(Somewhere belonging to the year 2009)Remnant since 3 Months, 2 Years, and 5 Centuries Ago
Now I can recall the early summer of 2007. I thought the media people, including Japanese ones, would be very busy in 2008 with the Olympic Games in China and the Presidential Election in the U.S.
The Beijing Summer Olympic Games turned out to be so ominous with the Tibet issue and the Great Sichuan Earthquake; the 2008 U.S, Presidential Election also proceeded extraordinarily with the 9/15 Lehman Shock and the subsequent GM crisis.
This summer in Japan is going to make the Japanese media people as busy as in 2008, since something rooted in 2007 is yet to be fixed.
Anyway, Airbus does not seem to welcome you if you fly to Africa or France for vacation, though the 2009 G8 Summit is going to be held in L'Aquila, Italy, the town a large earthquake hit this April as a warning to the Vatican.
SECTION I: AGE of COLUMBUS
From a theological point of view, there is a big question about Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the new world around 1500.
Why must it be around 1500?
Around 1500, the following epoch-making incidents occurred all over the world:
JAPAN – The age of civil strife started in Japan over the domestic political hegemony among samurai lords.
CHINA – The last Chinese imperial dynasty Ming established by the Han people was at its pinnacle of prosperity and moral. After this period, Ming started to fall due to imperial corruption.
INDIA – The age of Hindu empires was getting to the end; and an Islamic Persianate/Mongolian imperial power the Mughal Empire was about to start.
RUSSIA - The Grand Duchy of Moscow, the root of the Russian Empire, was founded, achieving independence from the Ulus of Jochi or the Golden Horde, a descendant of the Mongolian Empire.
SPAIN - The Kingdom of Spain was founded.
ENGLAND/FRANCE - The Hundred Years' War (Guerre de Cent Ans) was over and the two nations started to develop very independently.
In this age, the future United States of America’s basement was placed by the Columbus’ voyage aiming at Japan.
Indeed, it took 500 years until the heyday of the American Democratic Empire around 2000.
Thus, the existence of America itself is very apocalyptic.
SECTION II: Inheritance from 500 Years Ago
Preceding the decision of Columbus to sail to the west and reach Japan, information on Asia was brought to Europe.
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The Travels of Marco Polo is the usual English title of Marco Polo's travel book, nicknamed Il Milione (The Million, see below) or Le Livre des Merveilles (The Book of Wonders). This description of his travels and stays in the Orient, including Asia, Persia, China and Indonesia, between 1271 and 1298 is also known as Oriente Poliano or Description of the World.[1] It was a very famous and popular book in the 13th century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Travels_of_Marco_Polo
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Columbus read this book and dreamed of his glory reaching Japan.
But, the point at issue is that as Columbus arrived at the American Continent around 1500, he brought the air of the era there over the Atlantic.
In the old world everything has changed in these 500 years, but in the American Continent, something must remain as it was 500 years ago.
This kind of phenomena could be often observed in history. In the peripheral regions of the Roman Empire newly developed, some cultural aspects of the Empire of the age was well preserved even after they were lost in Rome.
(Some important cultural aspects of the ancient Chinese civilization was also preserved in Japan of today far better and more profoundly than in China of today.)
So, something common 500 years ago in the old world must be preserved well and found in the contemporary America.
Or, as Columbus read the book written by Marco Polo in the 13th century, even something mirroring the air of the 13th century might be preserved and found in the American Continent of today.
The key to understanding the destiny of America might depend on this notion.
In my humble view, it is related to Islam, Hindu, and Buddhism, and even Confucianism and Taoism.
SECTION III: Judaists in 1492
Judaists were expelled out of Spain in 1492. Some influential Judaist clans moved to Istanbul and were welcomed. Istanbul became an intellectual center for Judaists for subsequent years, but eventually they could not sustain networks of Judaists spreading all over Europe, thus leading to a very precarious situation.
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It is believed that the destiny of our Turkels' forebears begins with the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. More than 300,000 "Sephardic" Jews spread out throughout the Mediterranean world, welcomed by the Ottoman Empire in 1492. Spain had been one of the centers of Jewish life at that time, a place where Jews had flourished for a thousand years (the first seven centuries under Moslem rule). Up to the 16th century most those expelled Jews settled in Italy, the Turkish Empire, North Africa, and the New World. The most fortunate of the expelled Jews succeeded in escaping to Turkey...
the 16th and the first half of the 17th Jewish population grew consierably, up to 500,000 Jews in Poland, about five per cent of the total population of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. New arrivals were due to "Sephardic" Jews, who had been driven away from Spain and Portugal. There is a reason to believe (see the 17th century legend) that the Turkels are "Sephardic" Jews, who arrvied from Spain/Potrugal to Poland via Turkey. Still we are not sure when exactly they arrived to the Eastern and Central Europe.
http://www.geocities.com/turkel.geo/History.htm
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Now you know, the discovery of the new world by Columbus is historically and critically linked with the fate of Judaists.
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(To be continued...)
(L'histoire est Dieu, mais l'argent n'est pas, ma princesse.
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Source: http://www.hpmix.com/home/kitano/C4_2.htm)
Luk 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luk 6:48 He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
Luk 6:49 But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.