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Friday, January 27, 2023
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Paradies Lost - John Milton's Epic Poem - What does it mean today?
Milton's story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other, Adam and Eve. It begins after Satan and the other fallen angels have been defeated and banished to Hell, or, as it is also called in the poem, Tartarus. In Pandæmonium, the capital city of Hell, Satan employs his rhetorical skill to organise his followers; he is aided by Mammon and Beelzebub.
Belial and Moloch are also present. At the end of the debate, Satan volunteers to corrupt the newly created Earth and God's new and most favoured creation, Mankind. He braves the dangers of the Abyss alone, in a manner reminiscent of Odysseus or Aeneas. After an arduous traversal of the Chaos outside Hell, he enters God's new material World, and later the Garden of Eden.
At several points in the poem, an Angelic War over Heaven is recounted from different perspectives. Satan's rebellion follows the epic convention of large-scale warfare. The battles between the faithful angels and Satan's forces take place over three days. (Jhenny stated that the impending Wrath of God will also take place over three days - Joseph Pede). At the final battle, the Son of God single-handedly defeats the entire legion of angelic rebels and banishes them from Heaven. Following this purge, God creates the World, culminating in his creation of Adam and Eve. While God gave Adam and Eve total freedom and power to rule over all creation, he gave them one explicit command: not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil on penalty of death.
The story of Adam and Eve's temptation and fall is a fundamentally different, new kind of epic: a domestic one. Adam and Eve are presented as having a romantic and sexual relationship while still being without sin. They have passions and distinct personalities. Satan, disguised in the form of a serpent, successfully tempts Eve to eat from the Tree by preying on her vanity and tricking her with rhetoric. Adam, learning that Eve has sinned, knowingly commits the same sin. He declares to Eve that since she was made from his flesh, they are bound to one another – if she dies, he must also die. In this manner, Milton portrays Adam as a heroic figure, but also as a greater sinner than Eve, as he is aware that what he is doing is wrong.
After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve have lustful sex. At first, Adam is convinced that Eve was right in thinking that eating the fruit would be beneficial. However, they soon fall asleep and have terrible nightmares, and after they awake, they experience guilt and shame for the first time. Realising that they have committed a terrible act against God, they engage in mutual recrimination.
Meanwhile, Satan returns triumphantly to Hell, amid the praise of his fellow fallen angels. He tells them about how their scheme worked and Mankind has fallen, giving them complete dominion over Paradise. As he finishes his speech, however, the fallen angels around him become hideous snakes, and soon enough, Satan himself turns into a snake, deprived of limbs and unable to talk. Thus, they share the same punishment, as they shared the same guilt.
Eve appeals to Adam for reconciliation of their actions. Her encouragement enables them to approach God, and sue for grace, bowing on supplicant knee, to receive forgiveness. In a vision shown to him by the Archangel Michael, Adam witnesses everything that will happen to Mankind until the Great Flood. Adam is very upset by this vision of the future, so Michael also tells him about Mankind's potential redemption from original sin through Jesus Christ (whom Michael calls "King Messiah").
Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden, and Michael says that Adam may find "a paradise within thee, happier far." Adam and Eve now have a more distant relationship with God, who is omnipresent but invisible (unlike the tangible Father in the Garden of Eden).
Political contexts
(We are now in the days of Charles III, when governmental structures prove only to radicalize and weaponize political ideologies. - Joseph Pede)
Paradise Lost incorporates the political tensions of Milton’s own day – he was writing during and after the Civil Wars in England, which saw King Charles I executed and the country temporarily controlled by a republican government, led by Oliver Cromwell, until Charles II returned to take up the throne – but deals complexly with both republicanism and the monarchy. Satan has long been seen by some critics as a republican hero, eloquent and determined, much more charming and persuasive than the ‘tyrannous’ and rather humourless character of God in the poem. But Royalist readers, especially after the Restoration, chose to see Satan as the figure of Cromwell seen through anti-republican eyes: someone who only pretended to believe in equality, who really wanted power for himself and whose project was doomed to fail.
Criticism of monarchy
Although Satan's army inevitably loses the war against God, Satan achieves a position of power and begins his reign in Hell with his band of loyal followers, composed of fallen angels, which is described to be a "third of heaven." Similar to Milton's republican sentiments of overthrowing the King of England for both better representation and parliamentary power, Satan argues that his shared rebellion with the fallen angels is an effort to "explain the hypocrisy of God," and in doing so, they will be treated with the respect and acknowledgement that they deserve. As Wayne Rebhorn argues, "Satan insists that he and his fellow revolutionaries held their places by right and even leading him to claim that they were self-created and self-sustained" and thus Satan's position in the rebellion is much like that of his own real world creator.
Milton scholar John Leonard interpreted the "impious war" between Heaven and Hell as civil war:
This same civil war brews in our midst today. Those who seek to destroy Mankind and pursue the creation of their own kingdom on Earth are the ecclesiastical adherents of the Fallen Angels. They are those who will marry Artificial Intelligence and Trans-Humanism to create Homo Deus apart and without the Creation of God.
A warning to Lucifer's Armies:
The evil and Hell on Earth you have crafted for Mankind is incommensurable to the Eternal Hell in which your souls will dwell.
Joseph Pede
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Dark origin and agenda of Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum - This video will ENLIGHTEN the dormant mind
This is powerful video. It will enlighten, teach and govern your future. Please listen to it in its entirety. The video becomes more insightful as it moves along. Frank Wright is a master of the English language and that is what makes this video so amazingly important.
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Saturday, January 21, 2023
Thoreau / Dr Shoemaker / Dr Christian - When doctors unite with Jesus they become all powerful beings
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves" - Henry David Thoreau
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Dr. Shoemaker's Letter to the
College of Physicians and Surgens of Ontario
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A Letter to Tyranny by Dr. Francis Christian
We who believe in peaceful civil disobedience must remind you of its power - its power to bring down empires; its power to harass, harry and hound evil; its power to embarrass and dethrone the tyrant palexander.substack.com |
Dr. Christian’s "Memo to Tyranny" begins here:
‘As a warning to those who believe that the human race is up for sale and enslavement, remember that we who believe in freedom always win and you always lose. Always.
Our victory may not be immediate or even immediately obvious when it occurs - but it is always waiting in the wings, ready to move in and lay waste to the fragile fortresses of tyranny that you have built.
We who believe in peaceful civil disobedience must remind you of its power - its power to bring down empires; its power to harass, harry and hound evil; its power to embarrass and dethrone the tyrant; and its resilience over many centuries, ever since the Cross and the Resurrection proved for all time, that evil has no future.
In my essay on freedom, I pointed out that freedom’s productive coupling with truth makes it invincible. Tyranny may have its little day, but the long night of oblivion for totalitarianism that follows freedom’s triumph must make the tyrant tremble. In addition, tyranny is inherently an insecure, unstable system built upon shifting sand - and frequently turns upon itself.
Even during the 70 odd years of communism’s terrifying reign across half the world, for example, there was never any rest for the wicked - and the communist empire was never at ease and constantly turning upon itself. The crowns and the uneasy heads of these tyrants were constantly being replaced by other heads and crowns through bloody revolts, rebellions, intrigues, purges and persecutions.
The inheritors of Bolshevism’s bloody and cruel assassination of the Tsar and his young family in the wake of the revolution of 1917, were themselves soon hunted down by other pretenders to the crown. Leon Trotsky, one of communism’s chief cheerleaders and one of its most fearsome tyrants was tracked down and killed with a pickaxe (supposedly on the orders of Stalin). Numerous others in the communist hierarchy, who once thought their positions of privilege and power impregnable were executed in the terrifying purges of the 1930s.
When communism collapsed in the 1990s, out of its ashes emerged truth and freedom intact, triumphant. Also intact and triumphant were the great works of Russian literature that the communists tried, but could never fully suppress. Even in the days before the internet, the Russian Samizdat (Russian for “self-published, underground press”) would be working in dimly lit apartments with manual typewriters and carbon copies and in the early hours of the morning, extracts from the Bible, the works of Mikhail Bulgakov, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Boris Pasternak and other Russian masters, and current (real) news would be smuggled out and distributed in the streets of the great Russian cities - and later, throughout the Soviet Union.
In the connected world of today, no tyrant should think that the truth can be hidden for any length of time. Nor is it possible to snuff out today’s Samizdat press. As the “Twitter files” have recently shown, there is really no place for the tyrant to hide. We will relentlessly pursue and expose you - peacefully, effectively, efficiently and ruthlessly. And the full weight of the law will most certainly catch up with you - not in the near term perhaps, but sooner than you think. You who have sowed to the wind will as surely reap the whirlwind as day doth follow night.
We who believe in the inherent value of individual, human life also care deeply about the environment and condemn its mindless degradation and mankind’s insatiable desire to consume finite resources. But no pagan, “mother earth” subterfuge mantra that you the climate change mafia dictators of today proclaim in your quest to isolate a Davos elite for yourselves will be able to save you from the fierce and purifying fires of massive civil disobedience and revolt. If you and your woke bureaucratic army dare to elevate the earth above those of us who live in it, dare to take our livelihoods away and impoverish us - we will make sure that the blowback you receive teaches you a lesson you will never forget.
Nevertheless, when our courts declare you guilty as hell, our mercy will “season justice” - and your optional sentence will be to be left in the high arctic with nothing but a fleet of your favourite electric cars!
And what if you imprison, torture, even kill us? For every one of us you think in your delusional hubris that you imprison or kill, ten more will rise in our place. The further you and your henchmen entrench yourselves in dystopian tyranny, the more terrifying for you will be the consequences - the judgements of history, the restored justice system, the rebel armies and the hereafter. With Obi Wan Kanobi, we must warn you that “if you strike us down, we shall become more powerful than you can imagine.”
Because of the Cross and the Resurrection and their eternal significance, we are indestructible - and we have access to unlimited resources. But when your finite resources of totalitarian tyranny are overthrown and fade into oblivion, you will be left naked, exposed and cowering with guilt, with fear.
We do not wish this fate for you. There is still time for you to turn your artificial lives around and embrace freedom with us - but not that much more time.’
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