Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
My theological novel ‘Where Art Thou?’ begins with ME asking why GOD can no longer SEE, or RECOGNIZE His two creations anymore? I AM – QUESTIONING GOD DIRECTLY – all by myself – for no one BUT ME – asked this question! WHY ME?
I…..JUST LOOKEDUP…..and discovered I AM not alone. Others have asked – including my kin Shakespeare! My Book – will never be done! So I must be – like a Rabbi unto you, and, give you lessons – and sermons……….under the woad tree?
Has it been thirty years since I concluded it was THE WOAD TREE that God forbid Adam and Eve to partake of…..which they did after becoming AWARE they were naked. Thus…..THEY MADE indigo blue, and COVERED THEMSELVES IN HEAVENLY BLUE. This is why God – could no longer see HIS CHILDREN.
“WHERE ART THOU?”
So, my readers, does your QUEST-ION…..begin?
Why has no Indian Guru or Sage come up with a good answer as to why Krishna and his Soulmate –
PAINTED EACH OTHER BLUE! Why?…….WHY ME?
John ‘The Nazarite’
The world has depicted Lord Krishna as a baby stealing butter and a charming youth holding a flute, with a peacock feather on his head. And in all these depictions, there’s one common link: the blue colour of his skin. The question as to why his skin looked different from ours must have nudged you? The legends tell us that Lord Krishna had drunk poisoned milk given by a demon when he was a baby and that had caused the bluish tinge in his skin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria
[9] And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
[10] And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
[11] And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
[12] And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
[13] And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
[14] And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
[15] And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
[16] Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
[17] And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
[18] Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
“Where art thou?” is a phrase that comes from older forms of English, particularly from the works of William Shakespeare. The phrase is commonly associated with the famous line from Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet,” where Romeo says, “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
In this context, “where art thou” means “where are you.” The word “art” is an archaic form of the verb “to be,” so the phrase is essentially asking “where are you” in a poetic or old-fashioned way. It is a romantic and somewhat dramatic way of expressing the idea of searching for someone or wondering about their whereabouts.
“But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it. …” (Moses 3:8, 15–17.)
Dispelling Some Myths: Woad
Updated: Feb 16
It is widely held, and oft repeated, that ancient Britons, and most especially the Picts, painted or tattooed their bodies with Woad. We all know that, because depictions of the Iron Age or Roman period on television and film nearly always show the indigenous tribespeople painted in ‘mystical’ blue designs. It seems, however, that the evidence for Woad inspired body art is not as rock solid as one might have hoped.
What’s in a Name? The meaning of the term ‘Pict’ is not universally agreed, and what the Picts called themselves is not yet known. Evidence for the name derives from the Latin word Picti that first occurs in a panegyric written by Eumenius in AD 297 and is taken to mean ‘painted or tattooed people’ (from Latin pingere ‘to paint’; pictus, ‘painted’, cf. Greek πυκτίς – pyktis, ‘picture’). Yet, there is no contemporary evidence supporting the assertion that peoples living in the far North of Britannia, or indeed further South, painted their bodies at all. Moreover, there is equally little evidence for their preferred medium. As Foster (1996) notes: ‘Much ink has been spilt over what the ancient writers meant by Picts, but it seems to be a generic term for people living north of the Forth-Clyde isthmus who raided the Roman Empire’.
But what about Woad? ‘All the Britons dye their bodies with Woad, which produces a blue colour and gives them a wild appearance in battle,’ or so Gaius Julius Caesar reports. Except, in his Commentaries (Caesar, Bello Gallico, 5-14), Caesar penned the phrase: ‘Omnes vero se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod caeruleum efficit colorem’, which roughly translates as: ‘All the Britons, indeed, dye themselves with “glass”, which produces a bluish colour.’ Caesar’s use of the word ‘vitro’, derived from the Latin ‘vitrum’, is a reference to a type of glass favoured by the Romans and seems intended to describe the bluish-green colour he reportedly witnessed. It is only much later that scholars began to equate and apply ‘vitrum’ to the indigo/blue dye produced from the leaves of the indigenous Woad plant (Isatis tinctoria). Today, many modern lexicons now assert that ‘vitrum’ refers to ‘Woad, a blue dye used by the Britons made from that plant’ [1]. It seems that Caesar’s term simply describing a colour is now incorrectly assumed to mean the actual use of Woad.
Being generous, Caesar may have been trying to describe some form of copper- or iron-based pigment that the local Britons may have used to ‘paint’ or ‘tattoo’ their fair skins. Yet even this is a stretch as we shall discover. It is also worth noting that Caesar’s operations (not really an ‘invasion’ but more like a ‘reconnaissance-in-force’) only extended to the county of Kent and the Thames Valley in southeast Britain. The Romans would have encountered a fairly limited pool of indigenous people from which Caesar could attribute the practice of body-painting to ‘All Britons’. Just as important, his Commentaries were written more than 300 years before the first mention of the ‘painted ones’, or Picts, appear in history. So, despite a highly evocative image, we cannot, in good faith, use Caesar’s account of his short time in Britain as reliable evidence.
Woad: What is it good for? Lambert (2004) notes that Woad makes a wonderful indigo coloured dye for materials, a safe, biodegradable natural ink, and is also quite useful as a wood preservative apparently. Lambert is at pains to stress is that it is not good as a body paint or tattoo ink. From personal experiments, Lambert (2004) reports it is extremely caustic such that if used as tattoo ink it literally burns itself to the skin’s surface, and although it heals quickly, an excessive amount of scar tissue can result. Sadly, none of the scarring is coloured blue. Put simply – don’t try this at home! Moreover, reading on-line the experiences of those who have been keen to achieve the ‘authentic’ ancient British look by mixing Woad dye with a binding agent, both Lambert (2004) and O’Brien (2018) report that as a body paint it streaks easily, or simply dries too quickly and flakes off the skin. Rather than producing the mysterious swirling patterns of common folklore, Woad dye does not seem to permanently stain the skin very effectively at all. The image one is left with is hardly that of the battle hardened, tattooed and fearsome warrior à la Hollywood’s ‘Braveheart’, ‘King Arthur’ or ‘The Eagle’; more one of tear-streaked mascara!
Another accepted ‘fact’ often cited centres on the belief that Woad would have been used for its medicinal and psychoactive properties. Once again, it is often asserted that the Britons/Picts painted themselves all over with Woad, which put them into an altered state of mind for fighting and equally kept their wounds from becoming infected. Yet, once more, neither of these ‘facts’ can be substantiated.
I Study Bible All Day – Too!
Posted on March 28, 2024 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here are some poems and books written in America by my great grandfather, Reverend John Wilson. Moses made me aware John was a Missionary in a strange land full of non-white people. He was a compatriot of John Eliot.
John ‘The Nazarite’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilson_(Puritan_minister)
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My daughter and he lover called me a “parasite” because I get SSI and food stamps/ I tried to tell her I study and write most of the day, and have a very large blog. This did not matter. She then said I don’t deserve SSI because my blog is proof Im not insane. If I try to defend myself from her and Bill’s judgement, that is proof Im not insane.
Yesterday I recited my history on getting exercise because I am crippled. I was not getting enough exercise. I used to play Frisbee Gold with Ed Corbin, and golf with ur friend, Mark Gall. Ed got injured, and I invented Barbie Ball Golf. Mark found another golf partner, a fellow professor at the UofO – after he got good enough to join the Country Club – and not be embarrassed. He used me to practice on. When I saw four black residents exercising in our playground, I joined them and told Jasen about the Turnverein Gymnasts.
I was telling my physical therapist about Ed dying and how he became crippled. I would get up at 5:00 A.M. and write till 2:00 P.M. I would get on my bicycle and ride from 19th. and Kincaid, to 1st’s St. next to the Campbell Center. For several years Ed and I played our Discus course along the river. Then Ed could not walk well and his sons bought him a Wee game. I told my therapist I had two operations on my shoulder from damage I did playing Wee Tennis with Ed. I saw a physical therapist. I began to choke up. The dead of Hollis Williams fits in here. He was using a walker to get around due to his chain smoking. We went and saw – our woman – play volleyball – live!
Three weeks ago my therapist let her blonde hair down, and I stopped myself from telling her she was beautiful. Shades of Belle and her Wiccan gang. Yesterday she let her hair down, again, and I saw who she is. I was telling her that I’m such a recluse, that every time I go out, I gather material for my fiction novels. I told her I’m authoring three Bond novels. After therapy I called a cab, and goggled Starfish. I was going to show my therapist Victoria’s BODYGUARD I had told her about. Then, the truth arrived..
My physical therapist – IS MY BODYGUARD! She is trying to – HEAL MY BODY! I have trouble cooking my dinner. At Ed’s house I made my famous ribs that WE ATE during a Duck Football game. WE is Mark and Jon Gall, Ed Corbin, and myself. Mark refused to serve as my Special Needs Executors after I fired my daughter. I was not invited to Jon’s funeral. I suspect it is because his mother became a Scientologist, WHERE PRAYING HEALS, when real medicine – FAILS!
I’ve been PUNNISHED for my religious beliefs, or, the belief I own no beliefs. I am looking for a great Attorney in order to sue the alleged Nation of Israel for the attack on Harvard.
I will call, Miriam Starfish Christling to the stand!
I wanted to tell my therapist Victoria’s bodyguard lived in a tree in the hills of Eugene, and she was Narure Woman.
Don’t do it, John. They will come for you and threaten to – LOCK YOU UP! Sure you were abused as a child, but, creating a secret invisible playmate – IS CERTIFIABLE! Starfish heard my CRY FOR HELP. I asked Joy and Mark to help me publish my theological book, titled…
“Where Art Thou?”
I’m going to write a letter to Senator Ron Wyden who is a Jew, and ask him to launch a investigation as to why the Supernova Dance was MOVED at the last minute, to an area that the IDF knew there were numerous reports Hamas was launching fire balloons that started grass fires. Was there a fire engine on standby? Below is an article published in June of 2021. As a theologian, I have studied The Boogeyman Affect. Religious bodies creating an Antichrist, is common. Netanyahu was giving Hamas – money! As an original Hippie and War Protestor, I read many articles where the CIA and Pentagon created PEACE DEMONS to make us look bad. I highly suspect the Supernova Dancers were set up. I told my physical therapist I was the best dancer in High School. My peers gather round to watch me.
“Here I am!”
Below is a pic of me with our cat up a tree in a Boston park, months after I held a dead and bloody Lab puppy who was butchered by two thugs the Mafia hired to kill me. This is why I suffer PTSD. It is not SAFE for me to be in my body. I am holding our cat, I rescued. This is…….therapy.
I am…..Starfish! I have saved people’s life. I am…..a Seer! Humans hate Seers, and try to kill us. Why? Is it because we are – the only answer to collective prayers, the only proof – prayers work?
I’m asking my readers for help. Is the dance being held – right next to the fence that separates Hamas Warrior from The Promised Land. Much of the history of my grandfather, and his Puritan Religious Tribe, is about the conflict and war with the Indigenous People. They would tell you this was a very hostile area. The Puritans made a law that required armed guards be placed near the door during church services. Was there singing – and dancing in the isles?
John ‘The New Elijah’
EXTRA! I just listened to a woman who resigned because of accusations of Genocide. The Jews are going for the title ‘Eternal Victims’ and have compromised Germany and the United States with their “Guilt Trip” I suspect Israel has planned to do to the Palestinians what the Germans did to them, and what America did to the American Natives. What I am saying, is, Netanyahu wants Germany and the U.S. to be guilty of Genocide – because they did nothing to save the people of Gaza! What an evil gambit and chess game!
A Pequot-Indian, in a canoo, was espied by the English, within gunshot, carrying away an English maid, with a design to destroy her or abuse her. The soldiers fearing to kill the maid if they shot at the Indian, asked Mr. [Rev. John] Wilson’s counsel, who forbad them to fear, and assured them “God will direct the bullet!” They shot accordingly; and killed the Indian, though then moving swiftly upon the water, and saved the maid free from all harm whatever.[8]
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/16/middleeast/israel-gaza-incendiary-balloons-cmd-intl/index.html
Masked Palestinian supporters of the Islamic Jihad movement prepare incendiary balloons on Tuesday. Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%27im_music_festival_massacre
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67056741
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Indian_Bible
The history of Eliot’s Indian Bible involves three historical events that came together to produce the Algonquian Bible.
America’s first printing press[edit]
Further information: Early American publishers and printers
Printed sources have been produced in Spanish America since the sixteenth century.[9] Stephen Daye of England contracted Jose Glover, a wealthy minister who disagreed with the religious teachings of the Church of England, to transport a printing press to America in 1638. Glover died at sea while traveling to America.[10] His widow Elizabeth (Harris) Glover, Stephen Daye, and the press arrived at Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Mrs. Glover opened her print shop with the assistance of Daye.[10] Daye started the operations of the first American print shop which was the forerunner of Harvard University Press.[10] The press was located in the house of Henry Dunster, the first president of Harvard College where religious materials such as the Bay Psalm Book were published in the 1640s. Elizabeth Glover married president of Harvard College Henry Dunster on 21 June 1641.[10]
Arrival of John Eliot[edit]
Eliot came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England in 1631. One of his missions was to convert the indigenous Massachusett to Christianity.[6][15] Eliot’s instrument to do this was through the Christian scriptures.[6] Eliot’s feelings were that the Indians felt more comfortable hearing the scriptures in their own language than in English (a language they understood little of).[6] Eliot thought it best to translate the English Christian Bible to an Algonquian Bible rather than teach the Massachusett Indians English.[6] He then went about learning the Algonquian Indian language of the Massachusett people so he could translate English to the Natick dialect of the Massachusett language.[6] Eliot translated the entire 66 books of the English Bible in a little over fourteen years.[6][16] It had taken 44 scholars seven years to produce the King James Version of the Christian Bible in 1611.[6] Eliot had to become a grammarian and lexicographer to devise an Algonquian dictionary and book of grammar.[6] He used the assistance of a few local Massachusett Indians in order to facilitate the translation, including Cockenoe, John Sassamon, Job Nesuton, and James Printer.[6][17]
Harvard Founder and Native American Genocide
Posted on December 8, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Prominent rabbi quits Harvard antisemitism committee, brands college’s ideology ‘evil’
Harvard’s lame attempt at damage control after its disastrous and morally ugly institutional response to the Hamas atrocities of 10/7 is already falling apart”.
My 8th. grandfather, John Wilson, appears to have started a long war with Native Americans. My ex-friend, Mark Gall, told me the Jews had a right to return to their native lands, and are the moral equivalent of Native Americans – wanting their lands back. I told Gall the Jews were not indigenous to the area known as the Promised Land – to no avail! So, here we are up to our eyes balls in war over indigenous lands in Israel, that is resulting in much wampum funding being – taken away!
Several times I offered to write a book with Mr. Gall, but, he was convinced I was “odd” even a Nazi. He had ostracized me, and kept me away from his Jewish friends. He thought he had – won – and I was finished! I kept our e-mails thinking one day – they would be famous!
Mark is on the right in the pic above, sitting next to our late friend, Ed Corbin, who also went to Harvard. We are at the premiere of his son’s movie, Cosmos Corbin, who is a Jew.
John Presco
“The presidents of three prominent colleges forcefully condemned antisemitism at their schools Tuesday, while highlighting the challenge of protecting free speech amid rising tension on college campuses over the past several weeks.
Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University, told lawmakers Tuesday that “antisemitism has no place at Harvard” and that she has heard “reckless and hateful language on our campus.” At the same time, she noted that the school is “deeply committed to protecting free expression even of views that we find objectionable and outrageous and offensive
“What we seek is not simply free expression but the reasoned dialogue that leads to truth and discovery and that does the work of moving us all forward,” she said. “We don’t always get it right and our students don’t always get it right and when they transgress they are held accountable.”
The comments came as part of a hearing on Capitol Hill focused on antisemitism on college campuses. Gay joined Sally Kornbuth, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Elizabeth Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, testifying before the House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee.
“Continued attacks and murders roused Connecticut to action. “All through the winter of 1636-37 the Connecticut towns were kept in a state of alarm by the savages. Men going to their work were killed and horribly mangled. A Wethersfield man was kidnapped and roasted alive. Emboldened by the success of this feat, the Pequots attacked Wethersfield, massacred ten people, and carried away two girls.”[6] To help bring spiritual aid, Boston had declared a Fast Day on January 19, 1637, recognizing the “dangers of those at Connecticut.”[7]
The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place in 1636 and ended in 1638 in New England, between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The war concluded with the decisive defeat of the Pequot. At the end, about 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity.[1] Hundreds of prisoners were sold into slavery to colonists in Bermuda or the West Indies;[2] other survivors were dispersed as captives to the victorious tribes.
The result was the elimination of the Pequot tribe as a viable polity in southern New England, and the colonial authorities classified them as extinct. Survivors who remained in the area were absorbed into other local tribes.
The Mystic Massacre started in the predawn hours of May 26, 1637, when colonial forces led by Captains John Mason and John Underhill, along with their allies from the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes, surrounded one of two main fortified Pequot villages at Mistick. Only 20 soldiers breached the palisade’s gate and they were quickly overwhelmed, to the point that they used fire to create chaos and facilitate their escape. The ensuing conflagration trapped the majority of the Pequots; those who managed to escape the fire were slain by the soldiers and warriors who surrounded the fort.
Mason later declared that the attack against the Pequots was the act of a God who “laughed his Enemies and the Enemies of his People to scorn”, making the Pequot fort “as a fiery Oven”, and “thus did the Lord judge among the Heathen.”[23] Of the estimated 500 Pequots in the fort, seven were taken prisoner and another seven escaped to the woods.[24]
The Narragansetts and Mohegans with Mason and Underhill’s colonial militia were horrified by the actions and “manner of the Englishmen’s fight… because it is too furious, and slays too many men.”[25][26] The Narragansetts attempted to leave and return home, but were cut off by the Pequots from the other village of Weinshauks and had to be rescued by Underhill’s men—after which they reluctantly rejoined the colonists for protection and were used to carry the wounded, thereby freeing up more soldiers to fend off the numerous attacks along the withdrawal route.
Historicity of the Exodus[edit]
Further information: Sources and parallels of the Exodus
On Passover 2001, Wolpe told his congregation that “the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all.”[16] Casting doubt on the historicity of the Exodus during the holiday that commemorates it brought condemnation from congregants and several rabbis (especially Orthodox Rabbis). The ensuing theological debate included whole issues of Jewish newspapers such as The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and editorials in The Jerusalem Post, as well as an article in the Los Angeles Times. Critics asserted that Wolpe was attacking Jewish oral history, the significance of Passover and even the First Commandment.[16][17] Orthodox Rabbi Ari Hier wrote that “Rabbi Wolpe has chosen Aristotle over Maimonides, theories and scientific method over facts”. Wolpe, on the other hand, was defended by Reform Rabbi Steven Leder from the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, who argued that “defending a rabbi in the 21st century for saying the Exodus story isn’t factual is like defending him for saying the earth isn’t flat. It’s neither new nor shocking to most of us that the earth is round or that the Torah isn’t a history book dictated to Moses by God on Mount Sinai.”[18]
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