4b. Building Jerusalem vs the Divine Gates
Distortion Mechanics of Ultra Marine Frank GehryThe Gates of Buildings Shape the Mind
"Architecture is an idol, a physical temple loci to which idolatry, over time, will inevitably adhere."[21] Even if the idea is pure in nature, Milton still believes that it will unavoidably lead to idolatry simply because of the nature of humans. Instead of placing their thoughts and beliefs into God, as they should, humans tend to turn to erected objects and falsely invest their faith.
"Idolatry is of paramount importance in all these writings,
from Balaam to Harding claims that "... under the serpent’s influence,
Eve’s idolatry and self-deification foreshadow the errors into which her 'Sons'
will stray."[22]
Much like Adam, Eve falsely places her faith into herself, the Tree of
Knowledge, and to some extent, the Serpent.
The crusade against the equivocation of buildings begins in Milton and continues in Coleridge who builds his pleasure dome over a more pleasant form of hell than Pan-demonium, the capital of Hell, though many see the likeness of eviathan Florence, Seattle with the collapse of that structure, the dome imploding in the Malebolge. The Vatican and greatest of all Washington DC. though the two are the same in their covering from the sky and prevention of the true light. of the Portal Novus Ordo. All these structure show the end of idolatry that begins in the corruption of buildings from temples to shrines of fallen deities of the fallen self. so national monuments are idols, the obelisk, the dome, where the murals depict the ultimate evil, in code, what could be more obviousThe way Solomon's temple devolved to vanity until it was pillaged and destroyed, which become a symbol of Solomon's wisdom of the two pillers and tree of life devolved in cabbalah to a self help to eternity, but of the demonic sort. From wikipedia: Milton's first criticism of idolatry focuses on the practice of constructing temples and other buildings to serve as places of worship. In Book XI of Paradise Lost,
Adam tries to atone for his sins by offering to build altars to worship
God. In response, the angel Michael explains that Adam does not need to
build physical objects to experience the presence of God.[30]
Joseph Lyle points to this example, explaining "When Milton objects to
architecture, it is not a quality inherent in buildings themselves he
finds offensive, but rather their tendency to act as convenient loci to
which idolatry, over time, will inevitably adhere."[31]
Even if the idea is pure in nature, Milton still believes that it will
unavoidably lead to idolatry simply because of the nature of humans.
Instead of directing their thoughts towards God, as they should, humans
tend to turn to erected objects and falsely invest their faith.
Ordinary people in their upscale homes live in their temples to enshrine themselves. what a nice house you have.
I only want to amend this a little, by saying it is not their nature to do so, but their conditioning to be so imposed upon. Doris Lessing and Frank Gehry take the oath.
Furthermore, Milton makes his views on idolatry more explicit with the creation of Pandæmonium and the exemplary allusion to Solomon's temple. In the beginning of Paradise Lost, as well as throughout the poem, there are several references to the rise and eventual fall of Solomon's temple. Critics elucidate that "Solomon's temple provides an explicit demonstration of how an artifact moves from its genesis in devotional practice to an idolatrous end."[33]
This example, out of the many presented, conveys Milton's views on the
dangers of idolatry distinctly. Even if one builds a structure in the
name of God, even the best of intentions can become immoral. In
addition, critics have drawn parallels between both Pandemonium and Saint Peter's Basilica,[citation needed] and the Pantheon.
The majority of these similarities revolve around a structural
likeness, but as Lyle explains, they play a greater role. By linking
Saint Peter's Basilica and the Pantheon to Pandemonium—an ideally false structure, the two famous buildings take on a false meaning.[34]
This comparison best represents Milton's Protestant views, as it
rejects both the purely Catholic perspective and the Pagan perspective.
A series of falls immerses one humanity in Jerusalem in its final moment. The Old City takes these falls and rebuildings from the far reaches of Genesis to the history of Israel. Ezra introduces the main issue, revisited from the Garden, Babel, the Flood, Exodus, rise and fall of kings, and captivities. Modern parlance is so prejudiced this can hardly dare be spoken, so we speak it: "the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass" (Ezra 9). That there is a holy seed is past finding out.
Whether meant physically or philosophically, the mixing of Ezra sounds like miscegenation, chauvinism and racism to the American/European. As full body prosthesis for immortality pretends universal acceptance and ecumenism at its high flood, acceptance of the foreign calls itself sophistication and human rights, as opposed to the primitive tribal opposite. The wolf hides everywhere under this surface sophistication. The west pretends to forfeit its nation and ethnic status in public policy, but every such act is only a public relations event. Americans think they are the highest and best exceptions when they are only the most ripe for fall, barely retaining vestiges of the infrastructure that held their society together. This coup d'état, masked, is in place. Blacks, Latins, Asians imbibe acceptance in the melting pot where they become quislings of the whites. Genetic boundaries, all boundaries are the aim of this new pretend. Disintegration of social structures serves one purpose of the Starchitects, the creation of one world that absorbs all nations as the melting pot, absorbs all ethnics so expertly as to make them invisible, the better to eat them. Only its victims know the fate of Little Red Riding Hood, the rest go blind and deaf to acceptance of new cultural norms. Holy seed is a metaphor of mixing religions and genes.
Imagine Babylon being corrupted by Israel the way Israel was corrupted by Babylon! Israel needed to be continually remade from its inconstant holding to its own norms. There are no cases at all of failed paganism, the fallen Babylonian, except as wiped out. Babylon of course did not die, just moved inland. It took over lip service to enlightened human rights, science, capitalism promulgated by Christians who went among the heathen to rescue them, who in the end were overwhelmed with heathen global encroachment. So when Ezra warns, "the land unto which ye go to possess is unclean with the filthiness of the people of the lands and their abominations," Israel and Judah were tempted by affinity and acceptance. Their religious worship and nation were corrupted into Baal worship, drug intoxications, high places, human sacrifice, feces worship, temple prostitution, child murder. Some of these yet sound unacceptable to the public relations machine, even while t practiced in secret among the elite. It sums up that they "have taken strange wives" (Ezra 10), a metaphor also of their hybrid religion. One religion, but a counterfeit of the one. These produce corruption of the holy human seed. Ezra culminates a series of these mishaps that occur in greater and lesser degree from Eden.
The immediate context of Ezra is that he returns to a Jerusalem ruined and destroyed to rebuild (the Second Temple), "to beautify the house of Yahweh which is in Jerusalem" 7.27, all because Cyrus, King of Persia, decreed it. We have a modern analogue, it is however not yet out, a Jerusalem decreed in rebuilding by the inclement Obama, a Third Temple inhabited by (some version of) the Pope. But only when the rebuilding and resettlement process was advanced and a fast declared was the age old problem of corruption of Jerusalem revisited, for "the people of Israel have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptiians and the Amorites" 9.1. Third time's the charm, but the Third Temple is not the New Jereusalem. Which Jerusalem do the Christians want to rescue from attack? It must be one in the past. In the present.future the great city is spiritually called Sodom and Egypt.
Jerusalem is a kind of Babylon/Rome in its deprivations and renewals, except that modern Rome is seen as a fulfillment of the sacraments of ancient Babylon. Jerusalem had its rises and falls, being either itself or the anti-type of itself at different periods.The thing about these comings and goings is that the comings are documented better than the goings. Nehemiah lists every participant in the rebuilding, down to who built the dung gate, but the betrayals are sketched in large. The transgressions in league with Baal get more space than the restorations because there are many more of them. To jump in transliteration of events to the present, a series of covert, underground corruptions. It is as Isaiah says, who writes to make the ears dull and close the eyes. Media hides this history.These forces in history called HistoPossum play dead until they don't.
II. from Blue superstitution
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword of ONE Who is not man; and the sword of ONE Who is not a son of earth shall devour him.
And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, says Yahweh, whose fire is in Zion, and His furnace in Jerusalem. Isaiah 31.8-9
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And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
The heart also of the watchful shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly. Isaiah 32 2-4
And My people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places. And it shall spread itself in the descent of the forest and far down in the lowlands, the city shall descend. Isaiah 32.19
ships of the sea of accusations
Foundation Stone
The abandonment of Alexandria because of its corruption, mystics going into the desert, the arid, dry confines to contradict is like what the present faces, the corruption of all that was known of the hman for the eldritch, sensual diversions
Sophronius of Jerusalem On the Capture of Jerusalem
Phil Booth, Crisis of Empire, Doctrine and Dissent at the End of Late Antiquity
Peter J. Leithart, Athanasius abandoning Alexandria
Plague in Alexandria
Jerusalem is the most bloodthirsty of them all.
"It is an expectation, a desire,
a palm that rises up beyond the sea,
a little different from reality"
"the palm stands on the edge of space"
Nihilism: repudiation with indescribable composure. Fathers and Sons
At least three different ages of dikes cut the diorite:
...the palm at the end of the mind / beyond the last thought...
a gold feathered bird sings in the palm
“to improve the sewers of Jerusalem” would entail cleaning
up the very deep roots of such an old and buried city. The Man with the Blue Guitar, line 187:
At least three different ages of dikes cut the diorite:
Now go to Lessons in Baal
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