pot is not

[jimboloco]

Buddhism had no save haven in the Indus River Valley, however, as there was much noise and spiritual contentiousness. So Bodhidharma crossed the Yellow River alone on a reed boat and slipped away into China, where he was welcomed after awhile by the Chinese Taoists and Confiscionists and became the third major religion in China, then merged into Chan and Zen and you know where that has gone, without any armies or upraised swords, but with the martial arts for defense without killing weapons and not conquest, like a serpentine teacher who brings forth Good, right conduct, and the Unifying Principle of Being Awake in the flow of Life.

Meanwhile, monotheism was surviving by the aword, as had been done by the ancestors of Buddha, and by faith in that One Unifying Principle ,God.

[jimboloco]

This faith in God was also inherently flawed. The Pathos of Man is that he is special, first to God and then to other men. After the initial realization of the power of God's Love for Man in full force, God himself tempted Man, because He wanted Man to survive in monotheism first, and then to develop Grace along the Way. The inherent pathos of jealousy, contentiousness, and the will to survive which came from the really first humans, Darwin goes fishing, is now used by God working through monotheism to cultivate a world beyond petty contentiousness and into a more harmonious humanity, amern. He tells Abram that he wants him to fight and God empowers him, oh yes he does.

But more of God's serpintine plan unfolds, yes, serpentine and sneaky, amen.

[jimboloco]

The Bible tells us all of this and is accurate in all things. We have our minds clouded by jealosy and seperation and by contention.
Abram became Abraham, fathered two sons by two women, Sarah and who? Sarah was unable to conceive, so she unselfishly offerred her maidservent, humble Hagar, to Abraham so that he might have a child. Hagar becomes pregnant. Sarah then becomes jealous and mistreats Hagar. Hagar flees, and on the road she stops by a spring, where she is visited by an Angel of the Lord, who tells her to return to Abraham, and she will birth the child and call him Ishmael, and he will father many descendents. She does so.
Then jealous Sarah is also lessed by a visitation from an Angel, and she goes to Abraham and she conceives another son, Isaac.

Isaac and his older brother Isaac become friends and Sarah becomes jealous, because Abraham loves Ishmael so well, and she sends Hagar and Ishmael away. And Abraham lives a long time and dies. Nothing more is said of this, except in submerged messages and clues, unknown to me, but I have faith in the unknown, as well as faith in the Unknown.

[jimboloco]

At this fork in the road, Isaac stays in the land of Canaan, fathers Jacob, and the sons of Jacob begin the twelve tribes of Israel. This begins the story of the House of David and the great Jewish Prophets and the epic unfolding of the Torah and the Old Testiment.

Meanwhile, untold in the Bible, Abraham sneaks away and goes with Ishmael and Hagar south into Arabia. Here they build a monument to monotheism and also maintain their faith, becoming settled along with their families into Mecca. This is away from the crossroads of civilizations that the Middle east is, and it is quiet and safe there from invaders. they become established as an Arabic tribe (Al Quaryish). They build and maintain the monument to the God of Adam before Abraham to remember Him and not to forget. It is a simple modest structure, a plain cube covered with a black cloth covering. It is big, but not too big, without ornamentation, centered on a large open plaza inside a house of God, a circle around a cube.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_view_of_Ishmael

[jimboloco]

What is not told is that during the busy epic of the House of David, and afterward, when the Romans came and the last Great Jewish prophet, Jesus, made his Gospel and also revisited everything that had come down before, during all of this, God was waiting for the faithful to plain unadorned monotheism, down in Mecca as well. Yes God had a second track here.

The first track was with the magnificent warriors of Israel as they waged a Holy War of survival with God on their side. Then they were conquered by a mature Roman polytheist empire and the sword for God was done for awhile. Jesus came with a sword too, the sword of cutting through the illusion of Mammon which the Temple of Jerusalem had fallen into.
Now polytheism and Mammon were together, but Mammon ruled the temple. The Romans did not, however, rule the Jewish people of Israel, which kept it's Kingdom and official religion intact. It was easier for Rome than to try and convert the Israelites to the Roman Gods, tho they did so elsewhere. Note, Rome never got down into Arabia. Mecca was asleep in the sands of timeless trading caravans, coming up from Yemen with a lot of incense, frankensense and myrrh, used in huge quantities by the priests in the high temple in Jerusalem, and also in Rome.

[jimboloco]

Yes, the Romans did what colonizing empires have done ever since. They left the origional royal heirarchy and its minions intact. This saved the army from fighting, and Rome had a ready supply of taxes and food for their army. The Kings of Judeah said, hey maybe this is not such a bad deal, they are offering us protection. YES!

So the kings and queens and priests of Jerusalem got lazy and self assured and satisfied and isloated from commoners, and the worship of Mammon began again, while the Jewish people in Israel were not being helped or ministered to by Jerusalem. The House of Davis was dead and the love and knowledge of the God of their fathers was lost. So comes along Jesus. Happy Birthday, Father in Heaven of His Christ Church on earth, glory to God alone belongs. Even Jesus knew this yes yes yes.

I ventured to tell a lady at work that Jesus is not God and she said that I cannot be a Christian unless I believe that Jesus I asdked her to remember Jesus last words after he utterred his last despair. "My God why hast thou forsaken me?" "Unto you I release my spirit."

[jimboloco]

And then the heavens opened and there was a terrible storm and the earth shook, which it did. And as they took Jesus down off the cross, his disciples were yelling, "Surely this is the son of God!"

Jesus knew this would happen, out of the contentiousness of his disciples from on the road and at the Last Supper, after Communion. He told them "now someone with hands on the table will betray me." He did this on purpose, because he new what would happen. Yes Judas left, but not without Jesus' help, because Judas was sneaky and Jesus was low and mysterious. The disciples began immediately to worry who could this be, it can't be true, and then they fell into a distraction about who was the greastes disciple among them. That's when Judas left, the snake had him, for better or worse.

[jimboloco]

Jesus NEVER said he was the son of God. He said he was the son of Man and that he prayed to his father in heaven.

He asked the Pharisees a question in the Temple, at the Wailing Wall where Judih left the prayer for me (pray for peace and for Jimboloco) last summer. Matthew 22:41-45 "While the Pharisees were gathered together Jesus asked them, what do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he"
"The Son of David, " they replied.
He said to them, "How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him 'Lord'? For he says,

The Lord said to my Lord:
"Sit at my right hand
until I put your enemies
under your feet."

If then David calls him 'Lord,'
how can he be his son?"
No one could say a word in reply and from that day forward on no one dared to ask him any more questions."[/list]

[jimboloco]

While Jesus confronted the Pharisees with his contentious nature, and had ministered to the Jewish people of Judeah and also to the Romans sometimes and to the Gentiles as well, he went forward courageously and accepted his fate straightforward.

However, he sneaked out of the tomb.

When he reappeared to his disciples, they were filled with rapture and they remembered everything and indeed started proslytizing again with a ferver, the Christian Church. Unfortunately they either forgot or did not understand who the father od Jesus Christ's Church was to be. All along, Jesus has been the father of his church in heaven, love God and honor your neighbor. Nothing braggard about this, right nice.

Bur God worked through Jesus and through the imperfection of Man.

[jimboloco]

Jesus never intended for the Holy Roman Empire. God works in the sweep of time and history. Now we have the Holy Christian Empire.
All this time, Christianity has insisted that Jesus is God, the son of God, Mary the Mother of God, and this is a falling from grace and original sin, just as bad as falling from mono-theism into polytheism and just as bad as serving Caesar and wanting to serve God which is not possible. Just as bad as serving Mammon. We become distracted and lose the memory of the Divine Grace from one unifying source.

That's why Jews don't accept Jesus as the Messiah. He can't be the only way to God, the son of God, salvation only through him.
What's funnier that a Jew for Jesus?

How about a Christian for Muhammed.

[jimboloco]

So Judiasm has the Star of David because these were favored peoples of God. Their cup runneth over, indeed, and they have become brilliant, but still warriors and they came back into the Holy Lands with a wave of Zion that flowed over Palestine with a wrathfulness and also a stealth, both, and swept up Jerulalem and returned to the temple of their origen at the Holy Mountain, there at the wailing wall, where the modest and humble and earthy Wailing Wall is all that remains of their former glory.

Christianity has the Cross of Christ, and we have nailed him up again and fastened him onto a golden throne and placed God there also with him and in the minds of major Christianity God and Jesus are stuck there, blessing all Christianity as the Chosen People of God waiting for the Apocalypse when the Chosen are taken into heaven and the rest of humankind will be left behind.

The first shall be last and the last shall be first.

[jimboloco]

Yes Israel is mighty and Christianity is mightier still, in the minds of Man. And our Book has been written, because we are small.

[jimboloco]

In Mecca, the monotheism of Abraham and Ishmael was established into an Arabian tribe and they built their monument to the memory of the God of Abraham's fathers, one God only without ornamentation, for who can place an ornament upon God?

We can not dress God up. We can only uncover our eyes, minds, and hearts to see, know, and feel Him.

This was the intent of Ishmael and Abraham. Indeed, overcome by the polytheism of Arabia, the Ka'ba remained after the monotheism of Adam was forgotten. The polytheist Arabian tribe of Ishmael, the Al Quarysh, maintained that simple structure even as it was used by the polytheists for thousands of years kept there. And kept well, tho the one source was again forgotten.

[jimboloco]

Muhammed was born about 570 CE, Anno Domini, after Jesus.
Mecca was still a stopover place for the camel caravans going up and down the west coast of Arabia. It was also a spiritual center and the polytheism of the day. The Ka'ba was in need of repair and the Al Quraish tribe helped in rebuilding it. Muhammed had seen statuettes of the Virgin mary and Jesus there. Islam contends that Muhammed had all his revelations from God before he knew about te Gospel and the Torah, but this is more contentiousness.

The Arabics had by this time evolved their oral lagnuage to a high level of exquisite poetics. they were able to recite poetry and other things at length. This also included oral discussions of the Torah and the Gosel. Right away, the Koran begins by asserting that there can be only one God, a universal god to all"who believe in the Unknown and want to take the straight path."

[jimboloco]

The Koran is exquisite poetry, not a geneology or an historical account, altho the history of Abraham is woven into the Book as well as the ture and clear teachings of Moses and Jesus, who Muhammed stands by clearly and assertively. He reinforces these teachings as the Jewish Prophets remind their peoples to remember God and return to Him. This is maintained completely.

While the Bible is a Mystery with a heart of clarity, the Koran is Clarity with a heart of Mystery.

they are waiting for us to wake up from our self centered contentioness.