...wants to say here that they have actually observed anything resulting from the Orphic Oracular rites - we must return temporarily, to the world of the humans, of today.
So...
Once upon a time, in the Court of the Fourth Safavid Shah, Khodabanda, a certain travelling wise man al Mehdi, entered the Court for the first time to give council and attend to the great Shah.
Upon entering and approaching, unlike all the other Sunni advisers, although he too removed his slippers from his feet, and despite the great security around the Court and the Throne of the Mighty Khodabanda, he tucked these slippers under his arms and pulled his cloak around him.
At a certain point one of the scholars observed that he had these slippers tucked under his arms and not left at the doorway like all the others had done.
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Khodabanda inquired as to the meaning of his actions.
"We have a certain tradition dating back to the time of the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him...), Oh Worthy King, that says that the School of the Hanafis -, are all thieves." And he bowed and folded his arms more tightly.
Mutterings instantly broke out from the Hanafis in attendance: "Hah! This is impossible, the Hanafis came a hundred years after the death of Muhammad (SAW)."
And then spoke once more the wise traveler al Mehid, "I am sorry, I misspoke. I meant to say the Hanbalis."
"Hah!" Protested those of the Hanbali School. "Ahmad ibn Hanbal established his School more than a hundred and fifty years after the Messenger (PBUH). So this tradition cannot be true."
Once again spoke the Wise al Mehdi, this time implicating next the Malikis and then following them - as duly corrected - the Sha'afi's. With the same or similar kinds of retorts and objections.
...Then, drawing himself up to a full height before the Great Sovereign, he addressed him as follows:
"Now that we have got that out of the way, and that they have all of them admitted that none of them have any predecessors who ever lived during or at any time anywhere even near to the life of the Prophet, at least we can say that our own predecessor Ali, actually lived at the time of the Prophet and knew him well..."
By this he meant to say that nothing that the other Schools of Jurisprudence had to say as being properly assertive of the meanings of things according to the teachings of the actual Prophet, were to be relied upon by consideration of lineage alone.
You are all familiar with the word taqiyyah, which is to permissibly lie in the face of political adversity or opposition.
This is a term and a usage which comes from this exact time of the Safavid Dynasty among only the Shi'as and not the Sunnis - of whom of the Shi'i the Great Shah Khodabanda was of the most wise and worthy - and introduced by those Persians of the Court Manuscript High Culture which is itself from a long time far back before even then, and indeed who at that very time of Khodabanda, started to write the great work of fiction and fantasy known as the Shahnameh, the Book of Kings, which tells the complete history of the world since its creation, till the entrance of the Arabic Conquest.
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And it is in this context, following the bloodthirsty reign of the Caliph of Arabia, Abdul Rashid, that the idea of allowable lying comes to the 'Muslim' world, although I have placed that word there in inverted commas because there can be no doubt that these calligraphers and proto-scientists and alchemists were not Muslim at all, believing in the Peris (fairies) and Evil Serpents and various castes of Dragons, above anyone 'Muhammad' - and moreover since all of this happens in Persia and nowhere near the Hijaz where such an individual 'Muhammad' was supposed to have lived, yet his first direct followers and family were all Persians... And which followers lived in Persia from before the Rashidun Caliphate and also afterwards, although the Wiki entries are now full of just simply nonsense dressed up as history.
These new things of 'history' fail to say for example why all the Shi'a are now based in Persia (modern Iran) or how it was that the Two Opposing Armies of the Great Battle between the Sects fought at first for some time, in Medina, then all the way down South in Yemen, and then magically both appeared instantly thereafter in Karbala in Baghdad, and then suddenly again in Syria -.
Must be they flew to there on Solomon's magic flying carpets.
And most of all, they fail to say why the term 'Mullah' is in fact used by certain Jews, and that the Safavids claimed a personal history from Noah and others of the Jewish narrative.
'Mullah' although it is said to be a Persian/Arabic loan word term, is in fact an ancient phrase and is widely used by the Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews and comes from the Mycenaean Linear B Ancient word for to 'consider something deeply.'
Today's 'Mullahs' of Iran have no relationship with early form Shi'a ideas - this current iteration of the 'Mullah' is literally known as the Khomeinistic system; which is a totalitarian and dictatorial ideology asserting that to obey the Mullah who is in charge whatever he says, shows one's obedience to Allah. This has nothing to do with Safavid or original form Shi'a ideas.
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Although in modern popular media depictions the putative Iranian Shi'a 'festival' of Ashura is about the death of some figures in Shi'a Islamic history and culture, in fact it is a Jewish festival that the Arabic Muslims slightly altered the date on to move it to the 9th, when it in fact falls on the 10th day of a certain month because that is what the word actually means - the '10th.'
You will be told many things about this latest participant in the great obedience to the Grand Mullah -, this individual in the Ford truck, Shams ud Din al Jabbar.
His participation in the Great and persisting Battle, also like the Battle of Karbala, is able to move magically from here to there, his battle starting quite far away from Shams in Iran, in Fort Bragg California (although there was also a Fort Bragg in North Carolina though that is now called Fort Liberty).
The last and most important Sign of the End of the World according to the Orphic Oracles, is when the tail of the Primordial Serpent Typhon raises itself in the world.
The more that you try to fight him in the world of Men, the less you will be able to defeat him, because he is a preternatural Being with many Supernatural Powers.
The most significant of the powers of the Serpent, is deceit. But it is not just any kind of deceit; it is Supernatural Deceit.
And the world is full of it.
So, I asked the oracle: is the story of the serpent in the Garden an anti-Hellenistic myth?
ReplyDeleteThe oracle answered: "The serpent in the Garden of Eden is often interpreted as an 'anti-Hellenistic' myth, as in the Greek world, snakes were frequently associated with wisdom and healing, while in the Bible, the serpent is portrayed as a symbol of deception and evil, potentially reflecting a deliberate contrast against the positive connotations of the snake in Greek mythology; however, it's important to note that the original Hebrew text of Genesis does not explicitly link the serpent with Satan..."
The Ancient Greeks made a huge distinction between serpents and vipers (particularly vipers because they knew how to extract pharmacological substances from them) - the word mostly used for the 'primordial serpent' is 'drakonis' not fidi or ophis or aspis. Euripides and Hesiod describe the story of Eurynome standing on the head of the drakonis. That was at least 400 years EARLIER than when the Bible (Old Testament) was first written down in Alexandria. And there is literally no possibility at all that any such oral tradition existed in Hebrew - certainly not at that metaphysical level of the narrative because that language simply did not possess sufficient unique words. So, for me, rather than 'anti-Hellenistic,' it is probably Pelasgian, Tyrrhenian, in other words, way way way back in ancient history where the story comes from.
DeleteAnd for me, you know, now to a large extent I don't care or bother about 'who/what came first' or what their original objective was; you can extract a few basic moral ideas from the larger picture rendered from the past, no doubt, but once you move into a real practical 'right-now-in-the-immediate-moment' sense of things and take into consideration modern understandings of Cosmology and what it would take to play around with dimension shifts or travel over extremely vast distances and so on, then it is more the reality of absolute moral necessity that is required for any super-advanced technological civilization to even survive without self-destructing. These 'stories' are vital from that viewpoint alone because they show a complete range of relationships between people or characters at least. As Jung says, archetypal.
DeleteMy wife is the one who pointed out the "stars" that weren't normally there. No movement, just there.
ReplyDeleteI am actually waiting for someone to say, 'uh-oh, just saw something that DEFINITELY should not have happened.' But this is one of those early-on quite typical indications - a light that is normally not there. It will become apparent that these 'signs' are absolutely NOT for everyone - not for the general public at all. They 'come' expressly when someone using the right intellectual tools run through a specific process. Keep pushing HARD. Things will happen and then that changes everything. (Although, don't go out and hire a Ford Raptor or Cybertruck or anything, right. LOL But I tell you what, these FBI people making statements about 'events' are as crazy as the people doing the bad things).
DeleteI hope you and your wife have a reasonable enough relationship (nothing is all that rigid in the Universe, I find to be an 'ideologue' about! lol - So 'reasonable' is way good enough) - because from people in Sedona (I use that because people are publicly aware of it) i am told that they usually are completely on their own when they are 'looking up at the skies...' I am hoping not to have to shock anyone beforehand and have them get right up to the 'winking back' lights on request... So please, keep going, keep pushing. It's worth it. I will tell you why later!
DeleteMy practice has stalled - minor sickness and worldly concerns. The fear monster still has a strangle-hold on me, I'll just be in the corner wrestling with the snake.
ReplyDeleteSomething about this post reminds me of an experience from a year or two ago. I partially woke up during the night, and I was aware that I was looking down length-wise at my body, which was "David", and I was writhing, twisting and turning to get out of it. I was a big snake.
Oh yes 'worldly concerns.' I suggested some time ago that this would turn up to block anyone trying to 'go there.'
Delete'Snake' is just the standard Jungian you could even say, deep internal 'coiled up' dynamic power of various subconscious drivers but it usually manifests externally - meaning in the ordinary daily consciousness - as anger or various steps up from there, and the results can be 'venomous.' Personally I think it ends up being a lot better when people are not overly-driven to make some kind of Contact all the time, all the time - because the body and nervous system needs quiet and rest to restore themselves when the world creates some degree of stress. All you have to really be is open-minded, and ask and then expect. All the rest is, maybe not just 'window-dressing' but it ranks second to intentions and the capacity to have clarity of thoughts and sensory sensitivity. Not to forget this part - sometimes, we think we are under a lot of stress and are working tons, but then after a while, we actually gain and achieve a lot. So, every cloud...