First, You Locate The Gate

I think it's often... no, virtually always, totally lost from the public's mind, that certain ancient texts talk about now effects; and not, as many people think, 'later' stuff - as in, at the End of the World, come so-called 'Judgement Day,' et cetera.

In the Book of Mark, Jesus turns up where the whole remaining eleven (now it's only 11! Jason Arday has gone killed himself...) are having dinner - meat, as I recall it says - and He upbraids them for their disbelief at those others (who evidently were not the main direct male followers either) who said they had seen Him alive and physical and quite well. I mean fair enough though, right? This was a huge claim originally being made - 'Yes, I will die, and then, I will turn back up alive for real.'

Prolly just some Turin
restaurant.

The dying part, evidently, all of them could readily come to terms with!

After all, there was a lot of dying going on - and no question, the Romans could do it, that is, kill anyone they pleased. Same as, pretty much, the IRGC are doing now today in Iran to their own people (well, not 'their own people' of course because 'their own people' are only the Arabs albeit many have been there since very ancient times, and even then, only the Muslim Arabs).

We make a very big mistake, when we fail to understand how any of these 'manuscript cultures' of the past actually worked.

It was - extremely expensive making manuscripts! 

The actual oldest - for example - 'book' written in Hebrew was found inside one of the caves that the Taliban blew up in Afghanistan, and it was a book of a few short prayers, and some poems, dating from 'only' 1200 years ago. Long long long after any fairy tale notion of 'the Bible' ever being composed in Hebrew...

Although this book was clearly of a religious and worship nature, there was literally nothing in it that bore any resemblance to what is supposedly the Old Testament today.

The Septuagint, was commissioned by a massively wealthy Egyptian Emperor and King, Ptolemy II of Alexandria.

A single sheet of music manuscript paper, on which Beethoven would have written out his music - would be out of a folio worth today's price of a government bond in the nominal thousands of face value 'dollars.'

So - not cheap, any of this.

Nah, is actually
in Firenze, Florence.
Not Turin.

The Arabs that eventually conquered Syria and all the way up to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where some of the most exquisite Arabic art of the conquest period, may be seen today - had inherited the entire external armed might of the by then defunct Sassanian Empire.

And so they were not broke, and they also inherited the whole entire 'manuscript culture' social infrastructure left over by the Sassanian culture. Ink, paper, craft manufacturing, skilled craftsmen, implements, leather covering technology -.

But then along with that, they also inherited the knowledge base.

All of these groups though, the Ptolemaic Egyptians, the Romans, the Sassanians, certainly the Byzantines, all of them had the core idea that what was written down in these expensive commitments to ink and paper, both of memory and of cultural belief - was the basis of formal Law to be spread throughout the citizenry and the slave classes; down to even how merchants from foreign lands would be treated.

And so, to enforce in the credulous and uneducated minds of the ordinary people, how important those words written down were, they were told the words were backed by some Divine Authority.

Even today, literally on the Arms and Flags of the Windsor usurpers and puppets of the City of London Freemasons, it says 'God and King.'

Well but how 'God?' How do they know God has any part of it? When did actual 'God' arrive and place His or Their actual imprimatur on anything? ...In England.

Why not 'Arthur, King of the Britons and his Divine Dragon Cambion Merlin...'

See, very hard
to have 'faith'
nowadays when we
have the super-wealthy
and their 'sky-decks.'

Would make more logical sense in the 'British' story and to an extent they preserve that through the symbol of 'George and the Dragon.'

But then they just as quickly say, that, is mythology, if folkloric; and local.

...Look, what I'm trying to say is preserved inside some of these ancient texts and stories, which are really no more than fairy tales on the whole except they are forced onto the common ignorant public as 'God-sent,' are a small few really correct ideas that came from somewhere real, and were incorporated holistically into the bigger picture, as it were.

Mostly, these 'true things' (they are true, I'm just placing the phrase in inverted commas to highlight and separate them) come via the etymology, via the words themselves and their ineluctable root meanings.

If we go back to the example of Mark there, this God 'Jesus' (not His real name back then, but close enough and quite functional today for us all the same) appears after His Death, to a tiny handful of quite unsuspecting people in the broad run of the narrative - that is, those people are not handled inside the texts as anything absolutely extra-special. 

Maybe Mary Magdalene, understandably Mary the Mother; that certainly makes some sense...

But there were others, not even named!

Shows how special they were to the writers... Not.

But then leave all that aside,  what you actually get that is clearly underscored - how that Jesus tells the closest followers that they have been idiots, more or less. (He didn't say that, I'm implying it). ...And then, He makes a really huge statement, and this is the one that goes missing from the mindset, generally, of all those people following this religion:

He says, here are the signs that shall follow those people who do what I have told them - 'they shall touch the sick, and these shall recover.'

What?!

Yes. Very difficult to 
force yourself to 
hold a 'faith' in something
unseen, and not yet
delivered.

Uh-oh. There goes the doctoring racket.

Except not though of course, because - go back to the few and the small and the virtually unknown and the not noticed.

...It's only a very few that can 'do it.' The rest have to resort to doctors.

So let's now jump all the way forward to that thieving and heavily plagiarizing manuscript culture of Jason Arday, sorry, 'the Arabs' and see if there is anything in there that nevertheless and despite that the whole thing is more or less complete made-up nonsense designed to bulwark the moral authority of various warlords and post-Empire scoundrels (what they were, too!) by stealing from the past and imposing all of that moral over-structure onto the dumb unwashed masses - let's see if there is anything that is left in there, if not intact, yet actually having real meaning and practical functioning relevance.

Well...

See, this word 'Jannah' that today's Muslims all think means 'Heaven.' Well it doesn't.

It means the Unseen, the Invisible, the Hidden. None of these people even ever went there to see it - what was in there. So-called 'Muhammad' claims to have and it (what he says Heaven is like) is just a repetition of bits and pieces of Apocryphal books of 'Enoch' around at the time. You'd think considering he is the outstanding Prophet of All-Prophets, that he could do better than just copy other people's stories word-for-word and pretend they are his own account in his own words of what he saw... And tell us what he himself saw. Except of course he didn't see anything. Because he never went to 'Heaven.'

I have faith, that the 
human mind, is able to 
find a doorway,
into anywhere and
anything.

That's if 'he' even existed at all. We have a record of some real guy 'Kuthum al Ameena' who was later on conflated into this 'Muhammad' character by a ruler called Mu'awiya commissioning his own writers to do this 'manuscript' thing.

Anyway, not the point.

There is a whole saga today's Muslims have interpolated from the wording about what they are calling 'Heaven,' in which they have this phrase 'Jannat ul Firdaus' - supposedly, a tree, which grows in Heaven.

But they have jumped to a linguistic conclusion from those two main word components of the phrase: 'Jannah' means Hidden/Unseen/Secret, and 'Firdaus' does not mean a tree, but rather, it is an enclosed garden in which certainly there could be trees.

And then, this new 'manuscript culture' has shoved two strands of more ancient folkloric narratives - the one being that Jesus is the Living Vine, who has both gone into the Underground (the Underworld, really) which thing is mentioned in the Gospels where it is explicitly stated, but then, the vague un-deciphered words 'Saba Lamah Chthon.' Which is actually Ancient Greek and means that the God is opening (e-ftha, or simply 'i') a gateway (i-Lamah - the Lamassu are Guardians of the Gates) and placing His roots into Chthone, the Underworld.

...And like the actual fairy tale of Jack and the Magical Beanstalk (none of these things are 'fairy tales;' they are true things, but psychological or metaphysical), the God-Vine grows all the way to the 'clouds' aka into Heaven.

'Jannah' is from the same root word from which 'the Jann' (people) comes - or, you will more recognize, a single Djinn (genie). 

All of these things are from an Unseen World.

They cannot be seen by mortal eyes.

Heaven - a place you can get into and you can see - is an Enclosure, enclosed entirely from the mistakes and problems of the human mortal world. And there is a way in, an entrance, which is a gate the same as you might see somewhere on the outside along the perimeter of a thick, manicured and high bush wall of some rich person's maze garden in the French Riviera. Something say like the Rothschild's Villa Ephrussi in France.

Firenze Fashion.

Well but Heaven is not in the Rothschild's mansions. And the Gate of Heaven is not along any of their outside walls.

But I will go back to Mark.

'The signs that will follow all those...'

Now. The signs are there now. It does not say 'that will follow them later at some point at the End of the World' and so on.

But then also clearly, they are not in the hands of just everyone.

Naturally, even the most ardent of 'followers' will doubt it though. They did before. And Jesus 'upbraided them for their lack of faith and their doubts.'

Yes we do have a great amount of 'modern science' today.

Of course it's also much easier to find a doctor than it is to find the Gateway to the Enclosure of Heaven.