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A Dark Thought in a Green Shade
A Dark Thought in a Green Shade Somewhere in the newly planted earth, a god sits at his bench, creating and curating each little plant...

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Adam the Devil Becomes
Expecting nothing but laughter and applause,
Adam hears on all sides sounds of derision,
Harshly sibilant.
All were transformed to serpents

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Under a Spinozan Lens: Israel, Zionism and Bob Dylan’s ‘Neighborhood Bully’
By Richard Mather [Article originally published on academia.edu for Holocaust Memorial Day / Yom HaShoah on 27th January 2024. Image:...

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Is Spinoza’s pantheistic ontology a template for authoritarianism?
OVERVIEW: ● The pantheist ontology of Baruch Spinoza (b.1632 – d.1677) is an attempt to deny the accountability of political evil. ●...

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Temple Curtain
"The temple curtain made of some heavy purple fabric, with its curious pleats ..."

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When We Were There
By Richard Mather When we were there in the crooked hell of that scarlet and black room, the world was a useless idol broken and beyond...

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The Light in That Place
By Richard Mather “Our holiday has been turned into a day of mourning” -- Chaim A. Kaplan By lamp and by oil, we hunger the hours as the...

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Adam’s Descent
By Richard Mather Adam is a dry rib but sinews are stretched, tissue and flesh fashioned. Man of Spirit, embodied. Descending the...

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Omega
By Richard Mather enfolding all into himself, upgathering from all sides and corners, mix- ing dark and light, warm and cold, Adam...

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The Moses Tree
By Richard Mather From the tangle of its roots, To the nests in its hair The tree blazed white and blue. And the tree sang the Lord’s...

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Shaddai
By Richard Mather A plant grows from the Nile, the שׁ, primordial cause, rooted in the water, breathing in the air, the commencement of...

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Buried beneath the Newsprint
By Richard Mather It was only when Snake Emerged from a black hole Between Mecca & Medina That God saw the problem. Speaking from the...

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Abraxas
By Richard Mather From the mouth of Abraxas A spectral force carries Aloud the magical words Ab, abba, ben, ruach, Abracadabra the...

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A Song of the Sabbath Sacrifice
By Richard Mather And so the gods of lead and brass, The idols and their thrones, The teraphim made of fibreglass The mummified skulls...

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A Beginning
A Beginning I will proclaim the name of Elah Yisrael : It is Yahuweh Tzavaot the impassioned one who speaks the yod & the heh , who...

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