Angels And Demons Or How To Resurrect the Gospel

Growing up in these United States I was always told there is a separation between Church and State, so it surprises me when public schools are teaching the Bible as Literature, even in a State as progressive as California.

Not that I am opposed to reading the Bible, since I approve of reading anything and everything, even the small print on canned goods in the supermarket. But to make the Bible available to such a large captive audience that has every right to feel justified in holding divergent views which are not necessarily reflected in what has been touted as the Gospel truth; the Bible can no longer escape careful vetting by prying eyes and inquiring minds.

I was recently reminded that I have put off this task long enough since the signs are everywhere that the Truth of The Primary Word has fallen to inequity, transgression, contradiction, and strife (this also applies to how the Torah and the Quran have been wielded of late—posting on that political hot button is forthcoming).

It is not of my own volition that I write, and if you need to know by what authority I can do so, just ask Michael. Who, by the way, I know reads this blog, and I sent word to you that I apologize for not believing you when you said 'something very bad' was going to happen; but please don’t fault me too much for not taking your warning at face value because what in fact did happen was way worse than you intimated. You must also know that it wasn't fair to me because whenever an Angel casually shows up to talk to a woman, that woman gets to have a baby, but in my case I get to have the mother of all headaches!

You gave me a 3 year heads up, but I could not understand why you were telling me—a woman, this; then when it came to pass, I understood that any reasonable man in my place would have not hesitated to shoot his brains out rather than to go through it and the only reason I did not was because I could not find the gun (there was also the consideration of who would clean up the mess); and I read recently that there is actually a shortage of ammunition in the US, which is why I am finally sitting down to write this despite my strongly held position that this really is not my station--but there is no escaping The signal coming through all channels including the evening news and, of all things, license plates. (And, by the way, thank you for your well wishes when I was ‘ill’).

Since Jesus preached the Gospel there have been several notable state-sponsored book burnings in which valuable information was lost; I suppose the one at the Nicene Convention set the stage for this type of behavior in dealing with difficult subjects not in vogue at the time or that may prove troublesome if power was actually democratized.

Lucky for us, while we cannot recreate every blessed word of his, we can at least lay down a blueprint as to the tone and nature of his language and his mission and leave it to the ‘men in frocks’ to go through their stores of ancient manuscript remnants to provide the rest, exercising the appropriate due diligence and reserve in editing.

All of the past editorializing is one issue I have with teaching the Bible as Literature, given that it is now more of an evolving compendium rather than an integrated text (like one would consider a story by Charles Dickens say). But if you are going to ascribe something to the nature of Jesus or put words in his mouth to be repeated all throughout the Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District, let’s at least strive for consistency.

And everything that follows here is given with the caveat not to talk smack about his mother Mary, or any other woman in the Bible (now that budding young men and nubile young women have to parse it out); just because the world is in a state where they don’t honor the wombs that bore them does not give anyone the right to project their shortcomings on Mary.

I use the Quran for reference here to check the integrity of one document with another, simply because it is the one I am familiar with. Use whatever else you are comfortable with provided the document is an authentic original source with a known (historically recognized author) written within the first 600 or so years of Jesus’s mission and can stand up to scrutiny and can prove that Jesus said this or Jesus did that and God is such and such; or tell us for what reason we should take the word of an inspired earthling that conflicts with the Message and somehow deserves to trump what either God, Jesus, or any other Prophet had to say on a given subject up to that point:

Quran (interpretation by Asad, contemporizing by me)

Surah 3
The House of ‘Imran (Jesus’ Family)

(3: 47) …God Creates what He wills; He says for it to ‘Be’ and it is
(3:48) (the Angel said to Mary) And He will impart unto your son revelation, and wisdom, and the Torah, and the Gospel (3:49) and make him an apostle unto the children of Israel.
(And Jesus Said) “I have come to you with a message from your Sustainer. I shall create for you out of clay, a 'bird' (الطِّينِ lit. 'that which flies, or is airborne' pronounced 'al-tayer'; i.e. UFO) and then breathe into it, so that it might come to life by God’s leave; and I shall heal the blind and the leper, and bring the dead back to life by God’s leave; and I shall let you know what you may eat and what you should store up in your houses. In this there is indeed a message for you, if you are believers.”

(3:50) “And to confirm the truth of whatever remains of the Torah, and to make lawful to you some of the things that were forbidden to you. And I have come to you with a message from your Sustainer; remain conscious of God, and pay heed unto me. (3:51) Verily, God is my Sustainer and your Sustainer; so worship Him: this is the straight way”.

(3:52) And when Jesus became aware of their refusal to acknowledge the truth, he asked: “Who will be my helpers in God’s cause?” The white-garbed ones (probably Naphtali from the Galilee area) replied: “We shall be helpers in God’s cause. We believe in God; and bear witness that we have surrendered ourselves to Him.”

(3:55) God said: “Jesus, I shall cause you to die and raise (entrust) you to Me, and rid you of those bent on denying the truth: and I shall place those who follow you above those who are bent on denying the truth, until the Day of Resurrection. In the end, you must all return to Me, and I shall judge between you on that which you differed. “(3:56) “And as for those bent on denying the truth, I shall cause them to suffer severely in this world and in the life to come, and they shall have none to comfort them; (3:57) for those who attain to faith and do good works He will grant their reward in full; for God does not love evildoers.”

(3:59) Truly, in God’s sight, the nature of Jesus is as the nature of Adam, whom He created out of dust and then said to him, ‘Be’—and he is…

(3:78) And indeed there are some who distort the Bible with their tongues, so as to make you think (what they say) is from the Bible, the while it is not; and who say, “This is from God,” the while is it not from God: and in so doing they tell a lie about God, being well aware (that it is a lie). (3:79) It is not conceivable that a human being to whom God had granted revelation, and sound judgment, and prophethood, should then have said to people, ‘Worship me beside God’; but rather (he did exhort them) “Become men of God” by spreading the knowledge of the divine writ, and by your own deep understanding of it.(3:80) And neither did he bid you to take the angels and the prophets for your lords; would he bid you to deny the truth after having surrendered yourselves to God?

Surah 4
Women (Al Nisa)

(4:156) …(We punished them) for the awesome calumny which they utter against Mary (4:157 ) and their boast, “Behold we have slain the Christ Jesus, son of Mary, an apostle of God!” However, they did not slay him, and neither did they crucify him, but it only seemed so to them; and in truth, those who hold conflicting views about it are indeed confused, having no real knowledge in this regard, and following mere conjecture. For, of a certainty, they did not slay him: (4:158) God raised (entrusted) him unto Himself—and God is indeed Almighty, Wise (4:159) Yet there is not one of the followers of earlier revelation who does not, at the moment of his death, grasp the truth about Jesus; and on the Day of Resurrection he shall bear witness to the truth against them.

(4:171) Followers of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds in your religious beliefs, and do not say anything about God but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God’s Apostle—His promise conveyed to Mary—and a soul created by Him. Believe, in God and His apostles, and do not say ‘a trinity’. Desist (from this assertion) for your own benefit. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son; to Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is worthy of trust as God. (4:172) Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God’s servant, nor do the angels who are near to Him…

Surah 5
The Table (Al Ma-ida)

5:46 And We caused Jesus, the son of Mary, to follow in the footsteps of those (earlier prophets), confirming the truth of whatever still remained of the Torah; and We vouchsafed the Gospel to him, wherein there was guidance and light, confirming the truth of whatever there still remained of the Torah, and as a guidance and warning to the God-conscious (5:47 )Let the followers of the Gospel judge in accordance with what God has revealed therein: they who do not judge in the light of what God has bestowed from on high—it is they, they who are the iniquitous!

The following passage is provided as a talking point Regarding reasons for variance in faith and why you shouldn’t convert everybody to follow the Message from 'a single established location/situation' (i.e., always consider the source):

(5:48) …To every one of you We have appointed a (different) law and way of life. And if God had willed it so, He would have surely made you all one single community; but (your variance) is in order to test you by means of what He has entrusted you. Vie, then , with one another in doing good works! All of you will return to God: and then He will make you truly understand all that you differed in.

(5:72) …the Christ said, “O children of Israel! Worship God, who is your Sustainer and my Sustainer.” (5:73) ...they who deny the truth say, “God is the third of a trinity”—seeing that there is no deity whatever save the One God….(5:74) Will they not, then, turn towards God…for God is much forgiving, a dispenser of grace.” (5:75) The Christ, son of Mary, was but an apostle; all apostles had passed away before him; and his mother was one who never deviated from the truth: and they both ate food (like mortals). How clear We make our messages to them: and then how perverted are their minds!

(5:77) "Followers of the Gospel! Do not overstep your bounds in your religious beliefs; and do not follow the errant views of people who have gone astray, and are still straying from the right path."

(5:110) …God will say: ‘Jesus, son of Mary! Remember the blessings which I bestowed onto you and your mother—how I strengthened you with holy inspiration, so that you could speak to men from your cradle, and as a grown man: and how I imparted to you revelation and wisdom, including the Torah and the Gospel; and how by My leave you did create out of clay a 'bird' (الطِّينِ lit. 'that which flies, or is airborne' pronounced 'al-tayer'; i.e. UFO), and breathe into it, so that it came to life, by My leave; and how you did heal the blind and the leper by My leave, and how you did raise the dead by My leave; and how I prevented the children of Israel from harming you when you came to them with all evidence of the truth, and when those bent on denying the truth were saying, ‘This is clearly nothing but deception!’

(5:111) And when I inspired the white-garbed ones “Believe in Me and in My apostle!” They answered: ’We believe; and (You) bear witness that we have surrendered ourselves to You.’ (5:112) And the white-garbed ones said: 'Jesus, Son of Mary! Could your Sustainer send down to us a tables set from heaven?' (Jesus) answered; ‘Be conscious of God, if you are believers!’ (5:113) They said: ‘We desire to partake of it, so that our hearts might be set fully at rest, and that we might know that you have spoken the truth to us, and that we might be of those who bear witness to it!’

(5:114) Jesus, the son of Mary, said: ‘O God, our Sustainer! Send down to us a repast (table set) from heaven; it shall be an ever-recurring feast for us—for the first and the last of us – and a sign from You. And provide us our sustenance, for You are the best provider. (5:115) God answered: ‘Verily, I (always) do send it down to you: and so, if any of you should henceforth deny (this ) truth, on him will I inflict suffering the like of which I have never (yet) inflicted on anyone in the world!”

(5:116 ) And God said: ‘Jesus, son of Mary! Did you say to men, ‘Worship me and my mother as deities beside God’?” [Jesus] answered: “Limitless in Your Glory are You! It would not have been possible for me to say what I had no right to (say)! Had I said this, You would indeed have known it! You know all that is within me, whereas I know not what is in Your Self. Truly, it is You alone who fully knows all the things that are beyond the reach of a created being’s perception.

(5:117) Nothing did I tell them beyond what You did bid me: ‘Worship God, my Sustainer as well as your Sustainer.’ And I bore witness to what they did as long as I dwelt in their midst; but since You have caused me to die, You alone have been their keeper; for You are witness to everything. (5:118) If You cause them to suffer—in truth, they are Your servants; and if You forgive them—truly, You alone are Almighty, Wise!”

Surah 19 Maryam
K H Y 'Ayn Saad كهيعص
(19:30) [Jesus] he said: "Behold, I am a servant of God. He has vouchsafed unto me revelation and made me a prophet, (19:31) and made me blessed wherever I may be; and He has enjoined upon me prayer and charity as long as I live, (19:32) and [has endowed me with] piety towards my mother; and He has not made me haughty or bereft of grace.

(19:33) "Hence, peace was upon me on the day when I was born, and on the day of my death, and on the day when I shall be raised to life [again]!"

(19:34) such was, in the words of truth, Jesus the son of Mary, about whose nature they so deeply disagree. (19:35) It is not conceivable that God should have taken unto Himself a son: limitless is He in His glory! When He wills a thing to be, He but says unto it "Be" -and it is!

(19:36) And [Jesus said]: "Truly, God is my Sustainer as well as your Sustainer; so worship Him: this is the straight way."

(19:37) And yet, the sects are at variance among themselves [about the nature of Jesus] Woe, then, unto all who deny the truth when that awesome Day will appear!

Surah 43
Gold Ornaments (Zukhruf)

(43:59) [Jesus,] he was nothing but a servant whom We had graced, and whom We made an example for the children of Israel .

(43:60) And had We so willed, We could indeed have made you into angels succeeding one another on earth!

(43:61) and he is indeed a sign to know the Last Hour; so, have no doubt about it, but follow Me: this is the straight way.

1962 ARGENTINA FLAP - "OVNI COMING IN FOR A LANDING!"

The following account may appear to be just another unsolved UFO story but to those following this blog's content closely we know it calls for practical application of phunny physics and mystical math.

Source: La Razon (newspaper); Joseph Trainor produced the following bulletin for UFO ROUNDUP

In August 1962, the newspaper La Razon of Buenos Aires ran an astounding story. An OVNI (Spanish acronym for UFO) had landed at the airfield in Camba Punat, in the province of Corrientes.

According to La Razon, airport manager Luis Harvey was warned by his radar operators that an unannounced airplane was about to land. Running out on the runway, Harvey saw "a luminous object" circling the runway at high speed. Suddenly, the object came down and hovered four feet off the asphalt. Harvey and a dozen other witnesses described it as "a completely spherical body that hovered, spinning on its axis, a few feet above the runway." All the while, the UFO
emitted blinding green, orange and blue lights."

As Harvey and his crew approached the UFO, it soared upward and "vanished at staggering speed."

This, however, was only a warm-up to the big event...

On December 20, 1962, at approximately 2:15 a.m., radar operator Jose Besutti was staring at his scope in the Flight Control Tower at Ezeiza International Airport, just west of Buenos Aires. Suddenly, he saw an unidentified blip and contacted airport manager Horacio Alora. As the tower crew watched, the UFO landed right smack dab on Ezeiza's main runway.


Grabbing a pair of binoculars, Alora spotted a silvery disc-shaped UFO sitting on the runway 2,000 meters (600 yards) from the tower. An "hombrecito" (little man) climbed out and walked around on the asphalt as if it were a road. The UFO had flashing red and white lights.


Just then, the tower radio squawked, "This is Pan-Am 609 Heavy, nonstop jet service from Rio de Janeiro, coming in on final approach."

"Madre de Dios!" Alora shouted, "Tell him not to land."

As one operator raced to the radio, the tower crew heard another transmission from the four-engined Pan American DC-8. "Ezeiza Tower, this is PanAm 609 Heavy. Just passing the outer marker."

Grabbing the microphone himself, Alora shouted, "PanAm, go around! Repeat, go around! Do not attempt to land."

"Passing the inner marker," the pilot said, "Jesus H. Christ! Who left that truck on the runway!?"

"That's no truck!" Alora shouted, "It's a flying saucer!"

Besutti and the others opened the tower windows and began yelling at the UFO occupant (or the clueless truck driver, emphasis mine). "Get out of there! Hurry!"

The occupant simply stood there. Just then, the big jetliner dropped out of the overcast, lights on and engines whining--startled by the sight of the DC-8 descending toward him, the occupant dashed back to the UFO. A hatch popped open in the bottom hemisphere, and he dove through it.

Suddenly, the UFO began glowing. As the DC-8 touched down, it rose to a height of 600 meters (1,980 feet) and then zoomed eastward toward Uruguay "at a vertiginous (dizzying) speed." Five seconds later, the DC-8 on its rollout rushed right over the spot where the UFO occupant had been standing.

Here it is in pictures:



Here it is in other words:

About 2 am on December 20 1962, Fred has a brain (brane) fart and decides to get out of his light duty vehicle and check his engine right in the middle of runway 11-29. There is a DC-8 approaching with so many souls on board and no way to convince the tower crew that they have all fallen asleep and are all having the same bad dream, so it came to pass that a window into another dimension opened up to allow Fred time to clear the runway before his poor judgement ruins Christmas for everyone involved.

For homework: Determine the true location of this alternate dimension and actual "vertiginous" land speed Fred was able to "fly" east toward Uruguay.

What Is It About Medical Records?

On June 18, Esmin Green, 49, was involuntarily admitted to the psychiatric emergency department of Kings County Hospital Center on June 18 for what the hospital describes as "agitation and psychosis."

Upon her admission, Green waited nearly 24 hours for treatment, said the New York Civil Liberties Union, which on Tuesday released surveillance camera video of the incident.

The surveillance camera video shows the woman rolling off a waiting room chair, landing face-down on the floor and convulsing. Her collapse came at 5:32 a.m. June 19, the NYCLU said, and she stopped moving at 6:07 a.m. During that time, the organization said, workers at the hospital ignored her.

At 6:35 a.m., the tape shows a hospital employee approaching and nudging Green with her foot, the group said. Help was summoned three minutes later. Watch the surveillance video »
In addition, the organization said, hospital staff falsified Green's records to cover up the time she had lain there without assistance. This unfortunate victim is not the first to suffer tampering with their medical records, a clear point is made of this practice in Maxie Time.

"Contrary to what was recorded from four different angles by the hospital's video cameras, the patient's medical records say that at 6 a.m., she got up and went to the bathroom, and at 6:20 a.m. she was 'sitting quietly in waiting room' -- more than 10 minutes since she last moved and 48 minutes after she fell to the floor."

Major Astronomical Events around June 19, 2008


June 17 5 UT Antares occultation in Polynesia, S S. America
June 20 Pluto at opposition
June 20 13 UT Jupiter 2 degrees N of Moon

Article Excerpt from CNN.com updated 11:08 a.m. EDT, Wed July 2, 2008

The One About The Fig And The Date

The early Muslim community while protecting itself from hostile 'enemies' (not Jews or Christians, but for the most part idol worshippers who resented them cutting into their business trade by doing away with idol worship) would often find themselves enjoying the spoils of war. While the spoils were gathered to and meted out by the Prophet, he (PBUH) rarely ever kept even enough to feed his own household and he would not ask for charity from others when his supplies ran low, but that didn't keep the needy from going to him to ask.

So sometimes charity was a simple smile, a kind word, or what amounted to dispensing or swapping local fruits.

Having given you the set up, here is the one about the Fig and the Date:

Mohammed (PBUH): Who gives a Fig? Who needs a Date?

See, it's only funny in English.

Table and Tablet, Fields and Grains, Atoms and Records and the Niggling Question of the Zero Point Field

A friend of mine was excited to share Lynne McTaggart’s book with me yesterday, The Field, The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, and since I started reading it I found it an absolutely provocative page-turner. In closing the chapter titled Resonating with the Field, McTaggart writes;

‘If living things boil down to charged particles interacting with a field and sending out and receiving quantum information, where did we end and the rest of the world begin? Where was consciousness—encased inside our bodies or out there in The Field? Indeed, there was no more ‘out there’ if we and the rest of the world were so intrinsically interconnected.

The implications of this were too huge to ignore. The idea of a system of exchanged and patterned energy and its memory and recall in the Zero Point Field hinted at all manner of possibility for human beings and their relationship to their world. Modern physicists had set mankind back for many decades. In ignoring the effect of the Zero Point Field, they’d eliminated the possibility of interconnectedness and obscured a scientific explanation for many kinds of miracles.’ (like why F=ma)…’ What they’d being doing, in renormalizing (emphasis mine) their equations, was a little like subtracting out God.’

(It is worthy of mention that McTaggart draws a similitude here between God and the Zero Point Field)

It would seem Lynne McTaggert, my friend, and I are on the same page when it comes to thinking normal overrated. This information jibes readily with the topics on apageinthelife and why the Maxie Time protagonist may not be so crazy after all. The not yet widely accepted effects of the Zero Point Field make the border between the physical and the metaphysical turn fuzzy. In a database records of data, comprised of fields, are stored in tables. In computer applications records are written to disk for permanent storage. In physics, the Zero Point Field serves as a permanent residence (database) for all the information of the world, continually encoded with every atom (minute measure of information or data) of the Universe—every sight, sound, and smell (McTaggert, The Field). And what have all the Great Books been telling us about this careful record keeping?
With the relationship between tables, records and fields in mind let's first look at the word table in these tomes.
Sometimes it appears as it is meant to be, simply table; often times it is disguised as: tablet, tablets, charitable, suitable, equitable, accountable, acceptable, inevitable, tractable, or table with the secondary meaning ‘repast.’ Jesus said he spoke to us in parables because in those days fields of grains, or seeds were more accessible to the listeners than say fields of atoms, or zero point fields; and to record something meant any method of recording including numbering, inscribing, books and even memorization. For the deligent student the picture should come into sharp focus.
With the cautionary caveat from Matthew; 18:18 Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (This of course not only applies to physical actions but intentions as well).
Tables are mentioned in several instances in both the Old and New Testament and the Quran, and I would be remiss not to remind the reader the topic under discussion has nothing to do with furniture.
The Old Testament (The New International Version) Genesis 43:33 The men had been seated before him in the order of their ages, from the firstborn to the youngest; and they looked at each other in astonishment.

43:34 When portions were served to them from Joseph's table, Benjamin's portion was five times as much as anyone else's. So they feasted and drank freely with him. (I doubt that these men were 'astonished' over a portion of 'food' from Joseph’s 'table').

Exodus 24:12 The Lord said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commands I have written for their instruction." The Table

25: 23 Make a table of acacia wood—two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high. 25:24 Overlay it with pure gold and make a gold molding around it.
25:25 Also make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and put a gold molding on the rim.
25:26 Make four gold rings for the table and fasten them to the four corners, where the four legs are.
25:27 The rings are to be close to the rim to hold the poles used in carrying the table.
25:28 Make the poles of acacia wood, overlay them with gold and carry the table with them.
25:29 And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings.
25:30 Put the bread of the Presence on this table to be before Me at all times.(On a superficial level this reads like a lesson from woodshop class, but God doesn't need to eat in order to thrive, so with all this instruction for making and setting up a tablescape one can’t help but seek a deeper meaning).
26: 34 Put the atonement cover on the ark of the Testimony in the Most Holy Place.
26:35 Place the table outside the curtain on the north side of the tabernacle and put the lamp stand opposite it on the south side. (The 'table' here is obscured from the other side by a curtain, and in counterpoint to the table a light source is placed).
31:18 When the Lord finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
40:22 Moses placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle outside the curtain . Hebrews A Visible Parable
9:1 That first plan contained directions for worship, and a specially designed place of worship.
9:2 A tabernacle was set up. In its first room were the lamp stand, the table, and the consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. 9:3 Then a curtain was stretched, and behind it a smaller, inside tent set up. This was called "the Holy of Holies."
9:4 In it were placed the gold incense altar and the gold-covered ark of the covenant containing the gold urn of manna, Aaron's rod that budded, the covenant tablets, and the angel-wing-shadowed mercy seat. 9:5 But we don't have time to comment on these now. (This Parable is meant to be obvious to the reader, so no one took the time to explain it, perhaps thinking future generations would be brighter than their forebears, and no further explanation was necessary). The New Testament
1 Corinthians 10:21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons.
Matthew 13:31 He presented another parable to them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field; (Here the word 'seed' would be analogous to 'atom', and the 'field' could be the actual field being planted or The Field that exists outside our conscious realm of perception, constantly recording everything).
Luke 17:6 And the Lord said, "If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea'; and it would obey you. (This is open to interpretation but in one way importunes that a common mustard seed is more aware than most of us). Quran

Al-Ma'idah (The Table)
5:112 Behold! the disciples, said: "O Jesus the son of Mary! can thy Lord send down to us a table from heaven?"
Said Jesus: "Fear Allah, if ye have faith." إِذْ قَالَ الْحَوَارِيُّونَ يَا عِيسَى ابْنَ مَرْيَمَ هَلْ يَسْتَطِيعُ رَبُّكَ أَن يُنَزِّلَ عَلَيْنَا مَآئِدَةً مِّنَ السَّمَاء قَالَ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ <5:113 br="br"> They said: "We only wish to partake thereof and satisfy our hearts, and to know that thou hast indeed told us the truth; and that we ourselves may be witnesses to the miracle." – قَالُواْ نُرِيدُ أَن نَّأْكُلَ مِنْهَا وَتَطْمَئِنَّ قُلُوبُنَا وَنَعْلَمَ أَن قَدْ صَدَقْتَنَا وَنَكُونَ عَلَيْهَا مِنَ الشَّاهِدِينَ 5:114
Said Jesus the son of Mary: "O Allah our Lord! Send us from heaven a table from heaven, that there may be for us - for the first and the last of us - a celebration and a sign from thee; and provide for our sustenance, for thou art the best Sustainer.” قَالَ عِيسَى ابْنُ مَرْيَمَ اللَّهُمَّ رَبَّنَا أَنزِلْ عَلَيْنَا مَآئِدَةً مِّنَ السَّمَاء تَكُونُ لَنَا عِيداً لِّأَوَّلِنَا وَآخِرِنَا وَآيَةً مِّنكَ وَارْزُقْنَا وَأَنتَ خَيْرُ الرَّازِقِينَ (I somehow sincerely doubt the disciples were asking for a dinner from heaven that would serve as a sign for the first and last of us.
The table the disciples requested also prompted Jesus to castigate them for their lack of faith so the question remains: What exactly did Jesus call for when he asked God for a 'table from heaven'?).
Al-An'am (The Cattle)
6:59 For with Him are the keys to the things that are beyond the reach of a created being's perception: none knows them but He. And He knows all that is on land and in the sea; and not a leaf falls but He knows it; and neither is there a grain in the earth's deep darkness, nor anything: living or dead, but is recorded in a clear decree (open record). وَعِندَهُ مَفَاتِحُ الْغَيْبِ لاَ يَعْلَمُهَا إِلاَّ هُوَ وَيَعْلَمُ مَا فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ وَمَا تَسْقُطُ مِن وَرَقَةٍ إِلاَّ يَعْلَمُهَا وَلاَ حَبَّةٍ فِي ظُلُمَاتِ الأَرْضِ وَلاَ رَطْبٍ وَلاَ يَابِسٍ إِلاَّ فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ

Yunus (Jonah)

10:21 And whenever We let people taste grace after hardship has visited them-lo! they forthwith turn to devising against Our messages. Say: "God is swifter in His subtle plan!" Behold, Our messengers are recording all that you may devise! وَإِذَا أَذَقْنَا النَّاسَ رَحْمَةً مِّن بَعْدِ ضَرَّاء مَسَّتْهُمْ إِذَا لَهُم مَّكْرٌ فِي آيَاتِنَا قُلِ اللّهُ أَسْرَعُ مَكْرًا إِنَّ رُسُلَنَا يَكْتُبُونَ مَا تَمْكُرُونَ
10:61 AND IN whatever condition thou may find yourself, and whatever discourse of this you may be reciting, and whatever work you may do --We are your witness when you enter upon it: for, not even an atom's weight on earth or in heaven escapes your Sustainer's knowledge; and neither is there anything smaller than that, or larger, but is recorded in a clear decree (open record).
وَمَا تَكُونُ فِي شَأْنٍ وَمَا تَتْلُو مِنْهُ مِن قُرْآنٍ وَلاَ تَعْمَلُونَ مِنْ عَمَلٍ إِلاَّ كُنَّا عَلَيْكُمْ شُهُودًا إِذْ تُفِيضُونَ فِيهِ وَمَا يَعْزُبُ عَن رَّبِّكَ مِن مِّثْقَالِ ذَرَّةٍ فِي الأَرْضِ وَلاَ فِي السَّمَاء وَلاَ أَصْغَرَ مِن ذَلِكَ وَلا أَكْبَرَ إِلاَّ فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ

Al-Isra (The Journey by Night)
17:13 And every human being's time (destiny) have We tied (fastened or hastened) to his neck; and on the Day of Resurrection We shall bring forth for him a record (book) which he will find wide open (published);
وَكُلَّ إِنسَانٍ أَلْزَمْنَاهُ طَآئِرَهُ فِي عُنُقِهِ وَنُخْرِجُ لَهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ كِتَابًا يَلْقَاهُ مَنشُورًا 17:14 [and will be told:]
"Read your record (book) Sufficient is your own self today to hold you accountable!" (
اقْرَأْ كَتَابَكَ كَفَى بِنَفْسِكَ الْيَوْمَ عَلَيْكَ حَسِيبًا (17:14
Al-Kahf (The Cave)
18:49 And the record will be laid open; and you will see the guilty filled with dread at what [they see] therein; and they will exclaim: "Oh, woe unto us! What a record is this! It leaves out nothing, be it small or great, but takes everything into account!"
For they will find all that they ever wrought facing them, and your Sustainer does not wrong anyone.
وَوُضِعَ الْكِتَابُ فَتَرَى الْمُجْرِمِينَ مُشْفِقِينَ مِمَّا فِيهِ وَيَقُولُونَ يَا وَيْلَتَنَا مَالِ هَذَا الْكِتَابِ لَا يُغَادِرُ صَغِيرَةً وَلَا كَبِيرَةً إِلَّا أَحْصَاهَا وَوَجَدُوا مَا عَمِلُوا حَاضِرًا وَلَا يَظْلِمُ رَبُّكَ أَحَدًا
Al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage)
22:70 Are you aware that God knows all that is in heaven and earth? All this is in a record: verily, all this is easy for God. أَلَمْ تَعْلَمْ أَنَّ اللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا فِي السَّمَاء وَالْأَرْضِ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ فِي كِتَابٍ إِنَّ ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ
Al-Mu'minun (The Believers)
23:62 And We do not burden any soul beyond its scope: and with Us is a record that speaks the truth; and none shall be wronged. وَلَا نُكَلِّفُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا وَلَدَيْنَا كِتَابٌ يَنطِقُ بِالْحَقِّ وَهُمْ لَا يُظْلَمُونَ
An-Naml (The Ants, or the Naml Tribe)
27:75 And there is nothing hidden in the heaven or the earth but it is in a clear record (open book).
وَمَا مِنْ غَائِبَةٍ فِي السَّمَاء وَالْأَرْضِ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ Ya-Siin يس
36:12 Verily We give life to the dead, and We record what they send ahead and the traces they leave behind, and everything do We take account of in a clear record.
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْيِي الْمَوْتَى وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوا وَآثَارَهُمْ وَكُلَّ شَيْءٍ أحْصَيْنَاهُ فِي إِمَامٍ مُبِينٍ Az-Zumar (The Groups) 39:35
And to this end, God will efface from their record the worst that they ever did, and give them their reward in accordance with the best that they were doing.
لِيُكَفِّرَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمْ أَسْوَأَ الَّذِي عَمِلُوا وَيَجْزِيَهُمْ أَجْرَهُم بِأَحْسَنِ الَّذِي كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Az-Zukhruf (The Gold Adornments)
43:80 Or do they, perchance, think that We do not hear their hidden thoughts and their secret confabulations? Indeed We do, and Our messengers are with them, recording.
أَمْ يَحْسَبُونَ أَنَّا لَا نَسْمَعُ سِرَّهُمْ وَنَجْوَاهُم بَلَى وَرُسُلُنَا لَدَيْهِمْ يَكْتُبُونَ

Al-Jathiya (The Kneeling)
45:29 This, Our record speaks of you in all truth: for, verily, We have caused to be recorded all that you ever did!”
هَذَا كِتَابُنَا يَنطِقُ عَلَيْكُم بِالْحَقِّ إِنَّا كُنَّا نَسْتَنسِخُ مَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
Qaf 50:4
Well do We know how the earth consumes their bodies, for with Us is a record unfailing (secure).
قَدْ عَلِمْنَا مَا تَنقُصُ الْأَرْضُ مِنْهُمْ وَعِندَنَا كِتَابٌ حَفِيظٌ
Al-Qamar (The Moon)
54:53 and everything, small or great, is recorded.
وَكُلُّ صَغِيرٍ وَكَبِيرٍ مُسْتَطَرٌ
Al-Mutaffifin (Those Who Deal in Fraud)
83:7 NAY, VERILY, the record of the wicked is indeed inescapable!
كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الفُجَّارِ لَفِي سِجِّينٍ 83:8
And what could make you conceive what is inescapable?
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا سِجِّينٌ
83:9 A record inscribed (enumerated)!
كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ 83:18
NAY, VERILY - the record of the truly virtuous is most lofty!
كَلَّا إِنَّ كِتَابَ الْأَبْرَارِ لَفِي عِلِّيِّينَ 83:19
And what could make you conceive what is most lofty?
وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا عِلِّيُّونَ 83:20
A record inscribed (enumerated),
كِتَابٌ مَّرْقُومٌ Az-Zalzalah (The Earthquake)
99:7 And so, whosoever shall have done an atom's weight of good, shall see it;

فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ 99:8
and, whosoever shall have done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it.
وَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ شَرًّا يَرَهُ

Baked State Allergy

I want to give a shout out to my secret admirer who seems to think I can bake. I am reminded daily that my family can barely tolerate my cooking so I couldn’t possibly do THAT to them. And if you find that you have drifted into the realm of communicating your personal thoughts to soul-less electronic equipment, let me welcome you to the club. Why bother typing in Google when you can just as easily leave your comments on this blog for all to see? You may find others of a like mind—you may make some friends.


Perhaps I misunderstood your comment and you were searching for a new recipe, ‘Baked California,’—mine calls for Cats and Branes. But on the surface it would seem that you still think there is anything left to gain or lose, deny or prove. Let me give you the news from the birds’ eyes’ views. (Rhyming scheme is a nod to one of my favorite people, Muhammed Ali).

Ya-Sin


36:29 It was only one cry (shout, blast) sent against them and they became extinct.

إِن كَانَتْ إِلاَّ صَيْحَةً وَاحِدَةً فَإِذَا هُمْ خَامِدُونَ

A careful reading of Maxie Time might disclose the dates and times. And I know there are those who may feel they are the only witness to a crime, and when they try to come forward they suffer a dire injustice. The following is meant to serve as a reminder that there is a Final Justice--nobody can get away with anything because ultimately there is the One True Witness--the One outside observer (for more on this check out Schroedinger’s Cat).

Al-Ma'arig (The Ways of Ascent)

70:41 We replace them by (others) better than them. And We are not to be outrun.

عَلَى أَن نُّبَدِّلَ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَسْبُوقِينَ

Al-Insan (The Human)

76:28 We created them, and strengthened their frame. And when We will, We supplant them (swap them out; alter them; transform them).

نَحْنُ خَلَقْنَاهُمْ وَشَدَدْنَا أَسْرَهُمْ وَإِذَا شِئْنَا بَدَّلْنَا أَمْثَالَهُمْ تَبْدِيلًا

And don’t think this is a new-fangled approach to doing business. You should know as surely as life in the room mimics life in the womb, this has been going on since Time itself was created (you need only half a 'brane' for this).

Az-Zumar (The Groups)

39:6 He created you from one being, then from that (being) He made its mate… He created you in the wombs of your mothers; creation after creation; in a threefold (profound) darkness (obscurity, anonymity). Such is Allah, your Lord. He holds the Sovereignty. There is no God save Him. How then have you lost sight of the truth?

خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفْسٍ وَاحِدَةٍ ثُمَّ جَعَلَ مِنْهَا زَوْجَهَا وَأَنزَلَ لَكُم مِّنْ الْأَنْعَامِ ثَمَانِيَةَ أَزْوَاجٍ يَخْلُقُكُمْ فِي بُطُونِ أُمَّهَاتِكُمْ خَلْقًا مِن بَعْدِ خَلْقٍ فِي ظُلُمَاتٍ ثَلَاثٍ ذَلِكُمُ اللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ الْمُلْكُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ فَأَنَّى تُصْرَفُونَ

The Matter of A MultiVerse

GloBall Literature Review

A recent CNN article related that even monkeys perform better on memory tests than humans. For readers that benefit from this Blog, Phunny Physics and Mystical Math are now joined by GloBall Literature Reveiw. I would like to share a joke and we all know a joke is only funny when it’s shared.

Clearly, the media has had people so enrapt of typical media ‘fodder’ faire (oh, yeah, I wanna know more about Paris and Brittany, and the ‘Great Satan’ overseas) that they don’t know what’s been in the Books for centuries, (doesn’t anybody read any more?)

The concept of the multiverse is spoken of in no uncertain terms and never more clearly than the following passage:

Quran

Talaaq (Divorce)

65:12 God who created seven (multiple) heavens and the like from the Earth, His Decree flows from on High through all of them (no exact match for the Ar. word
(َ يَتَنَزَّلُ but perhaps, propagates/permeates throughout His domains), so that you come to know that God has Power over Everything and that God can Encompass Everything within His Knowledge

اللَّهُ الَّذِي خَلَقَ سَبْعَ سَمَاوَاتٍ وَمِنَ الْأَرْضِ مِثْلَهُنَّ يَتَنَزَّلُ الْأَمْرُ بَيْنَهُنَّ لِتَعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ قَدْ أَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عِلْمًا


And the ability to traverse these has been rendered in such ridiculous, depressing and far-fetched translations as to make even me, someone with ‘mon key brains’, wax philosophical. (The following interpretations are based on close literal translations (as close as you can get with Google language tools and working with an elliptical language such as Arabic)


Ra'd (Thunder)

13:41 Or don’t they see how we come to (visit) the Earth, reducing it from its edges (shortening, bridging its edges), and God governs and there is no postponing His accounting (decree) and He is swift at calculating (being accounted to)

يرواانا ناتي الارض ننقصها من اطرافها والله يحكم لامعقب لحكمه وهو سريع الحساب

Anbiya (The Prophets)

21:44 But we allowed these groups and their parents/forefathers so their age was lengthened--do they not see how we come to (visit) the Earth, reducing it from its edges (shortening, bridging its edges)? Are they the Conquerors/Victors?

بل متعنا هؤلاء واباءهم حتى طال عليهم العمر افلا يرون انا ناتي الارض ننقصها من اطرافها افهم الغالبون


If you would like to read more about the body of literature on the concept of ‘Tay-Al-Ard’, or the ‘folding of the earth’, here is a good place to start.

On a personal note, I think this would be a good place to remind our children that there is more to them and their lives than what they can buy, wear, drive or consume--and just what it means to be a human.