The Third Harbinger Taxman Cometh
The Faerie Queene comes to America
the same way Spenser offered it to Elizabeth .
I love Spenser, but his allegory was
proud. He predicted Mary Queen of Scots was the Great Whore of Babylon.
Pestering Britain with myths about King Arthur, Rome, Babylon and the Bible would
be like our saying that when the stars threw down their spears means angels blowing their imagined trumpets at earth's round corners begins a long
awaited series of judgments, which that, if so, it’s time to shop for a hole, even stranger than the Faerie Queene.
Daschle's Prayer
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Taxman comes April 15 again this year, along with the Mars opposition and
the first Blood Moon eclipse that day. No problem if you miss it, there will be
four. Things much delayed. Blood moons more predict than trigger, they say. Of
course the Mars opposition happens every two years and the cardinal cross
coming April 15 is going to be as anticlimactic as when the third harbinger arrives.
Not that anybody will say when that is, maybe next year, but those days will be
shortened. If not, that Paul Revere who
cries apocalypse will go viral. Hedging as Delphic as the moon, this
Harbinger is like the Faerie Queene. That is moot, unless it toots.
Put on the brakes for this connection of America and Israel . Who wants to be in the
Bible? If God sent a word to Jacob and it lighted upon America , how
binding is that? A quote from Isaiah
9.8. We’ll find out holes for real. Nobody connected Jerusalem
and Washington , Isaiah and America until Daschle. Then Edwards,
Giuliani, Pataki, Obama, Kerry and untold others came out of the rocks,
put Isaiah on top of their heads, which is the same thing here as talking behind
their backs like Spenser:
Some frounce their
curled Hair in courtly guise,
Some pranke their
Ruffes, and others trimly dight
Their gay Attire:
each others greater Pride does spight.
If you wrote this in a Greek play it would sound
contrived. I don't mean to go line by line, but Isaiah repeats over and
over, "princes are rebellious and companions of thieves, where every one
loves bribes" (1.23), the news media "soothsayers like the
Philistines" (2.6), American economy "full of silver and gold, has no
end of treasure" (2.7). "Their land is full of idols (2.8) from TV
alone, not to speak of "the great man debased" (2.9). In other words,
Anthony Weiner in the yard. Human pride shall be humbled (2.11), the lofty
shall be bowed down (2.17). Boldness proves their character (3.9); they are as
proud as Sodom ,
"they hide it not.” This crack doesn't have the sting that it did for
Isaiah, who took Sodom as just the opposite case
of Jonah's Nineveh ,
which changed its ways. Particular idols made of iPods, iPhones, laptops, and
video games average 66 hours of screen time a week. Isaiah has them casting
these idols to the bats and moles (2.20). But when laptops are too heavy and
mobiles don't transmit, reception is poor in the tops of jagged rocks and apartment
buildings, where they hide (2.21):
A stately Palace
built of squared Brick,
Which cunningly was
without Mortar laid,
Whose Walls were
high, but nothing strong, nor thick;
And golden Foil all
over them displaid;
That purest Sky with
Brightness they dismaid:
High lifted up were
many lofty Towers, (FQ
I, iv.4)
That every Breath of
Heaven shaked it;
And all the hinder
parts, that few could spy,
Were ruinous and old,
but painted cunningly. (iv, 50)
The judge and elder, lawyer and speaker are removed, shouted down. Not even
my brother, says Isaiah, would rule in their place. Who wants to rule ruin? (Isaiah
3.7). "Children are their
tyrants" (3.12), meaning pueriles who train with moles, bats, cedars,
towers and idols: When the stay and staff are moved and helter skelter shortages of bread (Isaiah 3.1), boundaries go down Then Tom Daschle speaks of a symbolic strike to the heart. He doesn't realize George Washington's Inaugural and Federal Hall, first American Capital are four blocks from Ground Zero, in "the heart of the American community and the symbols and structures." Doesn't know it will be 14 buildings in all.
The complete text of Isaiah says:
“All that say in the
pride and haughtiness of heart,
the bricks are fallen
down, but we will build with dressed stone:
the sycamore figs are
cut, but we will replace them with cedars,
shall have
adversaries set up against them
enemies joined
together; the Syrians before, the Philistines behind;
and they shall
swallow them with open mouth.” (Isaiah
9.10)
Dressed stone and cedar to replace bricks and sycamore provokes alliances against them. Daschle's words come true after he speaks. The Sycamore at Ground Zero that sheltered
“I believe one of the first things we should commit to – with federal help
that underscores our nation’s purpose – is to rebuild the towers of the World Trade
Center Kerry , US
What happened to the bricks? Right again. The Governor
of New York ordered a 20 ton block of granite quarried from the Adirondacks to be the new cornerstone at Ground Zero, but
which was never actually used. A gratuitous symbol, completely unnecessary,
puffery like John Kerry saying we will show the world we are not afraid – we
are defiant. Who do we defy anyway, for you only defy a power
greater than you, and surely he's not saying that of Al-Qaeda? What's wrong
with hewn, dressed stone? Answer, in Israel
anyway, and now of course America
is like Israel ,
cutting and polishing pollutes the stone, imparts pride and haughtiness of
heart,
If you make a stone
altar
don't make it of hewn
stone
any tool that touches
it pollutes it (Exodus 20:25).
Quibblers disallow the sycamore/cedar, brick/hewn stone analogy. They say
the Isaiah tree was not a true sycamore like the one in New
York , and anyway Pataki's foundation stone was disallowed by the
builders of Freedom
Tower
"in the Last
Days (Isaiah 2.2)...every one that is
proud and lofty,
every one lifted up
shall be brought low;
the cedars of Lebanon...and every high tower
...the loftiness of
man shall be bowed down
...the idols utterly
abolished" (2.12-18).
Rest assured all this will be shown a farce, that Isaiah is anti-gay for his
remarks about Sodom , anti-woman for those
tinkling feet of the daughters of Zion
whose secret parts are bared. Isaiah is the last place America would want to be, which the history of Israel proves. The
trouble is, can you take the words back? Will the present speaker of the
house and the senate leader renounce cedar and hewn stone? Wait for it. It might
do some good to start retracting oaths. But Israel had the hedge taken (Isaiah
5.5), to be laid waste (5.6), "swallowed with open
mouth." "Hell is enlarged, opens without measure,” he says, “their
glory descends into it" (5.14)
But even though leaders invoke this 9/11 "blessing," Isaiah says
it is the "people" (8.6) who refuse the soft waters. Aren't people
given points off for the despoiling
mind control manipulation by corporate governments and military? Sorry.
If they spoke up they would at least feel less a victim. Join a revolution
against Monsanto? These progressions contain reversals, "associate
yourselves and you will be broken...gird yourselves and be broken...take
counsel and come to nothing...speak a word and it will be defeated (8.9,10). Help
is not found in the usual wisdom of diviners (19). "Let Him be your
fear." All avenues fail, "the living should not inquire of the
dead." When the Assyrian flood comes, the conquered will be hungry and
curse their king president senate deities. Instead of looking "upward for
help" they "look to earth...and are driven into darkness"
(21-22). One warning unheeded, followed by a worse. Shiloh, Assyrian flood,
march to Babylon .
By all means government does everything for our security, right up to the big surprise.
House of Pride
Spenser’s allegory of Pride has a moral-religious and national-political
nature. Lucifera and the procession of seven deadly sins (FQ, I, Cantos
iv, v) is not far from the daughter of Zion
with her "hinder parts painted cunningly." "Pride is an illusion
with no basis in reality" (39), said someone echoing Chaucer's House of
Fame that has the names of great men inscribed on the north wall but their
destruction on the south. The leprosy (Isaiah 3.17) of the Daughters and
their bared secret parts by the side of the road "in most wretched
case" shows literature is good for
something, to talk about the unmentionable, which Spenser did voluminously with
the Tudors. The House of Pride, ready to crumble at any moment,
for "every breath of heaven shaked it (iv, 5. 7), is inhabited by infinite
sorts of people, that fit a diverse nation. The lords and ladies of government
await Queen Lucifera but are only props to her appearance. To cast our male
presidents into the roles they play as maiden queens denies the strict controls
behind them. Lucifera is the light of pride whose carriage is pulled by the
seven deadly sins, which if we wanted to extend the analogy, means gluttony
surrenders along with pride, and lechery, envy, wrath
His ruffin raiment all
was staind with blood,
Which he had spilt,
and all to rags yrent (FQ, iv. 34. 1-2)
What are the seven deadly sins? After
the six unholy pairs pass in review, we see Satan the lackey, riding on the
wagon beam, lashing his beasts on as they pass through the mass of people, through
a "foggy mist' that covers the land before they find the "fresh
flowering fields' and the "solace of the open air." The procession
tramples over the skulls and bones of those who had previously come this way,
"whose life had gone astray."
Spenser himself could have had his own Isaiah (5.18):
Woe unto them that
draw iniquity with cords
of vanity, and sin as
it were with a cart rope.
True and false are interchangeable in the Faerie Queene. Una takes
Archimago to be Redcross, Redcross takes Duessa in place of Una. Should we apply
this technique to government? The dungeons of this palace hide the bodies of
thousands overcome by pride.
Google The Harbinger of 9/11 to get all the elaborate
explanations of Isaiah 9.10 that get America into the Bible. It wasn't
there before. Those who worried Russia and China and Egypt were can now feel
better, but to drop America smack into chapter nine of Isaiah, as Tom Daschle
does, when chapters two to fourteen of Isaiah are The Mother of All Threatenings (Edward
Young), and to act as if
they're just words does exactly what Israel did in Isaiah, took every counsel
of its own advising, which all failed, and continued doing so until finally, in
chapter fourteen, guess who comes?
So it goes that Cahn says 9/11 was the first event in a sequence of
increasing scale followed by a second, the financial meltdown seven years to
the week after 9/11, leading to a third, projected until "the last,"
assuming the warnings not taken, putatively September 2015, says the fool.
Meanwhile America
has entertainment patriotism to keep it warm, terrorist threats as if real. That
was the year king Uzziah died. Isaiah saw the posts of the door move (6.4). Then
he began saying, “you listen but you will not understand" (6.9). But Sheol
did not have to expand, put up new
towers, since there was "a great depopulation in the midst of the
land" (6.12). Oh get out the Bible!
Young Knight,
whatever that dost Arms profess,
And through long
Labors huntest after Fame,
Beware of Fraud,
beware of Fickleness,
In Choice and Change
of thy dear loved Dame;
Lest thou of her
believe too lightly blame,
And rash misweening
do thy Heart remove;
For unto Knight there
is no greater Shame,
Than Lightness and
Inconstancy in Love;
That doth this
Red-cross Knight's ensample plainly prove. here
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