Saturday, July 29, 2017

Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur 2017
June 2017 trip to NYC and Calvary; Baptist Church 123 West 57th St., that is, Princeton NJ, Washington DC June 28-July 6 2017, announcement of the Birth of God's Son, Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ in Saint Mary and Andrew forever after.  


Along with URL links to our review of the mathematical philosopher and logician Philip Kitcher's summary of the book about ethics "On What Matters: Volumes I and II" NUMBER AND NUMBERS at http://bit.ly/LIGHTANDDARKNESS. Hopefully, this review will be considered a beginning of the creation of a new field in computer science, mathematics, engineering called Robotic Ethics. Also, it is another step in helping those of us other than God and Jesus Christ to understand, through mathematical theology, how Christianity and Judaism can be one religion for all of us to believe in and practice.


The Document on the left next to his throne bears the letters ALEF, which form the beginning of the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the Old Testament. 'From 'Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Up Close.'

The Book of Genesis, chapter 1, tells us that God created the number One, Himself, as a name on day One... He Borah (created it), He Ruach ( moved it as a spirit), He Omered it (spoke it into existence), He saw it (YHWH Yireh) affirmed it as being Good and Desirable, He named it (Korah).

But it was not until the third day that he (YHWH YHWH) created it as a set, a real object, really existing in our world. He Omered it (spoke it into existence as a set then), Asehed (turned it, spun it righteously, made it correctly), He Yireh (saw it), He brought it out (tozhayed it) as a "seed of a seed", saw that it was good (Tov) existing as a recursively defined function that, like Himself,  generates itself.

And, it wasn't until the fourth day and fifth day that, using the Sun and Moon as timepieces, He put it, placed it (Yetayn et), saw that it was good (Tov), as a "real number" existing not only in eternity but our world's everyday time... then let it afloat to swarm (Yesheer'tzu) inside the consciousness of His river of eternal life and fly in the heavens above us, seeing that so it was good. and Blessed (Barech) it inside of all of these creatures as a means to use, the idea of it, in order to increase.


And, it wasn't until the sixth day that He placed inside of His own consciousness, His own individuality or "monad", and the consciousness and "monads" of all his angelic friends at the beginning of the creation of the World as an image (tzelem) and likeness (domot) to use in order to be Himself (YHWH I AM THAT I AM, YHWH I AM WHO I AM) as Hope the expectation of Good, and Faith, the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, and saw that thus created it was good (Tov).

For more details see the How do You define the "number One"? topic at the Religion and Science discussion group of the yhwhschofchrist.org discussion board:

"How Do We Define the Number One?", MS Academy of Sciences Annual Convention, Hattisburg, MS, 2010.  
'In"
Article #35
Subject: How do You define the "number One"?How do You define the number One?  Schemes for Sensor Data from Fractal Surfaces", MS Academy of Sciences Annual Convention, Hattisburg, MS 2010.
"A Short History of Logic Diagrams", MS Academy of Sciences Annual Convention, Hattisburg, MS, 2010. http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/LogicDiagrams1.pdf
"How Do We Define the Number One, Part II?", MS Academy of Sciences Annual Convention, Hattisburg, MS 2012.   http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/HOWTODEFINE1PT1

Had a beautiful Delta airlines flight from Jackson, MS to Atlanta to JFK airport, NYC. Took a taxi from the airport to the Flatiron Hotel 9 W. 28th St., which is near the Musuem of Mathematics I visited in October, 2016 before the last Presidental election, to buy some graduate level mathematics and  also beginning math puzzle books, especially those published by my friends the editors of  the math books of the Princeton U. Press.

Some Old Testament Bible study with, the Seven Haftarahs of Consolations, in the Book of Isaiah, and the Torah teachings from the beginning of the last book of the Torah, Deuteronomy, where Saint Moses explains the Shema again to us.

Many thanks and long time blessings to John Surrat, Religion editor for the Vicksburg Evening Post, and my Port City Kiwanis friend who did a full one-page article on me and took a good picture of me in my home to go along with it for the July 22,2017 edition of the Post. The full article is posted at http://www.ourprayergroupnews.blogspot.com.

For those lucky few of you, about 40, who received free copies of our 2017 YHWH School of Christianity prayer calendar, I unfortunately, this year, neglected to put that many Bible verses on it. We will begin studying the 7 haftorahs of consolations in the end of the year, beginning of next Jewish prayer liturgy this year. This ancient Torah based liturgy, which we know Jesus followed, since some of the verses of it have made their way into the New Testament, begins with the seven weeks of haftarahs of consolation that occur before Rosh Hashanah and the High Holy Days this year : passages from Parashas Va’et-chanan (Moses, whose name has the same gematria as El Shaddai, God of the Strength of the Mountains ordains the Shema):, 

 YHWH is our God, and YHWH alone... 
or alternatively, 
YHWH our God is a unique YHWH, 
or 
YHWH is our God, 
YHWH is unique, in His extraordinariness... 
or 
YHWH is our God, 
one indivisible YHWH...
depending on how we define the Number One
or the Number One as it is already defined. 
cf: To later on in the blogs where I discuss my talks on this at the MS Academy of Sciences sections on History and Philosophy of Science Annual Meetings over the last several years. 



"The priest and prophet Ezekiel lived in the early sixth century BC. Michelangelo depicts him as an old man who was engrossed in his reading but has now suddenly turned around to look behind him. Ezekiel's gaze is focused on the hands of the small accompanying figure in the background, which are stretching up towards the heavens. They refer to the source of God's message. Gestures play a central role in a large number of the ceiling frescoes painted by Michelangelo. Ezekiel's open right hand, for example, can also be understood as a gesture of both amazement and readiness to receive the message."  From 'Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, Up Close'

 and continuing with Moses He talks to us in the first Torah section in Deuteronomy using two short discourse forms, He has told us before he died, "Va-et-chanan (515 gematria)I have pleaded with you with 515 prayers" These 515 prayer pleadings or supplications should be enough. But, the haftorah before from Isaiah chapter 1 tells us that God does not desire our prayers as sacrifices, but tells us to "wash yourselves; cleanse yourselves, put your evil doings away from My sight. Cease to do evil".  
If Moses is a Saint living in heaven on earth today, and I believe He is, He would probably pray with God more contemplatively, using denials of his own ideas of what is evil and good in the face of God's judgement, and affirmations that bless us all for happiness and well-being. 
He would probably tell you that the Name of God YHWH expresses itself in us as Truth in Three ways: 
1) When God is One, His Truth is One, YHWH Christ, 
2) When God is Two, His Truth is Two, YHWH Christ,
 3) When God is Three, His Truth You.., 
starting the week from July 29 to August 5 using the dates for the Holy Days in our calendars, 
along with
1) Haftarah Isaiah, chapter 40, verses 1 to 26
 "Comfort my people, [those in ourprayergroup that we pray with], says your God, Speak tenderly to him or her, tell them they have served their term and their sins are pardoned.", 
then 2) Parashas Ekev ("And, if you do obey these rules and observe them faithfully.") 
along with Isaiah chapter 49, verse 14 to chapter 51, verse 3,
 then 3) Parashas R'ei ("See this day I have put before you with these rules and teachings the two-fold blessing and curse"
Isaiah, chapter 54, verse 11 to chapter 55,verse 5, 
then 4) Parashas Shoftim ("You shall appoint magistrates and judges").
 Isaiah, chapter 51, verse 12 to chapter 52, verse 12,
then, 5) Ki Teitzei "When you take the field against your enemies."
 along with, Isaiah, chapter 54, verses 1 to 10, 
then, 6) Ki Tavo "When you enter the land the Lord, your God is giving you.", along with Isaiah chapter 60. verses 1-22, 
then, 7) Nitzavim "You stand, this day, before the Lord your God" along with Isaiah,chapter 61, verse 10 to chapter 63, verse 9. 
You can find many more details of the standard commentary on these verses in the book ‘Haftarah Commentary’ and 'The Torah a Modern Commentary' by Gunther Platt or on the online website  http//www.torah.org.



Healing and Miracles come from Faith.

“Faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the Word of God.” St. Paul, Book of Romans

Hearing the Word of God comes from listening to It or Him or Her, the Word of God, in prayer, meditating and realizing how it is affecting us in our own prayer lives as it is preached to us in Churches,  and by reading the Bible on our own, listening our own personal Lord and Saviour, God’s Son, through His Power and through the Power of the Mercy of His Father God who gives us spiritual strength to meditate on it and allows us to be attentive to it over long periods of time in order to defeat our until Christ came, indeterminably interconnected original sinful natures and continue to hear it as it continues to express Itself through the Immeasurable and Eternal Acts of Loving Kindness, Blessedness, Compassion inward and outward to each of us through each other and as a result, certainly, still dwelling in Him or Her inside of us all forever.





Figure 1

An interior view of Calvary Baptist at W. 57 St., right across the stree from Carnegie Hall and conveniently near Rockefeller Center, Columbus Circle, Central Park South, Trump Tower, Musuem of Modern Art, St. Patrick’s Cathedral.


Calvary Baptist is having a mission trip to Israel April 23-May 3, 2018 from New York Hosted by Dr. David Epstein and Billy Nelson. Call (212) 975-0175  I will be going myself sometime early next year with Cal Berkeley Travel and Odysseys Int., you don’t have to be an alumni to travel with us, but the group is small and you need to sign up quickly. Just go to their website Cal Discoveries Travel for more info on this.  888-CALALUM

I found out Calvary Baptist also had a Christian Jewish Bible Studies Institute with courses in June
 “Introduction to the Old Testament”,
“Be Doers of the Word: A Study of the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle of James”,
”Moses, the Man Behind the Myth…from murderer to field marshall, Moses as you have never seen him before. Journey through Exodus 1-14 with Moses”,
”The Theology in Prayer.. takes a look at How do I get my prayers answered? Should I pray for everyone? How must I pray? For how long? How precise?”,”Creating Courageous Men in the Church”,
”For Our Neighbors, See What Love Can Do…so often the World knows what Christians are against instead of what they are FOR.
Do your neighbors know you are FOR Them? What would happen if we started acting like everybody is invited to the party? This course will look at the life of Jesus…How He treated others.   Tanya Velardo Children’s Ministry Director”.

They also handed out to me a fascinating magazine “IRAN and Beyond” News and insight on the Persian speaking world from Elam ministries about Christian in Iran. It has articles such as “16 Muslims hear the Gospel during a 3-hour layover”,
“God is saving many:But ministry is messy”,
 “I wanted to die for my religion, until I learned that Jesus already died for me”,
”Many come to Christ through telegram app”,
and “No longer alone, How a TV program is bringing corporate worship to isolated Christians inside of Iran
 It asks us to pray for isolated believers in Iran who long for Christian fellowship,
for many non-believers to encounter Jesus through satellite TV andgive their lives to Him,
 for those writing and producing the “Time for Worship’ program”
“Iranian Christians: A Light to the Afghan people”
“Even Children are not Free from the Listening Ears of the Authorities”,
“Political Unrest and the Expansion of the Gospel”.


 Unfortunately I wasn’t going to be in NYC for them.


Figure 2

An exterior view from the “Top of the Rock” toward south Central Park, West 57th St. and Columbus Circle.
My grandfather, Claude Eustis Harrell taught Sunday school there around 1915 when he was helping to build the Flatiron building.
By a coincidence of the young people’s Christian group getting ready to head out on a mission trip, half were from the French Camp Academy at Kosciusko, MS which I support yearly with prayers and small financial donations and the others from a church near Harrisburg, PA the home area of Andrew Ellicott, first mathematician and explorer in the 1760s-1790s in US whom I am writing a book about.

Figure 3
painting by Monet at the Musuem of Modern Art,  which can be found near the Central Park south and Trump Tower area.


Figure 4

A view pretty much directly north from the “Top of the Rock”, taken November 2016.

Figure 5   Manhattan's west side and the River.



Skyview of the lower west side of Manhattan and docks and piers extending into the Hudson River, taken from the top of the rebuilt World Trade Center. The aircraft carrier Intrepid in the upper part of the shot has a nice place to stand and view the river along with an interesting display of naval aircraft on its deck and one on the history and future of drones in an adjecent building. You have to get off the R train at the times square stop and walk about 10 blocks west to reach it. The Flatiron hotel and Flatiron building are about the same distance east from the 20 St. pier areas.  This whole area is now called the Flatiron district and has a lot of refurbished buildings for artists and similar creative type people and also I discovered around the corner from the hotel a vipassana insight meditation center with some not quite as high and “opened-up” top-floor window viewing.
Speaking of first class art, as I write this there is a wondelful exhibit of enlarged paintings of Michelangelo which decorate the interior of the Sistine Chapel at the bottom floor of an adjacent building to the World Trade. What an enlightened and helpful healing thing for our friends the Pope and his Cardinals at the Vatican to do…releasing this exhibit to the visitors and people of NYC to study and meditate on there.




Another prophet, who lived in the 8th Century BC, the first in our trilogy of Isaiah, Jeremiah 7th Century, Ezekiel 6th Century. Is Isaiah, whose name also means, Jeshua, or God saves, foretold the coming of and the sacrificial death of Jesus or Joshua. In this painting he has placed the fingers of his right hand between the pages of his book, as if he wants to carry on reading shortly. His attention, however, is focused on the small angelic figure standing behind him. In these depictions of prophet, these figures are considered to be conveyors of God's message.

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This  painting depicts God, from below as He separates light from darkness during the first stage of the creation narrative. By choosing to depict God god from below Micheangelo violated all image conventions valid at the time.


Figure 7



The Separation of Light and Darkness

After two days at the Flatiron I went over to explore and take some peace walks down Lexington Ave. and back stopping at a few of the NYC small city parks toward the Greenwich Village area. I stayed at the Lex a small minimalist hotel with a rooftop viewing area, but no restaurant, swimming pool, or fitness exercise room. No problem, there are many excellent restaurants, coffee shops, deli’s within a block or two and you can take a $8 taxi to the really first rate  West 14th ST. YMCA where your current and updated and paid Y membership key card allows you general access and use.
 

Joel, one of the oldest prophets in the Old Testament. Michelangelo shows him in a fully concentrated pose, with his attention focused on the writing on the parchment school in his hands. noel heralded a divine punishment that would be inflicted on the sinful Israelites in the form of an army. Michelangelo used a large  amount of detail when painting the prophet's facial expression, with Joel's puckered brows and wrinkled forehead bearing reference to his sorrowful prophecy.

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Figure 9
view looking south toward the Empire State building and the new World Trade Center, from the “top of the rock”, the top of Rockefeller Center.

 
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Another view from the “Top of the Rock”, taken in early November, 2016 and this time looking to the southwest.



Photos above show two views of the ground level healing pond area in the rebuilt, better than ever, World Trade Center complex.



Two new "Twin Towers" built after 9/11 in the Upper West Side of Manhattan around the Columbus Circle area.  Now there are four You can knock down two towers, but you cannot destroy the will of New York Americans to have important, magnificent, skyscrapers in their city. Nor can you destroy the eternal nature of their souls and the purposes in them as long as we believe in a God that grounds us under His or Her moral control and places the will of beings He or She or He and She has created, no matter how weak, under their overwatching protection and providence.



Sunday, July 9, 2017

From Penn Station in NYC I took the train to Prineton Junction and then  a taxi to the Nassau Inn in downtown Princeton, that is what little of a town downtown Princeton is. There is a nice sandwich shop in the place I ran into Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh in 1973 and spent about 40 minutes of silent meditation with just me and him. This was before he had written about 40 books explaining Buddhism better to us Christians.

Notes on the Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh’s notes on “How to Love”

“Our Heart is like a River.” We need to let God place an open door that cannot be shut in it.



What are the four elements of True Love?

1)   Through its loving kindness (cf. St. Paul epistle to the Corinthians)
True Love has depth and is expansive. “The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness.”
2)   Through its compassion Love has breath and strength (see http://www.ourprayergroup.blogspot.com  49 days  from Passover to Shavuous of Jewish Christin[sic] prayer discussion about great concepts associated with God). “Compassion is the capacity to understand suffering in oneself and another.”
3)   Through its joy, Love lasts and is good (ibid). “When you know how to offer joy it nourishes you and the other person.”
4)   Through its equanimity Love is Truthful, as it has to be to victorious. And, when it is victorious with God’s help it is a glorious thing that dwells in us forever as us knowing God’s Name as a crown of glory at the mountiantop of our souls. “The fourth element of true love is equanimity. We can also call it inclusiveness or non-discrimination.”

“Body and Mind are not two separate entites. What happens in the body has an effect on the mind, and vice versia.”

“Good will is not enough. Good intentions are not enough, you have to be artful.”
Dear prayer friends your home is the same home as mine. We are after the same ever-after, God’s Kingdom dwelling inside and outside of us here on this same earth on which we were both born. To live here you must first “get saved”, having faith in and being Jesus Christ is God’s way of us “getting saved”.

One way to understand how Jesus Christ is the Logos, the connection between God’s body and God’s mind dwelling in us is to know how our backward goal oriented purposeful faithful thinking  can be chained together rationally with mental forward object oriented rational thought. I have written a computer mathematics paper on this for the Corps of Engineers that shows how to order the about 100 rules of an river repair expert system logically. It is posted on my curriculum vita part of the yhwhschofchrist.org website.


“A deep thirst. Sometimes we feel empty a vacuum, a great lack of something. We don’t know the cause. It is very vague.”

We are all together Eternal souls swimming in a river of God’s Eternal Life. We all have a deep thirst, unconsciously, to swim in that River.


“Opening the Door. Once you know how to come home to yourself, then you can open your home to other people., because you have something to give.”

The One Buddha who is God’s Son, Christ Jesus, like Jesus, is a door, an open door which cannot be shut (cf. Gospel of John and Book of Revelation). Instead of putting stone or metal statues of Him in a room with a closed door to meditate inside of, why not open the door to the meditation room and meditate on Him dwelling in the people coming into the meditation room as they enter the door?

“Nourishing our love with edible food. The first source of nourishment is edible food. The second source is sensory food, sensory impressions, what we consume with our eye and ears. The third source of nourshment is volition. This is your desire, your hope, your aspirations. The fourth source of nourishment is collective and individual consciousness. The fifth source is the four immeasurable parts of our divine minds, loving kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity…already discussed.”

“Meditation. Meditation consists of generating three kinds of energy…mindfulness, concentration, and insight…These three kinds of energies give us the power to generate happiness and take care of our suffering.”

We can also nourish it, love, through meditation on the Word of God, which is also our food. Our faith in God’s promises contained in his Words in the Bible help us love ourselves and each other more, Eternally.

“Love as an offering, and the greatest gift. To love is not to possess the other person or to consume all their attention or love. To love is to offer the other person joy and love as a balm for their sufferings.
One of the greatest gifts we can offer another person is to embody nonattachment and non fear.”

But, how do these thoughts apply if the other person is God?

Since God is Love Itself He does not need Love in our prayers as an offering. He or She is already Love. God does not want our prayers to be offerings. The only people who believe that don’t know who He or She is. He or She is there to serve us, and to accept our offerings, but when we Love others as God Loves us,  then we will want to give each other this type of offering, Love.
The greatest gift of Love to another is to offer that other person your self in order to create new self through both of you.



Short intermediate discourse on the nature of God:

God does not need love, for He is love. He does not need sacrifices, for He is the sacrifice. This is why He gave His Son as a sacrifice to us, so we would not have to be the sacrifice and He could be the Love. What He wants from is not love, not sacrifice, but faith in Him being love and being the sacrifice, from us  God is both knowable and unknowable. He is first unknowable, then He is knowable. He is both you and not you. First He is not you, then He is you. He is both like and unlike you. First He is unlike you, then He is like you. He is both explainable and unexplainable. First He is unexplainable outside of you, then He is explainable to you, then He is explainable again as Love Truth inside of you. God is both seen and unseen, heard and unheard. First He is unheard and unseen outside of you, then He is heard and seen there. Then He is seen and heard again. Inside of you. But, as for whether His nature is Truth, He is not both Truth and untruth, but only Truth. Because He is an end in a beginning and a beginning in an end, He is the First and the Last, The Truth forever and forever-after.  Jesus Christ, Saint Mary, Saint Francis, please say Amen!


“Friendship. Be a friend to yourself. If you are a true friend to yourself, then you can be a true friend to another person.

"To have loyalty from a friend, be loyal to a friend." Virginia May Calohan Harrell Mid-1980s


 Thoughts in quotes are the Rev. Thich Nhat Hanh, the other thoughts are Mother's and mine.






Figure 11  The LAST JUDGEMENT  UP CLOSE, CEILING FROM THE SISTINE CHAPEL
There is Labyrinth Books right next to an upstairs apartment where they said they moved what is left of Dr. Einstein household stuff from the house on Mercer St., but the Einstein Museum was not open so I went into the bookstore to buy some top grade reading material on mathematics, theology, physics which were on ½ off sale.

There, I got into an interesting theological conversation with a female bookseller who for some reason reminded me of St. Mary and later carried the conversation on with some other people I met. After buying a good chunk of these books, one on a different translation of the minor Upanishads than the one I have. One on Bill Thurston’s work on train tracks which is related to how to use algebraic topology and differential geometry to desingularize complex mapping class manifolds in a finite algorithmic way. All that remains to do is to figure out how to use some of the network search programs I wrote to classify the 3-dim and 4-dim manifolds that arise on the boundaries of the Riemann surface parts of these things. Something I plan to write a paper on as a sequel to my thesis if I ever am able to understand enough about all the side mathematics.

        




Series of contemplative prayer questions & answers to St. Mary and Jesus about how you get saved in the YHWH School of Christianity follows


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Rosh Hashanah 2017-18. God begins being Himself and many people we love, have known in our past, but ends up, continues, as One... you & I.
Mary to Andrew: "How are you doing Andrew",  

 Andrew to Mary "I would say I am good, but do you agree with me[ do you get along with me]"?

 Mary to Andrew: she thinks a while then says, "I would agree"

 Andrew to Mary "Then that makes two of us saying that. But, how are you?"

 Mary to Andrew "I am good, do you agree?"  Andrew "Yes, I do."


Q & A Andrew to St. Mary: "How do you get saved as per YHWH School of Christianity?" answer by St. Mary :"We have a process".


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    Your Salvation is not something a minister shouldn't talk with you about unless you go to or attend his Church, it's bigger than that.
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    Being saved, Knowing Salvation, if it's something that happens inside independent of outside events is not something you don't talk about.

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Q & A Andrew & Mary "I like to insert my Self in the Process. May I?" answer by St. Mary "Yes, But, do you know the first step?




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Q & A Andrew  First and Second steps io order to find hope: 1) We are all sinners as per Original Sin, 2) There is a way out of this Sin.


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Q & A Mary to Andrew, "What do you think it means to have Jesus as your Lord?" answer Andrew "You place God's Name YHWH 1st in prayers.

           

           


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Q & A answer Mary: "Yes, Andrew you are correct", question by Andrew, what is the 3rd step MS Glorified and Helpful and Beautiful #1 Faith?




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Q & A answer by Mary 3rd step is that Jesus is the way out of this Sin if you have the faith to believe in Him as your Lord and Savior.


 Andrew to Mary, Mary are you aware of the different translations of the Jesus' reference to the Deuteronomy 8-9 verse Torah portion Ekev, teaching of Moses from God, second Sabbath of consolation before Rosh Hashanah saying "Man does not live, i.e. is saved by Bread alone, but that man may live on anything that the LORD decrees"
Yes, Andrew I am aware of those verses from the Torah, but since I am already saved by my faith in God's Word itself, Himself, as Jesus taught I do not need that teaching.
Andrew to Mary, be careful Mary, it might help you understand how to be both the Jew and a Christian, that I believe you are.
          
ie. We live and are saved not just by faith in the teachings of the Word of God, but from actually carrying out all the details of God's
commandments to you in the Bible, Old and New Testaments in your life.


         

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Q & A Mary to Andrew "You are correct Andrew, so, what is the 4th step?" Andrew 4th step "Once you believe it, It is True and will happen
         

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Q & A Mary to Andrew "Yes, dear".  Jesus to Andrew, "If you are saved, do you have to ask for forgiveness?" Andrew to Jesus  I don't know.

We do not have to ask for forgiveness from Jesus..he already knows we need it. But,we do have to repent of them, and ask for help if he is to be able to help us with them.

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Q & A Jesus to Andrew, "No, you don't have to ask, its already happened while I was on the Cross." answer by Andrew, "Thanks, my friend."



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Q and A Andrew to Mary, "Can I pray with you about your 'deep dark' secrets?" Mary to Andrew, "I don't have any such secrets."


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Q and A Andrew to Mary, "We all have such secrets, Mary, its called'original sin' You were explaining to me about it when we talked before.

Andrew to Mary, " I am praying this Rosh Hashanah for  the Tashlich prayers that any old problems that Saint Joseph and you have will be cast into the sea, for 

 "Who, O God, is like You, Who pardons iniquity and overlooks transgression for the remnant of his heritage?
Who has not retained His wrath eternally, for He desires kindness! He will again be merciful to us; He will suppress our iniquities, and cast into the depths of the sea all their sins."
   
Pope Francis, Saint Francis, entered the conversation at this point:

 Saint Andrew you are pretty smart, I did not figure that out, that we don't have to ask for forgiveness until I was in my 60s.    

 Saint Francis, I did not figure it out, Jesus Christ explained it to me. I am not Jesus Christ, and we need to be careful, you and I not confusing ourself with Him, even though we love him and believe in him and trust in him for help. Otherwise, we, you and I might end up on the cross again, and this is not necessary.
                      
           
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Q and A Just go to ‪http://www/yhwhschofchrist.org/prayers/index.cgi or http://www/ discussionboard/index.cgi We can discuss it there...get you more saved, redeemed,completely justified...pretty well sanctified.


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Mary: "Andrew, what is Christian Judaism about?" "It is about keeping faith with your actions to others, not just faith with your beliefs."

    It is interesting to compare these Christian teachings with Jewish teachings on whether and when we need to ask for forgiveness to God in our prayers. See my people's prayer book: volume 6 Tachanan and Concluding prayers by Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman and my discussion with Vanderbilt Divinity School Rabbi Amy Jill -Levine in the 2014 discussion of Rosh Hashanah praying in this blog. Jewish Tachanunan prayers are normally inserted in the service in Mondays and Thursdays and consist of 
        a seven-paragraph V'Hu Rachel, "He is Merciful" 
 affirming God's 1) mercy, 
                          2)salvation,
                         3)that He listens, hears us, 
                        4) is compassionate toward us, 
                       5) forgives us, 
                        6) guarantee of acceptance of penance
                       7) is gracious toward us.   

 then while bowing our heads or prostrating ourselves
                Psalm 6 of David 
               then the "Guardian of Israel or Shomer Israel'

            then the  "We do not know what to do [without your help] Conclusion"
And, the key Jewish prayer, the half- or full-Kaddish [see our detailed discussion and explanation elsewhere in the website's prayer's section of this wonderfully  helpful eternally grounded inner soul's prayer] is required to be said before and after this section of the prayers.

 In the Catholic tradition of course, we go one to one to a human priest, confess, He listens, then suggests prayers and penance.


 Understanding the differences in theology that requires these different actions, is key, of course, to understanding how we can all worship God a little differently, but together in all of this.
Priesthood of all believers means that when you believe & know you are saved, you don't have to ask for the Holy Spirit of God from outside.
        
More. When the Bible says it, the trumpet is blown, and the roll is called up there, Mary,...Its going to happen. But, I AM your long time friend.


Question to St. Mary, 'Mary, what is the best kind of free Love.?" Answer from Andrew, "Loving Kindness...Am I right, Mary"?




Saint Mary to Saint Andrew: "As a liberal Protestant do you take communion from Catholics?"

Saint Andrew to Saint Mary; "Mary, I not only take it, I give it...in prayers, in dreams, on the street talking  to whoever stops me to talk, or I run into, in Churches, in heaven and on earth." Amen

  1. Saint Andrew to Saint Mary, " I AM the seed the life in whose seed is dedicated to God's Son dwelling in you."

    In order for nothing to be impossible with God, Luke 1:37, He must store up the seed of past-possibles in us so they can still be growing.
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    Saint Andrew to Saint Mary, "I AM the seed of the seed of the Christ that dwells in God's Tree of Life Living in you."

    Let's hear that love tweet together again and again, Mary:


    "Breathe, Mary, you and I are alive forever, eternally in our only Son Christ Jesus, Jesus Christ. May He sing His song of life, forevermore, forever after, eternally with us bringing Joy and Peace to us, the World and Himself."
      
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    When Christ is born there is Peace and Joy in the World. But, in our hearts there is something more, a happy feeling that lasts forever.
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        Saint Mary to Saint Andrew: "What would you like me to pray for you Andrew?"




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      1.  interruption occurs here as a total eclipse of our hearts occurs at this moment.
        1.   3 minutes ago
          Andrew to Saint Mary, "I would like you to pray for me that 'every day would be like Christmas, when we pray together Mary?"





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          Saint Mary, "How is today like Christmas Andrew?" Andrew, "There are sounds, the silent drum beats of peace, joy, happiness in our hearts."





      Andrew answering Mary, "There are sounds, the silent drum beats of faith, hope, love singing their song of eternal happiness in our hearts."




  3.   3 minutes ago
    Saint Andrew to Saint Mary, "I am the seed of God's Son, The Christ that dwellw in His Tree of Life Living in you."

    "Blessed are You YHWH YHWH our God, ruler of the world, who forms light and creates darkness, makes peace and creates everything, illuming the earth and those who dwell there in mercy, in his goodness forever renewing daily the work of creation."

    Yotzer Blessing on creation

    "You have loved us most lovingly, YHWH YHWH our God, cared for us greatly, even exceedingly caringly...Bring us to peace from the four corners of the earth and lead us upright to our land."

    Blessing on Revelation.

    "True and established and accurate and enduring and right and steadfast and beloved and precious and desirable and pleasant and awesome and might and correct and accepted and good and beautiful for us are these words for ever and ever."

    Blessing on Redemption

    From "The Shema and its Blessings" Jewish Lights Publishing


    At this point, after saying these ancient blessings, St. Peter entered the conversation:

    Andrew's brother, Saint Peter: "How are you doing Andrew, well?" Andrew: "I want to say good, Peter, if you will agree with me that will be two of us saying it."
    Saint Peter:" I agree with you, Andrew. " Andrew:"Peter, you never did like to say that much."

    At this point the archangel Gabriel entered into the conservation. Saint Peter had already represented the archangel Ariel in it.

    Gabriel: "Andrew, Dearest Self, how can I serve you." Andrew to Gabriel: "Dearest Self, go down to earth from heaven, from heaven to earth, and tell Saint Mary the good news that she is about to have another Saintly human angelic child with me." May all the people and angels say Amen. here

    Gabriel: "Mr. Andrew may I ask you a question. Yes, Gabriel. Is this new child going to be the same Jesus Christ you and Mary already had, because you know I believe that it is ordained that you and Mary can only have one child?"

    Andrew: "He is going to be the same Jesus Christ, just reborn again. Is that alright Gabriel?"

    Gabriel: "Yes", Andrew: "Well go do it." Gabriel "OK"



      17 hours ago
    YHWH OM SHANTI, SHANTI, YHWH CHRIST JESUS HARI OM MANI PADME HUM, YHWH HARI OM MANI PADME JESUS CHRIST TAT SAT OM SHANTI, SHANTI YHWH OM.
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    Some ROSH HASHANAH seed words of prayer faith from your author of creation, the Lord of every man, to those in FL, GA, SC, NC under threat of hurricane IRMA.

    added: later "Thank you God for minimalist the damage to our prayer friends from this hurricane."

      2 minutes ago
    YHWH SHALOM. YHWH SHAMMAH, YHWH YHWH, YHWH YIREH, YHWH NASEH, YHWH ROHI, YHWH NISSI, YHWH RAPHA. YHWH MEKADDISKEM, SHANAH TOVAH 2017-2018.

    through the valley of the shadow of death, your cup runneth over, He anoints our head with oil, surely goodness and mercy [salvation, redemption, justification, sanctification] shall follow your soul throughout time. Psalm 23





The Lord is your shepherd, he leads you into green pastures,



This interesting recent dialogue between Saints, between Saint Andrew in me, Jesus, and St. Mary in me and others, has some very important amateur theological teachings if you think about it. Any thoughts about it? You can go to our Meetup.com Christian Jewish healers site [enter 39180 into the search box] and you will be able to enter in with us in the dialogue. You can play the role of St. Mary, Jesus, or St. Andrew. Be comfortable in what you say but be careful. Words can have immense consequences…especially when we try our best, with God’s help, to speak good ones than help others and ourselves.


Revisited the Institute for Advanced Study, IAS, at Princeton NJ.


I had to go to U.S. Army Engineer Officer Basic Course at Fort Belvoir, VA that summer so I just drove from there up to Princeton to spend some time attending the lectures at the IAS and studying books in the library.




Figure 12 THE PROPHET JONAH
I spent a happy 3 or 4 months there, without a formal invitation, in 1973 studying for my doctorate and attending a few lectures. I just drove my Pontiac Tempest cross country, rented a small apartment in an upper room about a half a block from the Princeton railroad station. I lived on Stockton St., about 1/2 a block from Mercer St., where Dr. Albert Einstein’s telescope was set up in his yard. From there  you can walk about a mile to reach Olden Lane, turn left and walk another 1/2 mile to reach Einstein Dr. That street turns into the Institute and its grounds.  While there I studied mostly in the Princeton library. Talking to Professor Serre, a friend of my thesis advisor Dr. Satake at Berkeley I got the idea for my thesis on “Voronoi Reducdtion of Quadratic Forms.” Professor Conway and Milnor from Princeton had visited Berkeley earlier and given some fascinating talks about reducing quadratic forms related to metrics on spaces of manifolds in order to classify the different manifolds visually by thinking of them as deformations of spaces of lattice crystals.

Another connection with Professor Einstein and my past whose earlier house in Switzerland I visited 3 years ago on a Cal Berkeley trip came up recently. Dr. Einstein’s Son Hans Albert (The German word Hans is a shortened form of the name Johannes, hence John Albert would be the English translation of his name) Albert who was a professor of river engineering at Cal Berkeley worked in the early 1950s with some of my friends and mentors in the Corps of Engineering Geotechnical Res. Lab. (Dr. Turnbull, Warren Grabau, Dr. Ahvlin), on design improvements to the crucial flood control structures in LA that try to prevent the Mississippi River from rerouting itself out of its historic channel into the Atchafalaya Basin . Dr. Hans Albert was an expert in river flow sediment equations and the design of devices to measure the data needed for these equations (see "The Bed Load Function for Sediment Transportation in Open Channel Flows) Jame F. Barnett, a retired Dept. of MS Archives official has just published a book, “Beyond Control” that has a fascinating discussion of his work and the historical context of the many previous attempts to do this bed-sediment flow modeling around some different reaches of the lower Mississippi River channel. The Channel has been rerouting itself and going its own way for a long time now. At least since the 18th century humans have been trying to understand how this happens. Up to Dr. Hans Einstein, these river engineering pioneers did not use much of a mathematical model. Their work has since been improved with the 1-dimensional HEC math model of the river which the U. of Calif. at Davis now manages and also the 3-dimensional models the ERDC's Hydraulic Research Laboratory has created. These 3-dimensionsal models have now incorporated Hans Einsteins's equations in them. The gigantic flood of 2011 proved that the dams built to model the rerouting in the Atchafalaya Basin cutoff areas didn't take adequate account of then estimates of the huge bed-load sediment scouring around the control structures. Several more scaled physical models have been built since then to test out different possible better solutions. But, I am not aware of any generally considered solution to how to prevent a further catastrophe event here. Considering the immense importance of this someone might want to add network theory to the mathematical differential equations model, if they haven’t already done it. They might even want to study my papers on how to use logic programming in order to compute throughputs and maximal flow and minimal cost solutions in networks that I wrote to solve some problems in U.S. Army wargaming situations  in Europe, the Middle East, and Korea.
Evaluating the Effect of Off-Road Obstacles on Unit Movement, US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, MS,WES ,l989,Declassified from Noforn, RPT# GL-89-4.

http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/LogicProgrammingNetworks.pdf

http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/LogicProgrammingNetworksII.pdf

http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/LogicProgrammingNetworksIII.pdf

http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/LogicProgrammingNetworksIV.pdf

http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/LogicProgrammingNetworksV.pdf

http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/LogicProgrammingNetworksVI.pdf

  "A Logic Programming Approach to Network Flow Algorithms", Proceedings 8th Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing,Unclassified, Cornell U., Army Research Office, Report 91-1,Durham, North Carolina,l991. http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/NetCombLogic1.pdf

     "Network Routing and Unit/Task Scheduling Examples",Transactions of the Mathematics,Computer Science, Statatics Division,MAS Report 97-1,MS Academy of Sciencs,l997. http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/KorNetLogistics1.pdf
 ttp://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/NetCombLo
 And, I also wrote a paper for the Army Computing Conference, when it was held at the Mathematics, Computing Science Robotics Institute at Carnegie Tech. It explains how to organize the more than 100 different rules for stream bed formation in rivers in order that when you ask the program a series of questions on how to classify the situation it doesn’t stop asking and chaining the database until all possible questions have been asked. It is posted there with the URL:
    "Implementing Mixed Chaining in a Classification Type Expert System", Proceedings 11th U.S.Army Conference on Applied Mathematics and Computing, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, l993.


http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/EXPERTSYSPT1.pdf
http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org/5073/EXPERTSYSPT2.pdf
 

Chart above from "Fundamental of Fluvial Geomorphology" by Ro Charlton, displays some of the different ways, channel width and depth, configuration of gravel beds in streams, meander wavelength, reach gradient, and profile concavity and gradient affect the time formation of various component in river channels.


For instance if Q is flow discharge, Qb is bedlam supply, d is depth, w is width, lamda is meander wavelength, s is channel slope, S is sinuuosity we might have several rules in the system like

RULE 1    Q+ => w+  d+
RULE 2    Q-=> w-   d-
RULE 3 (w/d)+  lambda+   s-
RULE 4  (w/d)-  lambda-  s+
RULE 5 Qb+ => w+ d-
RULE 6 Qb- => w- d+
RULE 7 (w/d)+ => lambda+ s+ S-
RULE 8  (w/d)- => lambda- s- S-
RULE 9 Q+ Qb+ => w+ d+-
RULE 10 (w/d)+ => lambda + s+- S-
RULE 11 Q- Qb => w- d+-  
RULE 12 (w/d)- => lambda - s+- S+
RULE 13 Q+ Qb- => w+- d+
RULE 14 (w/d)+- lambda +- s- S+
RULE 15 Q- Qb => w+- d-
RULE 15 (w/d)+- lambda +- s+ S-




The river beds modeled in this expert system were in the Corps of Engineers Seattle Northwest District. It doesn't have any rules, I don't think about the effect of supercritical flow rates in the river during short term flash flood events or large scale river flooding to the channel. And, the report generated by the sets of rules and questions to be asked to them doesn't give any precise numerical answers to exactly how big the river bars and bed clasts are that form. It gives give the best answer to whether they are increasing or decreasing in size. But, it does make use of everything the Corps knows from past experience about the general nature of how they form and disappear.Implementing Mixed Chaining in a Classification Type Expert System", Proceedings 11th

 Some notes from talks at the Annual MS River Commission Low Water Inspection TripPresentations Vicksburg, MS  August 11,2017 : 

According to MS Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, the State of MS currently supports the Corps of Engineers doing a re-design study on the Old River AtchalayaCut-off Control dams and structures which affect the percentage of river discharge and flow southward toward the city New Orleans. A 2016 study considered the economic affects to farm land and agricultural production of rerouting a 65/45,50/50, 60/40, 70/30 split. Some of the effects, depending on which mix is chosen would be addition flooding of agricultural lands, salt water intrusion back up channel affecting fish and river animals.  According to a State statute passed in 1963 and based on hydrological studies of the river lands at the time, the Corps was encouraged to work on the problem considering the use of the Bonnet-Carre Spillway, but not cutting off the flow of the river toward New Orleans. 

 According to another speaker, Mr. Williams the backwater areas north of Vicksburg are currently being flooded in periods of high water by up to 200,000 acres. If, as his group is proposing more flow was directed southward during periods of low water in the river that would ameliorate the discharge problem toward the flood stage in Vicksburg causing the backwater in the Vicksburg District. In the 2011 flood of the Vicksburg District the water overtopped the levee by 4”.  However, he granted the point of the Commission President that doing this could cause a sediment deposition problem south of the cut-off, either on the MS or the Atchalaya which would then limit discharge there during high water periods. 

According to another speaker, height of the river stages in the floods, the length of time and highs and lows of maximum discharge rates of the MS river has increased significantly over the last 50 years: From 1940-1972 high water marks went up 3’, from 1973-2107 4’. However, the average discharge from the Old River structures allowed by the Corps in the last 3 years has only been 20% of capacity.  



 Professor Serre, Weil, Grothendieck form among themselves a very influencial group of the French school of theoretical mathematics that goes back to Henri Poincare in the early 20th century and perhaps even to some wandering Neo-Platonist monks of the millennium before the last I found out as I explored some of the monasteries of geographical region of Provence in the south France. Their history goes back to the Roman times when some wandering theoretical Celt and Scottish mathematicans and theologicans migrated up from their  travels in the Middle Eastern Levant back into that region which was a crossroads of travel from Britian and Europe at that time into Italy, Greece, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and were the first to try and map it using Greek Pythagorean and Egyptian mathematical trigonometry.


Here is an abstract for a talk I gave at the History and Philosophy of Sciences Division of the MS Academy of Science of this in 2012:

How do We Define the number One?

   Dr. Andrew W.Harrell, Phd Mathematics UC Berkeley 1974
3000 Drummond St., Vicksburg, MS 39180

This question arises when we consider how we can develop a better understanding of the interrelations of science and faith.  At the turn of the last century work on the area of the foundations of mathematical analysis and the beginnings of the development of mathematical logic increased. This happened along with the invention of digital computers. And, a new area of mathematical area of research called set theory was created in order to understand what "a real number" in Calculus means.  Leopold Kronecker made his famous statement, "God created the integers and all else is the work of man." But, how did God create the integers?  Plato's dialogue Parmenides is perhaps his hardest to understand work and the most important attempt in the classical era to try understand different ways we can answer this question. What is a set? What is an empty set (basically this is determined logically when you know what an element in a set is and what a set is)? This talk will give a short history of some of the progress mathematicians and logicians have made trying to answer these questions since the beginning of the last century. We have shown, that except for some notable gaps, how "real numbers (rational, algebraic, transcendental)", and likewise various other "complex and ideal numbers" can all be constructed logically from the positive integers. The possibility of the "notable gaps" come from the proof of the independence of the continuum hypothesis.

And, here is the abstract of my talk last February about the philosophy of the previous talk.




Figure 13  ANCESTORS OF CHRIST: ZERUBBABEL. He was a descendant of the Royal house of David. After his grandfather King Jeconah had been taken into captivity in Babylon, Zerubbabel was with one of the first generation of Jews that returned home from this exile.

How Did Plato Define the Number One in The Republic?

•       In his book, "Plato's Republic a Dialogue in 16 Chapters", Dr. Alain Badiou, a current French philosopher, proposes a new way of defining the "Number One". This way uses a mapping from "Being" to "Event". In it, he claims that "The Republic" is actually Plato's playbook for a Communist society, using this definition as its base. But, was this really what Plato said or wanted to say? This would mean Plato believes that the philosophy of mathematics is a part of science and its philosophy. It would mean that then questions of what is "Justice", "Truth", "Goodness" is in political science can be related to what "Oneness" is in political science and the other various sciences? Dr. Badiou says in his books "Being and Event" and "Number and Numbers" that he does not subscribe to a normative theory of Truth. And, his arguments are based on his complicated mathematical set theory and ontology of what is "real" in a mathematics and a nature in which the Number One is actually, not a set, but a process. The present day concept of a mapping or function is something Plato clearly wasn't able to understand in his time. I will relate this topic to several earlier talks on "How Do We Define the Number One" that I gave at previous annual conventions of the MS Academy.


The text of both talks are posted in the “About Us ” part of my website at http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org.

I have been interested in this topic every since my Senior undergraduate advisor at Vanderbilt, Dr. Peter Neumann, visiting professor from Oxford University gave an inspiring and fascinating presentation to us at the Vanderbilt mathematics department and I decided to write my senior thesis there on “Boolean-Valued Logic Proofs of the Continuum Hypothesis.


A mathematical manifold is a generalization of a space of constant curvature, like ordinary Euclidean space, on which the calculus needed to compute the mathematical physics of motion and paths can be patched together in pieces that together make up a more complicated spatial object, sometimes with holes of nothingness, non-space-time-matter inside and outside of it. The objects and events that occur in the part of the space-time-matter that is the manifold occur continuously and this is part of what allows us to do variational calculus on it.




Figure 14

Some new buildings at the institute built across the back lawn since I visited there in the early 1970s.

 Some interesting philosophical questions arise when we try to understand the nature of mathematics? Is mathematics about reality? Are numbers reality? Are they Truth? When I went to undergraduate school at Vanderbilt and studied philosophy the opinions of the logical positivists was that mathematics is not about reality. In order to know what we are talking about here we have to explain that we can understand reality as something that "kicks back" and can be empirically tested or observed. The famous mathematicians and philosopher Bertrand Russell and G.H. Hardy claimed that mathematics was pure and beautiful but not related to applied science in any important way that could be demonstrated. I never quite saw how they could believe this, considering all the key scientific and computing results that come out of logic, mathematical logic, and what we call analysis, geometry, calculus as it relates to applied mathematics.

 Statistics comes into this study when we ask what are the nature of the numbers we are counting up in it.  In order for statistical results to have any significance the numbers we collect must be able to "sample" some underlying reality. And, if the reality of what we are trying to understand is to have any "meaning" or "truth" associated with it, what we "sample" must have an identifiable underlying probability distribution associated with it, and it must talk back to us about itself in a meaningful way when we ask it quesitons. The CAL Berkeley logician, philosopher, statistician, mathematician Alfred Tarski had a "Theory of Truth" in which "truth", what Dr. Tarski called "Mathematical or Scientific Truth", is the "instantiation" or substitution of values of sentential variables, using what we call in computer science, a logic programming unification algorithm. And, the logical formulas or predicate function use facts from an underlying model which contains the facts being, either object oriented data structures or logic programming recursive predicate functions... the "reality".

 Integers, rational numbers, real numbers, various types of algebraic numbers can also be defined using these recursive predicates of logic programming or the object oriented data structure ones of ordinary computer programming languages. Now comes the really interesting part. Is there a way to "sample" numbers in order to determine the nature of their "truth", that is the nature of the underlying probability distribution of their digits in a decimal, or other base representation? My fellow Army Officer and Cal Berkeley Math. Dept. 1970s Alumni Theodore Hill  has written an interesting autobiography in which he describes his search to find a way to do this using some theorems he has proved about "Benford's Law".  Benford's Law arises in sampling a lot of different types of real data, including the integers themselves, but not all types. It has a lot of practical implications, like providing a way for the IRS to determine if you are fabricating data on your tax return. His book has been recently published by the American Mathematical Society and is titled "Pushing Limits, from West Point to Berkeley and; Beyond." It is a fascinating read, especially for anyone trying to be both in the Army and a Mathematician. He basically got out of the Army after Vietnam and became a full-time teacher of mathematics. While I decided not to go into College teaching full-time but work for the Government and the Army about the same time period.

 But, I did write a couple of papers for the Army Computing Conferences on how to sample the statistics of digital maps using a Monte Carlo algorithm approach. How do you determine the number of samples to take in order to get a good level of confidence in the results. Basically, you have to assume the spatial data statistics come from a probability distribution we call Poisson then do a series of what is called "likelihood ratio tests" on the data from the sampled histograms of the results of repeating the tests a lot of times. When I wrote the papers I couldn't come up with any philosophical justification of why to use the Poisson distribution other than it was the one other researchers in the field had been using when I read their papers. There might be a way to use Dr. Hill's theorem's on how "Benford's Law" can help you test the results you have gotten with risk analysis and propagation of errors against the actual measured vehicle test data as opposed to the theoretical predictions from  the differential equations simulation we have in the Army off-road mobility models. The goal would be to determine how good a job the mobility models do in simulating the vehicle movement across actual terrain, which usually has a fractal character versus the artificial terrain the models used, as being composed of Fourier combinations of sines and cosines, usually not as discrete and fractal as the actual surfaces off-road vehicles go over. I have posted copies of my papers on my website if anyone is interested in thinking about this with me.

 Back to deformations of spaces of crystal lattices and the application to physics:

In the early 1970s when I was in graduate school the hot topic of mathematical research was how to classify all the possiblilites of existence of these different types of curved and non-curved manifolds using matrix linear algebra of their spatial and tangent space symmetries, called Lie Algebras and Lie Groups*. Einstein himself, before he died was working on how to using the principles of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras the calculus of variations on manifolds in order to link up the five fundamental force fields of physics known at the time or into One Unified Field Theory on One complicated higher dimensional manifold.  The highest dimension of such a manifold that can be constructed, de-singularizated, compactified or compressed down into a differential manifold where the integrals of the Lagrangian physics converge and all thought about consistently mathematically (if you don't use categories) is E8 of 8 dimensions in the Coxeter symmetries of its "root basis vectors". But, the dimension of its possible auto-morphisms being groups of symmetries of the group itself and of its representations in spaces of manifolds is much higher and the number of possibilities to test experimentally in order to verify the existence of massive particles of such a theory is enormous. Thus physcists and mathematicians came up with many different theories of how reality (what kicks back if you try to measure and understand it, something like a stone which you can stub you toe on) actually exists in a new thing called a “multiverse”. Of course, Dr. Einstein would not accept such a philosophical possibility since his name itself means “One Stone” or “One Reality” in German.  And, in his many writings he pointed out that he preferred physical theories that were simple and not as complex as many of those nowadays with all the endless concatenated references to literature.

It wasn’t until rather recently in the 1990s and first decade after the millennium, that some Italian, French, English mathematical physicists developed the ideas of two of Dr. Einstein’s greatest students, Feynman and Wheeler in order to allow us to think about reality as occurring as not only on a continuous higher dimensional manifold, but in a discrete , non-continuous network of quantum spin foam**. Now, in order to compute what used to be called continuous renormalizable infinite Feynman path integrals we do discrete finite network optimization search calculations. This is a much more satisfying philosophical approach for those who don’t like the idea of somewhat arbitrarily subtracting out infinities in order to make the calculations come out right. But what type of object of form and maybe substance do we call the place where these new objects occur and are analyzed? “Superspace” according to Dr. Wheeler and the discovery and verification of existence a couple of years ago of the so-called “God Particle”, the Higgs Boson provides the means for its genesis out of nothingness. The mathematical and logical theory for the existence of this type of object which oversees space-time-matter by existing as a “Category” of Thought outside of it, has already been developed by Dr. Saunders Maclane of Harvard U. and the eccentric but friendly French mathematian Alexander Grothendieck, friend of Dr. Serre and also Dr. Andrew Weil in France who gave a talk to the mathematics department at Vanderbilt when I was an undergraduate there and who along with Dr. Lang, and Dr. Satake was one of the 7 or attendees at my short Phd thesis presentation and defense, along with a very vague difficult to understand talk I gave about how to use it to desingularize the Siegel Variety and understand the Kuga Fiber Varieties and associated Zeta Functions in 1974 at Berkeley. I didn’t answer the few short questions they asked very well but somehow the thesis was approved. To this day I continue to thank them for this kind act.




Figure 15
Another view of Fuld Hall the main headquarters building at the Institute.

 notes from above:

 *So named for the French mathematian named Dr. Sophius Lie, who lived around the turn of the 19th Century.

** cf. “Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity” by Carlo Rovelli
and “Reality is not what is Seems”.

The IAS grounds are a wondelful area about a mile or so east of where Einstein used to live next to the main Princeton campus. There is a lake with forests and a walking trail, just next to the main building a large tree to sit under and meditate.

For those mathematicians reading this blogs which includes some of my thoughts on this important topic, what is reality, you might also want to read my review of the book Galileo by J.L. Heibron and include the blog posting of photos and thoughts during and after the 2015 Cal Alumni trip to Tuscany, Italy. It contains some thoughtful insights and encouragement that now is the time for us mathematicians to try and come up with a better definition of motion on and off manifolds using Grothedieck’s theory’s of categories.




Figure 16

IAS meditation lake with Simons Hall in the background, where many of the mathematical talks are given. Dr. Einstein's spirit is very much alive in this place. There is a stone bench to lay back on and meditate on the blue and white sky on the side of the lake where I took this photo. On it are engraved his words, " All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike and yet it is the most precious thing we have." If you consider religion and knowledge of our self and God dwelling together Eternally peacefully in happiness as something also that we can know and possess I would agree with your assessment about Science's importance, Albert.




Figure 17



Forested walking trail behind the meditation lake on the IAS grounds, it goes pretty far in order to connect up with some of the other trails in the New Jersey countryside.




Figure 18



Front yard of the IAS, just off of Einstein Dr., consisting of some neatly planted rows of deciduous trees




Figure 19

There is a large tree in the back yard of the Institute to sit and meditate under, just like the One Buddha who is God’s Son Christ Jesus in you wants you too.

Review of the book: “Lincoln in the Bardo” by George Saunders


By Andrew W. Harrell


This well researched and tersely written book of episodic dialgoues of Bardo souls in a cemetery discusses what might have happened to Lincoln’s Son Willie in the intermediate period between which he died and was sent off to heaven, which I and President Abe believe he was.



Figure 20
Oak Hill Cemetary Chapel in Georgetown, 3001 R St. NW Washington DC. , where the funeral of William Wallace Lincoln was held February 20, 1862,

From the Funeral Sermon by Dr. Gurley on February 24, 1862
Sad and solemn is the occasion that brings us here to-day. A dark shadow of affliction has suddenly fallen upon this habitation, and upon the hearts of its inmates. The news thereof has already gone forth to the extremities of the country.
That departure was a sore bereavement to parents and brothers; but while they weep, they also rejoice in the confidence that their loss is the unspeakable and eternal gain of the departed; for they believe, as well they may, that he has gone to Him who said: "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven;" and that now, with kindred spirits, and with a departed brother, whom he never saw on earth, he beholds the glory and sings the praises of the Redeemer. Blessed be God.
"There is a world above
Where sorrow is unknown;
A long eternity of love,
Formed for the good alone;
And faith beholds the dying here
Translated to that glorious sphere."
It is well for us, and very comforting, on such an occasion as this, to get a clear and a scriptural view of the providence of God.
His kingdom ruleth over all. All those events which in anywise affect our condition and happiness are in his hands, and at his disposal. Disease and death are his messengers; they go forth at his bidding, and their fearful work is limited or extended, according to the good pleasure of His will.
Not a sparrow falls to the ground without His direction; much less any one of the human family, for we are of more value than many sparrows.
We may be sure, -- therefore, bereaved parents, and all the children of sorrow may be sure, -- that their affliction has not come forth of the dust, nor has their trouble sprung out of the ground.
It is the well-ordered procedure of their Father and their God.
A mysterious dealing they may consider it, but still it is His dealing; and while they mourn He is saying to them, as the Lord Jesus once said to his Disciples when they were perplexed by his conduct, "What I do ye know not now, but ye shall know hereafter." What we need in the hour of trial, and what we shoud seek by earnest prayer, is confidence in Him who sees the end from the beginning and doeth all things well.
"Heaven but tries our virtues by affliction;
And oft the cloud which wraps the present hour
Serves but to brighten all our future days."



Most people assume that if our souls go to Purgatory things are controlled by God at this point. But, what if in Purgatory we still have free will and its like what the Buddhist’s call Bardo?
What if it is… still  “a meaningless tale told by an idiot” as Faulkner postulated about all of life in order to write his famous novel about life in the Oxford MS area of the American South?

To understand more about what the last paragraph means ione would have to understand what “The Meaning of Life” is. So you might want to read further in this review and also the excellent short philosophic  book, “The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction  by Terry Eagleton. This review assumes the reader is a little more religious than Mr. Eagleton indicates that he is in his book, but it is still a very good introduction to the philosophic questions that underlie the religious ones we will discuss.

I would also recommend the reader study the book “Beauty, A Very Short Introduction” by Roger Scruton.  How do meaning and beauty combine in order for our souls to be glorified eternally in heaven? A good question for people living in the Bardo?

In the Bardo, the Buddhists believe there is no meaning inside of meaning. They believe only in the beatification of souls in the sense the philosopher Kant taught that meaning is in our lives interconnectness with each other’s. But, Christians, and most Jews, Hindu’s, Muslims that our lives have a higher purpose in the sense of our souls being glorified and interconnected to us all and to a higher power and that our minds reason backwards through faith in this higher power of God in order to reason Heaven on Earth, as for example, the glory of God resurrecting itself and manifesting itself Eternally inside of each of our souls and all of them forever.

Beauty in Heaven on Earth is interconnected to love when it is a reflection not only of the elements making up an object but of an individual person who has desires dwelling with us in order to himself or herself and God dwelling together better.

For example, when we look at a beautiful woman’s mouth, if we are a man, or a handsome mans’, if we are a women, and eyes we not only see the physical structure of their objectness, but also the beautiful words, thoughts, and images she or he is experiencing as they dwell inside of her or his mind and which relate to ours making them more desirable, especiallyif they are purposeful and have goals related to ours.

She or he requires our mindful attention, focus, and penetrating understanding and thinking in order to realize our desires with her as they modify themselves somewhat because of us and become more of her or his desires too in this process.

These desires can quickly develop into deeply felt emotions about what else we can share together happily.

As we get to know each other better, we find, with God’s blessings and help, kindness, compassion, joy, equanimity involving itself more in the process in order that the joint shared experience can last longer.



Figure 21

Birdbath sitting in the household gardens of the Dumbarton Oaks mansion which dwells near the Oak Hill Cemetery in Georgetown, DC



If we are really blessed by God inside of the two of us a fourth person can be produced… In fact a whole new branch of God’ Biblical Tree of Eternal Life can happen by a Son or daughter, like Lincoln’s son Willie being produced. That is if God keep helping us in the process, and we accept and help with the process ourselves.

How can we help?
One key way is by having faith in God, or in philosophical terminology believing that there is and our lives here on earth have such a thing as a particular kind of meaning and purpose: understanding The Meaning of Meaning dwelling inside of us telling us what meaning means. Comparatively few people re ach this MOUNTAINTOP EXPERIENCE, get this far in their philosophies of religion and have MOUNTAINTOP KNOWLEDGE of God in order to understand this. The Bible tells us, for instance, St. Paul, Jesus, and most of the Apostles and Saints did and still are carrying it around in their souls.  But thankfully, even if we don’t reach this goal, we can through faith in Him or Her let God reach it for us and then understand it for us. This can really work out well some times. It is called the Salvation, Redemption, Justification, Sanctification of our souls, Eternally.










Figure 22

Fourth of July, 2017 fireworks display happening around the Washington monument on the Washington DC Mall. I and God were there, on that day, in that place, at that time. Coincidently, the monument is 555 feet high and I used to live in the DC area working for the HQ Dept. of Army for 7 or 8 years and living in a townhouse at 555 Monet Dr., Rockville, MD.
What if our intellects still have free will and go on experiencing things in another plane of existence, a kind of astral cemetery world until we either decide if we have had enough or someone else or ourselves or God decides we need to move on.




Figure 23

View of the administration building in the cemetery, 3001 R St. NW Wash. DC. At the top of the administration building there is a replica of the famous Independence Hall Philadelphia Liberty Bell.  When it rings but not tolls, presumably the souls in the cemetery have a chance to rise from the dead.

The subconscious, as well as conscious minds of all the characters are more or less floating around in each other’s  “river of consciousness” of fifty seven well spaced out well spaced together and well-threaded together chapters of different characters memories, regrets, uncontrolled mental desires and addictions along with few conclusions.

I had to read and reread this book three times until I understood most of the connected and disconnected record of happenings in it.

 A lot of people when reading this book will just be interested in it as entertainment for entertainment’s sake.
The simple plot in this sense is how long will Willie hang around in the cemetery? But, the book has more philosophical and theological depth than that.


Figure 24
Entrance to the jogging trail that goes all the way up Rock Creek Park toward Bestheda and Rockville MD for miles behind the cemetery.

Willie, Lincoln’s son, according to the “shades” that hang around the cemetery “Loves one’s life more than necessary inorder that he will stay in purgatory or the Bardo as long as possible. You might ask, “Why are these shades staying here permanently?”  Is the answer that the person Saunders calls the “architect” of the plan , God, has condemned them to it?
Or, is the author referring back to his theme of “free will” here? His many different characters seem to believe in the power of their “group consciousness" to effect movement, even transmigration of souls, in and out of the Bardo. And, God is only mentioned infrequently by the author.




Figure 25

Rock Creek itself, from some distance walking up the trail.


The story is told through a “stream of consciousness” viewpoint. It is told as the reader goes forward in time with the situation until it finally resolves itself. Then, while the main character continues with the situation he has found himself in, listening to everybody else’s predicament, it continues until he and his father, President Lincoln, is given a chance to talk about things with him. It continues at least in order to have him listen to what his father says. And, it continues until he finally resolves to “move forward” in the eternal life of his soul. In Chapter 91 there is a fascinating discussion of what Saunders calls a“matter lightening blooming”as Willie’s soul gets transfigured into its future. Can we infer from this that it is not being wished by God or the group consciousness “eternal rest” but more future travels in an ever after life?



Figure 26

A small square pavilion rest stop inside of the beautiful open area in a park to the west of the cemetery in Georgetown that souls which are resurrected to heaven on earth, can take advantage of in order to rest and contemplate before they decide where in heaven on earth they are going forward in time to from there.

There is one shortcoming of the author’s well thought analysis of the situation that perhaps stems from his own personal beliefs. The book does not even hint that Willie’s soul, if it does escape Purgatory into a bright future, has a destiny in which it not only goes on living Eternally, but is to be a help to us all and to President Lincoln himself in the future. Willie wanted this to happen but wasn’t able to be as much a success in it as he wanted to be while he was alive. And for it to be part of a destiny and a future for us, and for President Lincoln, his father to be to a help to him in his destiny. But, this I am pretty sure was and also is the prayer of the President himself and God for his son.




This book has a lot of “vivid” details about this, supplied by Mr. Saunders imagination but it is also very richly historically researched in order to supply grounding of it in historical facts. I am sure it took a lot of extra critical thought, as well as historical truth and a vivid imagination in order to write. So, if you have time to think about it and study it for a while, for reasons I do not totally understand I would recommend it as a
“good” read.





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