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I see in the future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war."
- Abraham Lincoln
Nov. 21, 1864 (letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
Ref: The Lincoln Encyclopedia, Archer H. Shaw (Macmillan, 1950, NY)
 
When you finally face the root of all evil within yourself, you find the root of all good.  Grace.  Gratis.  Then by Grace you find what goes beyond good and evil: The One Root of the world's religions & of all existence.
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Videos

 
Astonishingly simple facts about money & banking, in this 5-part video:
  1. Money As Debt #1 (9:59)
  2. Money As Debt #2 (9:59)
  3. Money As Debt #3 (9:59)
  4. Money As Debt #4 (9:59)
  5. Money As Debt #5 (7:11)
After viewing these videos, I challenge you to simply ask yourself one question: 
Is it possible to ethically do any business with any bank anywhere?

The Seven-Headed Dragon: World Commerce

{Updated 2 April, 2009}
[I lifted this out of my blog from 26 November, 2006 & made some revisions:]

It's time to see the Bible in a whole new light. It's time to shake up tired, sleeping JudeoChristian religion out of its materialistic stupor. This might just blow you away.

I started tracing this 7-headed dragon back to the very serpent in the Garden of Eden. Here's a taste of the mysteries:

Here's a Quick Summarizing Intro:

Taking out a loan is mistrust that everything you need is in the Present Moment. 

In the Hebrew text of the Bible, you can clearly see that the Serpent in the Garden of Eden is a Creditor (as in Banker).  You can see that most all the words for serpent in Hebrew refer to debt and lending.  The serpent lends at interest to the couple in the Garden.  This is taking the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Credit and Debt.  And the son born of this loan is called Cain, which means "purchase".  And Cain, "Purchase", is the very first Seed of Commerce and the very first Murderer.  The word Canaan is an outgrowth of the word Cain.  Canaan means "Trade", or "Commerce". 

This taking of forbidden Fruit is the beginning of a debt that keeps reproducing 7-fold (7-fold vengeance), as the Biblical Seven-Headed Leviathan, as the Canaanite Seven-Headed Lotan, as the Greek Nine- or Seven-Headed Hydra.  In the Hebrew, the Great Serpent Leviathan also clearly refers to Debt.  The root of Leviathan is Levi, which means "to bind" and "Debt".  Levi is the Israelite tribe that brought in the Levitical Law of Moses, the Law of Credit and Debt.  Leviathan is the Beast of Commerce.  Leviathan is threaded through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, as the Seven-Headed Dragon. 

Serpent Coiled Around the Tree, Serpent Coiled Around Pole

In Genesis 3:13 Eve says, "The serpent [נחש nahash] deceived [נשא nasha'] me."
 
The Hebrew Bible is filled with plays on words totally missed in translation. The word nasha means both 'deceive' and 'lend on interest,' or 'be creditor'.  [In Strong's Lexicon, 'deceive' is Srong's # 5377 & 'lend on interest' is 5378, which are identical] Nasha is found in 1Sam 22:2, Neh 5:7, Psa 89:22, Isa 24:2, all of which, like the Koran, strongly denounce lending at interest).

Now look at the Hebrew word for snakebite, nashak [Strong's 5391], which also happens to mean both 'lend' and 'receive on interest' (Num 21:6-9, Deut. 23:19, Prov. 23:32, Jer. 8:17, Amos 5:19, etc). 'The serpent bit me,' Eve says. 'The creditor charged me interest,' Eve says.

Now the word for serpent, nahash is also a wordplay with nasha. Nahash also means 'divination,' and also 'copper' or 'bronze,' the basic currency [Strong's 5174 & 5175], just like our English word 'cobra' is related to 'copper'. You can see this play on words taken into the story of Moses lifting up the Bronze Serpent in the wilderness:

So Moses made a bronze [nahashet] serpent [nahash], and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent [nahash] had bitten [nashak] anyone, when he looked at the bronze [nahashet] serpent [nahash], he lived. (Numbers 21:9)

If a serpent had bitten anyone can literally be translated, "if a serpent had become creditor to anyone..."! 

Now it gets even more intriguing. a varient spelling of nasha [5375], pronounced the same, means 'to lift up, bear up, carry, be exalted, bear sins, atone for sins.' And the related word for 'debt' is nashi [5386]. Now you can see what Jesus is referring to when he says, As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up. (John 3:14)

This word nasha is used first by Cain in Genesis 4:13, "This punishment is more than I can bear [nasha].' And the word 'Cain' itself is a pun on the word canah, which means 'purchase'! Again, the play on words:

And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have purchased [canah] a man from Yahweh." (Gen. 4:1)


Now we can see why there is a Jewish interpretation that Cain is actually the son of the Serpent! He is the son of purchase, of credit & debt, while Abel is the son of Grace.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mayan Ouroboros
 

Leviathan, the Seven-Headed Serpent of the Old Testament (Tanach)

 

Next, in the story of Cain, you see allusion to the 7-headed Leviathan (Hydra, Beast) with the 7-fold vengeance of Cain in Genesis 4:15 & 24. Now it is clear that this credit-and-debt 7-head Serpent is poking his heads up in Deuteronomy 28! He is Leviathan.

 

 

                             

  Heracles slaying the Hydra

'Leviathan' [Strong's 3882] shares the same root [Strong's 3867]  as 'Levi,' [Srong's 3878] meaning "to twist, bind, join.  Again, notice the word-play in the passage that speaks of the birth of Levi, the father of law:

"'Now this time my husband will be bound [lavah] to me,...' therefore he was named Levi." (Gen. 29:34).

Levi was the father of the tribe of Levi, the Priestly Clan, the establishers of Levitical Law, starting with the Levites called Moses, Aaron, and Miriam. Law is consciousness of Credit and Debt. Law is control of Credit and Debt. The Levitical Law, as all law, was given to manage people under Consciousness of Credit and Debt, a way of keeping disease in check until the cure comes - the cure of Grace.  School children earn grades and gold stars to get them to learn, until they begin learning on their own, out of the joy of their hearts.  Just as, in the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna speaks of transcending the cycles of Credit and Debt, transcending the perpetual reincarnation of Karma, the old Hindu Law, through giving up working for rewards, so speaks the Buddha, so speaks the Christ (see The World's Religions, Though Separated by Space & Time & Culture & Language, Testify to the Same Thing).   Grace is doing for the sake of doing, and is joyful.  Law is doing to get something in return, and is forceful.  To give up working for reward, but to work for the sake of work, is to give up the ego, to give up delusion. 

Leviathan is the Hebrew rendition of Lotan, found in Ugaritic texts, where he is slain by Baal:

“When you smite Lotan, the fleeing serpent,
finish off the twisting serpent,
the close-coiling one with seven heads."
( KTU 1.5:I:1-3, D. Pardee in CS, 1.265)

Yes, the Bible quotes this Canaanite text, and Yahweh is the Jewish renditon of Baal, who slays Lotan/Leviathan:
 
 
IN that day Yahweh with His severe sword, great and strong,
Will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent,
Leviathan that twisted serpent;
And He will slay the dragon that is in the sea.
(Isaiah 27:1)

You broke the heads of Leviathan in pieces,
And gave him as food to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
(Ps 74:14)
 
Land of Canaan, Land of Commerce

Leviathan is the Serpent of Canaan. Canaan means trade, or commerce in Hebrew. Here again we see the play on the words for 'Cain' & 'purchase'. The land of Canaan, called Palestine and Israel today, was wedged between two great superpowers, Babylon and Egypt, and two great continents. This made it the land of Trade - the land of war, oppression, and deceit - the products of Trade. And it was out of this that the rage of the Bible is born.

Now you can see, more and more, studying both the Bible and history, that the Canaanites were not a literal race of people, but were the Spirit of Merchandise that possessed the people. And the very theme of the Torah is to wipe out every vestige of Canaanite from the land. The later Jewish prophets confirm this:

Wail, you inhabitants of the market district!
For all the merchant people [canaanites] are cut down;
All those who handle money are cut off.
(Zephaniah 1:11) 

And there is no merchant [canaanite] any more in the temple of Yahweh of Hosts in that day!
(Zechariah 14:21)

And Jesus' clearing the merchants from the temple is a direct act-out of this Zechariah scripture. Wiping out the Canaanites.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hercules Chasing Avarice from
the Temple of the Muses (1516-17 CE).
Design by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi;
Chiaroscuro Woodcut by Ugo da Carpi

Yes, the mystery is that the Levitical law is to become fulfilled, to become obsolete at the End of Time, which is the Eternal Now, the Day of Yahweh.  The End of Time cannot be in the future, otherwise it would be a part of time.  Otherwise it would not be the End of Time.   The End of Time is Now, and the fulfillment of all Time and all Law is Now.  When the mind is Now, Money/trade serves its purpose and becomes obsolete. All written law becomes fulfilled, obsolete, Now.  "Now is the accepted time, now is the Day of Salvation."  The Son of Man comes Now.

Money and law simply cannot exist in the Present, in Reality! This is not opinion.  This is simple observation, if we but look inside.

 
 
 
 
Jesus driving moneychangers
& merchants from the Temple.
Engraving by Gustave Doré
 
Money Is Law.  Law is Money Management.
Gratis is Anarchy.  Anarchy is Grace

The intrigue continues!  In the Epistles of Paul in the Christian Bible, the Greek word for money is nomisma and the word for law is nomos, sharing the same root meaning "to parcel out." There is no need for law when there is no money or barter, and there is no need for money when there is no law - for both are one and the same - control of credit and debt. When you start trusting Nature again "to parcel out", that vengeance, repayment, belongs to God, not human ego-mind, then Balance comes, as it already exists in the infinite Universe surrounding our little bubble of "civilization". And this is the very theme of Christian theology: freedom beyond written law, written scripture, and taking on the law of the heart, which is love. Crucifying the Ego, which is Consciousness of Credit and Debt.


 


 
It is about giving up the ego to the cross, lifting up Moses' serpent on a pole in the wilderness, the Lamb breaking through the Seven Seals.

 

 
The Seven-Headed Beast of the New Testament
 
The Seven-Headed Leviathan metamorphoses into the Seven-Headed scarlet Beast of the book of Revelation (Starting in Chapter 17).  He is being ridden by the Prostitute of Babylon.  Reading about her, we clearly see that she represents Religion prostituting itself.  The Prostitute does not love for the sake of love, but "loves" for the sake of money: reward, converts, the praise of people.  She is organized religion.  Organized Religion is driven by lust for money (credit & praise)  not by ethics, not by love.  Like the prostitute, she makes a good act at love, but she is not real.  She is nice & squeaky clean on the outside and conniving and violent and dirty on the inside.  She sits upon the Seven-headed Beast, the Money System, the Leviathan described above, beginning with the serpent in the garden.  This Prostitute is also spoken of in the Book of Mormon (1Nephi 14) .   
 
Now, check this out:
 
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who dwell on the earth, whose name has not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was and is not and will come. 
(Rev. 17:8) 
 
Notice that this seven-headed beast exists everywhere but now!
 
Money exists everywhere but now.  Money was (debt), and is not, and will come (credit).  There is no credit and no debt in the present.  Money does not exist, except in imagination!  The beast does not exist, except in imagination!  Imagination itself cannot dwell in the present moment.  Human thought is future and past, never present.  Human thought can never enter into now, into the Kingdom of God.  Forgiveness is Reality, and is the Present Moment.  All Credit and all debt and all time vanish into the Present Moment, the End of Time. 
 
Yahweh (the Eternal Present) does not and cannot exist in human imagination, in human thought.  Yahweh (the Eternal Present) can only be believed in the mind, but never known by the mind.  God can only be known when the mind gives itself up and dies, is completely annihilated on the cross of where the branches of opposites join into the Center, the Eternal Present.
 
Think and believe in God.  That's law. 
"Be still and know that I am God."  (Psalm 46:10)  That's grace.
 
"The Son of Man comes at an Hour when you do not think." 
(Matt. 24:44)
 
Everything you have just read is thought.  Now give it all up, and know.
 
If you want to confirm these word studies, you can go to www.blueletterbible.org to look up the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic words of scripture passages, or www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Hebrew_Index.htm for Hebrew-English interlinear Tanach (Old Testament), and www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/Greek_Index.htm for Greek-English interlinear New Testament. The Blue Letter Bible uses Strong's Lexicon, so I've put in Strong's numbers to make it easier for you to look up.