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A Primal Mistake

There is an intrinsic quality to existence which prefers order over chaos—empirically witnessed by the human being on planet earth in our constant struggle over chaos. However, order and chaos are not always distinguishable one from the other and an error in perception could be disastrous; take space adventures which rely on digits generated by pi (a number which goes on to infinity) from computers running these numbers into the decades—the smallest error could send a spacecraft reeling in the wrong direction. Mistakes made at the beginning of a process can have an extreme effect upon the outcome.

Concerning the history of creation, and in particular modern day history based on previous millennium, the perspective by which we view the past is essential. From the Big Bang to the evolution of man out of ape life has been defined as the progression of chaos into order. Even our perspective from the earth is questionable—are we the result of the Big Bang spewing out energy or are we truly the center of the creation, the place from the where the Big Bang emanated?

The Torah takes the later position maintaining the evacuation of light formed the empty space of creation; scientists estimate taking 200 million years necessary for the stars to blink on after the Big Bang, but that could also be the 266,450,000 years calculated from the Torah the process of creation from the time of the creation of the Mokom Ponai/Empty Space until the stars took their place in the heavens. Each perspective has a philosophy incorporated within the metaphor of its action: the Big Bang infers as its root cause the concept of chaos while the other assume thoughtful intervention from the genesis of creation—In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

The perspective concerning the advent of language, a thing peculiar to the human being, establishing our species as Midabir/Speakers, has also been greatly skewed by this misperception of reality. In Gesenius’ Hebrew Grammar begun 200 years ago in Germany by the Rev. G.W. Collins as a scholastic exercise maintains at the onset that Avair was the origin of language. Avair was the son of Shem, youngest of the three sons of Noah who populated the earth after the flood 4000 years ago.

According to the Torah, Shem and his son Avair began a school to teach the ancient language that had been lost after the Tower of Babel was destroyed and the language which built the Tower was forgotten. Avraham progenitor to the Arab, Jewish, Roman and Vedic People left Ore Chasdim where the Tower had been built when he was 52 years old. It was from Avraham with his little band Uryians later called Aryans who brought modern language to the world and thereby conquered many peoples and their lands.

Those who study language suppose that language arose out of primitive marks scratched into a rock when the contrary is true; the perfect form of the language was known from the beginning, but as a matter of expediency a crude mark was made in its place—a sort of shorthand. As the human being through the process of years furthered themselves from original light was forced to add to the mark more distinguishing features to convey the lost knowledge.

It is this primordial mistake based on the arrogance of man thinking that somehow chaos created order which accounts for the presumptive knowledge of the Big Bang and the evolution of man from the animal. All errant philosophies and attitudes stem from this erroneous knowledge. Without checking the premise of our thinking we are doomed to failure; as a people and a species, were not the Creator patient and compassionate to creation, we would not survive due to our arrogance. The fragile human being is easily led and even manipulated, but the final arbitrator to reality is our free will and ability to change perspective by merely turning—the key to redemption.

 

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