9 Loonlightenment Age of Unreason

Caveat

Given the richness of its content it’s a text Podcast, or XPodcast, not your regular talk Podcast. Some people may find the kabbalistic, theological, philosophical, and scientific content unsettling to their beliefs, values and interests. That is, this is Postmodern Postrabbinic Midrash. Listener discretion, study in group, as well as reading the text while listening to the Xpodcast is highly recommended.

Dedication

To the blessed of heart moved to chat with God.

Quotations

King Salomon, Kohelet Ecclesiastes. “Happiness is futile, try chatting with God instead.”

King Salomon, Mishley Proverbs 9:10. “The beginning of wisdom-D is fear-S/ of YHVH; and knowledge-R of the Holy One is understanding-P.”

Summary of the Episodes

Episodes one (1) to five (5) are foundational, and thereafter they are the edification of civilization. Nobody buys intangibles. No one buys a house because it has great foundations. Rather what’s above ground is what sells, and only after marketing puts it out there. But when you do decide to buy a house, you sure want it to have good foundations.

Episode 1. Lie and Truth, Big Lie and Big Truth I. The opening episode is about why the world is broken and what to do about it. Why is the world broken? The Lie is that the world is broken because it’s a broken world. The Truth is that the world is broken because we break it. That is, we keep breaking it trying to fix things because we really don’t know how we know that we know what we know.

Episode 2. Enlightened Democracy is dead. Long live PaRaDiSe Postmodernity! The Peoplist State consists in going from a three (3) to a five (5) power State. That is, on the one hand, the Government would consist of the Legislative first (1^st) power for laws and the Executive second (2^nd) power for order, and, on the other hand, the People consisting of the Judicial third (3^rd) power for justice, the News Media fourth (4^th) power as overseer of information, and the University fifth (5^th) power for Administration of the budget. Additionally, transition from one person one vote to one person triad votes, and children entitled to vote by way of their parents or legal guardians.  

Episode 3. Bigger Lie and Bigger Truth II. The Bigger Lie is that the takeaway of the Bible is the Golden Rule. The Bigger Truth is that the One Commandment in the Torah is the Universal Principle of Knowledge as found at Genesis 1:1a/alef. This One Commandment encompasses all the six hundred and thirteen (613) commandments of the sages including the (10) Decalogue of Moses. In gematria, six plus one plus three gives one zero, which reduces to one. (613=>10=>1)

Episode 4. Age of Empowerment of Postmodernity, by PaRaDiSe chat with God. Life is all about chatting with God. Chatting with God is all we have to do to get the blessing of creative empowerment. The sweetspot is at Deuteronomy 6:8 with point-origin at Genesis 1:1a/alef.

Episode 5. Biggest Lie and Biggest Truth III. The Biggest Lie is, on the one hand, escapism of Messianism and Mysticism, and on the other hand, defeatism of Habitual Crisis. The Biggest Truth empowers us to integrate civilization and help save Creation by applying the Universal Principle of Knowledge.

Episode 6. Civilization on Israel one, Greece second. The case is made for a creative civilization based on primeval Israel, then derivatively on classical Greece. Primeval Israel means having for cornerstone of the Torah Genesis 1:1a/alef in order to constitute civilization. Now with the Lies exposed and debunked, Israel can finally play its anointed role in history.

Episode 7 PaRaDiSe App in theory and practice. Ample examples are provided from Science-P, Philosophy-R and Religion-D to prove the existence of the underlying Universal Principle of Knowledge-S/ at work in the Torah Bible.   

Episode 8 Postmodernity, Postrabbinism and Primeval Israelism. The thesis is simply that the point-origin of the Torah is at Genesis 1:1a/alef as Alef/ BeReshIth A/ InBeginningOf (א/בראשית). That is, that civilization is primeval Israelism of PaRaDiSe. Once properly debunking Modernity and Rabbinism, we propose Primeval Israelism for Postmodernity and for Postrabbinism.

Executive Summary Ninth Episode

The Moonlightenment Age of Dualism is masquerading as the Enlightenment Age of Reason.

Once we’re in the times of Postmodernity and of Postrabbinism, we would then be in a position to transcend the secular negating S/ and religion neglecting PRD. That is, Israelism means Primeval Israel-S/ Classical Greece-PRD.

Homework

No prior knowledge is assumed other than familiarity and interest with the quest of chatting with God for the creative self-therapy blessing of empowerment. All concepts and vocabulary required will be provided in due time. Also, we will leave the theory for homework to the listener since we’re starting smack in the middle and not at the beginning in order to highlight its importance, but in detriment to systemic exposition.  

The assignment is to consult my self-published books at Amazon to get a good handle on the empowering approach of PaRaDiSe. These books are PaRDeSism Human Science 101 published in 2018, PaRaDiSe the Age of Unveilment of Genesis 1:1a/alef in 2019, Principle of World Caring in 2020, and Saving Creation in 2021. For ease of understanding, there are seventy (70) or so videos on YouTube on topics from the books. Additionally, there are the other Xpodcasts in this series on inaugurating PaRaDiSe Posmodernity of Empowerment at my website PaRaDiSism dot org.

The books are the source. The podcasts are its divulgation.

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Moonlightenment Age of Dualism

The problem with the so-called Enlightenment period and its alleged Age of Reason is that there’s no chatting with God. There’s only the heartless Mind of Greece. No wonder it leads to such life-threatening behaviors in our midst.

If you love chatting with God, you’ll have a creative civilization. If you think that the mind suffices, you’ll end up with a Godless, secular Demiurge universe of Plato, or else a no creation no Creator permanent universe of Aristotle.

We need to become the microcosmos. We need to transmute from Derash Discover-D (דרש) to Sod Secret-S / (סוד). Or better still, unto PaRaDiSe!

Once we know who and what we were at Deuteronomy 6:4-8, we will love God by taking things to heart and speaking about them. At one point we need to take charge of things, and then remake ourselves both inside and outside, and in the process become creatives of contemporary times moving forward.

We need to be attentive, receptive and intentional. It makes perfect sense once you think about it. For how can you love God if you’re not chatting with the Creator? Praying is not loving God, it’s just a one-way street to keep the Creator away at a safe distance. Much like the Beney Israel Children of Israel in the desert crying out to Moses to serve as interlocutor, not letting God speak to them directly, lest they die. But let’s quote leaving nothing to memory.

Exodus 20:15-19

20:15 Vekol ha‘am. And all the people.

וְכׇל־הָעָם֩ רֹאִ֨ים אֶת־הַקּוֹלֹ֜ת וְאֶת־הַלַּפִּידִ֗ם וְאֵת֙ ק֣וֹל הַשֹּׁפָ֔ר וְאֶת־הָהָ֖ר עָשֵׁ֑ן וַיַּ֤רְא הָעָם֙ וַיָּנֻ֔עוּ וַיַּֽעַמְד֖וּ מֵֽרָחֹֽק׃

All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning-D, the blare of the horn and the mountain smoking-R; and when the people saw it-P, they fell back and stood at a distance-S/:

Comment: Witnessing the presence of God must have not been frightening, to put it mildly.

20:16 Vayy’omeru ’el Moshe. “You speak to us,” they said to Moses.

וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה דַּבֵּר־אַתָּ֥ה עִמָּ֖נוּ וְנִשְׁמָ֑עָה וְאַל־יְדַבֵּ֥ר עִמָּ֛נוּ אֱלֹהִ֖ים פֶּן־נָמֽוּת׃

“You speak to us,” they said to Moses, “and we will obey; but let not God speak to us, lest we die.”

Comment: The people were afraid and opted out to listening to God directly.

20:17 Vayyó’mer Moshe. And said Moses.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר מֹשֶׁ֣ה אֶל־הָעָם֮ אַל־תִּירָ֒אוּ֒ כִּ֗י לְבַֽעֲבוּר֙ נַסּ֣וֹת אֶתְכֶ֔ם בָּ֖א הָאֱלֹהִ֑ים וּבַעֲב֗וּר תִּהְיֶ֧ה יִרְאָת֛וֹ עַל־פְּנֵיכֶ֖ם לְבִלְתִּ֥י תֶחֱטָֽאוּ׃

Moses answered the people, “Be not afraid-D/; for God has come only in order to test you-R, and in order that the fear of God may be ever with you-S/, so that you do not go astray-P.”

Comment: The point of God talking to them was to instill in humanity the ability to chat with God thereafter at one’s time and choosing.

20:18 Vayya‘mor ha‘am. So the people.

וַיַּעֲמֹ֥ד הָעָ֖ם מֵרָחֹ֑ק וּמֹשֶׁה֙ נִגַּ֣שׁ אֶל־הָֽעֲרָפֶ֔ל אֲשֶׁר־שָׁ֖ם הָאֱלֹהִֽים׃        

So the people remained at a distance; while Moses approached the thick cloud, where God was:

Comment: Opportunity lost. Daylight was allowed to separate God from the Beney Israel Children of Israel.

20:19 Vayyó’mer YHVH. And said God.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר יְהֹוָה֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה כֹּ֥ה תֹאמַ֖ר אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אַתֶּ֣ם רְאִיתֶ֔ם כִּ֚י מִן־הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי עִמָּכֶֽם׃

And said YHVH to Moses, thus shall you say to the Children of Israel; “You yourselves-S/ saw-P, that from the heavens-D, I spoke to the people-R”:

Comment: God reminds the people, but through the agency of Moses, that they can likewise chat with Him at will. Please note the composition of the word ’attem you yourselves (אַתֶּ֣ם) as made up of ’eth chatting with (את-) and em plural you (-ם).

The conclusion from this event is that reconnecting with God was not a given. They would have to figure it out on their own thereafter. And this is where mirage of quick-hand tricks comes to take over till contemporary times. That is, applying it to modern times that the Enlightenment Age of Reason would be exposed to have its identity stolen by the Moonlightenment Age of Dualism.

Disqualify, Cancel and Delete

It is hard to gain acceptance. It is so easy to be disqualified, canceled or deleted. Case in point if you’re not a rabbi or priest-D, if not a doctor or scholar-R, and not enjoying organizational recognition-P. Then you’re as good as not being there.

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Double decker Chat

Please allow me to insist on the practical importance of the thesis of “Chatting with God as Civilization”. This requires taking another look at the Shema Yisrael Listen Israel (שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל), the stepping stone of Deuteronomy 6:1, along with the cornerstone at Genesis 1:1a/alef. Though this is a repeat of past episodes, its emphasis changes. This is analogous to the Russian Doll Matryoshka (матрешка), a series of dolls nested inside another. Or what we may equally call a double decker sandwich. In any case, let’s proceed without further ado.

Genesis 1:1a/alef

1:1a/alef, Alef / BeReshIth. A / InBeginningOf.

א/בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ׃

A / InBeginningOf created Elohim; chatting with the heavens, and chatting with the earth:

Comment: This is the point-origin of the Torah. It’s importance lies in establishing the criterium of validity that every claim must be derived from it. Recall that the correct way of reading the cornerstone is uncurling it. Yes, much like eating a packaged dish, you first have to unfold the wrap before enjoying the meal. In what follow we’ll spell out how each section of the verse reads, how it’s represented, and what each means. (“~” stands for “reads”)

Alef / ~ S / Means Creator.

Alef / BeReshIth A / InBeginningOf ~ S // PRD. Means Creator / Creative / Creation.

Alef BeReshIth bara’ A InBeginningOf created ~ S / PRD. Means Creator Creation created.

BeReshIth bara’ Elohim InBeginningOf created Elohim ~ D. Means Creation created God.

bara’ Elohim ’eth created Elohim chatting-with ~ R. Means created God chatting-with.

Elohim ’eth hashshamayim ve’eth ha’aretz God is language-with the heavens and language-with the earth ~ P. Means both that the meaning of God “is” chatting-with the heavens and chatting-with the earth, as well as “that” God is chatting-with the heavens and is chatting-with the earth. That God is what God does. This is reminiscent of wholesome people who walk the talk.

Comment: The above is the Torah in a nutshell. In practice Genesis 1:1a/alef spells out as PaRaDiSe. Once the point-origin is uncurled in place, then things start emanating from this cornerstone. Much like once the foundations are in place resting on bedrock, you can safely start erecting the skyscraper.

We jump now to the end of the Torah, the Book of Deuteronomy, otherwise known as the Second Torah, or Second Teaching, insofar as it summarizes the first four books of the Pentateuch of Moses.

Deuteronomy 6:1

6:1 Vezo’th Hammitzvah. And this is The Commandment.

וְזֹ֣את הַמִּצְוָ֗ה הַֽחֻקִּים֙ וְהַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּ֛ה יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם לְלַמֵּ֣ד אֶתְכֶ֑ם לַעֲשׂ֣וֹת בָּאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אַתֶּ֛ם עֹבְרִ֥ים שָׁ֖מָּה לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃

And this is The Commandment-S/, the laws and the rules, that YHVH your God has commanded to impart to you-D, to be taught to you-R; to observe in the land-P, that you are about to cross into and occupy:

Comment: This verse singles out the Commandment-S/ as the Principle at Genesis 1:1a/alef.

Now we move on to lay out the rest of the verse of this important instruction.  

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

6:4 Shema Yisrael. Listen Israel.

שְׁמַ֖ע יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵ֖ינוּ יְהֹוָ֥ה ׀ אֶחָֽד׃

Listen Israel. YHVH is our God, YHVH is one:

Comment: This exemplifies the PaRaDiSe principle in terms that cannot be missed. 

6:5 Ve’ahavtah. And you shall love.

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכׇל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכׇל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכׇל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃

And you shall love, chatting with YHVH your God; with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might:

Comment: This is the verse of interest, but first let’s go through the rest to provide the vast background and later return to comment on it. But in passing please note that levv heart (לְבָבְךָ֥) appears with a double vav v (ו). I’m not sure what it means other than emphasizing that herein it’s not talking about the heart of emotions, but rather the higher octave as the seat of human essence. 

6:6 Vehayu. And it shall be.

וְהָי֞וּ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֗לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֧י מְצַוְּךָ֛ הַיּ֖וֹם עַל־לְבָבֶֽךָ׃

And will be, these things which I charge you this day, to your heart:

Comment: This refers to the transformative power that chatting with God has on us. That is, the transition from the dualism of the happiness mirage to integrating civilization and saving creation. But in passing please note that lev-v heart (לְבָבְךָ֥) also appears with a double v. If it is the case of the double heart, so to speak, then it jumps from heart of physical love to heart of divine love.

6:7 Veshinantam. And impress upon them.

וְשִׁנַּנְתָּ֣ם לְבָנֶ֔יךָ וְדִבַּרְתָּ֖ בָּ֑ם בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ֤ בְּבֵיתֶ֙ךָ֙ וּבְלֶכְתְּךָ֣ בַדֶּ֔רֶךְ וּֽבְשׇׁכְבְּךָ֖ וּבְקוּמֶֽךָ׃

And impress them upon them your children, and recite them; when you stay at home, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you get up:

Comment: This gives the specifics of our mission if we chose to accept it.

6:8 Ukshartam. And bind them.

וּקְשַׁרְתָּ֥ם לְא֖וֹת עַל־יָדֶ֑ךָ וְהָי֥וּ לְטֹטָפֹ֖ת בֵּ֥ין עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

Ukshartam le’oth, al yadekha; vehayu letotafot, beyn eynekha:

And bind them as a sign, onto your hand; and will be as drippings (reminders), between your eyes:

Comment: This is the key verse of taking charge and has already been covered amply elsewhere.

6:9 Ukhtavtam. And inscribe them.

וּכְתַבְתָּ֛ם עַל־מְזֻז֥וֹת בֵּיתֶ֖ךָ וּבִשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ׃        

And inscribe them, on the doorposts of your houses, and on your city gates:

Comment: This says to write it inside and outside us, relatively speaking.

Now that we’ve laid out the background, let’s return to focus on the foreground of interest with verse Genesis 6:5 Ve’ahavtah And you shall love. The reason we call it nested is on account of the repetition of chatting with. Let’s place it on hand for immediate access.

6:5 Ve’ahavtah. And you shall love.

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכׇל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכׇל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכׇל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃

And you shall love, chatting with YHVH your God; with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might:

Comment: The emphasis is on loving chatting with God. But is that all there’s to it? No, by far. Recall from Genesis 1:1a/alef the definition of God as Elohim ’eth hashshamayim ve’eth ha’aretz God is chatting-with the heavens and chatting-with the earth ~ P. This then means that to love chatting with YHVH your God, in turn uncurls as to love chatting with YHVH your God, by chatting-with the heavens and chatting-with the earth.

I equate it to those memorable gifts which come wrapped in a box inside a box, to keep expectations high. Or something along those lines.

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Mission, Means and Ends

Now, a few more words on the double-tiered heart of verses Deuteronomy 6:5 and 6:6. Cryptically, the heart appears in 6:5 as Love-S / Heart-D Soul-R Might-P, but has the potential to jump to the next level of realization as Heart-S/, from the gross to the sublime. You might be asking, and what for? Well, this is in order to make the connection with the following verse 6:7 referring to the mission in life. Moreover, including verses 6:8 and 6:9, it is taking the job to its finish. Please allow me to explain my take on this delicate and transcendental matter.

Our heart seems to play both a chorus and lead role in one. Ordinarily the heart is the seat of emotions. Nothing bad with that. Thanks to it there’s procreation, and a lot more, needless to say. Love means being one with God. By chatting with God we are “one” by becoming the “triad”. We are one by becoming triad. That is, this means that to love chatting with YHVH Elohim Creator God integrates us as “one in the triad”.

My take on this is that the cue to the double-tiered heart lies in the spelling of lev-v heart (לְבָבְ). Normally heart is spelled with one vav v (ו), as in l-e-v heart (לֵב). But here the unique spelling of l-e-v-v heart (לְבָבְ) is telling us that it can take this double role of Heart-D, and most importantly, also as Heart-S/.

From the very beginning we have this nested character in us as betzélem creative (בצלם), the “who” we are, and the demuth creature (דְמוּת), the “what” we become. The same occurs with the heart. It has this emotion nature of “what” and divine culture “who” much like the flip sides of the coin. In code We-S/ Who-D And-R What-P. This is just saying that we are both Betzélem creative (בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ) of the Creator-S/ and Demuth creature (כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ) of Creation-PRD. In more philosophical language this can be phrased as Transcendence-S/ Immanence-PRD.

But is that all? Far from it. Let’s keep engaging with the text a little more. Let’s quote again the verse of interest to have it within ear’s reach.

Deuteronomy 6:5

6:5 Ve’ahavtah. And you shall love.

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכׇל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכׇל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכׇל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃

And you shall love, chatting with YHVH your God; with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might:

Comment: Please note that it says bekol with all (בְּכׇל־) three times, referring to the heart, the soul and the might, or in contemporary terms to the spirit, the mind and body. The thing is that the prefix be (ב-) can mean both “with” as well as “in”. This is the same idea as above that words have a nested or tiered meaning. The ordinary use of be (ב-) is “with”, as when referring to the emotions, kind of superficial level. However, when we want to go deep it suddenly takes on a lead divine role as “in”. That is, the use as “with”, the heart, soul and might are just a triplet, but with the use as “in”, the triplet suddenly transmutes into a triad.

This means that the correct way to read this verse is as follows.

6:5 Ve’ahavtah. And you shall love.

וְאָ֣הַבְתָּ֔ אֵ֖ת יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ בְּכׇל־לְבָבְךָ֥ וּבְכׇל־נַפְשְׁךָ֖ וּבְכׇל־מְאֹדֶֽךָ׃

And you shall love, chatting with YHVH your God; in all your heart, and in all your soul, and in all your might:

Lead role in the play

In the word bekol in all (בְּכׇל־), the “in” refers to the point all the while the “all” refers to the origin. Thus we have as if out of nowhere, thanks to diligently paying attention, that the Torah is teaching us something worth knowing. That is, that the point-origin of PaRaDiSe is as the Creator-S/, omnipresent-P, omnipotent-D and omniscient-R, all proportions kept, being Teaching 101, and it serves to validate the conclusions to follow.

This is as a preparation for a mutation to occur, like a metamorphosis. Once one loves God in all the Heart, and in all the soul, and in all the might, not “with all” but rather “in all”, then we jump from Demuth creature (כִּדְמוּתֵ֑נוּ) of Creation-PRD to Betzélem creative (בְּצַלְמֵ֖נוּ) of the Creator-S/. Then in verse 6:7 we’re ready to impart Teaching 101 to our children at home, and on the road to friends and strangers. And it’s no longer opinion, but knowledge. We’re no longer part of the problem but rather part of the solution.  

Then follows what we’ve amply talked about of verse 6:8, of binding the sign to our hand and taking charge of things in the world to make it a fit place as civilization. So we won’t repeat it here but refer the listener to the other episodes. Instead, this time around we’ll focus on the concluding verse 6:9. The obvious and immediate question in all this is, and what for? Why all the fuss? What’s the end game in all this preparation?

Please allow me to repeat it by quoting directly from it given its importance.

Deuteronomy 6:9

6:9 Ukhtavtam. And inscribe them.

וּכְתַבְתָּ֛ם עַל־מְזֻז֥וֹת בֵּיתֶ֖ךָ וּבִשְׁעָרֶֽיךָ׃        

And inscribe them on the doorposts, of your houses, and on your city gates:

Comment: This is reminiscent of how Rabbinism interprets verses Deuteronomy 6:8 and 6:9. Rabbinism interprets these two verses as making Tefilín Phylacteries (תְּפִלִּין‎) for praying and of placing the Mezuzah Doorstep (מְזוּזָה) for identifying a Jewish home. But as we say before, verse 6:8 is about chatting with God not about putting on black leather boxes and strings on our head and arms, and nailing them on the doorframe. Same here, it’s not about carrying nor nailing objects but much more. Or maybe, “both and”. If being inclusive, then the lower interpretation-P shouldn’t preclude the higher one-D. I’m not trying to downplay the roles that the boxes play, but rather to rescue what the text within them states us to do. Torah is theory and practice.

This is telling us to realize chatting with God as Civilization. The thesis is that “Chatting with God is Civilization”. Civilization understood in our personal spaces as well as in the public square. These seven verses of Deuteronomy 6:1, 4-9 are the cornerstone of civilization. Verse 6:8 is chatting with God and verse 6:9 puts in practice the instructions received to integrate civilization and save creation. 

At the down to earth level this is telling us to align the political constitutions and scientific theories and philosophical discourses with PaRaDiSe. This is covered in other episodes, so we won’t burden you more. In particular, the Peoplist State of five-powers. But the general idea is to open the gift boxes and liberate its contents in order to integrate civilization based on PaRaDiSe.

Quality and quantity

What happens if you love God with and in the heart, soul, and might, but not completely, say only ninety-nine percent (99%), but one percent (1%) not. Perhaps because you’re also loving someone or something else. Then it’s not a triad, it’s not love. It has to be bekol in all (בְּכׇל־), as point-origin.

It has to be in all three. Factoring out the common element we would have bekol in all, followed by parenthesis Heart, Soul, Might and close parenthesis. The question is when does a quantitative change make a qualitative difference. The problem is as follows. If it’s one hundred percent (100%), then it’s one percent (1%) and ninety nine percent (99%). This means that the ninety nine percent (99%) is equivalent to double zero percent (00%) for it to become along with the one percent, the one hundred percent (100%). This is reminiscent of the first step as the right one which is what counts when entering a labyrinth. The qualitative is the one percent (1%) and the quantitative is the ninety nine percent (99%). With this last one understood as double zero percent (00%) in order to make the one hundred percent (100%).

The right one step leads to success, the wrong first step leads to failure, irrespectively of the remaining ninety-nine steps. It’s like the case of dying within one hundred days (100), and the person dies on day one (1). Does it really matter to the dead person the remaining ninety-nine days?

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Remember to Chat on Shabbath

And while we’re on this topic, please allow the following pertinent addenda. Succinctly, the fourth (4^th) commandment of the Decalogue Ten Commandments ‘Aseret ha-devarim (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים), explicitly mandates to keep the Shabbath by chatting with God. Let’s be more precise. We’re talking about Exodus 20:8 and this is repeated in Deuteronomy 5:6-21.

Exodus 20:8

20:8 Zekhor ‘eth yom. And remember chatting with the day.

זָכ֛וֹר֩ אֶת־י֥֨וֹם הַשַּׁבָּ֖֜ת לְקַדְּשֽׁ֗וֹ׃

Remember chatting with the Shabbath day, keep it holy:

Comment: It appears twice as usual, first chronologically. Here the emphasizes is on zakhor remember (זָכ֛וֹר֩). As an aside, please note the use of zakharon remembrances (וּלְזִכָּרוֹן֙) in Numbers 15:39 contrasts with totafot drippings (וּלְטוֹטָפֹ֖ת) used in Deuteronomy 6:8, 11:18.

Deuteronomy 5:8

5:8 Shamor ’eth yom. And observe chatting with the day:

שָׁמ֛֣וֹר אֶת־י֥וֹם֩ הַשַּׁבָּ֖֨ת לְקַדְּשׁ֑֜וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוְּךָ֖֣ ׀ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶֽ֗יךָ׃

Observe chatting with the Shabbath day and keep it holy; as your God YHVH has commanded you:

Comment: It appears twice as usual, secondly in the narrative. Here the emphasis is in observe. To keep it holy sounds like keeping it holistic.

The point in all this is that chatting with the Shabbath day is a guarantee of being in proximity with God. That chatting with God is Shabbath resting (הַשַּׁבָּ֖֨ת) from the six mundane days of the week. Fundamentally, that chatting with God is being holy.

Validation as adherence to the Torah

Perhaps worth mentioning is the reason for stressing that all statements making a claim need to derive from the point-origin in order for the claim made to be valid. This follows directly from the Rules of the Torah.

Everything has a reason for being in the Torah Bible. Our business is to figure it out. There are strict guidelines that need to be observed as explicitly stated in the Holy Scriptures themselves.

The first condition is stated in Deuteronomy 4:1.

4:1 Ve‘atah Yisrael. And now Israel.

וְעַתָּ֣ה יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל שְׁמַ֤ע אֶל־הַֽחֻקִּים֙ וְאֶל־הַמִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֧ר אָֽנֹכִ֛י מְלַמֵּ֥ד אֶתְכֶ֖ם לַעֲשׂ֑וֹת לְמַ֣עַן תִּֽחְי֗וּ וּבָאתֶם֙ וִֽירִשְׁתֶּ֣ם אֶת־הָאָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֧ר יְהֹוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י אֲבֹתֵיכֶ֖ם נֹתֵ֥ן לָכֶֽם׃

And now, O Israel, listen-S / to the laws-D and rules-R that I am instructing you to observe-P, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that YHVH, the God of your fathers, is giving you:

Comment: This is saying in no uncertain terms to thoroughly study the whole Torah Bible (תורה). That is, that letters, numbers, words, sentences and all else contained therein counts. With all due respect, but this is no different from when buying a brand-new expensive car, you care and expect attention be paid to details.

The second condition is found in Deuteronomy 4:2.

4:2 Lo’thosífu. Do not add.

לֹ֣א תֹסִ֗פוּ עַל־הַדָּבָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אָנֹכִי֙ מְצַוֶּ֣ה אֶתְכֶ֔ם וְלֹ֥א תִגְרְע֖וּ מִמֶּ֑נּוּ לִשְׁמֹ֗ר אֶת־מִצְוֺת֙ יְהֹוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י מְצַוֶּ֥ה אֶתְכֶֽם׃

Do not add to the word which I command you, nor shall you subtract from it; to observe chatting with the commandments, of YHVH your God, that I command you:

Comment: This point-blank states to stick to the words of the text by not adding or subtracting things that are not there to begin with.

The third condition is found in Deuteronomy 5:29.

5:29 Ushmartem la‘asoth. And guard to do.

וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֣ם לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר צִוָּ֛ה יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖ם אֶתְכֶ֑ם לֹ֥א תָסֻ֖רוּ יָמִ֥ין וּשְׂמֹֽאל׃

You shall be careful to do, as has commanded YHVH your God to you; do not stray right or left:

Comment: This reinforces the first conditional stating not to opine on matters of knowledge empowerment. When reading the Torah there is no such thing as insignificant detail, every point is substantive.

The fourth condition is rabbinical, not of biblical origin, and is the blessing read before Limud Torah Bible Study.

Baruch ‘attah. Blessed are You.

(Pending in Hebrew)

Baruch attah Adonai, Elohéynu mélekh ha’olam, asher kiddeshánu, bemitzvotav vetzivvánu, la’asok be’divrey Torah.

Blessed are You, YHVH our God, king of the universe, who hallows us with commandments, commanding us, to engage with the words of Torah.

Comment: In modern terms to engage means to be intentionally and attentively at one with God when reading the Holy Scriptures. Nothing less will do, no multitasking allowed. It differs from reading literature or studying science. It is in a class or category all by itself.

This simply states that for any claim of reasoning to be valid it has to adhere to the rules in the Torah. It is not capricious on our part. It’s simply part and parcel of making sense.

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Light and Deep

But before we leave the topic, and given that the table is set, it would be opportune to mention one more thing. But this has to do with Genesis 1:2. So, let’s start by quoting the remaining verses of Day One to have ample background to maneuver.

Genesis 1:2

1:2 Veha’áretz haytha tóhu vavohu. And the earth was chaos and crisis.

וְהָאָ֗רֶץ הָיְתָ֥ה תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְחֹ֖שֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמָּֽיִם׃

And the earth was chaos and void, with darkness over the face of the deep; and a wind from God sweeping over the water:

Comment: This is just setting the stage for the Light. But notice the connection of the Deep with darkness. My guess is that deep means that with light you can see deep into things.

1:3 Vayyómer Elohim. And said God.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֱלֹהִ֖ים יְהִ֣י א֑וֹר וַֽיְהִי־אֽוֹר׃

God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light:

Comment: Herein is introduced the light as something new. But is it? Let’s read the next verse to find out.

1:4 Vayyara’ Elohim. And saw God.

וַיַּ֧רְא אֱלֹהִ֛ים אֶת־הָא֖וֹר כִּי־ט֑וֹב וַיַּבְדֵּ֣ל אֱלֹהִ֔ים בֵּ֥ין הָא֖וֹר וּבֵ֥ין הַחֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

And saw God that chatting with the light, was good; and separated God, between the light, and between the darkness:

Comment: What first stands out is that God saw that chatting with the light was good. This shouldn’t come as a surprise being the case that previously we found out that God Himself is chatting-with the heavens and chatting-with the earth. So, God Elohim must be fond of chatting. Of YHVH we may not know anything, but later on It is described as YHVH Elohim, of which we now know that He’s all about chatting.

The second thing next, is that God separated the light from the darkness. But in verse 1:2 mention was made that darkness was blocking the deep. This would seem to imply that the Deep and the Light are the same thing. Furthermore, that they need separating so that darkness doesn’t crowd the light again. That this separation ensures the liberation of the light. 

1:5 Vayyikra Elohim. And called God.

וַיִּקְרָ֨א אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ לָאוֹר֙ י֔וֹם וְלַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ קָ֣רָא לָ֑יְלָה וַֽיְהִי־עֶ֥רֶב וַֽיְהִי־בֹ֖קֶר י֥וֹם אֶחָֽד׃

God called the light Day, and called the darkness Night; and there was evening and there was morning, Day One:

Comment: We just commented that in verse 1:2 we saw that vechóshekh ‘al peney tehom darkness was over the face of the deep. Note the closeness of God with the light and His distancing from the darkness. It says that God called the light Day, but only using the personal pronoun does He called the darkness Night. This I take to mean that God finds chatting with the light to be good. That is, that instructing us regarding civilization is a good thing. Furthermore, not only is God not chatting with the darkness, but that darkness as such plays the role of the background drowning noise which inhibits chatting itself. Like Happiness craze.

Perhaps this Darkness which God calls Night corresponds to what we previously identified as Messianism, Mysticism, and Habitual Crisis.

Torah and Language

The meaning of Torah is unequivocal. Whereas Bible can mean whatever you want it to mean. The Bible can mean the Torah Teaching (תורה), the Nevi’im Prophets  (נביאים), Ketuvim Writings (כתבים). Some add to these certain texts which are traditional, but which didn’t make it to the canon. And this is just from the Jewish side. There’s also the Christian Bible understood to mean the New Testament, and changes to the aggregate texts of the TaNaKh Bible. The Torah is Revelation, plain and simple. Or alternatively, by the scholarly name Pentateuch, as the Five books of Moses.

Language is basic and comes before any text written in that language. Whether it’s right to left, or left to right, in either case, the thought-S/ one, followed by the grammatical parts rolling out with subject-D first, verb-R second, and object-P third. We learned to talk before developing the skill of the mathematical principles of natural philosophy. That is, exemplifying in English left to right, in writing down equation displaying a principle as thoughts-S/, the unknown comes first on the left side as subject-D, followed by the equal sign-R as the verb, then on the right side comes the object-P, be they massspacetime.

Additionally, it can work at the next level as well. As in the case of force of gravity, we have force equals mass times acceleration, where Force-S, equal-/, mass-P space-R time-D. Or simpler still as in a forest-S is-/ a collection of trees-PRD.

Age of Reason failing

Reason can confirm what’s given as shown. Being-S / Becoming-PRD.

A valid question is what kept the Age of Reason from figuring it out? I’m sure its proponents are perfectly capable of responding to this matter. My take is that the School of Athens of classical philosophy gave little to no credit to the “preSocratics”. Aristotle would refer to them as “primitive”. He seemed to disregard the role they played as guiding thread, as opening words, to a quest. The School of Athens failed to map the three Schools and one Sect of the PreSocratics to philosophy and mythology, respectively.

But ultimately, it takes two to tango. That is, from the side of the West, Europe, now what about from the side of the East, Israel? What part did Biblical authorities play in all this? This is split in turn between the Church and the Synagogue. My guess is that they were both misled and thrown off course by the Messianism and Mysticism conjectures, and Crisis as usual alternative.

Age of Enlightened Reason-S/ PRD (crossed out) Unreason-S/ Messianism-D Crisis as usual-R Mysticism-P.

Mass Deception

Just because it reads Enlightenment Age of Reason doesn’t make it is the Enlightenment Age of Reason. There are lies and truths running around in the world. Not everything got written down on the Stone Tablets. Sometimes the inverse opposite happens to be the case. And what could it be, I wonder. Well, jokingly of course, but the opposite of the sun is what appears light but doesn’t actually emit, but rather merely reflects light. Bingo, the Moon.

That’s half of the challenge, but the second half is easily provided by added measure. What’s the mirror image of reason, not falsehood, that’s the negation of reason. No, the mirror image of reason is unreasonableness, or unreason. There you have it. Mass deception is having us all believe in the chimera of what is nothing other than the Looney Enlightenment of Unreason. Maybe a more pleasant and shorter version would be Loonlightenment Age of Unreason.

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Israel, PreSocratics and Athens

If there’s a Universal Principle of Knowledge for Empowerment, then everything must somehow derive from this single point-origin source. The focus is to demonstrate that the preSocratics followed this paradigm in the VI century bce of a triad of Schools of Thought and one Secret Sect. The next challenge is to bind the preSocratics to the next ones up the line of civilization of the School of Athens and the Greek pantheon. Next make the usual division in Philosophy Departments into the basic subject areas of Metaphysics, Ethics, Esthetics, and Epistemology. In simpler terms philosophy as metaphysics-S/, literally the beyond the physical, is studied as Good-P, Beauty-D and Knowledge-R, respectively.

Then insofar as civilization is based on Greek thought, it would be safe to make the connection to contemporary thought as the continuation of the same Greek paradigm. There you have it, explained in large strokes.

This would be the end of the story were it not for the fact that our world is broken. It’s simply not right, there is something wrong. What’s wrong is that it’s not PaRaDiSe as S/PRD, but more like S no slash (/) with separate P, R, D, or else like S, P, R, D. In other words, it’s not the Universal Principle of Knowledge for Empowerment of the whole-S is made-/ of triad parts-PRD. Rather, whatever it is, it’s bewilderment-PRD (crossed out) for debilitation-S/ (crossed out). Given that chaos, what we’re suggesting is integrating the three parts of Religion-D,  Philosophy-R and Science-P into a triad-PRD to give Empowerment-S/ and not Debilitation-S/ (crossed out) by keeping them separate.

Of course, there was a reason in history for keeping them separate. It was a way of breaking up the power of the King and the Church by keeping them separate. While the benefits are numerous, it did come with a cost. But it wasn’t so much about the cost and benefits study. Rather, it was on account that they didn’t have any other way of doing things than keeping them separate. Like the lesser of two evils. Keep them separate of a broken world of feudalism, or else keep them together of monolithic world of theocracy.

Broken-hearted world

This pretty much sums up the Age of Unreason transitioning to the Age of Empowerment. The pursuit of happiness is our broken-hearted world. Happiness is the problem not the solution.   

Loonlightened unreason of issues, rights, laws, and entitlements. Empowerment reason of vision of PaRaDiSe. Awe shouldn’t give up nor shy away from empowerment-S/, nor be scared of the universal-R or the absolute-D for the sake of the relative-P.

Foundations

The Chaos due to civilization founded on Greece. PaRaDiSe will be civilization founded on primeval Israel, then classical Greece, and elsewhere. We are victims of a collective deception. Of a massive delusion. The social edifice is broken from the bottom up. The four stones at the corners are misunderstood. There are four stones but how are they fitted together is the question. The lack of unifying principle is projected upwards as Habitual Crisis.

I had studied Greece, philosophy and science, and was new to Israel, religion, and in following Church and State separation kept them far apart. Accidentally my preSocratic “Triads” masters’ degree incomplete thesis served as missing link between archaic Israel and antique Greece.

What is needed is PaRaDiSe to get the tradition and the world back on track and put an end to bad things happening to good people. In following is a table of sorts regarding PaRaDiSe.

Primeval Israel: Secret-S / Discover-D Remit-R Plain-P

PreSocratics: Pythagorean Tetractys-S / Parmenides Eleatics Being-D Pythagorean Triads-R Thales Milesian Cosmology-P.

Greece: Mythological Pantheon-S / Plato-D Socrates-R Aristotle-P

West: Messianism and Mysticism-S / Crisis-PRD = Religion-D, separate from Philosophy-R, separate from Science-P.

Philosophy: Metaphysics-S / Beauty Esthetics-D Good Ethics-R Truth Epistemology-P

If you claim or reject that civilization already has foundations, I will reply by asking how come it’s falling apart. The foundations don’t seem to be holding the social edifice together from underneath, as it should. It’s merely doing it from the sides, or inbetween, as for in the meantime, not with a permanent character. Or to put it figuratively, it’s hanging by the brush. What’s keeping it floating is common sense. It’s with the help of using plain common sense to supplant the faults of reason that it’s still going on, however much limping.

One thing first and foremost

Why is it important to have the sign PaRaDiSe in your hand before one starts receiving messages in the third eye? Because it’s the tip of the guiding thread. Knowing things in the big picture, deep dive, long duration of things, then we can make sense of them when receiving totafot messages between our eyes. Whereas, not putting the sign to your hand means not taking charge of things, it’s just opinion, unable to adequately understand the messages for lack of the full alphabet and number system of the Universal Principle of Knowledge.    

Like learning a language, you need the whole alphabet from alef a (א) to tav t (ת), our letters “a” to “z”, and from the one (1) onwards to ten (10) and iteratively, in both directions. If you don’t start with the one, then you are skipping and leaving them out of the thought. Imagine leaving out some of the consonants or vowels, how would your sentences look like? It’s like trying to decipher fragments of sentences and figures.

Opinions are partial views and there’s no way of making sense of findings because there’s nothing to compare it to. As distinct from a puzzle, where you have all the pieces and the picture to guide you. Imagine a car out of the showroom with wiring and parts missing. How would it perform? When there are missing pieces there are numerous ways of putting things together. There’s no right way, all are partially wrong and partially right, and no knowing which is which.

No wonder religious and secular systems are so full of byzantine discussions. Great opinions, awesome insights, but walking on their heads. Subjective truths, dependent on whom you ask.

What we have right now is patchwork. The problem is that there’s no way of knowing if its complete, if there’s even a whole, nor knowing if its self-supporting, and not having each piece working against the rest.

Two negatives don’t make a positive

If there’s a global movement against bad things, is it really in favor of anything? Or is it deceiving people into thinking that it’s actually proposing something real to fix the world? To be against the bad and in favor of the good. But for what good in particular? Like saying combat bigotry and hate with love. While it may make good script for the pulpit, how does it help the public square?

Case in point for contrast is the Enlightenment Period when the thinkers proposed grand theories to replace the sick system of Monarchy. Ideas like people sovereign, nation of laws, state of three powers, and the like. Names like Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke. These as regards the modern state, plus the practical thinkers on the American side of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and many more.

They can get away with not saying anything. Case in point, anti-defamation, no disrespect meant. What are they actually proposing beyond don’t do bad things to good people. What the world wants and needs is to know what good they’re proposing. What net good, that is. Good is good, and not just not bad. It is simply not acceptable.

In politics it’s common to combat those in office by critiquing their policies. But those in power don’t have that option, they have to come up with tentative propositions of good. Actually, they don’t. All that those in power have to do is deconstruct what those out of office erected. All in all, it’s a net gain of zero. A string of negatives is just zeros with no number one (1) in front.

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Jewish Talmud, Greek Philosophy, and Roman Law

Little if no credit is given to Roman Law as part of the success of Rome. It is comparable to Jewish Talmud as the legal body to rule the Kehillah community (קְהִלָה). Greek thought was more focused on the humanities, as distinct from Rome on law. Greece is culture, Rome was just the empire.

Four principles and one Principle

Four principles? Case in point is the triangle made out of three intercrossing lines. Once the lines form the sides of the triangle, they’re no longer just lines but more so sides of the triangle. The idea is the question of how the three or four principles relate to each other to make a single universal principle. One and only one principle to be the universal Principle. But not monolithic as one equals one. There must be diversity all the while integrating into one.  

All that’s needed is the Universal Principle of Empowerment… that’s all!

What’s happening right now is like the iceberg image. The prevalence of lies, backed up by deeper lies, and so on to the biggest lie of them all. See my podcasts on “Lie and Truth” I, II, III.

Dead Star

The so-called Age of Reason is a dead star. Light may stop reaching us, any minute now. Of course, it could take from right now to within the next five hundred or so years. Nobody knows for sure when it will happen. Not if but when.

The lights will go out, but how so and how much? Will it be bad connection, flickering and then complete blackout? Human rights can be a case in point. (Para muestra basta un botón.) It perfectly exemplifies the lack of foundations.

Should we worry about Climate Change catastrophe? Or nuclear apocalypse? Or long before that, the background shifting of the cultural slide? Return to nature from culture. Growing back a tail and going naked. Going from civilization to the wilderness. From gross to more subtle. Like the lab frog which was boiled to death as compared to the one thrown into boiling water and jumps out.

Anything can play the role of monkey wrench when things are hanging by pins and needles. Like the fight for House speakership can trigger avalanche of diverging distrust in institutions and doubting our neighbors. Just press things, with end of consensus there’s the polarization dominating things.

It seems that the backup plan of the Age of Reason of Modernity is Messianism. When the light bulbs go out, the sky will light up the earth. The other solution is getting it right once and for all, and building up accordingly. Reconstitution instead of reconstruction after collapse.

Polarization of infrareds and ultraviolets

History repeats itself, but not in the same way. With the pulling away of polarization of the infrareds and ultraviolets we’re going to end with a hollow core. Like in the Prophets, they were warning the King and priesthood and the people of corruption and punishment of an eventual downfall. Internal weakening of the social fabric in Israel and Judea, and external strengthening of enemy states of Mesopotamia and Egypt.

If it’s too good to be true, then it probably isn’t. It’s time to start worrying. Just not thinking about it won’t make it go away. Hiding our heads in the sand isn’t going to resolve any more than sitting on our hands. Living the moment of the here and now only goes so far.

Back during the thirties in Europe, they had the infrared Communists fighting it out with the ultraviolets of the Falange in Spain, Fascists in Italy, and Nazis in Germany. Spain went through the battlefield, but Germany and Italy didn’t cut corners and went by the ballot box.

Like school shooter drills, at first nobody wanted them because it would traumatize kids. Now it’s universally accepted. Better be safe than sorry. We need to be prepared and preferably avoid it by looking forward. There was a movie “The Russians are coming”, with a happy love ending. Zelenskyy, in the case of Ukraine, was at first adamant to the warnings from US intelligence of the imminent attack from Russia complaining that it was stressing the population which was already used to the idea of the limited warfare on the eastern front.

Crack and Collapse

Imminent collapse. The short answer is Empowerment or else Messianism.

Will it be like falling off a cliff or a slow downhill roll? Like water falling off a waterfall or more like a river flowing downstream to the lake or ocean. Most likely by analogy to the Niagara Falls on the Niagara River on the border of Canada and the US, a little of both.

A crack turns into a structural decompensation and collapse. Things are held together by pins and needles. It’s a house of cards. There are only two ways to avoid implosion and collapse.

Why collapse? Because there’s no foundation. There’s no cornerstone. Just a set of lateral insertions of loose principles holding things up.

Anything can start the cascade; a spark can start a fire. Speakership fight or Ukraine war, or Covid. Like case of Iranian girl killed because of not adequately wearing the hijab. Or like the aquarium bust in the lobby of the Berlin Hotel. It wasn’t a terrorist attack, simply material fatigue, infinitesimally adding up to move the needle and it all comes tumbling down. Once it reaches tipping point, there’s no stopping it.

Sudden awareness that the emperor has no clothes. That the giant has clay feet. The straw that broke the camel’s back. The drop that spilled the glass. A spark out of the sky starts a fire, as if by spontaneous combustion.

Founding Civilization on Empowering People. Revelation-S / Inspiration-D Enlightenment-R Computational-P. It is based on one thing and one thing only. On the Universal Principle of Empowerment of PaRaDiSe at Genesis 1:1a/alef.

Maybe the hope trust belief is that the bad things of collapse of civilization will bring the Messianic age sooner and eternal life thereafter. Happiness galore, mirage!

So long as we continue discussing we’re not giving up just yet. Believing is hoping. False hope but still keeps it going on backup batteries or emergency generator. Loss of faith or trust in our institutions could bring about a run on the banks, back to using the mattress, the closet and walls to keep valuables.

Postmodernity on Israel, not Greece

Revelation makes intuitive sense in the measure that we’re creatives of the Creator and not just creatures of Creation, as the rest of the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. Not that there aren’t other powers besides YHVH Elohim Creator God, but rather that there’s one Power of the powers.

In Deuteronomy 10:17 He is the Elohey Elohim God of gods (ה֚וּא אֱלֹהֵ֣י הָֽאֱלֹהִ֔ים). And in Deuteronomy 10:13, letov lakh for good for you (לְט֖וֹב לָֽךְ׃).

This is telling us that the ordering of things is critical. That’s why it’s important to found PaRaDiSe Postmodernity on primeval Israel, then on classical Greece. Not like it is today, separated one from the other, Israel-D Greece-P, but rather PaRaDiSe Postmodernity-R, with Creatives-S/. It has much Greek influence, not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s the ordering of cause and effect that is flipped.

Big picture long duration view of things. Holistic and heuristic. Renaissance Enlightenment Modernity was recovery of Greek Antiquity. Postmodernity is rediscovery of Archaic or primeval Israel.

Prophets-S / Sages-D Philosophers-R Thinkers-P. Sages or wisdom persons of Israel, Friends of wisdom or philosophers of Greece. Inaugurate the Era of Posmodernity, previously known as Age of Aquarius.

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Crisis Ages in World and in Israel

It is important to both distinguish and synchronize World history with that of the periods relevant to the history of Israel. They are certainly not the same, but on the other hand, they are entangled. It’s only one world however much there are differences between the whole and its constituent parts. This is a subject beyond the scope of this modest venture. Suffice that we limit it to our range of interest. The world taking precedence over that of Israel, for the sake of simplicity.

In general, I’m taking a pause in nomenclature and returning to Beney Israel Children of Israel (בני ישראל), or Israel for short. Though it’s a grammatical lapse, Israel and Israels, instead of Israelite of the Prophets or of Israeli of contemporary times. Jew doesn’t have the same gematria meaning as Israel. Suffice that it says, Shema Yisrael Listen Israel and not Shema Yehudi Listen Jew.

The two times that are of interest for our argument are those of the appearance of the Zohar Radiance (זוהר) in the 13^th century and that of the Enlightenment in the 18^th century, all dates approximate. These stand out insofar as the Zohar introduced Mysticism proper, while the Enlightenment introduced in Israel the admixture of Messianism with Mysticism in Eastern Jewry and of Messianism with Hellenism in Western Jewry.

Israel isn’t going through a crisis as the world right now, but insofar as the fate of Postmodernity is indissolubly entangled with that of Postrabbinism, they follow the same fate for better or for worse. The thing is that in the greater picture of things Israel doesn’t exist outside world history. Such that if there’s a crisis in the world there should be a crisis in Israel. Israel as religion of Judaism is exempt of the crisis as any other faith, but as Israel it is not. The Torah is not just another Dialogue of Plato or Treatise of Aristotle.

Second-hand sourcing

The West got its Renaissance and Moonlightenment second hand from Greece. We need to set the record straight starting by restarting things at the point-origin with PaRaDiSe. Make the necessary changes to the road signs of culture starting with Genesis 1:1a/alef. Insert the modification where one sees the ’eth chatting with (את).

Moonlightenment, the Age of Dualistic Reason. Enlightenment, the Age of Empowerment of PaRaDiSe.  

Post Messianism times

Now that Messianism has been debunked in favor of PaRaDiSism–S/ Religion-D Philosophy-R Science-P, we need to ask what comes next.

Is there any sense for the continued split between the Abrahamic religions? If there’s no daylight between them, how are they different? Mysticism is likewise off-side, so it doesn’t count in the least. Yes, there are differences, but are they derivable from the point-origin? That is the question. If their differences are not derivable from the point-origin at Genesis 1:1a/alef, they’re dispensable.

Hasidism

In Hasidism Pietism (חֲסִידוּת), Kavanah is one of four themes of religious worship and spiritual striving. The true faithful constantly contemplates the presence of the divine hitbonenut (הִתבּוֹנְנוּת), constantly cleaves and communes with the divine devequt (דְבֵקוּת), with intense ecstasy feeling the divine hitlahavut (הִתלַהֲבוּת), and is raptly devoted to this divine kavanah (כַּוָּנָה).

This low-lying fruit looks too tempting to pass. With all due respect, my preliminary take would be Kavanah–S / Hitlahavut–D Devequt–R Hitbonenut–P. The key concepts, all referred to the Divine are Devotion-S/ Ecstasy-D Cleaves & Communes-R Presence-P. But in order not to miss the point of including this thorny subject, I need to say the following. But not before stating that Kavanah Intention (כַּוָּנָה) seems isomorphic to Shema Yisrael Listen Israel (שמע ישראל), insofar as it’s like a wake-up call to start paying attention.

Don’t do good things which appear bad. (No hagas cosas buenas que parezcan malas.) By this is meant that sometimes good things may be wrongly misinterpreted if they fall into bad hands. The quest is for the source of the mirage of happiness so dominant in our social media, and in general in our strongly held beliefs. What ever happened to the work ethic? Now it’s all about happiness. Needless to say, this isn’t exclusive to Hasidism and other Western faith practices, it also applies to Yoga and Eastern practices of mind control and ecstasy.

The problem with this is that it gives rise to instant gratification chases. In general, proclivity to drug addiction, alcoholism, sexism, and other good things taken beyond their range of validity. And all this is closely related to depression, stress and other ailments way too frequent in modern affluent society. Let’s not forget to include the virality of mass shootings and suicides and others as well too numerous to mention.

The conclusion reached is that Religion-D, especially the type which stresses ecstasy is too prone to open the door to excesses in wealthy nations. And by extension to those so-called nations in development which follow the leadership set by the former, at all levels, nationally and individually. This is just another failed attempt of Religion-D to reach the goal acting separately instead of in unison with Philosophy-R and Science-P so as to realize the one commandment mitzvah (מִצוָה) of PaRaDiSe-S.

At the ground level it’s like what parents do in private is certainly okay. But letting others into their personal affairs may not be acceptable. The problem is that in the world there’s no privacy if it’s in the public domain.

None of the claims of Hasidism are put in doubt. Solely that it is Religion-D and not Civilization-S/, not to mention being aggravated by their reliance on Messianism and Mysticism.  PaRaDiSe uncurls as Civilization-S/ Religion-D Philosophy-R Science-P. The problem is that over and above their goodness of Religion-D; Religion is the force behind our broken world. And the same epithet can be said about Philosophy-R and Science-P. As tripartism they’re to blame, but as Triadism it would be to their credit.

Religion and Secular Leadership

In Judaism there are two dominant groups providing leadership. They are, Rabbinism-D and Wealth-P, with the Intelligentsia-R playing second piper to Dualism Greece. Unfortunately, we have at present M&M-S/. That is, Messianism and Mysticism as the strategy facing Habitual Crisis of our broken world. Recall in all this that Rabbinism is code for Religion of any and all faiths, be they Christianity or Islam, or others.

Conclusion

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