Finale Trilogy
Authors Jesses Hand Conroy and Don Diego Baptist Diaz
The three novels of FINALE are CITY, MESA, CANYON
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The three novels of FINALE are CITY, MESA, CANYON
Welcome. Click the picture on the (L) if you want to go to the FINALE website. If you came here from FINALE, come on in.
Purchase Kindle Editons @ Amazon. iBooks Editions @ iTunes Bookstore.
In The BeginningWas The Word ...
The word in Hebrew is 'ab awb a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application: chief, (fore-)father(-less) X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-" Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
Okay, that may be a bit arcane as a way to begin a blog as a companion to a trilogy of novels, but really ... it's not. Those who read the Bible read what others have written about it, read translations or study it without really studying it. Getting into the languages of the Bible, learning the meanings of the words as they were written in addition to their contextual translations yields another dimension to the Bible I find inexhaustible. It's the same with virtually everything in the world. You imagine you have a good bead on things, but really most of the world is relying on what others have told them. That said, for us, Conroy and Diaz, in the beginning was the word and we wrote 'em down. Then a passel of Editors came down on the field of battle and bayonetted our wounded. Claimed victory and left us with the tab.
You know how it is.
So, you're here to follow up on and hopefully get further into the FINALE trilogy. The authors have a blog? Interesting. Let's see what they're up to. (click click) You'll find on this companion blog a place where we publish short stories that expand characters in these novels; short stories that are illustrative or illumine our views; News Aggregators on our topics, Opinion, videos, interviews, favorite authors and blog rolls. A place where we demonstrate why the World is not what it appears to be, and who profits from the na'chash.
Na'chash?
Na'chash is going to become the most important word in your new vocabulary. Unless you understand na'chash, you're operating with outdated programming language and anything you think you know will only be partially correct. And not just intellectually grasp this fundamental-in-motion, but really and truly come to grips with the nearly infinite depths of what it portends.
C'mon in. Let's roll.
Okay, that may be a bit arcane as a way to begin a blog as a companion to a trilogy of novels, but really ... it's not. Those who read the Bible read what others have written about it, read translations or study it without really studying it. Getting into the languages of the Bible, learning the meanings of the words as they were written in addition to their contextual translations yields another dimension to the Bible I find inexhaustible. It's the same with virtually everything in the world. You imagine you have a good bead on things, but really most of the world is relying on what others have told them. That said, for us, Conroy and Diaz, in the beginning was the word and we wrote 'em down. Then a passel of Editors came down on the field of battle and bayonetted our wounded. Claimed victory and left us with the tab.
You know how it is.
So, you're here to follow up on and hopefully get further into the FINALE trilogy. The authors have a blog? Interesting. Let's see what they're up to. (click click) You'll find on this companion blog a place where we publish short stories that expand characters in these novels; short stories that are illustrative or illumine our views; News Aggregators on our topics, Opinion, videos, interviews, favorite authors and blog rolls. A place where we demonstrate why the World is not what it appears to be, and who profits from the na'chash.
Na'chash?
Na'chash is going to become the most important word in your new vocabulary. Unless you understand na'chash, you're operating with outdated programming language and anything you think you know will only be partially correct. And not just intellectually grasp this fundamental-in-motion, but really and truly come to grips with the nearly infinite depths of what it portends.
C'mon in. Let's roll.
Cities and Na'chash
Jesse Hand Conroy Sept 2012
Na'chash is a tricky word for Westerners. In our modern age it's impossible to take seriously the concept of illusions, magic, incantations and the like. We're all scientific now. Mechanized. Techno. We got it figured out. Physics and math and microscopes and engineering. We know what's going on.
You want to tell God he doesn't know what he's talking about?
See, at Genesis 3:1 is where mankind finds itself in a basket and it's getting warmer. It's na'chash that put us there. The "serpent". To hiss, is how the verse goes. As in to whisper an enchantment or spell. The word does not mean snake or reptile. It is a fascinating word which upon the entire Biblical narrative hangs, including the redemptive work of Jesus the Christ. If not for na'chash, there'd be no need for a Messiah or a Savior. The biblical message is the wheel and na'chash the axle bearing. Everything revolves around it.
But wait, as they say, there's more. Throughout CITY there is reference to whispering by the Fallen. Think about this for a moment, since you've read the book. If whispering is how na'chash happens (1) at the time of the original whispering Man was with God, inside the Garden. If whispering as you think of it (lips and ears) was happening, there had to be lips close to ears and (2) a snake capable of getting up to a Man's ear and speaking into it. I suggest an enlarged understanding of whispering.
Whispering is how the Fallen influence Man. Think bad devil and good angel sitting on a guy's shoulder, talking to him. This whisper is a communication between consciousness and unseen dimensional entities and does not involve words or thoughts ... usually. It's more like an intimation, a feeling, intuition but more often than not it is a desire.
They whisper. Deep down below conscious thought we "hear". If not well grounded we can end up acting on the suggestions, urgings and pressure to act out in a way that's not in our best interests.
Na'chash is a Fundamental Principle. A Fundamental Principle in motion. It is, without a doubt, the most pernicious and all encompassing challenge we face. It coaxed us out of the Presence of Very God where we walked with Him in the Garden (all of which is type and allegory). We had direct access and knew it. We had no need, for wherever God is, there is no need. God and need cannot occupy the same place at the same time for wherever God is, all need is always already filled. But na'chash like the bear that went over the mountain says there's something else. Something we need. Something we need to experience or see. We're whispered an illusion. We fall under its spell. We drift out of the Presence and then .... na'chash has us by the .... scruff of the neck. 'Cause we don't know what we're dealing with. Can't fight what you don't see, can't measure, don't understand.
God said, in the Holy Bible that magic, incantations and spells are real. Even coined a term for it in Hebrew, along with this term, na'chash, covering the definition of those who practice spells, magic and incantations. I've gone too far and too deep into the Word not to know He meant what He said.
We'll talk more about this later. While CITY is based on the observable truth that secrets beget tyranny, those who practice such things are wholly given to na'chash. Because they "hear" the whispering. They're pwnd. (look it up in the Urban Dictionary)
You want to tell God he doesn't know what he's talking about?
See, at Genesis 3:1 is where mankind finds itself in a basket and it's getting warmer. It's na'chash that put us there. The "serpent". To hiss, is how the verse goes. As in to whisper an enchantment or spell. The word does not mean snake or reptile. It is a fascinating word which upon the entire Biblical narrative hangs, including the redemptive work of Jesus the Christ. If not for na'chash, there'd be no need for a Messiah or a Savior. The biblical message is the wheel and na'chash the axle bearing. Everything revolves around it.
But wait, as they say, there's more. Throughout CITY there is reference to whispering by the Fallen. Think about this for a moment, since you've read the book. If whispering is how na'chash happens (1) at the time of the original whispering Man was with God, inside the Garden. If whispering as you think of it (lips and ears) was happening, there had to be lips close to ears and (2) a snake capable of getting up to a Man's ear and speaking into it. I suggest an enlarged understanding of whispering.
Whispering is how the Fallen influence Man. Think bad devil and good angel sitting on a guy's shoulder, talking to him. This whisper is a communication between consciousness and unseen dimensional entities and does not involve words or thoughts ... usually. It's more like an intimation, a feeling, intuition but more often than not it is a desire.
They whisper. Deep down below conscious thought we "hear". If not well grounded we can end up acting on the suggestions, urgings and pressure to act out in a way that's not in our best interests.
Na'chash is a Fundamental Principle. A Fundamental Principle in motion. It is, without a doubt, the most pernicious and all encompassing challenge we face. It coaxed us out of the Presence of Very God where we walked with Him in the Garden (all of which is type and allegory). We had direct access and knew it. We had no need, for wherever God is, there is no need. God and need cannot occupy the same place at the same time for wherever God is, all need is always already filled. But na'chash like the bear that went over the mountain says there's something else. Something we need. Something we need to experience or see. We're whispered an illusion. We fall under its spell. We drift out of the Presence and then .... na'chash has us by the .... scruff of the neck. 'Cause we don't know what we're dealing with. Can't fight what you don't see, can't measure, don't understand.
God said, in the Holy Bible that magic, incantations and spells are real. Even coined a term for it in Hebrew, along with this term, na'chash, covering the definition of those who practice spells, magic and incantations. I've gone too far and too deep into the Word not to know He meant what He said.
We'll talk more about this later. While CITY is based on the observable truth that secrets beget tyranny, those who practice such things are wholly given to na'chash. Because they "hear" the whispering. They're pwnd. (look it up in the Urban Dictionary)
So. What Is This Na'chash?
From Strong's Exhaustive Concordance To The Bible. (the old one, not the newer sanitized version)
Genesis 3:1 - Serpent, Hebrew; na'chash - To hiss, as in to whisper an enchantment or spell. Illusions. Magic. Divination. To cast spells. To work magic. Illusionist. Magician. Diviner. Enchanter. To learn by experience. To diligently observe.
Okay. Not every reader of this trilogy is going to be a Bible believer. Granted. But bear with me because this is fundamental stuff, like simple math is to Physics. But yes, you will have to acknowledge there is a Creator God and that it's very good odds the Bible is a repository of received wisdom.
That said, here we go.
CITY introduces the very real problem of whispering. "Oh heck, Jesse, we all know what whispering is."
Uh huh, uh huh. Sure you do. But do you know what God says about whispering? How He defines it? To me, that's not only the proper and correct definition but the one we should heed. Languages change, adapt, introduce new words and morph to suit their environment. Anthro-linguists know that. It's the very ground and raison d'etre of JRR Tolkien who created whole new languages in order to embody the accurate nature of the characters who peopled his novels. That's important to understand. Language, words, are the COBOL, the C++, the HTML5 of our minds. Words code in our understanding of the world around us, how we act and react in it. Define what we find acceptable and unacceptable. The whole subject is far far more important than 99% of the world's population realize. To gain clarity of what's going on around you, you have to first understand the freaking words aimed at you. It's possible the bedlam of wrongly applied words you have to do the backstroke through every day is on purpose.
You may not, but I take the words of the Holy Bible as being the most profound utterances on Earth. Received wisdom written down by the hand of men, to be sure, but after some 40 years of study (and a lot of seeking through other religions and spiritual views) I know what I know. Archaic Hebrew is an inexhaustible source of fundamentals straight from the source. That's all the defense of it I'm willing to do, so either follow what I say next or not. I hope you do.
(This is not a lecture on Christianity. Oh my, no it's not)
Whisper, in the Bible is not such a good word. It's become a common place word in our contemporary languages, but back yonder, it had a different meaning. Go here and see for yourself.
It doesn't get any better in New Testament Greek
In CITY, and throughout the Finale trilogy whispering is how the Fallen, the Brotherhood get 'er done. How they get Man to destroy himself so they have clean hands and plausible deniability. It's a dimensional thing and you have to be sensitized to how dimensions impinge upon each other, like bubbles touching. Cell division, perhaps. Water leaking through soil.
Whispering in the Bible represents a seriously malevolent character. The Fallen hate you. Hate all of us because we're talking sacks of animated meat to them, in their glory as angels. Fallen, yes. But still angels of power and knowledge about which we cannot even guess. How they affect us with whispering is another post, in detail. Their hatred for us in another post. And why some of us are susceptible and others not, well, I'm going to let Father Malachi Martin explain it for me. The Roman Church's former Chief Exorcist. A guy to whom you really should pay attention. Spiritually, he's Marco Polo to your land locked candle maker. He's been there. Done that. And dissent and disbelief, while tolerated is also exasperating.
Ephesians 6:12 - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms all around us.
I'd pay attention to that. Seriously.
More later.
/Jesse
Genesis 3:1 - Serpent, Hebrew; na'chash - To hiss, as in to whisper an enchantment or spell. Illusions. Magic. Divination. To cast spells. To work magic. Illusionist. Magician. Diviner. Enchanter. To learn by experience. To diligently observe.
Okay. Not every reader of this trilogy is going to be a Bible believer. Granted. But bear with me because this is fundamental stuff, like simple math is to Physics. But yes, you will have to acknowledge there is a Creator God and that it's very good odds the Bible is a repository of received wisdom.
That said, here we go.
CITY introduces the very real problem of whispering. "Oh heck, Jesse, we all know what whispering is."
Uh huh, uh huh. Sure you do. But do you know what God says about whispering? How He defines it? To me, that's not only the proper and correct definition but the one we should heed. Languages change, adapt, introduce new words and morph to suit their environment. Anthro-linguists know that. It's the very ground and raison d'etre of JRR Tolkien who created whole new languages in order to embody the accurate nature of the characters who peopled his novels. That's important to understand. Language, words, are the COBOL, the C++, the HTML5 of our minds. Words code in our understanding of the world around us, how we act and react in it. Define what we find acceptable and unacceptable. The whole subject is far far more important than 99% of the world's population realize. To gain clarity of what's going on around you, you have to first understand the freaking words aimed at you. It's possible the bedlam of wrongly applied words you have to do the backstroke through every day is on purpose.
You may not, but I take the words of the Holy Bible as being the most profound utterances on Earth. Received wisdom written down by the hand of men, to be sure, but after some 40 years of study (and a lot of seeking through other religions and spiritual views) I know what I know. Archaic Hebrew is an inexhaustible source of fundamentals straight from the source. That's all the defense of it I'm willing to do, so either follow what I say next or not. I hope you do.
(This is not a lecture on Christianity. Oh my, no it's not)
Whisper, in the Bible is not such a good word. It's become a common place word in our contemporary languages, but back yonder, it had a different meaning. Go here and see for yourself.
It doesn't get any better in New Testament Greek
In CITY, and throughout the Finale trilogy whispering is how the Fallen, the Brotherhood get 'er done. How they get Man to destroy himself so they have clean hands and plausible deniability. It's a dimensional thing and you have to be sensitized to how dimensions impinge upon each other, like bubbles touching. Cell division, perhaps. Water leaking through soil.
Whispering in the Bible represents a seriously malevolent character. The Fallen hate you. Hate all of us because we're talking sacks of animated meat to them, in their glory as angels. Fallen, yes. But still angels of power and knowledge about which we cannot even guess. How they affect us with whispering is another post, in detail. Their hatred for us in another post. And why some of us are susceptible and others not, well, I'm going to let Father Malachi Martin explain it for me. The Roman Church's former Chief Exorcist. A guy to whom you really should pay attention. Spiritually, he's Marco Polo to your land locked candle maker. He's been there. Done that. And dissent and disbelief, while tolerated is also exasperating.
Ephesians 6:12 - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms all around us.
I'd pay attention to that. Seriously.
More later.
/Jesse
Na'chash, the Second Definition
The second half of the definition of na'chash is - to learn by experience; to diligently observe.
Eh? Unrelated? Obscure?
Oh my, no.
Let's get into it.
When we were "in the Garden" a literary device to illumine that once our habitation was with Very God, life was undiluted, personal, so very very Real. A Real we know nothing of anymore although survivors of near death experiences uniformly pronounce where they went was a fantastic reality there is no reason to be afraid of. In that original Real we knew no two-ness. No Reality (and) something else. Where we were with Him was the Real. No concept of what could be not-Real. There was one. Not two realities. Na'chash is the only thing that can be other than God. The illusion there is something other than God.
Then ... na'chash. Look, the primary problem in all matters spiritual is that Man does not have a language sufficient unto the need to try and say things which cannot be "said". G-o-d, for instance, is a word. But it can never be accurate because a word cannot contain nor transmit all the meaning and possibility of that which is illimitable. As we yammer away at each other every day it rarely occurs to us that the words we use are barely up to the task. The task of saying what is Real and what is the other-Real. We're inside the bubble trying to explain to one another what the bubble is and what's on the other side of the bubble.
But back to the second definition of na'chash.
To diligently observe. To learn by experience. When we were with God prior to the fall caused by na'chash, we had no needs. Where God is, there is no need. God and need cannot occupy the space. We had creation without instrumentation.
Once outside this experience, this Garden, our lives were nothing but need. We had to ... watch closely now ... diligently observe our surroundings outside the Garden and ... learn by experience ... how to live in this bubble in the middle of utter Reality. We were strangers in a strange land. We have no experience with what the devil this place is and how it works. In the realm of na'chash we had to learn by experience by diligently observing.
That is the very definition of your life now. You are bon into something you do not understand and only by diligently observing as you move through your years and learning by experience who's who and what's what do begin to accumulate some idea of how to get along here.
You diligently observe. You learn by experience. God has defined this as being the signature of na'chash. You really should pay attention to it.
And it kills us. We knew nothing of death before falling into na'chash. The trials and needs of the na'chash habitation (here, now) quite literally is fatal. No matter what experience we gain, no matter how diligently we observe the world and figure out what's going on, the result of living in na'chash (this realm) is we die. In the Garden experience, no death. Outside in the world of na'chash hounded by the profound needs of experience and observation so we can learn how to make the best of where we are ... death.
So, what's to be done?
Wait a minute, wait a minute. This is all crap. I can bang my head on this table and it's solid. I have money in the bank and the Sun rises in the East every day without fail. How the hell is this an illusion? There is no illusion!
Glad you asked. Honest skepticism is right on target.
That's next. Hey batter batter. Hey batter batter ...
Jesse Hand Conroy
Eh? Unrelated? Obscure?
Oh my, no.
Let's get into it.
When we were "in the Garden" a literary device to illumine that once our habitation was with Very God, life was undiluted, personal, so very very Real. A Real we know nothing of anymore although survivors of near death experiences uniformly pronounce where they went was a fantastic reality there is no reason to be afraid of. In that original Real we knew no two-ness. No Reality (and) something else. Where we were with Him was the Real. No concept of what could be not-Real. There was one. Not two realities. Na'chash is the only thing that can be other than God. The illusion there is something other than God.
Then ... na'chash. Look, the primary problem in all matters spiritual is that Man does not have a language sufficient unto the need to try and say things which cannot be "said". G-o-d, for instance, is a word. But it can never be accurate because a word cannot contain nor transmit all the meaning and possibility of that which is illimitable. As we yammer away at each other every day it rarely occurs to us that the words we use are barely up to the task. The task of saying what is Real and what is the other-Real. We're inside the bubble trying to explain to one another what the bubble is and what's on the other side of the bubble.
But back to the second definition of na'chash.
To diligently observe. To learn by experience. When we were with God prior to the fall caused by na'chash, we had no needs. Where God is, there is no need. God and need cannot occupy the space. We had creation without instrumentation.
Once outside this experience, this Garden, our lives were nothing but need. We had to ... watch closely now ... diligently observe our surroundings outside the Garden and ... learn by experience ... how to live in this bubble in the middle of utter Reality. We were strangers in a strange land. We have no experience with what the devil this place is and how it works. In the realm of na'chash we had to learn by experience by diligently observing.
That is the very definition of your life now. You are bon into something you do not understand and only by diligently observing as you move through your years and learning by experience who's who and what's what do begin to accumulate some idea of how to get along here.
You diligently observe. You learn by experience. God has defined this as being the signature of na'chash. You really should pay attention to it.
And it kills us. We knew nothing of death before falling into na'chash. The trials and needs of the na'chash habitation (here, now) quite literally is fatal. No matter what experience we gain, no matter how diligently we observe the world and figure out what's going on, the result of living in na'chash (this realm) is we die. In the Garden experience, no death. Outside in the world of na'chash hounded by the profound needs of experience and observation so we can learn how to make the best of where we are ... death.
So, what's to be done?
Wait a minute, wait a minute. This is all crap. I can bang my head on this table and it's solid. I have money in the bank and the Sun rises in the East every day without fail. How the hell is this an illusion? There is no illusion!
Glad you asked. Honest skepticism is right on target.
That's next. Hey batter batter. Hey batter batter ...
Jesse Hand Conroy
I came here for more on the novels! Not a Bible Lesson.
What the hell has any of this to do with your novels?
Psst - we'll get to that. Remember the three essentials to stage magic.
The Pledge
The Turn
The Prestige
Yes, this is all backstory. Keep at it. It's important stuff. I promise.
Psst - we'll get to that. Remember the three essentials to stage magic.
The Pledge
The Turn
The Prestige
Yes, this is all backstory. Keep at it. It's important stuff. I promise.
What's On Your Mind?
"The pinnacle of His Creation is Man's consciousness so that we might know God and so few use it for that purpose."
Sarah Young
Sarah Young
Contradiction
Jesse Hand Conroy
Contra-Diction
Contra - against; in opposition to
Diction - the choice and use of words
Contradiction - A combination of statements, ideas, or features of a situation that are opposed to one another.
Man is the only species on Earth capable of contradiction; capable of saying a thing which is in opposition to itself. No other species is capable of this stunt. Consequently, we have politics and religion and animals do not. Ipso facto.
And therein lies a fundamental problem. A language sufficient to explain and cause understanding of those matters we call Spiritual. Hebrew is the closest, in my opinion. Nothing comes close to the layers and depths of meanings Hebrew imparts. But, not a lot of you reading this are going to read Hebrew. It reads right-to-left to begin with and its alphabet does not look anything remotely like yours or mine. It's a tough slog, to be sure. That said ...
We have no language with which we can properly talk about the Reality of God. The basic problem discussing God is that no word can contain and express God. God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Says so right here on the label. No word or combination of words can encapsulate and transfer radical understanding of that which is All. So, our tiny dispensary of words uses their meanings to point at that which is All. That's the sum of what they can do. Point. Make analogies. Metaphors. Parables. Nasrudin stories. Just So stories. Aesop's Fables. Mother Goose. God forgive me the Hate Mail … the Bible.
The Bible is the direct and blessed received wisdom from God to men who wrote what they were imparted. Of this I am sure. But the language still but points. It Cannot Be That Which Is All.
Language is a tricky subject because no two languages on earth are close to saying the same thing. The Romance Languages all sprang from Rome, but Latin has Hebrew to thank for a lot of it's vocabulary. It's a huge round-a-bout of trading and shilling words around language to language in a melting pot and mash-up. Sometimes logical, often not.
Some classic contradictions are -
"Memoirs Of An Amnesiac"
Courage the Cowardly Dog
The check is in the mail
(forgive me that one and its logical extensions)
Bible Contradictions, since my topic is language …
At Babel the Lord confused the languages of the whole world - Genesis 11:9
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace - Corinthians 14:33
Contradictory? On the surface, yes. In reality, no. The contradiction lies neither with the Bible nor with God but with Man's languages. And that bane of all translations … transliterations.
The confused of Genesis 11:9 is actually - the Hebrew original - confound. Not confused. An inaccuracy of translation. To confound sounds self-explanatory but you'd be wrong. In the Hebrew kataischynō is to dishonor, to disgrace. To be ashamed. To blush with shame. One who has been deceived, thus shamed.
There is no contra-diction between Genesis 11:9 and Corinthians 14:33 where Apostle Paul writes to the church at Corinth that God is not the author of confusion. Con-fusion being against-fusion, or lack of understanding.
It's Languages that cause problems. Not Reality. Nor God. Na'chash is the opposite of understanding; is the author of confusion and contradiction. That thing into which we put our confidence only to blush with shame when we discover we've been deceived.
Selah
Contra - against; in opposition to
Diction - the choice and use of words
Contradiction - A combination of statements, ideas, or features of a situation that are opposed to one another.
Man is the only species on Earth capable of contradiction; capable of saying a thing which is in opposition to itself. No other species is capable of this stunt. Consequently, we have politics and religion and animals do not. Ipso facto.
And therein lies a fundamental problem. A language sufficient to explain and cause understanding of those matters we call Spiritual. Hebrew is the closest, in my opinion. Nothing comes close to the layers and depths of meanings Hebrew imparts. But, not a lot of you reading this are going to read Hebrew. It reads right-to-left to begin with and its alphabet does not look anything remotely like yours or mine. It's a tough slog, to be sure. That said ...
We have no language with which we can properly talk about the Reality of God. The basic problem discussing God is that no word can contain and express God. God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Says so right here on the label. No word or combination of words can encapsulate and transfer radical understanding of that which is All. So, our tiny dispensary of words uses their meanings to point at that which is All. That's the sum of what they can do. Point. Make analogies. Metaphors. Parables. Nasrudin stories. Just So stories. Aesop's Fables. Mother Goose. God forgive me the Hate Mail … the Bible.
The Bible is the direct and blessed received wisdom from God to men who wrote what they were imparted. Of this I am sure. But the language still but points. It Cannot Be That Which Is All.
Language is a tricky subject because no two languages on earth are close to saying the same thing. The Romance Languages all sprang from Rome, but Latin has Hebrew to thank for a lot of it's vocabulary. It's a huge round-a-bout of trading and shilling words around language to language in a melting pot and mash-up. Sometimes logical, often not.
Some classic contradictions are -
"Memoirs Of An Amnesiac"
Courage the Cowardly Dog
The check is in the mail
(forgive me that one and its logical extensions)
Bible Contradictions, since my topic is language …
At Babel the Lord confused the languages of the whole world - Genesis 11:9
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace - Corinthians 14:33
Contradictory? On the surface, yes. In reality, no. The contradiction lies neither with the Bible nor with God but with Man's languages. And that bane of all translations … transliterations.
The confused of Genesis 11:9 is actually - the Hebrew original - confound. Not confused. An inaccuracy of translation. To confound sounds self-explanatory but you'd be wrong. In the Hebrew kataischynō is to dishonor, to disgrace. To be ashamed. To blush with shame. One who has been deceived, thus shamed.
There is no contra-diction between Genesis 11:9 and Corinthians 14:33 where Apostle Paul writes to the church at Corinth that God is not the author of confusion. Con-fusion being against-fusion, or lack of understanding.
It's Languages that cause problems. Not Reality. Nor God. Na'chash is the opposite of understanding; is the author of confusion and contradiction. That thing into which we put our confidence only to blush with shame when we discover we've been deceived.
Selah
The Pledge
“Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called The Pledge. The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it to see if it is indeed real, unaltered, normal. But … it probably isn’t.”
The Turn
“The second act is called The Turn. The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret … but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough; you have to bring it back.”
The Prestige
That’s why every magic trick has a third act, the hardest part, the part we call “The Prestige”
Why ... the novels
"You never understood... why we did this. The audience knows the truth. The world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through. But if you can fool them, even for a second... then you can make them wonder. And you get to see something very special. ... You really don't know. ... It was the look on their faces." Robert Angier, The Prestige
"The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything." Alfred Borden, The Prestige
"You're familiar with the phrase "Man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie. Man's grasp exceeds his nerve. The only limits on scientific progress are those imposed by society. The first time I changed the world, I was hailed as a visionary. The second time I was asked politely to retire. The world only tolerates one change at a time. And so here I am. Enjoying my 'retirement'. Nothing is impossible." Nikola Tesla, The Prestige
The real magic lies with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance and you see something shocking you've never seen before. Or, never thought of before. Taking a journey through connections and data you know but did not think to see how they could connect. How pulling on that string causes something shocking to happen over here.
You the reader are cast in the role of the decent, good characters surviving the Trilogy like Michael Caine, Cutter in The Prestige, a decent, a good man caught between two madmen. The buildup is everything. The finale shocking. The real magic that unfolds is not anything you could have expected. Because you knew it, but you couldn't let yourself believe it. Or, as Angier says in The Prestige ...
"If anybody really believed the things I did on stage, they wouldn't clap, they'd scream."
An Age is ending.
Look to your moats, lads.
"The secret impresses no one. The trick you use it for is everything." Alfred Borden, The Prestige
"You're familiar with the phrase "Man's reach exceeds his grasp"? It's a lie. Man's grasp exceeds his nerve. The only limits on scientific progress are those imposed by society. The first time I changed the world, I was hailed as a visionary. The second time I was asked politely to retire. The world only tolerates one change at a time. And so here I am. Enjoying my 'retirement'. Nothing is impossible." Nikola Tesla, The Prestige
The real magic lies with the twists and turns, where lives hang in the balance and you see something shocking you've never seen before. Or, never thought of before. Taking a journey through connections and data you know but did not think to see how they could connect. How pulling on that string causes something shocking to happen over here.
You the reader are cast in the role of the decent, good characters surviving the Trilogy like Michael Caine, Cutter in The Prestige, a decent, a good man caught between two madmen. The buildup is everything. The finale shocking. The real magic that unfolds is not anything you could have expected. Because you knew it, but you couldn't let yourself believe it. Or, as Angier says in The Prestige ...
"If anybody really believed the things I did on stage, they wouldn't clap, they'd scream."
An Age is ending.
Look to your moats, lads.
And in Him is no darkness
If God is Light, then the opposite is the Absence of Light, Darkness.
We are making our way in the dark, dimly, trying to find our way. Secrets are the things we bruise our shins on, trip over causing us to stumble.
Secrets are almost always what you must not know. What must be kept from you. Lest your consciousness awaken and you throw off your chains. Can you imagine a thing, such as secrets in the Presence? No.
But Jesse, everything about God is a mystery. God is like a secret to me. Isn't it? I mean he. I mean ..
I understand. It seems that way because if you detoxed from all the lies and illusions that make up your daily world if would likely do you in. Those who detoxify patients know that if the detox protocol goes too quickly it can kill their patient. You have to get over the toxic effects of secrets, illusions, and lies at a measured pace. Occasionally someone sees through it all at the level of the soul and I personally believe what happens next is known as spontaneous human combustion. In other words, the truth breaks through all at once and the person experiencing that hasn't got circuit breaks and fuses sufficient for the kind of energy and Pure Life that comes crashing in like a tsunami of Reality.
It says right up front in the book we are made in the likeness and image of. It does not say we have the experience and wisdom to handle being made in the likeness and image of ... yet. The way I look at it is that this is what our lives are for. To build up our capacity to handle being made in the likeness and image of. The wandering pilgrim keeps trying to make it on his own. The wise man knows letting go and letting God empowers everything inherent to being made in the image and like ness of.
How does this play into Secrets?
The Trilogy's first volume explores what happens when the world's secrets start spilling out with no way to prevent the revelations that follow. Tyranny and power cannot abide revelation. Power outside God is not-power it is tyranny. Only power inherently based in God is good. Power outside God is tyranny mimicking power. Just as Law is revealed by God, but man makes up rules and calls those rules law. Law is self enforcing. Rules require the application of escalating force. Which is what man's laws are. The pronouncement of escalating force to enforce their rules called law.
When secrets are revealed unbidden the outcome is almost always some form of destruction. Destroying lies. Destroying treasured illusions. Destroying relationships. When the details of man's life are built upon lies, secrets are required to hide the facts of the lies. The blowback is generally the coverup is worse than the crime.
In volume two the facts of what has always been kn own would happen come to the surface. Facts that have been hidden as secrets for millennia. The secrets of what comes with the end of an Age, let alone the absolute certainty of an and of an Age comes upon man suddenly. Only it's not sudden, all this has been known and foreknown. Those who could tell were silenced. Those who could speak truth to power were eliminated, or, as the Bible relates at Matthew 23:37 "O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you ..."
Those who know are always silenced. But then man has a hard time in his Here/Now fog winnowing wheat from chaff, figuring out who is a prophet and who is a deranged rambler. Never quite grasping there is a sure way to know.
Secrets are the fog around us, propagated and fostered by those whom darkness serves. Let me be clear again I am not speaking of privacy. Privacy is a grace I extend to you in my own self interest. Secrecy is what I must know but is kept from me. Marc Rottenberg President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) , Washington, DC; Co-author, Information Privacy Law says ... "It is important to distinguish between personal privacy and government secrecy. In the first instance, we are considering a fundamental human right, in the second an instrumental technique that extends the power of the state."
Meanwhile we are like children in the dark with but a flashlight to find our way through the minefields of secrets. Here's an example. Look to Title 26 of the United State Code. What is known as tax law. Not only is it gigantic, and always changing (no firm footing or understanding year in year out, a perfect example of tyranny) it is written in a legalistic code known as Term of Art. Which means, simply, that you and I may share a word in common - run, for example. When using this word we share in common does it mean run on the bank, run in your hose, run!, you have the runs, etc.? When constructing legal-isms upon which provisions for escalating force depend, precise usage matters rather a lot.
But Legislation is crafted via Term of Art and allows for using common everyday words in specific ways you do not have the proper dictionary for. Nor the contextual usage references. This sleight of hand means Legislators can use "up" when it means "down". "Right" means "Left". "No" means "Yes". "Must" means "if you want to". "If you want to" means "Mandatory" and so on.
Unless you're up to date on the lexicon and schooled in its use, you can so easily run afoul of tax laws. Ms. Shirley D. Peterson former Commissioner of the IRS -
"Eight decades of amendments and accretions to the Code have produced a virtually impenetrable maze. The rules are unintelligible to most citizens - Including those who hold advanced degrees and including many who specialize in tax law. The rules are equally mysterious to many government employees who are charged with administering and enforcing the law.
"It is also a known fact that the Internal Revenue Code is a very easily misunderstood area of law, even misunderstood by trained professionals. Judges and lawyers admittedly do not know the tax laws."
"Tax Policy Lecture" before Southern Methodist University, April 14, 1993
By accident? Laziness? Or, design? If you answered other than design stop here and read no further.
Secrets are what you must not know. That' why they're secret. And when secrets come tumbling out, that's when it all goes topsy turvy.
We are making our way in the dark, dimly, trying to find our way. Secrets are the things we bruise our shins on, trip over causing us to stumble.
Secrets are almost always what you must not know. What must be kept from you. Lest your consciousness awaken and you throw off your chains. Can you imagine a thing, such as secrets in the Presence? No.
But Jesse, everything about God is a mystery. God is like a secret to me. Isn't it? I mean he. I mean ..
I understand. It seems that way because if you detoxed from all the lies and illusions that make up your daily world if would likely do you in. Those who detoxify patients know that if the detox protocol goes too quickly it can kill their patient. You have to get over the toxic effects of secrets, illusions, and lies at a measured pace. Occasionally someone sees through it all at the level of the soul and I personally believe what happens next is known as spontaneous human combustion. In other words, the truth breaks through all at once and the person experiencing that hasn't got circuit breaks and fuses sufficient for the kind of energy and Pure Life that comes crashing in like a tsunami of Reality.
It says right up front in the book we are made in the likeness and image of. It does not say we have the experience and wisdom to handle being made in the likeness and image of ... yet. The way I look at it is that this is what our lives are for. To build up our capacity to handle being made in the likeness and image of. The wandering pilgrim keeps trying to make it on his own. The wise man knows letting go and letting God empowers everything inherent to being made in the image and like ness of.
How does this play into Secrets?
The Trilogy's first volume explores what happens when the world's secrets start spilling out with no way to prevent the revelations that follow. Tyranny and power cannot abide revelation. Power outside God is not-power it is tyranny. Only power inherently based in God is good. Power outside God is tyranny mimicking power. Just as Law is revealed by God, but man makes up rules and calls those rules law. Law is self enforcing. Rules require the application of escalating force. Which is what man's laws are. The pronouncement of escalating force to enforce their rules called law.
When secrets are revealed unbidden the outcome is almost always some form of destruction. Destroying lies. Destroying treasured illusions. Destroying relationships. When the details of man's life are built upon lies, secrets are required to hide the facts of the lies. The blowback is generally the coverup is worse than the crime.
In volume two the facts of what has always been kn own would happen come to the surface. Facts that have been hidden as secrets for millennia. The secrets of what comes with the end of an Age, let alone the absolute certainty of an and of an Age comes upon man suddenly. Only it's not sudden, all this has been known and foreknown. Those who could tell were silenced. Those who could speak truth to power were eliminated, or, as the Bible relates at Matthew 23:37 "O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you ..."
Those who know are always silenced. But then man has a hard time in his Here/Now fog winnowing wheat from chaff, figuring out who is a prophet and who is a deranged rambler. Never quite grasping there is a sure way to know.
Secrets are the fog around us, propagated and fostered by those whom darkness serves. Let me be clear again I am not speaking of privacy. Privacy is a grace I extend to you in my own self interest. Secrecy is what I must know but is kept from me. Marc Rottenberg President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) , Washington, DC; Co-author, Information Privacy Law says ... "It is important to distinguish between personal privacy and government secrecy. In the first instance, we are considering a fundamental human right, in the second an instrumental technique that extends the power of the state."
Meanwhile we are like children in the dark with but a flashlight to find our way through the minefields of secrets. Here's an example. Look to Title 26 of the United State Code. What is known as tax law. Not only is it gigantic, and always changing (no firm footing or understanding year in year out, a perfect example of tyranny) it is written in a legalistic code known as Term of Art. Which means, simply, that you and I may share a word in common - run, for example. When using this word we share in common does it mean run on the bank, run in your hose, run!, you have the runs, etc.? When constructing legal-isms upon which provisions for escalating force depend, precise usage matters rather a lot.
But Legislation is crafted via Term of Art and allows for using common everyday words in specific ways you do not have the proper dictionary for. Nor the contextual usage references. This sleight of hand means Legislators can use "up" when it means "down". "Right" means "Left". "No" means "Yes". "Must" means "if you want to". "If you want to" means "Mandatory" and so on.
Unless you're up to date on the lexicon and schooled in its use, you can so easily run afoul of tax laws. Ms. Shirley D. Peterson former Commissioner of the IRS -
"Eight decades of amendments and accretions to the Code have produced a virtually impenetrable maze. The rules are unintelligible to most citizens - Including those who hold advanced degrees and including many who specialize in tax law. The rules are equally mysterious to many government employees who are charged with administering and enforcing the law.
"It is also a known fact that the Internal Revenue Code is a very easily misunderstood area of law, even misunderstood by trained professionals. Judges and lawyers admittedly do not know the tax laws."
"Tax Policy Lecture" before Southern Methodist University, April 14, 1993
By accident? Laziness? Or, design? If you answered other than design stop here and read no further.
Secrets are what you must not know. That' why they're secret. And when secrets come tumbling out, that's when it all goes topsy turvy.
Oopsie
Good Judgment Comes with Experience, But Experience Comes from Bad Judgment
Well, that was a bad idea.
Na'chash, again
See, there's a second half to the original meaning in Hebrew. It goes like this - Genesis 3:1 - Serpent, Hebrew; na'chash - To hiss, as in to whisper an enchantment or spell. Illusions. Magic. Divination. To cast spells. To work magic. Illusionist. Magician. Diviner. Enchanter. To learn by experience. To diligently observe.
As the saying goes, above, good judgement comes with experience, but experience comes from bad judgement.
Mostly true.
And yes, we covered this above, but not completely. I don't imagine it can ever be completely covered. But here's another run at it.
When we live in the company of the Presence, all that is known is always already ours. Sounds dull if you ask me, because being in the Presence of all that can be known would seem pretty doggone dull. Nothing to 'learn'. No new roads to explore ...
... hold up there Sparky. It's not 'nothing new'. That's backwards. It's everything is always new. Once we're out of the League of Na'Chash gentlemen.
In the Presence of na'chash we're sentenced to a life of experience as the way to get along. Only by diligently observing can we at bare minimum reduce the number of repeat experiences. Repeat experiences. That's the bane of our world. Doing the same uh, stuff ... over and over. Trying to learn how to get past the repetitive and get to the New. Constant experience does not mean constant new experience.
Only by diligently observing can we cut down on repeating the same stuff which makes life deadly, deadly dull and boring. Over and over until we're sick to death of it. Sick to death. I use that on purpose.
When we're in the Presence all is new, all the time. Never the same thing twice. You can tell for yourself that no two cells are the same. No two snowflakes are the same. No two people are the same. Etc.
Heaven is a place/experience I think actually frightens the majority of non-Believers because so much of the descriptions of it has the heaven-bound singing songs of praise throughout eternity non-stop in a constant never-ending stroking of God's ego. You da man, You da man. You da man. You da man. You da man ... until even Billy Graham would beg to stop.
That ain't even close to what Heaven is. A 'place' (our concept of place is corrupted and narrow by our experience here in merely three dimensions). A state of consciousness. And without what we call Time.
I propose to you that Heaven is the opposite of na'chash. Na'chash, embodied in its definition of experience and observing means an incompleteness. In Heaven we are complete. We've graduated. Now we can be/do without limits.
Na'chash is the utmost definition of limits.
I suggest to you that in 'Heaven' we know our roles as creators. Co-creators. We know the ultimate joy of creation without instrumentation. Consciousness only. No cash required because cash is a form of experience. No 'materials' required because materials are part of the realm of experience. No special skills or degrees or permission because these are of the realm of na'chash; experience and observation.
Instead we know creation without instrumentation and that means ... ever new.
Ever new.
You will never tire of 'Heaven' nor of giving thanks if your life is one of ever new creation you set in motion, but once in motion it does not produce the doctrine of unintended consequences.
And that sounds like just the place for me.
More later. Small bites, for now. Sneaking up on it, as it were.
As the saying goes, above, good judgement comes with experience, but experience comes from bad judgement.
Mostly true.
And yes, we covered this above, but not completely. I don't imagine it can ever be completely covered. But here's another run at it.
When we live in the company of the Presence, all that is known is always already ours. Sounds dull if you ask me, because being in the Presence of all that can be known would seem pretty doggone dull. Nothing to 'learn'. No new roads to explore ...
... hold up there Sparky. It's not 'nothing new'. That's backwards. It's everything is always new. Once we're out of the League of Na'Chash gentlemen.
In the Presence of na'chash we're sentenced to a life of experience as the way to get along. Only by diligently observing can we at bare minimum reduce the number of repeat experiences. Repeat experiences. That's the bane of our world. Doing the same uh, stuff ... over and over. Trying to learn how to get past the repetitive and get to the New. Constant experience does not mean constant new experience.
Only by diligently observing can we cut down on repeating the same stuff which makes life deadly, deadly dull and boring. Over and over until we're sick to death of it. Sick to death. I use that on purpose.
When we're in the Presence all is new, all the time. Never the same thing twice. You can tell for yourself that no two cells are the same. No two snowflakes are the same. No two people are the same. Etc.
Heaven is a place/experience I think actually frightens the majority of non-Believers because so much of the descriptions of it has the heaven-bound singing songs of praise throughout eternity non-stop in a constant never-ending stroking of God's ego. You da man, You da man. You da man. You da man. You da man ... until even Billy Graham would beg to stop.
That ain't even close to what Heaven is. A 'place' (our concept of place is corrupted and narrow by our experience here in merely three dimensions). A state of consciousness. And without what we call Time.
I propose to you that Heaven is the opposite of na'chash. Na'chash, embodied in its definition of experience and observing means an incompleteness. In Heaven we are complete. We've graduated. Now we can be/do without limits.
Na'chash is the utmost definition of limits.
I suggest to you that in 'Heaven' we know our roles as creators. Co-creators. We know the ultimate joy of creation without instrumentation. Consciousness only. No cash required because cash is a form of experience. No 'materials' required because materials are part of the realm of experience. No special skills or degrees or permission because these are of the realm of na'chash; experience and observation.
Instead we know creation without instrumentation and that means ... ever new.
Ever new.
You will never tire of 'Heaven' nor of giving thanks if your life is one of ever new creation you set in motion, but once in motion it does not produce the doctrine of unintended consequences.
And that sounds like just the place for me.
More later. Small bites, for now. Sneaking up on it, as it were.
