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Renaissance, Colonialism, Anti-Christian Western European Politics, Fake Historicity, Political Nations and Historical Education – Part II

The present article consists in a brief outlook of the nature of the diverse educational systems either in the rising and falling imperial realms or in the chaotic and worthless republics that lack sanctity, legitimacy, and humanity. Here you will find its second part. For the first part, go there:

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XI. Renaissance Education: the pseudo-Christian doctrine that caused all the Colonial Crimes

Contrarily to what happened in the Antiquity, during the Christian times, and across the Islamic world, Education in Western Europe, starting with Renaissance (15th c.), became the tool of a new, rising social class against the then ruling Christian clerics, feudal lords, and monarchs. As a matter of fact, Western Europe was always a multi-divided world whereby, after the termination of the Constantinopolitan popes (752 CE), the fake Christian authority was continually challenged by the surviving sects and underground groups of ‘heretics’, namely the Arians, the Christian Gnostics, the Paulicians, the Bogomils, the Manicheans, the Cathars, the Templars and many others.

King Peter I of Macedonia (927-969) known as Pop Bogomil
The Cross of the Cathars
Burning the Knights Templar: a critical page of the barbarian European History
Knights Templar Playing Chess 1283
Knights Templar
The Pansophia tree of the Rosicrucian Order, 1604
Physica Metaphysica et Hyperphisica: a legendary Rosicrucian treatise of the 18th c.
Paracelsus’ Aurora thesaurusque philosophorum 1577

After having kept people far from education, the Renaissance popes, while expecting an overwhelming educational-intellectual challenge from their opponents, decided to create their own system of fallacious education, counterfeit intellect, and distorted science. This is what they had prepared for long, gathering and translating Islamic scientific manuscripts through contacts with either Omayyad Andalusia or Abbasid Baghdad or the Eastern Roman Empire. Renaissance and colonization of the rest of the world go hand in hand. In fact, colonization was the means by which the pseudo-popes of Rome diffused their fallacy, deception, and delusion worldwide.

The School of Athens by Raffaello: example of delusional Art and Fake History that epitomizes the entire Renaissance

Education in the multi-divided post-Renaissance societies of Modern Times is the supreme form of human slavery. Contrarily to the educational systems that existed throughout the ages, the modern world’s delusional and warlike education was geared to produce deceitfully educated slaves. The conquistadores were indeed slaves, who after having learned a forged History, after having studied fallacious sciences, and after having been intoxicated with narratives about their fake-Christian faith, with the delusion of the white supremacy, with the falsehood of European civilization, and with exorbitant hatred of the other nations, notably the Muslims, sailed overseas to conquer the world and enslave all the other nations for the sake of their own masters.

Cholula Massacre by Cortes in Mexico: exclusively due to the racist paranoia, delusional world view, and fake History of Renaissance
The criminal Western Europeans: the ‘conquistadores’ colonials
Cortes, the Conquest of Mexico, the destruction of the Aztec Empire: a crime against the Mankind, due to the evil theories, world view, and education of Renaissance
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Pizarro and Atahualpa: the destruction of the Inca Empire triggered an enormous bloodshed for which the criminal pseudo-Christian gangsters of Vatican and Spain will certainly be detrimentally punished.
European barbarians and their evil deeds
The massacre undertaken by the Spaniards during the Toxcatl Festival
Evil European barbarians enjoy the spectacle during one of the many thousands of massacres that they committed and for which they will pay with their ultimate extermination.

The educational system of the Western European colonial powers was thus fully weaponized and, instead of being used to unify human societies in freedom, it served to unify all the nations of the world in slavery. It was a worse indoctrination, but since it did not involve a religion or theology as foundation, it did not produce a doctrinal culture but a radical fanaticism, endless wars, and internal strives. Within such an environment it was only a matter of time for the conquistadores’ ancestral culture to get decomposed and for them to stay with no culture at all. The same happened of course worldwide, because the colonial gangsters diffused and imposed the conditions of their slavery, the elements of their counterfeit education, and their lawless laws across all continents. 

XII. Incompatibility of Spirituality, Religion and Human Culture with Western European Politics and Colonialism

Following the devious Western European theoretical systems of Classicism and Enlightenment and the ensuing changes in the systems of governance that took place in America and France, Education played a pivotal role in the formation of what we call ‘modern states’, which are genuinely failed structures from the first moment of their inception.

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The totally delusional perception of the Ancient Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans by Modern Europeans: the example offered by Nicholas Poussin’s paintings

Nicolas Poussin, The Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin, Landscape with Saint John on Patmos
Nicolas Poussin, Apollo and the Muses
Nicolas Poussin, Dance to the Music of Time
Nicolas Poussin, Et In Arcadia Ego
Nicholas Poussin, Blind Orion searching for the Rising Sun

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The godless religions that are revealed through the lines of the constitutional documents of the new states demonstrate clearly that the erroneous selection (by devious Western Europeans) of a system of governance, which had already failed in Ancient Greece and Rome, namely the ‘politics’, could never generate a successful social organization and secure effective governance for these states. For a very good reason: politics is a system suitable for cities-states (‘polis’ in Ancient Greek means ‘city’).

Cesare Maccari, Cicero denounces Catiline – 1888: the evilness of the public debates and unholy deliberations is a curse and an anathema for the Mankind.

One could argue that the system is good only for countries with up to 50000 people, but still we have full historical proof that those states failed already in the Antiquity. In addition, politics in Ancient Greece and Rome involved discrimination against the women and the slaves, whereas in the Ancient Oriental empires there were no slaves and women were not discriminated. In fact, ‘politics’ is synonym for discrimination, racism, evilness, and it cannot happen otherwise. The inhumanity of politics cannot be mitigated in any manner, anytime anywhere and under any circumstances whatsoever.

Politics is the foundation of every racism. Politics without racism simply do not exist.

Politics is not suitable for either a city-state or a bigger country; as system of governance, politics is an insult against any religion of any nation, not because in Ancient Greece or Rome the local politics were unrelated to religion, but because politics is tantamount to lewdness, insolence and blasphemy. Ancient empires, Christian kingdoms, and Islamic caliphates had no politics; this was so because of the moral standards of those societies whereby people valued the sanctity of human life and the transcendentally ensured social order.

Oljaitu, the Ilkhanid Turanian Emperor of Iran (1304-1316), was also known as Muhammad Khoda-bandeh: he offers a splendid example (one of the many existing) of secular governance of an Islamic state. He was born Buddhist to a Nestorian Christian Mongolian mother, he became Christian, and then adhered to Islam. Religion is not compulsory according to the Quran, and therefore Shariah is only a matter of recommendation and advice.

XIII. Politics is unrelated to Secularism

Politics does not mean secularism; politics is tantamount to Satanism. There have been many secular empires, kingdoms, caliphates, khanates and sultanates throughout History. Accepting the existence spiritual world is a human quality. Spirituality is fully compatible with secular social life; theology is not. Secularism guarantees the personal communication of the human or a group of humans with the divine world. Theology brings about the end of the religion, because theologians cannot fathom the spiritual universe and therefore eliminate transcendence by means of verbosity, formality, rationality, doctrinal rhetoric, and governmental tyranny. In fact, politics and theology are the two faces of the same coin: that of Satan.

The evilness of politics was early noticed in the cursed city of Athens before 2400 years, when in 415 BCE Alcibiades and his blasphemous supporters cut the heads of the Hermae statues. Hiding this fact from people worldwide, the sacrilegious gangsters, who tyrannize the modern world, did not have any other target in their useless heads than the Satanization of the Mankind.

Consequently, Education within a modern state governed by politics consists in a sheer indoctrination system, which helps tyrannically impose the vicious dogmas that nonsensical ‘theoreticians’, ‘philosophers’, ‘intellectuals’ and ‘ideologists’ composed on the basis of their ignorance and mental perversion. Since Ancient Greece was the terrain of “division in society, disunity among the various tribes, and clash among the various philosophers”, it is only normal that Ancient Greece -projected onto Modern European and North American societies through the disreputable works of 18th – 20th c. philosophers and academics and through their inclusion in Modern Education- brought about the revival of all the divisions, the disunity, the dissensions, the clashes and the civil wars that had happened in the past three centuries.

The aforementioned chaotic situation of Western European and North American politics was diffused / imposed worldwide by means of Western colonialism. In striking contrast with what Western academia and intellectuals propagate, the worst aspects of Western colonialism are neither the economic exploitation of the colonized nations, nor the military warfare, arms sales, and the ensuing bloodbath, nor the local governance by means of corrupt politics. In fact, the most vicious aspects of the Western colonization of the entire world are its academic, intellectual, scientific, educational, ideological, behavioral, and cultural dimensions.

XIV. Politics, Colonization, Nationalism, Political Nation, Fake History, and Education

The modern, distorted connotation of the word ‘nation’, which originates from the sphere of Western politics, and its subsequent diffusion worldwide were put in relief because of the forged History that the colonial academia elaborated for all the nations of the world. Historical nations were thus turned to ‘political nations’ that have nothing in common with true History as described in all the historical texts and sources. ‘Political nations’ are delusional entities that never existed in real History; their pathetic nationalisms only reflect the dogma of the prefabricated local ‘National History’, which is taught in the fallacious educational system of the colonial puppet-countries as per the colonial guidance of the local pseudo-professors, bogus-intellectuals, and bribed journalists.

The colonial puppets at the local level study in the colonial metropolises only to return back home and diffuse the disastrous politics, the calamitous economics, and the fake History that they studied in France, England, America, etc., only to cause further damage to their lands by implementing the colonial plan in every dimension and on every occasion. As per the local, regional and worldwide needs of the colonial regimes, the various fake nationalisms, based on the local educational systems and their absurd and ludicrous contents, generate fallacious visions of a fictional past and of otherwise nonexistent glories, paranoid theories in support of these visions, delusional concepts, nonsensical aberrations, and schizophrenic interpretations of World History (as mad as the idea that the Chinese terracotta army was sculpted by Ancient Greeks)!

In this manner, …

one political nation is magnified to ultimately reach the borders that their colonial masters drew for them (like those of fake Yugoslavia after WW I), …

Fake Yugoslavia in 1918

another political nation is divided with no reason (like Albania – with Albanians living today in Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia, and Albania), …

False borders of Albania in 1918

a third political nation is given a fake name (like fake Greece, whereas the correct name would be ‘Eastern Roman state’ or Romania/Ρωμανία), …

Fake state of Greece in 1828 – more than 1000 years after the last Greek had disappeared

a fourth political nation is given a totally fake identity (like the totally non-Arab ‘Arab Republic of Egypt’, whereas the country’s correct national name is either Kemet, i.e. the country’s ancient name, or Masr, namely the state’s real name in the constitutional chart), …

Fake state of Masr, an Ottoman province which cannot use its name at the international level, and has therefore to be called ‘Egypt’ to please the fancy of its colonial masters.

a fifth political nation’s name is monstrously distorted (instead of ‘Iran’, turned to ‘Persia’ – only to hide the reality that Iran’s population is Turanian and not Persian in its majority), …

In 1925, the entire Iran was transformed into a nationalistic monarchical or theocratic tyranny after the colonial interference of the English who generated the fake Pahlavi dynasty out of thin air. The transformation of the Turanian-Iranian Empire into a monstrous dictatorship explains why for 400 years the colonial Westerners were calling Iran by the misnomer ‘Persia’ (Fars): they wanted to engulf the empire into sectarian divisions and permanent discord.

and a sixth political nation’s fallacious name consists in sheer usurpation of the historical name of another country (as in the case of Abyssinia, which was ludicrously masqueraded in the 1950s, being re-baptized as ‘Ethiopia’, which is the name that the Ancient Greeks and Romans used to describe the Cushitic kingdoms of Ancient Sudan to which the Semitic Abyssinians are totally unrelated), and so on, and so on.

Abyssinia was a tiny state in 1840; its colonial expansion (1840-1950) produced the modern state of Fake Ethiopia, which proved to be the world’s foremost genocidal and most criminal state.

On another occasion, as per the colonial needs, 5-6 different nations are taught another style of fake story; their ignorant, tribal elites, after being duly bribed, are instructed that, although their languages, religions and scripts are different, they -all- constitute just ‘one nation’! This case comes out of thin air, and it is viciously called ‘Kurdistan’, as the supreme stage of colonial distortion.

XV. Nationalisms, Education, Historicity, and Historical Claims

Nationalisms are based on political nations’ false educational systems and on the historical forgery that pupils are taught in the schools. They then create among average people a false feeling of historicity; this erroneous feeling can be an exaggerated or minimized or distorted vision of the true historical reality. However, because this situation melds the heart and the mind, it hits the subconscious of the mass in every political nation, thus generating enormous fanaticism, extreme negativity, degenerate passions, and sick reactions.

Nationalisms constitute the representation of the blind, dark and evil side of every person’s character. As a matter of fact, all -personal, communal and national- complexes of inferiority, all the traumas, all the vices, and all the elements of psychosis come to surface, when a pattern of these delusional beliefs is subject to questioning – let alone rejection. Then, we can safely claim that political nations’ educational systems and nationalisms help only promote the bestialization of the Mankind.

Fake historicity helps transfer the issue from the initial educational level to the political, diplomatic and international levels whereby historicity takes another form, being transformed into ‘historical claim’. Most of the historical claims of today’s pseudo-historical nations originate from monstrous distortions of the historical past in the educational systems (and the nationalisms) of the political nations that express these claims.

And in any case, all the political nations of modern times are pseudo-historical, because the historical nations were not governed by the mendacity and the evilness of politics, but they represented totally different concepts of history, governance, society, nation and territorial sanctity.

XVI. Historical Education and its Importance opposite False Historical Claims

This brings us to the topic of the importance of historical education in modern states. With strong educational background, with correct orientation of the educational system, and with accurate, pertinent, wide teaching and deep learning of History, modern countries can turn down false claims of neighbors and fake pretensions of enemies. In this regard, foe identification plays an enormous role. In most of the cases, neighboring countries are not unfriendly and enemies are not genuine; they are aptly to become so by the colonial powers, which implement their inhuman and evil agendas through proxies.

All the false claims of neighboring countries and all the fake pretensions of antagonistic governments are customarily instigated by France, England and the US; these colonial regimes implement disastrous schemes worldwide, while also promoting arms sales and further deepening the divisions among various nations at the local and the regional levels. They are the true enemy.

If the government of a country proves to be unable to understand this fact, it definitely and irrevocably destroys the country and it ultimately plays the game of the evil colonial powers, thus jeopardizing its own country’s future. There have been plenty of examples in this regard: Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, Gadhafi’s Libya, Ali Abdallah Saleh’s Yemen, al-Bashir’s Sudan, etc. Soon, we will have more examples: the Ayatollah regime of Iran, Mubarak’s – Morsi’s – el-Sisi’s Egypt, Erdogan’s Turkey, etc.

Political nations’ historicity and historical claims contain tons of distorted pieces of historical info that are aptly used to support demands, to gain impressions, and to influence the public opinion. If studying your enemy is the key to anticipating their move in the field and in preventing their next move in diplomacy, scrutinizing your enemy’s history is a prerequisite for thwarting their falsely founded historical claims.

Since the entire World History has become an enormous battlefield where historical interpretations, synthetic approaches, conceptualization efforts, attempts of different contextualization, and diverging terminological proposals are constantly introduced in order to present distinct perspectives of historical narrative that best suit the needs of the colonial powers, all countries that are not well prepared -at the academic, intellectual and educational levels- to refute opposite arguments end up losing territories or totally disappearing. Countries that are unprepared to engage in academic and intellectual battles are already failed states.

And this is the primary meaning of the term ‘failed state’: a state, government, establishment and society that failed to first learn in depth their past and then to identify its distortions within the Western European and North American pseudo-historical dogma which is diffused through their disreputable and criminal universities, schools, publishing houses, libraries, museums, research institutes, embassies and proxies worldwide.

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Secular Education, Oriental Empires, Cultural Nations, Spirituality, Religion & Theology down to Renaissance – Part I

The present article consists in a brief outlook of the nature of the diverse educational systems either in the rising and falling imperial realms or in the chaotic and worthless republics that lack sanctity, legitimacy, and humanity. Here you will find its first part.

I. Education, Social Unity, and Transcendence in the Ancient Oriental Empires

In ancient times, Education was at the hands of the spiritual-sacerdotal-imperial savants and the instructors did their ingenious best to educate their pupils by making them fully aware of the Laws of the spiritual and the material universes, which were also reflected in the average culture of all the inhabitants of the ideal, paradisiacal empire that mirrored the celestial world on the surface of the Earth. There was absolutely no disconnection between the educated and the uneducated, because the latter comprehended in general -via mythical, cultural, education- what the former mastered in detail through systematic scientific exploration, archiving and education.

This was how the emerged great kingdoms and formidable empires were structured in Mesopotamia (Sumer, Akkad, Assyria-Babylonia, Hurrians, and Elam), Kemet (Egypt), Hittite Anatolia, Cush (Ancient Sudan), Phoenicia-Carthage, Iran and Turan, China, and Indus Valley and the Deccan. There was Unity in Education, as all the people understood the supreme language of the Myth and the Symbols that exist between the spiritual and the material universes, and as a consequence, they all had the same world view, the same spirituality and culture, and the same moral standards, which defined the sanctity of their empire.

Tuthmose III of Egypt
Hattusili III of Hittite Anatolia
Tiglathpileser III of Assyria
Nabuna’id of Babylonia
Darius I of Achaemenid Iran

II. Lack of Sacerdotal and Imperial Authority in the Low Educational Systems of the Ancient Greek and Roman Barbarians

Ancient Greece and Rome, as small, divided and unsophisticated local societies, were ignorant, barbaric and marginal lands as regards the Ancient Oriental empires; there was no spirituality, no imperial tradition, no sacerdotal scholarship, and no unity of Education. There was division in society, disunity among the various tribes, and clash among the various philosophers who were educated not locally but in the great temples of Egypt, Phoenicia, Babylonia, and Iran. Ancient Greek religion was a petty version, a miserable imitation, and a pale reflection of the Ancient Oriental religions.

There was no transcendence, no contemplation, no meditation, and no sanctity in Ancient Greece; the gods of the Ancient Greeks were mere human projections onto the spiritual world, and as such they were inferior to the aspects of the Divine World, which formed the fundamental truths of the archetypal Oriental myths. Lacking spiritual authority, scientific knowledge, and moral wisdom, the Ancient Greeks became mere ‘friends of the wisdom’, which is the real meaning of the Ancient Greek word ‘philosopher’. In their otherwise worthless education, they replaced the transcendental truth with useless verbosity, the mythical symbolism with puerile anthropomorphism, the sacrosanct theatrical events with their debased public theater, and the Imperial Paradise with their Civil War.

Pericles of Athens
Julius Caesar of Rome
Cicero

III. Education and Culture in Imperial Rome: Result of an Overwhelming Orientalization

Rome became an Empire very late, and achieved a level of Orientalization too late. As a matter of fact, there was no unity in education, and consequently, there was a total disconnection between the educated and the uneducated. This is said with respect to the Romans themselves, the citizens of Rome during the times of the Res Publica (‘Republic’: 510-27 BCE). This phenomenon was the result of the formation of an elite/elitist class with increased focus on material interests, lower degree of piety, and total lack of imperial world view and tradition.

When people deliberate in public, the focus is shifted away from spirituality, moral standards, and culture to petty personal interests and elite privileges. Then, few representatives can take decisions on common issues, discord and disunity appear only to prevail across the society, while social class divisions become the reason of endless strife; the ensuing social stratification destroys or prevents unity in culture and education.

This situation became very ostensible in the early Roman imperial times, when the elite continued living influenced by the Ancient Greek social lifestyle, involving theater, philosophy, and public debates (as the Senatus had still some power), but the Romans, i.e. the average people in their outright majority, had already accepted different Oriental cults, mysteries, religions, schools of spirituality, oracles, mythical symbolisms, and dogmas of cosmogony, cosmology, apocalyptic eschatology and soteriology.

It was only normal for the old republican traditions and the useless public debates to be soon swept away by the mysteries of Mithras, Zurvan-Saturn, Isis, Horus, Osiris, Sarapis, Anubis, Sabazios, Elagabalus, Cybele, Attis, and other Oriental cults and mystical systems (Chaldeanism, Ostanism, Gnosticisms, Hermetism) to which almost all the Romans gradually adhered, abandoning their impotent ancestral divinities and seeking salvation in the dogmas of the Chaldean Aramaeans, the Egyptians, the Cushites, the Anatolians, and the Iranians.

Romans abandoned the nonsense of the political discourses, and started carrying about the mysteries of Isis, an Egyptian mythical symbol and central figure of the Ancient Egyptian Heliopolitan eschatology and soteriology.
The Coffin of Osiris was understood by the Ancient Romans as far more important (as element of contemplation and meditation) than the trivial, material debates of the Senatus. Salvation could never be offered in the useless sphere of politics, but it could be achieved within the circle of Isiac initiates.
Mithras could save a soul – but the useless politicians of Rome could not. That’s why the Ancient Greeks and Romans disregarded the nonsensical theories of the ignorant pseudo-philosopher Aristotle and abandoned the public debates of their worthless republics in order to seek salvation in the mysteries of Mithras.
The fact that Ancient Greece and Rome were flooded by Oriental religions, cults, schools of spirituality and mysticism proves the inferiority of these ancient cities-states and the primitivism of these nations vis-à-vis the Ancient Oriental civilizations.
Zervan, the Iranian god of Time, identified by the Romans of the imperial times with Saturn.
Elagabalus: the Roman Emperor who before his coronation was the high priest of the Aramaean god Elagabal, a solar divinity and hypostasis of Mithra.

There was a major difference between Trajan’s Rome from one side and from the other side Darius I the Great’s Iran, Sargon II’s Assyria, Thutmose III’s Egypt, Mursilis I’s Hittite Anatolia, Hammurapi’s Babylonia, Urukagina’s Sumer (Lagash and Girsu), and Sargon I’s Akkad: different cultural and educational systems existed across the Roman Empire at the time of its greatest expansion. I don’t mean this in terms of regional differentiation in culture and education among the various nations that lived in Anatolia, Egypt, Carthage, Numidia, Gaul and other provinces. I refer to the still existing differentiation between Roman elite culture, world view, and education from one side and from the other side the popular culture, world view, and education across the empire.

However, it was only a matter of time, and finally, the culture, the world view, and the education of the average people prevailed; they were finally imposed on the Roman elite; during the 3rd c. CE, Rome looked very much like an Oriental Empire, as the path from barbarism to civilization had been crossed. It was the time when a Roman Emperor named after the Aramaean god Elagabalus ruled the vast empire. Little time afterwards, Mithra, an Iranian god, became the supreme god of the -thus markedly Iranized- Roman Empire, as Sol Invictus.

IV. Christian Roman Empire: Doctrinal Culture for all and Doctrinal Education for few

In fact, the Christianization of the Roman Empire constituted only the last layer of its Orientalization. Divided along Christological doctrines, the Christian Roman Empire reflected Oriental empires in times of division; it looked like Egypt at the times of Akhenaten, Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia) at the times of Sennacherib or Iran at the times of Cambyses. Due to the juxtaposition and the polarization around the nature and the qualities of Jesus, Christianity produced an enormous amount of theological treatises, endeavors and concerns; compared to the Ancient Oriental religions, the official version of Christianity, as practiced in the Eastern Roman Empire, looked like a merely theological system – not a ‘religion’.

Gradually but steadily, spirituality turned out to become an absurdity, ‘miracles’ became simply a matter of narrative and not of demonstration, belief was reduced to mere acceptance of doctrines interpreting the sacred texts, and people were kept far from education. It was a time of indoctrination and doctrinal culture. There was indeed unity in culture and education, pretty much like in the Ancient Oriental empires, but it hinged on theological doctrine, because official Christianity was not a religion preached by Jesus. All the same, New Rome (Nova Roma) at the times of Justinian I (527-565) looked far closer to Xerxes’ Persepolis, to Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon, to Esarhaddon’s Assyria, and to Ramses III’s Thebes of Egypt than to Caesar’s Rome.

Early Christian Roman Art is full of Ancient Egyptian and Iranian symbols
Early Christian Roman Art is an Oriental Art.
Justinian I represented in the mosaic of San Vitale in Ravenna

V. Islamic Civilization: an entirely non-Arab Phenomenon

When prophet Muhammad preached Islam among an uneducated, uncultured, barbaric, and marginal tribe, namely the Arabs of Hejaz, he raised the stakes exponentially. Suffice it that you read the (written by an anonymous Alexandrian Egyptian captain and merchant of the middle of the 1st c. CE) “Periplus of the Red (or Erythraean) Sea” (par. 20) and you understand how all the civilized nations of the wider region viewed the Arabs of Hejaz. With the acceptance of Islam by the Ancient Yemenites, who were a Semitic nation totally different from and unrelated to the Arabs of Hejaz, already two years before the death of prophet Muhammad (630 CE), an important change occurred: the majority of the followers of Islam were non-Arabs.

With the early Islamic invasions, many Aramaeans of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine, many nations of the Sassanid Iranian Empire, many Copts (Egyptians), and many Berbers (from Libya and the African Atlas) accepted Islam, dramatically intensifying the fact that the Arabs constituted a minimal and unimportant part among the Muslims of the Omayyad and the Abbasid Caliphates. This generated a new socio-cultural environment from the Atlantic Ocean to the borders of China and the middle of the Subcontinent.

VI. Islamic Caliphate: Aramaean & Iranian Education, Sciences, Art, Culture, Intellectual life, and Spirituality under Arab rulers

The Islamic Civilization is an entirely non-Arab phenomenon, as it basically consists in an Aramaean & Iranian civilization with greatly diversified local traits. Within 150 years, after prophet Muhammad’s death, Aramaeans of Mesopotamia and Syria and Iranians transferred the corpus of the scientific, academic, intellectual, artistic and educational genius of the Sassanid Empire of Iran within the Islamic Caliphate.

In fact, Arabic is an Aramaean dialect written with Syriac Aramaic characters slightly deformed as cursive writing; without vocalization, almost the entire Quran can be read in Aramaic. So, Aramaeans (liberated from the yoke of the Eastern Roman Empire and unrestrained from the Constantinopolitan theological doctrine) and Iranian Mazdeists learned and used Arabic for the aforementioned purpose. In fact, the great Aramaean centers of learning, libraries and theological schools of Edessa of Osrhoene (Urfa), Nisibis (Nusaybin), Antioch (Antakya) and Seleucia-Ctesiphon (Al Mada’in) and the famous Sassanid Iranian imperial academy, university, research center, library and museum of Gundishapur, which was the world’s greatest center of learning and wisdom of the 6th c., were merged and continued in the legendary Bayt al Hikmah in Baghdad.

Aramaic Art on the walls of the Great Mosque of Damascus
Early Islamic Art is typically Aramaean.
The Great Mosque of Damascus: a masterpiece of Aramaean Art

At the beginning, Islam appeared to be one more Christological heresy, eventually a more acute form of Nestorianism. With Late Antiquity Gnostics accepting Islam, it is not bizarre why Fathers of the Christian Church, like John Damascenus, a leading Aramaean scholar, poet, and theologian from Damascus, viewed Islam as a counterfeit version of Christianity. On the other hand, this fact explains fully why the Islamic Civilization was always (until its end in 1580) the realm of Learning and Education.

John Damascenus, an Aramaean scholar and monk, Father of the Christian Church, and personal acquaintance of the Omayyad caliphs of Damascus

This fact has little to do with Quranic verses; it is mainly due to the constituent elements of the early Islamic society. When schools of faith and science, like that of the sagacious Ikhwan al-Safa (إخوان‌ الصفا) created the dynamics they did, thanks to their mystical-intellectual endeavors, scientific explorations, and educational system, it would be impossible for the Islamic Civilization not to be at the antipodes of the Christian world: a domain of Learning.

VII. Islamic Spirituality, Religion and Culture vs. Governance and Theology

As spirituality was initially limited in the circle of the descendants (Ahl al Bayt) of prophet Muhammad, notably Ali ibn abi Taleb (who was the son-in law of prophet Muhammad and the prominent figure of the Ahl al Bayt), but governance was at the hands of the enemies of Ali ibn abi Taleb, a very strange situation arose. In the deeply and irreversibly divided (Omayyad and Abbasid) caliphate, education was soon controlled by the Aramaeans and the Iranians, whereas the military started being increasingly dominated by the incoming Turanian soldiers; at the same time, spirituality and religious orthodoxy and orthopraxy remained the exclusive domain of Ahl al Bayt, notably Ja’far al-Sadiq.

The caliphs wanted to justify their unjust and illegitimate rule, while various learners and pundits decided to make distinguished careers by justifying the unjustifiable; they were therefore hired by the caliphs and appointed as religious authorities in order to ‘explain’ as ‘Islamic’ the un-Islamic or anti-Islamic deeds of those caliphs. This attitude constituted an enormous schism between the spiritual endeavors of the early Islamic community and the religious practices of the disbelieving and unfaithful rulers, thus opening the path for a fake religion adapted to immoral, illegal and evil governance. This situation was utterly rejected by many spiritual mystics and erudite Muslims, and the ensuing polarization triggered an enormous literature of jurisprudential and theological contents. So, soon Islam started being turned from a religion to a theology.

VIII. The Secular Nature of the Islamic Society, Education, Culture and Civilization

Islam preaches a secular society, and for many hundreds of years the Islamic caliphates, sultanates, khanates and emirates were prominently secular of nature. The secular nature of Islamic education, spiritual and material research, literature, sciences, intellectual life, artistic inventiveness, and mysticism is underscored by the burgeoning character of the early Islamic society in which -for many long centuries- there was absolutely no ‘sunnah’ in the way this word is used nowadays by the ignorant ‘sheikhs’ and the uneducated ‘imams’ of Madinah, Istanbul, Mekkah, Al-Azhar, Qum, etc.

The fact that “there is no compulsion in religion” (Quran, chapter al-Baqara, verse 256) implied that Shariah law was not compulsory. Actually, there was no Shariah (in the sense this word is meant now) at all in the beginning, for the very simple reason that the historical prerequisite for Shariah is a school of Islamic jurisprudence. The Divine Law demanded from humans a ‘deep understanding’ (fiqh) of the Quran and the Hadith, and this is the real word for Islamic Law even today (as concept); to implement the Divine Law in the human society, the various jurisprudential schools accepted four sources: the Quran, the Hadith (prophet Muhammad’s sermons), qiyas (analogical reasoning),and ijma (juridical consensus). This automatically terminated Islam as religion, turning it to a theology.

The secular nature of the education in the Islamic caliphates and other kingdoms was the result of the well-diversified nature of the Islamic society, which incorporated many different cultures. Prophet Muhammad’s preaching was accepted differently in various locations in Asia, Africa and Europe, as it incorporated numerous diverse local cultures and traditions; this phenomenon generated a multitude of forms of worship, schools of spirituality and mystical tradition, and perceptions of (and approaches to) the spiritual and the material worlds, which were -all- called ‘Islamic’.

Islamic science of the Abbasid times
Abbasid court
Abbasid dynasty
Bayt al Hikmah
Abbasid medicine
Ahmad ibn Musa ibn Shakir: design of a self trimming lamp
Kalila wa Dimna: an Iranian story as foundation of the Islamic Culture

This dynamic spiritual, academic, intellectual, educational, socio-behavioral, and cultural process created an unprecedentedly decentralized phenomenon of faith, life, art, intellect and genius. It was the total opposite of the very centralized Christian churches, societies, states and educational systems. In fact, Islamic education, science and intellectual life reduced Islamic theology to small and marginal circles of dogmatic and indoctrinated imams, who could not impact the advance of Islamic Civilization and sciences.

Basically, Islamic education and culture were characterized by cohesion at the local level, only when viewed independently in the different parts of the Islamic world. However, in reality, an unprecedentedly wide number of different cults, positions, practices and beliefs could effectively be labeled ‘Islamic’, because for someone to be accepted as Muslim it is actually enough to confess that there is no god except God and that Muhammad is the messenger of God (which is the Shahada, i.e. the testimony, of faith / La ilaha illallah muhammadur rasulullah – لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله). Islamic education revolved around the basics of the religion, before orienting students toward the two main directions: spirituality and science.

IX. Islamic Education divided between Spirituality/Sciences/Arts and Theology  

The only reactionary group of theologians, who wanted to limit education to the sphere of a dark, pseudo-Islamic theology, was the pseudo-school (madhhab) of Ahmed ibn Hanbal. However, this did not influence anyone and either in his days (mainly 9th c. CE) or later, it was not accepted as proper school of jurisprudence, but as a type of barbaric and ignorant heretics (Ahmed ibn Hanbal was also imprisoned). Notably, ibn Hanbal was rejected by Tabari, the Islamic world’s greatest historian and most erudite scholar of those days.

Only after the Crusades and due to the devastating impact that they had on the Muslims of the Eastern Mediterranean, a backward theological system demanded the end of Islamic sciences, the subordination of spirituality, genius and intellect to the villainous theological doctrine that these ignorant and idiotic people considered as ‘Islam’. This theological system is the baseless and anti-Islamic teaching of Ahmed ibn Taymiyyah, who was viewed as a heretic during his time and he was also imprisoned as impostor. His nonsensical theories ostensibly constitute a form of Christianization of Islam.

Ferdowsi: the greatest Islamic poet, intellectual and spiritual authority of all times
A page from Ferdowsi’s epic poem Shahnameh (Book of the Kings), from the copy created and majestically decorated with miniatures for Prince Baysunqur, the grandson of Timur (Tamerlane)
Mohyieldin ibn Arabi: the greatest Islamic mystic, philosopher and transcendental author of all times
The supreme opus of transcendental wisdom of all times: Mohyieldin ibn Arabi’s Al Futuhat al Makkiyah, the Meccan Illuminations
Nasir el din al Tusi: the greatest Islamic scholar, mathematician, founder of Observatory, and astronomer of all times
One page from Nasir el din al Tusi’s Zij-i ilkhani (زیجِ ایلخانی), i.e. the Ilkhanid astronomical table of stars
Timur (Tamerlane): the greatest Islamic Emperor of all times
Timur’s tomb in Samarqand
Timur’s modern statue in Tashkent

With the progression, the diffusion and the prevalence of this pathetic system, an enormous damage was caused to the Islamic Civilization; due to the erroneous education, which was impregnated by the evilness of Ahmed ibn Taymiyyah’s ideas, the Islamic sciences started being abandoned, the Islamic arts were disregarded or reduced to basic and meaningless forms, and the Islamic intellectual life was disintegrated. Even worse, Islamic spirituality was slandered as ‘black magic’, Islamic wisdom was obliterated and forgotten, and Islamic education was decreased to the level needed for imbeciles, who could not anymore comprehend the Quran in the way Muslims were able to understand their holy book two centuries earlier.

X. The divide between Islamic Spirituality/Sciences/Arts and pseudo-Islamic Theology disfigured as Shia vs. Sunni Schism

The reason for this development is the fact that Ahmed ibn Taymiyyah, following the line of Ahmed ibn Hanbal, preached that for Muslims’ education only theology mattered. This evil impostor generated a terrible divide between Islamic spirituality and theology, which lasted down to our days, but was mistakenly and viciously known as difference between ‘Shia’ and ‘Sunni’. However, this is an evil colonial lie and an Orientalist falsehood imposed on the colonial slaves of France, England and America, namely the ignorant sheikhs and pathetic imams of Islam.

In fact, there was never a historical division between ‘Shia’ and ‘Sunni’ throughout the History of Islam. The fake divide is an entirely modern, colonial fabrication, which was constructed, when ignorant and idiotic sheikhs, following the remote guidance and the evil orders of their Western masters, started presenting themselves as self-styled ‘Sunnis’. Western forgers and ignorant imams may today describe a historical war, let’s say the battle of Chaldiran (1514) between the Ottomans and the Safavid Iranians, as a fight between ‘Shia’ and ‘Sunni’, but this is entirely false.

Ottoman army
Selim I
Selim I: a great soldier, a poor strategist, and a naïve pupil of evil pseudo-Islamic theologians
The Battle of Chaldiran (1514)
Shah Isma’il Safavi, founder of the Safavid dynasty of Iran that Western colonials distortedly called ‘Persia’
Isma’il Safavi, painting by the illustrious 16th c. Italian artist Cristofano dell’Altissimo (whose works are exposed at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence)

Neither Selim I nor Ismail Safavi, the Ottoman sultan and the Iranian shah, who exchanged written insults before the battle, called one another ‘Sunni’ and ‘Shia’. Neither was their difference a theological dispute. In reality, Selim I caused a terrible bloodshed (squelching the Shahqulu/Şahkulu movement) in order to impose a theological dogmatic tyranny in his pseudo-Islamic Ottoman realm, whereas Ismail Safavi established in Iran a secular education that allowed people to free pursue any walk of intellectual life that they wished, either in spirituality or in sciences, thus eliminating the tyranny of theological ignorance. The fact that these events are not portrayed in this manner in today’s educational systems of Turkey and Iran only shows how mistaken, misguided and self-disastrous these systems are. Of course, this is also true for the educational systems of all the other Muslim countries.

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