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DAEG

The “DAY” can mean several things to many people in different cultures. “Daeg” is the term for day in Anglo Saxon. Daeg can refer to the time that the sun brightens the sky. Daeg can also refer to the ‘event’ of some kind of ‘time’ such as a ‘time’ of happiness, ‘time’ of sorrow, in the abstract, the ‘time’ of creation. It can mean someone’s ‘time’ to be alive—i.e., ‘their era’. When they are past, their life or ‘time’ can be a ‘time’ to be celebrated or honored– a memorial.

Such related names can and do go back as far as the Akaddian, “Digir” – “god”, Proto-Indo-European, “Dyaus” – day/sun/god/deity, “Theos”, “Zeus”, “Deus”…etc. all, which can relate to the “SUN” as god, the “Sun-God”, and “GOD” as the sun.

My intimation is that Beowulf is seen *as* the Sun/ god/ King and Grendel is seen *as* the Night, Evil one, Dark one (nith; nicor, NICK {cf. “old Nick”} in this astrological battle.

UHT

This anatomy of DAEG-time connotes the ending of night or “UHT”. Uht requires ‘darkness’ to leave since Uht is the ‘end of night’. Specifically, Uht is the ‘time’ right before daybreak. Nevertheless, darkness -i.e., UHT, – still has its reign during its time.

In the Anglo Saxon text of Beowulf we see the “time” at which the demonized Grendel acted. Grendel is a creature of the night. He attacked Heorot at night, at least once in the uhta, Uht, (or uhte), i.e., the hour of darkness before dawn, this being the deepest part of the night.

1 Grendel’s association with ‘wan’ (“to wane”) may also inform puns. It may be no coincidence that in persecuting Heorot and its inhabitants he wið rihte wan ‘fought against right’ , or that he wan / hwile wið Hroþgar ‘fought for a time against Hroðgar’. In both cases wan is obviously the past tense of winnan ‘to fight’, but may pun on the adjective wan ‘dark’. Also, when held fast by the arm in Beowulf’s grip, Grendel is heard “sar wanigean” – ‘bewailing (his) pain/wound’. Here the verb wani(ge)an (with long root vowel) may pun on wanian ‘to wane, diminish’ (with short root vowel). Of course, ‘the pain/wound diminishing’ is precisely the opposite of what is actually happening in a direct, physical sense, but may also detect a subtle anticipation of Grendel’s dismemberment as an image of the lunar wane, of the moon’s ‘dying’. This suggestion is encouraged by Beowulf’s likely description of how “hyne sar hafað / in niðgripe nearwe befongen” ‘the pain/wound has him [i.e., Grendel] narrowly/darkly/encompassed in a hostile/dark-moon. If there is a hint of Grendel’s ‘waning’ as he loses his arm, his ‘un/bad-sword’, then we may have an implicit parallel to the subsequent loss by ‘waning’ of the blade of the giant sword which serves as an extension of Beowulf’s sword-arm. Were Beowulf to contain more direct lexical references to the moon’s waning or dark phases, the proposed association of Grendel (and, we shall find, his mother and the climactic dragon) with the waning or dark moon would be strengthened. Old Norse has a specific word for the waning or dark moon: nið. This noun is attested both as a simplex and as the first element of compounds, including mythological personal names and toponyms. It may well be related to the Old Norse adverb niðr ‘down’, ‘beneath’ and Thus, early in the poem we hear that after Grendel had attacked Heorot, Ða wæs on uhtan mid
ærdæge / Grendles guðcræft gumum undyrne, a passage that might be translated: ‘Then, at the juncture of the last hour of darkness with dawn Grendel’s battle-strength was unsecret [i.e.,
revealed] to men’ – i.e., Beowulf (a shadowing “messianic” figure) fought and dismembered Grendel ( the demonized “Satan” figure) in the “uhthelm þone ‘the hour-before-dawn uproar/crash’ “.

Grendel was referred to as one of the “scaduhelma gesceapu” or “shapes of shadow-helms”. Grendel is related to the moon waning or “wana” —i.e., “the moon’s want of light”. Such fulfills the UHT idea *as* Grendel.

One of my biggest intrigues is that Grendel and his mother were “Moor-Walkers”…that is: they walked up to and on the border line of the dark swamp but did not cross over into the cultivated area of Herot until Grendel could take no more of Hrothgar’s revelry with feasts of drinking and gormandizing.

Some scholars say that this was a “christianizing” idea of Satan entering into the garden of Eden. I feel that both pagan, Jewish and Christian ideas of ‘horizons’, ‘boundaries’, ‘pagan’, ‘heathen’, ‘cutting off point’, ‘illegal entry’, etc.. could be compatible here in this luscious story of Beowulf.

DAEG-RIMA

Next in our sequence of horizons is the “Dawn” or “Daeg-Rima”. This means the “rim” or “border” of the day. This is the narrow space of time between night and day, when the sun just peeps over the horizon. Daeg-red and daeg-rima are followed by “Aer-Morgen” or “Daybreak”. After “Aer-Morgen” is Morgen or “morning”.

Here is a beautiful Old English text that brings together Easter for me today:

“THE LORD HIMSELF OVERCAME DEATH AND MADE THE DEVIL FLEE. THE PROPHETS OF THE ANCIENT DAYS HAD SAID HE WOULD DO SO. IT ALL HAPPENED AT ‘’UHT’’, BEFORE

‘’’DAEG-RED’’’. A DIN RESOUNDED, LOUD FROM THE HEAVENS, WHEN HE DESTROYED AND DEMOLISHED THE GATES OF HELL”.

As I played percussion this morning for the Sunday Sunrise Service this Easter Morgen outside I was aware of this beautiful idea that many of our ancient mothers and fathers knew this resurrection theme of ascent through the horizons. It was 43 degrees, quite chilly, but an icey-fire shot through my soul arresting
all of my senses as I was halted in awe of God’s SON as HE rose above the horizon in Resurrection for ALL of us.

OE niðer. Since the darkness of night ensues when the sun passes below the horizon, it was perhaps thought that when the moon was apparently absent from the sky on a cloudless night, it too was beneath
the ground.

In the language of Anglo Saxon Theology, great things happen at UHT. Such Great Things include the Greatest happening; Our Christ’s “Harrowing of Hell”. We see this idea in medieval art and literature.

The Harrowing of Hell is the “time” when Christ went into “NIGHT”. 2
From this descension and all of the horizons by which HE passed through to the depths of the Holle or Hell, HE came back through these Horizons to show HIS mastery over times, space, matter, etc. HE, Jesus Christ, is without bridle to the elements which bind us.

2 Here we have the final word, night, that I need to dig into. The word “night” has a very interesting etymology. To go past Anglo Saxon and to return again we might go to the Greek: Nux, nuktos, nyk, nek, etc. Such words were associated with “dark, danger, death… . The Greek nyctalopia, nikto-tropism, nyktophobia, etc. are examples of “NYK ” as ‘NIGHT’ in their meanings.Take for example the Genus of
night flowers in Greek called Nyktanthes or NYKTEA— the genus of the snowy owl of the night hunt. Nyctereutes is the genus of the raccoon dog. Nykteris is the genus of bats. Nykticorax is the genus of the Night Heron. 

Continuing this NYTOPIA we now turn to the “privative” or ‘negation’ of the dark acting thing to speak of its “light-bearing-actions”. Hence, in the Greek, “Aktis” means..”Ray of Light” instead keeping its common prefix “N” or “nu” in the Greek alphabet. Otherwise, “Naktis” would be related to “night activity”. The Germanic “night” seems to be used in the sense of ‘the unseen’ or something not in sight — as does the Hebrew, Sheol, “the unseen”, or “Holle” which can mean, “hell” as in ‘a hole in the ground’, ‘a separation’, ‘an unseen place’, ‘darkness’, ‘without light in a dark hole’ The German goddess *Frau-Holle* was a kind and hidden goddess of frost or cold. She is recognized in particular in the winter as the sun is reduced in length at mid winter solstice. Again, to the pagan world…. ‘Where the god’s eye–or sun, or
Heaven’s gate is seeing us less’ . The deadly “nightshade” is euphemistically called “Belladonna” in Italian. Mr. O. Winslow in his “The Inner Life ” written in 1850 figuratively says: “Satan has ever sought to engraft the deadly nightshade of error upon the life-giving ROSE OF SHARON:. Belladonna is Italian for “beautiful lady” –which opens the pupil – also does the deadly drug. In E. Hamilton’s “discussion of Flora” in 1851 she says, “Belladonna was employed by Leucota, a famous poisoner of Italy, to destroy the beautiful women of whom less beautiful but more powerful ladies were jealous” — as to put the beautiful ones ‘out of sight’.

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In our ancestor’s primitive rituals of enacting the dying god as scapegoat,  the god impersonates the innocent. That is, the roles are reversed and it is the god identified as the “nascent-minded”, “idiot” or “fool”. This seemingly simple minded one or village idiot is selected usually by their meekness and innocuous nature which ‘stands out’. Rene Girard coins the term “satanic contagion” as the acts of overwhelming desire for sex-murder-greed-fear-sympathy-respect. 

In James Frazier’s, Golden Bough, the idiot brings attention to him or herself. Such a  release of tension we should know from our youthful school days when the focus of the group collective or “clique” was set upon ‘that different one’ or the one who ‘stands out’. The more amplified the group contagion of hate put upon the idiot – the less focus on the inadequacies were brought to light on the group collective. Therefore, *naturally* and brutally the  community could mock, despise, put their judgement to, discard, dismiss, etc. the villiage or community “idiot”. 

Rene’ Girard calls this collective hate the “Satanic contagion” or “mimetic contagion”. Both aforementioned terms support each other. For it is the inability to escape the very D.N.A. that needs to express both sexual desire and  hate as two entities combined into ONE ‘collective orgasmic rage. Furthermore, these collective feelings must have an object of desire. I call this social cannibalism. 

We might find a Theological allusion here. In the first act of murder—- or “gracious” ‘driving off’ of the village idiot—-we have no communal, social, anthropological or individual resolve within the participation of this social cannibalistic act. 

It is the ego, not the person or community, which wills two perspectives. These two are: (a) —a failure to save yourself or the community from the desire to cannibalize  and (b) the will, which is not theirs or our own, to hate – and at the same time—long for or desire THE ONE who can ‘break the cycle’ of the human condition  Naturally, social cannibalism attempts the act of resurrecting beyond its will. By the Satanic Contagion —its own will is that which drives humanity to its demise – as we see Legion in Luke 8 willing itself in the presence of Christ to ‘go away’ into a mythological chthonic taxi – a.k.a. – the herd of swine seen in our most primitive representations as the carrier of souls to hell. For a further study on this, see Kerenya’s work on Eleusis. 

In their fallenness-innocence, it is the child – by their nature— to both want to destroy and at the same time require death and resurrection. That is: the child requires the same person (their parent – the image of God to them)  who they destroyed to be their patient saviour and to resurrect through the child’s tyrade showing the ‘better way’ to act. The child tests the parent – the god – to see if the parent “can take it”. 

It is not enough to complete such a duo of deepest sympathies. We need the god/ GOD Who would resurrect and overcome an overwhelming and inherited multiplicity of desires which drive our wills to enact the Mimetic contagion of social cannibalism. 

This is somewhat ‘touch base’ with my lecture on Messiah vs. The Hero where I explain that “the Hero-god-king’s cycle of perpetual death and rebirth” beckons a ‘repeat’ of the Satanic-Mimetic-Contagion. This Satanic Mimetic-Contagion is in adversus to the Messianic Line where the Christ-Messiah figure “draws” straightly “out of the circle” of social cannibalism. 

In opposition to the Satanic Mimetic Contagion…the Messianic Line is a drawn line with a POINT to refer to. That is, the point of reference or “ontic referent” is a lead – star that guides us out of the contagion with intent from an Intender WHO offers a road map. The teleos on this Line drawn out of the circle is the Christ of Salvation. 

We leave the cycle of “WHO should be killed next?”

Again, the contagion that we have enacted or mimed from time immemorial has perpetually showed us that it is never enough to merely “complete” such a duo of deepest sympathies – that is, the antinomies “orgasmic rage” and “sympathy” are deeply imbedded in our D.N.A. —- and this ‘uncatchable ball’ is what only a True God can resolve. 

Read the Old Testament, Sir James Frazier’s works, Rene Girard, Kerenya, Joseph Campbell, etc…..and find out what only the Gospels answer. In the Gospels you will find the Genius of the True – Undying God that resolves our double vision. We enact prophecy of Christ by doing everything else but what Jesus did. See the antithesis/ see the Messiah

The True Scapegoat and Sacrifice found in Isaiah 53:

1 Who has believed what he has heard from us?a And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejectedb by men, a man of sorrowsc and acquainted withd grief;e and as one from whom men hide their facesf he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief;g when his soul makesh an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall seei and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.

12 Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,j and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,k because he poured out his soul to death and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and makes intercession for the transgressors.                     

 Final Etymological Note:

The term, “orge” means both “orgasm” and “rage”. We etymologically find the word “rage” in the word “orgasm” and their Greek parent, “orge”. The etymologies and root do entirely express the feeling of two feelings for the group and at the same time, the  individual for ‘being out of one’s senses’.

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I was teaching on the very touchy subject of Christian Universal Salvation the other day when one of my students confronted me with what he called the ‘faulty nature’ of the penal system against Christ. He asked, “why should I believe in an angry God who is shocked with the actions of humankind and kills his own son because he needs ‘justice’!?”

Backdrop to apostate thinking: N.T. Wright

I knew that one of my student’s *new influences* was N.T. Wright. N.T. Wright calls the Sacrifice of Christ not necessary for our salvation. N.T. Wright says that the Christ-Scapegoat formula is a faulty and pagan idea and that God does not need to go through all of that drama to save us.

N.T. Wright fails to see predeterminism, pre-ordained & portentous foreshadowing from non-Jewish and Jewish backdrop. He fails to see universal themes and the fulfillment point of all of these theme’s sketches in both the pagan and religious world. He fails to see how all of the enactments of the pagan and Jewish world line up to fulfill the Pagan-Religious Christ figure – i.e., *REASON* for the world (I might add as always that “pagan” was meant by me as an ‘a-moral’ term just as its etymology tells us).

N.T. Wright is a soft spoken academic who literally teaches “no suffering” at the hand of God—which, in turn, takes ANY SUFFERING out of God’s hands and strips the ancient to modern universal theme of the ‘stricken god’ out of the equation. N.T.W. steals the value and depth of “the Story” of a transcendent God who truly gave us value and REASON by His ACTS for 3 years. By these ACTS we now know value and reason, fulfillment of pagan and Jewish prophecy, and Reason by which Plato was alluded to in John chapter one as LOGOS – the “LOGIC”, “LOGICAL ONE”, “The -OLOGY of all things, etc.

N.T. Wright, due to his ‘easy-believism’ breaks the ‘continuity’ of this eternal theme from antiquity to the Ages to come. This is a ‘lesser god’ than the one of Isaiah 45 which claims that “I create Good and Evil – Tov and Ra’ah in Hebrew, or, ‘that which builds up and that which breaks down’. N.T.W. leaves himself and his followers ‘left in a field of quandary due to no ‘tie-in’ with 6 thousand plus years of human development and connected anthropological and sociological meaning. The only ‘rational’ reason that I could see him doing this is for popularity and the income which comes with popularity.

No matter what the next convoluted idea that might come out of N.T.W.’s mouth, I believe will implicate him as an apostate in the literal sense. That is, the word “apostate” means, “no suffering” (Greek: “apo” – “take off” + “stasis/ state” = “the stand”, “standing”; –i.e., “to fall away”).

I decided not to stir an infection caused by N.T.W. in my student. Rather, I said calmly, “The Narrative of the Scapegoat is Everything”.

He asked what I meant. I said to him, “I’ll ask you two questions to answer us both—

1) If the Lamb (the Jesus figure) was ‘slaughtered from the foundation of the creation’ –mentioned in Revelation 13:8– do you think that Jesus was actually ‘murdered’ by some hysterical God/ Father figure who needed someone to die because ‘he was angered over the sin that *surprised Him*?”

2) Or, do you think that EVERY series of events needs the next series of events to carry the entire creation of time and space in a collective gestalt —which was planned before the foundation of creation? If you answer yes then good! Consequently, the Lamb of God must fit into the laws of thermodynamics and Biblical Predestination as ‘energies that be’. Therefore, Jesus *necessarily* was slaughtered for our sake to fulfill a part of the congruent whole both under the laws of Thermodynamics (because it already happened), Biblically, and to fulfill the pagan’s hope. Hence, the FULL Narrative.

My student thought out loud with me: “If Jesus’ death was ordained from the Foundation of creation then every action would have to be *contingent* on the next from the very act of creation to present day and all actions in between”. I said, “good!, You just described Biblical Predestination, a befitting plan for The Scapegoat without a surprised God, and surprised Thermodynamics (lol) —-all at the same time! Funny, isn’t it, that these 3 AGREE in logic?!

Then I asked and answered for him the following:

“if you are willing to believe that God can bring us all, that is – the entire world- to justification, rectification and salvation not of our works but of His Will, Works, and Energy – (Philippians 2:13) then the next step is to ask about the transcendent “method” by which God must walk with us in order to teach and guide us. Might I say, God has been ‘walking with us’ as we were a created unified system – from the dawn of time to the end of the world.

God has shown us The Story over the millennia. Therefore, how does the Scapegoat NOT fit into the ultimate meaning/*Reason found in Christ’s death and resurrection as the ultimate Scapegoat? (A) I say that this is answered by Owen Barfield’s idea of ‘The Evolution of Consciousness’. We were babies 6,000 years ago and are adults today. That we have only *relatively-recently* (the past 2,000 years) been able to understand the ideas of the Scapegoat personified through Christ and the Grace received from Him. This MAIN EVENT takes away any intimation that WE DID ANYTHING TO DESERVE THIS and destroys the discontinuous postulate of N.T. Wright.

Were there earlier- more primitive enactments or Narratives that required a Scapegoat? (A) absolutely! James Frazier’s “Golden Bough” is an exemplary research into this practice among the pagans and Hebrew cult.

Why did these communities require a penal system? (A) Primitive beliefs instigated by Shamans, Priests, or collective superstitions show that when elemental or anthropomorphic gods were angered they ‘acted out’ in a retributive fashion. It was up to the Shaman, Priest, Priest-King, or leader of the primitive community to ‘resolve’ the god’s wrath by offering a vessel (Scapegoat) which would take the offending sins away from the community. This was a technique in controlling the masses. If this didn’t work, human sacrifice was not an estranged idea. We see the ‘appeasement’ of the angered god through Jack (the figure of the devil in the young boy) in the Lord of the Flies. The ‘collective soul’ amongst the tribe of English school boys -turned motley crew- was instigated by Jack’s ‘chaotic mind’ and his lust for dominance. In this example, the one with REASON was killed. REASON, expressed the character Piggy, was not welcomed because REASON exposed the chaos. The chaos of Jack, as the devil, worked-operated as the head of a ‘collective beast’ which generated a mesmerism of fear.

I find it interesting that in the Archko Volume, or Acta Pilati – Jesus was described physically as ‘not that attractive, big nosed, blue eyes and looked the part of a common Jew in His day. It was said that even the sound of His voice wasn’t that attractive until He spoke of His Father. It was the unattractive character – Piggy – that had likened societal defects . He was portly and optically challenged. His manner of speaking, for sure, was not appealing to the mass. Though his words were true he was hated because ‘the beast’ which worked through the boys under Jack saw a Scapegoat. The murder of Piggy, by Roger- who had no ability to think under Jack– ‘solidified’ the gang into faux strength and carried for another day an appeasement rooted in riotous fear and blood thirst.

Was there a ‘balance to be restored’ for these communities such as the children in the Lord of the Flies? As seen in my last statement, there can only be a short lived ‘appeasement’ of the masses (and the appeased god) for dominance seeking and leadership by power will begin again. Ultimately, had Ralph, the good boy-who led by righteousness, had not ‘come-upon’ the Military Commander who landed on Coral Island, the social cannibalism (possible physical cannibalism) would have continued until one would remain.

“if the enactment within the Narrative of the Scapegoat’s death was to be Christ’s crucifiction on the cross then what was the *meaning* of His death? – (A) I say, ‘to answer the pagan’s societal conflict of guilt, rage, shame and anxiety who had **no methodological approach to reason’. Christ IS **REASON for this VERY REASON! The Scapegoat fulfilled is the ULTIMATE REASON. Life Now has something to act to, for, from, at, journey from and come back to —i.e., the meaning of VALUE in the Scapegoat-Christ Jesus. Herein lies the answer for the Pagan in this regard. Again, this is where I address N.T. Wright’s faulty premise: Christ as ‘the Scapegoat’ is pagan. I agree with N.T.W. on this point!! But not in the way N.T. Wright says it. Christ fulfilled ALL pagan foreshadowing through God’s providential acts of establishing Primitive-Pagan enactments of putting sin to a thing and carrying it away into the unseen lands. Christ associates with the historical pagan and associates with the pagan in the Gospels! In this good sense of pagan association: Owen Barfield’s ‘collective consciousness’ might be answered in the Scriptural passage: Colossians 1:16 “For by Him ALL things were created: things in Heaven and on earth, visible, and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by HIM and for HIM”. Christ’s death and resurrection was once and for all. His atonement needed no further sacrifice or scapegoat. The doctrine that followed Christ’s enactment was in continuance to HIS enactment. That is, we must die as HE did, every day. We must speak the TRUTH unto our death as the enacted Scapegoat. In this, no more ritual without substance, rather, substance to everyday enactments.

Lastly and repeated for emphasis: “If the Lamb was ordained to death from the foundation of creation then *predestination* was the mode by which God’s Sovereignty acted. Clearly, the desire of the pagan’s collective enactments of sacrifice and Scapegoat were intently genetic and can be seen as a predetermination force all through the most remote of tribes from time immemorial. All of them and all of us have been looking for an eternal ONCE AND FUTURE KING.

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It is for the Biblical “STORY”, “THE NARRATIVE”, “THE PLAY”, and REALITY, etc…that “ATONEMENT” created the  ***SENSE***.by which atonement was necessary— and actually agreed with neighboring Middle Eastern cultures concerning “sacrifice”.  Atonement creates the language of boundaries” and places colors on a canvass which would otherwise be white – reflecting all color.  When there’s no painting, no Story, no color, etc— it just Is. This is the distinction of eternity and eternal meaning set to print in time.  

Atonement wasn’t just relegated to the Biblical Story. In James Frazier’s “Golden Bough”, Mr. Frazier shows us that the entire world understood the importance of Atonement.  From primitive gods to group collective volitions,  designating who or what should take on their sea of troubles was a community participation and in-figured reality.   Sacrifice was necessary when community troubles grew to a boiling point without remedy. Therefore, “Pagan-Non Pagan-Hedonistic-Capitalistic, etc…”  atonement was/is/ will be necessary on a base-line  level for all cultures. 

The *Judicial* Murder by God-Father of Son-God was both (in their immediacy) (1) The Most Heinous Act ever committed and (2) The Salvation of the World —-where ‘That which was/is perfect’ can be shared *****by identity***** as ‘Broken Shards of Glass’. Christ, now, can be viewed reflectively “back to the Whole” and *valued* by HIS LOSS and then again, the GAIN by which we receive and what HE receives” 

I will be interviewing for the 4th time the leading J.R.R. Tollkien Scholar and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland and Oxford adjunct, Dr. Verlyn Flieger, next month concerning her book, “Pig’s Tale”. This book, through fiction, treats the topics of Sacrifice and Scapegoat to be entirely different from one another. It covers the primitive collective social sense for atonement. 

I conclude my thoughts here with Rene’ Girard’s “atonement theory” that Christ was the ONLY Myth that became real, dwelt amongst us and fulfilled all pagan aspirations of atonement. For those who don’t know me, “Pagan” is used by me in the *a-moral* sense: “those on the ‘other side of the peg’; ‘on the other *page*”

I’m still working on analogue/ and association of ‘what it takes to be a meaningful sacrifice and also — scapegoat).

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U.P.T.

Up until now, we have triangulated our way up to a consistent Theology. The 3 main components that provide a coherent and consistent Theology are: (U) Universal Sanctification-reconciliation (Apocatastasis), (P) Pre-determinism (Pro-horidzo), and the (T) Teleology (teleos) which, in congress of forward motion (‘gestalt’), stands upon the first two. That is: the “END” or “teleos” is a *result* of ALL prior ENERGIES “that were”. This is what I call the “U.P.T.” formula.

It is with the faith (Greek:pistis – Proto Indo European: “Bheidh” – mental place where we launch from) that you will listen to my past lectures to understand WHY I believe in the coherency of this formula. Therefore, I will take a pass on ‘proving’ what I have stated up to this point. What I will state now is the “4th Dimension” to this U.P.T. formula. Simply, the etymology and story of the “Apocalypse”.

THE APOCALYPSE

The word “Apocalypse” literally means, “off (with the) cover”; “to expose”; “to reveal”; “to un-cover”; “to show”, etc. Simply: “apo” = ‘off’ + “kalupto” = ‘cover’, ‘lid’, ‘seal’.

So, the Greek “apokalupto” or ”Apocalypse” is NOT just something in the future, rather, it is the “Revealing of ALL that has been hidden” since time immemorial. In this sense, everyone experiences their own “apocalypse” every second as ‘revelations’ reveal themselves to the total sum of your being or ontology to right now.

THE FORMULA “U.P.A.T.” FOUND IN THE SPIRITUAL GRAMMAR OF JOB

Job 42:11 – “Then came there unto him and his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over (P.) ALL THE EVIL THAT THE LORD HAD BROUGHT UPON HIM ……every man also gave him a piece of money and every one an earing of gold. (42:12) (T.) So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning…… “

“Satan” was a literal reality in the Narrative of Job but is diminished to a literary mechanism which becomes dispensable. Evil cannot ‘do’ a ‘work’. It can only *be used to do God’s plan*. Satan is a stylus that carves the predetermined significance upon the rock of meaning.

“(I label U, P, A, and T to show that necessary ‘quadratic’ necessary view.)

(P) Any trial one goes through is a segway to ‘an Apocalypse’. (T) Job’s trials led him to his

*Teleology*. (T.) His *teleology* was the ‘end point’ by which he could (A) understand/ see that (P.) it was GOD that put him through the FIRE of Satan to be purified and, finally, (T.) renewed. (P.) “The Satan” could only act upon the office he was given. (U *.) Remember, Job was prior to Christianity, Judaism, the Prophets, and even the Biblically Legislative brand of Patriarchs which dictated a law code. This means that the only way that Job could have been ‘saved’ was the UNIVERSAL LOVE by which God granted Job without law code or Christianity.

TRIBAL ASPECTS OF APOCALYPSE

For simple association: if you saw Mel Gibson’s movie, “Apocalypto”, you’ll have taken away the *broadest and simplest* explanation for the meaning of “Apocalypse”. The movie is about a tribe of brutal profiteering and conquering “Aztec” Indians (historically, it was the Mayans) putting into bondage other weaker tribes and selling them off to sun god worshipping “Aztecs (again, Mayans)” who cut the heads off their victims for the sake of appeasing the sun god. This act of ‘social cannibalism’ is not new to the Aztecs if one only reads James Frazier’s “Golden Bough”. At the end of the movie a new “Apocalypse” occurs when the Spanish Armada arrives ending, historically, the Mayan civilization in the Yucatan peninsula. This is yet a new Apocalypse.. All to say: ‘the end of an *AEON* or AGE and the beginning of a new AEON. Isn’t this word, AEON, the very word used in Revelation 20-22 for “eternal” in the English? —might I say, a horrible and derailing English translation. For a deeper study into Social Cannibalism one can refer to this topic in a doctoral thesis at UMI titled, “Social Cannibalism. Also, the 12 volume treatment given to Mankind and his social taboos by Sir James Frazier, quod vide.

As a side note:

Concerning ‘advancement’ from social cannibalism and into Catholicism I go as follows: whether the argument can be made that spreading Catholicism in the Yucatan peninsula was a relatively good (if one is to not take the ‘centricity’ of Jesus’ Gospels) thing or not can be up to you to make. I would say (1) all things are ‘good’ under God’s Providence —i.e., “good” as *beneficial to build the ‘full house of meaning’ * and (2) that ‘new archetypes’ were infused into such cultures with the precise progression needed to make the higher idea of a Christ figure. Therefore, Spanish Medieval Catholicism was a necessary ‘afterthought’ or ‘echo’ of the original Christ figure —-which, to me, is better than nothing and it was a *start* to that which was previously barbarous and laden with superstition. Arguments can be ensued, and will be I’m sure.

BIBLICAL APOCALYPSE

We must dispense with child’s play concerning the faulty English translation of “eternity” and “apocalypse” and return to the Glossary by which the entire New Testament had faith in to use…namely, the Paideia of the Greeks. I have done enough work on this subject on my website, The Fullness Of Meaning Christian Ministries.com (fomcm.com), to convey a solidly backed Word bank supporting a new and fresh look at an etymologically sound Scripture.

Since I address at the top of this piece what “Apocalypse” means, I will again, from prior lectures, address the tangential word to apocalypse, “AEON”.

“Indefinite time” or “AEON” does not have to mean “infinity”, though it could. The WAY in which Aeon and Aidion were used as ‘indefinite times’ were poetically and philosophically expressed a complimentary union of ideas.

Such a poetical employment of words could be used to create the seemingly “irrational” mental state of either the poet or the characters by which they participate. Therefore, subsuming the ‘rational’ or ‘reasonable’ for a beautiful alien ‘irrationality’, if conveyed by the poet correctly, could arrest one’s senses and lure one’s self out of the lust, greed, covet, anger world—i.e., suspend one from the mire of social relativism which leads to nihilism.

This beautific apocalyptic irrationality created words fit for philosophical treatise and revelatory Biblical writing—-paratactic writing – for the words has concretized into ‘meaning’ and a correlative ‘semiotic commitment’ for the ‘abstract’ had occurred. Hence, the mathematical philosophers and prophets had a ground to work from.

From here, I hope to begin my statement of faith as the U.P.A.T. or – “Universal Pre-Determinative Apocalyptic Teleology”. For audible aesthetic convenience only I place “apocalyptic’ before “teleology”.

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*To know what something is – is to know what it is not*

–k.j.-

PREFACE

The Greek word for “time segment”, or, Aionios was contrasted with Adios – meaning “infinity”. These two terms were used throughout Homeric times down to the 1st century A.D. Christian Church. As we introduce the term “Adion” for infinity in this lecture piece we will see what Aeon is not.

I will be clear: Aeon, meaning “a segment of time”, “an era”, “an eon”, “an age” and “a limited/unknown ‘finite time”, was employed by the Biblical writer, John, in his Revelation – or, “Apocalypse”, for the usage of Hell within its “aeon of purpose”. Moreover, the “ontology” or “coming to be” of ‘an age’ of ‘being a sinful human’ requires AN aeon or “era” of hell to refine them to God; this intimates ‘direction’, therefore, INTENT of a GOD to create a passageway by which we will be refined, ready, and reserved for the final destination, i.e., UNION with GOD.

We, therefore look at our part 4 focusing on the ‘’vocabulary bank’’ by which the New Testament used its terms for Eternity, Perpetuity, Eons, Ages, and infinitude.

Parts 1-3 covered Aeon in all of its forms. We conclude that “Aeon” was used as an *finite undefined time segment*.

Our next focus is Adios (Adion). Since we have seen by its usage that Aeon is not an ‘unending’ term we therefore look to Adios.

We continue to go to the archaic authors of the Greek and Hellenized world to see that ‘Aidios’ was socially normalized in its usage. Again, words are used in their participation of the figuration of a culture. I reiterate from my past 3 lectures that the beginning New Testament community (ca 30 A.D.) had its rich linguistic heritage spanning at least 800 years, if not more, from the Classical Greek authors.

Examples of TIME: ETERNITY

Adios and Chronos working together

Time (1)

One of the earliest cultural usages and accounts of Adios is found in Homer’s “Hymn to Hestia” (ca. 800 B.C.). Here, the ‘goddess resides on a throne’ with mortals. This, by context alone, should give us ample information to see that there is a kind of “time” that can ‘participate’ in this “throne realm” but is separate from….for …if mortality exists there, then ‘mortality’ requires sequential time or “chronos”—which is separate and distinguished from Aidion as we shall see. Chronos is neither subsumed or supervened by Adios at this aforementioned juncture, rather, they (Chronos and Adios) share their ‘attributes’ at certain juncture points for a fuller gestalt of meaning. That is, time and eternity (chronos and Aidios) are ‘conjunctive’ as ‘time’ meets the eternal…or, relating to mortals → **the epiphanal**.

We see Hestia, the Goddess of the *Hearth/ Throne* sitting at her ‘permanent seat’….”edren aidion elaxes”. Such as ‘seat/ throne’ is the hearth at the fireplace. It is where the family convened to talk, eat, share, cook, stay warm, associate with HOME. Hestia, was considered LOVE, THE BELOVED…and, in this Maiden Housekeeper sense, she was Divinely Eternal Without End. Hestia was called, “She of the Public Hearth”. So, there is a sharing of the “time” of mortality and this AIDION throne. This is no more contradictory than when the Eternal God of the Bible talks with the Patriarchs, Matriarchs and Prophets. How About the answerable Platonic idea of “coming to be” to the FULLNESS of the UNIVERSAL found in the very NATURE of JESUS CHRIST ‘coming to HIS FULLNESS?!? I.e., When the UNIVERSAL meets the Particulars. The “participation” by which the gods, Gods act involves such a confluence of different “times”.

Time (2)

We find Aidios inscribed in Hesiod’s “Shield of Hercules” saying, “‘aidion eixon ponon”. This means that no one side can win in this athletic competition. It states the ‘stasis’ by which movability cannot be achieved, therefore, ‘without end’ —–in the duration of the game. But here’s the catch: it is in the ‘picture’ of stasis without resolution. This depiction fires on the mind a never ending battle for glory without resolve….a state of being…a longsuffering of worldly effort…the battle of the EPOS (‘epic ones’) or “eroes” (“heros”).

Time (3)

Anaximander’s ( A.NAX’.uh.MAN.der) Greek says, “Tayn Aidion Kinaysin” —i.e., “The Aidion is perpetual movement”, —-therefore, Aidion shows no retirement of motion, hence, no *aging*.

Time (4)

Anaximenes (A.NAXIMENEEZ) says,”Kinaysin de kai hootos aidion poiei” as to agree with Anaximander.

Time (5)

Anaximander went on to say, “There is a certain NATURE of the infinite” – “phusin tina tou apeirou” – “and that this NATURE is ETERNAL and UNAGING” – “Aidion ein kai a.gayro {“a” = “not” + gayro’ – aging/ i.e., ‘geriatric’}”.

Time (6)

Xenophanes (XSE.NAH’.fa.neez) attests Adios as “indestructable”, immortal, and ungenerated (i.e., uncreated). Xenophanes uses Adios in contrast to anything that is “coming to be” —or “generated”. To conclude Xenophanes: anything that segways to the next event is not Adios.

Time (7)

Diogenes (DIE-AH.jeh.neez) Laertius (Lay.er.ti.uhs) simply agreed with Xenophanes here.

Time (8)

Anaxagoras agreed with Aristotle that “Adios” is ‘without end’

Time (9)

Heraclitus says, “Adios is perpetual motion of things without end”. These “Things” therfore do not share in the attributes of Aeones.

Time (10)

Empedocles says, “There is a “THING OF NECESSITY”, an ancient DECREE of *gods ETERNAL*—- i.e., “Anankayce Krayma Theon Psaypheesma Palaion Aidion”. Conclusively brilliant, Empedocles continues to his conclusion that Aidion is “spherical, eternal, and immobile” – i.e., “Sphairo-eides Kai Aidion Kai Akin-ay-ton To Hen”.

Time (11)

Parmenides used the term Aidion to mean “ALL” in the sense of “ALL that will always be…ALL that is ungenerated and imperishable”.

Time (12)

Simplicius says, “nothing that has a beginning and end is Aidion”

*Time (13)

For me, maybe the most important statement was from Metrodorus of Chios who stated, “The ALL (TO’ PAN) is Eternal (AIDION), Because, If It Came Into Being At A Certain Moment, It Would Come To Be From Non-Being; And It Is Unlimited (Apeiron) Inasmuch As It Is Eternal:For It Does Not Have A Principle (Archay) From Which It Began, Nor A Limit (PERAS) Or An End (TELEUTAY)” For today I will end our section on the usage of Aidion in Greek Antiquity. Thank you,

Kyle Jones

Post Statement and Recap

Our job at fomcm.com is to search for historically overlooked material that substantiates the Bible to the regard that it should be given.

Often, the Westerm “orthodox approach” ‘limits’ the purview of the authentic linguistic content, a.k.a., “Message” of God’s Word by *Westernisms* or recognizable ideas that fit into ‘our sense’ of our Orthodox god. Sadly, the robbery is by and to the ‘church’ by which its failures are founded upon limitations of Eastern Understanding of the Biblical Text. One limitation after the next, always trying to ‘keep up’ with the ever reducing idea of the ‘so called biblical text’ which is currently founded upon man-made notions of God.

Fear is the engine by which ‘an orthodoxy’ fights not repent. Scientists have to secularly ‘repent’ when they find something that counters and finally disproves an older thesis–which becomes no-more-scientific…but simply, WRONG….. . Likewise, Theology SHOULD contain the same humility within their “orthodoxies” —as I speak ‘tongue and cheek’. And again, once there has been grounds for challenging the English Text of King James…one should be allowed to find answers to countertheses via an orthodox ‘council’ without agenda. It is here that I make mention of “rhetors” from the Paideia of the class Trivium.

I speak of “rhetors” in the classical sense by which the first grade of learning Greek and Latin language began the Trivium’s rite of passage to academic bliss. Then, from Language to logic. Finally, argumention (or rhetors) was taught by the very wise secular Greek and Hellenized Christian mothers of the first and second centuries.

These 3 phases (language, logic and rhetors) of the Trivium ( by which the educated Greek class lived) led facets of Greek culture to be strung together with respect and congruity of thought……and not as brute beast ‘authoritarians’ who ‘brawl’ over ideas for dominance and not truth. I need not discuss the brutal nature of this approach in today’s world.

In contrast to this last mentioned civil unrest…. the Paidea of the Greek’s Trivium created learned scholiasts of the Biblical Text to find their ‘senses’ in historical comparitive hermeneutics, Biblical Greek analysis and parsing of the stems of Greek Grammar, socially-contextualizing and examining the socio-linguistic understanding by which the geographical ‘neighbors’ of the Palestinian Jews and Christians understood their God. THIS IS of the Hebrews and New Testament Christ, and, finally, exegete the Biblical Textus Receptus or “Received Authoritative Greek and Hebrew Bible”—as well as the LXX or Septuagent, i.e., the Greek Old Testament by which we have transferable Greek terms with Hebrew.

Finally, fomcm.com gathers writers of Greek pagan antiquity to show that the ‘vocabulary bank’ of the New Testament was not out of a ‘vaccum’. Rather, the Greek New Testament used the Greek language that the ENTIRE Greek world had been baptized in, saturated, steeped in since the inception of Greek culture. This is nothing to overlook, and yet, the Western American Orthodox Church has somehow or another concluded to not deem it important to know what the New Testament REALLY WAS SAYING IN THEIR DAY, THEIR CULTURAL CONTEXT, THEIR SEMIOTIC AGREEMENT, THEIR SLANG, THEIR WAY OF SAYING THINGS, IDIOMS, DIALECTS, etc…. I hear from western ‘authorities’ of the ‘orthodox churches’ saying that “devotion is over theology”. You can’t ‘devote’ to something ill-defined. Why fear exegeting while ‘working on your *devotion*?’. *What IF, ….the “MATHETIKON” (in the Greek) meant “TOTAL DEVOTEE” to the LOGOS or Christ as He spoke on Earth?!!—Well, it does! Lastly, I say….”if you *know* the God you serve then you will serve HIM correctly; otherwise, there will be a false sense by which you relate to the WORDS that HE has spoken and YOU have so neglectfully handled in your isoglossed cultural *SENSE* of “”devotion””.

RECAP

Remember, “Indefinite time” does not have to mean “infinity”, though it could. The WAY in which Aeon and Aidion were used as ‘indefinite times’ were poetically and philosophically expressed a complimentary union of ideas.

Such poetical employment of words could be used to create the seemingly “irrational” mental state of either the poet or the characters by which participate. Therefore, subsuming the ‘rational’ for a beautiful alien ‘irrationality’, if conveyed by the poet correctly, could arrest one’s senses and lure one’s self out of the lust, greed, covet, anger world.

This “irrationality” created words fit for philosophical treatise for the words has concretized into ‘meaning’ and a correlative ‘semiotic commitment’. Hence, the mathematician-philosophers had a ground to work from.

It is not so strange to look at a word complex if we understand ‘pictographic societies’ as our ancestral origins. Herein lies the genius of the Greeks that was not so different, if not related, to the pictographic societies of the Egyptians, Sumerians and the Original Ancient Hebrew pictographic texts of the Pre-Sinaitic Israelites. Such ‘radicals’ as “fire, serpent, toxic, 6 wings, etc.” did indeed mean the “Seraph” or angels that flew with the temple of God in HIS ETERNAL “Train” or Verb of Perpetual – unending Motion through and into this “temporal state”. This is the “Parousia”, per se, of the Old Testament God who condescends to us.

Nonetheless, the force of each archaic Greek word was known by a millennia of usage for the exact purpose to specify categories of thought, therefore, distinguishing one term FROM the other.

The richness of Greek vocabulary is found in how one word can dance around the other, never stepping on the other’s semiotic ‘toes’ —- only reinforcing the other’s role, creating a union of ideas and images due to the strength and value the Greeks held to word care.

To paraphrase Edward Gibbon, the author of the Decline of the Roman empire, “Empires Fall when the study, usage, retention, and guarding of their language is no longer preserved. Double entendres, business-speak, cultural popular slang, etc. are the beginnings of this sorrow”.

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In parts 1 and 2 we did a brief glimpse into the socio-linguistic aspect of the New Testament *vocabulary*. A more complex study pertaining to parts 1 and 2 can be obtained by studying the Paideia of the Christian youth in the first and second centuries.

The application of historical-morphological filtering of word meanings down to an “age” of “collective reasoning” is necessarily implemented in order to find Biblical “vocabulary agreement’. With this said, for sure the Greek New Testament’s social context could be viewed as heavily influenced by two forces: (1) Socially Naturalized verbal usage from Logographic/ Pictographic Proto-Armenian (Syunik) to Hittite, Proto-Georgian/ Kartvelian and Sumerian pictographic society …and, (2) the ingenious handling of Aristotle’s deductive syllogism and Plato’s agreement of particulars in motion to the fuller receptacle of itself. Such a view synthesized pagan predeterminism with Theistic determinism. It has hyper focused the question of ‘direction’ and ‘duration’ by which the associative words ‘move forward’ in a given society which would therefore be superimposed by a Deity. Simply put, Plato’s etymological treatments concerning Natural elements, their associative words and the evolution of their abstractions became a grammatical and etymological “theology”.

I might add a very interesting point of this study of historical morphology: The “abstract” nature of an ancient Sumerian, Chinese, Egyptian, Hittite, Indus Valley, pictograph was designated as ‘abstract’ due to the Thalian (Thales) approach (starting with Thales, ca. 586 B.C. {the year Judah was taken captive into Babylon}).

Herein lies the beginnings of ‘specific-STRUCTURE’ deduction – a.k.a. “probabilities” – “proving via ‘observation’ “ vs. ‘acting within the ‘genius’ or ‘joining’ of a community without the weariness of analysis. Such examples might be found contrasted in tribal communities. Such as a New Guinean tribe living within their own biosphere perfectly adapted to the genius of the trees, streams, water, food gathering, family life, etc…. Such a lifestyle is what we might call, NATURAL… or “nature”. Language is, on the other hand, “Abstracted” (‘taken from’ “off” + “structure” –”nature at its origins”) from its ‘root form’ of Natural elements such as “sky, tree, stream, dirt, earth, fire, wind, etc.”. To this, there is a ‘meeting ground’ for me that solidifies a verbal-social *semiosis* within the telegraphed (i.e., to that era studied) socio-verbal bank. One needs the other to exist, past needs present and visa versa. If you will, out of time ‘semiosis’.

One might delve into Aristotle’s Rhetoric, generatione et corruptione (coming to be and going away) and Plato’s Cratylus for a wonderful side study on word morphologies and the limitations of their interpretations, aka, ‘semiotics’. So beautifully found for me were the “Natural” elements were linguistically ‘abstracted’ into a combined STORY. They had to go somewhere. The Morphology of the Folktale is all about the natural becoming unnatural and the Morphology of the Folktale also brought about the FULFILLMENT of all things (aeon) in the fullness of time to a mythopoeic and then prophetically instanced culmination of pagan and Biblical agreements. In this ‘eye’ I see NO contradiction between the movement of pagan tales and Semitic prophecy.

I see no distance between Biblical archetypes found either in the Bible or in the Norse Volsung Saga, Greek myths, Rig Veda, etc…..only movements to agreement by force of LOGOS.

The Padeia of the early Greek words found their fulfillments in a Hellenized Christ figure. The origins of Greek Society were in their pagan poets such as Aeschylus, Sappho, Homer, etc….so, how could they be a mistake if the God of the Bible created ALL THINGS (—aeon–)?!?

Such Semitic archetypes, shadows, types, and prophecies did Christ Jesus fulfill! Such European and Hellenized archetypes did Christ fulfill as the Messiah versus the limited Hero. Jesus was and is the physical fountainhead by which all myths, folklores, etc. were pointing to. It was, and still is, the negative of the pagan’s sociatal “photograph” of the Hero that the Christ fulfills. More than this, the efforts of the pagan that ‘miss the mark’ for joy, selflessness, consistency and specific direction are ‘naturally’ painted without cognisance of the Christ. Christ TRULY fills in the MISS (the lacking of the pagan). Truly, if there is a historical Odin that walked around the backstreets of Norway or Iceland no historian wrote it down, only the poets and bards created the mythos. Did Krishna sit down to dinner with a local Indian community in Historical reality? I think not. All of these beautiful pagan stories allude with cultural color a Christ to come and the solidification of the Language, the LOGOS, by which the Greek Words in the New Testament submitted and took to their stations. It is within this ‘imaginative field’ of the fantastic do I digress for I know the literary genius of Tolkien in this world. Yet, even Tolkien was a Christian who believed in the ‘collective consciousness’ of all myths had a bearing of LOGOS to which other worlds could be generated. But, Tolkien’s focus was just that and by THAT he accepted the Trueness of the LOGOS and the power of its deployment upon all of the aons of our existence. This is why I stay within such realities writing this paper which are not ‘subcreated’ within a vacuum of humankind’s opinion, or technical ‘idiocy’—’viewed as one perceives’.

Lastly, the Greek New Testament should be read within the context by which the Christ was in agreement with the Greek myths/ Hellenized Paideia, Christian Paideia, The Greek Old Testament (LXX/ Septuagent), the great philosophers – Plato and Aristotle and our parent, the Hebrew Bible, by which YHVH revealed HIS RHEMA, DABAR, SHEM, and SHEKINAH that we may operate within the confines of His WORDS.

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The Perversion of the “HELL VERSES”

REASON BASED IN EXEGESIS TO FREEDOM FROM IGNORANCE

“Paideia” (cf. Dr. Werner Yeager’s treatment on “Christian Paideia” and “Classical Greek Paideia”) was the classical education for the first century Christian Children which means, “to walk; walk; the walk”—-i.e., “the little *footers*”. One could use the Star Wars term, “Padua (same term as Paideia) ”, for “young ones learning “The Force”. We see this term in “Pediatrics” for medical care for the youth.

The Paideia for 1st century Christian children consisted of (1) Greek and Latin language (2) Logic (3) Rhetoric. All such Classical education came DIRECTLY out of Aristotle and Plato’s Greek and references to the classical myths of Homer on down (cf. my treatment on Homeric ties with the synoptic Gospels). There would have been no confusion between the New Testament text presented by Paul and the Paideia because Paul was Hellenistically-classically trained. Paul cryptically if not openly referred to the classics and the Great Philosophers in the Scripture. Paul, by inspiration of God, fulfilled the philosophy of the Greek writings by stitching them into their final stages with the Resurrection of the unknown god at Mars Hill. Paul’s Christianity was understood by the Hellenized World, i.e., to the Barbarians, Pagan Rome, Greece, and Europe. Everyone would have understood the Greek usage of the Greek New Testament because the words were interlocked with the Hellenized culture which was Aristotelian based and enforced through his student, Alexander.

So, the Greek usage during the ante-nicene first century Church (ca. 33 A.D. to ca. 350 A.D.) was, for sure, philosophically and linguistically Aristotelian (and Platonic based). Alexander the Great, who “Hellenized (made everyone learn Greek/ think Greek) the world, was the direct padua/ ‘mathetikon’ of Aristotle —or, “Mathetekes (mathematician – i.e., “disciple” is known in the New Testament).

Now, let’s apply this knowledge to Biblical exegesis:

APAKATASTASIS (Acts 3:21) vs. THE ENGLISH ETERNAL “JUDGMENT”

THE FIRST OF TWO ‘HELL-VERSES’

I will use this definition again within this treatment but I would like to place this first for our “mental coathangers”: Aristotle’s “Kolosis (judgment) is used for the SAKE/ BENEFIT of the one being punished” – i.e., IN ORDER FOR REMISSION OF THE SIN!/ A RECTIFICATION!!!

The ‘eternal scourging’ was and is our English idea of “Eternity” from the *interpolation -perversion* via the Latin Vulgate’s “Aeturnus” ((and not the original Biblical Greek, ‘Aeones’)) which, indeed, meant “eternity without end”.

In contrast to the Vulgate’s erroneous translation-usage of Aeturnus, the Biblical Aeones (a certain duration of time) and Kolosis (affliction for the benefit of the afflicted unto remission of guilt), which was not understood or applied in the Medieval mind of King James or his Biblical *version*, was used as an expression of the ‘baptism of fire’ (( Matthew 3:11: John the Baptist as an ‘enactment’ or ‘panomimist’ says: “I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but HE that cometh after me (JESUS) is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: HE shall baptize you with the HOLY GHOST and WITH FIRE/ 1 Peter 4:12 – “Don’t think it a strange thing that a fiery trial would take place upon you”)) or ‘fiery trials which are to try us’ (The “evil” aspect of us as the ‘evil doer’) unto the remission of sins’ in order for their eye or hand to burn and not them (cf. Matthew 18:8 {paraphrased) if your hand, foot, or eye causes you to stumble, cast it into eternal fire lest the “WHOLE” body be thrown into eternal fire! ←– But now! In Philippians 2:13 it states: “For it is God WHO works in you to WILL and to ACT in order to fulfill HIS GOOD PURPOSE”. So, any “repentance” unto remission of sins is a GOOD *act, will, choice, doing, becoming, etc.*. So, WHO is doing the “casting of the limbs lest the whole body is cast into hell” thing? …Looks to me that this is a “META” idea. If we are “speaking” as “we see” then we are very well deluded. If we read, learn, obey, study, dig deep, etc. into the Biblical Greek and Hebrew text we WILL FIND that it is GOD who creates, does, WILLS ALL things for the ‘good’ of HIM and those who have been made to believe in HIM (Isaiah 45:7; ff—Isaiah 48; Romans 8:28-ff, etc.).

It would be psychotic to shed rageful anger and eternal damnation forever upon something, someone that is governed by YOUR WILL to begin with. Adversely, what IS LEFT IS REASON: In the FREEDOM of being within the INFINITE WEB of GOD’s existence as HIS *CHILDREN* to roam FREELY in HIS mansion/ domicile/dominion/’doom’/judgement = all the same word, etymologically (cf. my “WYRD HOARD” podcast on “Doom and Fates”) we are eternally bound to infinite possibilities of joy, love, experience, etc. Not even the Calvinists seem to take “Predeterminism” this far, yet, THIS KIND OF PREDETERMINISM is what concludes us to UNIVERSAL RECONCILIATION and Calvinists MUST HAVE THEIR JUDGEMENTS! It’s a schizophrenic approach to scripture to hold to either Calvinism for all of its predeterminism of “love” for the Calvinist and “Hate” for the non Calvinist. Worse yet, the “seeking” of the doomed. I become sickened at reading my own typing here because I know these words are ALL ‘ill-defined’ by ‘orthodoxy’.

It was King James, however, who wrote “Demonology” and was a supporter of a fifteenth century text written by the clergyman, Heinrich Kramer, called “Malleus Maleficarum (Medieval Latin: “the Hammer of Witches”)” which supported the Medieval “hunt for the **Judgment** of those that ‘seemed’ to be a witch. This book seems to match the Vulgate’s adopted fallible translation and perverse “judgment or ‘other judgment’ not mentioned in the Bible from  God.

Such a vengeful spirit was astutely addressed by Aristotle (as he defined all things) using his Greek. Such a Greek word that Aristotle contrasted with kolosin was ekdike, or, revenge.

Ekdike was Aristotle’s Greek for ‘revenge/ vengeful judgment’ in his work called, “rhetoric”. Aristotle said that “ekdike” was based on a ‘hunger-anger-appetite-revenge-emotional seated’ perversion. Such a definition of “revenge and judgment” based on a humanistically made “god” fit human ‘justification’ and fit King James and all of his witch hunting club’s views of ‘control, God, sexuality, possession, dominance, sexual deviancy, beastiality very nicely. For sure, the spirit of fear quelled the masses’ complaints and garnered the populus with an iron fist. Maybe the history of King James is hidden from most due to his disgusting appetites and sado-masochistic practices that anyone can read about now. What ‘modern orthodox King James Version thumper’ wants that out of the bag? This is not to say that we cannot use the King James Version to read the histories, peoples, Israel’s conflicts, internal strifes, etc… But, only to be aware of reading the English text *AT FACE VALUE DISMISSING THE ORIGINAL

GREEK*!!!!

Revenge – *JUDGEMENT* Recap:

“Revenge”: Greek: “ekdike”. Aristotle said that ekdike’ meant: “anger for revenge” Aristotle continued to define ‘ekdike’ and say: the action of inflicting harm or hurt on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands) is a “habit” based on appetite and is rooted in emotions–human emotions” –> cf  Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”–Book 1/ Chapter 10/ vs. 13 in the “Basic Writings of Aristotle”.

This “ekdikes” is connotatively akin to the King James, “Judgment”. This puts God with emotional problems and relates to a humanistic-childish approach for ‘resolve’ if we interpolate THIS KIND OF JUDGMENT into the connotation of God’s Final Judgment, which has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ORIGINAL GREEK TEXT OR ITS SEMIOTIC COMMITTED LANGUAGE.

Once again, New Testament word for Matthew 25’s, “judgement”: “Kolosin —chastisement-judgement-for full acknowledgement of infraction and ‘coming to be’ to restitution)!!!

Let’s continue:

When we look at Matthew 25:41 Jesus uses the term “judgment {Greek: kolosis}. As we see the final usage of it in the “final judgment“ in the following verses: “Then He will also say to those on the left hand (sinister gyrate/ hand of no blessing), Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared the the devil and his angels (this does not mean that we won’t be ‘singed’ and ‘remitted’ for sins through ‘the fire that burns’. That is, there is a heat or “orge” that we will experience when we break the law. This has nothing to do with another topic, i.e., OUR SALVATION. These are entirely two different things. : for I was hungry and you gave ME no food: I was thirsty and you gave ME no drink. …etc.

Here’s something that needs to be understood before the next paragraph: Jesus is aligning Himself with King David, the Messiah to Come, The Sun of the Son, and the Father. His WORDS are in unity and conjunction with the LINE of the Lion (Lebayu) of Judah. Saul was named the same, Lebayu,….the Lion. But, his actions of jealousy and murder assigned him a new NAME or Shem: “SAUL” which is the same word for “HELL”—i.e., “SHEOL”. Saul was, “The Lord’s ANOINTED”. How can a saved man be in hell? …. These are the concepts we must understand to correctly read the Bible. “In Darkness” meant, “SHEOL”…or, in the Germanic, “HOLEN”…in the “hole”…in the place of “Darkness”. This is also Latin for DUCARE’ …which means, “Darkness”…hence, “e + ducare” = “education” = “out of + darkness”. Saul was ‘coming to be’. Saul was “God’s Anointed” 0000 yet he had to “fall into darkness” AS AN ANOINTED OF GOD!!! Hmmmmmm, ever happen to you? Do you ever ‘fall into darkness, feel like you’re in hell – so distant from God due to your ‘actions’ that here and now do judge you unto repentance by the Holy Spirit?!?!?!! I know of NO OTHER WAY. I HAVE NO OTHER REFERENCE TO MY LIFE WITH GOD BUT THIS. Do I call out to God in hell to help me?! Do I ask Him to save me and do I profess the HE is ALONE my ONLY Savior while I’m in HELL: “holen- German-”darkness”/ Sheol – Hebrew- “darkness/ phulake – Greek -“prison (as known as the dark caverns guarded by the prison watch)

Might I remind you that King David spoke to God using the exact same words as the Aristotelian defined, “Kolosus”, by David’s enemies being in the process of the ‘destroyed enemies’ in order that THEY could ‘’come back to be ashamed”. Who are the “THEY” if they are both sent off to ‘eternal damnation’ and yet, “come back to be ashamed”?!??!?!?! Refer to the previous paragraph!

Here are Christ’s words in Matthew 25 echoed in Psalms 6:9: “Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD has heard the voice of my weeping”..(David continues this prayer in Psalms 6:10, “Let all my enemies be ashamed and sorely vexed; LET THEM RETURN AND BE ASHAMED”.

Is this NOT a *RETURN* – repentance?! Is this NOT a return to the ‘acknowledgement’ of their wrong?! Is this not the meaning of “REPENTANCE” —metanoia –’a changed mind, a repented mind’?!?!? Yes, yes it is!!! Again, Is this NOT the VERY usage of “Kolosis”—”Judgment” in the Greek New Testament of Christ’s words that Aristotle used of “JUDGMENT- Kolosus”!?!? Let’s go on:

GOING BACK TO THE TEXT OF CHRIST’S ‘JUDGMENT’

Jesus continues to express *those* who did NOT give charity: “…as you did not do unto the least of them you did not do it unto ME”.

*These beings* who act as non-charitable are not the full ‘being’, not the ontological-‘’coming to be” –whole “ person who is FINALLY RECTIFIED. If there was the word, “REVENGE”, as Aristotle continues, it would be for the benefit of the Avenger. This ‘revenge’ would be “in reaction” to an act by the infractor of the Law. Aren’t works of the Law Destroyed by Christ?! The VERY THING that holds to account damnation upon the infractor of the Law?!?!

Again, look at the words in Matthew 25:40: “The KING (! quoting King David right here from Psalms 5-6!) will say, –The KING will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me. Then he (King David – past in foreshadowed *language*) will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels….”. .

Are not even the angels subdued under Christ’s feet at the end where death, hell, all powers and principalities subdued?! Continuing Matthew 25: “…..will go away into everlasting punishment ( kolasin aionion —durative infliction for the benefit of the sinner as Aristotle defined and original language used in the New Testament), but the righteous into eternal life”.

These are two different allotments and two kinds of ‘beings’. Once again, Aristotle does indeed use this term in his “rhetoric”: Aristotle: “Kolosus (judgment)” is used for the SAKE/ BENEFIT of the one being punished” – i.e., IN ORDER FOR REMISSION OF THE SIN!/ A RECTIFICATION!!!

The eternal scourging (not our English idea of “Eternity” from the perverted Latin Vulgate, “Aeturnus”, which was moreover used in the Medieval King James *version*) is a tool put upon the ‘evil doer’ in order for their eye or hand to burn and not them! Aristotle says that “anger for revenge (Greek: “ekdikes – the action of inflicting harm or hurt on someone for an injury or wrong suffered at their hands} is a “habit based on appetite that is rooted in emotions–human emotions” –> cf. Aristotle’s “Rhetoric”–Book 1/ Chapter 10/ vs. 13 in the “Basic Writings of Aristotle”. This kind of revenge is ‘retributory’ and you see it working in legalism throughout the Middle East. Wars find their way fairly easy into such common grounds of “eye for an eye” mentality.

Once more: Kolosin Aeonon = “a duration or time of beneficial affliction to bring one back to restoration”. THIS is the meaning in the classical, Platonic and Aristotelian Greek from which the New Testament was the “catcher’s mitt” for such terms. Therefore, terms such as judgment, salvation, faith, God, Logos, etc. have been all too familiar for the Greek speaking New Testament Church who knew EXACTLY what they meant when they were edified and taught their children in the Paideia!!!

Where do we see Hell as a real place? I see it HERE and NOW. It has meaning if IT is Here and Now.

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The Classical Greek Paideia was originally the classical education for the early Greek youth. The central Philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle comprised a large component of this Paideia. Language, Logic, and Rhetoric were the primers by which all further study into the sciences could ‘rationally’ be obtained. The language by which these primers functioned was a result of Platonic and Aristotelian reasoning and cultural bearing.

Therefore, any word used in the Paideia (language, logic, rhetors) was *refined*, delineated, syllogistically filtered, deduced, re-examined, etc. The words found in the Paideia were therefore known in the sense by which their Greek “glossary” used its “howness”. It is no wonder that the word, “Disciple”, in the Platonic, Aristotelian, …and, yes, Biblical New Testament language was called the “Mathetikon” or “mathematician (of the Words)”.

To add, this “howness” would have been used in its Platonic and Aristotelian sense. Might I add here that I do not in any way disenfranchise Plato and Aristotle from Greek culture, rather, they simply are the most notable fountainheads of Greek culture.

The New Testament Greek language must be understood from its roots founded in The Paideia of the ancient pagan (amoral) Greeks. Therefore, the implementation of any word used in the New Testament was based centrally upon the verbal bank of Plato and Aristotle. Yes, there are other ‘sources’ but the well read Philosophers, Plato and Aristotle, were baptized by their Greek heritage and contemporaries. That is, Plato and Aristotle were the “result” of Greek Heritage…therefore, the consequential “Parents” of classical Greek scholasticism.

As a linguist, it is of most import to know the etymologies, morphological rules, socio-linguistic phenomena, etc. of any given language to fully comprehend its worth. It shouldn’t be a hard jump to understand that Alexander the Greek, the Hellenizer of Palestine brought with him the Greek culture by which Palestine was baptized into. Moreover, Alexander’s teacher was the renowned Aristotle himself!!! Straight from the horse’s mouth to the One who would order a new language be spoken.

Alexander, for sure, was the leopard in Daniel’s prophecy and a necessity for the spread of Christianity via Greek language and reason to a Hellenized pagan Europe.

With all that I have said, I conclude with this: there is consensus and concentrated agreement with HOW the Greek language was implemented in the days of the early Greek New Testament writers. For sure, the Gospel writers were Hellenized. Paul was highly educated both in the Hebrew and Greek systems of thinking and his fluency of both Hebrew and Greek was known and expressed in his writings. Therefore, it would be blasphemous on a secular and theological level to “Anglicize” the Paideia of the Pagan Greeks, the Paideia of the New Testament Christian Youth (taught by the Christian Mothers!) OR the New Testament Text.

Deep analysis of the HORRID perversion of Anglicizing the rest of the world will begin at the New Testament verses concerning “eternal damnation” in our 3rd piece to this series.

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One could safely say that until the past century, especially at the point of understanding Einstein’s equation E=mc2 , “time” was relatively not understood. Moreover, the Universe was not understood as to how it worked. Spatiality was beheld by objects *relatable* such as “to the top of the mountain from here”, “where the land meets the ocean”, “the darkness created by the depth of an abyss”, “the unseen in the darkness of the waters”, etc. With this in mind, “relatable” objects such as the horizon (i.e. sky touching earth) would have been used to express where heaven meets the earth, hence, “eternity” was a ‘spatial understanding’ in that the earth stopped accounting for spatiality.

Another example of relatable understanding: the sun was the roving eye of God searching the hearts of humankind and scanning the actions of humankind as it appeared in the sky or heavens where God abided.

The earth might have been seen as ‘round’ but as a globe probably not. Therefore, to the ‘primitive’ genius, the ‘water-course’ of the seas ‘circled’ the flat-circular earth. It is within these waterways that our primitive-genius ancestors find the lore, of sorts, that “Leviathan” swims his course ‘round the earth. What a great story to tell your children when not wanting them to get too close to the water!

These were primitive understandings but not stupid. “Primitive” is the strongest-purest foundation by which all other mental structures are established. So, as I stated- “primitive-genius”- I meant it. “Genius” means to ‘be joined’, ‘to be connected’ to everything and ‘act’ or ‘participate’ within this *connectivity* or *genius*. For each level of evolution of participation of the figurations of WORD signaling, we have deeper fulfillment to the higher complexity of the original generative WORD. The “Genius” is Pregnant with higher fulfillments yet to come both semiotically and spiritually. Therefore, I witness that each Biblical epoch/ era/ aeon/ etc. was needed to fulfill a greater archetype (as do we need the grace to ‘evolve’). We will see that the terms“permanence” and “eternity” will use the terms ‘epoch’, ‘era’, and ‘aeon’ to substantiate the vagaries of contextual meaning later on in the Biblical text and pagan authors by which the Bible borrowed.

Truths of God were not the same as the Biblical Patriarch’s understanding of their surroundings. Nonetheless, there was a symbiosis between YHVH and Israel through YHVH’s ‘metalogue’.

God might say “forever” concerning HIS statutes …yet, there was no example of specific relatable ‘time mapping’, only conceptualizing of ‘referred continuance’ by the tools given to the primitive sense not lesser ‘sense’. (“Forever”: Hebrew: Olam: Genesis 9:12; Ecclesiastes 12:5;

Isaiah 26:4; Psalm 145:13; etc. { all such usages allude to a ‘duration’ of non-accounting}). As we delve into the concept of “permanence” vs. “eternal” we will see ‘relational differences such as ‘being with God in a “RELATIONSHIP” that never ends versus and ‘PERMANENT’ ordinance that “NEVER ENDS” but is superseded by it’s fulfilments and becomes the stronger “archetype” for its “exponential ‘primacy’ “.

To conclude:

The Biblical Patriarch/ Matriarch was a recipient of God’s Word and had a limited skill set for a specific purpose. Nonetheless, the conveyed Words were relayed by God while the recipient of God’s Words participated in obedience. Obedience is the key word. Obedience is necessary to have completion of God’s telegraphed ending to HIS Narrative = our Marriage to Him.

For the Primitive-Genius to ‘analyze’ or ‘parse’ the etymologies of God’s Rema or divine expressions would be not only ludicrous but, in Old Testament Times, idolatrous. This is the evolution of consciousness and levels over time of “how” a tribe is to participate with the God of Ancient Israel. “Analysis” would begin the VERY YEAR that Judah was taken captive (last of the 3 deportations) by Babylon. Thales would introduce deductive thinking and jumpstart a new ‘era’ of ‘anatomizing’ versus ‘collectively participating’. Genius would leave and Wit (Greek: ‘eido’ = “to see”/ “observe”) would begin.