The Royal Road

 

 

Would you mind a bit of history dates

it's a broken language I speak 

let me show you

a simple path

through history 

which is a matter of time

what people believe 

is motivation for mankind

God abhors a vacuum

in your soul

There once were 3 paths that interchanged at Antioch; (?)

      the road along the Mediterranean, from Alexandria, through Jerusalem, past Damascus (just a bit southwest from Beirut). You might not know this but you can see Cyprus from Lebanon on a clear day. The reason I say this is because the world is a small place, I want you to see how small it is and how everything is joined through history and myth and particles of energy (I am a particle of energy) that are smaller than you can imagine. 

       the Silk Road, the one you know, that comes from the Far East, spices from India and China and Buddhas you used to be able to find in Afghanistan, there is/was a port just a few miles west for ease of distribution of goods and ideas from Antioch.

         the Royal Road went from Susa (Shush, Iran) about 120 milesish north of Basrah, Iraq, up through Babylon (today it's a district just south of Bagdad) up to Sardis, Turkey which went not through Antioch but by the same region. The Royal Road though was an ancient one the was rebuilt by Darius the Great. Do you know who he is? 

most humans think, there is an easier way to do this, hack the system, believe something different then that which you know

It was one of the center hubs of everything we believe today. A few miles away from the Mediterranean sea there is small town now named after Antiochus, grandfather of Seleucus I Nicator (victor) named it so.

Before Christ, is He your Lord and savior?

957 BC- Solomon builds the First Temple in Jerusalem 

808 BC- Macedonia is birthed by a Woman who gives birth to a King. 

600-650 BC- Zoroastrianism is the belief system of the Iranian/Persian area

648-330 BC- Achaemenid era

587 Before Christ- Nebuchadnezzar II destroys Jerusalem and the exile and deportation of the Jewish people happens...this is also somewhere in here, The Book of Ester. 

539 BC- Cyrus the Great captures Babylon and the rest of the empire and lets the exiles return home.

522-486 BC- Darius I is the ruler of the Achaemenid dynasty after securing control he goes on some escapades to expand tax revenue and land resources ( also known as, conquering). 

513 BC- Macedonia (and many other areas) is finding itself in a place of discomfort by Darius I 

490-323 BC- Classical Greece was happenin, all the stuff a normal person thinks of, giant pillars, and huge statues of Goddess holding up the walls.

332 BC- Alexander invades Egypt, who was taught by Aristotle who was taught by Plato who was at the trial of Socrates. 

380-330 BC- Darius III the grand son of Darius I is now Emperor (?) of the Achaemenian Persian Empire

331 BC- (it's really not that long ago) near Irbil, Iraq (north of Bagdad, between Kirkuk and Mosul); it was part of the capital of Babylon of the Persian Empire ruled by King Darius. Alexander of Macedonia the Great enters the Dardanelles/Hellespont.

323 BC- after he has successfully colonized or culture changed, in this story it's called Hellenization, of all his conquests, in course one of his Generals commandeers: modern day...Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, central Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkmenistan, it was the Seleucid Empire. His name was Seleucus I Nicator (victor), he was of the Hellenistic belief system, or Classical Greek. Leaders generally bring their belief system everywhere they go, so do rulers, they also enjoy ruling over others...Some important places in this story are Antioch (Turkey) and Jerusalem (Israel). Antioch (Hatya) west of Aleppo (insert libertarian joke, "what's Allepo?) was founded by Seleucus I Nicator who was of the Classical Greek belief system, preach what ya know yo; yes, I repeat myself. At this time Jerusalem has been Hellenized but the Temple has not been defiled. 

Note - People liked Alexanders policies after he conquered them. Hellenistic is a culture capture adoption, like a melting pot but you have to do it correctly.

167 Before Christ the Holy Temple of Jerusalem was defiled by the Antiochus Epiphanes. He was the Grand son of the Victor(?*)

The path ways and road ways of all these cultures, beliefs convened at Antioch.

Through Haifa, west of Nazareth, towards Beirut, then go North some more. 

47 BC- Julius Caesar frees Antioch.

27 BC–AD 395 Roman Empire unified. 

0 Anno Domini

AD- 1453 the fall of the roman empire and the end of the middle ages, Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror enters. 

AD-  What year Luther?

 

 

   

Here in this garden they will tell me,

“Eat this or do not eat that, just as you wish.”

Here I will eat all things,

where the tree of knowledge is.

That tree killed Adam,

but here the tree of knowledge made us alive.

The law was the tree.

It has the power to give knowledge of good and evil.

It did not remove me from evil

or set me among the good.

It created death for those who ate it. When they said,

“Eat this or do not eat that,” death began.

 What is that I repeat?

Last year we bought and installed a gas stove, it's not a Wiccan thing I prefer fire over some .I'm not sure why people are surprised that the powers that be want you to start thinking they will ban gas stoves. Duh. The majority of new builds don't have wood fire places either. What do regular people actually think is happening? Do they think it's a good idea to shut down the coal plant with the idea to heat the city they will out source? (This is here in Colorado Springs, I know it's happened other places too.) Last year we had no electricity, here, in this home where I am typing, for 5 days during a freeze. Having a hearth in your home becomes more important with each day passing. What happens when you no longer can fend for yourself because of State mandate and or regulation...well, don't ya know we just went through that. Most take it sitting down or bowing down, eyes down and hands down, useless like your empty words, because I hear not a peep except from birds. There is no where to run. 

The last Pope just died and you did not See white smoke. 

I always find it comical that Western Civilization in University begins* at their enlightenment. There are always true believers left behind. 

Have you ever deeply thought what the Anti-Christ truly is? Opposed to Christ Consciousness- that which gives us consciousness and separates us from animals. 

The Anti-Christ is not a person but an ideology. It's finally catching on. Thoughts are in the air now and no one can stop that.

See everything through a belief system minds eye, it's dangerous and scary, it's the driving force of our lifes blood. 

I walked into a Lutheran Church a few months ago, they had their Pride (key word in a biblical sense) Flag placed proudly on their walls. This is a question for any minister or priest that thinks they have any weight with God our Father The Almighty, your goal is to not sin, not prop the sin up for display and to be worshiped. Mayhaps you bow out of the wise ways...you are not an animal-control yourself. I seriously find it atrocious I have to type all this out-and I mean all of it. You love the sinner, you do not invite the sin in, you do not promote the sin, you do not become the sin=mistake, missed the mark. We are made in the image of God, God does not make mistakes, please stop the defiling. 

They have defiled your houses of God like heathens, except some heathens believe in good.

You practice idolatry when you worship any man. 

When you disobey God there are consequences and it's not like you don't have the rules. The convoluted saying, 'aren't you supposed to love everyone', when they don't know what love means any more. They treat Children like pets to control and make them do things, they train them to be stupid.

Did I say that out loud?