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The
Goor1
of Iran:
A Farsical2
Memoir of Polemics Versus Apologetics3
by
Dallas
F. Bell, Jr.
Dramatis
Personae
Farjad4
Bedel;5
the young man.
Zeyf;6
the stranger.
Jasper7
Jadu;8
the ass.
Esh-iya;9
the prophet.
Hear
this from Esh-iya, all people;
Give ear,10
all inhabitants of the world:
Both low and high,
Rich and
poor, in chiastic order.11
My
chiasmus mouth will speak wisdom;
And the meditation of my
heart
Will be understanding.
I will incline my ear to a
parable:
My riddle can be opened on a lyre.
--From Psalm
49:1-4; for the sons12
of Qārūn.13
Act
1. Beginning Bārīk-dum14
God
rules the raging sea,
When its waves arise,
He stills them;
Esh-iya15
knows.
God created the north and south,
The mountains shout
for joy at His name,
He dwells in the mountain.16
His
throne will be established forever,
Like the moon, as wise as
Solomon,17
The
witness in the sky is faithful.
--From Psalm 89:9, 12, 36, 37;
by Ethan/Juduthan, a son of Qārūn.18
I,
Farjad Bedel, have a Persian ancestry,19
which
begins with Shem,20
as Persian geography
begins with Cyrus the Great,21
occupied
in the proto-Elamite Empire,22
for
Elam, Hebrew for ever, straightening
curve space-time with
mathematical objects,
stress-momentum tensors, the density and
flux
of energy, extending vector calculus
to tensor fields,
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro calculus,
using a slider, with a field
invariant,
behaving like a cosmological constant.
Our way
of perceiving the waving universe.23
Waves
reinforce or cancel each other,
geometric contribution to the
phase,
mathematics of polarized optics;
circle of the
Mobius strip, perpendicular
to it, the fibre twists around and
then reverses,
the ray space with phase information,
fibre
bundles, uncorrupted in the noisy data,
making smaller and
smaller atom traps.24
The
great Persian kings are Cyrus,25
Darius I,26
and
Xerxes27
among others,
ruling the Empire, Achaemenid.28
Darius
the Great’s Behistun Inscription29
acknowledges
Verkā, wolf,
Wolf-land, Verkâna, historic region,
Hyrcania,30
land southeast of the Caspian Sea,
by the Alborz Mountains, and
east
of the Köpet Dag Mountains.
Persians were
Zoroastrians,
with the “Bundahishn,” Primal Creation,
encyclopedia of cosmogony, model origin
of the universe,
and cosmology, the study
of the universe. Wrongly, they
believed
the moon was farther than the stars,
but
believed the Judean Christian
eschatology of the coming
Messiah.
Three magi, wise men, were led
to Christ’s
stable nativity.31
Moy32
were made political scapegoats
by Darius. In the magi
hierarchy,
the chief priest was the magupat,
dastūr,
were the highest priests,
the mobed,
conducted ceremonies and trained
other priests, and the minor
priests were the hērbad.
Such
clerics used Pahlavi script,
for literature and the Zoroastrian
canon,33
and
were slaughtered by Darius.34
With centuries of survival experience,
and in obedience
to God, the magi
were wise to King Herod’s wiles,35
as
should American Christians exercise
savoir
faire
when dealing with Emperor Nero
modeled public deceptions, the
food
of human gulls.36
A
physical and spiritual invasion
of the Ishmael Arabs came,
being
descendants of the blessed Abraham,
son of Shem, and
Hagar, descendant
of the cursed Ham; Hagar or Agar37
from Mizraim producing Casluhim,
and the Philistines, the
Palestinians.38
Abolqasem
Ferdowsī, paradisic, paradise,
hakīm,
philosopher, born in northeast Iran
of land owners, dehqans,39
wrote, elegy,
to lament his son’s death, in his “Shāhnāmeh,”
The Book of Kings,40
an epic poem,
of the pre-Islamic monotheism
Zoroastrian
Sasanian Dynasty about Muslim terrorism,
and
Chengiz Khan,41
Mongol ruler
of Persia parts, practicing Turkic Tengrism,
shamanism and animism worship of the sky god,
Tengri,
personification of the universe,
tofu
bar to, ey charkh-I gardun, tofu!42
Descendants of Shem have higher Iqs
than descendants of
Ham,
so Arabs naturally become the cat’s paw
of Persians.
Muhammed was an Arab
from Mecca.43
There are many fraudulent
efforts, online fake testing,
and
the like, to erase and skew statistics.
Concealing decades of
scientific studies
on how IQs are directly contingent,
correlated
to education potential, and economic potential.
Emboldened
by renaming John McCown’s longspur,
in 2020, because he was a
U.S. Confederate general
fighting for state’s rights, the
American
Ornithological Society, in 2023, began renaming
birds:
the father of American Ornithology,
Alexander
Wilson’s warbler and snipe
because his name is not inclusive,
Winfield Scott’s oriole because
he was a U.S. Civil War
general and conducted
the 1838 Trail of Tears, and John
Audubon’s shearwater
for being a slave owner. These efforts
to erase discovery
and change history were rebuffed, in
2021,
when the James Webb telescope
was not renamed by NASA
when Webb was accused
of involvement in the U.S. government
purging
of sexual perverts, called the Lavender Scare
by
homosexuals. Intellectual freedoms
are made of manuscripts
that
cannot historically burn up.44
Cosmology
is a term used by Thomas Blount,
in his “Glossograpria,”45
and then by Christian Wolf
in his “Cosmologia
Generalis.”46
Wolf nobly
sought a mathematical method to make
theology
incontrovertibly certain;47
to settle disputes.48
Gottfried
Leibniz got the credit
for many of Wolf’s ideas. Wrongly Wolf
indicated philosophy was queen
of science, not theology.
He saw godless
Chinese Confucians had made morality
from
reason alone, so instead of expanding
on the ills of that
relativist philosophy,
meaning all people wrongly would become
gods
of their behavior, he reasoned one does not need
the
infinite God of Christianity to be moral.
His heresy made him a
wolf to Christianity.49
Friedrich Nietzsche thought Zoroaster
was the first to
commit “the error”
of creating morality itself. He
created a straw man,
Zarathustra,50
to repudiate the concept of morality,
but ending up proving
objective morality.
Ahmagh,51
is a fool and stupid person.
This title is an observation of
moral failing
and is not necessarily an observation
of
intellectual failing. Yet moral failings
always lead to
intellectual failings, which affirms
the eternal nature of
morality,
and confirms morals are truth.52
Mankind
cannot make truth,
but can only find it—moral psychology.
In
human neural function,
the visceral is the involuntary
system
controlled by the hypothalamus, heartbeats
controlled
by morals, versus
the somatic voluntary system, walking
by
choice in morality, controlled by the frontal lobe.
Manifolds
are smooth in even dimensions 2, 4, 6 and up.
A sphere is the
union of the surface area and the interior or ball,
having
constant curves while the curvature of a manifold
varies from
one point to another. Kähler
53
manifolds
could have zero Ricci54
curvatures at every point,
dimensions can hide there.55
So the shape of space
is sculptured. Then the shape of lives,
born-live-die,
as my story models, may have slender tails
of
eternal significance, and a larger inner bell
shape;
observe-theorize-prove. De Moivre56
distribution,
bell curve of normal distribution.
Uniform
time increments may be bounds,
but are an illusion of the actual
surface
of behavioral variables, more as manifolds
depending
on the amount of data - distance.
Interconnecting complex
systems
behave as Pareto57
distribution with power law,
variable, not symmetrical of
Gaussian58
distribution.
Variables are multiplied and not added
to the
Gaussian curve. The focus is then
on the tails to understand
the shift
of the bell. Electrons spin on hard drives,
as a
whirlpool arrangement of spins,
topological solitons, more
stable on a nano scale
than parallel spins, as are protein
motions and DNA—
condensed matter systems. A complex 3D
soliton
is a hopfion ring in magnetic material.
This spin
texture could be a more efficient
memory device.59
Superlensing
allows the passing of the diffraction
limit,
where the diffraction of light waves
prevents seeing
smaller things.
Gather light at the terahertz frequency,
at
the millimeter wavelength in the spectrum,
between the visible
and the microwave,
for computer selection of best light,
remove
unwanted light
producing a truthful image.60
The most valuable data decays
Exponentially, with
distance.
Today,
Persia is known as Iran
the home of the Father of
Algebra,
Al-Khwārizmī, Persian algorithm, from Khwarmazan.
A
few percent of Iranians are non-Persian
and
non-Zoroastrian—anērān.61
Those
descendants of Ham,
with their laugh faces,62
mixing
sex dances with victory dances,
dominance displays of chest
thumping,
outstretched arms, and exaggerated postures,63
have
G6PD64
deficiencies, and cannot
take primaquine for malaria.65
After Middle East petroleum deposits
were discovered,
Persians moved
to Kuwait and Bahrain, logically
began
speaking Arabic to participate
in the economy. Later, Iraq—home
of Agatha Christie and her archaeologist
husband on digs,66
British, an “Old Fox,”
escaping hundreds of traps,67
whose writings,
father brought home from Russian trips,
and
aren’t remotely considered literature,
but mother dearly
cherished them,
part love for the gift and part a guilty
pleasure,
I suppose—expelled many Persians
who eventually
settled in Lebanon and Syria.68
The
last Shah of Iran69
believed his god
made him savior of Iran. He was overthrown
by
the Muslim followers of Ayatollah Khomeini.70
Two-thousand-year-old
Iranian hymns
in the North testify of the importance
of the
olive tree,71
living one-thousand years.
The Hebrew King David, said he
was
like a green olive tree in the house of God
trusting in
His mercy for ever and ever.72
Pestanak
is the wild Russian olive,73
thorny with edible fruit, dried
to a powder, mixed with
milk, proven remedy
for rheumatoid arthritis, like
acetaminophen,
Tylenol and Ibuprofen, used in the Spring
celebration.
Iran is a major producer of olive, zeytoon,
oil.
My parents grew up on olive plantations,
with carts
pulled by a goor.
Father would pretend
his donkey was a gliding Akhal-Teke74
or
beautiful gray Arabian with white coat
and black skin. My
mother pretended
their donkey was a gentle white Caspian,
show
jumping at equestrian events,
free, a tribute to Louise
Firouz.75
They
each left to attend the Mother University,
the University of
Tehran, UT,76
with
all classes still taught in Persian.
The emblem is of the
Sassanid Period,
and the motto is “Rest not a moment from
learning.”
The school color is Tehran blue, greenish blue,
cyan
from cyano, cyanide, cobalamin, cobalt,
Vitamin B12.
The
Egyptian isle of Elephantine, in the Upper Nile,
was home to an
ancient Persian garrison,
with the Shah’s Jewish
soldiers.77
The
Pushkin Museum in Moscow
has a marriage contract
of a
Jewish Temple employee there
and his Egyptian wife. A Jewish
prenuptial,
k’yubah.
My parents had a Mosaic covenant
marriage, pledged before
God
that there was to be no separation,
except adultery,
abandonment, or death.
Their constant encouraging of each
other
was like and indefinite causal order,
the normal
causal path not just going from one
to another, excluding one
from possibly infusing
the other, but each in a superposition
supporting
each other, a simultaneous quantum process.
They
finished Ph.D.’s at UT
with my father’s degree in nuclear
physics,
and my mother’s degree in literature.
I soon
breached, baghāra,
my mother’s matrix,
zāqdan,
pulled by pseudogravity,78
modified
photonic crystals with lattice distortion,
deforming
regular spacing, disrupting
the grid pattern, making a curved
beam trajectory,
in that medium, as a ray of light passing
by
a massive celestial body, a black hole.
Not an ikhtira’,79
a siql,80
a burden of gravity,
light and gravity in a vacuum traveling
at
the speed of light after a kilonova,
a macronova81
of two neutron stars colliding,82
generating gravitational waves before
light waves.83
Before
I go any farther, I must let you know
I am not just hard of
hearing, HoH,
and have some hearing—I am deaf.
Here is
what I, and kar
people like me,
hear when people
speak:
“______________________________.”
That’s
right, sefr,
naught, zero. No residual help
from Avicenna84
will come. No bone anchored
hearing aid, or vibrant soundbridge
otology
restoration is waiting for me.
This is not to say I
can not feel
the harmony of musical vibrations.
I do. Or
at least I think I can.
Khwāje Hafez, “The Memorizer,”
“The Safe Keeper,” Sufi poet, proverbs on walls
of
people’s homes, antinomian, violator
of Sharīah law, “The
Divan of Hafez,”
ghazels, amatory, odes of pain and
loss,
puns, ihām,
wrote “Come, O wine-pourer!
circulate a cup and pass it; easy
at first,
but soon difficulties occur.” “A day of
silence
can be a pilgrimage in itself.”85
According
to Zoroastrian scripture,86
falcon symbol, “The Faravahar,”
“Shahnameh,” and
quatrain eighteen
of “Rubáiyát” by Omar Khayyám,
the
fourth Shah, Jamshid or Yima or Jam,
invented music and wine.
He divided the people
into priests, kātouzians,
warriors, neysārians,
farmers,
nasoudians,
and artisans, hotokhoshians.
It
is said Bahrám, the great hunter and wild ass,
stomped over his
head, but could not wake him.
Dariush Safvat, a master Persian
musician
and law teacher, promoted our traditional music
as
an ethnomusicologist. As intellectuals,
my parents enjoyed his
recordings.
I felt little during his performances.
My
breakthrough in music came when father
heard Igor Stravinsky’s
“The Rite of Spring”
at a nuclear research conference in
Moscow,
and brought the music home to play for me.
I could
feel the harmony. So, he soon added,
to my delight, Pyotr
Tchaikovsky’ opera
“Eugene Onegin,” the libretto of
Alexander Pushkin.
It has been shown that musical preference
for pitch and timbre is a predictor of care and fairness,
and
sentiment and emotional content predict degrees
of loyalty,
authority, and purity.87
It seems music and morality are intertwined.
I
was not always deaf. Around the age of two
I contracted a
bacterial infection,
streptococcus pneumoniae, they tell
me,
which led to spinal meningitis.88
Over two percent
of Iranian children get it.89
Before you think me
an invalid or handicapped, I am a
traceur,
practicing
parkour where ever I can.
I always liked to free-run to relieve
stress,
in Tehran’s Eftekharan, Sokhandan, and Rose Parks,
but
I find joy in traversing urban obstacles
in the larger Tavalod
Park, with acquaintances.
In no time, the day’s frustrations
melt away.
Jesus
healed a deaf man,90
and said of a healed blind man,
he nor his parents had sinned,
but was made blind
for God’s glory in the healing.91
He balanced
grace and truth,92
and so instructed
a healed lame man to go and sin no
more.93
Biblically,
some disabilities are a Divine curse,
and so those accursed
cannot be priests,94
and are not to enter some homes.95
Historically, people with disabilities
were subject to
sedation, beatings, and murder.
Plato and Aristotle sanctioned
their murder
for economic reasons. There was a belief
the
body and soul were connected,
and so disabilities were always
God’s punishment
for sin. In the 1540’s, a Spanish monk,
Pedro Ponce de Leόn taught deaf people,
and other
Christians began teaching
the blind how to communicate.
John
Milton wrote “On His Blindness,”
those who best bear God’s
mild yoke
serve Him best. Today, Islam regards disabilities
as
taboo, subjects to be ignored,96
theologically
cumbersome. Man proposes,
but God disposes.97
The
family, amookhtan,
teaching, routine
on weekends was Saturdays were to be
a
sort of mother’s day for communicating
about literature,
farsiyyat,
including philology,
love of learning, only in English.
Sundays were father’s day
to discuss physics and
political theory, ashya’,
science,
the knowledge of things,
in a theological context, in
Russian.
The rest of the week: religious texts,
mathematics,
history, and current events
were acceptable topics. My internal
dialogue
is of pictures of my parent’s lips moving
to the
words of their teachings,
a diffusion of light and science,
efazeh,
as
well as seeing the letters of words.
The inner voice, a
monologue, helps
in
controlling behavior, to think through
something before acting
on it. This
develops a sense of self and rehearses
events
for improving memory.98
Sa’di
chose not to speak to avoid
using bad words with good words.99
Personally, I identify with Tolensis’ thought
“I have
sought everywhere for peace,
but I have found it not, save in
nooks
and in books.”100
As a child, an offspring,
owlad,
I studied my father’s
and mother’s grad school books for
years,
to learn, amookhtan,
to tame, amookkteh,
and
recently spent a lot of time
at UT’s Central Library making me
appreciate,
all the more, the last shah’s father,
Reza
Shah Pahlavi, efforts
to modernize UT.
Since
the Muslim revolution in 1979,
when the Shah had protesting UT
students killed
at its gates, there has been a national Guidance
Patrol,
Gasht-e
Ershad,
to enforce Sharia Law.
At times, they have been expected to
report
to the Supreme Leader or the judicial
supervisor.101
Maistre
declared every nation gets the government
they deserve,102
Thomas Jefferson echoed that sentiment.
Marcus Cicero reasoned,
idiomatically,
a nation cannot survive treason,
and the
first duty of man is to seek
and investigate truth. UT student
protests continue,
except they now resist Muslim authority;
not
knowing “if you strike a king, you must kill him.”103
Beginning
with Eskandar, Alexander the Great,
the “Shahnameh” refers
to Azadeh, free and noble,
a slave girl loved by a prince, a
sage concluding
a good man who serves a worthless king
is
the most desperate. The Hebrew King Solomon
noted servants are
not to rule over princes.104
The
poor man that oppresses is like a sweeping rain
that leaves no
food.105
When the wicked rule,
the people mourn,106
and go into hiding.107
King
David said, let his prayer be sin,
his days few, let another
take his office,
let his children be fatherless, and beg,
and
make his wife a widow.108
Most
weeks Father worked at nuclear research
and reactor sites around
Tehran. He was
a factotum at Fordow, an underground
uranium
enrichment plant, with cascades,
centrifuges, pneumatic rabbit
tubes,
beam tubes, and a graphite thermo column
with
gravity flow cooling. Mother and I
were looking forward to his
return one Friday.
As usual, we waited after her last class
at
UT to greet him, giving little attention
to the usual throng of
disgruntled students
talking loudly about something or another.
When
father arrived, we had barely noticed
the infusion of the Moral
Police in their keffiyeh,
elementary
students forced to wear, once
a Persian dastmaal
yazdi
of the Yazd,
sand-ridden plain. Before we had realized
the
unique seriousness, their pushing
of the students, began growing
in intensity.
Possibly thinking my adult parents
were the
instigators, they focused on us.
As my pedar,
father, and my mádar,
mother,
attempted to reason with the uneducated officials,
with high D factors,109
sociopaths with empathy
only for their inner circle, words of
lying
in wait for the blood of others,110
they began beating them in the head with batons.
I can
read lips, some better than others,
but even if I could not read
lips, my deafness
could not obscure their shouting ajam,
mumblers,111
and
kafir,
infidels. When my parents
were quickly knocked to the ground,
the juddin112
enforcers started kicking and stomping
my unconscious parents in
the head.
I was helpless and witnessed the life leave their
eyes.
A rain of photons impinged on my retinas.
They took
their prescribed path
from my eyeballs, through regions
of
my brain, ending with higher processing,
in
the cortex, the outermost shell
of my wrinkled brain. I was
aware
of the neuron activation, and could never
unsee
today, despite time’s masking ability.
I
knew an investigation would follow,
and I would be quickly
rounded up,
by those “moral” police, resulting in a long
prison sentence,
and likely death. Such people do not
like
loose ends to their actions. Too much backlash.
They
sit in judgement, but not on white asses.
They that sit on rich
carpets,
and ride white asses sing.113
The
scepter, the staff, of God’s kingdom
is a right scepter; His
throne is for ever and ever.114
The
scorner will be punished.115
After
returning home,
and making hurried funeral arrangements
with
my parent’s friends,
at their insistence, I collected food
and
other items in a schoolbook backpack,
and set out to head north
to the mountains,
south of the Caspian Sea.
It will
become clearer later, but, I wished
the circumstances would have
been,
at that time, such that I could have sang,
with the
utmost conviction, acapella,
both in my inner voice and
aloud,
the lyrics to “Wayfaring Stranger,”
--I’m just
a poor wayfaring stranger,
I’m traveling through this world
below;116
there
is no sickness, toil, nor danger,
in that bright world to which
I go.
I’m going there to see my father,
I’m going there
to see my mother;
I’m just a going over Jordon,
I’m
just a going over home.
I’m going there to meet my Savior,
who
shed for me His precious blood;
I’m
just a going over Jordon,
I’m just a going over home.-- 117
Act
2. Inner Inhinā118
Esh-iya119
and I have called daily on Thee,
Job120
and I have stretched out our hands to Thee,
Will You perform
wonders for the dead?
Will the dead rise and praise Thee?
Will
Your wonders be known in the dark,
And Thy righteousness in the
land of forgetfulness?
O LORD, why do You reject my soul?
Why
do You hide Your face
From me, as You did with David?121
--From
Psalm 88:9, 10, 12, 14; by Heman, a son of Qārūn.
I
figured I had to get to Rasht
on the coast of the Caspian
Sea;
an ancient city from 682 A.D.
A major trade center,
historically, Russian
controlled till 1937, with the Bandar-e
Anzali sea port,
between Caucasia and Iran, speaking
Gilaki,
rebuilt from the 1714 earthquake,
having the
University of Gilan in 1974.
The quickest route would be the
Chalus road,
called 59, then to Rasht on road 22,
avoiding
the longer road 77, the Haraz road.
The Chalus road goes
through
the Alborz Mountain Range,
wrote of in the
Zoroastrian text, “Avesta,”
and in the “Shahnameh.” The
highest peak
is Mount Damavand. There is a tourist
resort,
Masouleh, in the mountains. They are humid,
temperate,
a rainforest, with brown trout
in the streams, junipers on the
slopes,
with alpine grasses. But there are also vipers.
The
Caspian Tiger122
is no longer there
due to overhunting Russian elites.
I
hoped to see a white and green Snowy Owl,123
or
maybe a gray Caspian Snowcock.124
Now
the Mazandaran region,125
Persian rice capital, in the “Shahnameh,”
the
mountains were known as Tabaristan,
the Tapurians were deported
there, from Parthia,
by Phraates I, a Zoroastrian king.126
Under the caliphate, Amul was the chief city,
on the Haraz
river bank, manufacturing silk,
speaking Mazandarani, with
Farsi
from the south, resisting Muslim rule
at times; Shia
Twelver theocracy;127
Madhi,
twelfth Iman hiding in a well
at Jamkaran, Mosque, out skirts of
Qom,
south of Tehran, like being asleep or on a long
journey,128
ghameh
zani,
self-flagellation not helpful.
With
the hundreds of miles ahead,
I occupied my mind with thoughts
of
the periodic table of mathematical shapes.
Gino Fano varieties,
categorizing three,
four, and five dimensional
shapes.
Augmented by AI, it seems atomic shapes
could be
created, repeated. Then, like a light,
I thought of my
shenasnameh,
the writ of identity,
the booklet issued at my birth,
and
my national identity card, the smart card,
with my photo and
assigned number,
issued at age fifteen, with the smart chip.
The
police that murdered my parents
were not mistaken. They meant
to do
what they did; acting on facial recognition
from ID
cards. Biometric face data
has been used by the moral police
to identify and prosecute women
violating
hijab laws.129
The military and police
use Chinese AI130
to identify and prosecute
protesters, as the New York police
have used Clearview AI; the Ukrainians
are also using
this tool against Russian soldiers.131
AI
is part of the tech ecosystem, my father
learned by his
insatiably appetite for western news
consumed during his trips
to Russia.
AI is routinely used without thought
of
deception learned by AI platforms,
defined as the systematic
inducement
of false beliefs in a pursuit of other than
a
truthful outcome, which is known
to regularly take place.132
My parents
were targeted. I was certain.
But, for what
reason? Was it religious?
Was it the jealously of some
official,
or so-called friend? Who knows?
This is the
Muslim modus
operandi,
“Measure
for Measure,”133
“Bleak House,”134
“The
Brothers Karamazov,”135
all in one,
Kafka’s Josef K.,136
covering up acts, staged,
to satisfy their never-ending lust
for blood—innocent blood—my parents were
loyal
Persians.
From
the atheistic evolutionary model,
the Muslim reciprocity model
rewards
for cooperation and punishes group members
regarding
adherence to, or not, of their norms.
Strong reciprocators,
the police,
punish violators, yet get less payoff,
while
selfish agents violate and do not punish
yet get rewarded, and
the purely cooperative
are never punished.137
Speaking from experience,
Solzhenitsyn wrote when a police
state arrests you,
like a lamb you bleat, “Me? What for?”
When
you are on their list,
the only option is to take what you
can
and flee!138
And so, I was glad I did.
And was, the more thankful for a
truck ride
to rest my blistered feet. It was a road repair
vehicle,
whose driver motioned for me to get in the back,
and
by providence was going to the mountains.
The solitary worker in
the back spoke to me,
having trouble reading his lips,
I
showed him my bracelet with the healing Simurgh,139
the
flying creature in the “Shahnameh,”
a gift from my parents
for Iranians,
as I also wore a medical alert necklace
with
the caduceus symbol, two snakes
wrapped around a staff with two
wings atop,
for non-Iranians, Greek kērux,
herald.
Pointing to the etching of “deaf’ on my bracelet,
I
explained, “I am deaf.” He was able to understand
my words
made monotone with the lack of hearing
feedback, common in
deafness.
Zeyf:
Salám.140
We are going as far as the Kandovan tunnel.
The 1939 tunnel
needs some emergency repairs.
Bedel:
Baleh.141
Okay.
Zeyf:
Would I be far off base to think
someone is looking for you?
Bedel:
Is it that obvious?
Zeyf:
It is not difficult to figure a young man,
like yourself, deaf
and all, getting a ride to the mountains
by yourself, must be
running from something very serious.
Bedel:
My parents…
Zeyf:
Wipe your tears son. Say no more.
I think I can connect the
cursive dots.
The signature passes something
that has
gone through a thing,
and it turns into things past.
The
one who whips signs the back
of the one who is whipped.
The
whip is not the signature
of the event. It’s the summoning
of
the past, a signature on the back
that carries someone for
someone else.142
Cursed be he who takes a reward
for slaying the
innocent.143
God hates
hands
that shed innocent blood.144
Land that takes innocent blood is cursed,145
you
know.
Bedel:
So I hear.
Zeyf:
Figuratively? You speak well for a deaf person,
I must say.
And, given your situation, I trust the enemy
of our enemy is a
friend.
Bedel:
Circle of kings, Rajamandala.146
In
Heider’s balance theory, one’s enemy’s friends
will tend
to become one’s enemy,
as one’s enemy’s enemies will tend
to become
one’s friend.147
Zeyf:
Jesus put it that to not be against Him
is to be for Him.148
I see you are also an educated young man,
basho-oor,149
and am right to trust you. Going forward,
it would probably be
best to speak in generalities,
as often as possible.
Bedel:
I understand.
Zeyf:
The
border guards know us,
and usually motion us through the check
points.
There are no guards on the other side of the tunnel,
but
it would be prudent to keep your guard up
until you get to
Chalus, and even better Rasht…
if that is your destination.
People there
are less zealous, if you know what I mean.
Bedel:
I think I do. Thanks.
Zeyf:
Just between you and me,
have you had the dream yet?
Bedel:
I don’t know.
Zeyf:
You haven’t or you would know all right.
It started with my
neighbors, then my wife.
They changed overnight into…well,
loving,
and caring people. I asked them
why the change,
and they secretly confessed
to having become Christians,
the
death penalty under Muslim justice,
as you know by now.
We
had barely heard of Christ Jesus.
Yes, He is in the Qur’an as
a prophet,
yet in their sleep He came to them
as the Son of
God,
sometimes with St Andrew,
the dreams are different,
but have the same theme150
explaining
there are two paths:
one leads upward to the His bejeweled
city
with streets of gold, and the other
leads downward to
the place of burning sulfur,
forever separated from Him.
The
Messiah made the way to go upward.
Since then, I can hardly wait
to get to work
most mornings. I find myself singing
hymns,
Christians tunes I’ve learned under my breath,
and
talking to people like you,
when I have the opportunity.
The
driver up there is a childhood friend,
he got me this
engineering job,
but would not bat an eye to turn me over
to
authorities to be killed, if he knew
what I have told you.
Bedel:
How do you get by the salah,
the five daily prayers, especially the Zuhr,
noon prayer, facing Kaaba, the cube,
the mosque in Mecca,
where extreme growth
of research papers, leading the world,
has
suspiciously increased?151
Zeyf:
As you must know, among
the many other things you seem to
know,
as do many, many people under the threat
of death in
Muslim countries, I do pray alright,
but I am making a Naaman
prayer,152
praying
to Yahweh. I Know. I Know.
This is a little hard to take in
all at once.
Bedel:
I was raised by a scientist, by academics,
and put little stock
in prayer or dreams
for that matter, but do appreciate the
information.
Sincerely, I do.
Quiet
for the next hour of the ride,
Zeyf spoke to me sternly as the
truck came to a stop.
Zeyf:
Young man, we are here.
Put my lunch in your backpack.
Bedel:
I can’t…I shouldn’t.
Zeyf:
I’ve got a feeling
you will need it more than me.
Quick,
put some dust on your face
and follow me. Act like a worker;
do not speak. Go through the tunnel,
and when no one is
looking
get off the road, and stay off the road,
until you
get to a town by the Caspian Sea.
I have heard there are many
people
that have had dreams there.
They are brave, and
will help you.
Remember, you can trust people
that have had
the dream.
Grieve not for the dead alone,
but weep for the
voiceless.153
Bedel:
Thank you for everything.
Zeyf:
Go, go, pesar154
and no talking.
Surprisingly,
I met little traffic
walking down the mountain,
possibly
due to the tunnel construction.
Signs were posted all over
warning of delays.
It was getting dusk when I saw city lights
below.
I could see the vast Mazandaran Sea,
a closed
basin, endorheic basin, the Caspian Sea
has its realms of sand,
without the sterile
perquisite, no Caspian could be.155
I determined the lights in the foreground
must be of
Chalus. My body was aching,
so I decided to rest for the
night
beside a clear stream. I ate several
of mother’s
koloocheh,
cinnamon nut cookies
stuffed with coconut. It would been
good
to have had hot tea with the treat.
It may have been
the tonic to lift
my sinking spirit. I began to think
“Darkness
was my closest friend.”156
I
even addressed it aloud, “Hello darkness,
my old friend,” I
said like a grownup.
Melodic contour of paired lines, broken
cords,
arpeggio,
of flashing lights, warnings
of neon gods.157
I wanted to be taken
down to Paradise City, and get
my
virgins, houris,
well grown,
hūrust,
with beautiful eyes, decorated
with sormeh,
black eyeliner simultaneously
matching and mockingly
contrasting
with the hijab,
powder ground smooth
from stones, first used in Egypt,
then
India, kajal,
and Nigeria, tiro,
and I understand in Japan, mebari.
In the tale of “Soleimani’s sormeh”
the powder
allows for the discovery
of world secrets. Mohammed used it,
he said, for health. I just wanted to go
where the grass
was greener
and the girls are pretty. I pleaded
to be
taken home, wondering why
I was not taken home. I wanted to go.
“Oh,” I pleaded, “won’t You please
take me home.”
I wanted to see
how good it can be.158
Hafez’s proverb asked, “What do sad people
have in
common? It seems they have all built
a shrine, a shrine to the
past, and often
go there, and do a strange wail and
worship.
What is the beginning of happiness?
It is to stop
being so religious like that.”
Still, the sorrow made me
the
more tired. A goor
looking
over the goats in his charge,
was grazing in the
nearby field.
The scene was mesmerizing,
and was the
last thing
I remember before falling
into a deep sleep,
almost a trance.
Almost
immediately, I dreamed vividly
of a Tehran blue donkey,
standing
on the sandy sea coast, under a red sky.159
(The
20” x 16” oil and acrylic on canvas painting by Dallas F. Bell
Jr. is titled The
Jadu Goor by the Caspian Sea.)
A
wild ass, equus
asinus asinus,
or
equus africanus asinus,160
a domesticated equine used in Sumeria,
Kuwait, 2,600 B.C.
The male is
a jack ass and the female is a jenny
who births
foals, lacking antibody protection,
susceptible to viral
pneumonia, fatal.161
Males
may mate with female horses,
mares, producing mules. Male
horses,
stallions, may mate with a jenny
producing a
henny.162
A zebra cross
is a zonkey, zebroid, zebrass, or zebra mule.
In
the “Bundahishn,” kar
darāzgāš
were
created
from the seed
of a primordial ox, in the family
of horses
and mules. Donkeys
are not to be yoked to an ox.163
In
the “Šāh-nāma,” Hūšang
domesticated them. Tahmūrat
mated
horses with donkeys to breed mules;
lawful for
Muslims. White donkeys
are favored by biblical and Muslim
tradition,
which considers their flesh and milk
to be an
antidote for poison and good
for treating diseases. In the
Samarian famine164
an
unclean165
donkey was eaten,
as well as a baby.166
Just
as those thoughts came to mind,
the cyan jack ass spoke to me.
Jadu:
How
do you know such things?
Bedel:
They are in my memory somewhere,
I guess. You speak English?
Jadu:
I speak whatever you speak.
“Just ask the donkey in me to
speak
to the donkey in you.”167
Bedel:
Aren’t wild donkeys against everyone,168
known
for their stubbornness,169
sniffing
the wind, being promiscuous.
Jadu:
Don’t forget when in estrous,
jennies cannot be denied?170
Bedel:
Is
this, whatever this is,
all about
The
Donkey’s Party, Hezb-e
Karān,
in
Kermanshah?171
Your newspaper
was the Karnáma. Your slogan was oxen
and
donkeys that carry loads, are better than
people that torment
their fellows.
“Donkeys of the world unite?” you
shouted,
“Create a world in which donkeys can live
in
comfort. Support the creation of the Bank of Hay…
Create an
atmosphere in which every donkey
can freely bray.”
Jadu:
Nah.172
I am a practitioner of theology,
mojtahed,
as you will soon see.
Bedel:
I have been taught to respect rebuke
more than flattery.173
Jadu:
Then maybe we can find harmony.
You should not just give
thanks
that you do not ride on a donkey, but you
are not a
donkey on which men ride.
Bedel:
That is from Sa’di’s “Bustan,”
Garden or Orchard.174
Are you just going
to regurgitate things I already know?
Suddenly,
I heard a voice, but could not see anyone.
Jadu
and I were both alarmed.
Esh-iya:
I am Esh-iya or Isaiah,
Hebrew, Yahweh is salvation,
since
we are speaking in English.
Jadu will have no choice
but
spew out ingested dogma.
Bedel:
I perceive you are a prophetic voice.
Esh-iya:
I have been sent.
Jadu:
I know you in Arabic, as Isha’yā,
in the Qur’an as Ishāq.
A noble messenger,
receiving divine revelation, a prophet
in
the prayer salawat,“Dalail
al-Khayrat.”
The “al-Tabari”175
speaks of you. You prophesied
of the coming Jesus, Isa,
rider of the donkey,
and the coming of Muhammed, rider of the
camel,176
the
second son of Ishmael in Arabia,
the servant of Kedar in chapter
42, verse 11.
Esh-iya:
I am concerned when I am spoken well of
by the likes of you, so
did your fathers
to false prophets,177
as have other fathers.
Moses, Pentateuch author, was the
greatest prophet
of the past, the present, and the future,
as
he knew God face-to-face,178
until
John the Baptist, the voice
of one crying out in the wilderness
who made the way for the Messiah,179
Jesus
called him the greatest prophet
born of a woman, as he was
filled
with the Holy Ghost in his mother’s womb.180
Jesus,
born in a manger, rode a donkey,
from the Mount of Olives, in
His triumphant entry
into Jerusalem, a “humble entry,”181
as prophesied,
on Palm Sunday, two days before His crucifixion.
That donkey knew his Master’s manger; happy is he
who
lets the donkey run free.182
Abraham rode
a donkey to take his son, Isaac, for
sacrifice.183
Joseph’s
brothers used donkeys to haul
sustaining grain.184
The donkey is to be rested
on the Sabbath,185
and its first foal
is to be redeemed with a lamb.186
Jesus’,
the Lamb of God, next entry
will be on a white horse,187
pure, faithful,
and true,188
with angels, speaking judgement,189
and
ruling with an iron rod;190
to be attempted by anti-Christ
prior to that time.191
The horse is prepared
for the day of battle, but safety is of
the Lord.192
I
have never referred to the Arab, Muhammed.
The servant in
verses 1-7, Jesus, was not from Kedar,
or Arabia. This is a
simple example of the peoples
of the world, in verse 10, who
should all praise God.
Those that prophecy of the past or the
future,
different from Moses and the prophets
are false
prophets.
Bedel:
I was led to expect Andreas, or even Jesus.
Esh-iya:
I
am here for you because I said, “Send me!”193
to
warn not all talking asses, are as Balaam’s,194
who
are seeking your best interest.
You will know I am who I say I
am
when you are revealed things you’ve never studied.
Let’s
begin by taking off your mental shoes
because you are on holy
ground.195
Jadu:
That is from what Moses was told.
The “al-Tabari,”
Quar’anic exegesis, tafsir,
records
the shoes were donkey skin.196
Moses
told God he did not take a single donkey
from his people.197
Esh-iya:
That meant Moses did not accept
Israeli things, and neither
should God be expected
to accept their sacrifices.
Jadu:
In the seventh sūrah,
chapter,
of the Qur’an, the “al-Isra,” the hadith,
saying
of Muhammed, say he rode
his flying al-buraq,
half man and half ass,
to heaven in a night journey, Isra’
Mi’Raj,
and visited Allah to reduce the number
of daily
prayers from fifty times a day.
He reduced them to five times
a day.
Esh-iya:
Could the infinite God
be deterred from His holy decrees
by
a man riding a mythical half ass?
Bedel:
He could not. I think Jadu
is a donkey in a Lion’s
skin—pretending
he is more than he is.198
The tale,
“Peau
d’Âne,”199
is of a king
whose donkey droppings are gold,
as explained
by a lilac fairy.
The weaver, Nick Bottom, had his head
in
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”200
transformed
into a donkey by Puck,
Robin Goodfellow, a fairy, a
jester,
pulling pranks. In Apuleius’
“The Golden
Asse,”201
Lucius
is turned into a donkey. Sancho Panza
rode a
donkey named Dapple,
he described as a “child of his bowels.”202
Jadu:
Remember the Israeli King Saul,
could not even find his
asses...203
Esh-iya:
And Samson killed thousands
of Philistines with the new
jawbone
of an ass at Ramath-lehi,204
and drank from it.205
Jadu:
He is sleeping, he is awake, suddenly
he paints, he takes a
church and paints
with a church, and it’s suddenly
your
portrait. There are tubs of blood,
newborn babies are washed
there, Christ
is him, he spent his childhood on the cross,
he
commits suicide every day,
he is awake, he is sleeping now.206
Esh-iya:
Pursuing a poet then the devil went.
The poet starred at the
sea as if it were dead.
For there the sea powdered the edge of
the bay.
But Jesus, with fire shinning behind His head,
came
to climb up the black crags, bearing
the cross. The poet
stretched out his arms
towards the Savior, and everything
vanished:
the somber night and the beasts. The poet
followed
God for his happiness.207
Jadu:
Christs of another faith, another shape,
subordinate Christs of
uncertain hopes.
The sun now only a half-severed head.208
Go
without a hat like a poor clew
who braved the desert heat,
sit
on the hotel balcony and watch
your ships.209
Esh-iya:
In the warm air of the ceiling,
the footlights of dreams are
illuminated.
In the wind from the desert, the needles bend
and
your hour is past.210
Jadu:
Cubisme
litēraire.211
The apparition
of these faces in the crowd; petals on a
wet,
black bough.212
Bedel:
Terrafirma-bound happiness, walks the earth,
forcible tamed and
bridled, harnessed,
with words that stomp around like
horses,
cannot fly.213
Cubes, cubes, cubes,
cubes, high, low, and higher, billions
of
things on things, flowing timeless,
endless, on, on, on, and
on.214
What
is the juz’u
‘l-ka’b,
cube root?
Jadu:
The lowest part, the jadhr,
square root.
Esh-iya:
Felix Hausdorff’s Dimension, HD,
measures roughness, or the
fractal dimension.
The HD of a single point is zero,
of a
line segment is one, of a square is two,
of a cube is three.
The square is a 2D closed shape,
with four equal sides and four
vertices.
A cube is a 3D solid object bounded
by six square
faces, with three meeting
at each vertex. The sets of points
that define
a smooth shape, or a shape with small numbers
of
borders, the HD is an integer agreeing
with the usual sense of
dimension—
the topological dimension. Countable sets
have
an HD of zero. The set is finite,
or can be made into
one-to-one correspondence,
with the set on natural numbers.
Bedel:
The fractal dimension, Koch’s215
snowflake,
triangle of three Koch curves, is non-trivial,
seen
through “naïve intuition.”
Esh-iya:
The Kochcube begins with a unit square;
add to each side a
square with squares,
one-third the previous
iteration—geometric
progressions. The perimeter diverges
to
infinity. The finite area is bounded
by an infinite fractal
curve, both square cubes
and triangle snowflakes.
Bedel:
Chance is the likely mystery
of cosmic comprehensibility.
Esh-iya:
Kepler knew science itself can’t be explained
within the
framework of scientific materialism.
The human rationality that
fuels natural sciences
can’t exist with naturalistic human
neurons;
a tripartite harmony of archetype, copy and
image,
producing natural theology.216
Bedel:
Learning is triangular: triangles, triangles,
triangles, and
triangles. Science is cubism,
we can only see shapes, colors,
black edges,
and smooth connections. Writing is
cubism,
pretending otherwise is a lie. “To a
chemist,”
Chekhov wrote, “nothing on earth is unclean.
A
writer must be objective as a chemist,
evil impulses are as
much a part of life
as the good ones.”217
Esh-iya:
Theology is cubism of the infinite,
except the biblical God is
a perfect symmetrical
Being of beauty.
Bedel:
Picasso demonstrated cubism is analytical,
fragments,
overlapping planes, and is also synthetic,
with simple shapes,
bright colors, and collages.
Esh-iya:
Okay. The analytical is like a medical examiner
performing an
autopsy, removing organs, as locusts
that have no king,218
and is naturally followed
by the synthetic, which looks at the
punctilious,
social codes, showing great detail,
or correct
behavior.219
Let’s look
at the analytical first, which must
reduce
everything to its basic components.
Like unwilled
fading pixels on the image
of neurological memory over time,
objectification is the willful deconstruction
of a system
into fractals from ignorance or contempt.
Bedel:
The
married Gurov could not forget
the average looking Anna
Sergeevna
walking her dog. The memories of her
burned
brighter and followed him
like a shadow.220
Esh-iya:
Objectification
to be sure.
That violence of the disassemble of a
system,221
human,
computer, or ideological
evokes the instinct that this is a bad
thing,
needing the assurance of facilitators,
false
theologians, corrupt prophets,
to make a synthetic creation, a
bricolage,222
Mary Shelley’s mutant Frankenstein,223
a
dysfunctional system, a malady.
(The
20” x 16” acrylic on canvas painting by Dallas F. Bell Jr. is
titled The
Oshtolom224
of Objectification.225)
Jadu:
Muhammed was hanīf.
A renunciate,
renouncing the idolatry of polytheism.
He
was a true believer of monotheism,
maintaining the pure
patriarchy of Abraham.
He was orthodox.
Esh-iya:
Orthodox Muslims use the Qur’an
for their polemic authority,
as orthodox Hindu’s use
the Santana Dharma, and orthodox Jews
use
the Torah. Orthodox Buddhists of the Theravada
school
practice Vinaya, and orthodox atheists
believe they are the
highest power whose desires
are unchecked by any supernatural
creator intellect
as orthodox Satanists use LaVey’s Satanic
Bible
for their dogma and philosophy to justify
indulgences,
revenge, and celebrating breaking
the Ten Commandments and the
Golden Rule.226
Orthodox
Christians have the Bible
as their apologetic authority.
Bedel:
It
is believed Shakespeare injected himself
into your King James
Version, KJV, scripture, Psalms 46,
I believe, published in 1611
when Shakespeare was 46
years old. Verse 3 from the top, has
the word “shake,”
and in the third verse from the bottom,
9,
has the word “spear.”
Esh-iya:
There
are many recent attempts to misdirect
biblical terms, such as
changing willful,
sinful covetousness227
to a natural mimetic desire,
where society assigns a value to
an object,228
which leads to a rivalry, triggering a scapegoat
mechanism;
a person or group to be eliminated
for the sake of
reestablishing societal order.229
There
are also attempts to discredit the whole Bible,
such as
publishing new versions that have no
accompanying exhaustive
concordance to determine
the original words; people will not
risk or die for
something they believe is false.
Schleiermacher
wrote of polemics, what is wrong with other
religions,
and apologetics, what is right with my religion.230
The
son of a reformed pastor, Schleiermacher
rejected Jesus, as the
Son of God
whose death provided for a vicarious
eternal
atonement.231
We must use critical thinking
to examine ideas. Taking your
example,232
we may begin with the words râ’ash,
Hebrew for shake or tremble,
and chănîyth,
Hebrew for spear or lance.
The 1611 publishing of the KJV
began in 1604.
Psalm 46 is a version of Myles Coverdale’s
1535 text,
and the 1599 Geneva Bible, Shakespeare himself
used.
The Psalm was written before Shakespeare was born.
He
knew little Latin, and almost no Greek or Hebrew,
and zero
Aramaic. He could not have known
the KJV date of publication to
make it relevant.
This is why secular sources of
scholarship
claim Shakespeare had nothing to do with the
KJV
translation.233
An analytical approach to pure theology
focuses on common
doctrine, especially
of God’s attributes. They begin with His
infinity,
His oneness, and His sovereignty; immediately,
weeding
out other gods. Then a synthetic approach
compares and
separates the remaining beliefs
into heterodoxy, especially
God’s redemptive plan.
Bedel:
Schopenhauer234
said love contains redemption,
and love is a “voluptuous
illusion.”
Jadu:
Yes. Charles Darwin used such ideas
for his biological
systems, and Karl Marx
for his murdering regime.
Esh-iya:
Schopenhauer also said eternal justice
“rules not the state
but the world, is not dependent
upon human institutions, is not
subject to chance
and deception, is not uncertain, wavering, and
erring,
but infallible, fixed and sure.” “The Physics
of
Immortality”235
scientifically proves
the existence of God, and the physical
resurrection
of dead humans, while atheists are relegated to
material
physical principles.236
The God-breathed Bible,
theopneustos,237
teaches man was made
in God’s image and sin turns man into an
animal,
that rages against God, they call a machine.
They
say sleep now in the fire for it’s the end
of history, it’s
caged and frozen still, the cost
of their desires.238
Bedel:
“The
life of the law has not been logic.
It has been experience.”239
Esh-iya:
If the law is not Divine, it is arbitrary,
solely derived from
experience. If it is Divine
it is absolute, and logical, giving
humans
inalienable rights, from God, not to be infringed
upon.
The first is to not be murdered or enslaved.
That
requires the ability to defend one’s self.
The boundaries of
self-defense are kept in check
by criminal and civil remedies.
Kid Curry, born
Harvey Logan, killed U.S. lawman George
Scarborogh,
in 1900, who had captured Bronco Bill, born
William
Walters, in 1898, also killed lawman
John Selman, in 1896, who
killed John Wesley Hardin
in 1895. Kid Curry had partnered with
Butch Cassidy,
Robert Parker, who William Pinkerton observed as
being,
“the only criminal I know of who has not one
single
redeeming feature.” They were partnered
with The Sundance
Kid, Harry Longabaugh,
forming the Wild Bunch gang. On 13
December, 1901,
Curry murdered two Knoxville, Tennessee,
policeman
in a poolhall near Central Avenue. He was captured
two days later near Jefferson City, Tennessee, and
escaped.
For whatever reason, he returned to Knoxville
in 1902, was
recaptured and sentenced to a twenty-year
jail term, and escaped
again in 1903. Rather than be
recaptured in Colorado, he killed
himself in 1904.240
The next individual right is of free speech.
Like all
Divine rights, it requires Christian morals,
as not taking God’s
name in vain.241
Jadu:
Islam has blasphemy laws too.
Esh-iya:
They are enforced by a few to protect
the self-interest of the
elite class; as was with the Iraqi
Saddam Hussein and his sons,
before they were dealt
earthly justice for their crimes.
Causing harm
by lying can be remedied by civil slander
judgements,
where the threshold is a rational person should
and
could not have known the facts, thus preventing
a defense of
ignorance. Slander causing
property damage or death would also
have
criminal fines and confinement.
Bedel:
Holmes said “free speech would not
protect a man in falsely
shouting fire in a theatre.”242
Esh-iya:
That slippery slope could be, and would be
eventually wrongly
applied to any speech determined
by the elite to cause panic,
including self-defense warnings
or religious speech they do not
like. Speech that gives aid
and comfort to enemies in time of
war, would, obviously,
have criminal remedies for the treasonous
act. Divine
free speech would not include vulgarities,
speaking evil of dignities.243
Bedel:
Where is the dignity, afrang,
in my being deaf?
Esh-iya:
God’s compassion does not allow
for the cursing of the
physically deaf,244
and curses he that makes the physically blind
to wander
out of the way,245
or puts
a stumbling block before them. God also
has
remedies for His compassion
on the spiritually deaf and
blind.246
Human
dignity opposes utilitarianism,
and implies an elevation of
humans above
being mere objects.247
Another individual freedom
is of the worship of the only true
God, which prevents
allowing for other gods, or idols. All the
gods of nations
are idols, the Lord made the heavens.248
He created
the universe in six days, and from day one He was
the
light, on day four He created the stars, and
four thousand years
later Christ became Jesus,
the light of the world; in the
six-thousand year
world history, a day is as a thousand
years.
The Son of God was not added to
by becoming Jesus,
was not subtracted from
before being Jesus, nor is divided
by
being Christ Jesus, God-man;
He eternally existed
Theanthropically
in Elohim’s intellect before His
certain
material manifestation at the predestined time.
He,
and He alone, is to be worshipped and served.249
As
lust, shahvat-ameez,
the carnal, deconstructs
another person to create a sexual
Frankenstein,250
pride, ikhtiyat,
is not walking with dignity. It is
strutting with pomp. It is
vanity, badodam,
deconstructing one’s self to create a Frankenstein
to
worship.251
Bedel:
What if these fractal acts are done in a state
of being
ignorant, barnas?
Esh-iya:
Pride, like modesty or humility, bī-kibrī,
is
an observable reality that exists regardless
of the awareness of
mankind, which demands
Divine scrutiny for punishment or reward.
The ultimate prideful act, the zenith of abomination,
is
to think a finite person could please the infinite God,
or grow
closer to Him, with finite human works.
With the trust of a
child,252
He must be accepted
by faith alone, which is followed by
works.253
Bedel:
Christian orthodoxy?
Esh-iya:
Muslim orthodoxy promotes murdering
one’s self and innocent
others, homicide bombings,
to earn Divine salvation,
contradicting one’s finite ability
to redeem one’s own soul;
in that salvation by works
of finite man, if it could possibly
be obtained, can be lost,
and is actually filthy rags, menstrual
cloths,254
before
an infinite Holy God—and is not earnable.
Jadu:
Blasphemy! Ekfar!
Bedel:
Can’t your god plead for himself?255
Can’t
you see from Esh-iya’s apologetics
that your polemic orthodoxy
is decomposing
in a Tower of Silence, a dakhma?256
It is dead before Esh-iya’s God
who does not need
defending. So be quiet!
Am I allowed to say that?
Esh-iya:
Without
righteous indignation,257
judgments
would be unstable and crimes
unchecked. Pesar,
this is a step toward truth.
Bedel:
Okay.
Esh-iya:
Orthodox,
Greek for the right opinion,
was first used by the Christian
church
around the fourth century. It opposed false
doctrine,
heterodoxy, synthetic theology, theological
cubism.
Heterodoxy may be different but not heretical.
The
church of Alexander in Egypt was founded
by Mark the apostle,
around 49 A.D. Alexandrian
Greek theology emphasized the divine
nature of Christ,
and the unity of His person. It is now the
Coptic,
Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church,
the
Greek Orthodox Church of Alexander,
the Eastern Orthodox
Church, and the Coptic
Catholic Church with communion with
Rome.
The apostle Andrew, founder of the church
on the
Black and Caspian Seas, the Russian
Orthodox Church, the
First-Called, martyred
brother of Simon Peter, the apostolic
successor
is the Patriarch of Constantinople. Andrew
was
far from the Shakespearian stereotypical,
dim witted, vain fool,
he called an ass-head,
knave, and gull, in the “Twelfth
Night,”
What You Will.258
“The Chronicle of Nester”
is “The Tale of Bygone Years,”
for Kievan Rus’.259
The
three fathers titled Theologians are
John the Apostle or
Revelator, writer of
the biblical book of Revelation, Gregory
of
Nazianzus’ doctrine of the trinity
in his poem “On God and
Man,” and
Symeon the New Theologian, writer of hymns,
and
on hesychasm, the divine quietness
of monks in prayer, as with
Gregory Palamas,
Greek monk, Archbishop of Thessalonica.
Bedel:
I am familiar with Tehran’s Greek
Orthodox Church of Saint
Mary,260
and
the Saint Nicolas Russian Orthodox Church.
Esh-iya:
The Monk Nicephorus founded the first
Russian parish in Persia
during the sixteenth century.
It was reestablished in the
1940’s.
Bedel:
I have heard their bells ringing.
Esh-iya:
From tenth century Russian tradition,
the bells are spiritual,
anointed with oil,
singing
icons, establishing the acoustic space.
They symbolize
proclaiming the Gospel.
(The
20” x 16” acrylic on canvas painting by Dallas F. Bell Jr. is
titled Always
Pointing North: Orthodoxy is Esteghamat.261)
Bedel:
The teachings of the founders?
Esh-iya:
The gospel of Christ Jesus alone.
On the Mount of
Transfiguration, the apostle Peter
became excited, and
proclaimed he would make
three tabernacles, tents, places to
worship God:
one would be for Jesus, one for “Saint”
Moses,
and one for “Saint” Elijah; Taoism,
Confucianism,
veneration prayer to the dead, stealing God’s
glory.
God immediately responded by removing Moses,
and
Elijah, and said “Listen to My Son, Jesus!”
Jesus’
disciples correctly fell on their faces,
terrified262
by God’s response to Peter’s idolatry.
Bedel:
Historically, at least in literature,
the Chinese “Hēian
Zhuàn,”
Epic of Darkness,263
describes
the beginning universe, the Great Flood,
the beginning of man,
and many rulers,
as with the Indian myth “Mahabharata,”
an
unstructured chaos by Vyāsa.264
Esh-iya:
The
Ethiopian “Kebra Nagast,”
The Glory of Kings, prose written
in Coptic,
then Ge’ez, a Semitic language, classical
Ethiopic,
official language of their orthodox church,
and
Catholic Church, used for extra biblical texts,
“The Ascension
of Isaiah,” including the martyrdom
of Isaiah, and Bible
events found in II Kings,
chapter 21. The prophesied messiah,
Kebra Nagast,
is a pastiche of legends, blended style and
substance.265
It
is 117 chapters of a debate between “318 Orthodox
Fathers,”
discussing Moses, the Queen of Sheba and King
Solomon,
the Christian conversion from Ethiopic paganism,
ending
with prophesy.
Bedel:
The
“Shahnameh” has forty sections,
from the first kings to the
reign of Yazdegerd.
Esh-iya:
Its
equivalent,
“The
Cursor Mundi,”266
Over-Runner of the World, has seven periods
of Christian
history from creation
to the doomsday period. Using the
Vulgate Bible
version, in Northumbrian Middle English Tradition,
the first age is creation to Noah, the second age
is the
Great Flood to the confusion of tongues,
the third age is from
Abraham to the death
of King Saul, the fourth age is the
reign
of King David to the capital of Judah,
the fifth age
is the parentage of the virgin Mary
to John the Baptist, the
sixth age is the baptism
of Jesus to the brutal cross, “The
Time of Grace,”
and the seventh age is the day of doom
to
the state after doomsday, Judgement Day.
Bedel:
The end of the world?
Esh-iya:
Predicted in Christian tribulation eschatology,
the end times
will begin with the church being raptured,
and Gog, the Prince
of Rosh, Russia,267
Magog,268
Noah’s grandson of Japheth,269
whose descendants
settled the areas of the Russian Black and
Caspian Seas,
being under the control of Satan, allied with
Persia
or Iran,270
Ethiopia or Sudan, and Togarmah or Turkey,
Lybia, and Germany,
attacking God’s elect, and
Jerusalem.271
God will destroy them with supernatural fire
from heaven, the
valley of Hamongog.272
Then,
the New World Leader, called the Anti-Christ273
will
make a seven-year peace treaty with Israel,
beginning the
seven-year tribulation period,
followed by Christ Jesus’
Second Coming.
The LORD was pleased to crush Him,
putting
Him to grief, as a guilt offering,
He saw His offspring, the
church,
He prolonged His days, resurrection,
and His hand
will prosper, when He reigns.274
Jadu:
The War of Gog, Ya’juj,
and Magog, Ma’juj,
is
in the Qur’an. The destructive forces released
by our God is
a sign of the Last Hour. With Al-Dajjal,
our
Anti-Christ, they will wreak havoc until our God
destroys them.275
Bedel:
I believe there is a difference of opinion
within Islam.
Jadu:
The Sunni orthodox believe Magog were Mongol
invaders who
sacked Baghdad, and the Shia believe
the forces are not from the
children of Adam, the human race.
I suppose Christian orthodoxy
has no schisms?
Esh-iya:
Ah…Let’s begin with Christ Jesus’ words
that He came to
divide people into His followers,
and the enemies of God.276
The World Council
of Churches, WCC, was begun in 1948
by
the Episcopal Church. It has assemblies
every six to eight
years based on the heretical beliefs
that Scripture must be
interpreted by church leaders,277
and
so salvation is not by faith alone by God’s grace,
but by
human works.278
They are also anti-Israel.279
Jadu:
Shaytân-e
Kuchak,
Israel, the Little Satan,
Lesser
Satan than Shaytân-e
Bozorg,
the U.S.
Bedel:
UT students once chanted death to the shah,
then marg
bar Āmrikā,
death to America, and
are now chanting marg
bar Khamenei,
or diktator.
Uneasy
lies the head that wears the crown.280
Jadu:
Talab,
riotous sedition, instigators of discord.
Esh-iya:
Companions of riotous men shame
their fathers.281
Jadu:
Yes, eftezah!
Esh-iya:
The apostle Paul had a gathering,
episustasis,282
but did not cause riots in temples
or the city…283
The anti-Israeli family of U.S.
President George W. Bush were
members
of the Episcopal Church, and W. Bush
and his wife
are members of the United Methodist Church,
which is part of the
WCC, a bramble saying trust
in my shadow,284
then revealing he had no shadow.285
Bush did not allow Jerusalem,
the
historical capital of Israel, to be the rightful
location of the
U.S. embassy, and forced Israel
to give Gaza to Hamas, sworn
enemies of Israel,
from the Persian Ha’man286
to Hamas Arabs,
Hebrew
synonym for violence, used
in Iran’s 2023 war against Israel,
seventy-fifth
Israel founding anniversary, and the fiftieth
anniversary
of the Yom Kippur war, to murder Israelis
from
Bush’s Gaza tunnels, jihadist, Islam,
Bush called a religion
of peace. The Vatican
supported the Hamas terrorists’
beheading infants,
partial birth abortions, by voicing
concern
of Hamas’ suffering, and not mentioning
the
Israelis murdered at close range or by missiles.287
Bedel:
If you think about it, the jihadist strategy
to be barbarous is
to multiply their effect, and
force radical allies to join the
heinous violent action,
immediately, before time runs out. From
their point
of view, that would be rational.288
Esh-iya:
This is rational if there is a belief
in genetic legacy,
absorbing hate, Ha’man, Hitler,
and Hamas, as in U.S. Marxist
critical race theory,
single vector, one dimensional, where any
heinous
behavior is approved if used by the oppressed
lower
class, proletariat, against the racial ancestors
of labeled
oppressors, the ruling class, bourgeois;
killing by group
identity.
Bedel:
Unrighteous genocide.
Esh-iya:
Children are not to pay for the sins
of their fathers, nor are
the fathers to pay for the sins
of their children.289
God determines righteous
group punishment,290
total annihilation of the cursed,
cherem,291
as with the Great Flood,292
and the Jericho
residents.293
King Saul failed to obediently annihilate
the Amalekites, and
lost his kingdom,294
whereas
King David obediently sawed to death the
Ammonites.295
Amos,
the burden-bearer, wrote the LORD said,
for the transgression
of Gaza, deporting
an entire population, I will not revoke
its
punishment, I will send fire on its walls,
and consume her
citadels, and the remnant
of the Philistines will perish. They
ripped open
pregnant women to enlarge their borders.296
A common war practice of evil: murder babies,
and
pregnant women.297
The Qur’an teaches
to murder everyone
for which you
have disagreement.
Bedel:
Leo Tolstoy said he rejected orthodox dogma...298
The
Greek and Russian Orthodox, ROC, churches
are WCC members. The
ROC has been ran
by Russian intelligence, KGB.299
Esh-iya:
Tolstoy was referring to the Christian doctrine
of the triune
God, the trinity, and he was excommunicated
by the ROC.300
In 2006, the World Summit of Religious Leaders
met in Moscow.301
Their “Declaration,” opposed
by many ROC leaders,302
stated Russian Orthodox,
Jews, Catholics, Muslims, and
Buddhists have
the same god, despite the gods described
by
their orthodoxy, texts, having different modes
of salvation, and
eschatology’s, meaning they,
in fact, do not have the same
god. They repudiate
the scriptural teachings on salvation,
heaven and hell,
by Christ Jesus. The polemic WCC anti-biblical
evolutionist’s
2022 eleventh assembly303
in Karlsruhe, Germany,
promoted homosexual publications, called
the Rainbow
Pilgrims of faith. This was vigorously opposed
by
the ROC Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev.
Let the WCC be anathema!304
Speedily
accursed, condemned, pseudo-evangel
of the
circumcision,305
devoted to destruction.306
Bedel:
Kirill said Russian President Vladimir Putin
was “a miracle
of God.” Kirill publicly endorsed
the Russian invasion of
the Ukraine, saying
Ukrainian territory was not historically
separate
from the Russia nation.
Esh-iya:
Kirill also declared he wanted to stop
the abominable
homosexual Pride Parades,
the litmus test for western nation’s
tolerance.
His sermon at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
in
Moscow on Forgiveness Sunday, marking
the coming of the 2022
Lenten season stated
the Russian invasion of the Ukraine
was
a struggle to defend “human civilization”
against sin.307
The so-called free nations, he said,
hold up gay-pride as their
symbol of free choice,
and force acceptance, and that sin must
be resisted
with government force by believers.308
After his 2023
service, on the ROC holiday of the
“Epiphany,”
remembering the baptism of Jesus by John the
Baptist,
Kirill added any attempt to destroy Russia would
lead
to the end of the world. He prayed for the Lord
to
enlighten madmen, and give them understanding.
Bedel:
Iran has provided suicide drones and Shiite militia
members for
the Russian effort.309
Esh-iya:
In exchange, Russia provides Big Brother
security to Iran.
Bedel:
Pope Francis opposed Krill’s rejection
of his homosexuality
promotions.
Esh-iya:
The Catholic church is a WCC participant.
Francis declared
transexuals righteous in November, 2023,
and declared homosexual
unions righteous in December, 2023,
after firing bishops and
cardinals that stood for biblical
teachings. 310
Kirill was following God’s declarations:
hear the word of the
Lord; you rulers of Sodom; listen
to the instruction of our God,
you people of Gomorrah!
I cannot bear your worthless assemblies,
your appointed
festivals I hate with all My being. I am weary
of bearing
them. When you spread out your hands in prayer,
I
hide My eyes from you; even when you offer
many prayers, I am
not listening. Stop doing wrong.
If you resist and rebel, you
will be devoured
by the sword.311
Having a form of godliness, but
deny the power thereof, from
such turn away.312
Bedel:
The schism continues?
Esh-iya:
Absolutely. After Kirill’s support
for the Russian military
stopping Ukrainian
homosexual Pride Parades, they called
gay,
Church institutional self-defense from pedophiles,
the
WCC wanted to disassociate the ROC.
The Ecumenical Patriarch of
Constantinople
Bartholomew,313
of the Greek Orthodox, indicated
the ROC in the Ukraine is used
for military intelligence
operations, and the Ukrainian
government should
stop ROC efforts. He also proposed the
Moscow
Patriarch Kirill be resisted and neutralized for war
crimes.314
Under
this religious cover, the International Criminal Court
in The
Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President
Putin for
war crimes.315
Orthodox monks
have reported the Ukrainian government
installed
a fake Orthodox Church and have sent police,
in
the middle of a Divine Liturgy, to drag priests away,
and have
stolen Orthodox Church property.316
Persecution
is the systematic causing of suffering
toward an entity for
their belief or behavior
by individuals, groups, or the
institutions
of family, false churches, businesses, or
governments.
Historically, the true church grows when
persecuted,
as in China and elsewhere, and shrinks when
it
is prosperous, as in the U.S. and other Western states.
Church
doctrine for government persecution begins
with Jesus declaring
if they persecute Me, they will
persecute you; a servant is not
greater than his master.317
Blessed,
He continued, are those persecuted
for righteousness’ sake,
theirs is the kingdom
of heaven.318
Suffering does not include
acts of thief, murder, or evil
doing,319
but all who desire
to live a godly life in Christ.320
The church is directly
under God’s control and can not
submit
to government or other replacements for Christ
Jesus.
Two-thirds of Ukrainians identify as Orthodox,
but
many have moved to the church independent
of Russia, with
one-half wanting the ROC banned.
On 19 October, 2023, the
Ukrainian Parliament
moved to ban Orthodox Churches with ties to
the ROC.
The new Ukrainian Orthodox church differs
from the
Ukrainian Orthodox church subordinate
to the ROC in Moscow led
by Kirill. The Ukrainian
Orthodox Church condemned the Russian
invasion,
but has not repudiated Moscow church
leadership.321
Those
that give approval to those that practice
abominations are also
doers of abominations.322
Bartholomew
is called Black Bart, by American Orthodox
monks, a play on the
name given Charles Boles,
a western U.S. stage coach bandit
who
left poems, and never fired a shot or cursed,
called the
Gentleman Bandit, who served four years
in prison.323
Barthol’omew or Nathanael, son of Tolmai,
was one of Jesus’
twelve apostles.324
He preached
in India, Ethiopia or Arabia, and likely in Arabia,
modern Iran, Mesopotamia and greater Armenia,
Felix
possibly flayed him alive and then crucified him.325
Bedel:
The Armenian Orthodox Church of Tehran
Saint Sarkis,326
named for the Roman warrior general
martyred for being a
Christian, is an Arminian
Apostolic Church who opposed U.S.
President
Donald Trump’s economic sanctions on Iran.
Esh-iya:
The prelate is the Syrian archbishop
Sepuh Sargsyan, is under
the Holy See of Cilicia,
Oriental Orthodox, given autocephaly,
independence,
a subject of confusion to outsiders. Black
Bart,
also called Tomos of Autocephaly, gave U.S.
orthodox
autocephaly from the ROC in 1970
in his tomos, official
proclamation.327
This led
to the archpriest, rector,328
of the Saint Tikhon
ROC in Blountville, Tennessee, having
ROC,
and Greek Orthodox members, issuing a February,
2022,
generic noncommittal statement
to pray for peace in the
Ukrainian war.
Bedel:
Kirill drinks the wine of wrath,
as Black Bart cast an
autocephalic spell.
Doesn’t the Christian God hate the
sin,
but love the sinner?
Esh-iya:
The context of that passage is God loves
His elect, but not the
unrepentant non-elect,
doers of abominations.329
God does not send sin
to eternal hell, but He sends the
unredeemed sinner.330
All
people sin and come short of the glory of God,331
but
many go to heaven.332
Pure and undefiled
religion, in the sight of God and Father,
is
to visit orphans and widows in their distress,
and keep one’s
self unstained by the world.333
Bedel:
It is said, the moral soul, the religion,
of a nation can be
determined by its prisons.334
Zendân-e-Evin,
is famous for rape,
and other tortures, and executions.
Started by the Shah in Tehran,335
the large number
of students imprisoned there have given it
the
name of Evin University. Muslim women
are uneducated and
mistreated, especially
for their lack of head covering.
Esh-iya:
Is religion placed in a woman’s bonnet?
If she runs to a
neighbor’s distress before covering her head,
is that
wickedness greater than not helping her neighbor?336
For
whose benefit is female genital mutilation, FGM?
Bedel:
FGM, khatneh,
is
practiced by the Sunnis,
and not the Shias.
Esh-iya:
On girls four to twelve years of age.
This practice pre-dates
the Christian or Muslim era,
and has been seen in Coptic and
Australian aboriginal
cultures. But was never practiced by the
Zoroastrians.337
Bedel:
Neither is interruption
volontaire de grossesse338
practiced
here as it is in The Great Satan.
Esh-iya:
True. In 2023, their Cosmopolitan Magazine
provided steps for
performing a “Satanic Abortion Ceremony,”
as modeled by the
Satanic Temple’s New Mexico based
abortion clinic. The ritual
concludes with saying “By my body,
my blood; by my will, it is
done.” That phrase is meant
to blaspheme the words of Jesus’
Lord’s Supper.339
Bedel:
Studies show there is consciousness before birth
and in the
cradle. Linguistic sounds are emplace
by the third trimester.
Fetus’ integrate sensory responses
to plan their own
responses.340
Esh-iya:
This was demonstrated two-thousand years ago
by John the
Baptist leaping in his mother, Elizabeth’s womb,
upon hearing
Mary’s greeting.341
Abortion is an intentional
ultimate violation against God’s
created innocent life,
as homosexuality is the ultimate
intentional violation
of God’s plan for marriage and
procreation, as is
tattooing is an intentional ultimate
violation of God’s
creating man in His image, as is
anti-Jewishness
an intentional assault on God’s nation-state
of Israel,
as is the false theory of evolution an
intentional
assault on the truth of creation, as blasphemy
is
the intentional direct assault on God Himself.
Bedel:
Americans
fit the “Triarchic Model of Psychopathy;”
they are bold and
do not fear or avoid frightening situations,
exhibit
disinhibition with compulsiveness, and have meanness
without
feeling empathy in hurting other.342
Esh-iya:
In other words, they, and those like them, are animals,
having
the personality of felines,343
turned over to depraved minds,
inventors of evil.344
Bedel:
Is it any wonder they engage in sexual mutilation
from gender
identity crises?
Esh-iya:
The American pedophile professor
at Johns Hopkins University345
proposed the concept
that there is a mental sexual identity,
and
a biological sexual identity
with mental identity taking
priority;
therefore, making gender identity an option.
Bedel:
It is no wonder U.S. youth are mentally ill.
Esh-iya:
They, and those like them, latchkey
children, abandoned by
self-loving feminist mothers,
unable to make arguments without
reverting
to animalistic violence, having no parental
authority,
disobedient, treacherous, and irreconcilable,
must
be negotiated with by authorities,346
requiring
the supernatural rod of correction
to balance the equation of
eternal justice.
Cubism identity focus is a basis for
separating people
into groups favoring one group over
another—
destructive identity politics.347
They are wise
in their own conceit;348
pure in their own arrogant eyes,
with jaw teeth like knives.349
They are whited sepulchers,
outwardly beautiful, full of dead
men’s bones, unclean.350
Bedel:
Isn’t anyone going to stop that insanity?
Esh-iya:
When
the wicked thrive, rebellion increases,
the righteous will see
the downfall of the wicked,351
as
in the U.S. revolution in 1776, after the Great Awakening,
led
by Jonathan Edwards. That was a righteous uprising,
from
self-defense. At the end of the Qing dynasty,
Chinese pagan
peasants falsely called their rebellion
against Christianity,
Yihequan,
righteous
and harmonious fists, the Boxer Rebellion.352
Zhōnghuá
shéng lièshi
were the orthodox martyrs.
Of the many Christians tortured and
beheaded,
the first of two-hundred and twenty-two
orthodox
murdered was the priest Chi Sung Metrophanes,
ordained by
Nikolai, Bishop of Japan. His wife,
son Isaiah and his fiancé
Maria, and other
son John quickly followed. The Jewish
Maccabees
resisted the Hellenistic decree of Antiochus in
Israel,
which attacked the Scriptures, worship and holy
days,
and supported the murder of babies.353
That model
is being implemented in the U.S., and elsewhere,
today.
The Maccabees used guerrilla warfare to win,
and
afterwards they righteously destroyed the pagan
altars. Bedel,
be a Demetrius for good
and not a Diotrephes for evil.354
Show mercy
in eye for eye, lex
talionis,
justice.
Vengeance is the Lord’s. He will repay.355
Bedel:
When we are wronged,
we feel less.
Esh-iya:
The innate equation of justice
within us, has been subtracted
from.
Our sense of loss can be restored now
by God’s
promise of eternal justice;
revenge can never justly balance
the
unequal equation to the satisfaction
of victims.
Bedel:
A dynamic equilibrium…
Esh-iya:
…of behavior, which is maintained
by treating others as
ourselves.356
The greatest command of God is to love Him
with all our
hearts, souls, and minds;
and the second is like it, we are to
love
our neighbor as ourselves.
Bedel:
On those two commands mathematically hang
all the static
laws—lying, stealing, and murder
will always be wrong—and
the prophets.357
Esh-iya:
Exactly! The Father and the Holy Spirit draws
the elect to
Himself,358
like you in this dream,
because He loves His elect.359
And knowing all things,
even the number of the very hairs on
your head,360
He knew you would not reject Him. He does not love
the
non-elect,361
who He will put in hell for eternity.362
It would be insincere, a pretense, a lie, and
an
inefficient use of Divine energy
for the Holy Spirit to draw
the non-elect,
even for legal reasons for judgement,
as
Jesus fulfilled.363
The non-elect are religious
and non-religious, and are
denominational and
non-dimensional dividers unified by their
hatred
for God’s word.364
Horses with the heads
of lions breathing fire, smoke, and
brimstone,
they will not repent of their thefts,
fornications,
and murders.365
The elect are the redeemed
unified by the loving truth of God’s
salvation.366
How
sweet are God’s words; through His precepts
we get
understanding.367
Bedel:
I know what I must do. Thank you Esh-iya!
I know what I must
do…I smell diesel fuel.
My
non
sequitur
jolted me awake
to the conscious confirmation
of the
unmistakable scent of a diesel Samand,
the national car,
empirically witnessed
most days, by me, when my father
cranked
his one-hundred horsepower automobile
for work in
the morning. It was a white
Iranian Khodro, IKCO,368
sedan
on a Peugeot 405 platform. In an attosecond,369
I was wide-eyed and Esh-iya,
and Jadu had vanished.
Act
3. Ending Bārīk-dum
The
Mighty One, God, the LORD,
Has spoken and summoned through
Esh-iya,370
The
earth from the rising of the sun
To its setting in didactic
wisdom.
The perfection of beauty,
God has shone forth as a
cloud
in Shekinah Glory.371
Fire devours before Him.
The heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge.372
--From
Psalm 50:1, 2, 3, 6; by Asaph, a son of Qārūn.
The
Samand, I smelled, was on the road nearby.
It was morning.
Someone was driving to work
like my father did many times,
likely
totally oblivious to the speedy end
of our short
lives. Esh-iya may have disappeared
at the speed of an
electron, but I still felt the logic,
the truth, of his teaching
and the utter nonsense
of Jadu. I amateurishly
determined
there are diagnostic questions, theological
tensors,
we all must ask ourselves. “When we die
are we
going to heaven?” “When we get to heaven,
what will we say
to God to be let in?”
I directly asked myself, “What was I
living for?”
and questioned “How that was working out for
me?”
My heart ached, and a drowsy numbness pained
my
sense, as though I had drank hemlock.373
I
felt like the vulnerable bolbol,
the common nightingale,374
symbol
of love and peace, Saadit and Ferdowsi wrote of.
“Awake!
Awake! Sleep no more,”375
I said to myself.
Some people observe cats eat birds, and so
reason
there could be no Divine providence for
animals.
Maimonides indicated God had general providence
for
animals, not individual animals. He thought
individual
providence applied to humans.
Chassidic and Kabbalistic beliefs
include providence
for individual animals.376
The Bible says
God feeds animals,377
and gives wild donkeys drink
to quench their thirst.378
Isaiah wrote of the ox and donkey,
bears and rodents, cows and
bears, owls, ostriches and goats,
cats, leviathan, maggots,
snakes, lions, donkeys and camels,
hyenas and camels, cranes,
doves and swallows,
jackals, owls and ostriches, moths, apes,
spiders,
wolves and lambs, lions and oxen eating straw,
pigs,
and worms.379
God
knows when a sparrow falls from the sky,
and so has providence
for the individual bird,380
and
for me, an undeserving human.
The speaking ass made Balaam
humble,381
as
had Jadu humbled me. I prayed to the Father,
that in the name
of the Messiah, Christ Jesus,
the anointed One, that He would
keep me,
His frail sparrow, fluttering in this storm.
I
knew He does not forget the common sparrow, osfoor,382
and
would save me from my sins.
Not even the demonic Prince of
Persia
could stop that redemptive prayer.383
Basic
Muslim philosophy is people do not convert to Islam;
they
revert. That logically means they believe
they have not been
supernaturally redeemed,
but are the same unredeemed sinners
from their birth.
I
began to feel refreshed. No, much more.
I felt like a new
creature.384
I washed my face
with the cool stream water, and drank till my
stomach
was no longer empty. I then ate the koofteh,
meatball
meal, the stranger had given me.
It was more like a kotlet,
Persian lamb meat patties,
like my mother made with chickpea
flower, eggs,
onion, and garlic with spices, and herbs, in pita
bread.
Feeling as good as anyone in my position could,
I
thought you are in bitter strife, arrows do fly,
but death will
not come, it will not come, now.
Death, for now is an
apparition, a Satanic lie,
a delusion of fallen angels, born of
lust and confusion.385
Truly,
I realized, there can be no death in the path
of
righteousness.386
As
I began walking toward the city, I formulated a plan.
As if
Esh-iya was talking to me, I knew God would deliver
His people
from Elam, the Persians,387
and I, a Persian,
would go to Israel, if God provided a way,
study math
at the Hebrew University, and would help
in any
way that I could. After all, we people of Elam
were at
Pentecost.388
I needed to find people that too
had had “the dream.”
An
hour had barely passed, when a car heading to town
stopped and
offered a ride. I was grateful
and remained cautious. Like the
stranger I met earlier,
the driver was kind and accommodated my
deafness.
He introduced himself as Aquila,389
meaning eagle,
a constellation with balance, shahin-i
tarazu:390
Altair,
its brightest star, al-nasr
al-tair,
Alshain, and Tarazed.
I
remembered an interrogation book
I had read at the UT library.
It taught
to always begin querying a subject
with
questions you know the answer to,
and judge the truthfulness,
repeating this technique
as you proceed; the Godfather of
Vaccines391
noted,
skepticism of truthtellers is the hallmark of science.
I
had read of the Christian members
of the Trinitarian Church in
Rasht, The City of Rain,392
being arrested and given five-year sentences in prison.
The
driver knew the people. He, himself, had been arrested
for
having a house church in his home in 2022.
I was concerned as
to why he wasn’t in prison.
He, and his nine Christian
friends, had, correctly, argued
Christianity teaches obedience,
and submission,
and support of authorities when possible.
The
Tehran Court of Appeals then agreed
with the Supreme Court that
preaching Christianity
could not be against Iran’s national
security.
Thus, they were miraculously acquitted.393
I trusted him and he trusted me enough
to take me to his
home, arg,
his small citadel.
My
new friend, Aquila, was practicing ta’arof,
the
Persian art of etiquette, hospitality,
before feudal times.
Jesus was hospitable,
served others,394
and treated strangers well.395
As the house guest, “a gift of God,” I knew
to lower
myself in conversation as a sign of respect.
I did not go
through the door first. I removed my shoes
when entering his
house to not touch his entrance rug.
It was a blue Persian rug
with a medallion design,
like in my former home. Within its
center
and four corners, lechek
torūnj,396
it
could have infinite repeats, potential infinity,
a terminating
process of the unlimited additions,
w
< w
+ 1, apeiron397
of the patterns, Kochcubes,
seen in not only carpets,
shooshtaree,
but books. I was conscious to not turn my back
on anyone,
and address elders first.
I told him and his family of my
plans.
They were concerned for my safety,
but risk and
uncertainty are ubiquitous constants,
but had promised to help.
Though I was fixed,
in a social determinate, a Divine design
determinate,
definite, structure analyzed by statistics,
force
and torque acting on a physical system
in static equilibrium, in
an environment of rest,
I rested for the night.
I
awoke to the good news a ROC fisher of men,
Sayyad,398
had agreed to take me north, between
the Black and Caspian Sea,
to the Russian city
of Kislovodsk. I had heard, meaning I
understood
of course, that this had been the home
of
Solzhenitsyn, orthodox believer.
I felt this was a good sign.
A very good sign.
Surely, God was with me, and trusted,
that
in His providence, He would work
all things together, in the
wilderness,
for good for those, like me, that love Him,
and
are the elect, The Called according
to His purpose.399
Aquila’s
wife was Jael, former Bedouin,
keffiyeh wearers, desert
dwellers, nomadic Canaanites,
of the grandson of Noah, Canaan,
son of Ham.400
The
world could use more brave Christians
like her driving tent
stakes through the temples
of Canaanite kings.401
They confirmed what
Esh-iya had taught in my dream was
true,402
adding
many other things, such as Isaiah
gave the human model for the
three branches
of government: the judicial judge,
the
legislative lawgiver, and the executive king.403
Isaiah’s
wife was a prophetess.404
He had two sons;
Shear-jashub, a remnant shall return,405
and
Maher-shalal-hash-baz, hurrying to the prey.406
Isaiah,
son of Amoz, used 2,186 different words;
two times other Old
Testament prophets.
He was cut in two with a wooden saw
by
King Manasseh,407
then ascended.408
The prophet Uriah was killed by King Jehoiakim
with the
sword,409
and the prophet Zechariah,
son of Jehoiada, was stoned to
death.
They
also expounded on biblical doctrine,410
every
chance they had. When it came time
to depart, they encouraged
me to intermeddle
with all wisdom411
They explained if you cry
after knowledge, you will find the
knowledge of God,
and when wisdom enters your heart,
discretion
will preserve you.412
I suggested this sounded
like Johann Gauss the
mathematician,
and they assured me King Solomon
had said it
much, much earlier. Do not fear
the cross, take it up, it leads
to the Kingdom,
they said.413
Avoid bitter weeping,
and do not deny the One
who knows
when the cock will crow.414
At
the boat dock, their last gift to me
was an electronic solar
powered Bible.
I thanked them. They motioned for me
to go
to a fishing vessel anchored
by thick ropes on the dock. A
gruff
looking man carrying a sekkeen,
knife, welcomed me aboard.
Sayyad, the boat captain,
cautiously surveyed
the shore, and placed a hat on my head,
a
ushanka,
ears, of wool pile, fish fur,415
to
make me look older, he said.
Rybak
rybaka vidit izdaleka,416
Sayyad explained.
Poetomu
i storonot obkhodit,417
I quipped.
Sayyad seemed amused by my humorous reply
made
with the exuberance of youth.
I had grown several days of
facial hair,
by that time, and had thought
I looked more
mature. My unwashed
clothes also should make me fit in,
like
a fisherman’s apprentice, I figured.
It should be noted here,
for the future safety
of the captain and others named in this
record,
I have taken liberties, in using people’s correct
names,
even my own, and referring to exact locations.
Not
long after launching into the sea,
Sayyad began dropping nets
and pulling them
on board. I helped with the few fish he
caught.
It was hard work. I could see he approved.
In
between the ritual of casting and harvesting,
we talked. I
think he feared my deafness,
as I had initially feared whether
his knife
was for fishing or protection. Our communication
of
“get that net” or “tie off that rope”
became
comfortable, routine even,
as we both smiled when things went
well.
He handed me a piece of bread and cheese
to eat for
lunch. I thanked him for his generosity.
It is not much he
said, but it will give you energy.
A boy your age needs his
sustenance.
Being very careful not to be overly intrusive,
he
asked my plans for after arriving at Kislovodsk.
I explained
school in Israel. His face changed
into the stern look of a
teacher about to unload
a myriad of things to memorized before a
test.
Son, many times, he said, Jews behave
like nouveau
riche,418
the newly rich, lacking in taste,
or social graces as we
Christians are taught,
though “there’s no such thing as a
man with no sins
on his conscience.” By his speaking French
and quoting
Gogol’s litotes,419
I then realized the rough boat captain
was also learned, and
wondered where he was going
with the thought. He continued,
Jewish ethics taught
to children from the earliest of ages
involves calling you,
and me, gentiles, at best, and soulless
golems,
at worst; sociopathic empathy only for their inner
circle.
This helps them justify having no remorse
when
cheating us with false weights and measures,420
which violates Scripture,421
as is using money deception,
ona’at
mamon,422
verbal deception, ona’at
devarim,423
falsely
labeling, mekhilta
gneivat da’at,
stealing the mind.424
Lying
is terminological inexactitude, I stated.
Nodding in approval at
my observation, he added,
Jews are renown for manipulating with
awon,
impurity
and guilt,425
yetzer
ha-ra,
to harm others,
especially their mothers. Then they
forget
their unrighteous deeds, and flee,
always
surprised, when pogroms are begun
to end their societal
plundering. Irish Catholics
are stereotypically manipulated by
corrupt priests,
who claim the Divine ability to absolve sin,
In
persona Christi,
causing the guilt of sinners
to be based on their earthly
hierarchical relationship,
and not the sinner’s sin against
eternal God;
preventing knowing what is real.426
Lord knows, Sayyad continued, you are far ahead
of me
when I was your age. I, like you,
had planned to study at the
university,
but those in Moscow did not think I was enough
of
an orthodox communist, and so here I am.
I’m just saying,
where ever you end up,
be as sharp as a serpent, but
harmless
as a dove.427
I
could see Sayyad had much more to tell me,
but like Hemmingway’s
“Old Man and the Sea,”
we were worn out. We did not
talk
much after that serious line of thought,
and I spent
my free time familiarizing myself
with my new Bible, careful not
to get it wet.
It was a commentary edition, with a
concordance,
and topic search capability, in the language
of
my choosing. Finally, land was on the horizon.
Sayyad pointed
to it with a look of satisfaction,
mission accomplished he
beamed.
He gave me some money, and more cheese
and bread
for my journey. The person I was to meet
was inland. I left
him the hat and we waved goodbye,
as he refilled his boat with
fuel. I was going to miss him.
I
was already missing him. I felt safe with him around.
As
Sayyad had promised, a man was waiting in his car
on the corner
street. We rode to Kislovodsk and stopped
for petrol. I was
disappointed to find there was no ROC
there. I remembered Ivan
IV, after the first Russian Tsar,
Ivan the Terrible, having
ordered a crescent symbol of Islam
be put under the cross of
Orthodox churches, when he
had conquered Kazan, ruled by Muslim
tartars.428
I
would also like to have seen the Jewish star of David,
the Hindu
Ōm, sacred sound, and swastika,
good fortune, and Buddhist
dharmachakra,
wheel of dharma, rightfully put under the
cross,
never to see the rainbow flag, the homosexual symbol,
the
Buddhist flag, displayed; beginning with blue, nīla,
compassion,
yellow, pīta,
middle way, red, lohitaka,
practice,
white, avadāta,
purity, and orange, manjisthā,
wisdom,
and stacked together meaning truth, pabbhassara,
the
satanic essence of their light.
It
was not long until I was given a ride
by
another man and his three small children,
who stared at what
they apparently believed
was their father’s new friend. They
were kind
to me, but were astonished at my poor speaking
ability.
I think they understood I could not hear and had
pity
on me like a pet, a Khorasan long-hair cat, or
reversed,
with them being part of a story like Mumu, a dog,
and
me being the mute Gerasim,429
so I spoke few words. After a nap
and more cheese and
bread with what tasted like
lemon water, we came to a stop at
the Black Sea.
I was introduced to a boat captain and went on
board.
The children waved from the rear window of the car
as
it sped away. The boat pulled away from the shore,
and I did
not inquire where we were going. They seemed
to know more about
my path to freedom than I did.
This boat was large with a well
equipped
cooking galley and a large crew to staff it.
I
stayed out of their way, and was grateful
to rest in God’s
hands.
After
several days and a diet of vareniki,
a tasty Russian ravioli, pierogi, dumpling
with potatoes
and mushrooms, topped
with sour cream as father made, I
was informed
the coastline in sight was Greece.
We would
be stopping there for a day or so.
I had time to see Agios
Nikodimos,430
the
ROC in Athens. Then, we pushed off to Cyprus.
A day’s stop
there allowed me to visit Saint John’s Cathedral
in Nicosia,
another autocephalous431
Greek Orthodox Church.
The apostle Paul converted the Roman
proconsul,
Sergius Paulis, there making this ruler of Cyprus
the
first Christian leader of a nation.432
I was thrilled
to study this history, firsthand, in my Bible.
Next,
we made our way to an Israeli port.
The captain gave me a few
shekels and bread.
He wished me the best as I went down the
ramp
to shore. In Tel Aviv, I was informed of the
Israeli
process for political asylum. To my surprise,
I
found a gemilut
chasidm,
loving kindness facility,
where I got clean new clothes. As I
was eating
kuget,
a pudding of mashed potatoes, an elderly couple
invited me to
their home. I did not know what to expect,
given Sayyad’s
advice. The father was Eleazar, helper,
whom I trusted as with
his wife. But their son, Phinehas,
mouth of a serpent, gave me
great pause.
They informed me of the recent terrorism
activities
of Hamas Muslims, to which I informed them
of my
experience with Islamic followers,
and they allowed me to
confirm my appointment
to determine my refugee status at the
enforcement facility
in Bnei Brak. When I had time I found Bnei
Brak,433
Beneberak
in the biblical book of Joshua.
They were of the tribe of
Dan,434
and today
are all Orthodox Jews. Hippocampal neurons
have
time cells that keep track of the time flow
in an experience.435
Eleazar
and his wife served me gefilte fish,
and cholent, a hardy soup
of potatoes, beans,
barley, and meat. After our goodbyes,
I
went to the asylum appointment. The authority
there seemed to
be very interested in my multilinguistic
abilities and in my
direct experience
with Iran’s nuclear facilities, and
strategies.
After looking over my Iranian papers,
he
introduced me to what I believe was a military
intelligence
officer. They seemed to be very interested
in my desire to
study at the university,
and suggested a full scholarship, if
the paperwork
cleared. It would seem my application
acceptance
was to be little more than a formality at that
point,
at least through my young eyes.
I
was happy and used what funds I had
to go to Jerusalem. It
seemed like just a matter of time
before my expenses would be
taken care of.
I walked on the Via Dolorosa, sorrowful way,
where Jesus walked on His path
to His crucifixion,
approved of by the Jewish orthodox,
Pharisees, at the hands of
Roman soldiers.
I saw the usual holy sites and the Holy Trinity
Cathedral,
in the Russian compound. There was a disturbance
on
my way to a kibbutz, a farming collective,
hoping to find part
time work or an Israeli friend,
even a university student, my
age, to elicit advice.
Suddenly, what was kindly explained to
me
as the sound of gunfire broke out,
consuming the
consciousness of everyone.
People were rushing indoors and
looking
out of windows. I, being a stranger, became
a
focal point to the looks of fear and anger.
At that moment, two
elderly men pulled me
into a house, and locked the doors,
with
trembling fingers. My summarized account
of my life set them at
their ease. I knew
they believed they were facing a new
circumstance,
a new holocaust threat, a mehdal,
in their words,
a disastrous catastrophic blunder like the Yom
Kippur War,
a
failure of intelligence.
The
men began to pray after looking outside.
I also looked out to
see the Arabic speakers
they described, gleeful young male
voices,
wearing their keffiyeh,
now made by the Chinese.436
They pulled a woman and children,
as Daniel Boone’s
son by native Americans,437
from
their home, tortured, and executed them.
Observing them tearing
the clothes from a woman,
it was clear, we were in the middle
of a terrorist Muslim attack.
I followed the men to a safer room
in their house,
as the soldiers of Islam, sexually aroused
by
the pain of others, deriving sadistic joy in giving pain,
sexual
schadenfreude,
deriving joy in causing harm,
began raping the screaming woman,
screaming
without words, words I could not began to hear,
half
in shock, and half hysterical
at the barbarous behavior toward
her.438
God forbids
rejoicing when one’s enemy fails, and
being
glad when he stumbles; this is worse
than the sin of the enemy.439
God’s angels
in heaven rejoice when a sinner repents.440
Sa’di,
in his “Bustan,” or “Gulistan,”
memory fails me, he
said, “five days
or six a flower’s life is brief.”
The
times and eras are approaching,
which from the earliest of
ages
were prophesied by all the prophets,
by the world’s
Creator, through them,441
looking
into the seeds of time,
and saying which grain will grow or
not.442
I
began to hastily search and read my Bible,|
and
found a passage, “Beloved, think it not strange
concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you,
as though some strange thing
has happened to you:
But rejoice, ye are partakers of Christ’s
sufferings.”443
Another
passage stated, “Therefore being justified
by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord
Christ Jesus.” The righteous
have hope in death,444
while
the simple inherit folly.445
Jesus talked
to demons, and cast them out. He ruled over
Satan.
His house was not divided. Jesus never surrendered
to
evil.446
The Qur’an states Muhammed’s mind
was subject to Satan’s
control.447
He was Satan’s catspaw,
his dupe, a bludgeon, as is his
followers, unable
to assimilate in the First World, not
performance
worshippers, not cultural adherents.
In the
fabulist poet Fontaine’s “Le
Singe et le Chat,”
The
Monkey and the Cat, he wrote
of a monkey who persuades a cat
to
retrieve chestnuts from the embers of a fire
in return for a
share, but the monkey eats
them all, and the cat burns his
paws.448
Watching
from afar, the terrorists
breaking down doors and euphorically
firing shots
into the air, made me more determined,
to
write my story, with all haste, scribbled,
in pencil, in a
child’s school notebook
taken from the house. I escaped out
the back,
parting ways with the two Israeli men,
confident
in my parkour abilities,
eager to find another place, safe
to
write. God has sore broken
many people in the land of jackals,
shaghāl.449
We pray He arise,
and redeem us for His mercy’s sake.450
The “Shahnameh” noted, “I shall not die,
these
seeds I’ve sown save my name,
and reputation from the grave.”
I have touched
quantum physics: dunked my finger
into an
isotope of helium, a superfluid,
at over absolute zero,451
frostbite, zero viscosity,
the coldest temperature possible,
in
this universe, atoms have slowed,
and edges have blended
together.
Though
emboldened by interfaith heresies,
the escalating anti-Christ
spirit,
of senseless Muslim violence, oshtolom,452
worldwide, can no longer be ignored
so is the hurried
genesis of this memoir.
The outer event horizon has been
passed.
I have been pulled into the inner horizon,
of
flowing space toward a cardioid,
the mathematical structure, not
a simple black hole,
a Schwarzschild453
hole, of mass without
electric charge or angular
momentum,
non-rotating without escape,
but a Kerr454
event horizon, quadratic,
two separate solutions for an
outer
and inner event horizon. Heaven
for the redeemed,
and hell
for the unredeemed. Two different
surfaces,
ergosheres, that delineate those locations
throughout.
Not zero-dimensional point singularities,
at the center, but a
just and smooth singularity
with a one-dimensional surface.
Rotating
gives the illusion of passing through
the ring
torus, a doughnut, an O ring,
escaping to an antiverse
beyond
God’s Judgement Seat or Christ’s Bēma Seat;455|
a
phantasm, a lie.
Descendants
of Ham genetically suffer
from sickle cell anemia, and G6PD
deficiency,
which is triggered by stress.456
During the normal rigors of life, the lethargy
from
anemia may be wrongly interpreted as laziness,
shiftlessness,
and episodes of avoidance as cowardice;
distinct traits of weak
moral character, peer reinforced,
becoming group norms, evolving
cultural reputations.
Prideful co-dependent delusions may
develop;
being smarter, being better looking, and
being
more skilled than is objectively actual.
To combat the fatigue
of unhealthy red blood cells,
they naturally seek mood elevation
by overeating
sugar and fatty foods, avoiding work,
over
engaging in sex, singing, and sporting activities,
escaping
reality with mind altering drugs,
and pursuing the excitement of
violence.
Those behaviors combined with low
innate
problem-solving ability, obviously,
lead to more health issues
and societal problems,
creating a temperament only suitable
for
the Third World. They can resist
those proclivities and are
responsible,
for their unrighteousness, temporally
and
eternally subject to the just consequences,
as are all people
born
with their own respective proclivities.
Historically,
the spectrum of outsiders
addressing their behaviors range
from
euthanasia by atheists, as with Margaret
Sanger,457
exploitation
as pawns by religious and societal leaders,
seen all over the
world, and agape,
charity,
the perfect bond of unity, by Christians.458
Many
people find it difficult existing
in the liminal space between
states,
I choose the elect’s course,
of the barbarian,
bond, and free, Christ is all
and in all, without my judgment
or
conclusions, in the hands of God,
as much as is possible, until
the end;
cat in a sealed cube.
Erwin
Schrödinger’s cat is not a cliché.
It is a reality to me. I
am reminded
of grandfather’s recalling the day
when his
brother’s truck drove by him
working in the olive grove. As
he tells it,
he was miffed when his brother did not honk
the
horn in a greeting, as was usual.
Moments later, he heard his
sister-in-law shrieking
in the distance. He ran to her
rescue
finding his brother’s lifeless body.
He had been
dead for hours,
and his brother’s wife
had been driving
the truck.
“Imagine that,” he would wisely say,
“I
was needlessly angry
because of a false perception.”
I
pray these words are not too trite, but,
God has balanced my
equilibrium
of justice. Father forgive them,459
I
softly uttered then continuing
with the litotes, for I am not
ashamed,
I know whom I have believed,
and am persuaded that
He is able to keep that
which I have committed
unto
Him against that day.460
If
you are reading of this account,
I see now was a demise easily
foreseen,
join me as I rejoice in eternity,
with a
heavenly mouth and ears,
and know this,
to have lived was
Christ,
and to have died is gain!461
Thus
is the sum, the paradox,
of suffering, of life.
Bedrood!
Ahbab…462
(The
preceding content is as found by Israeli Defense Forces on the
unidentified body of an innocent young man dismembered by Muslims
near the Church of the Nativity463
in Bethlehem.)
1
Persian or Farsi (Per.) for
Greek onager, a wild donkey/ass. For transliterations see Sulayman
Hayyim’s (1934), New
Persian-English Dictionary,
Teheran, Librarie-imprimerie Béroukhim, and Yavar Dehghani’s
English -Persian Dictionary.
2
The suffix “-ical” means
dealing with, in this case is a play on the words farce (farcical)
and Farsi (Farsical, meant to convey dealing with the Farsi/Persian
culture in an exaggerated/farcical manner).
3
Polemics from Greek war
(offense) and apologetics for defense, inferring a strategy for
religious proselytizing.
4
Per. name, not Quranic, meaning excellent or eminent in learning.
5
Per. name, a surname here, for a
male, usually Christian, meaning a servant or messenger of people.
6
Per. for a guest and by
extension a stranger or visitor.
7
Per. name, from the Latin Gaspar from Per. Ganzabara, meaning one
who brings treasure.
8
Per. name, a surname here, for a male, usually Jewish, meaning one
who is magical.
9
Per. for Isaiah (the Old
Testament prophet).
11
Ideas are repeated in reverse order.
12
Sons, meaning descendants of
Korah, known for their wisdom, who were musicians and wrote biblical
Psalms (II Chron. 20:19).
13
The Per. name for Korah; son of
Izhar, son of Kohath, son of Levi (Numbers 16:1), the Levite that
rebelled against Moses and thus God (Numbers 16:1-4), warned not to
model his behavior in Jude 11. Psalm 49 addresses the inescapable
reality of death and thus the folly of oppressors.
14
Per. for with a slender tail.
17
Ethan’s wisdom from God is
considered to be second to Solomon (I Kings 4:31).
18
Ps. 89 is called the Covenant
Psalm; 89:1-37 contains the theology of God, and 89:38-52 addresses
the specific sins of Israel common to mankind.
19
“Iran: A Country Study,” The
American University, pp. 22-25 etc.
20
Gen. 10:22; Ezra 4:9; Nehemiah
(400 B.C.) etc.
23
See December, 2023, to January,
2024, articles by Piotr Ogonowski et al., as in “Frontiers in
Physics” etc.
24
Joseph Samuel (2022), “Journal
of Physics A: Mathematical and Theorical,” 55, 484002, etc.
28
See biblical books of Daniel, Ezra, Esther etc.
30
According to Nicolaus Damascenus, born c. 64 B.C., was part of the
Median Empire by 600 B.C.
31
Dan. 5:11; Matt. 2:1-12, 5:11
etc.
33
Largely before c. 900 A.D.
34
Flavius Josephus, 11.3.1. C.
522 B.C. repeated each year, made an annual holiday, “The
Slaughter of the Magi.”
36
Tacitus’ “Annals” (XV.44) records how Nero falsely blamed
Christians for the fire in Rome.
39
Per. dehqan
means work.
41
Genghis Khan after 1162 A.D.
42
Per. for spit on your face, oh
heavens spit! Meant toward the Muslim invaders that deported
Zoroastrians.
44
From Mikhail Bulgakov author of
“The Master and Margarita,” written during the Joseph Stalin
regime’s efforts to erase truth.
47
See his autobiography.
48
Between Lutherans and Catholics.
50
“Thus Spoke Zarathustra”
1885.
54
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro.
59
F. Zheng et al. “Nature”
(2023) 623, pp. 718-723.
60
See the 2023 work at the School of Physics, University of Sydney’s
Nano Institute.
61
A pre-Islamic term. Arabs are
estimated to be around 3-7% of Iran.
62
A term used at zoos for the
laughing/mocking smiles of chimpanzees/monkeys commonly seen in the
behavior of the descendants of Ham.
63
Behaviors commonly seen in
chimpanzees and descendants of Ham. Researchers
at the University of British Columbia studied human victory dances
at the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens.
64
Glucose-6-Phosphate
Dehydrogenase, a genetic disease of red blood cells that is
triggered by stress and aspirin etc.
65
Chloroquine is considered to be
more effective than primaquine for malaria.
66
The Iraqi National Museum in
Baghdad, May 2003, had items associated with Christie looted.
Christie, an active member of the Church of England, used her
experiences in Iraq in her writings, i.e. “Murder in Mesopotamia.”
67
From Adib Pishavari’s poem.
68
In the 1970’s, Saddam Hussein expelled Persians from Iraq.
69
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi called
Mohammad Reza Shah (Shah from 1941 to 1979).
71
Olea europaea, L. Oleaceae.
73
Oleaster (Elaeagnus
angustifolia).
74
Horses are Equus
ferus caballus, Carl
Linnaeus 1758.
75
Called Iran’s lady of horses,
she was an Iranian horse
breeder responsible for the Caspian horse, whose family was jailed
and impoverished by Muslims after the Iranian revolution in 1979.
76
Established in 1851, the oldest
Iranian University.
77
C. 7-5th
century B.C. Matti Friedman, Nov. 2023, “Mosaic.”
78
See research at Tohoku
University, “Pseudogravity,” Science
Tech Daily, November,
2023.
79
Per. for inventing and
contriving a new or false story.
80
Per. for a burden, gravity.
82
May also be one neutron star
colliding with a black hole.
83
See the data for the 2017 event
where gravity waves arrived around two seconds before light waves.
84
A renown contributor to Iranian
medicine, especially hearing. M. Azizi (2007), “The
otorhinolaryngologic concepts as viewed by Rhazes and Avicenna,”
Archives of Iranian
Medicine, 10 (4), p.
552.
85
“I heard God Laughing: Poems
of Hope and Joy.”
87
See the 2023 study by
Charalampos Saitis et al. Queen Mary, University of London’s
School of Electronics, Engineering, and Computer Science.
88
F. Persson et al. “Hearing
loss after bacterial meningitis, a retrospective study,” “Acta
Otolaryngol,” 2022, 142 (3-4), pp. 298-301.
89
Arshid Avarvand et al. (2021)
“Iran Journal of Public Health.”
95
The blind and lame (II Sam. 5:8).
96
See R. A. Chubon (1994), “Social and Psychological Foundation of
Rehabilitation”; H. G. Gallagher (1995), “By Trust Betrayed”;
R. Sand (1952), “The Advance of Social Medicine”; A. Deutsch
(1949), “The Mentally Ill in America”; B. S. Turner (1987),
“Medical Power and Social Knowledge”; and S. Pridmore and I.
Pasha (2004), “Psychiatry and Islam.”
97
From Thomas A’Kempis, “The
Imitation of Christ,” Book I, Chapt. 19.
98
P. K. McGuire et al. (1997) “Neural Correlates of Thinking in Sign
Language,” and Lev Vygotsky’s theory of internalizing language
as key to cognitive development.
99
His (1258) Chapter IV “On the
Advantage of Silence,” story I (Gulistan,
Per. for Flower Garden or Rose Garden).
100
Franciscus Tolensis’ “Vita
Thomae A’Kempis” in Latin and Dutch “In
omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi inhoexkens ende
boexkens.”
101
To the Supreme Leader in 3 December, 2022, then back to judicial
supervisor in 16 July, 2023.
102
Joseph de Maistre’s (1811)
Letter 76 (Lettres et
Opuscles); “Toute
nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.”.
103
This is the quoted reply of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a Harvard paper, to Oliver Holmes on being
asked for the strategy on attacking Plato’s philosophy.
109
The D factor indicates the
likelihood of a person to engage in behaviors associated with dark
traits; overlapping immorality of entitlement, sexual sadism,
psychopathy etc. (psychologist Ingo Zettler, 2018 study at the
University of Copenhagen).
111
An Arabic pejorative for Persians.
112
Per. for non-Zoroastrians.
116
Judges 19:16-18; II Sam. 12:4;
Is. 35:8-10; 40:3; Jere. 9:2.
117
A shortened version of the 19th
century American Christian hymn based on many scriptural references.
118
Per. for being bent and curved.
121
Ps. 6:6, 27:9, 30:7, 55:1 etc.
This is meant to distinguish the suffering of the innocent, i.e. Job
and Heman, from the suffering of the guilty, i.e. the adulterous
murderer King David.
122
Panthera tigris,
Carl Linnaeus (1758).
123
Bubo scandiacus,
Carl Linnaeus (1758).
124
Tetraogallus caspius,
Samuel Gmelin (1784).
125
Believed to be the oldest
peoples of Iran, see Max Planck Society research.
127
Sunnis reject Shi’ism belief
they need to create world violent chaos to usher in the 12th
Iman, Satan in Jewish and Christian theology/prophesy, as opposed to
the Divine Messiah, Christ Jesus’ Second Coming.
128
Elijah righteously mocked Baal
false prophets, I Kings 18:27-28.
129
Since 2022, see articles, e.g. “The Guardian” etc.
130
Tiandy Technologies, see reports, e.g. “Wired” etc.
131
Are using Clearview AI created
by two Australians now living in New York.
132
Peter Park et al. (2023), “AI
Deception: A Survey of Examples, Risks, and Potential Solutions.”
This paper was recommended to Dallas F. Bell Jr. in an email
exchange with Jonathan Hayward in November, 2023.
133
By William Shakespeare.
135
By Fyodor Dostoevsky.
136
Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.”
137
Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
(February, 2004), “Theor. Popul. Biol.), 65(1), pp. 17-28.
138
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The
Gulag Archipelago,” pp. 4-18, 11-12 respectively.
139
Iran replaced the Christianized
caduceus healing symbol with the Simurgh in 2013.
140
Per. for hello, meaning peace
with you.
142
Hajm
cubist style poetry by Yadollah Royai, (2007) “The Past Me:
Signature.”
146
Sanskrit text by Kautilya,
“Arthaśāstra.”
147
Fritz Heider in Anatol Rapoport’s (1963) “Mathematical Models of
Social Interaction,” Handbook
of Mathematical Sociology,
v. 2, pp. 493-580.
149
Per. for wise, having common
sense.
150
See the 2023 article in CBN’s
“Faithwire” on the Iranian underground church and dreams of
Jesus, as recounted by Rev. Lazarus Yeghnazar founder of Transform
Iran etc.
151
From 2016 to 2022, Muslim Saudi
Arabia rose from 6 non-physics papers per expert per year in 2016 to
69 papers in 2022, as indexed in the Scopus database. See the
“bioRxiv” post November, 2023 by John Ioannidis et al., M.D.
specialist in metascience at Stanford University.
152
The Syrian General Naaman prayed
and worshipped the God of Israel, covertly, in the house of Baal (II
Kings 5:15-19).
153
The poet Oliver Wendell Holmes’
“The Voiceless.”
155
From Emily Dickinson’s “To
lose thee – sweeter than to gain.”
156
From Ps. 88:18 (NIV). Psalm 88
is titled Mahalath
(meaning to convey
afflictive sickness) Leannoth (according to Rabbi David Kimchi,
commentaries include Genesis, Psalms, and Chronicles, is meant to
convey a wind-instrument making the sounds of grief).
157
Lines of the 1964 song Sound(s)
of Silence written
and primarily sang by Paul Simon.
158
From the song lyrics, “Paradise City,” of Axl Rose et al. of the
band Guns N’ Roses on the 1987 album “Appetite for Destruction.”
160
Carl Linnaeus recorded in 1758.
161
Peter Rabinowitz and Lisa Conti,
“Human-Animal Medicine,” Saunders (Elsevier), (2010), pp.
182-183 etc.
162
See the 2006 book “Horse
Breeds” published by Storey Publishing, pp. 4-5, 26-27, 40-41,
58-59, 120-121.
165
Lev. 11:2-7; Deut. 14:4-8.
168
A reference to the wildness of
Ishmael in Gen. 16:12.
169
A reference to Israel being allied with Assyria in Hos. 8:9.
171
Called a frivolous political
party, it was founded in Iran (1963 to 1971).
174
A Sunni Muslim, written in 1257,
see Chapter VIII.
175
Named for the Sunni Muslim
scholar Tabart of Tabaristan (Tabarestan) of the mountains in North
Iran where Islam was first established in the region.
176
Baqir al-Qurashi (2001), “The life of Imam,” p. 121 etc.
179
Is. 40:3; Mark 1:2-4.
180
Matt. 11:11; Luke 1:15, 7:28 etc.
181
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet’s
(died 1704), advocator of the Divine rights of kings was bishop to
King Louis XIV, words.
182
Is. 1:3, 32:20, 62:11; Zech.
9:9, 14:4; Matt. 21:1-11; Mark 11:1-11; Luke 19:28-40; John
12:14-16.
185
Exe. 23:12; Luke 13:15.
187
Ps. 45; Matt. 25:31-33; Rev.
19:11-14.
196
See IV, p. 1017, cf. 11, p.477.
198
From Aesop’s fables, “The
Donkey in the Lion’s Skin.”
199
French for “Donkey Skin,” by
Charles Perrault in 1695.
200
By William Shakespeare.
201
From “Metamorpheses.”
202
From Miguel de Cervantes’ “Don
Quixote.”
203
I Sam. 9:3-4, 10:14-16 etc.
204
A place in Judah, meaning the
height of a jaw-bone (Judg. 15:15-17).
206
From Blaise Cendrars’
(Frederic Sauser) “Portrait.”
207
See Max Jacob’s “Rainbow.”
208
Guillaume Apollinaire (1917)
“Zone” in the book “Alcools” (Alcohols).
209
William Carlos Williams’ “Africa.”
210
See Pierre Reverdy’s “At the
Edge of Time,” “Clock,” and “Afternoon.”
211
A disparaging term used by
Frēdēric Lefēvre.
212
From Ezra Pound’s “In a
Station of the Metro.”
213
“Den
Ungeflügelten” (To
the Wingless Ones) in Paul Mongré’s 1900 book “Ekstasen”
(Ecstasy).
214
From Max Weber’s 1914 “The
Eye Moment.”
215
Helge von Koch, 1904.
216
See fellow at the Discovery
Institute, Melissa Cain Travis’s (2022) book “Thinking God’s
Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the miracle of Cosmic
Comprehensibility.”
217
From Anton Chekhov’s letter to
Maria Kiselyova.
218
See Dawn Powell’s 1948 novel
of a sarcastic and satanic Medical Examiner in “The Locusts Have
No King.”
219
See Powell’s 1957 work “A
Cage for Lovers.”
220
From Chekhov’s “The Lady
with the Little Dog.”
221
Anna Vallgarda et al. (2015)
“Interaction Design as a Bricolage Practice” in the proceeding
of the ninth international conference on tangible, embedded, and
embodied interaction, New York; and Xin Gao et al. (2020) “I feel
like this is a bad thing, Investigating Disassembly in Action for
Novices” at the conference on human factors in computing systems,
Honolulu, U.S.A.
222
French for construction of
something from whatever is available, to tinker.
224
Per. for violence, force, or oppression.
225
The Per. writing from the top
and left to right is grace or forgiveness, truth or verity, love or
affection, wisdom or philosophy, mercy or compassion, infinity or
eternity, immutable or invariable, redemption or sacrifice, and
justice or equity.
226
Anton LaVey’s, called The
Black Pope, orthodox satanic text was written in 1969.
227
Exe. 20:17; Deut. 5:21; Matt.
5:19 etc.
228
A theory by the agnostic turned
Catholic, René Girard.
229
A theory by agnostic Kenneth Burke.
230
Friedrich Schleiermacher’s “On
Religion.”
231
Views aggressively expressed in a letter to his father, see B.A.
Gerrish, “A Prince of the Church: Schleiermacher and the
Beginnings of Modern Theology,” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Fortress Press (1984), p. 25.
232
Virginia Fellows 2006 “The
Shakespeare Code.”
233
See the Encyclopedia Britannica
entry.
234
Arthur Schopenhauer’s “The
World as Will and Idea,” Vol. 1, p.63 etc.
235
The 1997 Frank Tipler book by
that title.
236
Ethan Seidel’s October 2023
“Relativity and the Physics of Immortality.”
238
From the lyrics of “Sleep Now
in the Fire” on the 1999 album of “The Battle of Los Angeles”
by the 2023 inductee group (tattooed, uneducated, and writers of
profanity laced lyrics) into the U.S. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
written by Timothy Commerford (denier of the ISIS beheading of
Christian children videos) and Zach de la Rocha (vegetarian and
communist) et al.
239
A quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jr., agnostic turned Unitarian U.S. Supreme Court Justice. William
LaPiana’s 1994 book “Logic and Experience,” Oxford University
Press, England.
240
Elizabeth Gibson’s (1999) “Kid
Curry, the Wildest of the Bunch,” Western Outlaw-Lawman History
Association Journal, Hamilton, Montana, etc.
242
In the 1919 First Amendment case
of Schenck v. United States.
247
See Christopher Kaczor’s 2013
“A Defense of Dignity,” University of Notre Dame Press.
249
Deut. 6:13, 10:20; Matt. 4:10
etc.
256
A circular structure built by
Zoroastrians for the decomposition of human corpses to prevent
contamination of the environment. Vultures eat the flesh and the
skeletal remains are put into a pit for further breakdown.
257
Thomas Aquinas’ “Summa
Theologiae” (Opus
Imperfectum in Matthaeum).
259
1113 A.D. by Monk Nester.
261
Per. for stability,
perseverance, constancy, or integrity. The theme affirms a man of
understanding and knowledge prolongs the state, Prov. 28:2. The
upper left Christian Byzantine style art was modeled after the
idolatrous 6th
century tile mosaic of the Apostle Andrew in the Catholic Baśilica
of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. The words in Greek from top to
bottom are “The Gospel Of Christ Is The Spirit Of Prophecy”
(Rev. 19:10), and centered in blue letters is “ANDREW” in Greek,
with the image of Andrew deleted and replaced by the scriptural
passage. The church architecture was modeled after the St. Nicholas
Russian Orthodox Church in Tehran, Iran. In 1995, its parishioners
had requested and were granted to be annexed by the Moscow
patriarchate. The church is now administered by Father Alexander.
The bottom rung of three slashes on the gold Russian Orthodox cross
atop the gold dome is slightly slanted upward, by tradition,
pointing north.
263
Epic poem with over 30,000
lines.
264
3d century B.C. to 3d century A.D. with over 200,000 verses.
265
Harold Marcus (1994) “A History of Ethiopia,” University of
California Press, Berkeley, California.
266
The 14th
century poem of 30,000 lines was recommended to Dallas F. Bell Jr.
in a November, 2023, email exchange with Justin Jackson, professor
and chair of English at Hillsdale College.
268
For the orthodox church’s
simplistic commentary on Gog and Magog, see Archbishop Averky’s
1985 “The Apocalypse of St. John: An Orthodox Commentary,” of
the Holy Trinity ROC Monastery in Jordan, New York. The present
Abbot, since 2008, is Bishop Luke of Syracuse. In email exchanges
with Dallas F. Bell Jr. during 2023, Jonathan Hayward recommends the
U-Tube site of Greek Orthodox doctrine commentator Constantine
Zalalas.
269
Gen. 10:2; Chron. 1:5, 5:4.
270
Eze. 38-39; Rev. 20:8-9.
271
Exe. 38-39; Dan. 11:5-35; Rev.
20:7-10, and Josephus.
275
Surah Al-Kahf (Zulqarnayn; the
two-horned one who sets a barrier between Gog and Magog), and Surah
Al-Hnbiya.
279
Paul Merkley (2007), “Christian
Attitudes Toward the State of Israel,” McGill University Press, p.
184.
280
Words of Henry IV in
Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2, Act III, Scene 1.
285
Hans Christian Andersen’s “The
Shadow.”
287
The Catholic statement was made
immediately after the attack by Cardinal Parolin in October, 2023.
288
Tanner Greer (26 October 2023),
“The Extremist’s Gambit Helps Explain Why Hamas Attacked Now,”
The Mosiac Daily.
291
Hebrew, Josh. 6:17-18; I Sam.
15:21.
297
II Kings 8:12, 15:16; Hos. 13:16 etc.
298
In his 1880 “Critique of
Dogmatic theology.”
299
Christopher Andrew (1994),
“Espionage: past, present, future?”, Routledge.
302
For example, the Hieromonk
Theodosius, Caucasian desert-dweller, 16 November, 2006, member of
the Transfiguration ROC of Baltimore, Maryland, and writer of the
poems “Spiritual Warfare,” and “Apocalyptical,” etc.
306
Deut. 7:26; Josh. 7:1, 11-13.
307
Eugene Clay (2022), “Explaining:
Understanding Orthodoxy, the Shared Religion of Ukraine and
Russia,” “America: The Jesuit Review,”
308
9 March, 2022, article in the
Baptist News, by a Dallas, Texas, pastor.
309
Daniel Byman and Kenneth Pollack
at the Brookings Institution’s Lawfare office (26 October, 2023),
“The Persian-Russian Connection.”
310
Strickland and Burke etc.
313
Since 1991, and educated in
canon law at the Pontifical Institute in Rome.
314
Bartholomew made his comments
March, 2023, at a conference with the Lithuanian parliament in
Vilnius, as reported by Ukrainska Pravada.
315
The warrant for Putin was issued
17 March, 2023, for deporting Ukrainian children.
316
Taken from an email exchange
with Dallas F. Bell Jr. during October, 2023.
317
Mark 10:29-30; John 15:18, 20.
319
I Peter 2:20, 4:12-15.
321
Nicholas Denysenko, professor of
theology at Valparaiso University, Indiana.
323
Released from San Quentin prison
in 1888.
324
Mark 3:18; John 1:45-51.
325
See Merrill Unger’s Bible
dictionary, (1957-1979) Moody Press, Chicago, Illinois, p. 126, 4th
century historian Eusebus of Caesrea, “Ecclesiastical History”
(5:10), and Saint Jerome.
327
This information was gleaned
from an orthodox monk in an October, 2023, email exchange with
Dallas F. Bell Jr.
329
I Kings 14:24; Rom. 1:24.
330
This argument was generated from
a November, 2023, email between a former Baptist minister, writing
his disdain for Krill’s war against Pride Parades, and Dallas F.
Bell Jr. The ex-minister tried to walk back his anti-biblical
opinion.
332
Matt. 8:12; Rev. 14:10 etc.
334
See Alexis de Tocqueville’s
(1835) “Democracy in America,” and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s (1862)
“The House of the Dead” etc.
336
John Calvin’s “Institutes of
the Christian Religion,” 4.10.31.
337
See Kameel Ahmady’s (2015) “In the Name of Tradition.” An
Iranian/British social anthropologist imprisoned at Evin for the
subversion of promoting homosexuality, who later escaped north.
338
French for voluntary interruption of pregnancy, an abortion.
339
Matt. 26:26-28; Mark 14:22-24;
Luke 22:19-20; I Cor. 11:23-25.
340
Consciousness before birth
journal (12 October 2023) “Trends in Cognitive Science.”
342
C. Patrick et al. (2009).
343
C. Evans et al. (2021) “Journal
of Research in Personality,” regarding cats etc.
345
1957. He distorted a study of
identical twin boys, and molested them.
347
Mary Eberstadt (2019) “Primal
Screams,” Templeton Press, and (2004) “Home-Alone America: The
Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent
Substitutes.”
352
November 1899 - September 1901.
356
Deut. 19:21; Matt. 7:12; Luke
6:31.
358
John 6:37, 44, 65; II Cor. 4:4;
Eph. 1:9-11, II Tim. 1:9 etc.
363
Is. 42:4; Luke 4:16-30.
368
Since 1962, headquartered in
Tehran.
369
A billionth of a billionth of a
second. The shortest timescales that can be directly measured. The
speed limit of material things. It takes an electron 150
attoseconds to go around the nucleus of a hydrogen atom. The
subject of the 2023 Nobel Prize for physics.
371
Hebrew meaning He caused to
dwell (Exe. 24:16-18 etc.).
372
See the commentaries for Psalm
50 by Martin Geier, Siméon de Muis, Matthew Pool’s Synopsis
Criticorum Biblicorum,
and C. H. Spurgeon’s The
Treasury of David,
Vol 1.
373
John Keats’ line 1 and 2 of his “Ode to a Nightingale.”
374
Luscinia megarhynchos.
375
Aristophanes’ line 1 and 2 of
his “The Call to the Nightingale,” (The Birds).
376
This input was provided to
Dallas F. Bell Jr. in an October, 2023, email exchange with Rabbi
Mordechai Becher, Yeshiva University.
377
Ps. 104:21, 27, 147:9.
379
Is. 1:3, 2:20, 11:6-9, 13:21,
14:1, 23:13, 27:1, 30:6, 34:14-15, 38:14, 43:20-21, 50:9, 51:20,
59:5, 65:25, 40, 66:24.
384
John 3:3; II Cor. 5:17.
385
From the writing of the ROC monk
Vsevold, Filipyev, “Spiritual Warfare.”
387
Is. 11:11, 21:1-2, 22:6.
389
Latin male name meaning eagle,
implying one who soars high in the air over things below.
390
Named (c. 1650) in Arabic by
Muhammad al Achsasi al Mouakket, shaykh
(an elder) of the Grande Mosque at the Egyptian university in Cairo,
in his al-Darrah
al-mudīyah fī al’amāl al-shamsīyah
(“Pearls of brilliance upon the solar operations”).
391
See the idea echoed in the 2018
Stanley Plotkin Disposition, and thoughts by Carl Sagan.
392
The largest northern city in
Iran, 200 miles northeast of Tehran, near the Caspian Sea.
394
Luke 10:25-37; Philip. 2:5-8.
396
Per. medallion and corner.
397
Greek for unlimited or
indefinite, peras no
limit, aphorismenon.
398
Per. for fisherman, hunter.
399
Deut. 8:15-16; Rom. 8:28.
401
See the wife of Heber, Jael’s killing of King Sisera (Judg.
4:17-22).
402
Flavius Josephus, 10.1.3, 4;
10.2.2 etc.
408
“The Ascension of Isaiah,” Chapter 11, 41-43.
409
I Kings 19:10; Jere. 26:23.
412
From Prov. 2:3, 5, 10, 11.
413
Thomas A’Kempis, “The Way of
the Holy Cross,” (from the “Imitation of Christ.”)
415
Not made of animal material,
such as rabbit or mink etc.
416
Russian means a fisherman
(implied, can always) spots another fisherman, as in birds of
feather flock together.
417
Russian means therefore he
avoids him (implied, and goes the other way).
419
Used by Cicero in his (55 B.C.)
“De Oratore,”
litotes (a noun, not a singular or a plural word), antenantiosis,
moderatour, or deminutio, are rhetorical devises of expressing an
affirmative, often for modesty reasons, as a negative for ironic
effects. The quote is by the mayor in Nikolai Gogol’s 1836/1842
satirical play, “The Government Inspector” (Act 1, Scene 1), on
Russian corruption derived from an anecdote by Alexander Pushkin to
Gogol.
420
Prov. 11:1, 20:10-12, 23; Is. 40:12.; Vayikra 19:35-36.
422
Prov. 13:11-13, Vayikra 25:14.
423
Prov. 12:22, Vayikra 25:17.
426
In Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,”
see Macbeth’s guilt (Act II), and Lady Macbeth’s inability to
wash her imaginary blood-stained hands (Act V).
428
C. 1486. See Didier Chaudet
(2009), “China and Eurasia Forum Quarterly,” 7 (2), pp. 37-58,
“Journal of South Asia and Middle Eastern Studies,” (1993) 17:4.
429
A 1852 story by Ivan Turgenev
titled “Mumu,” the dog of a mute named Gerasim, regarding the
cruelties of Russian serfdom.
430
Established before 1031.
433
Population around 200,000.
435
Leila Reddy et al. (2021) “The
Journal of Neuroscience.”
436
Sonja Sharp documents how Hamas
cannot even make their own clothes in “Your Intifada: Now Made in
China,” (22 June, 2009) Mother
Jones.
437
Bob Drury and Tom Clavin’s
(2012) “Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for
America’s First Frontier,” St Matin’s Press, New York, New
York, pp. 1-5. Overall, the book has a careless linguistic style.
438
Jeffrey Gettleman, winner of the
Pulitzer Prize, et al. “Screams Without Words: How Hamas
Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7,” (28 December, 2023), The
New York Times.
439
Prov. 17:5, 24:17-18.
441
From the ROC (Baltimore,
Maryland) V. Utrenev’s poem “Apocalyptical.”
442
From Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,”
Act 1, Scene 3.
443
Taken from I Peter 4:12-19.
446
Mark 1:23-27, 4:22-30, 5:8-13
etc.
447
Surah, 6 & 7, v. 68, v. 200,
Al-Airaf (The Heights), āyat
-200, Al-An’am (The Cattle), āyat
– 68.
448
Jean de La Fontaine, 1679 book “Fables,” (IX.17).
451
459 degrees Fahrenheit or 273
degrees Celsius.
452
Per. for violence, force, and
oppression.
454
Roy Kerr; his metric observes the attraction of black holes and so
theorizes the necessity of rotation.
455
Rom 14:10; II Cor. 5:10.
457
Founded the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America, which sought to remove blacks she called
human weeds. Efforts have and are being made by like-minded people
to conceal her true beliefs.
459
Luke 23:34; Acts 7:59-60.
462
Per. for Farwell! Friends
(Brethren)...
463
A Greek Orthodox Church in
Bethlehem, including the Holy Cave, identified as the birth place of
Jesus.
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