Re: Jesus multiplying bread and fish

On Oct 23, 6:35 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So every person from Magdala was demon-ridden?

Magdala would be a chiffre for the old ways,
ultimately referring to the ancient society
of hunters, while Jesus would have favored
the agrarian society, a diet of bread, fruit,
vine and wine, and fish, while pastures on
the fertile shore of Lake Tiberias, used as
pastures for the cattle of the Romans and
the Jews who adopted the Roman way of
life could have been better used as fields
for growing wheat and nourish a multitude
of people.

The metaphor of meat persists in the Gospel
according to St. John. 6, 23: "Labor not for
the meat that perisheth, but for that meat which
endureth unto everlasting life ..." meaning the
spiritual meat of the heavenly mission Jesus
took upon himself, rewarding people with
spiritual satisfaction, stilling a spiritual hunger
and thirst. Jesus offered himself as meat and
blood, as bread and wine, in this very spiritual
sense, and not in the literal sense. John, in his
letters, went further by replacing the flesh, the
human body, by the spiritual flesh of the body
reborn in Christ. John has his own agenda,
it seems, that led to the problematic despise
for the world and senses we know from the
Church.

Now the topic of meat is absent from the other
gospels, and this poses a new problem for me.
The Gospel according to John is the youngest
of all, but he must have used the earliest source
that was not accessible for Mark, Matthew,
and Luke, a hypothetical early source that drew
a more realistic picture of Jesus, not completely
conceiling his political engagement (wheat for
the people instead of meat for the Romans
and Romanized Jews, or so), an engagement,
however, which John then transformed in the
above sense ...

In other words: it all gets very complicated.
The time has come to abandon my idea
for a while. If it is a bad idea, it will evaporate,
and if it is a good idea it will return sooner or
later, and in a ripe form, ready to be plucked.
This abandoning of an idea in an early stage
is my first test every idea of mine has to go
through sooner or later.

In any case, I must first ponder the hypothetical
compound MUC DAL meaning valley (dal) of
bulls (muc): is it really of the paramount meaning
I thought I had a glimpse of last week?

.

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