Sunday, October 29, 2023

Ignatius as the Wheat of God (transubstantiation) and Official Founder of the Christian Imperial Mystery Cult

 Ignatius of Antioch and the Imperial Cult by Allen Brent in Vigiliae Christianae, Vol. 52, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), https://www.jstor.org/stable/1584583

That's a fascinating read. I just read a dozen or so scholarly articles on Ignatius - in relation to Eusebius, Polycarp, Origen, etc. - the early founders of the Christian Church. There is still debate whether the seven epistles or letters of Ignatius are real or forgeries - the reason being that the contemporary mention of him by Origen and Polycarp is so brief - that it basically is not even by his name (that is debatable). 

Richard Carrier then skewers Eusebius for contriving the early origins of Christianity via Josephus and the Essenes (Therapeutae) in Egypt.  This conflation of Christ in Egypt - the title of D.M. Murdock's masterful academic tome - was reinforced again in my perusal of Ignatius. One of my sources stating:

A Hellenized Jewish form of the Sibylline Oracles was composed
in Egypt, probably in the late second century B . C . with the aim of attracting Gentile proselytes. Three centuries later a Christian redaction of the Oracles includes in book I a seventy-five-line interpolation foretelling the coming of Christ, his ministry, Passion, death, descent to Hades, and Resurrection, with the emergence of the church. 16 Here the
descent is the work of Christ who is identified as the Temple, possibly from the saying of Jn 2:19 or from the rending of the temple veil in Mt 27:51:
And then indeed the temple of Solomon will effect a great sign for men, when he goes to the house of Adonis announcing the resurrection to the dead. 17
The second half of book VIII of the second-century A.D. version of the Oracles is a long prophetic poem on Christ, also with three lines on his descent.

So what we know about Ignatius, as he is "constructed," is that he was the first to insist on being called Christian - even though that term "Christian" was probably first used by Roman magistrates - and Ignatius was emphatic about Jesus being a real historical person, etc. Yet ironically - as the main source I start out with above - Ignatius "planned" out his martyrdom to assimilate the competing West Asian pagan mystery cults - as to align Christianity with the Imperial Cult!! And thus "Transubstantiation" 

As that first article explains - ALLEN BRENT

that prefigures in Ignatius' liturgical scenes (Ephes. 5,2; Mag. 7
Indeed, Ignatius anticipates his experience in the arena as a kind of Eucharist [the last Supper communion] in which instead of the pagan crowds there will be the Roman
as participants in a cult on which he himself is sacrificed on an altar that
is ready. (Rom. 2,2) His words are "to be poured out as a libation to God," which may reflect in Eph. 5,1-2.10 But Ignatius is not simply commenting on Scripture in  a social vacuum. The... has clear associations with the Imperial Cult and its offerings of thus et vinum, as a sacrificial term...

OK so that is the true creation of communion as a Church practice - and what it means - a kind of imperial Brown-No$ing offering of self-sacrifice....This is confirmed by Professor Elaine Pagels' article comparing John of Patos to Ignatius. She argues that indeed Ignatius was promoting Paul and the Hellenization of Christianity - while John of Patmos was doing the opposite!! John of Patmos was insisting real Christians follow Jewish rituals and are not Gentiles, etc. Meanwhile it was in Egyptian practice to use wine and wheat for the "sacrifice" - and so D.M. Murdock was correct.

Marian Hillar whom I blogged on before - he points out that these early founders of Christianity did not yet crystallized the Trinity as based on Platonic philosophy - and so God was still considered primary. And so the Bishop was to be the new icon that previously had been pagan statutes as idolatry. Hence the fancy costumes of the Bishops/Pope/Cardinals/Priests, etc. to emphasize this "sacrificial" role of the church to the Imperial Cult. As Richard Carrier then points out - this was the role of Eusebius to codify Christianity as the official Roman Imperial religion a la Constantine Imperialism.

humans, wheat, and sheep, are manifest in many other ongoing economic, social, and ecological processes. These can be broadly summarized as “globalization” in the widely accepted sense of intensifying worldwide interconnectedness, including in economic, cultural, political, and environmental spheres (: 2). Our long-term history of sheep and wheat domestication agrees with the consensus view that contemporary globalization represents new levels of intensification, but also that it has much earlier roots than is commonly acknowledged.

 


Wednesday, October 25, 2023

My Mini Family enjoys their cereal box of Minis in their Mini kitchen

 

Every box of our Minis line of family and kid cereals has a STEM kids activity on the back of the box, a build your own mini kitchen. Cut out and fold all three sets to create your very own mini kitchen to enjoy your mini cereal. Each serving of this 12.3 oz box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch Minis contains 15g of whole grain (at least 48 grams recommended daily), rice is made with vitamins and minerals for part of a delicious kids breakfast.

Found these on clearance!

12g out of a 37g serving is added sugar. Literally 1/3 of this is sugar. Not to mention the caramel color and seed oils - if I'm going to be this unhealthy then I might as well get something that tastes better than this.

 I mix in a ton of powdered ginger and cayenne...

In terms of nutrition, Original Cinnamon Toast Crunch is actually a decent choice. It is fortified with vitamins and minerals, and while it does contain added sugars, it is also a good source of whole grains. I have found that incorporating this cereal into my diet has helped me to feel more energetic and satisfied throughout the day.

 

 

Friday, October 20, 2023

Overview on Clifford Algebra: Basil J. Hiley is corroborated!

 http://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstream/handle/2262/75083/Applications%20of%20Complex%20Numbers%20and%20Quaternions.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

December 2016 

 "to bring temperature in without needing the microtubules needed to do it for you....I don't believe there is a collapse of any wave function. Because with this way of doing it, you don't NEED the wavefunction to describe quantum mechanics. It's all done through this algebra if you are willing to take it seriously. Then your explanation that you were talking about ... the separation is taking place because of the [quantum noncommutative] algebra, NOT because of the wavefunction. ..The underlying reality is NOT like that - don't build an ontology out of the wavefunction, build it out of the [noncommutative] dynamics." 

Basil J. Hiley

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza.

  had to look up that reply I posted from eight months ago - corroborating what I had learned from your vid: 

“Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation,” Avner Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who worked in Gaza...Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”) 

 I remember hearing this back in the day... thanks." Very informative discussion!! thanks

How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas By Andrew Higgins 

Full article here

 Mehdi Hasan shows in a new video on blowback, Israeli officials admit they helped start the group Hamas.

 Back in the mid-1980s, Cohen even wrote an official report to his superiors warning them not to play divide-and-rule in the Occupied Territories, by backing Palestinian Islamists against Palestinian secularists. “I … suggest focusing our efforts on finding ways to break up this monster before this reality jumps in our face,” he wrote.

 

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Then where else can you NOT go? Wim Hof new interview on the "Entrance Point" to immortality via the PAG

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE_U9LUKROU

periaqueductal gray hemisphere, cerebellum, inefferent and efferent electrical neural currents, 

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The periaqueductal gray is the gray matter located around the cerebral aqueduct within the tegmentum of the midbrain. It projects to the nucleus raphe magnus,... The ascending pain and temperature fibers of the spinothalamic tract send information to the PAG via the spinomesencephalic tract (so-named because the fibers originate in the spine and terminate in the PAG, in the mesencephalon or midbrain).

 Thermoreceptors can be separated into receptors for warmth and cold detection. According to results of differential nerve blocks and response latencies, the warmth sensation has been attributed to C fibers,...the existence of cold-sensitive C fibers has been suggested as the explanation of a heat-pain illusion occurring on simultaneous stimulation with non-noxious warm and cold

 Stimulation of the periaqueductal gray matter of the midbrain activates enkephalin-releasing neurons that project to the raphe nuclei in the brainstem. 5-HT (serotonin) released from the raphe nuclei descends to the dorsal horn of the spinal cord where it forms excitatory connections with the "inhibitory interneurons" located in Laminae II (aka the substantia gelatinosa). When activated, these interneurons release either enkephalin or dynorphin (endogenous opioid neurotransmitters), which bind to mu and kappa opioid receptors, respectively, on the axons of incoming C and A-delta fibers carrying pain signals from nociceptors activated in the periphery.

 Stimulation of the dorsal and lateral aspects of the PAG can provoke defensive responses characterised by freezing immobility, running, jumping, tachycardia, and increases in blood pressure and muscle tonus.

 The PAG may be specifically involved in human maternal behavior. The PAG contains a high density of vasopressin and oxytocin receptors,