The Goor of Iran: A Farsical Memoir of Polemics Versus Apologetics

Dramatis Personae
Farjad^⁴ Bedel;⁵ the young man.
Zeyf;⁶ the stranger.
Jasper^⁷ 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

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.^³¹Moy³² 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. Kähler⁵³ 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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,^²²³a dysfunctional system, a malady.

(The 20” x 16” acrylic on canvas painting by Dallas F. Bell Jr. is titled The Oshtolom^²²⁴ 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

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

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

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.

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,^²⁵⁷judgments would be unstable and crimes
unchecked. Pesar, this is a step toward truth.

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.

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)

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.

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

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

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

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.

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...^²⁹⁸The 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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

(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).

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.”

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.

100 Franciscus Tolensis’ “Vita Thomae A’Kempis” in Latin and Dutch “In omnibus requiem quaesivi, sed non inveni, nisi inhoexkens ende boexkens.”

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).

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.

127 Sunnis reject Shi’ism belief they need to create world violent chaos to usher in the 12^th Iman, Satan in Jewish and Christian theology/prophesy, as opposed to the Divine Messiah, Christ Jesus’ Second Coming.

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.

147 Fritz Heider in Anatol Rapoport’s (1963) “Mathematical Models of Social Interaction,” Handbook of Mathematical Sociology, v. 2, pp. 493-580.

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.

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).

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 6^th 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.

266 The 14^th 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.

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.

325 See Merrill Unger’s Bible dictionary, (1957-1979) Moody Press, Chicago, Illinois, p. 126, 4^th century historian Eusebus of Caesrea, “Ecclesiastical History” (5:10), and Saint Jerome.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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”).

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Goor¹ of Iran:
A Farsical² Memoir of Polemics Versus Apologetics³

by

Dallas F. Bell, Jr.

The Goor1 of Iran: A Farsical2 Memoir of Polemics Versus Apologetics3

by Dallas F. Bell, Jr.

The Goor¹ of Iran:
A Farsical² Memoir of Polemics Versus Apologetics³

by

Dallas F. Bell, Jr.