The Modern Divine Comedy Book 8: Paradiso 2 Departure

By Andrew J. Farrara

The PARADISO is considered the most perfect part of the hereafter where the souls are permitted to live eternally if they can successfully complete the very difficult Celestial Examination process engaging the intellectual and personal guilt and forgiveness requirements system. Many celestial citizens take years, decades or centuries to complete.
The Celestial Trial of Josephus, the Annual Lantern Parade and Romano’s awakening from his dream nightmare at the ending are the major subjects in this Book.
This Celestial Trial of the ancient Jewish General and Roman writer, propagandist and collaborationist Flavius Josephus in discovering the real Spiritual Truths at the Celestial Supreme Court headed by the Biblical prophets Noah, Abraham and Moses is portrayed. Josephus is defended in Court by a late 19th century mortal American Barrister named Darryl Buchanan from Philadelphia who just successfully defended John D Rockefeller before Almighty GOD Himself in God’s Personal Supreme Peoples Court.
The goal of the Celestial Trial of ‘Josephus verses the Celestial Kingdom’ is to discover the Holy Secrets and Spiritual Truths of his writings as to determine whether he did or did not fabricate and/or conceal the Biblical truths and steal the Prophecy that the next Ruler of the Roman Empire was destined to come from Judea to save his own body and soul?
The Annual Lantern Parade at the Celestial Circus Maximus on Christmas Day has been a tradition since Jesus died on the Cross in the first century AD. The theme this year is called the Ancient & Divine Mysteries of the Universe.
BOOK FOUR ends with the Devil and his Three Crown Princes still trying to manipulate, dominate and overthrow the Kingdom with a Final Curtain Call where the Tragic End Game occurs and the Mise-en-Abime shows the hero Journalist Romano home awoken immediately after his dream in his basement apartment at a New York City Catholic Church.

• Language: English
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• Release date: Oct 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9781663245212

Andrew J. Farrara

World traveler, writer, adventurer, entrepreneur, artist, romantic poet, Italian opera affezionato, ex-rugby player, and political animal! Andrew J. Farrara was born in Reading, Pa. in September 1950 and educated in the Reading School District. Coming-of-age in then-industrial Pennsylvania gave him an insatiable wanderlust. Since 1967 the author has traveled to over 135 countries and territories as determined by the Travelers’ Century Club lastly on a cruise from Genoa through the Suez Canal to the island of Mauritius and a flight to Madagascar, Ethiopia and England in 2019. He has visited all Seven Continents, including Antarctica, every State of the United States except North Dakota, and has conducted three around-the-world backpacking expeditions; for 8 weeks in 1983; 220 days in 1987-88; and 5 weeks in 2018. The second trip was the subject of his book entitled Around the World in 220 Days: Notes of an American Traveler Abroad published by Infinity Press in 2004. The author holds a BA in History and Political Science (1972) and an MA in Modern European History (1975) from Kutztown University, Pa. He taught social studies and history part-time in the Reading School District and at the Reading Area Community College before serving as an elected Reading School Board member from 1975 to 1977. Farrara served honorably in the Pennsylvania Air and Army National Guard from 1972 to 1978 as a Telecommunications Center Specialist in the 193rd Tactical Electronic Warfare Group at Middletown, Pa and as a Tank Crewman, Machine Gunner & Loader in the 103rd Armor & as an Infantry Soldier & Radio Operator in the 111th Infantry at the Kutztown Armory, Pa. from 1973 to 1978. The author held the positions of Supervisor then Superintendent of Recreation for the City of Reading from 1978 to 1987 resigning his later position to conduct his nine-month Around the World trip from Dec 1987 to Aug 1988. The author was also trained, certified and graduated from the 160-hour residential District Magistrate Program of the Minor Judiciary Education Board at Wilson College in Chambersburg Pennsylvania in 1982 and as a Pennsylvania Police Officer completing the 480-hour Reading Police Academy in 1983-4. He also completed a Para-Legal Certificate Program in 1976-77 at Penn State Berks Campus. Andrew J. Farrara currently operates an independent insurance agency in Reading since 1988 and spends his free time writing, observing, traveling, painting, and learning. In attempting to keep in shape intellectually and physically his personal motto has always been the well-known Chinese proverb: “Civilize the mind but make savage the body.” The author is presently working on an additional novel entitled Bonfire of the Gods about a group of world travelers taking a Grand Tour of Italia in 1896 starting in Rome Italy moving down to the mysterious Mezzogiorno of Napoli and Sicilia.

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TRIAL OF THE AGES OF DOUBLE MILLENNIUMS TRUTH & JUSTICE

THE

MODERN

DIVINE

COMEDY

8-PART SERIES

BOOK 1 INFERNO 1 DESCENDING

BOOK 2 INFERNO 2 ASCENDING

BOOK 3 LIMBOLAND 1 ENTRANCE

BOOK 4 LIMBOLAND 2 DEPARTURE

BOOK 5 PURGATORIO 1 ENTRY

BOOK 6 PURGATORIO 2 DEPARTURE

BOOK 7 PARADISO 1 ENTRY

BOOK 8 PARADISO 2 DEPARTURE

CONTENTS

TIME:

GREAT HEROIC PAST, SOME PRESENT & STILL A BIT OF FUTURE.

Our Hero thinks it’s Christmas Day December 25, 1895

but it is really the early 21st Century.

STAGE SUB-TIME:

HOLY LANDS FROZEN in 1st CENTURY A.D.

PLACE:

PARADISO, PURGATORIO, & INFERNO & LIMBOLAND

& in the Celestial Supreme Court

MENTAL SUB-PLACE:

HEAVENLY SUBCONSCIOUS

CLIMATE:

PERFECT SUB TROPICAL COOLING HAWAIIAN TRADE WINDS

but GETTING HOTTER & HOTTER all the time

THEMES:

MORTALITY & IMMORTALITY

in all its contradictions & imperfections

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

(Cast of Characters)

JOURNALIST

The First Man ADAM & Himself

being Investigative Foreign Correspondent

as Andrew Romano on a Divine Odyssey

ZARATHUSTRA

Celestial Tour Guide, Chariot Driver & Divine friend for Journalist,

Prophet-Philosopher & founder of Zoroastrianism

WISE PROPHETS

Unnamed Daily Leaders in the Kingdom

ARCHANGELS

Administrators of the Celestial Kingdom

HOLY ANGELS VEZY & SARA

Special Narrators

& An Occasional

MYSTERIOUS SUBSTITUTE NARRATOR

DIVINE CHORUS

Conservative & Reactionary souls/consciences of Mankind/ Many Humanities

PEANUT GALLERY

Liberal & Radical souls/consciences of Mankind/Many Humanities

OTHER HOLY ANGELS

Monitors of Mortals on Earth, pure, chaste, innocent but some could be

mischievous with underestimated intelligence

THE TREACHEROUS DEVIL

He is still up to his devious & diabolical tricks plotting

the Takeover of the Limboland & eventually the Celestial Kingdom

MEPHISTOPHELES, LUCIFER & SATAN

Three Crown Princes of Evilness & Evil Clones of the Devil

hidden somewhere, everywhere & anywhere & masked

as expected trying to conquer the Kingdom again & again.

Oops, we wanted to forget

THE ALMIGHTY GOD HIMSELF

The Most Powerful, the Big Guy, Omnipotent, Omnipresent,

Omnibenevolent & Omniscient. He wants you to think that

He’s in the front & back of everything.

Called the Big Dog by the Devil

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS

Occasional private episode Scene exposing

the Devil’s & his Three Crown Princes’

Furtive attempt to Conspire & Control

the Limboland Arenas & Celestial Kingdom

GOD’S THREE CAPABLE BUT FRUSTRATED

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

HOLIEST WARRIOR

GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO

HUNCHBACK HOLY MAN

aka

OLD HOLY MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN

Mysterious seeker of the Divine Truths &

Wisest of all Wise philosophers &

Real Subconscious of Mankind

OTHER CHARACTERS INCLUDE:

DENIZENS OF PURGATORIO, LIMBOLAND & INFERNO

Concerned about mortality & immortality

some petitioning for entrance to Paradiso

PROFANITY WORDS

Bleeped

VIENNESE PSYCHOANALYST & SWISS PSYCHOANALYST

Roaming & Analyzing everyone & everything except themselves

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS

Roaming & criticizing everyone & everything

EXTRAORDINARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

Wandering students of burgeoning earthly & divine wisdom

YOUNG FRENCH PROFESSEUR

Their Itinerant Teacher

BARRISTER DARRYL BUCHANAN

A brilliant visiting Mortal American lawyer defending clients

Rockyfello & Court Jester

before God’s Celestial Supreme Court of the Kingdom

& defending Flavius Josephus in the

CELESTIAL TRIAL OF JOSEPHUS

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS

Jewish General and ancient Roman writer on Trial

as traitor, turncoat, collaborationist & propagandist

for Emperors Vespasian and Titus

in discovering the real Spiritual Truths

ABRAHAM, NOAH & MOSES

Celestial Supreme Court Judges of the Kingdom

OTHER ACTORS

HEAVENLY CABINET…………………………………………… of Archangels

DIVINE PARLIAMENT…………………….of Angels and Saints and Martyrs

ROCKYFELLO………….American industrialist, Oil Titan, richest mortal in world, age 56 in 1895

COURT JESTER…………….Rockyfello’s untrustworthy & treacherous aide-de-camp

SECRET AGENTS OF THE INFERNO……agents of the Devil in many manifestations

MANY PAGAN, BIBLICAL, & HISTORICAL CHARACTERS being historical & mythological….TOO NUMEROUS TO MENTION

GRAND BUREAUCRAT…………………………..Inferno’s Top Administrator

COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS…lurking in the jungles of the mind and soul of man

ECHO OF THE BIG BANG……………………………epistemological concept

QUIETI…Quest for INTRA-TERRESTRIAL and EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL Intelligence

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 79

THE ‘INFERNO FIRST’ IS OUR REAL OPERATING MOTTO.

SCENE 80

INTERSTELLAR INTERLUDE

WHERE DID WE HUMANS COME FROM &

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

PREFACE ASTRONOMICAL

MUSIQUE TO SOOTHE THE SCIENTIFIC BREASTS ART TO INSPIRE THE SCIENTIFIC CREW

CHAPTERS

80-1 THEOLOGICAL ASSAULT ON SCIENCE

80-2 ASTRO-SCIENTISTS’ ESOTERIC MISSION EXPLORING INTRA- & EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL WORLDS BEING ORGANIZED

80-3 INTRODUCTIONS OF VISITING SCIENTISTS ETC.

80-4 POETS, ARTISTS & MUSICIANS REPRIEVE

80-5 CLASSIFIED SUPER SECRET PROJECT BEING PROPOSED

80-6 SCIENTIFIC BRAINSTORMING PROCESS SETTING UP QUIETI PROJECT

80-7 SUMERIAN COSMOLOGISTS INTERRUPT & CHALLENGE

80-8 SECRET FUGITIVE MAYAN COSMOLOGIST ARRIVES

80-9 QUIETI PROJECT SCIENTIFIC FREE FOR ALL ANARCHY

80-10 THE SPECIAL MISSIONS & ENTERTAINMENT & BREAK WITH THE ANCIENT GREEK MUSES

80-11 TIME TRAVEL & THE BIG BANG & EVOLUTION

80-12 SENDING A MAN TO THE MOON & MARS

80-13 INTRA-TERRESTRIAL EXPEDITION THROUGH INFERNAL EARTH ADVISED & COVETED BY THE SEVEN EXPLORERS

80-14 RESCUING SCIENCE AND/OR GOD

80-15 DINOSAUR HUNTING BY SCHOOL CHILDREN & YOUNG FRENCH PROFESSEUR

80-16 JULES VERNE & HG WELLS ATTEMPT AT SPACE TRAVEL

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 80

WE NEED MORE OVER KILL AND BACK UPS FOR BACK UPS.

SCENE 81

AT THE GATES OF PARADISE

ANNOUNCEMENTS

CHAPTERS

81-1 LIMERICKS & RIBALD DRINKING SONGS

81-2 ANCIENT COMEDIAN NAILS RASSUH

81-3 ANCIENT ROMAN SENATORS ON OAK ISLAND TREASURE & DRUGS

81-4 ROCKYFELLO & COURT JESTER

81-5 WHO ARE THE PEANUT GALLERY & THE DIVINE CHORUS?

81-6 NEW AMERIKAN MOVIE MOGUL & FILMMAKERS ARE DISCUSSING NEW SYSTEM COMING

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 81

DEVIL’S STACCATO COSPIRAZIONE

DEVIL’S SOULS SUBVERTING & CONSPIRING

SCENE 82

GOD’S PERSONAL SUPREME PEOPLES COURT

CHAPTERS

82-1 BARRISTER BUCHANAN DEFENDS ROCKY BEFORE GOD

82-2 AMERIKAN BARRISTER ARRIVES DRAMATICALLY

82-3 BARRISTER BUCHANAN TRIES TO MANIPULATE AUDIENCE HERE BEFORE THE TRIAL BY PUTTING GOD HIMSELF ON TRIAL

82-4 BACK TO THE REAL TRIAL OF ROCKY & COURT JESTER

82-5 GOD LOOKING FOR FUTURE LEGAL ADVICE

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 82

CONQUERING THE LIMBOLAND WILL BE

VERY DIFFICULT IF NOT IMPOSSIBLE…

TAKE NO PRISONERS! KILL THEM ALL!

SCENE 83

CAFÉ GRAECO-ROMAN

PREFACE ANALYTICAL

CHAPTERS

83-1 SOME NEW RECRUITS ARRIVE & EAT & DRINK BEFORE PROCESSING WHILE THE DRINKS & FOOD MENU ARE COMMUNICATED BY PERFORMING ZANY ZINGING WAITERS

83-2 NEW ARRIVALS INCLUDING FIRST ABORIGINAL BARRISTER

83-3 PYTHIA READING ADAM’S GREEK COFFEE GROUNDS

83-4 LATIN AMERICANS TRY TO ORGANIZE

83-5 PRECOCIOUS TEENAGERS ARRIVE AT CAFÉ GRECO-ROMAN BEER HALLS & DISCOTHEQUES WANTING TO OPERATE OWN ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEXES

83-6 CZECHS, BOHEMIANS AND MORAVIANS TEENAGERS TRY TO ORGANIZE

83-7 UK ENGLISH, WELSH, SCOTS & NORTHERN IRISH TEENAGERS TRY TO ORGANIZE

83-8 AUSTRIAN TEENAGERS TRY TO ORGANIZE

83-9 BELGIANS & WALLOONS TEENAGERS TRY TO ORGANIZE

83-10 THE FINNS, SWEDES & DANES ETC TRY TO ORGANIZE

83-11 FRENCH TEENAGERS TRY TO ORGANIZE

83-12 HOLLYWOOD SCRIPT WRITER & PRODUCER TRYING TO WRITE MOVIE ABOUT THESE BAD TEENAGERS

83-13 VERY BAD TEENAGERS TRY TO ORGANIZE TO MANIPULATE THE OTHERS

83-14 MORE NEWLY ARRIVED CELESTIAL CITIZENS

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 83

HUMAN NATURE HAS NEVER CHANGED.

SCENE 84

THE GRAND STAND AREA

PSYCHOANALYTICAL DIMENSION

PREFACE PSYCHO

THE ANSWERS ARE FAR FROM CLEAR

CHAPTERS

84-1 PSYCHOANALYTICAL PRIESTS ON TRIAL

84-2 LOUELLA PARSONS & HEDDA HOPPER GOSSIP COLUMNISTS MOVING TOWARDS PARTNERSHIP?

84-3 CELESTIAL TRIBUNAL OF PROPHETS EXAMINING PSYCHOANALYSTS TO DETERMINE PERMISSION TO COOPERATE OPENLY

84-4 HOLLYWOOD SEDUCTRESS/ ANGEL FROM HELL ARRIVES

84-5 DER BLAUE ENGEL (THE BLUE ANGEL)

84-6 LOLITA SYNDROME PORTRAYED

84-7 OPUS DEI: ANCIENT RABBI, MEDIEVAL IMAM, & JESUIT ON THE COUCH

84-8 EASTERN VS. WESTERN PHILOSOPHERS

84-9 BACK TO THE THREE PRIESTS & THE COUCH

84-10 PSYCHO-CRITIC WARRIOR JUMPS IN THE COUCH ATTACKING MODERN PSYCHOANALYSTS

84-11 END OF THE PSYCHOANALYTICAL EXPERIMENT

84-12 TEA SOCIAL: CHILDREN PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENTS: CHILDREN LIVING ON ISLAND ONE WEEK BY THEMSELVES

84-13 GREAT DEBATES OF THE ISSUES ANNOUNCED FOR NEW YEAR

84-14 ART HISTORY SEMINAR

84-15 POLITICS SEMINAR

84-16 SPORTS FIGURES AS MODERN GLADIATORS

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 84

THE NEW INFERNAL TEAM DEVIL WILL BE RUNNING THE NEW LIMBOLAND.

SCENE 85

PREPARING FOR

ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE

Called

ANCIENT & DIVINE MYSTERIES OF

THE UNIVERSE

FLASHBACKS FUTURISTIC

CHAPTERS

85-1 THREE HEBREW CARPENTERS

85-2 OLYMPIAN EXERCISES BEFORE PARADE

85-3 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO THE KINGDOM

85-4 CELESTIAL IDITAROD RACE PROPOSED

85-5 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE STARTING

85-6 LAMA FROM LHASA WITH LLAMAS

85-7 NEW CELESTIAL OPERATIC & THEATRICAL REPERTORY

85-8 DISCUSSION ON ECONOMIC DETERMINISM & ADVICE GIVEN

85-9 HOW MANY SOULS ARE IN THE KINGDOM?

85-10 AMERICAN LEFTIST HISTORIAN PONTIFICATING

85-11 CELESTIAL POLITICAL LIBERATION SCHOOL ESTABLISHED BY RADICALS SCOTT NEARING & SAUL ALINSKY

85-12 THE PRE-HISTORIC SOULS RELAX & DISCUSS THEIR FUTURE STRATEGIES

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 85

IN HIS NEW LIMBOLAND THE DEVIL SAYS, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT.

SCENE 86

INTERMEZZO INTERRUPTUS

PRE-PARADE ACTIVITIES

CHAPTERS

86-1 ARE THERE FRENCH & AMERICAN CONSPIRATORS HERE?

86-2 ALBERT PIKE SHOWS UP KINDA UNDERCOVER WHILE BEN FRANKLIN & OTHERS SPEAK IN RIDDLES OF FREEMASONRY

86-3 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES ARE COMING

86-4 SOME FREEMASONS INCIDENTALLY SHOW UP

86-5 THE ABSTRACT ARTIST & THE DISEMBOWELMENT OF ART

86-6 TWO VAN GOGH BROTHERS MEET OUR TWO PSYCHIATRISTS

86-7 PRE-PARADE OF THE GREATEST INVENTIONS OF MAN

86-8 PRE-PARADE OF WHO ARE THE CHOSEN PEOPLE OF GOD?

86-9 SHAKESPEAREAN PERFORMANCE AT ROMAN COLISEUM

86-10 ANTI-WAR PROTESTERS ARRIVE

86-11 EVILNESS ON TRIAL

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 86

I SUSPECT EVERYONE AND TRUST NO ONE, SAYS THE DEVIL.

SCENE 87

ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE

AT CIRCUS MAXIMUS

Called the

ANCIENT & DIVINE MYSTERIES OF

THE UNIVERSE

PRELUDE

CHAPTERS

87-1 GETTING READY FOR THE ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE

87-2 PARADE FLOATS OF THE ANCIENT & DIVINE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

87-3 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 1 TO 50

87-4 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 51 TO 100

87-5 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 101 TO 150

87-6 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 151 TO 200

87-7 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 201 TO 250

87-8 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 251 TO 300

87-9 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 301 TO 350

87-10 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 351 TO 400

87-11 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 401 TO 450

87-12 ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE FLOATS FROM 451 TO 500

87-13 JESUS & THE BUDDHA COMPARED

87-14 RELIGIOUS BOMBSHELL LAID BY STILL SKEPTICS

87-15 ROVING SCHOOL CHILDREN ASK QUESTIONS TO PARTICIPANTS

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 87

THERE IS GOING TO BE REAL CLOAK AND DAGGER STUFF HERE.

SCENE 88

SUPREME COURT

CELESTIAL TRIAL OF JOSEPHUS

OVERTURE

POPULIST LEGALISTIC COMMENTARY BEFORE TRIAL

CHAPTERS

88-1 CELESTIAL TRIAL OF JOSEPHUS

88-2 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

88-3 IS JOSEPHUS REALLY ARIUS CALPURNIUS PISO?

88-4 BARRISTER BUCHANAN RETURNS FROM ABYSS

88-5 WHAT HAPPENED TO DEFENSE SUBPOENAS?

88-6 JURY SELECTION

88-7 THE BARRISTER BUCHANAN & JURY

88-8 TOP SECRET INTELLIGENCE DOSSIER ON BARRISTER REVIEWED SECRETLY BY JUDGES

88-9 BACK TO THE TRIAL OF JOSEPHUS

88-10 DEFENSE SUMMARY

88-11 FIFTEEN MINUTE RECESS

88-12 HEBREW & MOSLEM SCRIBES DISCUSSING CASE

88-13 APOSTLE JOHN VOLUNTEERS AS A WITNESS

88-14 BARRISTER & JOSEPHUS ON SIDE-BAR

88-15 BARRISTER CROSS-EXAMINING THE BELOVED DISCIPLE JOHN

88-16 THERE IS NO PROOF WHATSOEVER

88-17 FORMER LAW PARTNER JEROME SMITHSON POMPOUSLY SEES BARRISTER OFF

PSYCHOANALYTICAL COITAL INTERRUPTUS 88

SCENE 89

AFTER THE THEOLOGICAL DELUGE

(Dopo Il Diluvio Teologico)

CHAPTERS

89-1 MACHIAVELLI & DOK FAUSTUS DOING THE DEAL

89-2 ADAM THE JOURNALIST MUST BE MOVING ON

89-3 THE TRUE OR FALSE GAME OF LIFE

89-4 FEMALES CONTROL THE UNIVERSE: ADAM’S MISSION

89-5 ANGELS BEING SENT TO MONITOR MORTALS INVOLVED WITH ROMANO’S GRAND TOUR

89-6 WHAT ANGELS WILL MONITOR THE JOURNALIST ON EARTH?

89-7 ANGELS SARA & VEZY GIVEN THE SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT

89-8 JOURNALIST & ZARATHUSTRA JUST MOVING ON

SCENE 90

THE FINAL CURTAIN

(Il Sipario Finale)

SUBLIME POETRY AT THE END

CHAPTERS

90-1 THE MYSTERIOUS DESPOSYNI

90-2 ANGELS SARA & VEZY PLOTTING

90-3 THE MALE TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS

90-4 THE TRAGIC END GAME OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

90-5 ANOTHER ZARATHUSTRA ARRIVES

90-6 IT AIN’T OVER TILL IT’S OVER

SANG THE FAT MAN

90-7 SUBLIME POETRY AT THE END

90-8 MISE-EN-ABIME

INFERNAL WICKED INTERRUPTUS 79

THE ‘INFERNO FIRST’ IS OUR REAL OPERATING MOTTO.

ANGELIC NARRATOR VEZY: [privately reading] Hey, sis, the ancient Egyptian civilization of its Pharaohs lasted from 5004 BC to 381 AD. That was so wonderfully long.

ANGELIC NARRATOR SARA: [dancing] But how did it help the average people, the peasants and workers, I ask?

ANGELIC NARRATORS SARA VEZY: Ouch, we’re back on as Angelic Narrators. This section called the IWI 79 includes the Devil and his Three Crown Princes of Mephistopheles, Satan and Lucifer again among other certain souls who may offer comments which the author deems relevant to the story line. They offer their conniving plans to conquer the Limboland. Thank you again.

THE DEVIL DISGUISED: [quietly] We can always blame the people, that stupid mass of working proletariat and peasantry in the world below and here in the Limboland Arenas, for all our Failures if MY New Devilish Limboland don’t work well right away.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [quietly] Any successes you make, Our Devil, are certainly yours and yours alone, and all Failures are surely based on their inability to accept that necessary change.

THE DEVIL DISGUISED: [quietly] The overworked and underappreciated proletariat and peasantry in the world do need an advocate like us, not the arrogant supercilious Marxists, but we want to exploit them too very surely.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [quietly] Our Devil, unfortunately because of their own stupidity they have lived a life of impoverishment and will live a life of Infernal perdition in the Limboland if they have no unselfish democratic leader who can call them to action.

THE DEVIL DISGUISED: [quietly] You guys sound like Communists or Fascists now.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [quietly] Ah, we gotta bend the rules or game the system of the New Limboland System helping the proletariat and peasantry because we do believe, Our Devil, that the selfish petty bourgeoisie and slimy capitalists will eventually come down there and manipulate them and steal their labour away from us.

THE DEVIL DISGUISED: [stops] Hmm, great point. I now understand your political drift. Get me an Action Plan to stop this proletariat and peasant madness.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [happily dancing] We are on it now, Our Tolerant and Intelligent Devil. The proletariat and peasantry will be ours to help, we mean abuse and exploit.

THE DEVIL DISGUISED: [stops] I’m smelling a bit of remorse or empathy in you now. Stop it now or you will burn in the eternal fires of the Inferno sent there by your buddies, these revolutionary democratic prols and dung-stinking peasants.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [stop dancing] Dah, we understand your drift, Our Devil.

THE DEVIL DISGUISED: [quietly] Okay, moving on from the prols and peasants to other things I love living on the fetished edge of wickedness and inside the cultural sleaze.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [quietly] Our Devil, the cultural mind-set of these incompetent celestial elites and their bureaucracy must be eliminated in the Limboland.

THE DEVIL DISGUISED: [quietly] Follow the money and power, I say.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [quietly laugh] If you want us to help you must ‘pay to play.’

THE DEVIL DISGUISED: [quietly] We all need a propaganda, I mean Public Relations team in the Limboland.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [quietly] Shh, let’s infiltrate the Interstellar Interlude section on the Quieti Secret Investigations now.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Our Devil, we are very concerned about how the Infernal Plantation Slavery System we want to install will operate.

DEVIL: [pacing] What do you mean?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We think that, once you study the plantation slavery system on earth, the Slavery System on earth has been a no-winner economically in that the only real profits the Slave Owners gained from the Slave System was primarily from the speculative buying and selling of the slaves themselves because they were not efficient workers since they were not paid except for eating and housing.

DEVIL: [pacing] Hmm, we must have faith in the real wickedness of mankind.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: All slaves are ‘reluctant workers’ without any kind of personal freedom who will do the least with the most pleasure or least punishment to finish their work.

DEVIL: [pacing] I’ll think about that later. We must inaugurate a programme of propaganda and Internet Hacking similar to the shadowy modern Russians when the new computer system arrives in the Kingdom and Limboland Arenas.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Our Devil will use personal outrage and anger and institutional misinformation to get his way.

DEVIL: [pacing] We must continually support the polarization and partisanship of the Limboland Arenas leadership groups until I take them over.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Our Devil, we overheard some Purgatorio souls saying at the Café Graeco-Roman the other day that this ‘moody’ American-Canuck hustler ‘pop-culture’ Monty Hall ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ who was a television show leader since 1963 just died in 2017.

DEVIL: [pacing] Hmm, I wonder if he could teach us some of his hustling? A legal ‘con-man’ who gave his contestants ‘booby prizes’ or something like that?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We could do a parody of a ‘Joe Sixpack’ episode trying to make a Grand Design or Zeitgeist of a Utopia in our Inferno using a bogeyman mentality.

DEVIL: [pacing] Im trying to follow that, but then, so what!

THREE CROWN PRINCES: [to selves] We know that Our sable-rattling Devil’s threats are simply egotistical bluster, almost Trumpian and not totally serious since his thirst for political theatre is eternal.

DEVIL: [pacing] The Celestial Kingdom wants to heal and forgive and love. I want to spend my time killing and destroying.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We should establish an island in the lower Inferno where we can make an open-aired Prison similar to the Palestinian Authority’s Gaza Strip to place all our theological and politikal enemies.

DEVIL: [pacing] The lesson we must learn about prisoners is that we can’t manage our conquered Limboland or we’ll have a People’s Revolution on our hands.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Well, we oppose all ‘political correctness’ too.

DEVIL: [pacing] Sometimes I feel trigger-happy wanting to shoot everyone I see at a stadium be it at a European soccer stadium, an Amerikan football stadium, a Latin Amerikan futbol stadium or even at any Western stadium playing rock musique like that 2017 Las Vegas killer.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We all have character faws but Our Devil has none.

DEVIL: [pacing] Opera, opera! I must be the main actor in an Opera but I ain’t going to sing publicly for NOBODY!

THREE CROWN PRINCES: "Our Devil, we could do an opera calling it a Freudian-esque The Land of Id, Ego or Superego instead of the Land of Oz but…"

DEVIL: [pacing] I won’t tolerate no political obstructionists who try to sabotage my politikal programme when I’m Limboland Emperor.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Yes, Our Devil, you told us that many times before.

DEVIL: [pacing] We need to develop contingency plans.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Oh, we’ll need to get the Grand Bureaucrat work on that asap [then silently] and then we’ll sabotage him.

They laugh.

DEVIL: [pacing] I hate all changes except if they work to MY BENEFIT.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: And we too love only traditional values as long they support US.

DEVIL: [pacing] There are no guarantees in life on earth nor here in death unless you accept my system without question.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Our Devil continually needs our positive reinforcement, theological reverence, gratitude and political deference.

DEVIL: [pacing] We need to implement a ‘conservative, populist, nationalistic’ but authoritarian agenda when I take over as Limboland Emperor.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We must also reject the current ‘political elites, theological elites, economic elites, religious elites, business elites, military elites and financial elites’ in the Kingdom.

DEVIL: [pacing] You guys can’t be complacent.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: "But we do love and envy the olde Hollywood movies with their full of sin scripts."

DEVIL: [pacing] We need to soon build a fleet of yachts, fishing boats and submersibles to conquer the entire Limboland before the celestial lackeys start to enter us.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: White Nationalism, affirmative action, health care and nuclear war in North Korea are all current issues we must understand so we can manipulate the souls here.

DEVIL: [pacing] We must increase our shareholders value being corporate Fascists as we are but masquerade it.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We must manipulate those minority who are violent and try to control their world making them Our Warriors be they the Islamic jihadist warriors, Neo-Fascists, Neo-Nazis, Drug War Lords etc.

DEVIL: [pacing] I hear you Three are becoming Scientists or astronomers.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: The Eclipse, Our Devil, we forgot to tell you that on August 21, 2017 the blazing Sun, the goofy Moon and the Earth are expected astronomically to line up perfectly making the daytime and night but then just a few minutes we saw that…

DEVIL: [pacing] Can we make any monies or gain political power on this, you astronomical beginners?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Is this opioid crisis in Amerika really an epidemic or crisis?

DEVIL: [pacing] We must investigate this complex issue while the medical doctors are prescribing these drugs over the counter to the users who need them but why do these users need the drugs so much is the question?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Boss, if only we could steal some stealth F-35 Lightning fighters and B1-B Lancer Bombers and B-2 Stealth Bombers and some F-22 Raptors.

DEVIL: [pacing] Forget the bombs now. You Princes must appreciate Art too not just killing and bombing people. I would have loved to attend the opening of the new Abu Dhabi Louvre Museum on the Persian Gulf in November 2017 seeing what kind of modern art they are displaying.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We hate, we mean we love Our Devil.

DEVIL: [pacing] Regardless, political blackmail is so necessary to operate any system be it on earth, in the stuffy self-righteous Celestial Kingdom, in My Inferno or in My New Limboland.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Our Devil still possesses those negative pathological personality aspects of compulsive gambling, whoring, binge drinking, materialistic unnecessary uncontrollable over-shopping, super-hyper narcissistic sexuality and…

DEVIL: [pacing] I love sexual improprieties and announce my triumph of any sexual harassment claims against MOI.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Our Devil, we must capture those Chinese computer geeks who do research into robotics since robots will be the real Future of work on earth and even here, we do believe.

DEVIL: [pacing] Chinese computer geeks?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Who cares about the cold Alaskan Arctic refuge caribou herds, grizzly bears, wolverines, arctic foxes, moose, polar bears, and those winged migratory birds? We support the oil drilling and damn the environment.

DEVIL: [stops pacing] Unofficially, I agree. Officially, we are Environmentalists.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We must recruit artists, artisans and professionals among the Native Indian populations there to paint arctic landscapes to sell in our New Limboland.

DEVIL: [pacing] If we make some monies on that I will support that.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: "Our Devil, we advise us to operate a real Limboland Comedy Club too to keep the citizens laughing all the way instead of worrying about politics and the way we are manipulating the new Limboland Arena system for our benefit alone."

DEVIL: [pacing] "A Limboland Comedy Club??? What is so funny about the New Limboalnd Arena? Nothing! I can see and would love to hear social satire and comedy on the Celestial Kingdom though."

THREE CROWN PRINCES: Of course we could change the word and Western decadent world of Hollywood to reflect the Indian world of Bollywood since there will be soon more Indians on earth than Chinese both hitting about 1.3 billion each now.

DEVIL: [stops pacing] The Indians have no kissing nor sex on film though.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: The Indians love pure escapism and mythology.

DEVIL: [stops pacing] We must work on making films to invade both the Chinese and Indian markets here but how?

THREE CROWN PRINCES: But there is a lot of violence against women in India.

DEVIL: Don’t shoot yourself in the foot or groin, I say.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We think Our Devil can use those Native Americans as propagandistic ‘political props’ after we conquer the Limboland Arenas to show that we are liberal and support the indigenous peoples.

DEVIL: [pacing] Listen, when the Cold War ended in 1991 with the Soviet Union collapsing under Soviet Chairman Gorbo for whatever reason of Communist mismanagement of their economy plus the disastrous masochistic Afghanistani military adventure from 1979 there weren’t no more evil politikal and ideological demons left for the Amerikan neo-liberal capitalist imperialist militaristic plutocratic global hegemonic beastly Pentagon system to defeat using their exceptionalistic civilization as its basic philosophy. They needed and wanted a new enemy. The Vietnam experience, despite its lost and humiliation to the Amerikans, produced the best trained and experienced professional military officer corps in modern history using the diversified methods of killing in the fields and from the aire.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We should do a Film about that? But what?

DEVIL: [stops pacing] That’s for you Three Princes to figure out.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We could use jihadist Islamic Terrorism as the new bogeyman scaring the world below or a greedy neo-revanchist Russia under New Stalinist Putin.

DEVIL: Our immediate work at hand is to pacify the New Limboland under My direction. All else is polemical folly. We have a job to do now.

THREE CROWN PRINCES: We will soon suffer post-industrial collapse, de-industrialization, robotization of the economy, humanitarian crises like in Africa and Royinga Burma and the Yemeni wartime cholera, the Syrian civil war, drones killing civilians, Amerikan politicians quitting over sexual improprieties and…

DEVIL: Democracy and capitalism never could marry. It is a contradiction in terms.

Silence.

THE DEVIL NOW DISGUISED: [quietly] Remember, I have ears and eyes and spies everywhere.

SCENE 80

INTERSTELLAR INTERLUDE

WHERE DID WE HUMANS COME FROM &

ARE WE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE?

QUIETI SECRET INVESTIGATIONS PROJECT

INTO INTRA- & EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

WORLDS

PREFACE ASTRONOMICAL

MUSIQUE TO SOOTHE THE SCIENTIFIC BREASTS ART TO INSPIRE THE SCIENTIFIC CREW

CONSPIRACY THEORISTS: [walking by] Get real! Even the Celestial Kingdom will adapt to the real world below and eventually accept all technological gadgetry from cellphones, smart phones, internet connections, self-driving cars to electronic books and…

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: Hidden within the crest of an extant volcano in the Limboland below the playgrounds of the various Gods there exists a Super-Secret Scientific Obervatory operated by members of the Kingdom and known only to a Select Few. The Professeur and his School Children have special permission to attend some of these sessions with protocol.

ZARATHUSTRA: [aside] We must witness this Unprecedented Meeting of the Astro-Scientists.

JOURNALIST: What is it?

ZARATHUSTRA: I don’t know yet. I have never seen so many Scientists in one area in all the centuries I been to the Celestial Kingdom or Limboland.

YOUNG FRENCH PROFESSEUR: [aside] Remember, School Children, that during the medieval era of Western civilization the study of Philosophy regressed into intolerant Theology; the science of Astronomy sank into Astrology; the science of Chemistry fell into the pit of Alchemy; the proud practice of Medicine lapsed into Magic and even the proud study of History degenerated into the study of superstitious Myth.

SCHOOL CHILDREN: [taking notes] Degrading Philosophy into Theology; Astronomy into Astrology; Chemistry into Alchemy; Medicine into Magic and History into Myth and Propaganda…

YOUNG FRENCH PROFESSEUR: Mankind always has wanted to explore not only the skies and planets and other galaxies through Inter Planetary travel but also wanted to travel within the core of the earth into the deep Infernal system operated by the Devil himself as human literature on earth has shown by whom…?

SCHOOL CHILDREN: "Ah, Jules Verne and Captain Nemo and contemporary movies like the 1956 Around the World in a 80 Days with a balloon and even the 1965 Hollywood comedy called The Geat Race using an automobile circa at 1908…"

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: Outside the Scientific Observatory an old man with a white beard and walking with a cane arrives quietly and sits down behind a rock solemnly humming some undetected mantra.

HUNCHBACK PHILOSOPHER: [chanting to himself] Hmmmm…some here still believe that life has no meaning.

JOURNALIST: Zarathustra, who’s the Old Man chanting?

ZARATHUSTRA: That’s the HUNCHBACK PHILOSOPHER.

JOURNALIST: You talked about him before. I think we saw him before in the Inferno. He’s everywhere.

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, he’s everywhere and nowhere as he states. The esteemed HUNCHBACK PHILOSOPHER transcends definition.

JOURNALIST: I like the HUNCHBACK PHILOSOPHER.

ZARATHUSTRA: Neither Western nor Eastern, Northern nor Southern.

JOURNALIST: The HUNCHBACK PHILOSOPHER is the Philosopher of All Philosophers?

ZARATHUSTRA: The HUNCHBACK PHILOSOPHER is the most mysterious soul in the Kingdom. He oftens offers unsolicited philosophy as most of us immortal souls do.

JOURNALIST: Can I meet him?

ZARATHUSTRA: No, no one really talks to him. Shh! Let’s listen.

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: Outside the Observatory two 19th century European scientists and friends for life on earth are privately and heatedly discussing the proposed meeting.

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: [smoking cigar] Is it God or Science, I ask?

CONSERVATIVE SCIENTIST: [smoking pipe] Why can’t we have both?

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: Because Science and God cannot exist in the same room, world or sentence.

CONSERVATIVE SCIENTIST: You must be flexible and less dogmatic. You are a Scientist. Are you not?

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: Sometimes I do not know. I am a Scientist for Humanity not God.

CONSERVATIVE SCIENTIST: Don’t jump to conclusions. Nobody knows why we were summoned here for this meeting.

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: I think with my brain. I do not believe in anything but the Truths of Science. That is what Science has trained us for.

CONSERVATIVE SCIENTIST: Belief is a personal choice. I can’t disagree with that notion but…

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: I am already suspicious. I hate to be left in the dark like some mushroom.

CONSERVATIVE SCIENTIST: [laughs] That’s a fungal joke; a good one.

MEDIEVAL ASTROLOGER: [mumbling] I believe in Angels. I believe in UFOs too.

MUSIQUE TO SOOTHE THE SCIENTIFIC BREASTS

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: A Belgian Scientific Guide is hosting the American musician and composer Henry Mancini to this secret meeting followed by a secret Mad Scientist.

HENRY MANCINI: [walking] I was told to come incognito to develop a musical theme for something here, My Guide, but I don’t know what yet.

BELGIAN SCIENTIFIC GUIDE: [walking] "Maestro, we liked your Pink Panther theme among many others."

HENRY MANCINI: [worried] "I hope we don’t see The Creature from the Black Lagoon or something like that here."

BELGIAN SCIENTIFIC GUIDE: [walking] "No, this is more like The Three Stooges Going to Mars and Beyond or some monsters like that…"

HENRY MANCINI: [still worried] I am thinking of a soundtrack already; gloomy, mysterious, forboding but…

FRANK SINATRA: [quietly showing his disguise] Boo! Hey, Hank, I came down too alone but don’t tell anybody. I’m disguised as a Mad Scientist from Rumania calling myself Gulliver Frankenstein…Boo again!

HENRY MANCINI: [composed now] Frankie baby, now I feel more comfortable. Tell me later, alligator, what’s cooking and booking here!

BELGIAN SCIENTIFIC GUIDE: [walking] "Maestro Henry, we loved your musique and creativity with your score of It Came From Outer Space, The Land Unknown, Abbott & Costello Go to Mars, City Beneath the Sea, To Hell and Back, The Creature Walks Among Us, The Great Race etc. etc. with the list going on and on…"

FRANK SINATRA: [quietly] "AH, Days of Booze and Belladonna Flowers could be your theme in the Inferno but here I don’t know yet…"

BELGIAN SCIENTIFIC GUIDE: [stops walking] Remember, Maestro, think Interstellar mysterious voyage, outer space and exciting exploration to pump you up…Besides, Frankie, you and Henry have been chosen to lead the following group of musicians and entertainers to chose a theme, not necessarily a musical theme.

ART TO INSPIRE THE SCIENTIFIC CREW

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: The modern Polish scientist Marie Curie is also hosting the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, the 17th century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, the American artist Mary Cassatt and the American artist Georgia O’Keefe to this secret meeting followed by four muscular Japanese Sumo wrestlers serving as bodyguards and carrying art supplies, easels, canvases and paint.

FRIDA KAHLO: Marie, you still have not told us what we are supposed to be doing here.

ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI: I am famished and thirsty now but I would love to paint whatever wherever you are sending us.

MARY CASSATT: I don’t see any children here yet.

GEORGIA O’KEEFE: I see a volcano now with many souls hanging around it meaning possibly that the males, in a psychoanalytical sense, are trying to enter the vagina of the Inferno here.

GUIDE MARIE CURIE: At this point, artistic ladies, I can tell you that the Celestial Leadership has chosen you to use your own professional judgements in creating a series of portraits, paintings or murals concerning this revolutionary event since this is a first time meeting of the QUIETI SECRET INVESTIGATIONS into the INTRA- & EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL WORLDS.

FRIDA KAHLO: A series of portraits and themes designed in a mural showing the triumph and destruction and both the positive and negative aspects of science is a possible concept.

ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI: Outer Space and creatures from other planets here could be fun and surrealistic.

MARY CASSATT: A scientific theme I am thinking but with a gentle use of the future of humanity with children laughing and exploring and learning about the New World outside our Solar System.

GEORGIA O’KEEFE: Scientific themes, I too like, with extra-terrestrial flowers and shrubs and trees etc. with a background of a totally alien environment…

CHAPTERS

80-1

THEOLOGICAL ASSAULT ON SCIENCE

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: Outside the Scientific Observatory four other men are privately and heatedly discussing the proposed meeting.

ZARATHUSTRA: Very very interesting!

JOURNALIST: What, what?? I see three men arguing about something.

ZARATHUSTRA: I know these men. I see an Islamic Theologian, a Christian Theologian and Jewish Theologian are also here as observers from the Kingdom talking to someone else.

JOURNALIST: Why are they here in this nest of Scientists?

ZARATHUSTRA: The ancient Jewish THEOLOGIAN, the medieval Islamic THEOLOGIAN and the Counter-Reformation Christian THEOLOGIAN are here representing their respective religions but with who else?

JOURNALIST: Who’s the other guy talking to the Theologians?

ZARATHUSTRA: I recognize him now. The other guy is the, ah the unknown, I think, Eastern EASTERN PHILOSOPHER offering insights from an Eastern perspective. I don’t know what nation or religion he represents but he appears Eastern.

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: "The ancient Jewish Rabbi is eating a modern Ashkenazi bagel. The Moslem Iman is eating an Egyptian falafel sandwich and drinking tea. The Christian Priest is eating rice and beans while the Eastern Philosopher is eating spicy Indian bread called Dhebara with fried oily vegetables from Gujarati state."

#1EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: So you men of Faith were invited here too?

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: GOD HIMSELF is on trial here.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: These agnostic and atheistic Scientists wrongly worship the Gods of Science.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: There is a War between Science and Religion even in the Kingdom.

#2EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Religious Poppycock!

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: We must defend the Faith.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: I agree.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: I agree.

#3EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: How can you defend the indefensible?

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: We must defend the integrity of Religion.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: We must defend GOD against these Scientists.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: We are God’s soldiers.

#4EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Stop! This is theological nonsense. Gentlemen, I want to stop the War between Science and Religion not encourage it.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: These men are apostles of Science not Religion.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: We have endured centuries of contempt and insults from them.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: These men have lost their spiritual way. We must bring them back to the flock.

#5EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: That’s impossible and imperialistic.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: Who do you represent? Yourself or atheistic philosophy?

#6EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: I represent Myself and Truth.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: Philosophical Hogwash!

#7EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Here, theologians, you are on an equal footing without the help of the Holy Prophets.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: The Holy Prophets and Archangels never helped us theologians in anything in the Kingdom.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: It’s GOD’s Will!

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: Natural law is scientific humbug.

#8EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: There is no censorship in the Kingdom. GOD supports absolute Freedom of Speech and Assembly. You know that.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: We are still here to protect our religious interests.

EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: We were invited to participate as an equal scholar based on mutual respect.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: Then why are you here?

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: To give us trouble?

#9EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: [smiles] No, I was permitted like you three eminent theologians to attend to offer my philosophical insights into this Debate. I am bringing no biases nor prejudices to this Meeting.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: You EASTERN PHILOSOPHERS can be worse than the Scientists.

EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: I know that most people on earth and souls in the Kingdom yet are mistrustful and skeptical of the Scientists.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: I am skeptical of the SCIENTISTS and the EASTERN PHILOSOPHER.

#10EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: But I came to learn and keep an opened mind. The individual human mind and its pursuit of knowledge are the Holiest of all Holiest endeavors.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: We’ll see.

#11EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: "I think the hidden psychological issue for the three of you is not Science versus Religion. It is Modern Technology versus Religion. You men of theology can not handle CHANGE."

Silence.

#12EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: "I repeat, it is Modern Technology versus Religion."

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: Psst!!! Yes, Modernity verses Religion would be a great theme we should use.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: Psst!!! I am also opposed to Modernity in all forms; cultural, religious, moral, etc.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: Yes, change is an important issue for all of us.

#13EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Gentlemen, can I say any more than let you both hang yourself on the tree of censorship and ignorance?

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: We have been directed by the Kingdom to represent the theological world in this scientific desert of Faith.

EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: The Kingdom sent you here, like me, to represent Truth not Theology nor your specific narrow Religious interests or agenda.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: Yes, we must reconcile our Theology with Science.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: But we do not have to believe everything they postulate in their unfounded hypotheses.

#14EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: To me, you Men of Faith are more frustrating than the Men of Science.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: Science is more frustrating than Theology.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: Well, I guess we all want ‘meaningful’ but lasting relationships with the natural world below but…

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: Hey, don’t forget, EASTERN PHILOSOPHER friend, when we return for the ANNUAL LANTERN PARADE you still own my JEWISH THEOLOGIAN 100 silver shekels in our card game at the Café Graeco-Roman won earlier.

#15EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: [pushing them purposely] Don’t remind me. I have been unlucky in both romance and cards all my mortal life.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: That’s a Western cultural comment.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: [laughs] And now immortal life.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: [laughs] We both told you that your Vedic Hindoo and Buddhist philosophy can’t help you in a game of chance.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: Let’s go to the Meeting and discover what is going on.

#16EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Afterlife here too is game of chance.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: I believe this Scientific Method using hypotheses are just intellectual tools to dismantle and subvert our Faiths.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: I agree that this fake Scientific Mumb-jumbo will be used to discredit and marginalize us.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: We all know that this Scientific Intellectual Culture is definitely anti-religion.

#17EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: [sarcastic] You are all jumping to easy conclusions like Scientists on their First Hypotheses they Develop in the Road of No Return.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: [retreats] However, on second thought maybe it is a Retreat for all the Scientists to regain some of their religious sensiblilites...

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: [retreats] Yes, that was lost in their secular lives.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: [retreats] Yes, when they foolishly questioned the genius of God.

#18EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Forget about it. I want to return to our Homeland, cook Indian food and cultivate my garden. However…

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: I wanted to be a ship Captain and sail the Seven Seas when I was younger instead of being a theologian.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: I wanted to be an aeronautical engineer when I was younger too.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: I do love Science though but love God and Theology better.

#19EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Do you men of faith have any feelings on what is happening in the world below now?

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: It appears that the drug cartels and crime syndicates are getting more power in the 21st century.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: The governments should hire secret assassins to kill those gangsters.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: [laughs] I wonder if planets in outer space have diamonds the size of horses!

#20EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Some say the USA FBI and CIA and British MI5 and MI6 and French DGSE and Canadian CSIS and Germany’s BND and Israel’s Mossad etc. etc. really control the political and financial aspects of the world below.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: I am concerned about the world economy particularly since the Great Recession of 2008 which still is throwing the world below into economic chaos.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: Political lobbyists pushing their own selfish agendas still control the political systems in the West.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: [laughs] The modern psycho-pushers think if you go to therapy all would be well adjusted.

#21EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: We can’t return to the days when the Aztecs and Incas and Mayans and other authoritarian or totalitarian societies controlled the behavior of their peoples.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: I could never understand those human sacrifices of the Aztecs.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: I hear there are a lot of eminent but eccentric inventors here.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: If this Quieti Project sends space ships to other planets and worlds beyond I wonder what kinds of creatures they will encounter…

#22EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: How shall the Quieti Project scientists handle encounters when they meet Outer Space Inhabitants? Should they use military force or diplomacy?

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: They need to be militarily powerful and offensive in case anything happens to jeopardize the earthlings.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: They discovered monsters in the lower depths of the Devil’s Inferno so they will probably see monsters in Outer Space.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: We’re pushing the scientific envelope too far here moving into the dangerous unknown.

#23EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Maybe these alien forces be more powerful than us?

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: Allah will solve all these problems.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: God will solve all these problems.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: Well, I don’t know if that will be entirely true.

#24EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: So God will not permit the alien forces to dominate and defeat the earthling scientists who travel to these unknown worlds?

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: I overheard a few scientists saying last week that they want to penetrate the Inferno through this mysterious Bermuda Triangle.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: Hah! Is the Loch Ness Monster real too, they want to know?

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: I also overheard they are hiring mercenaries, gunslingers and professional assassins for this trip.

#25EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: How are we going to figure out the genetics of the new Outer Space people we encounter?

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: I hear they’re using secret genetic DNA research code to determine that.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: We must be more than vigilant because I think these new Outer Space people will try to enslave us all.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: They will try to murder, rape, enslave and posion us…

#26EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: [bewildered] Why do you think the Outer Space people will try to enslave us?

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: I overheard that the Astro-Scientists are going to use artists and plastic surgeons to make our earthlings look like aliens so they can infiltrate their worlds.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: I overheard that a group of selected business tycoons, Wall Street speculators and Swiss bankers have been chosen secretly to be on this first trip to Outer Space to try to determine if they can make any monies and sell these alien souvenirs etc. etc.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: [laughs] These psychopathic assassins can turn on the aliens.

#27EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Nuclear bombs can destroy the world as it is now.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: Is your Christian Armageddon coming soon?

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: You mean the apocalypse?

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: Let’s be practical. We must control nuclear energy and the number of nations below who possess it through the United Nations.

#28EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: However, to be more practical, when I return to the earth below as an Angel I want to start a home there to serve the desperately poor, the homeless and even the prison immates and war veterans who returned sick and disabled and unemployed due to wartime sicknesses and illnesses.

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: [comes over] Excuse me, but we are supposed to be talking about Science here and not Religion or Theology.

ISLAMIC THEOLOGIAN: We are here to represent our religions.

CHRISTIAN THEOLOGIAN: We are here to act as judicial evidence gatherers and prosecutors as far as I am concerned.

JEWISH THEOLOGIAN: What is artificial intelligence anyways?

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: Cool down a bit! You guys are too scared and scary to listen to.

HUNCHBACK PHILOSOPHER: [walks by] I quote Mark 10: 14 and 16 in the Christian New Testament: ‘Let the children come to me. Don’t stop them! For the Kingdom of God belongs to those who are like these children.’

80-2

ASTRO-SCIENTISTS’ ESOTERIC MISSION EXPLORING INTRA- & EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL WORLDS BEING ORGANIZED

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: At the Scientific Observatory its group of Astro-physicists, Astro-biologists, Astro-geologists, Astro-seismologists, Geophysicists, Astro-botanists, Astronomers, Mathematicans, Cryptozoologists, Evolutionary Biologists, Biochemists, Oceanographers and Statisticians and their military bodyguards from the Kingdom are present.

ANCIENT INDIAN ASTRONOMER: Why are we here?

MEDIEVAL PERSIAN INVENTOR: I don’t know but I want to be a player.

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: Most importantly aside there is one Swedish scientist, DOKTOR KNUT EMIL LUNDMARK, who no one knows yet except God’s Inner Circle that he is the real administrator of the Outer Space Exploration Project and UFO Phenomena Project. He is discussing the Project with God’s AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO.

DOKTOR KNUT EMIL LUNDMARK: [quietly] No one here yet knows that I am the real leader of this expedition to the Outer Space. I pledge full support and have not yet told anyone from the Amerikan NSA, CIA, FBI or the Russian KGB or the British M15 or French or Chinese or even the German Intelligence organizations all here yet trying to infiltrate our scientific group to discover what we are really doing. You would think that their members when they died would not continue working for their spy organziations but they are still here yet.

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: [reviewing his vita] Hmm, you are certainly well qualified, Doktor Lundmark, but you must keep this Top Secret until the time comes when you choose only the ‘best of the best’ to travel within and outside the Milky Way Galaxy etc. Remember that you must choose the ‘best of the best’ for this project.

DOKTOR KNUT EMIL LUNDMARK: [quietly] I lived as a Swedish astronomer from 1889 to 1958 and worked, as you know, in the USA at the special observatories for awhile.

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: [quietly] GOD himself has permitted only you, me and a few administrators like the HOLIEST WARRIOR and the GRAND PONTIFEX MAXIMUS in on the real purposes of this most sensitive operation taken in human or celestial history.

DOKTOR KNUT EMIL LUNDMARK: [quietly] My lips are sealed.

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: [quietly] "We want you now, Doktor Lundmark, to evaluate secretly these brilliant scientific souls here to determine who we will hire to construct, man and handle all aspects of the Outer Space Exploration Project and UFO Phenomena Project from the beginning to the end when we ultimately will put many of them on the Space Ship visiting both the Galaxy and other territories beyond it."

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: "The Assistants of the Scientists include a hodepodge of accountants, auditors, safety engineers, personnel managers, chefs, medical staff, maintenance, electricans, plumbers, carpenters, laboratory workers, transportation specialists and various personal advisors from the spiritual to the metaphysical with their secret alchemists and even tarot card readers.

Hundreds of mobile black boards are set up around the volcano opening with boxes of white chalk mostly being used by physicists and mathematicans who are already arguing their equations and formulas while hundreds of scientists and non-scientists walk by in awe as to the diversity of occupations and specialties and languages and cultures and ages and periods present.

JOURNALIST: [aside] Incredibly, there is an Army of personnel just to support the Scientists.

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, Adam, it normally takes 10 to 15 support staff in any Military Operation to support one fighting soldier in the field be it ancient, medieval or modern.

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: All of the Scientists overheard the discussion of the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas during their first Exploratory Astro-World meeting in this Inferno Limboland.

JOURNALIST: [aside] Zarathustra, I hear many languages spoken here.

ZARATHUSTRA: I see and hear Scientists of all nations speaking ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Sanskrit, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Persian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Greek Koine, Latin, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Dutch, Polish and English among others.

JOURNALIST: What are they doing?

ZARATHUSTRA: We’ll see in a minute.

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: The Astro-physicists are looking into their thirteen telescopes inward through the inside earth and outward to the skies and transmitting the information they see to the other scientists for review and analysis. Their assistants brought all kinds of scientific and astronomical instruments, telescopes, microscopes, convex lenses and even horoscopes.

ZARATHUSTRA: Adam, occasionally the astro physicists permit the non-physicists to look into the telescopes. The ancient and medieval scientists are astonished when they see the modern astronomical equipment and tools.

JOURNALIST: I see the clothes they are wearing too and the…

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: Most of the Scientists and their assistants working on the Project are wearing white coats, some starched and some not, some grey from being unwashed and spoiled from experiments, with pencils and pens hooked in their jacket pockets, with various types of calculators and different sizes and shapes of paper used for taking notes and making calculations.

ZARATHUSTRA: [aside] I see an Astro-geologist and a volcanologist are reviewing the rocks and minerals on the edge of the volcano.

ASTRO-GEOLOGIST: I wonder if the volcanological aspects of this intra-terrestrial volcano in the Inferno is similar to the Interstellar volcanoes?

VOLCANOLOGIST: I suspect it depends on a number of factors but I overheard a conversation with an Indian cosmologist who overheard a conversation with two Archangels who said the volcanoes on Mars were similar giant shield volcanoes like in Hawaii.

ASTRO-GEOLOGIST: Hawaii! The Archangels never share their astronomical or cosmological information with us scientists.

VOLCANOLOGIST: We are required to discover these mysteries by ourselves.

JOURNALIST: [aside] Why 13 telescopes?

ZARATHUSTRA: The number 13 has a special significance in the Maya cosmological world view.

JOURNALIST: The Maya cosmological world view? Why them?

ZARATHUSTRA: I think many of the world’s Scientists do not want to admit that the classic Maya cosmological system hides and explains some Physical but not Spiritual Truths of the Universe.

JOURNALIST: The number 13 is an unlucky number.

ZARATHUSTRA: The classic Maya calendar uses 13-day periods in their calendar times the 20 days totalling a 260-day cycle. I think there are 13 lunar months in one solar year.

JOURNALIST: Why do they use a 13-day period?

ZARATHUSTRA: I don’t know.

JOURNALIST: I have read that Aztec mythology has 13 Heavens and 13 Gods but I don’t know the Maya theology or mythology world.

ZARATHUSTRA: It would be better to have 13 months of 28 days each totally 364 with that extra day for Leap Year every four years but the Gregorian Calendar changed that.

JOURNALIST: But what does THIS all mean?

ZARATHUSTRA: Some researchers of the Maya civilization think that their classic calendar holds Man’s true mythological record and method of prophecy.

JOURNALIST: Is there any evidence that any of their predictions were true?

ZARATHUSTRA: I want to find out too.

JOURNALIST: Who is that man at the head of the scientists?

ZARATHUSTRA: Here’s the DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH appointed by GOD, I guess. A 19th century Croatian Scientist by birth from Zagreb who worked in Moscow for the Tsar. The Aide-de-Camp Antonio is next to him.

JOURNALIST: Let’s listen and find out.

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: These are the most powerful telescopes in existence today. I am very proud.

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: [quietly] We only give you the best and most modern, Director.

GREEK METRODORUS: Atoms, Atoms, I tell you! The key is ATOMS! I wish we had these telescopes in my day. We could have solved the problems of space and life in other plantetary worlds then.

JOURNALIST: [aside] ZARATHUSTRA, who’s that discheveled ancient looking man with the white cape?

ZARATHUSTRA: "Adam, that is Metrodorus of Chios, the brilliant 4th century BC Greek scientist and Epicurean philosopher and most importantly a follower of Democritus. But there are so many more here. Listen."

MILITARY BODYGUARDS: [privately] HOLIEST WARRIOR, we have company. They have arrived.

HOLIEST WARRIOR: [whispers & moves into the background] Thank you.

JOURNALIST: Oh, ZARATHUSTRA, there he is; the HOLIEST WARRIOR.

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, this is going to be very exciting.

JOURNALIST: "We overheard the HOLIEST WARRIOR and GOD call these Scientists the Cosmic Wizards of Science."

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, he believes that they create Cosmic Magic if this Scientific Mission succeeds.

JOURNALIST: I still don’t know what this Mission is about.

ZARATHUSTRA: Neither do I. Let’s see.

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: I will introduce them very soon.

AIDE-DE-CAMP ANTONIO: [quietly] I think you should start the proceedings now.

NARRATORS SARA & VEZY: Dozens of souls arrive talking science, philosophy, astronomy, cosmology and theology.

#1DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: [announces] Attention, attention, please. Lovers of Science and Scientific Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to all you esteemed Scientists and guests and support staff. I first would like to introduce myself before I introduce the eminent Scientists who has just arrived to be used as resources for this very Special Project.

SOME SCIENTISTS: What is this Special Project?

DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: I will explain the Mission soon after the introductions.

ALL SCIENTISTS: Fair enough.

#2DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: "I have been appointed as the DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH for this Special Project through the Private Office of God. Although a practicing 19th century Scientist from Croatia on earth I admit I am ignorant in many of the disciplines within the various studies of Science be they astronomy, physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, geology, paleontology, zoology, botany, geography, oceanography, archeology, engineering, etc. etc. etc."

SOME SCIENTISTS: There are so many subcategories within the academic disciplines today it is impossible to be a competent generalist.

#3DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: Yes, most of us are forced to be a specialist and that is why we have invited so many Scientists from so many diverse fields of Research including the cross-disciplines. We want and demand new perspectives from the various scientific specialists.

SOME SCIENTISTS: Very true.

#4DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: I was also directed to invite non-earth and non-physical Scientists and non-Scientists from various fields to assist us in fulfilling our Goals and Objectives for this Special Project.

EASTERN PHILOSOPHER: Could be an intellectual or cultural clash between hard scientists, theologians, social scientists and non-scientists etc.?

#5DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: My Philosophy of Administration is based on Education.

SOME SCIENTISTS: Education?

#6DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: To me Education is Doing not just listening or observing only. We want all Scientists and non-Scientists involved in this Special Project to be active participants asking questions and debating and analyzing and re-analyzing any and all issues we must address concerning our Mission.

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: We agree.

#7DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: We must admit our ignorance and be open to be challenged here by other Scientists from different cultures and civilizations and time periods who have an entirely different perspective on life and research without feeling criticized personally.

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: Thank you for your encouraging and kind non-judgmental words.

#8DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: "And our Standard Research Motto must be a Commitment to Excellence in everything we do."

SOME SCIENTISTS: That was a very good presentation of your general ideas of Administration.

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: [curious] Who are these honored guests, as you called them?

#9DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: "Before I introduce the esteemed Scientific Guests I would like to introduce my personal staff here, my Administrative Staff of talented souls who will assist me in navigating the intellectual, scientific, philosophical and theological landminds, pitfalls, the booby traps, the puzzles we will encounter during the next few weeks when we fulfill our Goals for this Special Project. They were recruited as our Official Intellectual Troubleshooters using their life and professional experiences responsible for giving our Mission unique and valuable perspectives be they philosophical, theological or technological, etc."

SOME SCIENTISTS: You mean Intellectual Mercenaries.

#10DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: I think you will find their comments and perspectives to be both challenging and insightful.

MAVERICK SCIENTIST: Be that as it may be interpreted when we observe their behavior and anaylze their comments.

SOME SCIENTISTS: Who do they represent?

#11DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: They were chosen by the Private Office of GOD Himself who determined that we needed different perspectives other than the standard Scientific Perspective to pursue the Goals and Objectives of this Mission.

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INTRODUCTIONS OF VISITING SCIENTISTS ETC.

#12DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: Scientific Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to NOW introduce you to the honorable Scientists, Philosophers and Explorers who have been granted permission to visit our Scientific Observatory for a Guided Tour.

ASTRO-SCIENTISTS: Who are they?

#13DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: Firstly, I would like to introduce the most prominent members here of our scientific community in the Kingdom invited to come to monitor and witness this Special Project. They are here not as Researchers but as Resources if you so desire to request their assistance at any time in the near future.

SOME SCIENTISTS: [very anxious] Who are they? Who are they?

#14DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: "I will try to introduce them by chronology but some of them are huddling and discussing things nearby with other scientists throughout the Ages. We have as our special observers Pythagoras of Samos, the ancient 6th century BC Greek philosopher and mathematican who believed in the heliocentric universe and developed the famous geometry theorum, and Metrodorus of Chios, the 4th century BC pre-Socratic Greek scientist. Both are talking to the female Hypatia, the 4th century Greek astronomer and mathematician from Alexandria."

JOURNALIST: [aside] Pythagoras and Metrodorus are supreme in ancient Science and the female Hypatia was one of the first prominent female scientist in antiquity.

ZARATHUSTRA: There are more famous scientists to be introduced.

JOURNALIST: [writing] "We have Pythagoras of Samos and Metrodorus of Chios and the female Hypatia."

#15DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH: "We have the famous 4th century BC Greek mathematican Euclid from Alexandria; the famous inventor Archimedes of Syracuse who calculated the value of Pi (π) in mathematics; the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, who was the first to postulate the heliocentric theory of the Universe and the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes who developed latitude and longitude and determined the circumference of the earth at 24,662 miles which was only 239 miles difference than the actual and made a map of the world. All three Hellenistic Greeks of the 3rd century BC are talking to the 12th century Indian astronomer and mathematican Bhaskaracharya who also calculated the circumference of the Earth and wrote a textbook on mathematics called the Lilavati…"

JOURNALIST: [astonished] Look, there’s the four Greek scientists Euclid, Aristarchus, Archimedes and Eratosthenes and the Indian scientist Bhaskaracharya!

ZARATHUSTRA: Yes, and in the Kingdom you’ll see them often.

JOURNALIST: [writing] "We have Euclid, Archimedes