaten bread of life into something that looks a bit more
like folly than wisdom. The kind of a leaven that’s analogous
to a certain kind of a knowledge is a certain kind of catalyst
that allows corruptible wisdom to become wisdom-corrupted---if
that wisdom does not do what wisdom does. True wisdom is true
only because it speaks true words and acts upon those words in
the way it speaks them. True wisdom is proven to be true only
because it acts upon the words it is given to speak. Unspoken
wisdom says, “In truth I’m not wise at all, except I do wisely.”
Wisdom is verified by her deeds, not her words---no matter how
wise her words may seem to one who likes to knead wisdom or to
one who likes to bake wisdom---or even one who likes to sample
wisdom as if it were just something to taste along with matzah,
once a year, to compensate for all the bread they had to throw
out from the year before. There is more hope for an open fool.
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And then we throw out our uneaten matzah when it’s all over.
Folly upon folly. Were we foolish to buy too much matzah when
we went shopping for our Pesach meal? or were we unwise not to
go the distance with that extra box of matzah that we ended up
not needing beyond the expiration date of our Unleavened Bread?
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have
it, yes? Yet better still to have it and not keep it. Or eat
it and not waste it; or save it and not throw it away. Or use
it wisely one way or the other. But why abandon it to the box
it came from? When Israel abandoned Egypt they abandoned many
things; but wisdom was not one of them, nor truth. And yet we
think we’re wiser than them when we read about all the foolish
things they said and did. There is more hope for Jacob’s sons.
What are they who say they are Jewish when they aren’t. Or
Israeli but they aren’t? Or of the commonwealth of Jacob when
they are not? Or of the grafted-in of Eretz Israel, when they
are not? Or of Messiah, when they are not? Who are they that
say they are wise? And intelligent? Let them take themselves
to the Prophet of Israel---He will bear witness to their words
and deeds, yes? Or let them go and show themselves instead to
the High Priest of Israel---He will say to them, “Compensation
has occurred in your behavior and your speech, for your lapses
in judgment. Clearly, you are free in your ways with word and
deed to go your way in peace,” yes? Or let them go before the
King of Israel as His good and faithful servants and say, “You
knew our father, Your Majesty; we bring you greetings from his
kingdom,” perhaps? Perhaps not. One could almost say (in the
mystery of wisdom and the mystery of lawlessness) something to
the effect that “to those whom G-d would curse He gives wisdom
and intelligence and knowledge and wealth. But to anyone whom
G-d would bless He gives truth and understanding.” Why should
G-d not give us long life and keep us from all harm? How much
is enough? G-d’s first gift to a newborn child is discernment---
to know the difference between breathing and not breathing. I
don’t need an intelligent wisdom or a wise intelligence to see
the difference between good and evil; but the multiplied years
of my sinfulness adulterated my childlike eyes. And I lost my
ability to discern the difference between my personal sense of
rightness, and the Righteousness of G-d which is His rightness.
G-d has granted His discernment to an uncluttered eye. And
in His wisdom He has blurred the vision of one who is wise and
intelligent in his own eyes. By His understanding He captures
the self-wise in his folly; and the fool in his self-knowledge.
HaShem caused the tree of the knowledge of lawlessness to grow
from the earth in the midst of the garden of His mystery. And
He gave Adam and Eve the wisdom to know the difference between
looking and seeing and touching and eating; and not eating and
not touching and not seeing and not looking. G-d is not a man
that we should impersonate Him; or a son of man that we should
mock Him. But the man of lawlessness says, “I didn’t sow this!”
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​​ The earth and the sea are separated by a permanent boundary---
a river of sand that belongs to the sea of water that fashions
it from the land. As great and as mighty and as mysterious as
the actions and behaviors of the sea might be---under the moon
and over the earth---this is all that the sea is allowed to do,
and nothing more---just fashion its holo-grains of earth, that
flow like a river between separate things. Yet those who make
lives for themselves by the sea, for year upon year, will find
in the end that they still must die as all flesh dies. Yet in
their world it’s understood that one who lives by the sea will
die by the sea, or close by the sea---and be buried by the sea,
or close by the sea---one way or another. Will a beach-comber
who follows the tide as it offers new things right at his feet
not notice the sea when it covers his feet underneath him? Or
will he stubbornly stand his ground as the tide quickly covers
him up? So it’s also understood from experience, that harbors
won’t always save their ships from the storms of the seas that
made them. And the cities that form by the wealth of the seas
are sometimes reclaimed, by wind and wave of the oceanic water
and air that produces trade wind and ill wind alike; and trade
currents, like rivers, in the sea; or overflowing waters, like
a flooding river on the earth. The sea is to the earth as the
heavens are to the earth, insomuch as our sky, and the heavens
above it, are related to the earth and the seas below that sky.
Those who hear stories of the sea may imagine that they can
understand the sea like those who live and die by it, but they
don’t understand it any better than those who only live or die
by the sea without ever sailing on it---or those who only sail
the sea without ever sailing across it---or those who only say
that they’ll sail across it, but never return to tell about it.
But anyone who returns from a long voyage at sea will tell you
to never believe everything, or quickly dismiss anything, that
you may hear from the stories that are told of the sea and all
that’s in it. The G-d of Jacob made the sea and all that is in
it; and He saw it all as, :good:. And even after the sun went
down, He still saw it as, :good: in the light of the following
new day of His Creation. And when He looked at it all in that
light of the Sixth Day of Creation He still saw it as not just
good, but very good. And when He looked at it in the light of
the Seventh Day He rested from everything that it was; and all
that it would become, both good and bad. Because He knew what
He had done and what He would yet do. And He could rest in it
and delight in it: because He was holy in all that He had done;
and holy in all that He was doing; and holy in all that He was
yet to do. But He created the Sabbath as a Day unlike the Day
before it, or any other Day before it; as a Day between heaven
and earth; and between time and eternity---between what He had
just finished and what He was just getting ready to begin. It
is a place to pause and to enjoy---everything that’s beautiful
and true about what is and what was---and what will be one Day.
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Because the shape of the Earth is roughly spherical, at any
given time one half of its landscape is always in the darkness.
In the darkness there are as many kinds of lights as there are
kinds of sources of the lights. A fire and candle; a lamp and
flame; chemo-mechanical; and electro-mechanical; and reflexive;
and reflective. A candle consumes itself in order to make its
light. But a lamp doesn’t consume itself. Reflexive light is
directly connected to its source. But reflective light is not.
The stars of the nocturnal sky are reflexive lights and the
moon is our reflective light. These are examples of nocturnal
light. The stars vanish in the light of day. The moon can be
seen in the day; but it isn’t something that exists to be used
for seeing. Those who make their way through the light of day
by the nocturnal light of the stars of the sky, walk into dark
places. One who makes his way through the light of day by the
light of his personal nocturnal light, is like the sleepwalker
in the night. G-d gives us sleep so we can rest in His shalom.
The night is not inherently evil and nocturnal light is not
inherently evil. But there are secrets and hidden things that
G-d says belong to Him---things that we cannot understand, but
rather, we will only misunderstand if we try to look into them.
The mystery of nocturnal light has its purpose in G-d’s scheme
of things; but it’s not for us to use as a means to understand
the mysteries of darkness. The light of understanding belongs
only to the light of day. Nocturnal light that is used to see
what can’t be seen becomes the false light of misunderstanding.
It is good for us to sleep in the night---what more do we need
to know? The mystery of sleep is G-d’s gift to those who know
Him and trust Him to watch over the things that they can’t see
in the darkness of their lives. It’s good to think about what
you should do today when you awaken; but it’s evil to worry if
you worry about what only G-d can do and has not yet done. He
says that He loves you. Do you believe Him? He says that you
can trust Him to know what’s best for you---in all things good
and bad. Will you trust Him? You can rest in Him---even when
things “go bump” in the pitch-darkness of night. Work when it
is time to work; and sleep when it is time to sleep. There is
nothing that can separate you from G-d’s love for you in Jesus.
Nothing. Absolutely nothing---anywhere---anytime---in any way.
All kinds of evil can be found at the root of certain kinds
of mystery. Scripture tells us that money can be found at the
root of all kinds of evil; but nothing is said or implied that
money itself is evil. Knowledge can also be found at the root
of all kinds of evil. knowledge without understanding is like
cash without capital and wisdom without understanding is like
capital without wealth or wisdom without truth or a sentence
without punctuation or capitalization but the spacing remains
in this case Nocturnal light of one kind or another is found
at the inception of all kinds of evil. The New Moon of Israel
is a thing of the day. Rosh Chodesh signifies Jacob’s Messiah.
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Eretz Yisra’el is a body of land that is visible to mankind
in the light of today; anyone who looks closely can discern it
in the sphere of human events. Like the daytime moon it moves
across man’s sunlit day largely unnoticed. But in the mystery
of time and space its presence dominates the nighttime sky, in
all its phases of illumination---from the thin declarations of
its newness to the totality of its fullness. Even our scholar
of erudite redactionism will re-redact his thoughts to reflect
Israel’s mystical geo-temporal preeminence as monotheism’s sun.
He said, “The moon is nothing in the light of monotheism’s sun.”
He said, “Monotheism is nothing in the earth of humanism’s sun.”
He said, “The sun is nothing but a small star in our universal
sense of self.” But now the dark matter of his universe gives
him pause to reconsider his words---not because he cares about
the truth---but because his words must present him as a seeker
for truth who cares only for truth and who will look for truth
no matter where he must go to find it. His journals of record
must show him to have spoken and acted in good scholarly faith.
But our sun will retest his post-modern motivations; our earth
will revisit his modern notions of God; and our moon will rise
bloodily in the night of his ancient impulses. And he will go
the way of all flesh as the earth goes to war over the sun and
its moon. The G-d of revealed truth will prove Eretz Yisra’el
to be as distinct from the lands of the nations as the moon is
distinct from the earth. Eretz Israel is the moon; and Israel
is “the man in the moon”. The Jews are a most peculiar people.
G-d created the Jewish people to embody His uniqueness. He
Is utterly distinct from His creation. The failure of created
beings to fully appreciate and respect His holiness, in heaven
and on earth, is the source of evil itself. There is a unique
difference between the Creator and His creatures; HaShem isn’t
just different from us---He Is uniquely different. Angels are
different from humanity; men are different from women; animals
are different from mankind; male is different from female; and
HaShem Is different from it all. Why should distinction be so
difficult a thing to understand? Why should discernment be so
difficult a thing to exercise? Discernment is the recognition
of distinctions. To understand the differences between unique
things is a practical definition of sanity. And madness is an
inability or a failure to discern the distinctions between one
discrete thing and another---between boundaries and identities.
Scholarship involves the careful and disciplined exposition
of distinctions. Formal scholarship is foreign to someone who
doesn’t engage in it. “Academia” engages in it as a spectator
sport; at the highest professional levels it’s quite lucrative
to owners and players and vendors alike. Game theory is valid.
Toy theory is also valid. Scholarship is about puzzles. This
type-written page is a puzzle which looks a certain way, until
one starts to take it apart. A good scholar can take it apart;
but it takes a child to puzzle over a puzzle in the right ways.
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It’s easier to take a puzzle apart than it is to reassemble
it. Don’t try too hard to understand what may not be given to
you to understand. If you’re not called to be a scholar, then
be glad that you don’t have to solve the puzzle of scholarship.
I’m not a scholar; and I’m quite content to leave the scholars’
puzzles to their puzzle-solving sensibilities. Scholarship is
itself a puzzle that only the humble can solve; but it deludes
everyone else who tries to solve it in their pride. Who would
deliberately don the robe of scholarship under such conditions?
I, for one, am not that humble. :To whom much is given:; keep
nothing. What does anyone possess, that’s of any worth at all,
that has not been given them? But anything that you think you
have earned will be placed in your personal account, where you
can keep it until your personal debts come due. The corporate
veil of your business activity won’t protect you from personal
bankruptcy. The business of living is not inherently bad; but
if such an accounting is exacted from a scholar, how much more
from a banker. How many humble bankers do you know? They are
highly esteemed in the sight of heaven; but very few in number.
There’s nothing inherently wrong with money. But if you serve
yourself in it you cannot serve G-d, either with it or without
it. There is something inherently wrong with each of us, that
only G-d can fix. Poverty is no badge of humility; and wealth
is no medal of honor; yet :one man pretends to be poor and has
great wealth: and he pretends to be rich but knows that he has
nothing. It may be next to impossible for a wealthy man to be
rich in humility; but it’s every bit as beautiful a thing as a
poor man who’s rich in wisdom. Each has his place in heaven’s
kingdom; and each will be happy to throw his crown at the feet
of the Lamb as He stands in the center of the throne of heaven.
But another humble rich man will listen to the story of Y’shua
and say, “I’m not much of one for Hebrew, and I don’t care for
crowns too much myself,” and he’ll come to hate the truth when
it drives him to his knees. And yet another wise impoverished
man will say, “I have nothing against your truth; it’s not for
me; so why should it be against me?” Time reveals differences
that are otherwise hidden in a mystery of essential similarity.
The history of G-d asks a question of humanity: “Who do you
say that the Jews are?” And the Son of humanity asks the Jews
the very same question, only saying, :Who do men say that I am?:.
Scholarship has a limited authority to solve the puzzles posed
by these questions. Wealth can’t buy the key to their answers.
Knowledge and wisdom can’t reassemble these puzzles once they
are undone by human history. And neither earthly nor heavenly
understanding will know the timing of that final missing piece.
Who and what are the Jews? Where is the nation of the Jews,
and to Whom does their land belong? Who Is HaShem of the Jews,
and Who Is Jesus? These are simple enough questions that even
a child of the Bible can answer them. But the wicked will not
understand. And they’ll lie sleeplessly in their bed at night.
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Conspiracies of every kind (both open and hidden and formal
and informal and ill-informed and well-informed; or closed and
active and organized and spontaneous and disorganized and well-
ordered) are merely the stuff of game theory and toy theory at
work and in play in the affairs of human history. We are bent,
by fallen nature, toward conspiratorial behavior. We are lost,
apart from G-d’s Word, to self-deception. However rudimentary
or sophisticated our constructive and competitive proclivities
may be, we are to varying degrees, at once, both unwitting and
witting co-conspirators in time’s earthly and heavenly history.
The Bible is a holographic “teleo-gram”, if you will: books
written by men who were imbued with an authorial brilliance no
human can fathom. It is a Holograph of “fractals”: G-d’s Book,
in the words of humanity, in history and geography. HaShem is
the creator and the author of time and space and everything in
it. And everything in it that becomes corrupt in the midst of
the grand mystery of the grand theory of it all will be judged
in the end of it all. And HaShem will be glorified beyond all
reproach in the Son and praised above all praise in the Father.
The G-d of Torah didn’t emasculate Jacob---but He fashioned
a separate kind of adam called, Israel---and the signification
of the revealed truth concerning that otherwise natural son of
humanity was the absence of a foreskin---not because he didn’t
have one when he was born a Jew---but because it was taken off
by a Jew eight days after he was born in Torah. This national
identity that G-d articulated is the coalescence of a physical
and spiritual mystery---a unique union of natural and revealed
truth in Creation. The literal and tangible people comprising
a puzzle known as Jacob, and called Israel, are the revelation
of HaShem in the earth. Whatever you say of the Jews, you say
of their G-d; and whatever you do to the Jews, you do to their
G-d. If you say, “Jacob is not Israel” then you say, “His G-d
is not my God”. Or you call his G-d a liar. If you say, “I’m
a Jew,” when you are not, then you delude yourself with images.
Anyone who thinks that the Jews control the world is a fool
who has been played for a too-clever-by-half fool by who knows
who for who knows what reason or reasons. A patsy is more for
the sake of the proxy of that patsy than anything else; except
for the protection of the identity of the proxy’s handler. In
other words, the handler hides behind the proxy’s patsy. This
is the stuff of simple intrigue, mind you. Who in their right
mind would want to venture into the realm of complex espionage
unless they had an exceptionally solid predilection for it and
a willingness to forsake a large part of their personal sanity
as well, to become a sociological-eunuch? It is cold and dark
beyond belief. And no one who comes in from that kind of cold
will ever serve up the swill of these conspiratorial theorists
who serve only to confuse and distract and disorient the minds
of clearer thinking people than themselves. Beware the effect.
All those who take-up intrigue will be affected by intrigue.
the ancient greeks loved ideas. and they loved imagination.
they loved to think because they loved to imagine. they loved
words because they loved to imagine; they loved speech because
they loved to imagine. the spoken muse was drink to them; and
the written muse was food to them; and imagination was a feast.
imagination was the enspherical all of their existential being---
greeks lived to imagine, and they imagined to live. to define
imagination was to define reality for them. to imagine was to
think. to imagine was to feel. to imagine was to create. to
imagine was to build and to reside and to achieve and to savor.
greek imagination was at once the poetic art of a laconic mess
and the graphic artifice of an epicurean banquet. both sparta
and athens were a state of imagination---a polarized sphere of
hellenicities: the athenian resided in the artifice of olympus;
and zeus lived in the art of the spartan. the spartan came to
dwell in the artifice of the parthenon; and powerful mythology
came alive in the art of the athenian. static historicity can
sometimes ignite a fire of historic proportions. in the isles
of ancient greece, hellenic ideas arced across the archipelago.
the cosmos of greek imagination came to discover within itself,
not the fixed polarities of opposite realities, like night and
day, or the hot or the cold, or an athens or a sparta, but the
potential energy of alternating polarities within a rotational
sphere of pure idea. the artifice of greek imagination was as
critically important as the art of greek imagination to create
the classical Greek Idea---a wave form of thought---increasing
in amplitude as it harnessed the potential energy of the human
imagination. the ineffable genius of greece was the resonance
of its art with its artifice in the imaginations of mortal men.
even to this day, it is the resonance of the ancient greeks
that continues to enliven the motive impulse of the human mind.
of all of babel’s many descendants, hellenism was the sine qua
non of what humanity would become, in its thinking and thought,
and in its sensing and emotion (as the goyim) in juxtaposition
to the Jews. hellenism even propagated an ephemeral resonance
with jacob of such exquisite beauty that only the voice of his
Shema freed him again. what the ancients understood as graven
and molten idols, the hellen understood as instruments of pure
artifice. the ancients knew that their idols were nothing but
crude objects---they didn’t worship “them” as gods per se, but
they worshiped at them as devices that evoked an extraordinary
event in the immediate reality of their material presence: the
suspension of disbelief. the greek theater of the imagination
was a resonator more mysteriously shaped than any stradivarius
of italianate genius and the resonance that was its suspension
of disbelief was music unlike any other sphere of human genius
that had preceded it. indeed, the worlds of adam in all their
glory had never heard or seen such a one as our hellene in her
glory. adam had no word to describe the way that she embraced
him, her lips vocalizing her breath in a wet whisper of genius.
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she said, “i use three words for every one of yours and you
make one word from every two of mine. there are four lips and
four ears between the three of us, my love. you must learn to
speak my language. stay here with me. spend the night in bed
with us and tomorrow we’ll go on our way together to the baths.”
adam has never been the same. he stayed with her in greece
and built an athenian road for her dionysian way and a spartan
road for her apollonian way. and he built an amphitheatre for
the mousa of her drama and he built a gymnasium for the theory
of her games. but when at last he rested from all his efforts,
and after he had enjoyed his seats of honor at the theatre and
the games he found himself restless in his rest and unfinished
in his achievement. and so he set his mind to build an engine
of conquest, and he set out to lay siege to every great cosmos
of the cities of the earth, and he coined his methodology “the
theatre of war”. there was nothing in the world like that art
of conquest---like that magic that happened in that suspension
of disbelief, in that pure resonance between alexander’s siege
engine and the walls of great cities. and suddenly it stopped.
the theatre ended in mid-act and the theater itself was closed.
humanity has never quite gotten over its love story of these
two star-crossed lovers called genius and conquest, or babylon
the Great and her Alexander, or julia and her rome---away from
home. after the road builder, alexander, all roads would lead
to rome. but every way of every path of adam will always lead
back to babylon. the Great Muse of all the earth who imagines
herself to be the queen of heaven, who thinks herself immortal,
is about to be paid a visit by an unassuming man from heaven’s
court, whose only purpose in visiting her is to serve her with
formal legal notice to the effect that foreclosure proceedings
have been initiated against her. it has been decided to force
open her gates---to allow all those within her who can forsake
their lives in her, to vacate her premises, before she’s razed
to the ground. romes seldom rise or fall in one day. but one
day, far too soon for far too many, the great city of humanity
will fall silent in mid-sentence and collapse in a heap before
all of her patrons. with one word and in an instant, she will
be no more---forever. and her Aoide will punctuate the nights
of her dying inhabitants like the sound of jackals looking for
food. and her Melete will envelope her daughters like a thick
dust bellowing up from her collapse, as they lift their skirts
up around their heads and labor to breathe, each maiden undone
in her seat on the ground. and her Mneme will rise up forever
like smoke from the fires of her burning. and the great romes
standing small in the distance, arrayed in the trivial glories
of their triviums of trinities, will strain to recall the nine
beauties of her museum, and the nine truisms of her university,
and the nine thoughts of her library, and the nine dictates of
her court---and they won’t be able to remember her: as she was---
just yesterday. because the Great Jew will reign in Jerusalem.
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The capital letters in the two preceding pages are fourteen
in number. The fourteenth letter is conspicuous. The capitol
of all of human history is Jerusalem. And the number fourteen
has something to do with the Son of David. And David, the Jew,
has something to do with the Son of Isaac. And Jacob, the Jew,
has something to do with the Son of Abraham, and the name that
G-d gave to Jacob when He gave him a new name---and called him,
Israel. And Isaac, the son of Sarai’s womb, and Abram’s bones
has something to do with Israel (a people born in Sarah’s name),
and the Son of Israel, the Son of David, the Son of G-d: Jesus.
G-d remains a mystery that only He can fully understand. I
know that I’m not G-d. And I know that I’m not the Son of G-d.
And every human being who has ever existed and will ever exist,
whoever else they may be, must say the same if they will speak
the truth of HaShem, their creator and the creator of creation.
Except for one unique human being---a one-of-a-kind person who
called himself, the Son of Man---the new adam---Jesus: the Son
of David: the Son of Israel: the Son of Isaac: the G-d of Able.
Yeshua was and is the only human being who will ever exist who
would be lying if he said he is not G-d. Mi Chamocha? Y’shua
HaMashiach, mi chamocha? There is no one like our G-d---there
is no one like our Messiah. And there is no one like our King.
And there is no one like our Savior. And I will die for Jesus.
And I will live for Jesus. And I will repent because of Jesus;
and I will believe because of Jesus. And I’ll forgive because
of Jesus; and I’ll obey because of Jesus. And I’ll love truth
and righteousness because of Jesus. And I’ll love with all my
heart, and with all my soul, and with all my strength: because
of Jesus, my L-rd and my G-d. Not I, the unspeakably wretched
man that I am, but the new man who I am becoming in Him, who I
was intended by Him to become---when He created me in the womb
of my mother---before I was born into this world of my sin and
the sin of my father and my father’s fathers. There is a time
for weeping. But G-d Himself will wipe away our tears; and we
who live and die for His Name’s sake in this present age, will
laugh with Him and with Isaac in the age which is soon to come.
But these are the times of blasphemies and abominations: it
is an abomination to call good, evil, or evil, good---and it’s
blasphemous to suggest that evil has anything in good, or that
good has anything in evil. It is an abomination to make a man
into a woman---or a woman into a man. And it’s an abomination
to make the masculine into the feminine---or the feminine into
the masculine. And it is an abomination to make the Jews into
something they are not---or Christians into something they are
not. And it is an abomination to call Israel, goyim, or Goyim
israel. And it is blasphemous to suggest that masculinity and
femininity have anything to do with angels. Or that womanhood
has anything at all in G-d. Or that satan has anything at all
in manhood. Or that Lucifer has anything at all in Jesus. We
know not what we say. Or do. But will we repent when we know?
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The Y’shua who arose from the dead is the same Mashiach who
was nailed to a cross-piece, through the base of His hands, by
Roman soldiers, and lifted up onto a Roman execution stake, to
hang from His wrists for a few crucial moments of agony, until
His feet were affixed to that critical thrust point from which
He would enter the crucible of crucifixion: that dark churning
of the dilemma of self-imposed vertical pain, and asphyxiating
horizontal pain. The gravity of Roman justice was a carefully
calculated display of excruciating genius; and irresistibly so---
because the self-righteousness of each convicted and condemned
subject and object of Rome’s ubiquitous horizontal justice was,
in the end of it all, simply and summarily broken by arbitrary
force of the basest kind. The soles of the Roman Legions were
allotted the first steps and final steps of Roman judgment, by
the supreme authority of Roman Law. So any Roman foot soldier
was (both first and last of all) a judge of any non-citizen of
Rome. Every soldier was a caesar unto himself, insomuch as he
acted in the authority of Rome’s Caesar. But Christians don’t
have the authority “in Christ” to judge any Jew in the name of
the Mashiach---not if our “Christ” is the Messiah of Scripture,
and not if our Jesus is the same Jesus of the Bible of the Jew.
The veil that Moses wore for the benefit of the eyes of Israel
is the same veil that hinders their ability to see the face of
Mashiach---and it is the same veil that hinders the ability of
Christians to see the suffering “Christ” of HaShem in the Jews.
There is a way in which the Jews are Jesus; just as there is a
way in which Messiah is G-d. This statement seems blasphemous
to the veiled eyes of Jew and Christian alike; and for reasons
which are both meritorious and fallacious. The Creator of all
of mankind will yet reveal Himself (to all of mankind) through
the uniquely created flesh and blood of the Jews---who are His
own people (uniquely) through His own uniquely messianic flesh
and blood. There is one G-d, the Father; and one Torah of G-d,
the W-rd. And there is one Messiah of Torah, Yeshua Ben David;
and one people of the Torah, the children of Jacob, now called,
Israel, now called, the Jews. These words are like a wordless
song in the hearts of those who have an ear for the truth; but
who can sing it? And whose eyes will fill with rage to see it?
Is your vision cluttered, or clear? And what is the source
of the light by which you see? How can Israel be (not just in
the center of G-d’s far-off field of vision but) the center of
G-d’s very eye? G-d is not an anthropomorph that He could lie.
But He Is the very Creator of time and space and everything in
it. And everything in it that becomes corrupt in the midst of
the grand mystery of the grand theory of it all will be judged
in the end of it all. And HaShem will be glorified beyond any
reproach in the Son and praised above all praise in the Father.
The grand theory is valid and fair. A child can understand it;
while the wise and the intelligent can easily misunderstand it.
The story is the Besorah of redemption (the good news of Jesus).
Even so, the Son of Man worshiped the Father when He walked
the Eretz of Israel, even as He allowed adam to worship HaShem
in Him as Yeshua, the Son of David, the Son of G-d, the G-d of
Torah. HaShem must be exalted in all His glory (the preceding
statement is the first and last one true word that anyone, and
everyone, including HaShem Himself, can speak). Nothing apart
from this statement is true, or can ever be true. HaShem must
be praised in all His glory---before all things, and after all
things---for anything to be right and true. HaShem has spoken
this word in perfect humility: and there is no one more humble
than HaShem in Himself, than HaShem in Yeshua ha Natzeret; who
was conceived in the woman HaShem called :Tzion:; according to
His promise to the son that HaShem called :Yeshurun:; and this
same Jesus was born in a stable, in a place called :Bet Lechem:,
which in Hebrew means, “House of Bread”---according to a Torah
that He gave to Jacob’s newness, who Israel would come to know
as “Moshe and his siblings”, and his Nevi’im (the son of Moses
and the daughter of Moses: the new Moshe). And this same baby,
who was born as the Son of David and the King of the Jews, was
for a brief moment in history (for lack of a more proper place
to place Him) placed in something that was designed to provide
feed for domestic animals. Eretz Yisrael was such a “house of
sustenance” for humanity; yet humanity did not go there to eat
the bread of G-d’s affliction---but rather, to tear His people
and His land and the Son of His promise apart, as a lion tears
its prey. And now some goyim have the gall to claim that Jews
do not have eyes to see the G-d Who hides Himself? Wickedness
upon wickedness. What eyes are there in the Day of HaShem for
churches such as this, who have cursed Yeshua’s mother and His
father and His father’s fathers in the name of their self-made
christ of gold? Who should HaShem recognize in the Day of His
great judgment? the Jew who died in the gas chambers? forsaken
by his G-d (it would seem)? crying the Shema? with unspeakable
anguish in the death (it would seem) of all truth and goodness?
Or the son of Christianity (it would seem), who rejects Israel
in His totality (it would seem), except as a rationale to kill
Jews (it would seem) in some all-consuming communion? Tell us,
if you know the answer. Will the son of a Roman still say, “I
didn’t eat this!” when standing before the Messiah of the Jews?
Will Luther wash his hands in the Day of Judgment and say, “It
was out of my hands entirely. I’m above the letter of the Law,
and under the letters of the Spirit.”? What will the churches
say to the synagogues today, “Christ tells you to just forgive
and forget. We’re sorry for your loss but get over it already.”?
HaShem, in His Mashiach in His people the Jews Is perfectly
perfect in His righteous self-glorification of Himself. He Is
perfect in all His ways. And in Jesus He Is perfectly perfect
to rule the nations with a rod of iron; and to cast namesayers
who don’t know Him by name into the outer darkness of eternity.
Who kills the Jews and eats their flesh and drinks their blood?
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I accept the name of “Christian”---even as a meta-messianic
identifier-with the Jewish People---because I accept the truth,
in the name of a Christian, for what I have done, as a gentile,
that led to the murder of the King of the Jews and the murders
of so many unbearable millions of His flesh-and-blood-and-bone
people, the Jews. His mothers. His fathers. His sisters and
His brothers. His uncles. His aunts. His nephews and nieces.
My kind of people murdered them all. And then blamed them for
making it necessary for us to have to get rid of their corpses.
I am my father’s son; and I am my brother’s keeper; and I bear
no less shame for the crimes that have been committed in their
surname. I accept the death of Messiah Jesus in the name of a
Christian because I accept my identity as a condemned murderer
who would have been crucified by the gentiles, were it not for
the willingness of an innocent Jew to take my place on a Roman
execution device. Did any of us, Jew or gentile, know what we
were doing when we did what we did? The Jewish Messiah (there
is no such thing as any other kind of “messiah”) was crucified
in the name of Caesar. I was reborn through the mystery of my
Savior’s suffering (and death and burial and resurrection as a
Jew who was born through the mystery of Israel’s suffering and
labor and pain in giving birth to Him). If Yosef had declined
to marry Miryam would the Jews have ever had to suffer what we
did to them? When we took our little christ-child from Mary’s
womb in an unspeakably barbaric version of a Caesarean section,
and declared Him to be our King, “Jesus Caesar”, as His mother
bled to death at our feet? This is what the “other-than-a-Jew”
did to Messiah. This is what I did as a gentile to the Jewish
mother of Jesus. How can I coexist with such a memory? If we
would quiet ourselves long enough to listen to the sounds that
rabbis make when they speak to Jews. And if they get it wrong
sometimes, a little here or a little there, do we really think
that they don’t know it? Not only do they know it but they’re
humble enough to put it in writing so that anyone and everyone
who knows how to read can know it as well---even their enemies
who don’t know the truth and who misunderstand wisdom. Israel
stays humble when it’s most difficult to be humble---when they
are seen as something they know that they are not. They speak
truth to their enemies and say to their G-d, “May our souls be
silent to those who insult us.” May it be, just as so, for us
as well; may the G-d of Israel open our hearts to His Torah as
He opens our eyes to His people, the Jews, through the Messiah
of Israel, even our Savior, the Jesus of Eretz Israel, Who was
and Is a Jew first---Who Is also to the goyim, as the light of
the world, Who shines as the Light of G-d---in the darkness of
the world. Am Yisrael is a light as they worship in the Light.
Even though many may have eyes to see, in the Jewish People
G-d has given the nations far more mercy and kindness and love
than ever we will imagine. It is justice, that we must choose
now, between the lunar Messiah of the Jews or the solar Christ.
HaShem has chosen Jacob. He has chosen to love him with an
everlasting love. Objections? Christians? When will we stop
doing what we do? How much must Israel suffer tomorrow before
Christians rise up from the comforts of their pews and get out
of the false security of their churches, and do something this
time---to stop the genocide of Israel? The Christian who will
not at least carry ammunition for the Jew who must soon battle
against Baal of Arabia and Baal-zebub of Persia will be as one
who takes up his sword only to fall upon it in absolute defeat.
The minaret is a phallic vanity without its call to arms, just
as Islam is nothing without its sword. Blame me for saying it---
I am ready to take up the sword of truth and die by it as well,
as long as I can die for the sake of Eretz Yisrael and my L-rd,
the King of the Jews, Y’shua HaMashiach. But I will not stand
at a safe distance and watch while Jewish Israelis are falsely
accused of the crimes of their enemies and ritually sacrificed
all over again. Will you come to my house and cut the throats
of my children as well, O Muhammadite, you son of Satan? When
will you repent of your idolatry, O son of the darkness? When
will you turn to the One true and living G-d, the G-d of Jacob,
and give Him the glory and honor that is due His Name? Murder
Jews and you murder the only people who would save your people.
But murder gentile children, O Muhammadian, in your satanic
ritual sacrifices to your god, and the infidels of the Muslims
of the sword will slaughter your peoples like so much diseased
livestock---nothing personal, mind you, O speaker of hyperbole,
but a pagan knows how to kill when it becomes an imperative of
his survival. How many more of your sons and daughters do you
think that you can sacrifice before he decides to aid you with
your task? At what point will you pause and reconsider, for a
moment or two, the existence of the virgins who are said to be
waiting for you in the afterdeath experiences of your paradise?
Perhaps you would do well to put the knife back into its sheaf
for just a bit, and reexamine the conflicting stories that are
told about Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac? The stakes are very
very high, my friend, and very, very permanent. You would not
do wrong to stop and take another look at who is who, and what
is what. And then if you decide that you should go ahead with
your suicidal hate, who’s to stop you? You have a little time,
why not take it and think it over just a bit more. Death will
wait for you. No hurry. But you might choose to live instead,
yes? But of course that itself would be just one more example
of the great Jewish conspiracy that seeks to love-and-let-hate.
Personally, I think you have the heart of a bully, and the Jew
is next to nothing in the world arena when it comes to killing---
why don’t you pick on someone your own size for a change? Let
the Jew live in peace and see if he doesn’t help you live your
life to its fullest. Or die. Whatever. I know where I’ll be
in the instant after my death---my name is written in the Book
of Life. Can you say the same about your death and its scales?
8/8 (20)
3/24
8/9
3/24
3/25 (21)
Of course, those who load their weapons shouldn’t talk like
those who put them together; or take them apart; or clean them.
If only we could live in peace. But the horsemen are about to
leave in pairs and gallop toward the valley of human decisions.
One if by land and two if by sea. Yet serious historians know
that history never repeats itself---except in the pseudo-logic
of circular human reasoning. Mankind transitions from ancient
ideas about transformation and thinks to call it “Evolutionary
History”. And suddenly we acquire the amazing natural ability
to read into the distant past whatever our heart might imagine.
And Emperors evolve into Caesars evolve into Czars and Kaisers
and Presidents evolve into bigger and bigger Czars and Kaisers
and Caesars and Presidents evolve into the good and the better
and the best President evolves into an august and then greater
and then the augustest Oligarch to ever cross over our Rubicon.
Fortunately for us, mankind won’t keep repeating itself in its
folly forever---because history has a beginning---and a middle---
and an end. And our space-time continuum is only a transition
from our corruptible creation to an incorruptible New Creation---
which no eye has yet seen. And the Creator freely invites any
and all who are willing to be recreated by Him to live forever
with Him in the New Heaven and Earth. But we can only receive
Him on His terms of surrender. Yet most would sooner stand in
hell itself than bend the knee to truth; and they would sooner
bend their knee to evil than stand humbly before their Creator.
Such a mystery is lawlessness. Such a sad, sad mystery we are
in our sin. One day the harvest will be transformed into seed.
It is true that the days soon to come will be confusing and
disorienting. Like a moonless night before the fog of warfare.
Like a pit and a snare. Like a snake and its pit or a bird in
its flight or a fox in its hole or a bear and its sleep in its
cave. A child of the Bible will have nothing to fear; but G-d
will not be impersonated---and “with the twisted He will prove
Himself astute.” G-d’s absolute proof is in His revealed W-rd---
and His Scriptures will never be undone---the weary-hearted in
well-doing can rest in the certainty of His simple promises to
them. He will never leave them nor forsake them. Never. Not
for a single moment. He will be with them forever, to the end
of time itself. Nothing, and no one, can snatch them from His
hand. And He will soon bare His holy arm in the sight of them.
:The W-RD of HaShem is tested:; be kind in Him, and He will
show Himself kind to you in His Scriptures. Be blameless; and
He will show Himself blameless. Be pure in heart in His words;
and you will see Him in His Scriptures. But don’t be naïve to
the ways of a snake. And don’t be surprised when a slave-girl
of satan shouts, :These men are bond-servants of the Most High
G-d, who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation!:. If it
requires the sacrifice of a profitable child to compensate for
for the greater loss to the truth of his city’s most prominent
woman of commerce, even the snake finds a way to “get religion.”
4/1 (22)
Death is the unnatural absence of life, not its “other side”.
A “life-and-death” duality is the poisonous mix of an assassin.
Death is not natural. Death is not something to be desired or
greeted or embraced by a life---no matter how painful the life.
Death is to be resisted---even to the final moment of our life.
Death is to be resisted---almost at any cost, but not all cost.
When is it right for a soldier to fight (and pay with his life
for the death of an enemy) just to save the life of his friend
for however much longer he might be able to survive the battle?
It’s right to pay that price when the truth is at stake---even
if your wife will become a widow and your children will become
orphans. There is no truer sacrifice that a soldier can offer
to his nation than to take up his sword and lay down his lives
for whatever may remain good and true in the lives of those he
loves; but there is no more abominable sacrifice that a leader
can require of a people than to send off their soldiers to war,
armed with a lie, to fight and die with their brothers-in-arms.
Only the truth can sustain orphans and widows through the days
of their bereavement---and only the truth can preserve them in
the lives their consolation, in the hope of new tomorrows full
of life and love for their children’s children. G-d is broken
with the broken-hearted. He longs to comfort those who cannot
be comforted by even a sea of tears. He longs to restore even
those who are broken beyond hope of restoration in their world.
But He cannot buy their love at the cost of His truth; because
He cannot lie---not even to save those He loves beyond measure.
How many lies must a good man tell after he opens a door to
the evil that stands at his threshold, waiting to question him
about a truth that is said to hide there? Evil knocks because
evil wants you to open your door to evil. Evil questions your
house because evil wants your home to submit to evil’s threats.
The only answer that evil wants from you is evil. If you will
answer evil with evil then evil may let you exist in its world
of evil. If you wish away evil with denials of the truth, you
will be denied justice. But if you resist evil with the truth,
though you may die in that place where you resist it, it won’t
be in the place of evil’s choosing---in your home, in your own
clothes, before the horror stricken faces of your own children.
The man who would resist evil at this cost is the man who will
invite a Jew to take refuge in his house in this world of evil.
Don’t be deceived: one who tells “good” lies is an appeaser.
But if you oppose evil with resolute truth (even when the evil
threatens you with immediate violence) then you stand in truth.
How did evil find its way to your front door? How did it find
its way into your nation? or state? or county? or neighborhood?
The evil that knocks on your door is the same evil that’s able
to break it down if it really wants what it wants you to think
it wants. It wants you to lie to yourself first---and then it
wants you to betray the truth that may be hidden in your house.
If evil knocks on your door it’s because it followed you there.
By the time we find ourselves presented with a false yes or
no dichotomy at our threshold (because we have come to believe
that we must either appease evil by lying to it, or tell a lie
to guard the truth within us) it’s too late to hide behind our
door and hope that evil goes away on its own. Appease evil or
betray truth? “Heads”, evil wins---“Tails”, truth loses? How
have we come to this? It used to be called, Bewitchment. But
now we call it, Political Correctness. Dictators can restrict
a man’s ability to speak his mind; but they can’t dictate what
he chooses to either think or not think. But a man’s mind can
be deceived by lies such that he can only think what he thinks
he should think. Who has bewitched us, such that we’re unable
to openly say what we really think about what we believe to be
good, or to openly speak out against what our G-d says is evil?
Will you answer evil with lies? Will you bring about peace in
your heart or your home or your land by appeasing evil? Peace
at any price? Love at all cost? Love of what? Love of truth?
Evil’s first response to truth is a lie; and evil’s counter
reaction to truth’s rebuttal is a tactical retreat---disguised
as appeasement---like an offer of counterfeit money, disguised
as a bribe. Truth will not respond to the sophistry that evil
presents as indications of its submissiveness or vulnerability.
Everything that evil says and everything that evil does, be it
evil or not evil, is a feint of one kind of warfare or another.
Evil must not be answered with evil; but only with the Word of
truth. Or can we exchange our evil for the evil of others? I
am capable of evil because I am a sinner. If I curse my enemy
as my enemy curses me, and then say that my curse is different
than his curse, how am I any different than him? Evil is evil
wherever it hides itself. And evil is cursed wherever it goes.
Let the evil in our enemies be cursed as it is cursed; but may
we not curse as our enemies curse. Let our enemies be removed
to their place and may we live in peace in ours. Even so, may
we not hate as our enemies hate; or bless as our enemies bless;
or love as our enemies love; or die as our enemies die. May I
live and may I die for the truth of Tzion and Yeshurun. May I
live and may I die as a true servant of Melech Yeshua. May we
wait for Him and Him alone. Don’t be deceived. He Is :Ad-nai:
and there is no other. Is His Torah in us? and do we stand in
His truth? Don’t be deceived. If we will not stand with Zion
today then we will not stand for the truth tomorrow---not here
where we make our lives today---nor wherever it may be that we
make our stand tomorrow. To anyone with an ear that can sense
the sound of the shofar of Eretz Yeshurun: gather together and
prepare to stand as one man---in whatever nation that you call
your own---for the cause of G-d’s truth on earth and in heaven---
for the sake of G-d’s people, the Jews, and His land of Israel---
as those who are called-out from the nations to surround Jacob---
as his friend and brother-in-arms. We must prepare for battle---
the war against Jerusalem is coming and we must stand for Zion.
4/1 (23)
Perhaps you were told that the war against the Jew wouldn’t
affect you directly---because you’re not a Jew; or because you
don’t identify with the kind of nationalities that war against
a Bible of Jewish identity; or because you don’t identify with
the kind of Christian that believes in the veracity of a Bible
of the Jew; or because you don’t identify with the kind of Jew
that remembers the Jerusalem of his Book, or because you don’t
identify with the kind of Jew that lives in the land of Israel.
Identification and verification are wisdom and knowledge at
work; but folly and madness are indicators of misunderstanding.
False identification is the crux of evil and the source of its
lies. Misidentification is at the heart of all kinds of evils.
I can identify with sheep dogs because we have a lot in common.
Some of the things we share in common are good and some aren’t
good. Both are verifiable truths. But if these commonalities
lead me to identify as an actual sheep dog then I’m verifiably
insane. Sanity is the actuation of one’s perception of who is
who, and what is what. Sanity is the verification of identity.
It’s a good thing to identify with goodness in the identity
of another if it enables the one to identify with the other as
discrete identities; but a misidentification with goodness can
actuate a false identification between two discrete identities,
whereby one discrete identity identifies as the other discrete
identity. One true identity can subsume another true identity
if it identifies as, rather than with, the other; and both are
subsumed in the end by false identity. Correction is required
to restore the true relationship between the one true identity
and the other true identity. We falsely befriend our goodness
by misidentifying it in another; and we hate those who reflect
our own evil. But if I call you a friend because I see myself
in you, when will I see you? or will you be forever lost to me
in the midst of my friendship with myself in you? And if evil
is always and only something that is unfamiliar to me in those
I call my enemies will I ever see them as they appear to those
who truly love them? Or must my enemies, by my definition, be
forever those who are unlovable? If I have a face that only a
mother could love, then perhaps your mother could love my face?
or if I have a face that only my mother could love, then where
does such a mother as mine come from? But the homeliest child,
in the eyes of the world, is beautiful beyond words to the G-d
Who created it; and the most beautiful face in the world’s way
of admiring faces, that is marked by even the slightest defect
of character, is utterly disfigured in the eyes of the Creator
of beauty and truth. Can a flawed identity be corrected? Yes.
Can a false identity be made true? No. I am not a real sheep
dog; and I will never become a real sheep dog; and I can never
be remade into a real sheep dog. I identify with the Jew, but
I’m not the real Jew; and I’ll never become the real Jew. Nor
will I ever be remade into the real Jew. And why would I want
to be who I am not, if I love truth and the One Who created me?
4/4 (24)
4/27 (25)
4/29
The Torah of Moses documents G-d’s prescriptive activity in
creating the Jewish people. It’s an elucidation of a distinct
national identity wholly separate from the nations---a telling
of how a nondescript people had been instituted by HaShem from
the beginning of time and were ordained for a priestly purpose.
Torah instructs a certain people how to identify as Jews, with
Jews, in Israel---as priests, with holy peoples, in commonweal
with holy nations. Christians should identify with Jews; just
as Levites should identify with Priests. Just as Aaron’s sons
did well to identify with Moses. But the sons of Aaron didn’t
do right to identify as a Moses. And the sons of Jacob do not
do well to fail to identify with those who are called-out from
the nations just as their father was called-out from the world
around him. And the sons of Christians do evil to identify as
Jews when they are not---because then they can’t identify with
Jews truthfully. But in the falseness of their identity, they
can only identify against Jews. A proxy doesn’t replace truth.
But a usurper claims that he’s the rightful possessor of truth.
A true and loyal proxy is faithful while performing all his
different duties in all his different roles as a caretaker for
someone other than himself. The Jew is intended to be a proxy
for G-d. And Israel is intended to be a proxy for the Messiah.
This doesn’t mean that the Jew is (or will become) G-d or that
Israel is the Messiah. But it does mean that if the Jew takes
care of himself and no one else, or he lives for himself alone---
then not only is he less than he is intended to be---he is far
less in his self-ordained status than G-d’s enemy can tolerate.
Satan is a self-appointed prosecutor who has a court-appointed
standing in heaven (which he is about to forfeit) which issues
from his original, G-d-appointed (and wholly unrelated) status.
He forfeited his intended status when he misread creation. He
trusted what he thought that his eyes saw, rather than what he
heard G-d say---about what could be seen and could not be seen.
G-d’s image can’t be seen---not in creation, nor in any of its
creatures. Lucifer’s own eyes lied to him; HaShem spoke truth
to him. But he chose to believe his own eyes rather than what
G-d said---about eyes, and about what can be seen and not seen.
Through no fault of our own, Satan hates mankind, and he hates
humanity’s Jews with a special hatred, especially when they’re
hypocritical, but even more intensely so in their authenticity.
But just as Jesus was betrayed into the hand of His enemies,
by a false friend, through an unholy kiss, so will His beloved
people the Jews also be betrayed into the hands of their enemy,
by the unholy kiss of a false messiah. We are our worst enemy.
Y’shua knew who His enemies were from the very beginning. Yet
He allowed them to do what they did, all along His way through
Israel. His friends knew Him well, but they didn’t know their
enemy. Will Christians, who say that they know Jesus as their
master and their friend, abandon Israel to its betrayer? Will
they think to warm their hands around the fires of Yom HaShoah?
5/1
4/29
5/1
Torah to the nations is national restoration to each nation---
to whatever degree the unique individuals of any unique nation
are redeemed in the uniqueness of their identities in creation.
HaShem invests each individual with a unique identity. And He
confers sub-identities upon each individual such as gender and
nationality and ethnicity. And each sub-identity is dependent
upon each individual’s unique identity for the authenticity of
its status in creation. The unique identity of the individual
is created by HaShem, and is unique and discrete from Him also.
Each unique identity is alone in its inception, like the child
who is orphaned at birth---like a helpless baby---a reflection
of a non-existent father, lost in the mirror of a non-existent
mother. The sad truth of our mysterious origin is that we are
not “all G-d’s children”. We are born into the mystery of our
existence as “all adam’s children”. Adam’s sin separated them
from HaShem---and from creation itself in all of its tomorrows---
from all the dying offspring of a dying world’s lost tomorrows.
There is nothing natural at all about such a tragic separation.
It wasn’t meant to be like this at all. But G-d meant what He
said; and Adam had no excuse for what he did. And we all must
come to the truth, and go through the truth, to get to the G-d
of love. There is no other way. But HaShem in His mercy does
not abandon the individual to its aloneness. He gives fathers
and mothers and sisters and brothers and friends and lifes and
loves to every orphaned identity---as hints to the question of
life. Life asks a question of every person: Is this all there
is? And the longer it is, and the fuller it is, then the more
accountable each individual is for the answer that is given by
the words and the deeds of a life-time. G-d is perfectly just.
Many who are starved for justice in this age don’t believe Him;
and many who feast upon wealth in this age will never know Him
in the age to come; but all of them will be without excuse for
the self-righteousness of their persuasions and determinations.
You can say that hell is not hell until hell freezes over; but
it will change nothing. You can say that G-d is not fair; but
it will change nothing. You can say whatever you want or will
whatever you wish; but HaShem is perfectly righteous and He is
perfectly just. And His final judgment will be final, forever.
In the Son of Man, and through His Torah, HaShem has undone
the separation of sin and death that has cursed the identities
of creation and caused them to lose their sovereign uniqueness
to the confusion and distortion of the barren sameness of evil.
The Messiah of Israel, through Israel, in Israel, has redeemed
the uniqueness of individuals, and through their uniqueness He
has restored the uniqueness of nations and peoples and tongues.
And He has finished it already---in one Day. Just as G-d once
said to Adam that he would surely die in the Day that he chose
to sin, so G-d now says in Messiah Jesus that today is the Day
of salvation---to all who will believe in Him. Let the nation
that joins itself to Israel be blessed forever in its own land.
4/26 (26)
It’s said that a lawyer who represents himself in court has
a fool for a client. Defendants and plaintiffs must represent
themselves in court not as lawyers or judges or jurors or even
as witnesses---but as defendants and plaintiffs. Whoever else
they may be or whatever else they may be, they must be seen to
represent a plaintiff or a defendant. Anything that serves to
strengthen their court-identity as plaintiff or defendant will
argue in their favor. And anything that diminishes their role
as defendant or plaintiff will obstruct the argument that they
are attempting to advance in the courtroom. Brilliant lawyers
argue their client as their case; they present their client as
their argument---the defendant is the argument---the plaintiff
is the argument. These are the only two arguments that courts
will admit. Once these arguments are admitted into the courts
then they can be advanced into the courtrooms. In a courtroom
it’s not what you are as a person that matters, but it is what
you represent. It’s not who you are outside the courtroom (or
even who you think you are inside the courtroom) but who it is
that the court finds you to be inside the courtroom that makes
the difference outside the courtroom. Outside the courtroom I
might be a brilliant lawyer; but inside the courtroom all that
matters is the definition of a defendant and the definition of
a plaintiff. A lawyer’s role is to clarify this definition of
his client as a defendant (one who is rightly innocent), or as
a plaintiff (one who is rightly aggrieved). A “court-identity”
is different than a personal identity. As a person outside of
the courtroom you’re guilty of things and you’re not guilty of
things. No one is entirely innocent inside a courtroom, not a
person who wears a robe or a person who sits in a juror’s seat
or a person who walks back and forth between seats of judgment.
In courts of justice one’s personal identity is “considered”
to be “immaterial” (i.e., “as if” it doesn’t exist) to the law.
A courtroom only admits specifically defined “court-identities”;
and it only judges the deeds and behaviors of those identities.
In America the court-identity of a defendant is defined as one
who is innocent (i.e., wrongly accused) until he is identified
as someone else---either a free man (guiltless) or a convicted
man (not innocent). Justice outside the courtroom and justice
inside the courtroom are discrete things; and justice in lower
courts and justice in higher courts are discrete things. When
justice is served inside the court it’s upheld outside as well;
but when it’s overturned by legalism, licentiousness is served
up as the spirit of the law. When justice is served in higher
courts, the law is upheld in lower courts. But when a supreme
court presumes itself the law, then judgment from on high will
fall upon it and the body inside that robe of justice will die.
The body of law that sits in the World Court is a Typhoid Mary.
Outside of the courtroom one who is a Judge should be esteemed
greatly; but inside the courtroom that same person is a nobody,
because only a nobody can rightly wear the robe of a courtroom.
2/23 (27)
4/12 (28)
Man thinks to make a god in his own image, or in the images
of creation. But the One true and living G-d says that no one
can make a true image of Him. It is impossible for anyone, in
heaven or on earth or under the earth, to perceive G-d’s image.
G-d created man in His image, and yet no one bears G-d’s image
insomuch as man is not G-d’s image, nor is the image of G-d in
man. Who is like G-d in His unique identity as G-d? There is
no one in creation who is like Him; He Is unlike everything in
creation and everyone in Creation. He Is One eternally---with
no beginning and no end. He cannot be replicated, or replaced,
or removed. His Identity Is ONE and His Name Is ONE---and Was
ONE---and Will Be ONE. Even if it’s written as, “His identity
is one and his name is one,” it doesn’t change who he truly is,
nor should it suggest that he is no different than us, or that
we are just like him. To capitalize what isn’t capitalized or
to uncapitalize what’s usually capitalized is simply to employ
or invent a literary device as a way to accentuate distinction.
But no matter what one may say about who Hashem is, or how one
may say it, there will be one with no sense who misunderstands
it, and another who questions it with evil intent. To both of
them G-d says, :You are gods; but you will die like men:. You
will exist as an eternally unique identity, but if you are not
born again through the Son you won’t exist in His eternal life
in the final re-creation of heaven and earth. The inclination,
however subtle it may be, that causes you to dismiss questions
of your place in the ultimate and eternal truth of all that is
around you, and G-d’s place as your Creator---this inclination
that exists in the mystery of your lawlessness---will become a
force of overwhelming magnitude on the Day of judgment, and it
will cause you to recoil from the Truth even as darkness flees
the presence of light; and the outer darkness will be the only
place there is for you. Whatever decency and goodness you may
possess as you exist apart from the truth and goodness of your
Creator (in the goodness of your life, in the goodness of this
creation) will be as nothing in the Truth of that Day of final
judgment which is coming. And the selfishness within you that
you too readily accept and excuse and embrace and justify will
become everything that’s depraved and evil and false, even now
in the goodness of this creation. My sin is what’s wrong with
the world; and your sin is what’s wrong with the world. Is it
so difficult to comprehend why so many will spend all eternity,
as eternal creatures, separated from all that is good and true?
Then how much more difficult it should be to comprehend why so
many will not seek and will not find and will not accept truth
when it is presented to them in countless ways in the goodness
of this life and this creation. They say in their hearts, “We
are good and the source of all that is good.” Then they judge
G-d for all that is wrong. But I am the first person I should
blame for all that is wrong; and after I’ve assigned righteous
blame to everyone else in their proper order, I’ll worship G-d.
4/13
4/14
5/25 (29)
In Torah Adam was able to identify with G-d as a son of G-d,
because G-d identified Himself with Adam in creating him as an
expression of Himself---as His unique creation in His Creation.
In Torah Eve was able to identify with G-d in and through Adam,
because G-d created Eve as an image of Adam’s X chromosome, as
an outworking of the uniqueness of Adam apart from his Creator.
These are a few of the hidden things of Torah that the Creator
pointedly reserves for Himself alone---simply because they are
not understandable by any of His creatures, neither human, nor
angelic. But rather they are highly misunderstandable by even
the most brilliant of human and angelic minds. Even if PaRDeS
is correctly approached and perceived and inculcated by a wise
student of sacred mysteries, to whom would he teach it and why?
Teachers bear responsibility for what they teach; and students
bear responsibility for what they do with what they are taught.
Who in their right mind would want to venture into the reality
of what is commonly called, Kabbalah? It decimates the sanity
of those who are not designated by HaShem to contend for truth
within the world of its shadows and reflections and secrets in
secrets in secrets in words and speech and images and thoughts
and behavior and deeds. Avoid the leaven of the hidden things
of life and be glad you can enjoy your simple portion of bread
and wine. Leave espionage to the agents of espionage; and let
scholars suffer the labors of their scholarship. Leave kabala
to the agents of kabala; and don’t listen to anyone who speaks
the kabala-babble of the poseur and fool. These hard callings
find those who don’t look for them; they call out to those who
don’t seek them; they watch for the ear that turns reflexively,
just ever so slightly, to the sound of their whisper. Be glad
that you don’t hear the sounds of unseen things. Be glad that
you are a man, or a woman, or a Jew or a person of the nations.
Be glad that Jacob was called to be Israel, for our revival
as unique individuals and families and peoples and nations and
languages and arts and literatures and lives and loves and all.
In Torah HaShem also has identified with the child of Adam, as
the Son of Man---so that the daughter of Zion would be able to
identify with G-d, as His daughter-in-law. Messiah’s bride is
soon to become the daughter-in-law of G-d, when their marriage
is finally consummated at the conclusion of the marriage feast.
And by nothing more, and nothing less, than a single holy kiss.
Jesus, the Son of David, is to Israel as Jesus, the Son of Man,
is to humanity. The redeemed Yisrael of Tzion encompasses her
Messiah even as the redeemed people of the other nationalities
of the world encompass Israel. If even two or three people of
any nation of the world are redeemed then their nationality is
redeemed with them. But no remnant of any nation can save its
own nationality apart from the Messiah of Israel. The Messiah
saves individuals through Himself and He saves nations through
Israel. Messiah Jesus saves each of us from ourselves through
Himself and He saves each of us from each other through Israel.
4/29
Plowman
