Absolutely Bizarre Wiki Entry

There are not many people on the planet who understand the Biblical prophecy of the 'star' called 'Wormwood' - which occurs in Revelation 8: 10 - 11.

Please do not go down this side-track about the Hebrew word for 'Wormwood' - Revelation was specifically a Greek text and the person to whom it is attributed was situated on the Greek island of Patmos at the time the text was composed.

In the original text the word was 'Apsinthos' which does indeed refer to a bitter herb, but even so, there are a number of parallel names for that plant which also have parallel peculiar meanings.

This is interesting, it is not 'bizarre.'
It is not natural, but it is normal in the way
humans mess around with their reality.

So I will tell you that the prophecy was for today, our times - and consequently, the word is 'Wormwood;' which is an English word not, as most people suppose, taken from the idea of a wood that has something to do with little creatures, but from a German phrase (wermut) which means to preserve the mind, or hold/contain the mind.

'Star' in all events, in Bible idiom is always taken to mean a spiritual force, sometimes angelic, though sometimes Satanic.

'Water' is the substance of life.

The original Esoterica of Solomon referred to another Greek occult concept: hygromancy - the study of the mystical properties of moisture, mists, and clouds.

There are no copies of this work around today that detail anything about actual hygromancy, and instead what is always taken as the occult book called the Key of Solomon, although it is prefaced with the specific word 'hygromancy,' has nothing at all in it about hygromancy.

Anyway, it is quite interesting to observe that in the Wikipedia entry about the 'Wormwood' prophecy, there occurs in there a short paragraph under the section supposedly referencing Swedenborgian spiritual interpretations, which says:

'The star signifies self-derived intelligence which departs from God...'

Now I don't know whether Swedenborg himself ever said any such thing, but I do know the statement is correct.

Humans are always modifying the wild
with their own installations of things.
Habitat, for example.

We are living in a moment, in which 'someone' - or some agency and force across the leaders' mindset - is making people venture into what they are terming 'AI' and indeed with the view to being able to transfer your mind into a computer and thereby have 'it' 'live on' for, well, pretty much forever or into the very far distant horizon of time in the future.

An Islamic Dawah Team guy just the other day posed this question that in his mind was either rhetorical or ludicrous, really, and his tone was one if not of actual sarcasm as such, then of rendering the sense of its apparent absurdity in his own mind.

The question he posed was - 'What is the point of Jesus, who you say is God, coming down and being dependent on someone, on someone else, of being a baby and a small child?'

Well, the point of the problem of AI functioning in place of the human intellect, is that it does not need to be dependent on anyone save itself alone.

Alone.

Alone.

Alone.

The bitterness of being alone will kill humans in great numbers.

Of course, the Wikipedia entry is not really 'bizarre' to me, because I know why it is there and so do you.

They are ahead of 'us.'

This site (this site here, not the Wiki!) is nothing if it is not designed to be about connecting people to more human things, even if they are advanced human-oid things, they are still human ones. 

Super advanced beings do not need artificial intelligence. They can make real intelligence from whatever material components they have at hand.

Another person I heard speak this week made the serious mistake of saying that even Platonists would not say one could love the Forms...

The Theory of Forms is about 
timeless ideas.

Well, I disagree. A 'Form' as he puts it, is in fact the material actuality of a special kind of 'idea;' an eternal idea. It is the very essence and the substance of it, not a representation only, of it. And because it is Eternal, among the Eternal Forms - it must be in relationship with all other things it applies to as the practical idea agency. The 'Forms' are alive. They are very much 'alive' things. It cannot exist 'out in space,' or in 'the Void' with nothing else around it, and then only apprehended quite accidentally by us since we happen to be here with our apprehending minds, albeit that we are accidentally-occurring, 'Evolution' creatures who came from out of Nothing, out of the Big Bang 

I will not use this as the opportunity for me to mimic Mansur's tone of abject skepticism about something.

Because there are indeed beings who exist isolated from the real relationships of equals.

Those beings exist in a place called 'Hell.'

They laugh. They scoff. 

But they are still alone all the same. And so, it is easy to make them chase the dream of 'AI.'

Slowly, by-and-by in these pages, we will go more obviously into the esoteric tools of 'connection.'

We have been touching the surface thereof lightly.