Quadrant Model of Reality Book 8 Religion

Religion chapter

In their shamanic ceremonies, Manchus worshipped a number of gods, including non-Tungusic deities. Guandi and the bodhisattva (Buddhist "enlightened being") Guanyin were two of a "handful of Chinese gods" who were integrated into the rituals of the state tangse and Kunning Palace.[64] One of the four ritual sites in the tangse was a large hall where the Buddha, Guanyin, and Guandi received offerings several times a year, including at the New Year.[65] Ordinary Manchu households rarely sacrificed to Buddhist deities, but almost all of them worshipped Guandi because of his association with war.[66]

QMRAnthony F.C. Wallace proposes four categories of religion, each subsequent category subsuming the previous. These are, however, synthetic categories and do not necessarily encompass all religions.[19] Individualistic: most basic; simplest. Example: vision quest. Shamanistic: part-time religious practitioner, uses religion to heal, to divine, usually on the behalf of a client. The Tillamook have four categories of shaman. Examples of shamans: spiritualists, faith healers, palm readers. Religious authority acquired through one's own means. Communal: elaborate set of beliefs and practices; group of people arranged in clans by lineage, age group, or some religious societies; people take on roles based on knowledge, and ancestral worship. Ecclesiastical: dominant in agricultural societies and states; are centrally organized and hierarchical in structure, paralleling the organization of states. Typically deprecates competing individualistic and shamanistic cults.

Buddhism Chapter

O Gotama, there are Samanas (wandering monks) and Brahmanas (religious leaders) who are leaders of their sects, who are well-esteemed by many people, such as Purana Kassapa, Makkhali Gosala, Ajita Kesakambala, Pakudha Kaccayana, Sancaya Belatthaputta and Nigantha Nataputta. Do all of them have knowledge and understanding as they themselves have declared? Or do all of them have no knowledge and understanding?" The reply by Buddha was: "Subhadda, in whatever teaching is not found the Noble Eightfold Path, neither in it is there found a Samana of the first stage, nor a Samana of the second stage, nor a Samana of the third stage, nor a Samana of the fourth stage."

Christianity chapter

The number of metrical feet in a line are described using Greek terminology: tetrameter for four feet and hexameter for six feet, for example.[45] Thus, "iambic pentameter" is a meter comprising five feet per line, in which the predominant kind of foot is the "iamb". This metric system originated in ancient Greek poetry, and was used by poets such as Pindar and Sappho, and by the great tragedians of Athens. Similarly, "dactylic hexameter", comprises six feet per line, of which the dominant kind of foot is the "dactyl". Dactylic hexameter was the traditional meter of Greek epic poetry, the earliest extant examples of which are the works of Homer and Hesiod.[46] Iambic pentameter and dactylic hexameter were later used by a number of poets, including William Shakespeare and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, respectively.[47] The most common metrical feet in English are:[48]

Lamentations consists of five distinct poems, corresponding to its five chapters. The first four are written as acrostics – chapters 1, 2, and 4 each have 22 verses, corresponding to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, the first lines beginning with the first letter of the alphabet, the second with the second letter, and so on. Chapter 3 has 66 verses, so that each letter begins three lines, and the fifth poem is not acrostic but still has 22 lines. The fifth is always ultra transcendent

Another book, the 13th-century Kabbalistic text Sefer HaTemunah, holds that a single letter of unknown pronunciation, held by some to be the four-pronged shin on one side of the teffilin box, is missing from the current alphabet. The world's flaws, the book teaches, are related to the absence of this letter, the eventual revelation of which will repair the universe.[19] Another example of messianic significance attached to the letters is the teaching of Rabbi Eliezer that the five letters of the alphabet with final forms hold the "secret of redemption". The reason the four pronged shin is so important is because it is the quadrant four. Most shins have three prongs but the box that Jews put on their forehead in the morning to pray with has four. The fourth is different. That is because it is reflecting the quadrant four.

Four thieves vinegar was a secret herb mix believed to be consumed by thieves during the plague in France. These herbs were said to be the reason thieves could rob the sick and dead without getting sick themselves. The four herbs were thyme, lavender, sage and rosemary.

The bible mentions the four chariots of Zechariah. (Zc 6,1)

Several prominent facts come to associate the number four to the cross of the Christ: the four segments of the cross; the four kinds of wood which were used for the construction of the cross of Christ, and also for Noah's Ark: the palm tree, the olive-tree, the cedar and the cypress, according to visions of Ann-Catherine Emmerick; the four Roman executioners who crucified Jesus on the Calvary, according to visions of Maria Valtorta; the four letters I.N.R.I. engraved on the cross. Concerning this last inscription, the Christians interpreted it as "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum", Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews. The esoterists attribute another sense to it: "Igne Natura Renovatur Integra", The Nature will be Renovated by the Fire.

Augustine said that there were four stages of salvation history. His famous four stage scheme of the human condition was Square 1: ante legum Square 2: sub lege Square 3: sub gratia Square 4: pace

The four-fold way, with its peaceful intentions, had strong supporters. Beda (672 – 735) – as ‘the first English historian and most learned man of his time’ (LEFF, 1958) – reworked the contribution of Augustine on this subject (‘De gratia et libero arbitrio’ and ‘De praedestinatione sanctorum’) into a more palatable tetradic form. He softened, just like Eriugena did more than a century later, the extreme positions of Augustine, who thought of an unrelenting predestination and full dependency on the mercy of God. Communication consisted, according to Beda (De Praed., 2,2), of four phases, which are directly related to a tetradic frame of mind: —————————– 1. esse – the essence, the Source —————————– 2. sapare – the knowledge or insight —————————– 3. scire – the investigation —————————– 4. destinare – the positioning

Bede was the first to refer to Jerome, Augustine, Pope Gregory and Ambrose as the four Latin Fathers of the Church.

Beda defined the ‘sacred’ tetradic way of thinking, which leads up to the ‘ratiocinationes quadrivium‘ as an established method of communication. The ‘quadriformis ratio‘ is the name, which was (later) given to the cognitive mechanism, which ruled the interaction between people (and God). The mind is divided in four quadrants, with their own specific type of visibility. This was not explicitly described, but felt in the four senses (or interpretations), which were ways of seeing. More than a century later Eriugena’s ‘De Divisione Naturae’ put a crown on the early period of tetradic thinking, by describing its conceptual territory. The book was not to the liking of those, who sought dogmatic knowledge. Bishop Hincmar of Reims, who gave Eriugena the assignment, was the first to be embarrassed by his work and avoided any notice of it. A rejection followed in 855, at the Council of Valence. Eriugena was labeled as a heretic. However, in 860 the tide turned at the Council of Toucy, and the four articles of Chiersey, who expressed the moderate view of bishop Hincmar (and Eriugena), prevailed (GARDNER, 1900): ————————– 1. There is only one predestination of God; ————————– 2. The free will of man is restored by grace; ————————– 3. God wills all men to be saved; ————————– 4. Christ suffered for all.

In the Western church four eminent Fathers of the Church attained this honour in the early Middle Ages: Saint Gregory the Great, Saint Ambrose, Saint Augustine, and Saint Jerome. The "four Doctors" became a commonplace among the Scholastics, and a decree of Boniface VIII (1298) ordering their feasts to be kept as doubles in the whole Church is contained in his sixth book of Decretals (cap. "Gloriosus", de relique. et vener. sanctorum, in Sexto, III, 22). In art there is a lot of work portraying the four Latin doctors.

In the Eastern Church three Doctors were pre-eminent: Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Basil the Great, and Saint Gregory Nazianzen. The feasts of these three saints were made obligatory throughout the Eastern Empire by Leo VI the Wise. A common feast was later instituted in their honour on 30 January, called "the feast of the three Hierarchs". In the Menaea for that day it is related that the three Doctors appeared in a dream to John Mauropous, Bishop of Euchaitae, and commanded him to institute a festival in their honour, in order to put a stop to the rivalries of their votaries and panegyrists. This was under Alexius Comnenus (1081–1118; see "Acta SS.", 14 June, under St. Basil, c. xxxviii). But sermons for the feast are attributed in manuscripts to Cosmas Vestitor, who flourished in the tenth century. The three are as common in Eastern art as the four are in Western. Durandus (i, 3) remarks that Doctors should be represented with books in their hands. In the West analogy led to the veneration of four Eastern Doctors, Saint Athanasius being added to the three hierarchs. The fourth square is always different and does not seem to belong

Aquinas produced four theological syntheses

Anselm of Canterbury is considered one of the greatest medeival philosophers. His renowned philosophy had and argument that God exists because nothing can be greater than God Guano was another very famous philosopher of the time. He is known for his parody and refutation of Anselm's argument. Gaunilo's had four arguments, that parodied Anselms. Anselms argument was Philosophers often attempt to prove the ontological argument wrong by comparing Anselm's with Gaunilo's. The former runs: God is that being than which no greater can be conceived. It is greater to exist in reality than merely as an idea. If God does not exist, we can conceive of an even greater being, that is one that does exist. Therefore, God must indeed exist in reality. Gaunilo's four part parody was 1.The Lost Island is that island than which no greater can be conceived. 2. It is greater to exist in reality than merely as an idea. 3.If the Lost Island does not exist, one can conceive of an even greater island, that is one that does exist. 4. Therefore, the Lost Island exists in reality.

It is interesting that Abrahams original name was Abram, and God changes his name to Abraham after He makes his covenant with him. Abraham is described as a hebrew. Hebere means "to cross over". Abrham crossed over a river, going from the Chaldeans to Cannan. It is significant that his name means crossing over, because of the significance of the cross. The cross is the form of existence. Abraham is described as crossing over from sin, to God's law. God makes his covenant with Abraham after Abraham fights a war against people who took his brother Lot. I described that according to Darwinian genetics, people will be willing to fight for their brothers because they share a lo genetically in common with them. Abraham is described as saving his brother and also saving the people and goods that were taken with his brother. The king of Sodom then offers Abraham, at the time Abram riches, and Abraham says that he does not want to accept Sodom's riches. This is importnat. Abraham does not want to accept riches from a corrupt land like Sodom. Sodom did not follow the law of God. It was full of sin. It is fascinating that it is after Abraham refuses these riches that God makes his covenant with Abraham in the stories. I do no think it is a coincidence that Abrahams refusing the riches from Sodom coincided with him receiving his covenant with God. The riches of Sodom represent the carnal world, and Abraham had broken free of it, and was prepared to follow the God's ways and his laws which are antithetical to the carnal. It is ineresting that the reward of God's covenant is that God tells Abraham that his offsrping will be as numerous as the sands of the se a shore. According to a genetic Darwinian perspective, this is the ultimate reward. According to genetic Darwinism, every creature is ultimaely driven by a desire to perpetuate his genes, and by having his offspring as numerous as the sands of the sea shore, Abraham is perpetuating and promoting his genes. Also, it is described to Abrhaam that the whole world will be blessed by his offsrping. From a genetic Darwinian perspective, this would also be a plus, because all humans are related genetically, and Abraham would wantall mankind to be blessed through him.

God makes his covenant with Abraham and Abraham wants to know if the covenant is ensured. God tells Abraham to make an offering. The offering fits the quadrant model pattern.

square 1: a heifer. This is a female cow who has net yet had a calf. The first two squares are conservative. The first two squares are more feminine. The second two squares are more destructive. They are more masculine. It is interesting that Samson in the bible talks about somebody "plowing his heifer". To plow somebodys heifer means to have sex with his woman.

square 2: a goat.

square 3: a ram. The goat is the second square. Goats aren't that physical or solid. Rams run into each other and are violent. They have hard solid horns. The ram is physical. This is the nature of the third square.

square 4: a dove. Notice how the fourth is different from the previous three. The fourth square is a bird. The previous three squares are mammals. The fourth is always different from the previous three. The fourth always doesn't seem to belong. Also the dove is not cut in half whereas the previous three are cut in half.

square 5: a pigeon. The fourth always indicates the nature of the fifth. The fourth is the dove. The fourth is a bird. The fifth is a pigeon. The fifth is also a bird. It is also not cut in half.

Again, the quadrant model is revealed in the order of how things manifest in the myths of the bible. In this particular story, the ordering of the sacrifices reveals the quadrant model pattern.

Abraham ends up having a son with his maidservant Hagar, and his son's name is Ishmael. God comes to Abraham in the form of three angels, and they tell Abraham that his wife Sarah will conceive. Sarah has a child and his name is Issac. Sarah tells Abraham to send Hagar and her son into the desert. God does not seem to mind that Ishmael is sent to the desert after Ishmael is seen mocking by Sarah, and tells Abraham to listen to what Sarah tells him to do. God says his covenant will be established through Israel, and the descendents of Ishmael are the Ishmaelies who are arabs.

Then God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son Issac. Abraham has to have a lot of faith in God to do this. God had promised Abraham that he would have descendants as numerous as the sands of the sea shore and that he will establish his covenant through Issac. Abraham proceeds to sacrifice Issac but God stops Abraham right as he is about to kill his son. Kierkegaard, a famous philosopher, describes this as a leap of faith. Kierkegaard says that faith is absurd, and faith in Christianity is absurd, because Kierkegaard says it doesn't make any sense. Kierkegard thinks that the idea of Abraham sacrificing his son is absurd. In a genetic Darwinian perspective a mans son is 50 percent of his genes. Sacrificing him is extremely hard to do. Abraham had to be very submissive to God to do this, and he had to have a lot of faith. It is interesting that before Abraham goes to sacrifice Issac, Abraham tells his servants that he and his son will be back. It is possible hat Abraham was not lieing, and he really did believe tha he and his son would return. It is possible that Abraham knew that God would not allow him to kill his son. But because he had so much faith in God, he was willing to kill him anyways.

I say that it is not random that Abraham is told to sacrifice his son at this instant in the stories. The reason I say this is because the sacrifice fits into a pattern tat I noticed in the Bible. Recall that I described that Jepthahs daughter has to be sacrificed as a result of defeating the Philistines. The Israelites should have been killed due to their sins. But because a sacrifice is made, the sacrifice of his daugher, Israel is killed. The same pattern is in the story of Samson. The Israelites should be killed by the Philistines due to their sins, but Samson is sacrificed, and he destroys the Philistines in his sacrifice by having the walls of the Philistines fall on them, and as a result the Israelties are saved from their enemies and the punihsment of their sins, which should have been death. Another example of this is the story of Jonah. The Israelites are sinning during the time of the Babylonian empire. The Israelites should be killed because of their sins. Jonah is an Israelite. Jonah is told by God to convert the Ninevites, an enemy group to the Israelites, to the law of God. Jonah does not want to preach to non Israelies so he runs away and goes on a boat to flee. But on the boat there is a storm and Jonah recognizes that the storm is there to kill him for disobeying God, so he tells the people in the boat to throw him overboard and sacrifice him. So Jonah is a sacrifice. But Jonah survives. He is swollowed by a fish for three days and emerges alive. He then goes to the Ninevites and they are converted to the law of God. The ninevites were a carnal, sinful people, but Jonah converts them to give up their carnal ways and put on sackcloth. The ninevites were an enemy to the Israelites and they were going to destroy the Israelites. Then the Ninevites became an ally to the Israelites. This probably helped to save the Israelites during the time when they were in the Babylonian empire. The Israelites enemy became their friend, and as a result the Israelites were saved. After converting the Ninevites Jonah is sad because he feels that they do not deserve it because he sees them as non Israelites and thus not worthy of God's law. But God tells Jonah that they have a lot of cattle and there is a lot of them. I read this in a genetic Darwinian perspective. The Israelites made an ally with an enemy that had a lot of people and a lot of cattle. By making allies with them by converting them to their God, the Israelites have a lot of people that will be able to support them. These people have a lot of cattle. The cattle can be used for food for the Israelites if there is a famine or something. Jonah, by converting an outside group, is helping his own group in this story. It is later described that the Ninevites were destroyed by God because they turned back away from the law of God back to sin. This reminds me of the Philistines being destroyed by Samson. The Philistines were an enemy of the Israelties that were destroyed by the sacrifice of Samson. The Ninevites were an enemy of the Israelites that were destroyed by the sacrifice of Jonah. The Philistines could no longer kill the Israelites because they were killed by Samson. The Ninevites could no longer kill the Israelites because they were killed by Jonah. At first they weren't killed. At first they were converted to be friends of the Israelties, and thus they were neutralized as a threat to the Israelites and made into friends. They were made into friends that could share resources and even fight with the Israelites. But then later, when they began to sin, they were destroyed.

I say that the same pattern holds true in the story of Jacob and Esau. Isaac is going to end up having two sons, Jacob, and Esau. Jacob becomes Esaus enemy by stealing Esaus birthright to Israel, and as a result Esau wants to kill him. But the night before Jacob meets with Esau Jacob fights with an angel of God. This kind of represents a death and a resurrection. Jacob interestingly crosses a body of water. Crossings are often associated with contact with God. Remember crossings are related to the cross. Then Jacob fights with an angel of God. The angel touches Jacobs hip and Jacob then becomes paralyzed in his hip. His name is then changed from Jacob to Israel. Israel means perseveres with God. This kind of represents a death and resurrection. I described how contact with God in the bible is often related to death. There is the saying that you cannot see God and live. Jacob wrestles with an angel of God and he becomes paralyzed in his hip and his name is changed. This represents a transformation, or a sort of death and resurrection. Right after this death and resurrection Jacob sends envoys to Esau's to give him gifts, and Esau then makes a treaty with Jacob, promising that he will not kill him but that they will be allies. AFter this death and resurrection, Jacob no longer has to be killed. Jacob was sinning, and he should have been killed due to his sins, but there is the kind of sacrifice of himself, in his wrestling with God, that allows him to be forgiven of his sins, and not have to be killed.

This same pattern holds true with the story of Joseph

Joseph is one of Jacobs 12 sons. Joseph has a dream that his Dad and his Mom and his brothers one day will bow to him. Jacob has a multicolored coat because he is his Dad's favorite son. Multicolored coats, I would say, have a genetic Darwinian purpose behind them. There is a phenomenon in the pick up artist community known as peacocking. I described earlier that peacocks have a lot of feathers in order to attract mates. The more feathers you have, and the more elaborate, the healthier you are and stronger you are, and thus the better genes you have. Therefore, sometimes humans dress elaborately in order to attract mates. If a human can dresss very lavishly, he signals to other humans that he is rich and has a lot of resources, and if he can signal this, then other humans will think that he has good genes, because he can afford to put so much time and effort in accumulating these resources. You see this phenomenon with literal pimps. Literal pimps dress in colorful coats and fancy hats and carry lavish chains often made of gold, and this helps to make women attracted to them. Well, because Joseph is Jacob's favorite son, Jacob gives Joseph a multicolored coat. Josephs siblings are already jealous of him. They probably wish that they had multicolored coats. Moreover, they are upset by Josephs dream. So they decide to get together and sell Joseph to the Egyptians. This is the sacrifice. And this is another example of a death and ressurection. This is a sort of death and ressurection like in the case of Jonah. Josephs brothers, who are the patriarchs of the tribes of Israel, sell Joseph to the Egyptians, but they take his coat and cut it up and they dip it in goats blood. They pretend like they have killed him, although they did not really kill him. They show Jacob, their Dad the coat, and they tell him that it is Joseph's coat and he had been killed by an animal. Jacob is devestated because he thinks that his favorite son had been killed. Recall the genetic Darwinian perspective. This was Jacob's favorite son. Joseph probably had the best genes of his brothers. He was probably the healthiest and strongest and the most athletic and smartest. Jacob probably thought that Joseph had the best prospects of perpetuating his genes. Whether or not Joseph thought this consciously does not matter in the evolutionary psychology perspective. What matters is that Joseph probably subconsciously thought this. So Jacob is devastated when he hears that his son is dead. I described earlier that Joseph ends up though becoming second in command in Egypt to the Pharaoh. Being second and command in Egypt Joseph becomes a sort of God King to the Egyptians. Egyptians saw their leaders as sort of God kings. I described that Joseph helped the Egyptians to anticipate a famine and he helps the Pharaoh to prepare for it so that the Pharaoh's people will survive it. In a genetic Darwinian perspective, it is important for the Pharaoh that his people are not devastated during a famine. One reason could be that a lot of Egyptians are from his ethnic group, and he wants them to survive. Another reason is he is the Pharaoh and he has a royal son and he wants to perpetuate his genetic line of power. If there is a devastating famine and the people are too unhappy, then the Pharaoh might be overthrown by angry mobs, and then his position of power will be gone and his genetic line of power destroyed. Therefore the Pharaoh does not want to lose his position of power. Joseph's 12 brothers go to Egypt during the famine for help, and at first they do not recognize Joseph. Ultimately they recognize Joseph and Joseph sends for his Dad Jacob and his Mom. As a result of this whole series of events, Joseph and his 11 brothers survive the famine, and their genetic line is perpetuated. If they would have never sacrificed Joseph, then they all would have been died during the famine. They would not have been able to go to Egypt to seek help, and Egypt would have not been able to help them even if they could, because the Pharoah would not have been prepared for the famine in the first place, because it was Joseph who prepared him and Egypt for the famine. So the sacrifice of Joseph saved Israel. Jacob, when he sees Joseph, says that Joseph was dead but now he is alive. In other words, in Jacob's eyes, Joseph died and ressurected. This death and ressurection/sacrifice saves Israel from death, which they should have had due to their sins.

I described that the same pattern holds true in the story of Mordecai and Esther. Esther, a Jew, becomes the King of Persia's wife. Her brother is Mordecai. The Jews are sinning in Persia. As a result they should all be killed. Haman wants to kill all of the Jews because Mordecai will not bow down to him. Haman sets up a pole to sacrifice Mordecai. Mordecai represents the sacrifice. But then Esther reveals to the King of Persia that she is a Jew and she tells him that she wants Haman killed and the Jews to live. So then the King of Persia, because Esther is his favorite wife, kills Haman and kills all of the enemies of the Jews, and he saves the Jews. This is the same pattern as the Egypt story. Egypt was an enemy to the Israelites. Egypt could not have helped the Israelites. But Egypt was converted to be friends of the Israelites due to the death and resurrection/sacrifice of Joseph. In the story of Mordecai the Persian Empire is an enemy to the Jews and they cannot help the Jews. But thanks to the sacrifice/ death and resurrection of Mordecai, the Jews are not killed, and ultimately the temple is rebuilt.

Interestingly the same pattern holds true in almost every story of the bible

The same pattern holds true in the

story of elijah. There is a death and a resurrection/sacrifice and the saving of Israel from its enemies from death due to its sin

the same holds true with the story of Jeremiah

the same holds true with the story of Daniel

The point I'm going to make is the same pattern holds true in this story of Abraham. Right before the sacrifice / death and resurrection of Isaac Abraham makes a treaty with Abimelech who could have destroyed Abraham. The sacrifice of Isaac represents a sacrifice that died for Abrahams sins and prevented him from being killed by Abimelech, and instead he made a treaty with Abimelech. The same pattern holds true with the story of Jesus. The Jews in the Roman empire are sinning. The Jews are not following the law of God and as a result the Jewish people should be destroyed.

But Jesus dies as a sin offering sacrifice/death and ressurection that saves the Jews from their sin so they do not have to bear the punishment of the law which is death. The way this works is the Roman Empire, which was once an enemy to the Jews, then becomes an ally to the Jews. Also the lost tribes of Israel in the Roman empire are reintroduced to he torah. Thus Israel is saved from death by the sacrifice/ death and ressurection of the prophet Jesus in the story. The way that works is the enemy of the Jews, the Roman Empire, is transformed from an enemy that wanted to destroy the Jews to an ally that adopted the torah. There is a historian named Gibbons who says that Christianity actually was the catalyst that destroyed the Roman Empire. Like the ninevites died after adopting the torah, the Roman empire dies after adopting the torah. I described that the torah is antithetical to empires. The torah is against caranlity. Empires are multicultural and multi ehnic and are all about carnality. Christianity was antithetical to the Roman empire and was a catalyst that brought its demise. Things like homosexuality, and lavish living like lavish dress and food, and prostitution, and promiscuity and other such things in the Roman empire that were popular in the Roman empire were destroyed by the Christian doctrine, which especially at first, preached the torah. Like the torah and the God of Israel is depicted as destroying the Egyptian Empire, and the Cannanite empire and the Babylonian Empire, and the Assyrian Empire, and the Persian Empire, and the Philistines, and all of these empires, the torah and the God of Israel is depicted as destroying the Roman Empire. I discussed how the Cannanite empire was destroyed by the Israelites, and how the Cannanite empire was a sinful empire full of prostitution and tremendous stratification. Jericho it is depicted in the bible, falls right after the Israelites circumcize themselves and celebrate the passover. The circumcision, it is described, represents the Israelites getting rid of their ties with Egypt again. Remember that Egypt symbolized pleasure and hedonism, which is represented by the foreskin. Then the Israelites celebrate the passover. Recall that the passover commemorates the sacrifice of the sacrificial sin offering lamb that forgives Israel of it sin so the Israelites don't have to be killed, and kills the Israelites enemies the Egyptians. It is no coincidence that after celebrating passover Jericho falls. Jericho represents Egypt in Canaan. The Israelites had been sinning in the desert on their way to Canaan. They sinned so much that every Israelite that had left Egypt had died over the 40 years of wandering, except a few, and that is why they needed to all be circumcised. They should have all died due to their sin but they celebrate the passover, representing the sin offering, and as a result they live, and they destroy their sinful enemies the Canaanites at Jericho. These connections are not coincidental, but are explicit. After the passover, when the Israelites march around Jericho, they carry the ark of the covenant. The arc of the covenant contains within it the torah, which is the law of God. They blow trumpets and the wall falls. Remember that the torah is antithetical to sinful empires. Jericho was the product of a sinful empire. This is sort of a representation of the torah destroying Jericho and Cannan. Remember that historians think that Jericho and the Canaanite city states fell due to internal slave rebellions Archeologists notice that new city states emerged from these rebellions in which there was less art and less stratification. It is very likely, in my opinion, that the outcome of these slave rebellions was new more peaceful societies. Then there is another story that has the same pattern following the battle of Jericho. Israel burns Jericho to the ground and they take its treasures. It is important to note that after destroying Egypt Israel took Egypts treasures. Empires are characterized of being full of treausres. The treasures that Israel takes from Egypt is devoted to the tabernacle of God. This is symbolic. Israel does not devote its treasures to worldly thing but to God. After Jericho is destroyed Israel takes its treasures and it goes into Israels treasury. Immediately after this Israel tries to attack the Cannaite city state of Ai. But the Israelits are defeated. Remember that in the bible, when you are defeated by your enemies and when there is death, and plagues, and famines and other disasters, this is the consequence of sin. Joshua realizes that Israel has sinned, and he goes to the arc of te Lord where the commandments of God are located. Here Joshua falls face down and God tells him that he has to kill the man who sinned against Israel. God says Israelites had "taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions." Recall that the treasures stolen from Jericho should be devoted to God and not to individuals personal glory. represents carnality and greed to take the possessions for yourself. Then God says that he will no be with Israel anymore unless they purge the evil people that have went against His Law. So Joshua holds an assembly and says that the enemies of God who have disobeyed His Law shall be destroyed by fire. A man named Achan comes fourth and he says hat he had coveted the treasures of Jericho and due to his greed took them for himself and hid them in his tent. It is fascinating that Joshua calls Achan "my son". This is reminiscent of when Abraham sacrifices Issac and when God is represented as sacrificing Jesus. Achan admits to his sin and he must be sacrificed. But the sacrifice of Achan forgives Israel of its sins. Again, Israel should have been destroyed for its sins and the Cannanite city of Ai should have defeated the Israelites. But because of the sacrifice/ sin offering, Israel is forgiven and they destroy Ai in the next chapter. It is described that Israel stoned and burned Achan and his family. This represents a sin offering that again saves Israel from death by allowing Israels enemies to be destroyed. It is described that the Israelites kill every single member of the city of Ai. Again, historians say that Ai was a Cannanite city state that was very stratified. It was a city state full of sin. Historians think that it was destroyed due to internal rebellions. It is described that the Israelites lured the army of Ai out of the city and while they were ou of it the Israelites burned the city to the ground. Then they ambushed the army of Ai and killed them, and then they illed every single inhabitant left in Ai. Many historians again, think that really what happened was that the slaves of Ai rebelled and burned dwon the city, and then they made up this story that an outside force called Israel destryed the city, really when they themselves were Israel. It is described that Joshua impaled the king of Ai on a pole. The king of Ai represents sin and decadence, and he is depicted as being destroyed by Israel. It is then described that after Ai was destroyed, Joshua read to Israel the law of God on top of a mountain. Recall that historians say that after these sinful Cannanite city states were destroyed, new societies emerged that were less stratified. The product of sin is usually stratification. Joshua, aftter the destruction of Ai, reading the law of God, represents the formulatin of a new society under a different law. Like I already describbed, historians say that after ai and these other Cannanite city states fell, new societies emerged.

Immediately after this the Gideonites fool the Israelites into making a treaty with them. This is a common theme in the bible. An enemy of the Israelites become the Israelites ally. The Gideonites are explained to be scared of the Israelites because of what they did to Jericho and Ai. The Amorites in the story are ruling over Jerusalem and Hebron and other city states which are now in the modern day state of Israel. The Amorites decide to attack the Gibeonites for making an alliance with Israel. The Gibeonites alliance with Israel entailed that the Gibeonites become water carriers and wood cutters for the Israelites. Because Israel's ally is attacked, Israel attacks the Amorites. It is described that the sun stands still and meteors fall from the sky and destroy the Amorites. I described that this phenomenon of the sun standing still can be interpreted as a flow event. When people are in battle and under a lot of stress there can be a different subjective experience of time and space. The Israelite army get into the zone and destroy their enemies the Amorites. It is interesting that this is represented by hailstones falling from the sky and landing on them. This is like when pillars fall on the Philsitines when Samson dies. Samson is having sex when he dies. Sex and knowledge are related in the bible, and sex and flowing are related. I discussed this at length. You can say that Samson was in the zone when he killed the Philistines, the enemy of Israel and the enemy of the torah. Here the Israelites are in the zone when the Amorites are killed, and the Amorites are an enemy of Israel and an enemy of the torah. The Israelites destroy the Amorites and the five kings of the Amorites are put on five poles to be an example. Again, the kings of the Amorites represent the Canaanite Empire system, which was anti torah and thus sinful. Hisorians, I already described, argue that an extrenal force did not really take over a people called the Amorites, but hat there were slave rebellions in statified Cannanite city states like in Jerusalem and Hebron where the bible describes the amorites resided, and what emerged from these rebellions was new cities that followed the law of God. Some historians do think that there was an external force as well that is now known as the Israelites. Some historians think that there was an external Israelite force, as well as slave rebellions in the cities. It is then described that Joshua and the Israelites go to all of the Cannanite city states and kill all of their members and impale all of their kings. Many of the city states are described as being burned to the ground. After the Cannanite cities are all desroyed in the stories and most all of their inhabitants killed, as God commanded, the Israelites set up their own Israelite cities and the tribes separate to different parts of Cannan and form the nation of Israel and Cannan no longer is Cannan but the land of Israel. The destruction of Cannan and the killing of its inhabitants is depicted as a good thing because the Cannanites are depicted as sinful, being against the law of God. Joshua tells the Israelites before he dies that they better follow the law of God while in the land of Cannan/Israel or else hey will be punished and destroyed. Then the Book of Judges describes how the Israelites constantly fall away from the law of God and they are then punished by being overtaken by enemy peoples who do not follow the law of God. Samson, Gideon, and Jepthah were Judges. Judges are men who return Israel o the law of God and deliver Israelites from their enemies. Another example of a Judge is Ehud. In the story of Ehuds the Israelites are sinning, and thus the Moabites take over the Israelites, with the help of the Amalekites and Ammonites. The Moabites are depicted as antithetical to the law of God. They are a sinful people. Ehud is a left handed Benjamite. Ehud goes to the king of the Moabites with a double edged sword strapped to his right thigh. Ehud tells the Moabite king that he has a message for him from God. The Moabite king tells his servants to leave him with Ehud. Ehud the Israelite has the trust of the Moabite. King. The Moabite king is depicted as extremely fat. He is the embodiment of empire and carnality. Recall Jesus in the stories and his disciples are expressed as being against the fleshly world. They describe that gluttons and people like this are not Godly. The Moabite king is extremely fat and fleshly. The Moabite king wants to know what the message of God is. Ehud reaches for his sword and stabs the Moabite king, slashing his stomach

It is interesting that in the New Testament the word of God is described as a double edged sword. The word of God is the torah. The Word of God is the law of God. The word of God is antithetical to empire and fleshliness. The circumcison recall symbolizes extracting the fleshly preoccupations. The double edged sword, which is symbolic of the Word of God, destroys the Moabite King, who represents the antithesis of the Word of God. Another example of an Isaelite Judge is the female Israelite Judge Deborah. It is described once again that the Israelites are not following the law of God. This is because the bible says Ehud was dead. Again, the sword of Ehud represents the Word of God, the torah, and now that the Word of God is no longer being spoken through Ehud and destroying the carnality of the Israelites, represented by the death of the Moabite king by Ehud's sword, the Israelites have fallen back into sin. Not all of the Cannanites were killed by the Israelites. God was upset about this because He said they would become a thorn in their sides. Sisera is a Cannanite commander. He wears a fancy robe. Again the fancy robe represents empire and being against the law of God. People wear fancy robes in societies that emphasize carnality and are antithetical to the law of God. The Israelites are under the thumb of the Cannanites because the Israelites had sinned against God. The cannanites have charriots fitted with iron. This is a common theme. These charriots represent empires that are anithetical to the torah. They are physically superior to the forces of the Israelites. But the Israelites still defeat them. These empires on the other hand do not have the law of God and thus they are stratified and weak because they are decadent and full of sin and stratification. The stratification is represented by the nomadic tent dweller that kills Sisera. Recall that the Egyptian forces chariots were swollowed by the Read Sea and destroyed by the Israelites. Later the Ethiopian iron chariots will also be destroyed by the Israelites. Deborah commands the an Israelite named Barak to kill Sisera the Canaanite, and he does. Barak vanquishes the Canaanite troops and Sisera hides in the tent of a kenite woman. The Kenites have an alliance with the Canaanite king, but Sisera is depicted as kind of rude. He bosses the Kenite woman around. Like Rahab, the Kenite woman represents the poor and the oppressed in an empire system that does not follow the torah. Like Rahab, he Kenite woman deflects to the side of the ISraelites and she kills the lavishly dressed Canaanite ruler by stabbing a tent peg in his head. The Kenite woman is a tent dweller, so she represents the weak and the oppressed, and because she is oppressed, she sees Truth in the torah, which is a law that helps the oppressed. Like Rahab, she helps the Israelites to destroy the Israelites enemy. She is also like the Ninevites, who went to the side of the ISraelites in the Babylonian empire. She is also like the oppressed women in the Assyrian empire hat went to the side of the ISraelites and helped the Israelites to destroy the Assyrian empire by even helping the Israelites to kill the Assyrian King. I want to mention that this even reminds me of when Samson destroys the Philistines. Recall that I said that Samson used a donkey jawbone to kill thousands of Philistines. A donkey is a beast of burden. A donkey is a worker. This killing of a lavish ruler by a worker slave is symbolic of a sort of Marxist revolution, the killing of the group in power by the workers. More on Marx in a little bit. But Samson is also sort of depicted as a worker when he brings the pillars down on the Philistines. Samson is depicted as grinding grain. I described that rabbis say that grinding grain is like sex, but also grinding grain can be literally seen as grinding grain. Samson is depicted as a slave. He is depicted as a worker slave for the Philistines. And he is the one who brings the pillars down on the Philistiens heads. Samson destroying the Philistiens sort of represents a marxist revoluiton, in which the workers destroy their oppressors. The exodus from Egypt sort of represents the same thing. Recall that the Israelites are slaves in sinful Egypt. Egypt does not follow the law of God. it is a carnal land. They oppress the weak and and marginalized, represented by how they are torturing the Israelites. The Israelites who are slaves destroy Egypt. One of the plagues in Egypt is the killing of the first born sons of the Egyptians. The first born sons of the Egyptians would represent the nobility fo th eEgyptians. the killing of the nobility would be the killing of the upper class/ rulers. This again kind of can be aruged to represent a marxist revolution, in which the workers destroy the elite. In the case of the the kenite woman killing the Cannanite ocmmander the same thing is represented. the Cannanie commander is the embodiment of sin. He wears the lavish robe. The Cannanites do not follow the law of God and they are extremely fleshly. As a result, the Kenite woman, who is an oppressed woman in the empire, destroys him. After this Deborah sings with joy, describing how the sinful Cannanite commander with the lavish robe was killed. The ideologies of Deborah and her zeal for the torah may have sparked the Kenites womans courage to help the Israelites to kill their Cannanite oppressors, who kept them from the law of God.

I want to mention something that is pretty interesting. Remember when I discussed at depth knowledge. I discussed how knowledge sex and drugs and death and sports are related. I discussed that knowledge is power. Another thing that is associated with power is money. Money is also deeply related to sex, drugs, and death and sports. The highest grossing movies are full of violence and sex. People get lost in video games that are full of violence and sex like grand theft auto or 007. I discussed that while in the flow you lose yourself. When you flow there is a different subjective experience oftime and space. People describe this when they play video games. People also describe playing women and having sexing with them. There is a pick up artist group that describes picking up women as being like a video game. They analyze the process of picking up a woman and having sex with her as being like a game. People also describe playing people as using people and even hurting people. People play sports and I described how sports are sublimations of sex and violence. Flow experiences are often connected with sports. Sometimes people when they run for a long time pass out and if they are dehydrated have near death experiences. I described that during near death experiences you leave your body and you can have an experience of traveling through time and space. Remember that during the flow there is a different subjective experience of time and space and the flow is connected to death. When people die a drug is released in their brains that gives flow experiences. This drug is called DMT. It is ineresting that scientists think that this drug may even be connected with dreams. Dreaming is the routh square of the third quadrant. Dreaming points to the fourth quadrant, which is the knowledge/flowing quadrant. When you drema there is a differn subjective exprience o time. Also sometimes when people sleep and dream they describe near death types of experiens. For instanace, I described that when people have near death experiences they describe leaving their bodies and having astral bodies and being able to look down upon their bodies and travel around in their astral bodies. People describe seeing things that they could not have seen if they weren't flying around in an astral body. For instance, people describe seeing things in the hospital that they could not have seen otherwise during near death experiences. People sometimes describe leaving their bodies and being in an astral body in dreams as well, and they describe seeing things that they could not have seen unless they were in an astral body. For instance people will sleep and be in an astral body and look at what people are doing in another room and the next day tell them what they saw and the people will be amazed because what the person describes will be accurate. Dreaming is related to death and points to the fourth quadrant which is the death quadrant. I also described how dreams are very related to sex. Men usually wake up with boners. Freud said that dreams were completely sublimations of sex. But I did not mention anoher thing. Almost all professions are related to sex and death. For instance, grinding grain is farming. Rabbis say that grinding is synonymous with sex. People plow the field. Samson tells the Philisitnes that they had plowed his heifer. Samson is saying that they had sex with his wife. In sports people plow down defenders. People plow down drinks. In People build houses and they drill holes in walls. People also describe drilling women, which means having sex with them. People describe drilling down their enemies with bullets. So sex and death we see are related. People drill their defenders with hits or they run drills on the football field. All of these things are related. It is interesting that these professions involving these sexual/violence sublimations are also related to flow experiences. Builders sometiems describe getting in the zone. Painters stroke the brush on the walls. When people have sex there is the description of stroking the vagina. When people have a nice shot in basketball it is described as a nice stroke. People stroke down a few shots when drinking. These working professions are related to sex and death and knowledge. Women often describe being turned on by working men, probably because their professions remind them of sex and death, which turns people on. People when they build or paint houses describe getting in the zone. There is also chemicals that they use that can contribute to them getting high. These jobs are also dangerous literally. A lot of people are killed doing these jobs when they make mistakes with their tools. The male penis is also often called a tool. So knowledge, sex, death, sports, and professinal jobs, and drugs are related in the bible. All of these I described are related to money. People make money by doing these jobs. Most money goes into pornography or violence, like the UFC. Even in the UFC there is models that walk around almost naked, and there is violent music. UFC fighting is like gladiator fighting of ancient Rome. The Egyptians also had forms of gladiator fighting. I explained that knowledge is power. There is nothing more powerful than sex, and death. I now described that sports and these professions are sublimations of sex and death. We see that most money goes into things that are related to sex and death. Money is power. People also get addicted to gambling, which involves money. Much of money centers around drugs and the trade of drugs. Psychiatriss and meical doctors sell and distribute drugs. Some people say that all food is drugs because food is chemicals and these chemicals have an affect on your body. After people eat a lot they often have sleep comas. Recall that drugs and death are related. Sleep coma makes people want to sleep and sleeping is related to dreaming. People buy sex with money and pay money to watch sports. People who play sports and have sex get money. Money is a form of power. Marx describes in the communist manifesto that the workers of the world will one day become sick of being exploited and they will overthrow their exploiters and set up a new society. Many people have completely misunderstood Marx like people have misunderstood Jesus. Marx is associated with cultural marxism today. Cultural marxism usually teaches equality of men and women and teaches equality of races and sexualities. But Karl Marx himself was racist, sexist, and homophobic. Karl Marx said that Africans were innately violent and dumb, according to his words. Karl Marx also did not see men and women as equal and he was not a fan of homosexuality. Karl Marx thought the workers of the world are exploited and one day they will overthrow their rulers and start new societies. I think that an example of a true Marxist revolution can be seen in the bible where people overthrow the sinful societies. Karl Marx described that in an ideal society money would be more evenly distributed and people would not be so exploited. That is the consequence of the torah. If the torah is followed money is more evenly distributed and people are not exploited. In hedonistic societies like Egypt people are constantly building huge pyramids and doing magnificent things. These things are carnal in nature. The reason why people built pyramids was to entrench power into the Pharoah and his genetivc line. In societies like ancient Rome people similalry were forced to work for the nobility. Gladiator fights kept the masses content. Also they reminded the masses of their mortality which tends to keep the masses from rebelling, according to sociologists. But the masses were not happy and they sought something more. And in the ancient Roman empire, Jesus and his disciples and apostles are depicted as spreading the Word of God to people who yearned for it. And this is depicted as destroying the Roman empire, like the torah is depicted as destroying the Cannanite empire, and the Egyptian empire, and all of the empires. The torah may itself be the consequence of Marxist revolutions, and a reaction to and against empires. But a point I was making with the story of Deborah is also that the Israelites defeated their enemy by converting their enemy to their side. This was represented by converting the kenite worker woman to their side. The same thing happened in the roman empire. The religious Jews were saved by the Roman empire after the Romans were converted to Christianity- a Jewish religion.

Let me give more examples of the Israelites destroying their enemies through a sacrifice, and as a result not having to die due to their sins. This example is in 1 Samuel. This is a fascinating story. Eli is a priest, and God had made a promise that his family line would be a family line of priests. But Elis sons are sinning and thus God is upset. God ends up continuing Eli's family line as he promised, but God does have killed these two sons. In the stories Samuel ministers before Eli. Samuel has an experience that fits the quadrant model pattern. Square 1: Samuel is asleep and God calls Samuel. Samuel runs to Eli and says "here I am. You called me." But Eli says, "I did not call you go back and lie down". Square 2: Samuel heres the voice of God and he runs to Eli and says "here I am. You called me" Eli says "I did not call. Go back and lie down". These two first squares are the duality. The first two squares are always a duality. They are very similar. Square 3: The bible describes that God calls Samuel a third time. Samuel goes to Eli and says "Here I am, you called me". A psychiatrist may at this point think that Samuel is suffering from schizophrenia because he is hearing voices and he needs medication. But Samuel says, "Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.’” Square 4: This time Samuel hears the Lord say "Samuel Samuel". The bible says "The Lord came and stood there, calling as at the other times, '“Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”' The fourth is related to God. The fourth time that God speaks Samuel responds to God. The fourth is always different from the previous three. This fits the quadrant model pattern. God tells Samuel how Elis house has sinned and he says there needs to be a sin offering. After this the Israelites fight the Philiistines, but the two Sons of Eli are killed and the arc of God is stolen by the Philistines, and Eli falls and breaks his neck and dies when he hears the news. Many Israelites die. This is a punishemnt due o the sin of Elis family. At Elis death Elis daughter in law though gives birth to a son. This kind of represents a death and ressurection of Eli. Eli dies and at the same time though his line continues through this son. The sons name though means "The glory has departed from Israel" because the arc of God has been stolen by the Philistines. So we see a kind of death and ressurection. This is the sacrifice. The sacrifice of Eli is the sacrifice that needs to occur to atone and forgive Israels sin so Israel does not have to be completely destroyed. This is how the story plays out. This relates to the story of Jesus in Rome. I'm going to explain that. In this story, the Philistines set up that arc of the God of Israel in their temple. The Philistines are a multiculural empire system with many Gods. Their laws are hedonistic and carnal, and thus they cannot handle the God of Israel, who is anithetical to this. As a result, their God Dagon, who is a God of carnality, is found with its head and hands cut off. The God of Israel has destroyed Dagon. The torah has destroyed Dagon because the torah is the opposite of Dagon. Then the Arc of God gives the Philistine people tumours. The arc of God is too powerful for them, and they are killed by it. This parallels completely the story of Samson where Samson is sacrificed and then the Philistines fall due o the sacrifice. Here Eli is sacrificed, and after his sacrifice, the Philistines begin to fall. The Philistines have the arc of God, which contains the torah, and this is killing them. The torah is the opposite of the law of the Philistins, and as a result their carnal society is falling apart. I described how being too close to God is related to death a lot in the bible. Knowledge and being close to God are related, and knowledge and death are related. Here the Philistines are being killed through their vicinity with the arc of God. The Philistines like the romans were a European agricultural people that the Israelites destroyed. The Israelites were a nomadic people being oppressed by the Philistines.This story is also directly related to the story of Jonah. Jonah is sacrificed and he ressurects like Eli has a symbolic death and ressurection through the birth of a son with his daughter in law. Right after this Jonah converts the Ninevites, an enemy of the Israelites, to the torah. It is described that the Ninevites put on sackcloth. It is described later that this enemy, the Ninevites, were destroyed by God because they then sinned against God and God killed them. This story of the Philistines with the arc also directly parallels the story of Jesus. In the story of Jesus Jesus and his disciples ultimately make the Roman Empire Christian. This means that the Roman empire has adopted the torah. The law of the torah was completely antithetical to the law o the roman empire, and historians agree that the fall of the Roman empire coincided with the adoption of Christianity. So the enemy of the Israelites, the Roman empire, was destroyed by the Israelites by the Israelites giving them the torah and converting them to the side of the Israelites. The Israelites hsould have beeen killed by the Roman empire due to their sin, but God forgive sthem of their sin through the sacrifice of Jesus, which destroys the Roman empire, because it is through this sacrifice thta the Roman emprie adopts Christianity. Here the enemy of the Israelites, the Philistines, similarly are destroyed by adopting the torah/arc of God. Teh Isrelites should have been destroyed by the Philistines due to the Israelites sin, but the sacrifice of Eli is an atoning offering that forgives the ISraelites of their sins, and the ISraelites do not have to be destroyed by the Philsitnes because the caranl Philistne system is destroyed by the torah. The Philsitnes end up sending the arc of God back to Israel because it is destroying their society and killing them. This is like when the Roman empire started to ry to discount the law of the torah and catholicism began to teach to move away from the law of God. This attempt by the catholic Church was in part an attempt to save the roman Empire, because the law of God, which Jesus and his disciples and apostles taught, would have utterly annihilated it. So the Philistines are badly hurt but they still survive, and the Roman Empire was badly hurt, but it still survived. The Philisitnes give Israel their gold to say sorry for stealing their arc. This is like when the Egyptians gave the Israelites their gold after the ISraelites destroyed Egypt, or the Israelties got the godl of the Cannanites after they destroyed the Cannanite empire system. I described that when Jonah converts the Ninevites God tells Jonah, there is a lot of them and they have a lot of cattle. The Israelties defintiely got a lot of gold from the Ninevites in their allliance with them. Similalry the Jews got a lot of gold from the Roman empire after it converted to Christianity. The Roman Empire was converted during a famine in Rome according to the stories of the New Testament. Recall that Joseph converted the egyptian empire to help the israelites during a famine in Egypt. All of these stories are connected and they fit the same form. I hope that its apparent that the form of these stories is similar. There is sin. Israel should be killed due to the sin. There is a sacrifice. As a result Israel does not have to be destroyed. The sacrifice coincides with the conversion of the enemy to the torah and or destruction of the enemy.

The same thing then happens in the next story in Samuel. The Israelites are going to be killed by the Philistines again due to their sins. But Samuel makes a sin offering to God. Then right after this the Israelites destroy the Philistines. It's the same pattern every time.

Let's go back to Abraham. The reason why I went through this seeming tangent where I described the reason why there is sacrifices is I described that Abraham's sacrifice coincides with Abraham's treaty with Abimelech, a man who wanted to kill Abraham. The sacrifice is a sin offering that makes it so Abraham does not need to be killed by his enemy, and instead his enemy is made his ally. So back to Abraham.

God prevents Abraham from sacrificing his son although he was going to do it. This represents a sort of death and resurrection like the death and resurrection of Jesus. After this Abrahams wife dies and Abrhaham finds a wife for his son Issac. The wife is rebeccah. Abraham's servant is sent to find a wife and finds her at a well. this is a common theme in the bible. There are continuities throughout the Bible. One continuity is that wives are often found at wells. Rebekkah is a virgin and this is avery good. According to the toah and oral torah a woman needs to be a virgin to get married. It is interesting that the wife is given to Issac right after his Mom's death. Freud describes that the man wants to have sex with his Mom. It is described that getting a wife comforts Isaac after his Mom's death. Freud would argue that the represents a displacement of his Mom, and it is no coincidence that Issac attains a wife right after his Mom's death. Isaac's sons are Jacob and Esau. Jacob and Esau are twins. Jacob is the second born and usually the first born gets the birthright. The interesting thing is Esau kind of represents the fleshly and the carnal. Esau is impulsive and sells his birthright to Esau for a bowl of soup. Jacob pretends to be Esau by dressing like Esau, with the help of his Mom Rebekah, and he steals Esaus birthright. It is interesting again a woman is depicted as lieing and being manipulative. She helps Jacob fool his Dad. But it works out so that Jacob gets the birthright of Israel.

Jacob goes to Paddan Aram. There Jacob marries his relative Laban's two daughters Rachel, and Leah. It is described that Jacob has to work seven years for Laban to marry Rachel, and he accidentally marries Leah because he has sex with her but thinks that it is Rachel. Laban tricked him into doing this so Jacob will work another seven years for him. Leah's servant is Zilpah and Rachel's servant is Bilhah.

Jacob's 12 sons are the patriarchs of the tribes of Israel. The order of the sons fits the quadrant model pattern. It is no coincidence that this is so. Existence reveals the quadant model pattern, and the quadrant model pattern is expressed through the stories of religions. Jacob's sons are

Quadrant 1: These are Leah's children. Leah is no loved by Jacob, but Rachel is. But according to the Bible, because of this, Leah bears the first four sons of Jacob. All of these children are named in relationship to a perception. Remember that the first quadrant is sensation and perception. This is no coincidence. The ordering of the children is meant to reveal the quadrant model pattern.

Square 1: Reuben. Reuben means "the Lord has SEEN my misery". Remember that the first square is the light. The first square is related to sight. Seeing is associated more with the mind and it is more spiritual. This is the science square.

Square 2: Simeon. Simeon means "the Lord has HEARD that I am not loved". Recollect that the second square is the word. The second square is hearing. Hearing is more relational, and that is the nature of the second square. This is the religion square.

Square 3: Levi. Levi means ATTACHED. Leah says "Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons". This is related to the sense of touch. The thid square is the body square. The third square is the flesh. This is the art square.

Square 4: Judah. Judah means PRAISE. After having Judah Leah says, "This time I will praise the Lord.” The fourth sense is the sense of taste. This is related to the mouth. The fourth square is the true word. This is the philosophy square.

Quadrant 2. There is a demarcation in the action, signalling the beginning of a new quadrant. The first four sons are all Leahs sons. This is not a coincidence. This is the first quadrant. Again, the first four sons are all related to senses. The first quadrant is sensation and perception. The next quadrant is the second quadrant. The second quadrant is always connected to relationships. The second quadrant is belief, faith, behavior, and belonging. Notice how the first quadrant does not belong. Leah wants to belong. Leah wants to be loved by Jacob but she is not loved. Rachel wants to have children but she cannot. A new quadrant is now demarcated because now Rachel gives Jacob her servant Bilhah so that she too can have a family along with her sister. Studies do show that sisters find men attractive that their sisters have sex with, and sisters wan to have sex with men tha their sisters have sex with. The reason for this is explained by evolutionary psychologists. If a woman finds a man attractive, then other women are likely to find him attractive. Moreover, women tend to be attracted to men who remind them of their Dad's, and because sisters share the same Dad, then they are likely to be attracted to the same men. Also, if two sisters have genes from the same men, then their children will be very genetically related, and this may increase the connectivity of their families. The children of Bilhah are

Square 1: Dan. Dan means vindication. Rachel says, "God has vindicated me; he has listened to my plea and given me a son". This has a connection with belief, which is the first square of the second quadrant. If you ask for something and you believe in it then you get it.

Square 2: Naphtali. Naphtali means struggle." I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” The second square of the second quadrant is faith. Faith is the most relational. This square is about relationships. What Rachel says is in regards to her relationship with her sister. Faith is a struggle.

Then Leah gives her servant Zilpah to Jacob. It is interesting that the second quadrant is the two wives servants. The second quadrant is related to servitude. Belief, faith, behavior, and belonging has a quality of servitude. If you have faith and behave then you follow orders. If you belong you fit into a group, but also belonging connotes property. If you belong to somebody you are the property of somebody. There is a distinction between the first two squares and the second two squares. The first two squares are more conservative. The second two squares are more destructive. The names of Zilpah's sons are

Square 3: Gad. Gad means good fortune. Leah says, "what good fortune I have" when she has him. Fortune is connected with doing. Also the second quadrant itself is positive and related to harmony. The second quadrant is conservative. Good fortune is something that is good and conservative.

Square 4: Asher. Asher means happy. Leah says "How happy I am! The women will call me happy.” Happiness is associated with belonging. Belonging is the 8th square, which is the fourth square of the second quadrant. Leah is relating herself with other women, and she is making herself appear to belong with other women. Evolutionay psychologists point out that women and groups see children as a symbol of success. If you have more children then you belong more. This square is associated with belonging. As you can see, a paterrn is being revelaed through the order of the names of the sons of Jacob. And a new quadrant, the third quadrant emerges with the next four children.

Quadrant 3: There is another demarcation. A scene occurs where Reuben gives his Mom Leah mandrakes, but Rachel wants some of Reubens mandrakes. Leah sells the mandrakes to Rachel in exchange for having sex with Jacob. So now we have moved from the second quadrant, which is the servants' children, back to Leah.

Square 1: Issachar. Issachar means reward. Leah says "God has rewarded me for giving my servant to my husband". Reward is associated with action. The third quadrant is the action quadrant. This is the thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming quadrant. The documentary the secret says that thoughts manifest reality and thoughts give you things. Things that you get are rewards.

Square 2: Zebulun. Zebulun means presened me with a precious gif. Leah says, "God has presented me with a precious gift. This time my husband will treat me with honor, because I have borne him six sons". The third quadrant is about honor. Artisans are the third quadrant. They want honor and respect. Here God presents Leah with something. And this gives her honor.

Square 3: Joseph. Rachel has this son. Again the fist two squares are conservative. The second two squares are different. Leah has the first two sons of the second quadrant. Rachel finally has a son here and says "God has taken away my disgrace.” 24 and said, “May the Lord add to me another son.” The third square is action. Taking away disgrace is an action. Also, remember the third quadrant is about respect. Disgrace is disrespect. But Rachel now has respect.

Square 4: Benjamin. After having Benjamin rachel dies. The fourth square of the third quadrant is dreaming. Dreaming leads to the fourth quadrant which is death. The pattern of the quadrant model is fulfilled in the naming and ordering and structure of the story of the sons of Jacob.

There is a good story regarding Jacobs sons in regards to their sister Dina, that relates to converting your enemy in order to destroy him. Schechem is the som of a ruler named Hamor, and Schechem rapes Dina, the sister of the 12 brothers of Israel. Jacob's sons then tell Schechem that they will marry in with his people and they will allow him to have Dina as his wife. They tell them just to get circumcized first. Schechem agrees. Schechem and his people get circumcized. This represents their conversion. But then the sons of Jacob, while Shechem and his people are still sore from their circumcisions, attack them and kill them all. This relates to the story of Jesus. The Roman empire adopted Christianity, a Jewish religion, and as a result the Roman empire crumbles. The Roman empire was founded upon decadence and hedonism and carnality, and the torah pretty much obliterated it. It is interesting that Jacobs sons kill the members of Schechems city three days after the circumcision. This is similar to Jesus ressurecting after three days, and Jonah ressurecting after three days in the fish. After the three days jesus comes back and he orders that the torah be taught to all of the nations. After three days Jonah preaches to the Ninevites. This is what destroys Rome and destroyed the Ninevites and Babylon- the torah. Schechem and his people were once a threat to the Israelites, but by converting them to their side the Israelites destroyed the threat. Schechem and his people are depicted as very carnal and gredy. Schechem says that he wans to join withJacobs sons so he can take their riches and resources. There is an interesting myth that I heard about from a tribe. In the myth there is a jaguar that pretends to be dead. All of the animals in the forest come to mourn its death. Then the jaguar gets up and he eats all of the animals. This is kind of like a death and ressurection of the jaguar. The similar theme goes with Jonahs death and ressurection and Jesus death and ressurection. They die and resurrect. Then the enemies of the Israelites are converted to the torah. Then they are destroyed. The same theme is right here. The enemy of Israel is converted, as represented by their circumcisions, but then they are destroyed and no longer an enemy to the Israel. Keep in mind that the death and resurrection of Jesus not only lead to Christianity, but it lead to Islam and all of the derivations of these Abrahamic religions. A common theme of all of the Christian and Muslim sects is they mostly have taken care of the Jews throughout the centuries during the exile of the Jews. Another common theme of the Abrahamic religious sects is they have not been extremely positive for the people that adopted them. They have not been not positive but Christian sects and muslim sects have constantly warred. The history of Christianity and Islam has been a history of a ton of death and destruction. But they did both protect and take care of the Jews through history. So one theory that I have proposed in regards to religion is that it is genetic Darwinian in nature. It is possible that the purpose of Christianity and its derivatives was to save the Jewish people. Historians tend to think the members of the llost tibes of Israel were all killed, and if they weren't all killed they just mixed with other people and they say it would be impossible to find them today if they even still exist. I can go on and on with this genetic Darwinian model of religion. I described that Elijah heals an assyrian commander then the Israelites start beating the Assyrians. Also Elijah helps non Israelites and convets them to the torah and this helps to destroy Assyria. Elijah has a death and ressuerection scene where he becomes Elisha. Daniel does the same thing in Babylon. I can go on and on about this. But this book is about the quadrant model of reality. I may make another book solely on the bible that supplements this book later. But let me just give more examples of the quadrant model of reality in the Bible. We are discussing Christianity and Christianity uses both the torah, which is the five books of Moses, the Tanakh, which is the writing of the prophets, and the New Testament.

Let me give an example in regards to the prophet Elijah. Jezebel and Ahab rule Israel. Jezebel is a non Israelite and she is probably a hamite, and she has turned Israel against the torah and completely toward the carnal. As a result Elijah has to flee for his life. Elijah is a prophet of God who is trying to get the Israelies to return to the law of God because they have assimilated with the Assyrian agriculturalists and are oppressing the power and the weak and being evil. Elijah has already killed many many Israelites who have rebelled against the word of God. Jezebel orders Elijah, a prophet of God, to be executed. Recall that Jezebel is blamed or leading Israel into sin and thus Israel's dispersion. Elijah runs to a mountain and on the mountain he experiences the quadrant model pattern. He experiences four things and the fourth is the voice of God. Recall the fourth is always transcendent and always kind of points to God.

Square 1: "a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind." The first square is the wind. The firs square is always the most ephemeral and the least solid.

Square 2: "After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake". The second always builds on the first. The second is not yet the third. The third is always the most related to doing.

Square 3: "After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire." The fire is related to doing. Fires seem solid and they act. Fire builds upon the first two.

Square 4: "And after the fire came a gentle whisper". The fourth is different from the previous three. The fourth builds upon he previous three. The fourth is the most related to God. Elijah recognizes the voice of God in this gentle whisper. The fourh never seems to belong. The first three are very a lot different from the fourth.

Let's discuss the story of Elijah and Elisha and how it fits the quadrant model pattern. Let's start at 2 kings 1. In 2 Kings 1 King Ahab of Israel has died and Ahaziah has taken over. Ahaziah has fallen through a lattice and injured himself and he seeks the guidance of the God Baal to know if he is better or not. Elijah says, "Go up and meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and ask them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are going off to consult Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron?’ ‘You will not leave the bed you are lying on. You will certainly die!’” The prophets in the Bible are not bearers of good news. The prophets in the Bible often make people very upset with them. That is why about every prophet in the Bible has people wanting to assassinate them. Jesus describes that the Israelites killed all of their prophets, and Jesus warns about false prophets who speak to tell people what they want to hear, and not what is the Truth. Baal is a carnal God. Baal is the reason why Ahaziah was hurt in the first place. Ahaziah should return to the law of God, but he does not want to, because he prefers Baal. Then Ahaziah sends guards to get Elijah. Elijah is on a mountain top. The guards ask Elijah to come with them, and they call him a man of God. Elijah says "If I am a man of God,may fire come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty men!” Then fire comes down from heaven and consumes them in the story. This happens two more times. As you can see Elijah is not out to make friends. Elijah is bringing down punishment from God on people who have fallen away from the law of God. King Ahaziah dies and he is replaced by Jehrom.

Then Elijah is going to be sent to heaven on a chariot. This happens through a CROSSING. Elijah takes his cloak, rolls it up, and strikes the Jordan river with it. This is significant. Recall that the Jordan river is the river that stopped up and that the Israelites miraculously passed into the land of Canaan. It is described, like with the Israelites that Elijah and Elisha cross on dry ground. It is no coincidence that Elijah takes off his cloak before he does this. Before Jesus is put on the cross his cloak is taken off and divided. Also when Joseph is killed by his brothers his cloak is taken off and dipped in blood. Here Elijah is about to cross the Jordan and this is going to lead to his death and this is preceded by Elijah taking off his cloak. Then Elijah tells Elisha that if Elisha sees him while he is taken to heaven then Elisha will get a double portion of his soul. This kind of represents Elijah living on through Elisha. This represents a death and resurrection, like with Jesus on the cross, and like with Joseph when he seems to be dead, but he is really brought to Egypt. Also Moses dies before the Israelites cross the Jordan river, but he is continued by Joseph, who is kind of like his ressurection. it is described that as Elijah leaves Elisha shouts" My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen of Israel!”. it is interesting that when Jesus is on the cross Jesus yells "Father Father" calling out to God. When Abraham is about to sacrifice his son Isaac God yells "Jacob Jacob". It is interesting that there are these repetitions of pronouns during these events. It is described that Elisha grabs Elijah's garment and tears it in two pieces. After Jesus dies his garment is divided. Also after Joseph dies his garment is divided. we see parallels in the different stories. This happens after Jesus is put on a cross. This happens after Elijah crosses a river. So these events coincide with c crossings. It also happens when Joseph crosses into Egypt. Moses dies at the crossing of the Jordan river as well. In Jude it is described that Moses may not have died. Again we see the diea of a ressurection. Then it is fascinating that 50 men who followed Elijah then look to search for Elijah because they think that he may have been put on a mountain or in a valley. In other words, they do not think that Elijah is gone. The same is true with the story of Jesus, where people don't think Jesus is dead but has ressurected. Then it is described that they search for three days and on the third day they come back to Elisha and Elisha says "see didn't I tell you not to look". This three days parallels the three days that Jonah is in the fishes mouth before he ressurects. This three days parallels the three days that Jesus is dead before his ressurection. These men come back to Elisha. Elisha represents the ressurection. What is significant is that this occurs during a crossing. The cross and death are related in the Bible. Hebrew means to cross over. I thought of something interesting. During sex there is often repetitions of names. For instance, it is said that women say "daddy daddy" when they are having sex. Men may also repeat the womans name. Also it is sometimes said that when people die they repeat names like "mommy I want my mommy", or "Joe Joe". When King David is being chased by enemy Israelites and tey want to kill him David in desperation yells "Father Father why have you forsaken me". It seems in these very stressful situations people repeat names.It is interesting that during these crossings and during these sacrifices we see names being repeated.

Then Elijah multiplies olive oil for an Israelite woman. He allows a non Israelite Shunamite woman to become pregnant, and her son dies, but he raises a Shunamite woman's son back to life. I described that in the bible it is the law of God and the teachings of God that bring prosperity. When olive oil is multipplied it is due to the law of God being followed. A woman becoming pregnant and a boy coming back to life is due to the womans humility in the face of Elisha and his message, and her submission to God and His Law. This is interesting because Jesus in the stories of the gospels also raises a dead man to life. This is symbolic. I described that death is due to not following the law of God in the bible. Raising a deead man to life is symbolic of bringing a man who is far from the law of God back to the torah. The pahrisees do not like to see this because they, in the stories, are described as caranal and full of Greed and they are gaining in wealth and power for themselves by hiding the law of God from the people and not following it themselves. The same thing is happening at the time of Elisha. The Israelite rulers are not following the law of God but are following the ways of Baal. As a result, people are suffering. But Elisha is bringing people back to the God and His Law, which are inseparable. Elisha then feeds 100 people with 20 loaves of bread. In other words, like Jesus, Elisha multiplies bread, and it is described, like in the stories of Jesus, that there is leftovers. Naaman is a commander of the Assyrian army. He has leprosy. His wife has an Israelite servant. the Israelite servant reccomends he go to Israel to seek somebody to cure him. The King of Israel is upset because he knows that he cannot cure him, and he thinks that because he cannot help the Assyrian army will pick a fight with Israel. But Elisha says that he can help. Elisha tells Naaman to go into the Jordan river seven times to cleanse himself. But Naaman is not humble. Naaaman wants Elisha to have an elaborate ritual where he calls upon his God. He also wants Elisha to have him was in the Damascus river or an Assyrian river and not a river of Israel, which he sees as inferior. But Naaman submits to Elisha and humbles himself. He follows Elishas orders and he is healed of his leprosy. This is significant because Jesus in the gospel stories says to the Jews that he will do what was done with Naaman. This makes Jews try to stone him because they know that Jesus is saying that he will help the Roman commanders. The Jews see the Romans as their enemies. Jesus does heal a Roman commanders servant. Elisha heals an Aramean commander. The Assyrians are enemies of Israel. But this works out to help Israel. After this healing, the Israelites start to defeat the Aramean army. I don't think this is a coincidence. I suggest that the Aramean commander deflected to help Israel. After he is healed, the Assyrian Commander tells Elisha that he will give Elisha all of his riches. Elisha is a man of God. Men of God are not obsessed with fleshly carnal things, so Elisha doe not accept all of Naamans riches. But I would argue, Naaman still helped Elisha. He helped Elisha by helping Elishas people, the Israelites. Similalry, after Jesus helps the Roman commander, I described that there is the story of Jesus healing Legion of demons, and having the demons go into pigs and be swollowed by water. I described that this is allegorical of JEsus destroying the roman army. The demons in Legion represent the Roman legions. Demons according to Grace Ministries Church means riches. The Roman army was a plunderous army that sought riches and carnal things. Also Jews called Romans and non Jews pigs. There is another example of this phenomenon in the New Testament. Peter in the Book of Acts is captured by the Roman army and he is in jail with 16 soldiers guarding him. It is importantto emphsize that there is 16 soldiers. There is four groups of four. This is the quadrant model. The reason why Peter has so many soldiers guarding him is because he is such a threat to Rome and Rome wants to execute him. Remember that Peter is teaching the torah and the torah is antithetical to the multicultural Roman Empire. But Peter escapes. There is a rational reason behind this that I discovered. Directly before this Peter converts the Roman Commander Cornelius to the torah. I think that it is safe to say that Cornelius helped Peter to escape, being that he is a Roman commander and Peter is being held by Roman soldiers. It is described in the stories that an angel helped Peter to escape by taking off his chains. But the bible never describes what an angel is. The angel can be a man who is doing God's will. God's will is that Peter be set free and continue to teach the torah. So I am pointing out that these conversions of the enemy end up helping ISrael and helping the survival of the torah, and hurting the enemy. King Herod ends up having the 16 guards who watched over Peter executed because Herod, after cross examining them, probably knew that they were complicit in Peter's escape. The roman soldiers were treated like dogs. They had enough of Rome and they probably liked Peter, who taught agianst Rome. So they were willing to sacrifice themselves and face the consequences of helping Peter, a man of God. It is clear that the healing of Naaman has to do with his accepting the law of the God of Israel. When Naaman is healed he tells Elisha that he is going to be forced to bow to the Aramean God, who is a carnal God, but he asks Elisha to ask the God of Israel to forgive him for this. Elisha tells Naaman to "go in peace". Right after this event, The Israelites miraculsously defeat a stronger Aramean army. Here is something that gives it away that the Arameans knew something fishy was going on. The King of Aram asks, "Tell me! Which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?” I think this gives it away that the Aramean commander Naaman had deflected to the side of Israel, because the King of Aram knows something is up, and that they should not be losing to the Israelites, an inferior army. The Arameans do not have the law of God, and thus, even though they may have superior weaponry, materials, and more soldiers, they do not want to fight for their people as much. The law of God makes people happy and strong. The law of God ensures that wealth is not too stratified and there is not hedonism and that people are not degraded by being made into prostitutes and things like this. Naaman turned to the God of Israel. And he helps Israel to defeat the Arameans. This is not explicitly said. Of course it is described that a miracle saved the Israelites from the Arameans. But I think that it is not a stretch to say that there is a connection between Naamans healing by Elisha and the Israelites defeating the Arameans. I also think that it is not a stretch to say that there is a connection between Jesus helping the Roman commander and then Jesus metaphorically destroying the Roman army, or Peter converting the Roman commander, and then Peter being broken out of prison. It is especially important to note that Jesus references Naaman. Jesus knew about this story and it is possible that he was aware of this interpretation that I discovered. Jesus does the same thing. When Jesus is on the cross the Roman soldier claims that he believes he is the son of God. This represents the Roman soldier accepting the God of Israel and the torah. The Roman army is at first against Israel, but after they are converted they begin to help the Jews and be on the side of the Jews and the torah. I do not say this to be arrogant, but these interpretations that I am putting fourth have never been said before to my knowledge. This is new stuff. I discovered this. This is the fascinating thing. This is how the Israelites beat the Arameans. The Arameans are fighting the Israelites and then they end up in the Israelite camp. The Israelites are going to kill them. Elisha asks the Lord if the Israelites should kill them. But the Lord says not to kill them but to eat with them. Eating with the enemy represents convverting the enemy to your side. The same thing happens with Peter and the disciples of Jesus when they eat with non Jews in the Roman Empire.

This is very interesting. The Israelites after eating with the Arameans are under siege of the Arameans. The King of Israel is mad at Elisha and wants Elisha killed. The King of Israel probably is upset that Elisha helped to heal the Assyrian commander and that Elisha had the Israelites eat with their enemies. The Israelites are starving and two Israelite women make a deal. One Israelite woman says that they will kill and eat her son one day and they will kill and eat the other son the other day. They kill and eat her son but the next day the other woman hides her son. The Israelites are starving. Elisha though says that the next day they will have a lot of food. There will have to be a miracle. The next day there are four men with leprosy at the city gate. They say that if they stay they will die, so they agree that they should go to the Aramean camp and surrender, and maybe their lives will be spared. I don't think it is a coincidence that these are four men. They represent the quadrant. They find the Aramean camp abandoned. I don't think this is a coincidence. I think that it is not a stretch to say that the Aramean leader is complicit in this. A lot of food is in the camp and supplies. The Israelites take it and as a result survive. I don't think that this story is random. I think that the fact that the Israelites had food with the Arameans, and now the Arameans have left their camp so that the Israelites can eat their food, is not a coincidence. And it is due to Elisha, who had the wisdom of God to convert his enemy in order to defeat them.

Now this is a fascinating story. Elisha had brought a Shunamite womans son bakc to life. SHunamites are not Israelites. the Shunamite woman goes to King of Aram and she tells him about the miracles of Elisha. This is significant. Look at how this story is shaped. Elisha has saved the Shunamite woman's son due to her belief and submitting to the torah. Elisha also heals people by having them turn to the law of God. The Shunamite woman represents a convert. She is the enemy that has been converted. Now this is the fascinating thing. She tells the King of Aram about Elisha. The King of Aram becomes sick and he sends a messenger to Elisha to heal him. The King of Aram represents an enemy to Israel. Elisha is represented as a very astute man. Elisha begins to cry and tells the man, Hazael, who the Ben Hadad, the King of Aram sent, that the Arameans will destroy the ISraelites. They will destroy the Israelites due to their sins. But this is the brilliant thing that Elisha does. Elisha tells Hazael that Hazael will take the Kings place as ruler. Hazael then goes back to the King of Aram, the enemy of the Israelites, and he kills the King. This is brilliant. By converting the Shunamite woman, Elisha vicariously made it so he could ultimately kill the enemy of the Israelites, the King of Aram. The same thing happens in the New Testament. After converting many members of the Roman army, these members, it is described that King herod, who is a Roman that is ruling over the Jews, is killed for blaspheming god. I don't think it is a coincidence that he is illed in the midst of a group of Christians. I think it is not a stretch to say that the Christians killed him. And his death would have been good for the Jews, being that King Herod is an enemy to the Jews in the stories. In other words Elisha is depicted as a trickster. Elisha triccked Hazael into killing the King of Aram, the enemy of the Israelites. I submit that the stories of the New Testament have the same form as the stories of Elisha and the other stories that I ave depicted so far. The death and ressurection of Jesus coincides with the converting of the Jews enemies, which saves the Jews from their enemis. The death and ressurection of Elisha coincides also with the conversion of the Jews enemies, which saves the Jews from their enemies. In other words, these sacrifices forgive the Israelites of their sins. The Isralites should have been killed by their enemies, but by converting them after the sacrifices, the Israelites are saved from death. This interpretation I have never seen proposed before, but it seems extremely obvious to me. Remember, the Shunamite woman represents the oppressed in the Assyrian empire. Elisha converts the oppressed, and she helps him to destroy the enemies of the Israelites. The King of Aram is against the alw of God and the Israelites. Remember that the Israelites converted Rahab and she helped the Israelites to destroy Cannan, as well as the kenite woman who helped the Israelites to kill the Cannanite commander. This is a common theme in the bible.. The torah speaks to the oppressed and downtrodden in society. These people see the law of God and it touches them. The prostitue Rahab sees the law of God which is against prostiution and this speak to her. That is why it is these people that end up helping the Israelites. After Elishas death the Assyrian empire ends up exiling the Northern Kingdom of Israel due to its sin. But the bible describes that many Israelites are resettled there in what is known as Samaria. Jesus in the stories talks to a Samaritan woman at the well and describes that she is aa descendant of Jacob. In other words, Jesus sees her as a member of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Recall that JEsus refuses to preach to anybody other than Israelites in the stories. It's amazing that not many people know that, but it's true. Just read the new testament. I think so many people don't know anything about the bible because they haven't read it. I was lucky because my Grandpa on my Dad's side was a minister and he is extremely brilliant, and for about the course of two years every night I called him on the telephone and read the bible and talk about it with him. I think that's what helped me to get the knowledge I have of the bible. My Grandpa did not see the connections that I have made, but it was thanks to all of the time that I spent reading the bible that I made all of these connections. My Grandpa was actually the one who introduced me to Ken Wilber's book the theory of everything in which Ken Wilber discusses his own quadrant model. My Grandpa gave me this book when I was in the 9th grade and he discussed it with me. Also my Grandpa was the one who told me about the thinking, emotion, doing, dreaming personality model and he was the one who first told me that he thought that thoughts are shaped by the ego. If it was not for my Grandpa, there is no way I could have come up with the quadrant model I don't think. This might sound crazy, but I do think reality is an illusion, and I can go into great detail, but I think that reality had guided me to the theory of everything. If I told people what I have experienced they will say that I am schizophrenic, and right now I'm not going to, but I think that reality is an illusion. The thing about real schizophrenics though is they cannot pretend not to be schizophrenic. Real schizophrenics, if a doctor asks if they have experienced things that suggest to them reality is an illusion, describe really bizarre things, more bizarre than I have experienced. I mean they talk about aliens and this and that. If a doctor asks me if I have experienced bizarre things I am not like a schizophrenic.I just tell the doctor no so he leaves me alone. But my experience in life has suggested to me that reality is an illusion. Jung talked about the concept of synchronicity. Jung described the phenomenon of people saying something and at the same time reading a sign that says it, and things like this. Jung talked about these strange coincidences and things that seem supernatural and Jung said that this is the mind coming to the realization that reality is an illusion. I have definitely experienced a lot of synchronicity. A lot of skeptic philosophers say that these types of experiences can be explained by probablity and statistics. People are bound to experience things like synchronicites , adn when they do, they attribute it to the supernatural. It is interesting that people have these types of experiences often when they are high. I described that that people think that people like the oracle of delphi were high when they made their propheices, and this is why their propheices were accurate. Others say that people like the oracle of delphi just make really broad statements, and events happen that people attribute to being prophecied, but the stameetns are so general that it is inevitable that the oracle will make some statements that appear to be hits. But people describe while being high experiencign thigns like synchronicieis. I think that I have experienced things that are beyond probability explaining. But ten again a lot of people do. But it is interetesting that people who have "diseases" like schitzophrenia often claim to have supernatural experiences that reveal different types of qualities of reality. These types of people were made shamans in ancient cultures. It is interesting to note that doctors think that these types of people have chemical iimblances in their brains. Drugs that make people high produce chemcial imbalances in peoples brains and that is why they get high. The idea is people like schitzophrenics and people like this have these chemical abnormalities naturally. So they are high without taking drugs. It is interesting that these types of people claim to hear voices and have visual hallucinations. Hearing voices and visual hallucinations is a common quality in the prophets of the bible, and is a quality that the spiritual leaders in all cultures shared. I described that these voices and hallucinations are often attributed to be from the divine, and that they give knowledge of God. I described that drugs often lead to knowledge and are associated with knowledge. People who take drugs claim to have visual and auditory hallucinations. But shamans and these types of people gain knowledge from God apparently without the need of drugs. People say that these types of people need to be medicated. I described that in ancient cultures a person who would be termed schitzophrenic today would be highly revered. Moreover, evidence shows that by medicating these people and hospitalizing them, it does not help them too much. In fact, evidence shows that in cultures where schitzophernics and people with these "mental diseases" are just treated like other people, the people do a lot better and don't have as serious of problems as in a culture like the United States, where a big deal is made out of these people and they are called "mentally ill". There is a scientific phenomenon known as synestheisa. People with synestheisa claim that they can see the color of peoples names, or numbers, or sense the taste of a word, and things like this. Scientists now know that this is a real phenomenon that they attribute to wirings in the brian associated with senses being intertwined with areas of te brain associated with things like the shapes of numbers and stuff like that. But these people used to be considered crazy. People who have synesthesia tend to be better at metaphorical thinking. I have synesthesia in that I see the color of numbers and peoples names seasons and stuff like that. It is rare that somebody has synesthesia

King David is another example of a person in the bible who converts his enemies in order to destroy them. There is a civil war among the Jews. David is trying to take the kingship from Saul and Saul wants to kill David. David lives with the king of the Philistines. The King of the Philistines likes David and trusts David. This represents David converting his enemy the Philistines. David tells the King of the Philistines that every night he will go out and kill Israelites. The King of the Philistines really likes David because of this. But every night David really goes out with his army and kills Philistines. Later Philistines tell the King that David has been killing their men. The King loves David so much that he refuses to believe this. This is like the stories of Jesus. The Roman empire is converted to Christiantiy and this destroys the Roman empire. By converting the Roman Empire to the torah, the Roman empire is destroyed. This is like David sort of converting the Philistines. This ended up hurting the Philistines, who were really against the torah. Another example of converting the enemy is seen in 1 Chronicles. David is with Uzziah and Uzziah touches the arc of God and dies. Recall that knowledge and death are associated and knowledge and close proximity with God are associated. Touching the divine kills you, and Uzziah, an Israelite touches it. As a result David gives the arc to an Edomite to take care of it. The Edomite becomes a gatekeeper for the Israeltites and his sons are in charge of food storage. Giving the edomite the arc represents converting him. As a result the Edomite helps the Israelites with food and protection. The same thing happens when Joseph converts the Egyptians by interpreting the Phyaroahs dream. After this Joseph becomes second and command to the Pharoah and thus becomes a sort of God King to the Egyptians. It is interesting that the same thing happens in the book of Esther. I already described this book. In this book Mordecai becomes second and command to the Persian king and thus becomes a sort of God King in the Persian Empire. As a result Mordecai can kill the enemies of the Jews in the empire. By converting the Persian Empire, this saved the Jews. The same thing happens in the story of Jonah I explained. God tells Jonah to convert the Ninevites and after Jonah converts them then God says that they have a lot of cattle and there is a lot of them. In other words the Ninevites can offer them food and protection. The same thing happens when the disciples of Jesus after his resurrection convert the Roman empire to Christianity. There is a famine in the Roman Empire like there was a famine in Egypt. The Jews are therefore saved. It is interesting that after Uzziah's death David defeats the Philistines in battle. Uzziah represents the sort of sacrifice. The Israelites were sinning, but there is a sacrifice, and after the sacrifice the ISraelites defeat the enemy that was going to kill them. I described this with the story of Moses. The Egyptians are supposed to kill the ISraelites. But then Moses sacrifices the lamb. AFter this the Israelites defeat the Egyptians. Jesus becomes a sort of God King to the Roman Empire as Joseph becomes a sort of God King to the Egyptian Empire as Mordecai becomes a sort of God King to the Persian Empire. And all of these figures are depicted as saving Israel. The Egyptians are even sort of converted, and they give the Israelites their gold and resources. Another example of God forgiving sins and thus not killing all of the Israelites due to a sacrifice occurs in 1 Chronicles 21. David takes a census of Israel in a way that is against the law of God. Therefore, due to David's sin, God punishes all of Israel with a plague that kills over 70 thousand men. David asks God not to punish Israel but to punish him and his family and then David makes burnt offerings and sacrifices. As a result, this forgives Israel of David's sin, and God stops killing them. This is like te sin offering of Jesus that also forgives the Israelites of their sins and prevents the Jews from having to be killed by the Roman empire. I can even go so far as to argue that the book of Job represents this phenomenon of converting your enemy to the torah to destroy them. Job is an Edomite, an enemy to the Israelites. yet he has faith in the God of Israel and this destroys him. Similarly the Roman Empire had faith in the God of Israel and it this faith destroyed it. The torah is anti empire. The Pharoah even claimed to believe in the God of ISrael. No wonder why Egypt is destroyed in the stories. Similalry Job has fait in the God of Israel and the God of Israel destroys his family and all of his possessions. But Job maintians his faith in the torah and in the end is blessed. He actually ends up interestingly with more in the end than he had in the beginning. But still before this he is destroyed.

The book of Job interestingly, fulfills the quadrant model pattern. Job has four comforters. In the book of Job, Job is a rich man who has a lot of faith in God. But Satan tells God that he does not think that Jobs faith would last if Job lost all that he had. God thinks that Job's faith will remain firm, but God tests Job by killing his family and destroying everything that Job has. Job is saying that he has done no sin and nothing wrong to deserve this. Jobs comforters disagree. The comforters are

Square 1: Eliphaz

Square 2: Bildad

Square 3: Zophar

Square 4: Elihu. Elihu comes at the end. He is different from the previous three. The quadrant model is fulfilled in Job's four comforters. The book of Job is these four comforters trying to tell Job that e did commit sin that made it so his punishment is deserved. The first three men continue to try to tell Job that his punishment is just but Job will not listen. Elihu comes in once the first three have given up, and Elihu kind of elaborates on what the first three have said. The fourth is always different from the previous three, yet encompasses them. Finally at the end God tells Job that He does what he wishes, and what he does is just, because He is great. Then for maintaining his faith, which means that Job continued to follow the torah, God blesses Job with more than he had before. Job fits the quadrant model pattern.

The book of Daniel is about Daniel in the Babylonian empire after the Babylonian dispersion. Daniel loves the God of Israel and His law. Daniel is not carnal or fleshly, and his character is sort of antithetical to the ways of the Babylonian empire which are fleshly and carnal. Daniel is under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. This is the only time before the Roman dispersion that the Jews are outside of the land of Israel. Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, descendants of nobility, and young handsome men without physical defect, are chosen to serve in the King of Babylon's court. These four characters represent the quadrant. It is described that the chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego. Daniel is a righteous man and decides not to "defile" himself with the royal food and wine. The royal food probably is not kosher and it is probably extravagant. Recall that the God of Israel is against carnality, and royal food is usually for the purpose of pleasure. King David talks against gluttony. Recall that the law of the Bible is antithetical to the hedonistic law of multicultural empires that encourage hedonism. Because the court does not offer kosher food Daniel just eats vegetables and water, but Daniel and his friends, who eat in this manner, become stronger and more healthy than the members of the court who gorge themselves. The King of Babylon has a dream and he wants his astrologers and magicians to interpret it but he does not tell them what the dream is. Because they cannot interpret it the God of Nebuchadnezzar ordered them executed. Then Daniel interprets the dream with the help of the God of Israel. The dream fits the quadrant model pattern. In the dream there is a statue. The statue has five part that fit the quadrant model pattern. They are

Square 1: a head of gold. The first square is the head. The first square is mental. Gold is also good. The first square is good. Gold is also kind of soft and malleable. That is the nature of the first square.

Square 2: a chest and arms of silver. The second square is structure and homeostasis. A chest and arms are structure.

Square 3: a belly and thights of bronze. The third square is the most solid. Bronze is solid and hard. The tird square is also the doer. The thighs are responsible for the bodies movement and ar powerful.

Square 4: legs of iron. The fourth part is iron. Iron is different from gold silver and bronze.

Square 5: feet of partly clay and partly iron. Recall that the fourth always points to the fifth. The fourth always indicates the fifth. The fifth part has elements of the fourt in it. The fourth is the true word and the fifth is the true light.

Remember I described that the nature of dreams in the Bible is that they predict the future and create the future. Daniel says that these four parts of the statue represent five kingdoms. Daniel does not say speccifically what these kingdoms are, but scholars have teir theories. Scholars think that Daniel was written late in Jewish history, and pretended like it was written before, so it has these predictions about these four kingdoms, but really these are just descriptions of the past posing as predictions. Daniel tells Nebukunezzar that the head is the Babylonian Kingdom that the Jews are currently under. Seventh day adventists tend to think these kingdoms are

Square 1: the Babylonian Empire

Square 2: the Mede/Persian Empire

Square 3: the Greek Empire

Square 4: the Roman Empire

Square 5: This is debatable.

Peter has a dream of unclean animals and God says to eat them. But this is just a dream. And remember, dreams are not literal but metaphorical, and there is an interpretation of the dream immediately following it. Immediately following this dream the Roman commander Cornelius goes to meet Peter. Peter is told by God to convert eat with them and convert them. I already described the reasoning behind this. By converting the Roman commander, a man with a lot of power, this would be good for the torah and for Israel. Romans to the Israelites were called pigs. Romans were seen as unclean animals and thus Jews did not associate with them or eat with them. But in this case God says to associate with this Roman Commander and eat with him. Messianic Jews think that this Roman commander was probably a member of a lost tribe of Israel. But whether or not he is does not matter. What matters is that by converting the Roman commander to the side of the torah, the Jews are going to help to destroy Rome, After Daniel interprets the dream of Nebukenezzar nebukunezzar makes Daniel second and command in the Babylonian Empire. This is similar to Joseph who is made second and command in the Egyptian Empire. Daniel essentially is made into a God King for the Babylonians, because being second and command to Nebukenezzar would deify you. This is like Jesus who is deified by the Romans. This is good for the Jews that Daniel, a Jew, has gained so much power in the Babylonian empire, like when it was good for the Jews in Egypt in the stories, when Joseph becomes second and command. Daniel is made into a ruler. Moreover, Daniel makes his Jewish friends Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego administrators. Nebuchadnezzar sets up a golden statue for the people of his empire to worship but Shadrach Meshach and Abednego will not worship it. The gold represents carnality and empire. The gold represents greed and this statue is thus antithetical to the god of Israel. The law of the God of Israel separates man from the fleshly and the carnal. Shadrach, Mesach and Abednego are warned that if they do not worship the golden idol they will be thrown into a fire. They are thrown into a fire but they survive. Babylonian guards look in and they see a fourth figure with them that they say looks like "a son of the Gods." This fits the quadrant model pattern

square 1: Shadrach

square 2: Mesach

square 3: Abednego

square 4: a son of the Gods.

The fire kills the Babylonian soldiers that threw them in. Nebukenezzar also praises the God of Israel for this miracle. This is a common theme. The enemy of the Jews is being converted away from paganism to the God of Israel.

Then Nebukunezzar has a dream. Remember that dreams in the bible tell the future and they also influence the future. They influence the future because the interpretation f them will influence the future. The King of Babylon tells Daniel that in his dream there was a tree. It is a magnificent tree. In the Dream a messenger comes down from heaven and tells Nebuchadnezzar to cut it down. The animals under it flee and the fruit is stripped off. Nebuchadnezzar asks Daniel to interpret the dream. Daniel says that King Nebuchadnezzar will be driven away from his people and live with the wild animals. Recall that the Nebuchadnezzar was once an enemy to the Jews and an enemy to the torah. Now Daniel is saying that he will leave his kingdom and go with the wild animals. Nebuchadnezzar is going to go from being a lavish king to putting on sackcloth and separating himself from the carnal world. In other words, he has moved from an enemy to the torah and Israel, to a friend to the torah and the Jewish people. This is like when Jonah converts the Ninevites. The Ninevites go from being an enemy to Israel and dangerou and sinful and carnal, to wearing sackcloth and on the side of Israel and the torah. Daniel tells the King to be kind to the oppressed and renounce his sins. In a sense Daniel is destroying the Babylonian Empire. Daniel is doing the same thing Joseph did. Daniel is advising the King and the King is listening to an Israelite. In Daniel's interpretation of the dream., Daniel destroys the Babylonian Empire, because the King follows what Daniel says will happen, he renounces the world, and he comes back to his kingdom now following the ways of the God of ISrael. The torah is a book for the oppressed and it is antithetical to empires. Daniel is teaching the King to follow the torah. This is a death blow to the Babylonian Empire. Nebuchadnezzar's son though is Belshazzar. Belshazzar stops following the torah, and he lives carnal and fleshly. He is having a lavish banquet where he drinks off of the golden cups that the Babylonians had taken from the Jewish temple of God. This is when there is the famous writing on the wall. There is a disembodied hand and it writes on the wall. The writing fits the quadrant model. It is interesting that the King is drinking wine when the writing occurs. Remember that wine is associated with death. Daniel tells Belthezzar how his Dad had humbled himself. Nebukenezzar had turned to the torah according to Daniel. But Daniel says that Belthezzar hasn't. This is evidenced by the fact that Belthezzar is having this lavish hedonistic banquet. The writing on the wall fits the quadrant model pattern. It is

Square 1: Mene. God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end

Square 2: Mene. The first two are the duality

Square 3: Tekel. You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. This is an action. Weighing is an action. The action is the third square

Square 4: Your Kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and the Persians. The fourth square is death. The fourth square is also division. When somebody flows he loses his self/ he loses his ego. It is like he is separating from his body. It is interesting because I have been studying the nature of rape and murder with a man recently who is an expert on the subjects. He describes that there are books on the subject. His analysis fits my writings. I described how knowledge is related to sex and death and drugs and sports. He describes that people who go on murderous rampages in a sense do lose themselves. He says sometimes they don't even remember doing it. He says it is like they are on a drug like salvia. Salvia is a drug that kind of makes people experience death. I described how drugs induce flow experiences. He says that when people go on murderous rampages, or even when they rape, there is a sort of disassociation with themselves. He says that the people who are disassociated with themselves often do things like eat the person that they kill. He says it is almost like it is not them though that is doing it. He describes that it is like they have two selves. This is the way that he describes it. He describes there is the normal human self. And he describes this primordial self that can rape and murder and this self that comes out when you take drugs as the chimp self. He says the chimp self has no inhibitions. He says the regular self, if it saw somebody in a room with a hatchet swigning and striking everybody, would freeze and be scared for at least ten seconds. He says the chimp self would just react and jump into action and stop the guy from swinging or join in. There is the term of people who are drunk with blood. These people are in a sense actually drunk. He showed me the picture of a man who recently killed his wife and ate her. I told him how what this man did is cannibalistic and murderous, and I described how Freud says that humans are subconsciously cannibilsitic and murderous. The man told me that the guy who ate his wife was in touch with that inner chimp. He said that if you look into the mans eyes when he killed his wife and when he ate her, he said that it would not be that man. He said it would be the chimp. He described that te man has to be sort of dissaciated with himself. He says some people become that chimp permanently. He said that torturing people, like in Guantanomo, can turn people into that chimp. He said a lot of people have a higher propensity to become that chimp due to childhood trauma. He told me that chimp is connected with when you take drugs like salvia, and that is why people like to take them. I told the man how I have never taken drugs in my life. I described how drugs and sex and death are related. They are in a different state. The man who I talked to who studies this and is an expert on this also told me an interesting thing. I told him how sex itself is like an act of murder where the man is murdering the woman. He told me that the woman does literally in a sense die when she is fornicated with. He said that when a woman orgasms, pet scans show, she sort of passes out. It is like you are killing her. This is fascinating to me and proves my idea that knowing, sex, and death are related. I described to the man my situation in basketball. When I was young I was one of the best in the nation. I was the best shooter and I was very good at everything. Then my Dad bought me a shootaway machine. It is a net that goes around the hoop. When you shoot the ball goes through the net and rolls down a rail back to you. I said before I was so good because I moved into shots naturally and didn't think about it. I said once I got the shootaway, looking back at it, I started to shoot mechanicall. I would pick the ball off of the rail and shoot. My shot was so good because when I moved into it naturally I was aligned with perfect form automatically. My approach was perfect because I wasn't thinking about it. I said that I shot all the time on this shootaway and I said that I looked back on a few videos that I have of when I was younger. I said that I noticed that my shot got horrible, and it was the time I started shooting on the shootaway, and it was clearly because of the shootaway. I said that my shot was so good because it was automatic so I didn't know how to fix it. I said this was when my relationship with my Dad fell apart. Before my Dad and I always shot together every day. My Dad went to every game I ever played. My Dad also would help me with my shot. He would tell me things so I never had to thought about what I was doing. That was a part of the reason I was so good. I had a game where I made 12 three pointers in a championship and brought my team back to win. I was pure and perfect with what I did and I wasn't aware of what I was doing. I said that when my shot started getting horrible I stopped wanting to shoot. I got the shootaway in the seventh/eight grade and my shot started getting bad, but I was still the best because I was still very good at dribbling and stuff. But I said my shot got extremely horrible. I started my freshman year on varsity and my team won the CIF campionship. But my shot was awful. The reason I started was because I was good at dribbling and stuff. Then my sophomore year I lost my starting spot and my Dad stopped coming to my games and stopped helping me with my shot. I didn't care that much, it was just that I felt that I needed him for my shot. My shot was always automatic so I didn't know how to fix it. I needed him. So then we started to fight a lot because I wanted him to help me. I had to see a psychologist and I tried to make the psychologist make my Dad and I have a contract where my Dad would at least come to a few games. I did this because I wanted him to help me with my shot. Like I said he used to go to all of my games; every single one, but once my shot got horrible my Dad stopped going all togehter. I never made the connection that the shootaway was making my shot horrible and I shot more and more on the shootaway. Finally my relationship with my Dad and Mom and whole family was destroyed because of the situation. My Dad would not help me and he didn't even know how and he stopped going to any of my games. He used to shoot with me every night when I was young and he never shot with me. Even in the ninth grade when my shot was bad he shot with me every night. But once I lost my spot he stopped shooting with me. I felt I needed his help with my shot and I was desperate. I told the man that I was talking to that is an expert on what he calls killology this story and he told me that I needed to get back to the inner chimp in me that was there before I got the shootaway machine and my shot became mechanical. i told him that I studied some video of when I played when I was younger. I said it was what he was calling my inner chimp. I told him I was flowing. I told him that all of the women were extremely attracted to me all through high school even and up to college because I was not aware of my body when I moved. I said that I was always flowing. I said that I studied my shot and I said that I studied how it looked before I got the shootaway how I moved into it naturally and I said that I think I now can shoot again. But I said I feel like I can never get back to when I was completely flowing. I was playing college basketball at UCSD but my shot was so bad that I ended up quitting. Before quitting I studied some videos of when I was younger and recognized that I was so good when I was young because I was flowing. But I said that is the most importnat thing to me. That is all that I really want. I don't care about money or anything. I just hopefully want to get back to that level- what he calls the chimp- I call it the flow. I said I don't care about money or any of that stuff. That to me is the most important thing. I told him that I hopefully want to study video sof when I was younger but I hopefully need to get them from people that have them. I want to hopefully study the flow. But anyways, after reading this writing on the wall, Daniel is made by Belthezzar into the third highest ruler in Babylon. Again, like Joseph, Daniel is given a position in power that makes him at the status of God King for the enemy empire. This is good for the Jews. Converting your enemy helps you, and that is a common theme in the Bible. It is no coincidence that after Belthezzar is converted to belief in the God of Israel, which means he is converted to the torah, it is described that he is slained and the Kingdom of Babylon falls. Recall that the God of Israel destroys empires in the Bible. It is like the fact that Egypt ends up falling due to Joseph and Moses. And the Cannanite Empire system falls due to Joshua and so on so fourth. By converting these empires to the God of Israel and the torah, Israelites destroy these empires. King Darius of Persia makes Daniel an administrator in his empire of Persia, which destroys the Babylonian empire. The administrators do not like Daniel and they try to get Daniel in trouble through the "law of His God". Daniel prays three times a day to the God of Israel, but a decree is set up that only Darius can be prayed to. In these empire systems men are deified. For instance, in the Roman Empire Caesar was a God, in the Egyptian Empire, Pharoah was a God, in the empires of China the Emporer was a God, and in the Greek Empire Alexander the Great was seen as a God. These Empires are against the law of God in that they worship man, the flesh, and the carnal. For instance, in the Roman Empire people worshipped gladiator fighters. Similalry today people worship professional athletes. In the Roman Empire people attended plays that were full of sex and violence ritualistically. Similarly today people attend movies full of sex and violence ritualistically. The torah is antithetical to fleshly empire systems, and this is why the administrators of the Persian Empire, who represent the elite of the empire, and thus their statuses depend on the empire, hate Daniel, who follows the torah. The King's edict was that for 30 days only he could be prayed to. This represents worship of the ego. Daniel does not worship man so he is thrown into a lions den. But Daniel survives. This represents a sort of death and ressurection of Daniel and Darius is amazed. Lions are beasts, and lions are associatd with enemies of the Jews/ enemy empires. An angel of God shuts the mouths of the lions. This is metaphroical of the torah converting the enemies of the Israelites. Enemies of the Israelites are under systems withotu the torah and thus they suffer. When they accept the torah then their systems fall. This is like when Rahab accepts the torah and is converted by the Israelites, and the Cannanite city of Jericho falls after this. The lions mouths being shut represents the destruction of the enemies of Israel. This is similar to the story of Jesus. In the story of Jesus the lions are the Roman Empire system. This system is antithetical to the torah. But Christiantiy spreads and spreads the torah. The Jews are going to be destroyed by the Roman Empire system, but the mouths of the lions are shut. The torah destroys the Roman Empire system and thus the Jews are saved. In this analogy, the lions are the Roman Empire and the Jews are Daniel. The angel of God is the torah and he stops the enemy. It is described ta tthe King is happy that Daniel is not dead. The King does have respect for Daniel, like the Pharoah has respect for Moses, like The Pharoah has respect for Joseph, like Cyrus has respect for Mordecai, and so on and so fourth. And it is described that Darius converts to the God of Israel. In other words, Darius has adopted the torah. This is good for the Jews, but it is not good for the Persian empire. We already know this. The torah is antithetical to empire. The Persian empire is an enemy to the JEws so this conversion is good.

Before the Persian Empire takes hold though, Daniel has a dream during the reign of Belshazzar. This dream fits the quadrant model pattern. It fits the quadrant model pattern as follows. Daniel sees four winds representing the quadrant, and then he sees four beasts.

Square 1:"The first was like a lion, and it had the wings of an eagle. I watched until its wings were torn off and it was lifted from the ground so that it stood on two feet like a human being, and the mind of a human was given to it." The first square is related to the mind. This beast is described as being like a lion. Daniel is going to describe that this beast is an empire. I already discussed the lion’s den with Daniel. So it makes sense that the shutting of the lions mouths represents the destruction fo an empire and the neutralization of the enemy of the Israelites. This lion is described as having a mind of a human. Recall that in Wilber's model the first square is mind. The first square is the light. Idealists are very mental.

Square 2:“And there before me was a second beast, which looked like a bear. It was raised up on one of its sides, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. It was told, ‘Get up and eat your fill of flesh!’ The second square is the culture square. Eating is a cultural, social activity that people do together. I also described that the second square is the word. The second square is social. I have another model that describes the four things people need to be healthy. Square 1 is sleep and that is associated with the mind. Square 2 is food and that is associated with culture. People often eat with family and friends. Square 3 is exercise and that is the body. Square 4 is social interaction. Without social interaction people go crazy. Astronauts need social interaction or else they go crazy. If they cannot have social interaction they at least need some sort of life to connect with like a plant. Guardians are very into belonging and culture.

Square 3: After that, I looked, and there before me was another beast, one that looked like a leopard. And on its back it had four wings like those of a bird. This beast had four heads, and it was given authority to rule. The third square is te doer square. The third square is the body. This beast, the leapord is the doer. It has authority to rule. The third quadrant personality, the artisan, likes authority and respect.

Square 4:" After that, in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast—terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. It was different from all the former beasts, and it had ten horns." The fourt beast is different from the previous three. I described that this is the nature of the quadrant model. The fourth is always different from the previous three. It is described that it is terrifying and powerful. I described that the emotion associated with the fourth quadrant is fear. Fear helps to fascilitate flow. Also it is poweruful. I described that knowledge is power. The beast has iron teeth. This relates this beast to Daniels other dream where the fourth part of the statue is the iron legs. It is described that this beast is different from the other beasts and has 10 horns. The fourth always transcends the previous three, and the previous three are always more similar. I described this in the first chapter of this book when I described thinking, emotion, doing, and dreaming. Thinking and emotion and doing are very connected. Dreaming seems separate, but in fact dreaming also encompasses these. There is sort of a fifth square where a horn rises up from the 10 horns. It is described that all of these beasts are destroyed. These beasts represent empires. I described that seventh day adventists think that the fourth beast is Rome and the horn is the pope, who they say continued the Roman empire. Some say that the fourth beast is the Ottoman Empire which adopted Islam yet maintained paganism. Some say that there is a Roman ottoman alliance and that the Roman Empire and Ottoman Empire are the same thign and the Ottoman Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire. Seventh Day adventists again describe the first beast as the Babylonian, second as Persian, third as the Greek Empire, and fourth as the Roman Empire. Seventh day adventists point out that these empires expanded the same territory and all encompassed Israel, which is why the JEws, who were in Israel, are under each of these empires. Daniel describes that these four beasts are four kingdoms that will "oppress the saints and God's holy people". This means that they will oppress the Israelites. But Daniel says that once these kingdoms are destroyed God's holy people, which are the Israelites, will be given authority,. Thus the torah will rule. As you can see, this vision of Daniel elucidates the quadrant model pattern. Daniel then mourns for Israel because it has been dispersed.

Hosea mourns in regards to Israel, "Even when their drinks are gone,

they continue their prostitution;

their rulers dearly love shameful ways.

19 A whirlwind will sweep them away,

and their sacrifices will bring them shame."

Remember that alcohol is related to sin. Hosea describes Israel as the wife of God, but states that Israel has committed adultery by disobeying God's law, and thus Israel must be dispersed. Hosea is saying that they are committing so much sin and think that their sacrifices will cover it. But their sin is too great. They will be dispersed and become gentiles and lose the law of God. Their sins are too grievous and they must be punished. Hosea says "Ephraim, you have now turned to prostitution;

Israel is corrupt." Ephraim is the northern Kingdom of Israel that is dispersed in the stories by the Assyrian Empire. Hosea is saying that there disperson is going to be due to their sin. Sin and corruption is related to not following the torah. Once Israel is dispersed they will beocme genitles, meaning they will lose the law of God. Hosea says," When Israel was a child, I loved him,

and out of Egypt I called my son.

2 But the more they were called,

the more they went away from me.[a]

They sacrificed to the Baals

and they burned incense to images.

3 It was I who taught Ephraim to walk,

taking them by the arms;

but they did not realize

it was I who healed them.

4 I led them with cords of human kindness,

with ties of love.

To them I was like one who lifts

a little child to the cheek,

and I bent down to feed them." Again Israel is also called the son of God. The stories of the gospels literally are a metaphorical representation of the history of ISrael, with Jesus reflecting the God of Israel in the stories. Nobody has noticed that before to my knowledge, but to me it is very apparent. As the embodiment of Israel, Jesus too is called the son of God. Israel is supposed to be a light to the nations for it is supposed to follow the torah, which God describes as light. Therefore, if you believe in Israel you believe in God. Similarly if you believe in Jesus you believe in God. Because both are supposed to carry the commandments of God. But here Hosea is describing that Israel is not obeying the law of God but following the hedonistic fleshly practices of man. So they are going to be punished by being dispersed. I described that the parable of the lost son is a parable of Israel. The older son is Israel and the younger son is the Jews and Judah. Israel has been dispersed. But Jesus in te stories wants to bring Israel back to its Father, which is God. Israel is the older son. The older son leaves home and becomes a gentile like the Ephraim, the northern kingdom of Israel, leaves Israel because it is dispersed and becomes gentiles. But Jesus describes int e parable that the older son comes back and is welcomed by the Father. This represents Israel coming back to God and His Law. The theme of the New Testament isthis desire to regather the lost tribes of Israel and bring them back to the law of God as well as bring the Jews back to the Law of God.

The stories of Amos fit the quadrant model pattern. I want to mention that there are 12 minor prophets and four major prophets in the BIble. This fits the quadrant model pattern. The first 12 are the first three quadrants that are very connected. This is like the 12 fermions of the standard model of particle physics. The four major prophets is the fourth quadrant. They are different from the previous 12 quadrants, yet they encompass them. This is like the Bosons in the standard model of particle physics. Let's look at some examples of the quadrant model in Amos. Amos constantly repeats the principal behind the quadrant model pattern. The principal behind the quadrant model pattern is there are three that are very simila, but a fourth that is different, yet encompasses them. Amso says,

'“For three sins of Damascus,

even for four, I will not relent.

Because she threshed Gilead

with sledges having iron teeth,

4 I will send fire on the house of Hazael

that will consume the fortresses of Ben-Hadad.

5 I will break down the gate of Damascus;

I will destroy the king who is in[b] the Valley of Aven[c]

and the one who holds the scepter in Beth Eden.

The people of Aram will go into exile to Kir,”

says the Lord.'

Amos says, for three even for four. This is Amos describing subtly an awareness of the quadrant model pattern. It is interesting that Amos says that God is saying this. Amos is speaking through God. Jesus in the stories also claims to be a mouthpiece of God. Amos is describing enmeis of Israel who are against the torah. Amos is saying that they are going to be destroyed.

Amos then continues, "'For three sins of Gaza,

even for four, I will not relent.

Because she took captive whole communities

and sold them to Edom,

7 I will send fire on the walls of Gaza

that will consume her fortresses.

8 I will destroy the king[d] of Ashdod

and the one who holds the scepter in Ashkelon.

I will turn my hand against Ekron,

till the last of the Philistines are dead,”

says the Sovereign Lord.'

Again Amos is saying, for three sins of Gaza even for four. This is subtly saying the nature of the quadrant. The three are for certain. The fourth is different and sort of questionable. But the fourth is there. He says, "even for four".

Then Amos says again, "For three sins of Tyre,

even for four, I will not relent.

Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom,

disregarding a treaty of brotherhood,

10 I will send fire on the walls of Tyre

that will consume her fortresses.”' and

"'For three sins of Edom,

even for four, I will not relent.

Because he pursued his brother with a sword

and slaughtered the women of the land,

because his anger raged continually

and his fury flamed unchecked,

12 I will send fire on Teman

that will consume the fortresses of Bozrah.”' and

'“For three sins of Ammon,

even for four, I will not relent.

Because he ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead

in order to extend his borders,

14 I will set fire to the walls of Rabbah

that will consume her fortresses

amid war cries on the day of battle,

amid violent winds on a stormy day.

15 Her king[e] will go into exile,

he and his officials together,”'

says the Lord."

and

'“For three sins of Moab,

even for four, I will not relent.

Because he burned to ashes

the bones of Edom’s king,

2 I will send fire on Moab

that will consume the fortresses of Kerioth.[a]

Moab will go down in great tumult

amid war cries and the blast of the trumpet.

3 I will destroy her ruler

and kill all her officials with him,”

says the Lord.' and

'“For three sins of Judah,

even for four, I will not relent.

Because they have rejected the law of the Lord

and have not kept his decrees,

because they have been led astray by false gods,[b]

the gods[c] their ancestors followed,

5 I will send fire on Judah

that will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem.”' As you can see Amos keeps on repeating this statement, for three even four. This statement subtly describes te quadrant model pattern where the three are connected and certain, and the fourth is different, and thus described as, "even four". Most of these lands that Amos reprimands are not Israelite lands and Amos is describing they are going to be punished for their sins. He also mentions Judah and Israel though and says that they are also going to be punished. Judah and Israel are the Israelites.

Micah talks about false prophets.. Jesus also talks about false prophets. Micah says that teh false prophets prophecy for wine and beer and he says that these are the types of prophets Israel wants. He says that Israel wants to sin, and thus they kill the true prophets, but the false prophets that preach it is ok to sin they kill. Israel wants false prophets that dtell them it is ok to sin and live carnally. Jesus in the stories teaches to separate from the carnal world. A consequence of doing this is following the torah. Jesus repeats this idea in the gospels.

'"Do not prophesy,” their prophets say.

“Do not prophesy about these things;

disgrace will not overtake us.”

7 You descendants of Jacob, should it be said,

“Does the Lord become[a] impatient?

Does he do such things?”

“Do not my words do good

to the one whose ways are upright?

8 Lately my people have risen up

like an enemy.

You strip off the rich robe

from those who pass by without a care,

like men returning from battle.

9 You drive the women of my people

from their pleasant homes.

You take away my blessing

from their children forever.

10 Get up, go away!

For this is not your resting place,

because it is defiled,

it is ruined, beyond all remedy.

11 If a liar and deceiver comes and says,

‘I will prophesy for you plenty of wine and beer,’

that would be just the prophet for this people!"' The false prophets accoridng to Micah tell the Israelites that idisaster will not overcome them if they sin. But Micah is a true prophet and he tells them disaster will overcome them. Micah doesn't tell them what they want to hear, but what they don't wnat to hear. And this is why Micah is a true prophet. Jessu warsn agaisnt wolfs in sheeps clothing. These types of people act as though they are good and teaching the message of God, but really they are against the torah and teach that it is right to sin and doesn't matter if you sin or not. Thus they lead the sheep astray and to destruction. Regardless, Micah tells Israel despite their sin and the consequence of it, their dispersion, they will be regathered. Aka the sin of Israel will be forgiven. This is the message of Jesus, who is claiming to represent ISrael and desire to regather Israel. And Micah declares that Israel is going to be established as a focal point in the world and the nations will seek the torah. Micah declares,"In the last days

the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established

as the highest of the mountains;

it will be exalted above the hills,

and peoples will stream to it." Micah says, "The law will go out from Zion,

the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."

Habakkuk, the prophet has a very interesting quote that relates to the garden of Eden. He says,

"Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors,

pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk,

so that he can gaze on their naked bodies!

16 You will be filled with shame instead of glory.

Now it is your turn! Drink and let your nakedness be exposed[e]!"

Recollect that in the garden of Eden story Adam and Eve according to rabbis ate grapes, which means they drank wine. Then they realized they were naked. In other words they were sinning. They also felt shame. Habakkuk also reprimands Israel for its sins, but he reprimands other peoples for their sins too. Zephaniah, another prophet of Israel, describes that the whole Earth is going to be judged for its sin. Sin in the bible, remember, is living not in accordance with the torah. THe prophet Zechariah has a vision in which he sees four horns that scattered Israel, Jerusalem, and Judah. These four horns represent the quadrant. But then Zechariah describes four craftsmen that scare away and destroy these four horns that are going to destroy Israel and Judah and Jerusalem. This harkens back to the dreams of the four kingdoms. It is interesting that there is four craftsmen that stop the destruction of Israel. These four craftsmen are like the prophets that stop the destruction of Israel by returning Israelites to the law of God and also destroying the empire's that are against Israel by converting them. Zechariah also has a vision of two lampstands. God says that these are the two who are anointed to serve the Earth. According to Providence Church these two lampstands represent Moses and Elijah. Moses represents the written law and Elijah represents the spiritual law according to Providence Church. It is interesting that Moses is on top of a mountain and Moses and Elijah appear to him as well as God the Father. This fits the quadrant model in that these are four great figures. Jesus in the New Testament is not represented as different from the Old Testament but as doing the same thing that Elijah and Moses did. Elijah and Moses fight for the torah and destroy enemy empires that are against the torah. So does Jesus. Then Zechariah has a vision where he sees four chariots. These four chariots fit the quadrant model pattern. Zechariah goes, "I looked up again, and there before me were four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze. 2 The first chariot had red horses, the second black, 3 the third white, and the fourth dappled—all of them powerful. 4 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, “What are these, my lord?”'

This vision fits the quadrant model pattern.

Square 1: Red horses

Square 2: Black horses

Square 3: White horses

Square 4: Dappled horses. Notice how the first three are solid colors. The first three are similar. This is the nature of the quadrant model. The fourth though is different from the previous three. Yet it also encompasses the previous theree. That is the nature of the quadrant model pattern. The fourth is dappled, meaning that it is red, black, and white. The fourth is always separate, yet encompasses the previous three. It contains elements of the previous three.

Then Zechariah says, "Then the word of the Lord Almighty came to me: 5 “Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for the past seventy years, was it really for me that you fasted? 6 And when you were eating and drinking, were you not just feasting for yourselves? 7 Are these not the words the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem and its surrounding towns were at rest and prosperous, and the Negev and the western foothills were settled?’”

8 And the word of the Lord came again to Zechariah: 9 “This is what the Lord Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.’' This is simialr to Jesus. Zechariah is saying that the Israelites are fasting just for show and they are feasting not for God but for themselves. He is saying to show mercy and justice. This is done through following the torah. Zechariah states a time in the future when Israel will be reestablished and the temple rebuilt, and through the torah the Jews will be a kingdom of priests to all the world. He says, "This is what the Lord Almighty says: “In those days ten people from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say, ‘Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you.’”' The prophet Malachi depicts Israel as the wife of God, and he says that Israel has been unfaithful by disobeying His commandments. As a result he divorced her. This is represented by Israels dispersion. But Malachi describes that Israel is going to renew her covenant with God. She should have died; she should have been stoned. But she will come back to God. This is represented by the lost tribes of Israel being regathered to Israel. Malachi says that those who remain faithful to the law of God will one day "trample the wicked" and Malachi says "Remember the law of my servant Moses, the decrees and laws I gave him at Horeb for all Israel.". Following God and following His law in the Bible are inseparable.

Before we go to the New Testament, which is the Christian text, let's look a little bit more through the Old Testament. Let's look at the story of Jeremiah. Jeremiah is another character of the old testament who dies and resurrects and saves Israel and tries to bring Israel back to the torah.

God tells Jeremiah that before he was in the womb He "knew him", and that before Jeremiah was born He set him apart as one of the prophets of Israel. This is very interesting. This brings about the idea that everything is predetermined. Before Jeremiah was even born God had established that he would be a prophet. That means that the idea or the form and the being of Jeremiah existed even before Jeremiah was born. Jeremiah existed in a sense in the Mind of God. God knew him before he was even conceived. Like Moses, Jeremiah does not feel ready to be called to be a prophet of God. Jeremiah tells God that he does not "know how to speak" because he is "too young." God tells Jeremiah that the Israelites will not listen to him. That is because the Israelites do not want to follow the torah but have decided to sin and live by the flesh and not by the law of the torah. God tells Jeremiah not to be terrified of them though because God will help Jeremiah. Jeremiah describes Israel as an unfaithful wife that has broken her covenant with God. Jeremiah says '“‘How gladly would I treat you like my children

and give you a pleasant land,

the most beautiful inheritance of any nation.’

I thought you would call me ‘Father’

and not turn away from following me.

20 But like a woman unfaithful to her husband,

so you, Israel, have been unfaithful to me,”

declares the Lord.'

God describes Israelites as his children. Remember that Jesus describes himself as a son of God. But Jesus also describes all Israelites as sons and daughters of God. So does Jeremiah. God describes that the Israelites should call him Father, like Jesus does, but he describes that Israel does not follow His Law, but follows the laws of man and ways of the flesh. Jeremiah says"Circumcise yourselves to the Lord,

circumcise your hearts".

God says, "My people are fools;

they do not know me.

They are senseless children;

they have no understanding.

They are skilled in doing evil;

they know not how to do good".

God is saying that the Israelites do not follow his ways. God calls the Israelites senseless. If you have good sense then you are aware and act in responsible ways. Sense is the first square. But God is saying that the Israelites are senseless. He says that they are skilled in doing evil and do not know how to do good. In other words they are not follwing the torah, and the punishment for this is death. This is why Israel is scattered, and why Judah is scattered in the Babylonian dispersion. Judah is brought back to the land of Israel, but the Northern Kingdom of Israel, Ephraim, is lost. Ephraim is the lost ten tribes of Israel tha tJesus wants to return to the holy land. Jeremiah says What are you doing, you devastated one?

'Why dress yourself in scarlet

and put on jewels of gold?

Why highlight your eyes with makeup?

You adorn yourself in vain.

Your lovers despise you;

they want to kill you.

31 I hear a cry as of a woman in labor,

a groan as of one bearing her first child—

the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath,

stretching out her hands and saying,

“Alas! I am fainting;

my life is given over to murderers.”'

Jeremiah is a lot like Jesus. Jesus makes fun of the pharisees for worrying more about their fancy clothes and gold than about the law of God. Jeremiah like Jesus is saying to not follow the greedy ways of the flesh, but to live by the spirit and follow the law of God. Jeremiah says that the Jews are going to be punished for their sins. He says "my life is given over to murderers." Jeremiah is afraid that the Jews are going to murder him becaus ethey do not want to here his chastizzement. Jesus similarly feared tha tthe Jews were going to kill him. The Jews who have fallen away from the law of God do try to kill Jeremiah, and they also try to kill Jesus.

Like Jesus, Jeremiah rebukes the false prophets. Jeremiah says,

They have lied about the Lord;

they said, “He will do nothing!

No harm will come to us;

we will never see sword or famine.

13 The prophets are but wind

and the word is not in them;

so let what they say be done to them.”

God says that he is going to "make [his] mouth a fire" and he says the Israelites he will "consume". Providence Church points out that in the bible fire is often equated with the Word of God. Therefore providence Church looks at Revelations allegorically. They describe in revelations that most people in the world are burned with fire due to punishment from God. Providence teaches that this is not literal fire, but this is the Word of God chastizing people and giving them guilt for their sins. In the torah God burns thousands of Israelites with fire. It is interesting that in the Holocost means burnt offering, and was seen as a punishment from God by many for having disboeyd the law of God during the dispersion from Israel after the Roman empire dispersed the Israelites.

Jeremiah continues,

A horrible and shocking thing

has happened in the land:

31 The prophets prophesy lies,

the priests rule by their own authority,

and my people love it this way.

But what will you do in the end?

Jeremiah is saying that there are false prophets who are teaching against the torah. Jesus describes in the gospels that the priests are not teaching the law of God but are teaching mans laws and by their own authority. Jeremiah is making the same observation, and Jeremiah is saying that the people prefer this. He is saying that the people prefer to be told lies. He is saying that they do not want to hear the Truth, that they are going to be punished for their sins with death. They want to feel nice and comfortable and they deceive themselves, and prefer this to the Truth. A point I am making is that Jeremiah is very similar to Jesus in the stories.

God says through Jeremiah

"I am bringing disaster on this people,

the fruit of their schemes,

because they have not listened to my words

and have rejected my law."

It is clear that what God is so upset about is the Jews sins, and these sins are in accordacne with the Jews not living by the law of God. Jesus in the stories is upset about the same thing. Many Jews do follow the law though and follow Jesus and his disciples, wo try to bring them back to the law of God in the stories, according to Messianic Jews.

God says through Jeremiah,

"the carcasses of this people will become food for the birds and the wild animals, and there will be no one to frighten them away".

Jeremiah is saying the same thing Jesus says in the stories. In the gospel stories Jesus tells the people that the birds are going to eat on their flesh. Jesus is right in a historical perspective. The Roman Empire did destroy the temple and kill many Jews and scatter them. jeremiah is saying the same thing. But Jeremiah is not saying that the Romans are going to destry them, but he is saying that the punishment is going to be the Babylonians.

God continues through Jeremiah,

"How can you say, '“We are wise,

for we have the law of the Lord,”'

when actually the lying pen of the scribes

has handled it falsely?

9 The wise will be put to shame;

they will be dismayed and trapped.

Since they have rejected the word of the Lord,

what kind of wisdom do they have?"

Jeremiah is saying that there are a lot of Jews who claim to have the law of God, but they are still living in accordacne with the flesh. God says 17 “See, I will send venomous snakes among you,

vipers that cannot be charmed,

and they will bite you,” This is reminiscent of the Garden of Eden. The snakes represent death and death due to sin/disobedience to the Word of God. God continues through Jeremiah "I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,

a haunt of jackals;

and I will lay waste the towns of Judah

so no one can live there.”' Jesus says the same thing during the time of the Roman Empire. During Jeremiahs time it is the Babylonian empire that destroys Judah, but during Jesus's time it is the Roman empire that destroys Judah. The Jews try to kill Jeremiah like they tried to kill Jesus, because they do not want to be reprimanded, but prefer false prophets who tell them things that make them fell good. God continues through the prophet Jeremiah, 25 “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will punish all who are circumcised only in the flesh— 26 Egypt, Judah, Edom, Ammon, Moab and all who live in the wilderness in distant places.[e] For all these nations are really uncircumcised, and even the whole house of Israel is uncircumcised in heart.” God is not just reprimanding Judah, who are the Jews, and Israel. God is reprimanding all of the people in the Middle East and the world who are acting not in accordance with the spirit but in accordance with the flesh and sin. He is saying that they are all going to receive punishment for their sins. Like Jesus and his disciples, Jeremiah says that Israel and Judah are circumcized in the flesh but not in the heeart. In other words he is saying that they give the outward apparence of follwoing the law of God, but inside they are full of greed and ffleshly pursuits that take them away from the law of God, so their hearts are not circumcized. But as you can see, the stories of Jeremiah and Jesus parallel each toher a lot. Bot are prophets who are reprimanding Israelites and the Jews.

Jeremiah, like Jesus, is depicted as a sacrifical lamb. Jeremiah says" I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me". Recall that Jesus is depicted as a lamb that dies for the sin of Israel. Here Jeremiah is also being depicted as a sacrificial lamb. A city of Jews who have fallen away from the torah want to kill Jeremiah. Jeremiah says that this city will be punished and destroyed. The same thing happens with Jesus. Jesus and his disciples go to Jewish cities and what they teach them is the torah. The cities that do not repent, which means return to the torah, Jesus says are going to be punished by fire. Jesus says that it will be like Sodom and Gamorrah for them.The is what God says to Jeremiah. he says, "Say to them: '‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every wineskin should be filled with wine.’ And if they say to you, ‘Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’ 13 then tell them, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land, including the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets and all those living in Jerusalem. 14 I will smash them one against the other, parents and children alike, declares the Lord. I will allow no pity or mercy or compassion to keep me from destroying them.’”' Jesus also has a parable where he talks about wine and wineskins. Recall that I described how drunkennes is associated with sin and disobedience. Jeremiah is saying that the Jews are going to be full of sin, and thus they are going to be destroyed. That is the nautre of sin in the bible. Sin destroys. Then God, through Jeremiah, says something that fits the quadrant model. He says.

Square 1: Those destined for death, to death;

Square 2: those for the sword, to the sword;

Square 3: those for starvation, to starvation;

Square 4: those for captivity, to captivity

God then says something else that fits tthe quadrant model. He says, I will send four kinds of destroyers against them,” declares the Lord, “the sword to kill and the dogs to drag away and the birds and the wild animals to devour and destroy."

Square 1: the sword to kill

Square 2: dogs to drag away

Square 3: birds to devour

S:quare 4: wild animals to destroy

But Jeremiah says that he hopes that if the Jews repent and turn back to the law of God that God will spare them. Jesus also tries very hard to get the Jews to return to the law of God.

Then God says through Jeremiah, '"You must not marry and have sons or daughters in this place.” 3 For this is what the Lord says about the sons and daughters born in this land and about the women who are their mothers and the men who are their fathers: 4 “They will die of deadly diseases. They will not be mourned or buried but will be like dung lying on the ground. They will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.”' Jesus says a similar thing int he gospels. Jesus says woe to women who are pregnant, because he says that when the punishment comes it is going to be hard for them. the punihsment thtJeuss is referring to is the Roman army that is going to massacre the Jews. Jeremiah is saying the same thing. Jeremiah forsees the Babylonian empires arrmy massacring the land of Judeah, and he is saying that mothers and fathers are going to be devestated as they watch their kids die due to sword and famine. Then Jeremiah tells the Jews to start obeying the sabbaths again. Recall that Jesus in the stories also obeys the sabbath, and he undoubtebly taught to obey the sabbath. It is the pharisees that accuse Jesus of not obeying the sabbath but hey accuase Jesus of a lot of things that he is not. The Pharisees also accuse Jesus of being a drunkard but Jesus is not in the stories. then Jeremiah further describes that the Jews are plotting to kill him. They are because he is telling them what they don't want to hear. They don't want to obey the sabbaths. They don't want to obey the law of God. They don't want to submit their hearts to God. They are stuck in the fleshly.They prefer the laws of man; of the pagans, and of the multiculturalist empires. The Jewish priest Passhur then has Jeremiah beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the Lord’s temple. The next day Jeremiah is let go though and God, through Jeremiah, tells Passhur that he will be killed and so will his whole family due to his sins. Similalry Jesus is peresecuted by Jewish priests who have fallen away from the law of God and thus want him killed because he is trying to bring the Jews back to the law of God. Jeremiah being put in stocks but then being let free is kind of like a death and ressurection. Remember that Jesus is beaten and then put on the cross but then he dies and comes back in the stories. Here Jeremiah is beaten up, put in stocks, but he comes out alive. Jeremiah seems like he is against the Jewish people. That is what an ignorant person will sya. But he is not. Jeremiah is a prophet of God and Jeremiah is reprimanding the Jews wo are not following the law of God for their sins. Jeremiah then tells Zedekiah the King of the Jews that the weapons that they use against the Babylonians are not going to work and the Babylonians are going to destroy the Jewish people. Similarly, Jesus foretells the destruction of the Jews by the roman Empire. Jeremiah says that Nebukenezzar is going to destroy the Jews with fire. Then God says that He is going to bring fire against the Jewish people for disobeying His Laws. But Jeremiah says that there is hope. He says that after this destruction a king is going to rise that is a righetous king and the "God's sheep", who are the Israelites, will return to the law of God. Jeremiah also calls Israelites bad figs. It is ineteresing that the gospels have many references to fig trees, and the fig tree represents Israel. Jremiah tells Josiah King of Judah in his fourth year of reign that he is not following the law of God and is leading the Jews astray. Then Jeremiah describes the cup of God's wrath. He says that the peoples that fight the Jews will drunk it and destroy te Jews. The cup again is wine. Recall that I described when people get drunk their inhibitions are lowered and they are more likely to kill and have sex. God is saying through Jeremiah that the Jews are going to be raped and killed by their enemies. Then Jeremiah continues to reprimand the Jews and the Jewish priests and officials get together. They say "This man should be sentenced to death because he has prophesied against this city. You have heard it with your own ears!”'. The Jewish priests want to kill Jeremiah for rebuking the Jews for their sins. This is exactly analogous to the story of Jesus where the Jewish priests, who have fallen away from the law of God get together to try to kill Jesus for doing the same thing. Jesus speaks against Jerusalem, saying that it would be destroyed. Jeremiah does the same exact thing that Jesus did. Both of them face the death penalty. Jeremiah, like Jesus, recall is represented as the sacrificial lamb. Jeremiah tells the Jewish leaders that if they kill him they are going to shed innocent blood. The Jewish leaders say "This man should not be sentenced to death! He has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.” Jeremiah is sentenced for blasphemy and so is Jesus. But some elders of the Jews come fourth and they point out that Micah reprimanded the Jews as well saying that Israel would be destroyed, and he says that Micah was not put to death. Similarly with Jesus, there are elders that say that Jesus should not be put to death because they say "he may be a prophet". It is described next in Jeremiah that Uriah was another prophet who was killed by the Jews for speaking against their sins and saying that their cities would be destroyed and they would be punished for their sins. So this is a common theme in the bible. Jesus in the stories does tell the Jews that were not following the torah that they "kill the prophets". It is described that some powerful Jewish leaders liked and supported Jeremiah so Jeremiah is not killed.

Then the event happens that completely parallels the story of Jesus. God tells Jeremiah to make a yoke out of a strap and crossbars on put it on his neck so he does. Similarly God tells Jesus to be crucified and he does. These crossbarss and this yoke symbolizes a cross. This is during the reign of Zedekiah, Josiah's son. Then Jeremiah says that the Jews will be taken over by the King of Babylon. This parallels the story of Jesus exactly who is crucified and predicts that the Roman Empire would scatter the Jewish people. But later Jeremiah says that Judah and Israel will be brought back from captivity. The Jews are brought back and Jesus is among the Jews in Israel during the New Testament. But Jesus talks about wanting to also bring the lost tribes of Israel back. The Jews arrest Jeremiah and he is confined to the courtyard. But Jeremiah continues to prophesy against the Jews, saying that the Babylonian Empire will bring upon them calamity. Jeremiah offers a family called the Rekabites wine but the Rekabites describe how they swore to God not to drink wine, and Jeremiah uses the Rekabites as an example of a people who have decided to remain faithful to God, and God says that Rekab will never fail to have a descendant that serves Him. Remember that wine is associated with sin, and the Rekabits do not drink it, thus they do not sin. Later Jeremiah is thought to be deserting to the side of the Babylonians and he is imprisoned. Jeremiah is then thrown into a cistern. This represents another sort of death and resurrection. Recall that Jeremiah,like Jesus, is depicted as the sacrificial lamb. They wanted Jeremiah to starve to death, but the King commanded Ebed Melek the Cushite to lift him out of the cistern. Jeremiah is pulled out of the cistern and this represents a sort of death and resurrection, like Joseph's death and resurrection. The King then seeks Jeremiah's guidance. Jeremiah tells the King to surrender to the Babylonians. Remember this is a common theme n thebible. Jeremiah is trying to tell the King to make friends with their enemies. As a result they won't all be killed. It is no coinciden tis happens after the sort of death and ressurection. Similalry after Jesus's death and ressurection there is the conversion fo the Romans, which sort of rperesents the Jews making allies with their enemies. The Jews are sinning, but they do not all have to be killed, due to the sort of death and ressurection sacrifices that are made. In this case it is Jeremiah. In the gospels the sacrifice is Jesus.

The King of Babylon spares Jeremiah's life. He probably likes Jeremiah because he is a prophet. Jeremiah recommends Jews to stay in the land, and as a result the Jews are not killed. So Jeremiah saves the Jews from death. The idea is his sacrifice, or his death and resurrection, saved the Jews from not all being killed. Jesus in the stories does the same thing.

So I just described how the story of Jeremiah parallels exactly the story of Jesus. Let me go through the stories of the prophet Ezekiel and how they relate to the quadrant model of reality. Ezekiel sees a chariot from God. This is known as the Merkaba. This chariot is the embodiment of the quadrant model pattern. it is described as a vision from God. It is described "out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man. 6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings." So there are four creatures each with four faces. This makes 16 creatures. This is the quadrant model. It is described, "And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings." These repetitions of four bring to mind quadrants. It is described "As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle." The four faces are

Square 1: Eagle

Square 2:Ox

Square 4:Lion

Square 5:Man

It is described that this is the likeness of the glory of the Lord. What is described is the quadrant model.Ezekiel then eats a scroll from God and it is said to taste like honey and he then goes onto rebuke Israel and Judah for their sins, and like Jesus, Ezequiel describes how the land will be laid waiste and they will be slaughtered. Jesus is just like the prophets who came before him. Israelite elders come to Ezekiel and God says to Ezekiel, "Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?

4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

5 That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.' This is just like Jesus. Ezekiel like Jesus is talking down agaisnt the elders who he thinks have gone astray from the word of God and are leading people into sin. In the torah it describes that one abomination is homosexuality. Ezekiel is commanding the Israelites to turn away from their abominations. In the New Testament as well homosexuality is called an abominaiton. In fact all of the laws of the old testament are upheld in the New Testament. It is interesting that Ezekiel is called Son of Man. In the New Testament Jesus is also called Son of Man. The Old Testament is an exact continuation of the New Testament, and there actually is sort of not really anything new about the New Testament. Ezekiel also laments about how Israel has profaned the sabbats of God by not following them.

Then Ezekiel describes, "and when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles. 4 Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins. 5 Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over". This fits the quadrant model pattern

Square 1: the water is at his feet

Square 2: the water is at his knees.

Square 3: the water is at his loins.

Square 4: He is swimming in the water. The fourth is always different from the previous three.

Ok. We talked enough about the Old Testament. The quadrant model permeates the old testament. Recall that it is claimed that the Old Testament was written under the inspiration of God. Now let's talk about the New Testament. First off the New Testament is divided into four groups according to genre, fitting the quadrant model pattern.

Square 1: The Gospels. This is about the life of Jesus.

Square 2: an account of the Christian Church. The second square is always about a family and most related to family. It is culture

Square 3: Epistles. These are letters written by Paul and the apostles of Jesus, and they tell people how to live. The third square is doing.

Square 4: Revelations. The fourth never seems to belong with the other three. Acts is metaphorical and philosophical. Really it is an allegory of the Roman Empire trying to destroy the Church but the Word of God and prophets fighting against this beast.

During the time of the Roman Empire there were four major sects of Judaism. This fits the quadrant model pattern. They were the

Square 1: Sadducees. Sadducees were made up of mostly the upper aristocracy of the Jews. Many served as priests in the Jewish temple and they worked with the Roman authorities. They stressed the temple and were very into the idea of sacrifices to God.

Square 2: Pharisees. The Pharisees followed the torah and oral torah and stressed the law. Jesus is not against the Pharisees in that they stressed the law. Jesus says to do everything that the pharisees. The second square is faith and family and is the most concerned with the law.

Square 3: Essenes. Essenes thought the rest of Israel had become impure due to sin and they often left the rest of Israel and formed their own monastic communities. The third square is the individual and the doer. The essenes were very apocalyptic in their views, believing that the world would come to an apocalyptic end, and most of the world, including most of the Jews who had gone astray, would be destroyed.

Square 4: 4th Philosophy. This group believed that Israel should only be for Jews and Israelites. The fourth philosophy is different from the previous three. This is always the nature of the quadrant model.

In Genesis there is a formless void, and God says let their be light and creation begins. I discussed how science and religion have always been connected. Science informs religion and religion informs science. I described that it was a priest who came up with the hypothesis of the Big Bang Theory. Einstein at first thought that the universe should be eternal, but scientists later came to the conclusion that evidence indicates that there was a beginning to this Universe. The days of Genesis in the bible fit the quadrant model. Recall earlier I described the five elements of Aristotle and how they relate to the quadrant model pattern. I'm going to use that model to demonstrate the days of Genesis fit the same pattern. Remember, it does not matter that there is seven days, or not. Many people may get confused about the quadrant model and think that if something does not have four components then it deviates from the quadrant model. What matters is not the number of things, but the pattern out of which things emerge. In terms of the days of the Genesis story, the pattern works like such

Square 1: Day 1- God says let there be light. Remember that the first element in Aristotle's model is air. Air is hot and wet and that corresponds to the idealist that is abstract and cooperative. The first square is Ken Wilber's mind square. The mind is often associated with light. Also light has a quality of being like air. Light is not solid and it is not grounded, like air. On the first day, it is described that God separated the light from the darkness.

Square 2: Day 2: on the second day God makes water and separates the water from the sky. Recall that in Aristotle's model of elements the second element is water. Water is cold and wet. I described earlier how this corresponds with the guardian personality type which is concrete and cooperative. It is no coincidence that on the second day of Genesis water is produced and water is separated from the sky. The second square is water.

Square 3: Day 3: on the third day God makes land to produce vegetation. Recall that the third square is always the most solid. The second square is the doing square. This land is producing vegetation. This land is doing things. This corresponds to Aristotle's third element, earth. Earth is cold and dry. This relates to the artisan personality type, which is concrete and utilitarian. I described this when I was describing Aristotle's elements when I discussed science. In the third day God creates land by separating it from the sea. Land is the third square. The third square is the solid square.

Square 4: Day 4: on the fourth God creates the sun. This is pretty funny because this is what a lot of people use to discount the account of Genesis. People say that if the sun was made on the fourth day, then how were the first three days distinguished. They say that without a sun, there is no days, because a day is measured by the Earth's rotation around the sun. But in terms of the quadrant model, the fact that the sun is the fourth day is very intriguing. The fourth, remember, encompasses the previous three. Without a sun, the previous three don't exist. So, in that sense, the fourth day encompasses the previous three days, in that, during the fourth day the sun is made, and without a sun there is no such thing as a day. But that is a bit abstract. In terms of the quadrant model too though, the fact that the fourth square is the sun makes sense. The fourth element in Aristotle's model was fire. The sun is made of fire. The fourth square always seems to transcend the previous three squares. The first three squaes are a bit more terrestrial, but the sun is more heavenly and transcends the Earth. It is an interesting fact that many ancient cultures worshipped the sun, but the book of Genesis tries to make sure that the sun is not depicted as a God or divine, but a product of God's creation.

Square 5: Day 5. on the fifth day God creates light. Recall that I described that some cultures saw the fifth element as life. The fifth realy transcends the previous four. Also the fourth always points to the fifth. Without sun there cannot be life, because sun light gives energy for life to live. The sun light gives energy to plants through photosynthesis, and animals gain energy from these plants by eating them. God tells these animals to be fruitful. Remember fruit and knowledge are related and knowledge and sex are related. God is telling the animals to have sex and have offspring. Square 5 is the first square of the second quadrant. The second quadrant is relational. This square is the belief square. The first four squares were sensation, perception, response, and awareness, and this square is belief.

Square 6: Day 6. On the sixth day God says“Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” This is the second square of the second quadrant. The second quadrant is always relational. The second square of the second quadrant is the most relational. This is the faith square. God says to let the living creatures reproduce according to their kinds. Reproduction has to do with relationships. But also God says to do this accoridng to their kinds. The second square is homeostasis and order. God here is creating order, by separating things according to kinds, and telling them to stay with their kinds. God also creates man to rule. Man is supposed to have authority over the animals. Man is the ultimate symbol of order, which is the nature of the second square. God tells man to subdue the Earth. In other words, God is calling man to create order. This is the nature of the second square. The second square is homeostasis.

Square 7: Day 7. On the seventh day God rested. This day is the third square of the second quadrant. This is the behavior square. Resting is an action and the third square is always an action.

It is clear that the days of Genesis reveal a pattern and this pattern is the quadrant model pattern. Most theologians say that Genesis is poetry and it is not meant to be taken literally. Some rabbis and priests do take it literally. Whether i is taken literally or not does not matter so much as the fact that this myth, that seems to just be random in its structure, is in fact not random, but underlying it is the quadrant model pattern, which is the pattern out of which existence manifests.

Rabbis note that a very important aspect of the garden of Eden is the four rivers of Eden. The names of these reivers fascinatingly fit the quadrant model pattern. Even more incredible, their geographic locations, according to historians fit the nature of the quadrant model pattern. The four rivers of Eden are

square 1: Pishon. Pishon means to increase. The first square is the idealist. The idealist is optimistic. Something has to increase before it can do anything. The first square is not yet doing anything. The first square is conservative. This is the thinking square of the quadrant model. Recall the first square of the third square is thinking.

square 2: Gihon. It is interesting that Pishon and Gihon sound similar. They are the duality. The bible describes that this river is associated with riches. Riches are always associated with the second square. The second square is the belonging square, and riches are belongings. The guardians tend to be more wealthy. The second square is associated with order, and order is associated with riches. Caucasians are the ethnic group associated with the second square, and caucasians are related with being rich. Gihon means bursting fourth. This is the emotion square. The second square of the third quadrant is emotion. Emotion has an association of bursting fourth. Emotion means, to cause to move. When something bursts fourth it is about to move. But it has not moved yet. The second square is not yet action. The third square is doing. Pihon and Gihon are leading up to the third square, which is the doing square.

square 3: Hiddekel. Hiddekel is the third river. What is amazing is that the Hiddekel river, in relationship to geography, separated from the Pishon and the Gihon rivers. The third square is the individual. The first two squares are always more conservative. The third is always the most action. The third square is about doing its own thing. Also Hiddekel means rapid. The third square is associated with doing. Rapidity is associated with action. The first two squares were building up to the action. I think of it as something was increasing, then it was bursting fourth, and now it is moving rapidly.

Square 4: Euphrates. Euphrates means frutiful. Fruit recall, in the bible, is related to sex. In the bible, to be fruitful is to have sex and have many offspring. Sex is related to knowledge. The fourth quadrant is the knowledge quadrant. This would be the dreaming square. The dreaming square is the fourth square of the third quadrant.

The names of these squares fit the qualities of the first, second, third, and fourth squares of the quadrant model. Rabbis take these four rivers very seriously and derive a lot of meaning from them and their names. It is important to see tha tthey fulfill the quadrant model pattern, which is the pattern out of which reality manifests. Existence eveals that it is an illusion and derives from a pattern. An essential way that it does this is through religions myths and legends.

Let's look a the story of Noahs arc. In the story of Noahs arc Noah let's go of four birds. Recollect that in the story of Noah God is mad because the people of the Earth had all become sinful. But God likes Noah a lot so he gives Noah an arc to save him and his family and also Noah puts two of every living creature on the arc, so that not all life will be destroyed, and humanity can continue. Providence Church teaches that the story of Noah describes that a flood destroyed the whole world. But Providence Church says that the flood did not destroy the whole world, but the people who wrote the story thought the flood destroyed the whole world, because it destroyed what was the known world to them. Providence Church teaches that there was a literal great flood, but they say that this flood destroyed many places in the Middle East, where he story of the flood was generated. Because the people in the middle east thought the middle east was the whole world, Providence Church teaches that the flood did not destroy the whole world but the known world to the people who wrote the story. They teach that the bible even demonstrates this to be true. Providence Church describes that when the bible describes the world it does not always mean the whole world. It is interesting that historians do think that there was a great flood in the middle east, and they point out that there are other cultures in the middle east, but also throughout the world fascinatingly, that have flood stories.

Square 1: Noah sends a raven that keeps flying back and fourth until the water on the Earth dried up. The first square is the air. The raven stays in the air it says until the water dried up on the Earth. So this raven is associated with the air. The first element of Aristotle is the air.

Square 2: Noah sent out a dove to see if the water had receded from the surface of the ground. But it says that the dove could not find a place to perch because there was water all over the Earth, so it went back to Noah. This time it is emphasized that water is still all over the face of the Earth. This is significant. The second square is associated with water, as the first square is associated with air. Aristotle's second element is water.

Square 3: Noah sends out another dove and it comes back with a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak. This means that there is land again. There is Earth. The third square is always associated with land. The third square is always associated with Earth, and what is physical and solid. Aristotles third element is Earth. Also this is the doing quadrant. The dove brings back a fig leaf. The dove is doing. This is an action.

Square 4: Noah sends out anoher dove and it does not return. The fourth square is different from the previous three. This square just says that the dove does not return. The fourth square often has a quality like it shouldn't be there; like it doesn' belong.

These are the four doves that Noah sends out. As you can see, the quadrant model pattern is fulfilled by the four doves.

Abraham is depicted as making a covenant with the God of Israel. Abraham's covenant is marked by his circumcision. Abraham moves from the Chaldeans, where people follow Gods that are associated with hedonism and carnal pursuits, to Cannan, and he makes his covenant with the God of Israel, who teaches one to not be held down by the carnal and the fleshly. The separation from the carnal, hedonistic world is marked by Abrahams circumcision. The foreskin of the penis is a part of the penis which is associated with a lot of pleasure. Abraham cuts this part of his penis off, signalling that he has separated from a mere earthly pursuit of pleasure, but now lives more by God's laws, which are antithetical to the carnal world, and free people from it. Abrahams brother is Lot, and Lot is the man who escaped Sodom and Gamorrah

The four Muslim imams, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik, Imam Shafi and Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal were all great Muslims and very important figures in the history of Islam. Their teachings laid the foundations of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).

Hinduism Chapter

Dura was rebuilt as a Hellenistic city in the second century BC with rectangular streets (fig. 590). Dura-Europos later became a frontier fortress of the Parthian Empire until the Romans captured it in 165 AD. The Romans were familiar with the grid layout, which they found in the conquered city. The grid was also the very end product of their art of castrametation or the layout of military camps. It was under their subsequent occupation that the famous house church and synagogue were built in Dura-Europos. The presence of a Temple of Bel, Temple of Adonis and a Mithraeum subscribed the multi-cultural setting of the town before it was destructed in a Sassanian attack in 256-257 AD and went into oblivion.

Fig. 590 – The city of Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC as a stronghold at the Euphrates River on the road between Antioch and Seleucia. The grid pattern, with block sizes of 70 x 35 meters and a street width of 7-8 meters, dated from the second century BC, when Dura was rebuilt as a Hellenistic city.

The Greek cities are made of quadrants

Wang Yangming is regarded one of the four greatest masters of Confucianism in history along with Confucius, Mencius and Zhu Xi

Shankara travelled across the Indian subcontinent to propagate his philosophy through discourses and debates with other thinkers. He established the importance of monastic life as sanctioned in the Upanishads and Brahma Sutra, in a time when the Mīmāṃsā school established strict ritualism and ridiculed monasticism. He is reputed to have founded four mathas ("monasteries"), which helped in the historical development, revival and spread of Advaita Vedanta of which he is known as the greatest revivalist.[14] Adi Shankara is believed to be the organiser of the Dashanami monastic order and the founder of the Shanmata tradition of worship. He is also known as Adi Shankaracharya, Shankara Bhagavatpada, sometimes spelled as Sankaracharya, (Ādi) Śaṅkarācārya, Śaṅkara Bhagavatpāda and Śaṅkara Bhagavatpādācārya.

Hindus traditionally hold that Vyasa categorised the primordial single Veda into three canonical collections, and that the fourth one, known as Atharvaveda, was recognized as Veda only very much later. Hence he was called Veda Vyasa, or "Splitter of the Vedas," the splitting being a feat that allowed people to understand the divine knowledge of the Veda. The word vyasa means split, differentiate, or describe. The Vishnu Purana has a theory about Vyasa.[10] The Hindu view of the universe is that of a cyclic phenomenon that comes into existence and dissolves repeatedly. Each cycle is presided over by a number of Manus, one for each Manvantara, that has four ages, Yugas of declining virtues. The Dvapara Yuga is the third Yuga. The Vishnu Purana (Book 3, Ch 3) says: In every third world age (Dvapara), Vishnu, in the person of Vyasa, in order to promote the good of mankind, divides the Veda, which is properly but one, into many portions. Observing the limited perseverance, energy, and application of mortals, he makes the Veda fourfold, to adapt it to their capacities; and the bodily form which he assumes, in order to effect that classification, is known by the name of Veda-vyasa. Of the different Vyasas in the present Manvantara and the branches which they have taught, you shall have an account. Twenty-eight times have the Vedas been arranged by the great Rishis in the Vaivasvata Manvantara... and consequently eight and twenty Vyasas have passed away; by whom, in the respective periods, the Veda has been divided into four. The first... distribution was made by Svayambhu (Brahma) himself; in the second, the arranger of the Veda (Vyasa) was Prajapati... (and so on up to twenty-eight).[11] As per Vishnu Purana, Guru Drona's son rishi Aswatthama will become the next sage Vyasa (title), who in turn divide the Veda in 29th Mahayuga of 7th Manvantara.[12] The fourth square is always different

Shruti (Sanskrit, IAST: śruti) means "that which is heard" and refers to the body of most authoritative, ancient religious texts comprising the central canon of Hinduism.[1] It includes the four Vedas including its four types of embedded texts - the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas and the early Upanishads.[2]

The śruti literature include the four Vedas:[19][20] Rigveda Yajurveda Samaveda Atharvaveda Each of these Vedas include the following texts, and these belong to the śruti canon:[21] Samhitas Brahmanas Aranyakas Upanishads The literature of the shakhas, or schools, further amplified the material associated with each of the four core traditions.[22] Of the above śrutis, the Upanishads are most widely known, and the central ideas of them are the spiritual foundation of Hinduism.[12] Patrick Olivelle writes, Even though theoretically the whole of Vedic corpus is accepted as revealed truth [śruti], in reality it is the Upanishads that have continued to influence the life and thought of the various religious traditions that we have come to call Hindu. Upanishads are the scriptures par excellence of Hinduism. — Patrick Olivelle[13]

Shrutis have been considered the authority in Hinduism.[note 1] Smritis, including the Manusmṛti, the Nāradasmṛti and the Parāśarasmṛti, are considered less authoritative than śrutis.[23] वेदोऽखिलो धर्ममूलं स्मृतिशीले च तद्विदाम् । आचारश्चैव साधूनामात्मनस्तुष्टिरेव च ॥ Translation 1: The whole Veda is the (first) source of the sacred law, next the tradition and the virtuous conduct of those who know the (Veda further), also the customs of holy men, and (finally) self-satisfaction (Atmanastushti).[24] Translation 2: The root of the religion is the entire Veda, and (then) the tradition and customs of those who know (the Veda), and the conduct of virtuous people, and what is satisfactory to oneself.[25] वेदः स्मृतिः सदाचारः स्वस्य च प्रियमात्मनः । एतच्चतुर्विधं प्राहुः साक्षाद् धर्मस्य लक्षणम् ॥ Translation 1: The Veda, the sacred tradition, the customs of virtuous men, and one's own pleasure, they declare to be the fourfold means of defining the sacred law.[24] Translation 2: The Veda, tradition, the conduct of good people, and what is pleasing to oneself – they say that is four fold mark of religion.[25] Only three of the four types of texts in the Vedas have behavioral precepts: For the Hindu all belief takes its source and its justification in the Vedas [Śruti]. Consequently every rule of dharma must find its foundation in the Veda. Strictly speaking, the Samhitas do not even include a single precept which could be used directly as a rule of conduct. One can find there only references to usage which falls within the scope of dharma. By contrast, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas and the Upanishads contain numerous precepts which propound rules governing behavior. — Robert Lingat[26] Bilimoria states the role of śruti in Hinduism has been inspired by "the belief in a higher natural cosmic order (Rta succeeded later by the concept Dharma) that regulates the universe and provides the basis for its growth, flourishing and sustenance – be that of the gods, human beings, animals and eco-formations".[27] Levinson states that the role of śruti and smṛti in Hindu law is as a source of guidance, and its tradition cultivates the principle that "the facts and circumstances of any particular case determine what is good or bad".[28] The later Hindu texts include fourfold sources of dharma, states Levinson, which include atmanastushti (satisfaction of one's conscience), sadacara (local norms of virtuous individuals), smṛti and shruti.

The Vedas have been divided into four styles of texts – the Samhitas (mantras and benedictions), the Aranyakas (text on rituals, ceremonies, sacrifices and symbolic-sacrifices), the Brahmanas (commentaries on rituals, ceremonies and sacrifices), and the Upanishads (text discussing meditation, philosophy and spiritual knowledge).[4][5][6] The Samhitas are sometimes identified as karma-kanda (कर्म खण्ड, action/ritual-related section), while the Upanishads are identified as jnana-kanda (ज्ञान खण्ड, knowledge/spirituality-related section).[7][8] The Aranyakas and Brahmanas are variously classified, sometimes as the ceremonial karma-kanda, other times (or parts of them) as the jnana-kanda. The Vedic Samhitas were chanted during ceremonies and rituals, and parts of it remain the oldest living part of Hindu tradition.[3] A collective study of Vedas and later text suggests that the compendium of Samhitas and associated Vedic texts were far larger than currently available. However, most have been lost at some point or over a period of Indian history.[9]

Each Brahmana is associated with one of the four Vedas, and within the tradition of that Veda with a particular shakha or school: Rigveda[edit] Shakala shakha Aitareya Brahmana, rarely also known as Ashvalayana Brahmana (AB).[18] It consists of 40 adhyayas (lessons, chapters), dealing with Soma sacrifice, and in particular the fire sacrifice ritual.[19] Parts of the Aitareya Brahmana reads like an Aranyaka.[20] Bashkala or Iksvakus shakha (unclear)[21][22] Kaushitaki Brahmana (also called Śāṅkhāyana Brahmana) (KB, ŚānkhB).[23] It consistes of 30 chapters, the first six of which are dedicated to food sacrifice, and the remaining to Soma sacrifice in a manner matching the Aitareya Brahmana.[19] Keith has published his translation of Aitereya Brahmana,[24] and the Kaushitaki Brahmana.[25] Samaveda[edit] Kauthuma and Ranayaniya shakhas Tandya Mahabrahmana or Panchavimsha Brahmana (Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa) (PB) is the principal Brahmana of both the Kauthuma and Ranayaniya shakhas. This is one of the oldest Brahmanas and includes twenty five books. It is notable for its important ancient legends and Vratyastomas.[19] Sadvimsha Brahmana (Ṣaḍviṃṡa Brāhmaṇa) (ṢadvB) is considered as an appendix to the Panchavimsha Brahmana and its twenty-sixth prapathaka.[19] Samavidhana Brahmana, and the following Samaveda "Brahmanas" are in Sutra style; it comprises 3 prapathakas. Arsheya Brahmana is an index to the hymns of Samaveda. Devatadhyaya or Daivata Brahmana comprises 3 khandas, having 26, 11 and 25 kandikas respectively. Chandogya Brahmana is divided into ten prapathakas (chapters). Its first two prapathakas (chapters) form the Mantra Brahmana (MB) and each of them is divided into eight khandas (sections). Prapathakas 3–10 form the Chandogya Upanishad. Samhitopanishad Brahmana has a single prapathaka (chapter) divided into five khandas (sections). Vamsa Brahmana consists of one short chapter, detailing successions of teachers and disciples.[26] Jaiminiya shakha Jaiminiya Brahmana (JB) is the principal Brahmana of the Jaiminiya shakha, divided into three kandas (sections). One of the oldest Brahmanas, older than Tandya Mahabrahmana, but only fragments of manuscript have survived.[4] Jaiminiya Arsheya Brahmana is also an index to the hymns of Samaveda, belonging to the Jaiminiya shakha. Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana (JUB) also known as Talavakara Upanishad Brahmana, is to some extent parallel to the Chandogya Upanisad, but older. Yajurveda[edit] Krishna Yajurveda[edit] In the Krishna Yajurveda, Brahmana style texts are integrated in the Samhitas; they are older than the Brahmanas proper. Maitrayani Samhita (MS) and an Aranyaka smile emoticon accented Maitrayaniya Upanishad) (Caraka) Katha Samhita (KS); the Katha school has an additional fragmentary Brahmana (KathB) and Aranyaka (KathA) Kapisthalakatha Samhita (KpS), and a few small fragments of its Brahmana Taittiriya Samhita (TS). In addition to the Brahmana style portions of the Samhita,the Taittiriya school has an additional Taittiriya Brahmana (TB) and Aranyaka (TA) as well as the late Vedic Vadhula Anvakhyana (Br.).[citation needed] It includes a description

Shukla Yajurveda[edit] Madhyandina Shakha Shatapatha Brahmana, Madhyandina recension (SBM) Kanva Shakha Shatapatha Brahmana, Kanva recension (SBK) The Satapatha Brahmana consists of a hundred adhyayas (chapters), and is the most cited and famous among the Brahmanas canon of texts.[4] Much of the text is commentaries on Vedic rituals, such as the preparation of the fire altar. It also includes Upanayana, a ceremony that marked the start of Brahmacharya (student) stage of life, as well as the Vedic era recitation practice of Svadhyaya.[4] The text describes procedures for other important Hindu rituals such as a funeral ceremony. The old and famous Brhadaranyaka Upanishad form the closing chapters of Śatapatha Brahmana.[4] Atharvaveda[edit] Shaunaka and Paippalada Shakhas The very late Gopatha Brahmana probably was the Aranyaka of the Paippaladins whose Brahmana is lost.

Levinson states that the role of Shruti and Smriti in Hindu law is as a source of guidance, and its tradition cultivates the principle that "the facts and circumstances of any particular case determine what is good or bad".[42] The later Hindu texts include fourfold sources of Dharma, states Levinson, which include Atmanastushti (satisfaction of one's conscience), Sadachara (local norms of virtuous individuals), Smriti and Sruti.

Atalanta Fugiens (Atalanta in flight) is an emblem book by Michael Maier (1568–1622), published by Johann Theodor de Bry in Oppenheim in 1617 (2nd edition 1618). It consists of 50 discourses with illustrations by Matthias Merian, each of which is accompanied by an epigrammatic verse, prose and a musical fugue. It may therefore be considered an early example of multimedia. The title page depicts various scenes from Greek mythology related to golden apples: Top: Garden of the Hesperides. Left: Hercules stretching out his arm to seize one of the golden apples. Right: Aphrodite handing the golden apples to Hippomenes. Bottom: Race between Atalanta and Hippomenes, with Atalanta picking up an apple. Behind them is a temple with lovers embracing each other, while in the background they appear as a lion and lioness.

In the famous ancient Chinese text Cantong qi, there is described the five agents/ elements. The five agents (wuxing) are Wood, Fire, Soil, Metal, and Water. They are generated in the first place by the division of original Unity into Yin and Yang, and by the further subdivision of Yin and Yang into four states. In the Cantong qi, Water and Fire are the Yin and Yang of the postcelestial state, and Wood and Metal are True Yin and True Yang of the precelestial state. Soil, the fifth agent, has both a Yang and a Yin aspect. Being at the center, it stands for the source from which the other four agents derive. The fifth is always ultra transcendent.

Hindu mathematics is based on 16 sutras, which reflect the 16 squares of the quadrant model.

Cyclical time finds its roots, not surprisingly, in the heartland of oppositional thinking, Persia and more specific in the spiritual world of Zoroastrian Mazdaism. Here the fourfold confession of faith (in the old religion) was, according to ZAEHNER (1956/1975; 1961/1975):

I confess myself a worshipper of Mazda, a Zoroastrian, a renouncer of the Daevas (bad), and an upholder of the Ahuras (good).

The Mazdean cosmogony distinguished two aspects of time: a time without shore, without origin, eternal time and a limited time or ‘the time of long domination’ (BRANDON, 1965; CORBIN, 1983). The cyclical time of Mazdaism was punctuated by three great acts, resulting in a four-division (of twelve millennia), making up the ‘Great Year‘:

Act Time Years

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1. The time before the primordial creation 0 – 3000

Act 1 : The primordial creation (Bundahishn) in celestial state (menok)

2. The time towards the earthly state (gelik) 3000 – 6000

Act 2 : The catastrophe

3. The time of the mixture (gumecishn) (incl. the present) 6000 – 9000

Act 2 : The catastrophe 3. The time of the mixture (gumecishn) (incl. the present) 6000 – 9000 Act 3: The final separation (vicarishn) 4. The time towards the transfiguration of the world (frashokart) 9000 – 12000

The roots and fascination of the numerological aspects of the tetrad were traced back to the first centuries AD. in the cultural melting pot of Alexandria (Egypt). The gnostic Logos, as the possible remains of the original Egyptian tetradic way of thinking, specified God with a secret name: the Tetragrammaton. In this approach, the division-thinking was seen as a holy process and God was equal to the principle of division. KEYSERLING (1965, p. 396) talked of ‘dem vierfältigen Gott der Gnosis, der Selbst-erlösung: der tiefste menschliche Abgrund wird zu ihrem Ausgangspunt‘ (the tetradic God of the Gnosis, the self-redemption: the deepest human void becomes its point of departure). Furthermore, BAYLEY (1912/1968) gave – in his standard work on the ‘Lost Language of Symbolism’ – a summary of the name of God as a four-letter word and noted that ‘almost all peoples of antiquity possessed a name for the Deity composed of four letters’ (Tetragrammaton). Four is in numerology the number of material order and associated with the earth (ENDRES & SCHIMMEL, 1984). Man travels through a chaotic world and invents divisions to assist in the orientation in time and place

The Ojibway believed that there were four worlds.There is displayed the eternal things for the Ojibway on an Ojibway medicine lodge parchment. This parchment of the medicine man, collected in the early twentieth century and described as ‘ very old’, displayed the tour of the bear Mugwa through the four worlds.

The Obijway have a drink called "The Tea of Life" made of four herbs

Division is of prime importance in the evocation of a cosmological picture, as given by the shamans of the people living in the Northern hemisphere. The position of the observer, as a micro cosmos within the universe, is a central theme. Many of the rock carvings and paintings, for instance on drums, of the shamans depict the shaman in the center of the cosmos with his arms outstretched making him resemble explicitly a quadrant

The central part of an Aztec calender-stone has a dominant four-fold division. The inner circle contains Tonatiuh, the Sun God, with a mask of fire, his attribute as King of the Planets. The sign ‘ome acatl‘ on his forehand points to the beginning of the year-count of ‘xiuhmolpilli’. The tongue hanging from the mouth, in the shape of an obsidian knife, urges his need for human blood and hearts. In the second circle contains the so-called ‘Ollin‘ symbol (of an earthquake or movement).

The four cardinal points are of primary importance. In the squares are depicted: 1. The jaguar (top right); 2. The crocodile head, god of the air (top left); 3. The rain and celestial fire (left below) and 4. The head of the water goddess Chalchiuhtlicue (right below). The squares depict the four world ages, which were earlier terminated with a catastrophe. Left from the upper triangle (pyramid): 1. The headdress of a fighter signifying a northern direction; to the right: 2. A knife of obsidian (tecpatl) indicates the east and the emergence of the sun. Below left: 3. The house of the rain god Tlalocan symboli-zing the west and right below: 4. A monkey represents the south.

The (Middle) American Indians envisaged the origin of (linear) time to lay in an event whereby the four Tetzcatlipocas strove to become a sun. The fifteenth century ‘Codex Borgia’, consisting of seventy-six pages on thirty-nine sheets of buckskin, showed a picture with Omoteotl (or Tonacatecutli) in the middle – as the Father and Mother, Lord of Time – surrounded by the four Tetzcatlipocas. They represented, together with Omoteotl, the five periods of the world history (Von FRANZ, 1978). The Aztecs pictured themselves as living in a fifth and final age.

The Incan sacred text the Popol Vuh gives a sequence of four efforts at creation: First were animals, then wet clay, wood, then last, the creation of the first ancestors from maize dough. To this, the Lacandons add the creation of the main kind groupings and their 'totemic' animals.[3] The creation of humankind is concluded by the Mesoamerican tale of the opening of the Maize (or Sustenance) Mountain by the Lightning deities.[4]

Page 11 reverse from Codex Magliabechiano, showing four day-symbols of the tonalpohualli: (Ce = one) Flint/Knife tecpatl, (Ome = two) Rain quiahuitl, (Yei = three) Flower xochitl, and (Nahui = four) Caiman/Crocodile (cipactli), with Spanish descriptions.

The four directions, colors and symbolic representations were given by SELER (1906) – in an older edition of the manuscript – as follows: east – black – cipactli – crocodile north – yellow – miquiztli  – death west – blue – ocomatli – monkey south – red – cozcaquauhtli – vulture The four-fold theme was further elaborated in plate 43 of the facsimile edition of the ‘Codex Borgia’ by Karl Anton NOWOTNY (1976). It depicts the ‘Underworld of the West’ as the final part of a series (Plates 29 – 46). SELER (1906) called this series ‘Die Höllenfahrt der Venus‘ (Venus’ ride to hell). The godhead is pictured in a ‘mamacouhticac‘-setting, which means a position with arms and legs spread out.

The ‘Road to Hell’ in the ‘Codex Borgia’ (Cholula-Tlaxcala area). In: ENDRES (1984). RAYNAUD (1901) described – in an article on the sacred numbers and cruciform features of the Precolombian culture in Middle America – the ‘mamacouhticac‘ as ‘un dieu place dans un carrefour et de ses quatre membres indiquant les quatre chemins‘ (a god placed on a crossroad with its four members indicating the four roads). The symbolism is reminiscent of the cross and crucifixion in the Christian tradition.

QMRThe capital city of the Aztec empire was Tenochtitlan, now the site of modern-day Mexico City. Built on a series of islets in Lake Texcoco, the city plan was based on a symmetrical layout that was divided into four city sections called campans. The city was interlaced with canals which were useful for transportation.

A tetradic-cosmographical representation of the Aztecs from the ‘Codex Ferjervery-Mayer‘. The manuscript is kept in the Merseyside County Museum, Liverpool. In: NICHOLSON (1967/1983).

The ‘Codex Ferjervery-Mayer’ gave another graphical expression of the four Tezcatlipocas standing at the four corners of creation (fig. 203). In the center is the god Tepeyollotl, the ‘Heart of the Mountain’, one of the Lords of the Night. He is depicted as a warrior. Rivers of blood flow towards the center-square and four holy trees grow from it towards the holy Tezcatlipocas, the four children of god with their own colors: black in north, red in the east, blue in the south and white towards the west. These colors differ, in this case, from the normally accepted compass colors: white (N), red (E), yellow (S) and black (W) and also from the above-given interpretation of the Tlaloc figures of SELER (1906). The difference may be due to a ‘night-time’ vision, rather than a ‘day-time’ vision.

The topmost cardinal point is identified as east, where the sun rises. A quetzal bird sits in a flowering tree, identifying the ‘Holy Land’ whence Quetzalcoatl arose. Two gods, one of the sharp cutting stone (Itzli) and another of the rising Sun, are in opposition, symbolizing dualistic powers.

On the right-hand side is the ‘Tree of the North’ with Cinteotl, the maize god, and Mictlantecuhtli, Lord of the Dead, facing each other. The theme of Life and Dead is obvious in the black land of the north.

Below is the ‘Tree of the West’ showing Xochiquetzal, the good goddess of flowers, in opposition with the bad goddess of drunkenness and witchcraft Tlazotlteotl. A hummingbird perched in the tree.

Finally, the tree of the South (to the left) is split. The southern area could be a place of redemption, and the crack might point to a place of escape (NICOLSON, 1967/1983). The rain god Tlatoc faces an unknown god, probably the underworld. Van ZANTWIJK (1977, p. 63) drew attention to the resemblance of this scheme with the geographical lay-out of the capital Tenochtitlan at the time of foundation in four quarters, with four dams as boundaries.

The spatial (four-fold) division of the Aztec people, symbolized in the four Tezcatlipocas, had its parallel in the (later) Mayan culture. Now they were called the four Bacabs and had a similar relation to the points of the compass. The Nahuas enlarged the idea of a quadruple ‘compass-god’ to such an extend that it came close to the medieval conception of the ‘four humors’. In both cases, a ‘philosophy’ – or rather a deliberate use of an ‘a priori‘ conceptual system based on a tetradic division – could have provided the analogy of ideas. There were two Aztec calendars, the so-called Tzolkin-cycle of 260 days (or ‘tonalpoalli‘, counting the days, resulting in the ‘tonalamatl‘-calender) and the ‘haäb‘-cycle of 360 + 5 days. Each day had therefore two names, one for every cycle. The combination of Tzolkin– and Haäb-cycles produced a cyclic period of fifty-two (short) years (or 73 tzolkins): 52 x 365 = 18.980 = 73 x 260 (GILBERT & COTTERELL, 1996; p. 28). The fifty-two years (combination) cycle is divided in four parts of each thirteen-year (fig. 204). The four parts are associated with the directions of the wind, joining time and place together. The north-direction is to the left. A similar ‘calendario‘ in the work of Juan de Tovar has the ‘rabbit’ cycle orientated to the north (Afb. X.2 in VAN ZANTWIJK, 1977, p. 204).

Some post-conquest sources report that at the re-consecration of Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in 1487, the Aztecs sacrificed about 80,400 prisoners over the course of four days. This number is considered an exaggeration. According to Ross Hassig, author of Aztec Warfare, "between 10,000 and 80,400 persons" were sacrificed in the ceremony.[39] The higher estimate would average 14 sacrifices per minute during the four-day consecration. Four tables were arranged at the top so that the victims could be jettisoned down the sides of the temple.[40] Nonetheless, according to Codex Telleriano-Remensis, old Aztecs who talked with the missionaries told about a much lower figure for the reconsecration of the temple, approximately 4,000 victims in total. The sacrificed people would walk to the four tables in four lines

Mixcoatl was one of four children of Tonacatecutli, meaning "Lord of Sustenance," an aged creator god, and Cihuacoatl, a fertility goddess and the patroness of midwives

Tezcatlipoca (/ˌtɛzˌkætliˈpoʊkə/; Classical Nahuatl: Tezcatlipōca pronounced [teskatɬiˈpoːka][1]) was a central deity in Aztec religion, and his main festival was the Toxcatl ceremony celebrated in the month of May. One of the four sons of Ometeotl,

In later myths, the four gods who created the world, Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, Huitzilopochtli and Xipe Totec were referred to respectively as the Black, the White, the Blue and the Red Tezcatlipoca. The four Tezcatlipocas were the sons of Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, lady and lord of the duality, and were the creators of all the other gods, as well as the world and all humanity.

Tezcatlipoca was also worshipped in many other Nahua cities such as Texcoco, Tlaxcala and Chalco. Each temple had a statue of the god for which copal incense was burned four times a day.

Chālco [ˈt͡ʃaːɬko] was a complex pre-Columbian Nahua altepetl or confederacy in central Mexico. It was divided into the four sub-altepetl of Tlalmanalco/Tlacochcalco, Amaquemecan, Tenanco Texopalco Tepopolla and Chimalhuacan-Chalco, which were themselves further subdivided into altepetl tlayacatl, each with its own tlatoani (king). Its inhabitants were known as the Chālcatl [ˈt͡ʃaːɬkat͡ɬ] (singular) or Chālcah [ˈt͡ʃaːɬkaʔ] (plural).

Tlaxcala (Classical Nahuatl: Tlaxcallān [tɬaʃ.ˈká.lːaːn̥] "place of maize tortillas") was a pre-Columbian city and state in central Mexico. Ancient Tlaxcala was a republic ruled by a council of between 50 and 200 chief political officials (teuctli [sg.], teteuctin [pl.]) (Fargher et al. 2010). These officials gained their positions through service to the state, usually in warfare, and as a result came from both the noble (pilli) and commoner (macehualli) classes. Following the Spanish Conquest, Tlaxcala was divided into four fiefdoms (señoríos) by the Spanish corregidor Gómez de Santillán in 1545 (26 years after the Conquest). These fiefdoms were Ocotelolco, Quiahuiztlan, Tepeticpac, and Tizatlan. At this time, four great houses or lineages emerged and claimed hereditary rights to each fiefdom and created fictitious genealogies extending back into the pre-Columbian era to justify their claims (Gibson 1952).

In Aztec mythology, the Centzonmimixcoa (Nahuatl pronunciation: [sentsonmiːmiʃˈkoːaʔ] or Centzon Mimixcoa, the "Four Hundred alike Mixcoatl") are the gods of the northern stars. The Aztec gods of the southern stars are the Centzonuitznaua. According to the Manuscript of 1558, section 6, these 400 'Cloud-Serpents' were divinely slain [= transformed into stars] in this wise :- of their protagonists 4, Quauhtli-icohuauh ('Eagle's Twin') "hid inside a tree"; Mix-coatl ('Cloud Serpent') "hid within the earth"; Tlo-tepetl ('Hawk Mountain') "hid within a hill"; Apan-teuctli ('River Lord') "hid in the water"; their sister, Cuetlach-cihuatl, "hid in the ball court." From this ambuscade these 4 slew the 400.[1] Notice the repetitions of fours

The combination of the two Aztec calendars – the tzolkin– and haäb-cycle – resulted in a cyclic period of fifty-two years. The subdivision in four series (of thirteen years) was composed of the four primary day-signs: Canas (acatl, reed), Pe Dernales (tecpatl, flint knife), Casas (calli, house) and Conejos (tochtli, rabbit). In: DURAN (1971). The cyclic movement of time started in the east with the series of the ‘Canas‘ (reed) and turned anti-clockwise to the north of the ‘Pe Dernales‘ (the flint knife). The second series (of the knife) made the same movement to the ‘Casas‘ (house) in the west. The third series (of the houses) rotated anti-clockwise to the ‘Conejos‘ (rabbit) in the south. And this last series (of thirteen years) jointed again with the ‘Canas‘ to complete the cycle (of fifty-two years). When this happened the feast of Nexiuhilpiliztli (the Completion or Connection of the Perfect Circle of Years) took place (DURAN, 1971).

In Aztec mythology, the Centzonuitznahua Nahuatl pronunciation: [sent͡sonwiːtsˈnaːwa] (or, in plural, Centzon Huitznauhtin Nahuatl pronunciation: [sent͡sonwiːtsˈnaːwtin]) were the gods of the southern stars. They are the evil elder sons of Coatlicue, and their sister is Coyolxauhqui. They and their sister tried to murder their mother upon learning of her pregnancy with Huitzilopochtli; their plan was thwarted when their brother sprang from the womb—fully grown and garbed for battle—and killed them all.

The Centzonhuitznaua are known as the "Four Hundred Southerners"; the gods of the northern stars are the Centzonmimixcoa.

Whether it is four or four hundred Amerindian myths are filled with fours. But so are mythologies throughout the world but it is kind of accentuated in Amerindian myths

In Aztec mythology, Coyolxauhqui (Classical Nahuatl: Coyolxāuhqui [kojoɬˈʃaːʍki], "Face painted with Bells") was a daughter of Coatlicue and Mixcoatl and is the leader of the Centzon Huitznahuas, the southern star gods. Coyolxauhqui ruled over her brothers, the Four Hundred Southerners, she led them in attack against their mother, Coatlicue, when they learned she was pregnant, convinced she dishonored them all.[1] The miraculous pregnancy of Coatlicue, the maternal Earth deity, made her other children embarrassed, including her oldest daughter Coyolxauhqui. As Coatlicue swept the temple, a few hummingbird feathers fell into her chest. Coatlicue’s child Huitzilopochtli sprang from her womb in full war armor and killed Coyolxauhqui and her other 400 brothers, who had been attacking their mother. He cut off her limbs, then tossed her head into the sky where it became the moon, so that his mother would be comforted in seeing her daughter in the sky every night.

There are a handful of origin mythologies describing the deity’s beginnings. One story tells of the cosmic creation and Huitzilopochtli’s role. According to this legend, he was the smallest son of four—his parents being the creator couple Tonacateuctli and Tonacacihuatl while his brothers were Quetzalcoatl and the two Tezcatlipocas. His mother and father instructed both him and Quetzalcoatl to bring order to the world. And so, together they made fire, the first male and female humans, created the Earth, and manufactured a sun.[6] Another origin story tells of a fierce goddess, Coatlicue, being impregnated as she was sweeping by a ball of feathers on Coatepec ("Serpent Hill").[7] Her other children, who were already fully grown, were the four hundred male Centzonuitznaua and the female deity Coyolxauhqui. These children, angered by the manner by which their mother became impregnated, conspired to kill her.[8] Huitzilopochtli burst forth from his mother’s womb in full armor and fully grown. He attacked his older brothers and sister, defending his mother by beheading his sister and casting her body from the mountain top. He also chased after his brothers, who fled from him and became scattered all over the sky. [9]

In Aztec cosmology, the four corners of the universe are marked by "the four Tlalocs" (Classical Nahuatl: Tlālōquê [tɬaːˈloːkeʔ]) which both hold up the sky and function as the frame for the passing of time. Tlaloc was the patron of the Calendar day Mazātl. In Aztec mythology, Tlaloc was the lord of the third sun which was destroyed by fire.

Tlaloc (Classical Nahuatl: Tlāloc [ˈtɬaːlok])[1] was an important deity in Aztec religion; as supreme god of the rains, he was also by extension a god of fertility and of water. He was widely worshiped as a beneficent giver of life and sustenance, but he was also feared for his ability to send hail, thunder, and lightning, and for being the lord of the powerful element of water.

The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland (Irish: Annála Ríoghachta Éireann) or the Annals of the Four Masters (Annála na gCeithre Máistrí) are chronicles of medieval Irish history. The entries span from the Deluge, dated as 2,242 years after creation to AD 1616.The chief compiler of the annals was Brother Mícheál Ó Cléirigh from Ballyshannon, who was assisted by, among others, Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire and Peregrine Ó Duibhgeannain. Although only one of the authors, Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, was a Franciscan friar, they became known as 'The Four Friars' or in the original Irish, Na Ceithre Máistrí. The Anglicized version of this was "The Four Masters", the name that became associated with the annals themselves.