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Old 02-02-2012, 01:12 PM   #1
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Default Chili digressions split from Mystical Controversy at Heart of Nicaea

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The reason I think my Jesus = ousia theory has so much going is that so much of the early terminology in Christianity is Platonic. Take the term gnostikos. It is a technical term from Plato which means to be brought into acquaintance with knowledge or the ability or capacity to know. Why is this important? I never really understood why Jesus coming to earth to reveal himself would have anything to do with the Father if - according to the old way of thinking, Jesus was the Son.

If Jesus was the yesh or ousia then it would make sense insofar as he is bringing humanity into acquaintance with the unknown and unknowable Father (a theme repeated over and over again in the Nag Hammadi literature).

In Philo I notice the ousia of God is repeated referenced as something which cannot be apprehended by humanity. Moses for instance is said to have only seen the hind parts of God. Clearly the Christians took matters one step further and argued that 'at the end of times' or something like that, the ousia made himself manifest.

This probably also explains why Jesus engages in 'deception' throughout the gospel narrative. Peter is convinced he is the Christ, the healed people think he is the Son but Tertullian preserves for us the Marcionite notion that all these witnesses are wrong. Why would Jesus engage in deception? Well now we have a clue. The ousia of God can't be apprehended directly by humanity.

Why would the ousia of the Father come down to earth if humanity is incapable of seeing him? Perhaps the theophany at the crucifixion is the solution. Something about the cross or appearing as dead may have made the parousia of the ousia manageable for humanity? I don't know. I am just trying to work out the details. Maybe God appearing dead allows living people to see him?

Here is my last post to not derail your tread, but 'truth is real' and has substance beyond our human nature wherein we are temporal and have continuity with God only inside the nucleus of our being where the 'Ideal' is retained to become manifest on earth as God/life in motion and so is begotten as Ideal, ex-nihilo created, and is maintained via the son, obviously, and here now is made manifest as the fruit of the perpetual Virgin 'that' contained Him throughout the ages. So now you also know who Mary is and why it is that Elizabeth was the Virgin of Virgins who brings to bear Mary as 'kinswoman' to give birth to 'it' in the current generation.

And I call the Perpetual Virgin a 'that' only because she is a 'that' until her Appearance is made known to us 'in function,' which then is why dogma is not dogmatic until it is made manifest on earth. It is in the same way that Mary was 'it' as the manifestation of Elizabeth who so became Alma Mater and Mary her manifestation who is 'iconic' to us and therefore 'probable' until the presentation when her 'appearance' is made in us as the most enigmatic image of 'Human Perfection' that we look for in 'mirror, mirror on the wall' and so is 'she' who James Joyce saw 'standing with a seaweed wrapped on her leg as 'a sign' fixed on it' etc., in his "Portrait" near the end of Chapter VI).*

Moses never 'saw the face of God' or he would have died and be raised like Christ, and so was a 'holy roller on the run' and misled the 'Children of Hamlin,' I suppose, who did much the same. The words 'parting the waters' denotes forceful entry into the promised land that we must reach by walking on top of the water, which in the end only means by 'intuition' which then is what 'ousia' making is all about, so that 'knowledge' alone will get us there instead of desire [aroused by the Eristic spectacle of an evangelist in action, such as presented in Rev.13:11- where such 'great progedies' are performed while pointing at the first beast whose wounds had been healed, and so are our modern day 'Jesus worshipers' looking for better days ahead. . . . or Mohammed, for all I care, wherein Gabriel was never 'iconic' as material cause 'to be' simply because there is no plural for the word 'einai,' remember? In other words, there is only one nucleus that contains the 'Son of Man.' So he was just an idiot, I would say. . . or else the Greeks are wrong, which in essense is what he tried say when he told us about his conversation with the Angel Gabriel. IOW there is no 'thatness' about Gabriel who is 'messenger as angel.'

The 'ousia of God' is the parousia or final ousia that I called a 'first order enthymeme' wherein the primary is missing and we ask ourself 'what is this life all about,' and effectively put our entire Curriculum Vitae aside (not give it to the Church), and so 'journey to Beth-le-hem on our own, by faith, as if led by the nose' (= beyond theology), with the woman seated on the donkey and so [intuition] is in charge of our destiny during that journey ** . . . because only she knows where the manger is at to nourish us during the infancy of our 'self realization,' of which then she is 'the placenta or nucleus' to nourish us, but needs isolation to do this and that is what send the Magi on their way with the promise of 'full illumination.'

The duration of this time is 2 weeks (from Dec.25 to Jan.7), during which time illumination occurs inside the netherworld or soul, I suppose, which then is the duration of the Magi's journey. This illumination concept is when the shepherds 'looked in' and understood [while the sun had stopped to keep the faculty of reason inactive, and so the shepherds just looked in to understand but did not enter***]. Now note that everyone whom they told also understood and that is just how illumination works. . . which kept the Magi 'enroute' because they followed the trail that created the first 12 ousia's for which they had supplied the 'primary' that created these insight that came full circle each of those ousia, that so became shepherds in their own right as noted in our own C.V. Aristotle confirms this concept in his last paragraph of his "posterior anylics" Book II,

"it will be intuition that apprehends the primary premisses-a result which also follows from the fact that demonstration cannot be the originative source of demonstration, nor, consequently, scientific knowledge of scientific knowledge"

And you can read more about it here:

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/aris...poa/book2.html

(not pretending that I know Aristotle that well but as the dean of Greek philosophy is useful here).

And not to go sideways but material John makes this concept known that the disciples of Jesus were baptizing more than Jesus was already in chapter 4:1-2, to say that the Infancy was not a physical infancy but a metaphysical one instead, and therefore real 'beyond human fallacy' and Herod could do his thing in Matthew where the shepherds were not part of the action that so proved that this Joesph was an Egyptian as outsider to the event and hence there was no manger. This so is where the 'son-of Man' was "from his mothers womb untimely ripped" and Henry VIII thought is was a great idea and 'hi-ho, hi-ho, and off to work he went.'

So note then, that the shepherds were Joesph's '12 prior' second and third order enthymemes that came full circle in the ouisa now 'on park' to get to the bottom of this self inquiry and so they were 'on the run' during this inquiry (i.e. there is something wrong when they are taking turns herding sheep on a midlife, midwinter midnight to make that concept known). And here then 'entymemes' are 'outside talk' that are iconic and therefore beg 'probing' and this is what led to the inquiry and therefore the Lamb of God is born from Nazareth and not the son of God out of Egypt). Notice also the distinction made beteen "from Nazareth" and "out of Egypt" wherein from Nazareth is local and out of Egypt is as foreigner, while yet the shepherds where 'genuine' that send the Magi on the way to follow the same trail that illuminated the mind of Joseph while in Egypt. So the 'Star' of Beth-le-hem was real for the Magi to follow, and their Journey pre-existed in the life of Joseph that led him to this 'empty stable' now with his mind in disarray, as if 'caught in a thicket' (lovely line from Lorca).

The problem, however, is that they arrived late in Matthew, as they must be local and be his guide by faith wherefore then Mary found consolence with Elizabeth in Luke, . . . while Matthew went back to Egypt again where reason prevails and so had no 'shepherds on the run.' IOW, he did not know 'what' was going-on but only knew 'that' something was going on and so Herod was where the Magi went, and that is 'what killed' the parthenocarpic germ . . . much in the same way is the precauction of Pilate to seal the tomb is what opened it simply as with one 'eye asquint.'

* In other words, Joyce had a Beatific Vision.

** The Church has a icon to show this image to be compared with the triumphant enty into Jerusalem, with the difference being that 'check-mate' Joseph was as much as dragging his ass behind the donkey while in the other 'dapper Joseph' was leading the donkey in.

** *Pasternak wrote a poem on this called "A Christmas Star" in Zhivago where he makes a point of this.
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Another peculiarity. Ousia is feminine but yesh is masculine. Why is the substance of the Father and Son feminine?
Nucleus is feminine so it can conceive the positive and is where Catholics bump into Mary all the time to have intercourse with her.
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Thanks Chili for another enlightening observation.
You are very welcome and take to heart is there is power in words.
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And again elsewhere (JTS 843, fol. 81a.) he makes reference to the fact that in Hebrew, the words Yeshu ben Pandera have a numerical value of 713 which is the same as that of the words, "Yesh mamzer ben hanidah " (there is a bastard, conceived in menstrual impurity).
Shakespeare has this bastard too and this number 713 tells the tale wherein he was divided on the 7th day between himself as created 1 and the world of number 3 and so a saved sinner he was. And then of course menstrual impurity means that he was from his mother's womb untimely ripped and it was Eve who here delivered.
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Perhaps this description of what follows in the Timaeus can connect the idea to the yesh in Jewish philosophical thought:

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And when the whole fabric of the soul had been finished to the fashioner's mind, he next fell to shaping within her all that has body and uniting them center to center He made them fit together. And the Soul, being woven throughout the Heaven every way from the center to the extremity, and enveloping it in a circle from without, and herself revolving within herself, began a divine beginning of unceasing and intelligent life lasting throughout all time. And whereas the body of the Heaven is visible, the Soul is herself invisible but partakes in reasoning and in harmony, having come into existence by the agency of the best of things intelligible and ever-existing as the best of things generated. Inasmuch, then, as she is a compound, blended of the natures of the Same and the Other and Being, these three portions (ἔκ τε οὐσίας τριῶν), and is proportionately divided and bound together, and revolves back upon herself, whenever she touches anything which has its substance dispersed (ὅταν οὐσίαν σκεδαστὴν) or anything which has its substance undivided she is moved throughout her whole being and announces what the object is identical with [Timaeus 36 e - 37 a,b]
Whenever I read anything like this, I wonder how anyone can bother with the Bible when they could read this. Thanks for that quote.

Yesh I don't understand in a way that I could contrast with Plato, ie explain it, but no matter, I'm not questioning the integrity of the inspiration.

What I'm not getting is how this relates to the OP. If that doesn't matter anymore, that's cool, but what I see is Idea Salad. (and without Chili around I probably wouldn't have come up with that - thanks Chili)
Quite topical with eidolon making that ousai's may be known but a very clumsy way to write the Loretta Litany.
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Things are looking up here to, and I rather enjoyed Jerry Springer today. Hmmm, spring must be on its way, I am sure.
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This is getting to sound more and more like the writings of our friend Chili.
I take objection to that comment.
Maybe it was a compliment. You know it wouldn't be the first I've given you old friend.
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Maybe it was a compliment. You know it wouldn't be the first I've given you my old friend.
Meant very well, I know, thank you, but I do not agree with Stephen in principle and there is nothing he can do about that.
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Maybe it was a compliment. You know it wouldn't be the first I've given you my old friend.
Meant very well, I know, thank you, but I do not agree with Stephen in principle and there is nothing he can do about that.
Well since when did anyone around here ever agree with damn near anyone ? :huh:

Most of us can't even agree with own selves from one day to the next. :Cheeky:

Sorry Stephan, just couldn't resist a little comic relief.
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Quite topical with eidolon making that ousai's may be known but a very clumsy way to write the Loretta Litany.
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