and if man should taste of both fruits he would become, we have been told, as god himself (genesis)
enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out; hold not back, lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes. for you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your descendants will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities. (Isaiah)
and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come (Matthew)
and slay them wherever you catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out; for tumult and oppression are worse then slaughter… and fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression and there prevail justice and faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression (Koran)
two completely opposed mythologies of the destiny and virtue of man, therefore, have come together in the modern world. And they are contributing in discord to whatever new society may be in the process of formating. For, of the tree that grows in the garden where god walks in the cool of the day, the wise men westward of Iran have partaken of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, whereas those on the Fare East, have relished only the fruit of eternal life. However, the two limbs, we are informed, come together in the center of the garden, where they for a single tree at the base, branching out when they reach a certain height. Likewise, the two mythologies spring from one base in the near east. and if man should taste of both fruits he would become, we have been told, as god himself (genesis) - wich is the boon that the meeting of east and west today is offering to us all.
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