Alexander the Great & Diogenes
When Alexander the Great (Aleksandros III Megas) came to Corinth, about 300 year before the birth of Jesus Christ, on his massive military campaign to the east, namely to Persia and as far as the Indus, he heard a rumor about Diogenes and visited him.
Diogenes once walked with a lamp in the daylight. People laughed at him, asking what he was looking for. Diogenes answered that he was looking for a human being. They all realized that they were all disqualified as a human being.
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes, the philosopher was resting, lying on the ground.
Though Diogenes did not stand up to greet the King of Macedonia, the King asked him what he wanted from the King. Diogenes said to Alexander the Great to let the sunshine fall on him as the King stood between the Sun and Diogenes.
Alexander the Great praised Diogenes, saying that he wished to be another Diogenes though he was actually content with being "Alexander the Great."
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As you know, the last fruit of a tree that had grown from a seed the King sowed was Cleopatra who is said to have been extremely smart to be loved by Caesar and Antonio.
However, if Alexander the Great had had also become another Diogenes and Cleopatra had had become the Queen of Rome, the fate of ancient Israelites might have been very different.
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Does the U.S have a Diogenes, though it seems to have many admirers of Cleopatra and Alexander the Great?
I am an admirer of Diogenes because he pursued truth, he experienced a "state of a slave," he lived a life of the homeless, and he became an excellent educator respected by Alexander the Great, the most respected by Cleopatra.
What's more, unless the King of Macedonia himself went out to pay a courtesy visit to Diogenes, the King, still young, should have failed in his war against mighty and experienced Persia.
"MY BLOOD WHICH SEALS GOD'S COVENANT"