Tag Archives: King Solomon

king solomon: bible as divining rod

The boundaries of entire lands and the nature of their ancient civilizations can be made clear by following clues in the Bible. It is almost as if one waves a magic wand over a blank area of the earth, and … Continue reading

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zimbabwe: finding havilah

Who built the Great Ruins of Zimbabwe? …Almost until the end of the nineteenth century, no white man had ever seen anything like Zimbabwe. After 1890, however, when Rhodes Pioneer Column moved into the land later named Rhodesia after him, … Continue reading

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Mystery of the Masons: part I

A guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: Exploring the architecture of human perception. There is an aesthetics of Masonry that in light of the Royal wedding of April 29, became more visually represented… Tai Carmen: Though Masonry is identical … Continue reading

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''PROIBITA'': BOOGIE-WOOGIE BARBARIANS

Rome and its attendant barbarians have come to serve as such comfortingly familiar symbols of qualities with apparently perpetual relevance to human affairs, that no amount of scholarly research or well-intentioned political re-contextualisation is likely entirely to rescue them from … Continue reading

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JOURNEY THROUGH THE PAST

Gene Savoy, the discoverer of Pajaten, was an explorer, not a professional archaeologist. He first heard tales of mysterious ruins in the Andes from Peruvian hunters and outlaws. Savoy had already suspected that the eastern slopes of the Andes had … Continue reading

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HOLY WAR OF ''INTELLIGENT DESIGN''

”The worst feature of this cosmology is that, rather than presenting a deeper solution to the existential dilemma, it merely reproduces the all-too linear causality we associate with the physical world, with domination and submission, and the enforcement of moral … Continue reading

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NOT OUR CROSS TO BEAR

Between the material and the temporal, represented in Byzantium by the emperor and the imperial body politic, and the spiritual and the eternal, represented by the saints, there is the image forming world of the soul, the world of the … Continue reading

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Who Moved The Cheese.

In business terminology Luck= A Prepared Mind. However, when you make the rules and shape the outcome, luck can become the normal, even banal. Matt Taibbi’s reporting in Rolling Stone, ”The Great American Bubble Machine”, is like a bad rash, … Continue reading

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Solomon's Art and the Dead Sea Scroll's Curse

Controversy and heated debate over interpretations of the Dead Sea Scrolls has boiled anew with a recent leak that pinpoints the precise locations of King Solomon’s cache of fine art and sculptures amassed during his reign. The Dead Sea scrolls … Continue reading

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