- The Legend of the Keys.
Lyon Feichtwanger, a prominent Jewish- German writer tells us a powerful legend in his book ‘The Judean War’ According to the legend when Jews were besieged in Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus Flavius the Romans deliberately set fire to the Great Temple. When the building was engulfed in flames the High Priest went up on the roof , took out the keys to the primary gate and addressed the God, ’Take the keys to the Temple!’. And a hand appeared in the sky, took the keys and vanished right before the roof collapsed.
4. The Moslem Story: Moses Gives Advise to Mohammed.
According to this story I heard from the Turks Mohammed went to visit Allah for the guidance on the everyday life of his people. Apparently Allah said that every day they had to prey to him 50 times. That made Mohammed very sad because he was a practical man and understood that such excessive demand would not leave people any time to work for living. On his way back from the Seventh Heaven he met Moses on the Third one and complained to him. Moses was very sympathetic. He said, ’Oh, my friend. Go back to Allah and ask for a smaller number of the daily prayers. He will eventually grant your wishes. My God is a very different story; He never reconsiders. See, when I told the Jews that He sent me and took them out of Egypt He let it slide. I devised the Commandments and told the Jews that He did it. He let it go once again. But when we reached the Holy Land and I was ready to step on it He thundered, ’Moses, it is your time to leave the Earth and let Another one to lead your people.’ No excuses. So, go, my brother and come back happy.’ Grateful Mohammed called Moses ‘The lamp from which the light ignites all the other lamps’ and boldly went back. After a lot of pleading Allah said, ’Oh, my Prophet, stop nagging, Five prayers and let it be final.’ And that is how Moslems got their five daily prayers,
- The First Truly American Spirit.
In 1692 during the Salem Witches Trials Martha Corey, an elderly pious woman when questioned first in private by t two representatives of the magistrate simply said that ‘ ..she did not think there were any witches.’ [ Charles P. Upham. Salem Witchcraft, Volume 2, 1867]. She then stood firm in front of the accusers at the open interrogations and even accused them back of being deliberately malicious towards her because she was a woman and a person of conviction and clear mind. Feminists, I don’t hear you! I posted a diary question on whom was the God with at that moment and whoever is interested can go to the link below. I was extremely disappointed by the comments; not even one of those praised Martha Corey for her feat and some even bragged about me being engaged in logical circularity. I also put my own comment there. To me Martha Corey was and is the first free American, not an English colonist but a real person of new America- free- spirited, self- reliant and absolutely unequivocally honest in her convictions. Hey, I would trade 20 Hillary Clintons +Condi Rice multiplied by Madeleine Allbright for one Martha Corey in a blink of an eye.
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=3298
- The Humanity of the Revolution.
In 1921 during the Civil War in Russia the garrison and sailors of the Russian Navy base in Kronshtadt near St. Petersburg rebelled against the Communist government. The rebellion was doomed to failure, the government controlled the country already and designated an overwhelming force to crush the rebels. Still, they wanted to engage the the support of the crews of the two heavy cruisers who were under repair in the St. Petersburg’s marine repair docks. In the midst of the horrible skirmishes and high level of tension on both ships Michael Kruchinski, the 23-years’ old commander of the Communist regiments of the St. Petersburg Navy base alone and unarmed came on board of one of the ships and talked there to both of the crews, Whatever he said to them, nobody can now tell but after that both crews decided to disarm and leave the ships. None of them were arrested or anything. And none of them died on that fateful night soon after when in an unprecedented infantry offensive the Red Army took back the fortress with tens of thousands of casualties on both sides. Michael Kuraev, the Russian author states, ’A lot of people most likely mentioned Kruchinski in their prayers regularly because he went unharmed through two wars, joined the Communist Party in 1943 and died of natural causes in a very old age.’
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