Researchers at the Mayo Clinic concluded the following:
“Most studies have shown that religious involvement and spirituality are associated with better health outcomes, including greater longevity, coping skills, and health-related quality of life (even during terminal illness) and less anxiety, depression, and suicide. Several studies have shown that addressing the spiritual needs of the patient may enhance recovery from illness.” ~ Nicole Fisher (2019)
Heathy marriage stamps psyche and body with vitality and productivity. Its imprints are designed to remind us of divine immanence and intent. The most pleasant aspects of marriage comprise an atavistic recall of the exalted estate now lost after ancestors over-stepped Eden’s license. But I abandon monotheist indoctrinations for the essence of monotheism and venture to posit
• (H11): Great marriages supersede religion because they are religion;i which is why many instinctively refer to love and lover as ‘heavenly’.
Our need to love and touch and to be loved and touched in return is embedded in the chora of human ‘being’. Sound, sight, taste, olfaction, warmth, cold, pain, knowing one is watched, titillation, and so forth are all ‘touch’-dependent. The iterative giving and receiving of touch validates and affirms life. Marital touch affords pleasure, companionship, and responsible purpose vis-à-vis the most intimate of relationships, which is far more than going bump in the night. Good marriages are like parallel arks joined together like a catamaran whose constant touching floats a reflective covenant of virtuous human existence intent on maturation. At its best, marriage is an exquisitely designed unfinished rapture that echoes otherworldly sourcing.
Without the transcendent dynamics of its ever-musing whispers and prods we remain dissatisfied and wanting, which leads many a promiscuous odyssey that never ends well. Those who have not married or have married poorly tend to demean the institution because they have not tasted its potential. Envious, they remain ignorant of the fact that marriage is the truest religion; one that is universally adhered to by mature hearts who deem its every peer ‘first among equals.’
The Mt Zion mythos represents spiritual union (marriage) between humanity and heaven: a bond that scorns infidelity and the vulgar sarcasm that demands gauntlet satisfaction. The narrative claims the scepter (rod of authority, Gen.49.10) was placed in the Ark-of-the-Covenant with instructions representing governance by Significant Illumination when Allah instructed us to become light(Gen.1.14_see next essay). This center of divine command is the rock of divine order for all humans.ii This is the only radiance that benevolently oversees and righteously regulates human affairs per divine proportions with exceptionally sensible rules for social harmony. This includes the completely reasonable Decalogue (See: Jordan Peterson’s Biblical Lecture Series).1
This is Zion, the rock of ‘revealed knowledge’. It is not Jesus. He’s just another fellow who did it right. This center of command includes scientists who sit as sensible and morally upright advisors to decision-makers who are called “little gods” or judges in Psalm 82:6 and John 10:34. This makes perfect sense because God is a word that means ‘he who decides’. Jesus said the light of this kingdom is within us (Lk 17:21), and presented himself as its shining example. Such optimized potential is open to everyone who chooses to actualize it and do even greater works (John.4.37).
On reading the narrative without the magical thinking of confirmation bias, we learn that Jesus was married.iii Such a reading includes an understanding of Judaic customs (e.g., a man could never have been called Rabbi unless he was married). Jesus is eschatologically scheduled to bring God’s kingdom accounting to bear on Amorites when their iniquity is fully realized. This specifically refers to the Semites of Nimrud’s ilk (see vol iii Executive Summary). Amorites represent those who reject the invitation to our final wedding feast or re-union with Him. All is metaphor and analogy. Scripture was never meant to be taken literally.
Symbolically, the cosmogonic narrative says authority (scepter), governance (law), and the ark (human heart) were vested in a Tabernacle(community) on an altar of offerings (good deeds). This holy place of merit is where the celestial Abode of Judgement and the spiritual logos of creative order meets the material world to re-awaken human consciousness to responsible behavior (maturity). Per E. Swedenborg’s (ES) paraphrased exhortations, humanity has been tasked to continue centers of divine ordering on earth as a trial for intergalactic worthiness. It is a pass/fail exam that requires unwavering devotion to a well-developed aptitude to do good:
The temple of God and the altar (in Rev 11.1) denote spiritual and celestial polities; ‘to measure’ denotes knowing the quantity and quality of truth and goodness when it says, ‘Measure the temple and the altar and them that worship therein.’ ~ ES
Worship is far more than prayer or dreaded ritual instructions. God commands us to offer good deeds that bear obedient fruitfulness. This is why Jordan Peterson says you begin by cleaning your room. Prophet Jeremiah made this perfectly clear:
For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, but I commanded them to walk in the way that I command. ~ Jer.7.21-24
Just as faith without love is like light without warmth, prayer without good deeds is like inviting your boss to an empty buffet. The phrase, ‘those who worship therein’references men and women (created He them) who dwell within well-defined and proportioned communal borders doing the good deeds of obedient ordering in accord with Natural Law.
These things require no divinity degree or high-minded priest or bead-counting mullah. Thus, good-deed-doing folks are infused with morphogenic forces (logos) and govern themselves with primal esteem for Natural Law (logos) from what the Quran calls “Center of Command” or masjid of truth, which is not a building but rather a metaphysical station of initiation agreed upon by community leaders.
Together, they represent the kingdom’s industrious repose wherein they busily rest in God to experience the satisfying peace on earth that derives from good deed doing. For this to occur, we must live in peace with our closest neighbor under the sun, our spouse. We rehearse for marriage as children by learning the Golden Rule which appears to have been abandoned globally. Religious requirements other than the Decalogue and faithful marriage are superfluous. Doctrines other than these are mostly rooted in apologies for lettres de marque that confiscate personal autonomy as promoted by parasitic priests. For this cause, not a few barkers pretend celibacy with long robes and fancy dress as a superior caste.
But let us imagine a poly-cultural cosmopolis with
a. an Amish-like apartheid zeitgeist;
b. led Marcus Aurelius;
c. with the Great Khan and General Paton as enforcers;
d. Archimedes as city planner;
e. Napoleon as Quartermaster;
f. and Frédéric Bastiat as Chief Censor and Educator.
Such a nation-state of well-married, well-governed folks would be absent the pious pretense of shadow dwellers in thrall to Machiavellian handbooks, burnt candles, grimoires, shofars, or denizens of Friday afternoon prattle. Its citizens are fully informed and prepared to defend the kingdom without turning cheeks to Lenins, ISIS imams, or alcoholic Churchills. If we project the dignitas of our imagined acropolis onto city streets, concert halls, parliamentary procedures, green valleys, and deep blue seas, you we erase Political Correctness with the redeemed cosmopolitanism that Nietzsche had in mind.iv
Besides a lack of sound leadership and reason, the problems faced by the post-modern world result from a lack of relational relevancy due to a lack of knowledge synthesis with Goethe’s gestalt perspective. Meaning that without the Decalogue that protects marital integrity and propriety, we are, institutionally speaking, without divine guidance. Hence, where there is no sensible appreciation-of or devotion-to the defense of purposeful human bonds that reverence everlasting consequences, there is insufficient love of one’s neighbor. All becomes reduced to mercenary proclivities, which is why I put no Jew at the helm of our cosmopolis. They and their shabbat-goy mimes cannot be trusted with the commonweal. This suggests that Talmud-believing Jews require adult supervision in camps set apart from anyone who fosters peace on earth.
Metaphorically, the Jerusalem of our imagined cosmopolis is no Crusader prize, Muslim shrine, or Temple of thieves, pedos, and mass murderers. True, the rock of Abraham is there but it has no need of Hassidic rants or bearded idolaters. Our Kingdom of Industrial Repose is the Jerusalem of mythos because it is built on the rock of ‘Revealed Knowledge’ which is Zion. it is a place of transcendence metaphorically placed on Mt Moriah, a state of divine inspiration, which is what Muslim call solat or ‘contact-with-God’. Its enlightened waters are not palaces designed for Pontifex Maximus encyclicals or Messianic ravings, or swinging forelocks.
Jerusalem represents a preternatural civilization. It is Augustine’s City of He Who Decides; where communal will is kept busy with the peaceful industry of submission to divine purpose. This is what Amish and Mennonites do with an enduring Puritan bias. Simply put, Jerusalem is anywhere informed people decide to obey the Decalogue. It is why a third temple will never be built. it is not needed in the least because the sacrifices required are good deeds for all of humanity. Besides, He Who Decides these things already forbade it. Indeed, Herod’s temple was the Third, a fourth was attempted but swallowed by the earth under Julian the Apostate, and the ruins of yet another are on Elephantine Island.
Reverence equates with respect, which equates with gratitude for the ability to enjoy the benefits of respiration and oxygenated blood flow. Its loss cancels communal goodwill along with divine order, godly oversight, and good-deed doing. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn said the loss of reverence is responsible for all twentieth Century catastrophes at the hands of Amorites like Rothschild and Orsini clans. There are others. They own The Circus Immoral (see vol iii) collectively. It is Satan’s Kingdom. Jerusalem is, therefore, not in Palestine but in every community where one finds the industrious repose of Peace on Earth & Good Will to All at work. Like Cain, they live from usury and the cunning enslavement of neighbors.
So then, just as we depend on respiratory processes in continuity with a suitable atmosphere and functional organs evaginated from God knows where, so also peaceful dwelling depends on unity in a good-willed enterprise. This is what Jesusdescribed when he said: “I and the Originator are united in purpose,” which has been erroneously translated as “I and the Father are one.” He also said, “He or she who does the will of the Originator/Creator is my mother, brother and sister;” clearly indicating a body politic or tabernacle community that upholds the Decalogue.
Israel was supposed to establish and propagate this cosmopolis and export its formulae as God’s chosen example of successful human governance at micro and macro levels. Other prophets in other lands had similar missions.v Instead, they dedicated themselves to dust eating by rejecting divine regency and Natural Law (1.Sam.1–18). Samuel wept just as Jesus wept. Remember. He warned them that thereafter, whenever they cried out for relief, the great I AM He Who Decides would ignore them. The only other helper left is hand-clasping Lucifer.
Figuratively, redeemed Jacob is just another body-politic that once represented a Son of the Man of God (Moses: Exodus 4:22) whose constituents were to continue the ordering of earth as a test of everlasting worth. After failing for a millennia-plus to do so, Jesus turned the tables and admonished them to return to the Decalogue of Moses and wait for the comforter who would establish the Kingdom of Peace in the land promised to Abraham. This is made clear in the Gospel of Barnabas, the original of which sits in the pope’s office.2
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In the next essays I reduce figurative Jerusalem and the Mount Zion Mythos to heterosexual marriage as an archetype from which all things human flow. This purview includes scientific inquiries and the Black Arts. The latter are understood as forbiddenbut not impossible. The Heart of Zion, is its christos lion: the Mystical Heart of Rumi’s transcendent sensorium.3 It is contiguous with the consciously evolved chora of sensus communis unwittingly admitted by Nietzsche: a misanthrope who failed to find refuge in its temple of repose because he never happily married and thus missed the grace of his promised land. Because that’s what Jerusalem is …. the New Jeruslem I mean
Thy land shall be no more termed waste, but thou shalt be called Hephzibah [my delight is in her], and thy land Beulah [married], for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married
(Isa. 62:4)
This essential union electro-magnetically allows us to “taste” (touch) all things and beings as they are, including God.4
Beginning with The Book of Genesis, I will now demonstrate that the optimized Dao of Human experience is found in licit heterosexual marriage.
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w
2. Dr. Zaid systematically builds the bridge between Jesus and Mohammad using the Gospel Of Barnabas.
3. Tourage M (2005). The Hermeneutics of Eroticism in the Poetry of Rumi. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Duke Univ. Press, 25(3): 14, 613.
4. see: TOUCH, TRUST, & THE CASE FOR FORENSIC PONEROLOGY // SEXUAL ORIENTATION & STUDENTS OF TOUCH, THE GENESIS OF LIARS, in Trust: Misplacement and Ontongeny https://forum.alginkgo.com/go/plrbZjEwlu
i. religare means ‘to bind’; hence: ‘as above, so below’)
ii. 17:1(13)
“Limitless in Glory is He Who directed His servant, in the midst of persistent darkness, to migrate from that “place where submission to Allah was forbidden” to another “distant center of submission to Allah’s commands” whose environment We had already made conducive and supportive for his mission, in order that we manifest for him prospects of success. Verily He is the one Who listens about and monitors your struggle.”
NB: Masjid, the Noun of time and place from sjd (submission), is the centre of submission and surrender as well as the commandments to which one has to submit. Even Quran itself can be called Masjid because we need to submit to its teachings. When used with “Al” it signifies a particular station, point, center, land where submission is in force.
https://quranstruelight.com/the-verses/chapter-17-bani-israel-the-israelites
iii. JESUS, WHO MADE MUCH OF MARRIAGE
Only a wife was permitted to perform this public gesture according to Hebrew Custom. For the same reason, Ruth lay at the feet of Boaz on the threshing floor to anoint his feet with her hair. ~ Lk 7:38; John 11:12-13;
iv. Cosmopolitan
Only an authentic cosmopolitan consciousness can justly attend to what is presently touted as pluralism. The authentic cosmopolitan worldview cultivates transnational sentiments that exclude Orwellian leagues with Talmudists like Mr. Rosenthal. The Cosmopolitan bears obligations toward ‘others’ with an extra-territorial mindset that honors and acknowledges differences minus interpellations. This attitude possesses not only the forebrain but also the heart, as the bearer knows he or she is a citizen of eternity and cosmos as well as a servant of heaven. Cosmopolitanism transcends globalism by superseding allegiance to Nation, State, or Global governance unless such authority is theocentric and cosmic, as was Prophet Joshua when he confronted an angel who admonished him for his anthropocentric mindset:
And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? And he said, ‘Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come.’ And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, “What saith my lord unto his servant?” (Jos 5:13-14, KJV).
Herein lies the pinch of a matter that commands apartheid policies for any community bearing allegiance to Universal principles and ever-changing permanence. ~ Zaid O (3011, 2015). Refuge From The Damned, p136
v. 18:1-3(21) All praise is to Allah Who sent down the Book of Values to His Subject as He does not wish to leave a doubt or ambiguity in the mission entrusted to him.
https://quranstruelight.com/the-verses/chapter-18-al-kahf-the-cave