ilya_shambat2004@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Repost from January 2004
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>
> I was walking on the side of the road, fire inside my head. I was
> saying I am going to go to Florida and, if she does not want me back,
> then look for a job in Russia. I was saying I do not like how
> Americans think. I was saying, I will work to make Russia the
greatest
> country in the world and make its values - refinement of the soul,
> education, intelligence - count in the world. People were attacking
> me, some saying they put in so much resources in me and then I come
> back with this, others saying that I'd be leaving them stranded,
> others saying you damn commie go back to Russia.
>
> I was on fire. Then Jesus appeared and calmed me. He said, stay in
> place and learn about God. I have been attending McLean Bible Church,
> a non-denominational megachurch run by Lon Solomon, a converted
Jewish
> priest. The priest whose 7:30 PM services I've been attending, Ken
> Bau, has been running a 6-week series about the book DaVinci Code,
> defending the historicity of the Bible and life of Jesus with
> archeology. The book asserts that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene
> and that she was the Holy Grail, the person instructed by Jesus with
> carrying on the church, an information gotten from an interpretation
> of DaVinci's painting The Last Supper and Gnostic texts. He says that
> it doesn't matter if Jesus was married for Jesus' divinity (my
> thoughts while I was listening to the sermon: I would respect Jesus
> more if he was because then he would know what it means to share
one's
> life with another person), and in response to the question "Was Jesus
> the first feminist?" he says that Bible asserts that men and women
are
> equal in worth but different in roles. He says that according to the
> Bible one can be man of God while being married or one can be man of
> God while being celibate, and neither role is superior to the other.
> But I digress.
>
> Jesus said that I should learn about God at this church and then
> spread God's word. When I was 10 years old, I experienced a presence
> about me saying that it was God and telling me that it was going to
> give me a lot of power to make the world a better place. I began
> writing political poetry and within a year was reciting bombastic
> political-philosophical poetry before large audiences in the Soviet
> Union and vowing everyone with my insight. Then my parents immigrated
> to the United States. In Italy, while staying with the expatriot
> Jewish community, I wrote a play in poetry about the Passover and it
> was performed at the synagogue. Then I came to America and within a
> year performed bombastic recitations of political poetry, now in
> English, before 1500 people to a standing ovation. I finished college
> at age 18. I have had incredible luck in many things and I've had
many
> supernatural things happen in my life.
>
The Christian Church need not worry.
Not only is there no existence of a holy grail, in the form a relic
that Jesus drank from, but the facts behind the fiction book 'The Da
Vinci Code' are misinterpretations of lies. The idea of a dish, plate
or cup that Jesus drank from came to existence through Gothic romance
and literature in the 12th and 13th century. For the most part it was
idle speculation by French writers. The idea of royal blood was caused
by a mistranslation and false etymology. Only after the Grail fiction
books were established, there was a confusion of san grial (meaning
'Holy Grail') and sang rial (meaning 'Royal Blood'). This connection
(however false) was investigated by modern day conspiracy writers such
as Dan Brown. The Priory of Sion is a sophisticated hoax. It was
formed by a French surrealist known as Pierre Plantard. All the
alleged grand masters (Da Vinci himself, Debussy(??)) were found to
have been concocted by Plantard, and Cherisey (a friend) The claims to
the throne that Plantard had arranged were also false. It was even
named after the nearby mountain where Plantard grew up. A French court
ordered a search of home, and found some interesting finds that French
researchers had been trying to prove for the last decade or so. Under
oath, Plantard admitted to he had fabricated everything to do with the
Priory.
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