Iakov levi
Jan.21, 2008
This city of
with other countries round about her. (Ezekiel 5:5)
According to the bible,
According to a Jewish
legend:
The construction of the earth was begun at the centre,
with the foundation stone of the
On the same stone - the very same primal, original matter/mater -
the sacrifice of Isaac was attempted. It also constituted the very altar of the
In the Bible, towns are specifically called "Daughters" (Banot)
:
Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth - shean and its towns (in Hebrew "Bnoteah" = "her daughters"), and Ibleam and its towns (Bnoteah), and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns (Bnoteah), and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns (Bnoteah), and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns (Bnoteah), and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns (Bnoteah), even the three heights. ( Joshua 17:11)
And "mother", "daughters" and
"sisters". So the prophet addresses Jerusalem:
Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use [this] proverb against you, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. You are the daughter of your mother, who loathes her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, Sodom your sister has not done, she nor her daughters, as you have done, you and your daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. (Ezekiel 16:46-9)
And Jerusalem is beautiful as a beloved woman: "You are beautiful, my love, as Tirzah, Lovely as
Jerusalem. Awesome as an army with banners." (Canticle
6:5)
On "house" as a libidinal object, Shakespeare enlightened us as well:
Falstaff: "Of what quality was your love, then?"
Ford: "Like a fair house built upon another man's ground; so that I
have lost my edifice by mistaking the place where I erected it" (Merry Wives of Winsdor, Act II - Scene II)
The associative link is obvious: love is equivalent to a fair
house.
According to tradition, the founding stone was called Shetyiah,
which in Hebrew also means 'drinking', because beneath it is hidden the source of
all the springs and fountains from which the world drinks its water[6].
Again, the water - maternal symbol and primal source of all life - is mentioned
in association with the foundation stone.
Moreover, the sages of
The Almighty created the world in the same manner as a
child is formed in its mother's womb. Just as a child begins to grow from its
navel and then develops into its full form, so the world began from its central
point and then developed in all directions. The navel of the world is
The three monotheistic religions show this centre of the world (axis mundi, as Mircea Eliade calls it) in different sites within the walls of the Old City (Old City = Old Lady). The Jews see it as the foundation stone. The Christians recognize it in the Omphalos, located in the church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Omphalos (navel of the world) is a stone. The Arabs site it in the Damascus Gate, which they call Baab El 'Amud, which means: Gate of the Column (again an axis mundi). The reason here is that, in Byzantine times at this gate, there was a column from which all the distances in the Empire were measured[8] .
Axis mundi -An Axis is for sure a penis symbol. A column is the same.
Henceforth, stone - navel - uterus - umbilicus and penis. All in the same
condensation. The symbol is interpreted according to the level of psychosexual
organization, from genital back to intra uterine.
AS
I have shown in On Trees and on Birds , a penis symbol may be interpreted as male or female, Mother or
Father, according to the context.
Three - cloverleaf - Medusa
Since
HEINRICH
BÜNTING
Detail:
German, 1545-1606
From: Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae ...
Woodcut, 25.8 x
Osher Collection
I quote from Jerusalem: The Center of the World
This curious map appeared in a late sixteenth-century rendition of the
Bible in the form of an illustrated travel book. It reflects outmoded medieval
theologic-geographic concepts, placing
The format of the map is an imaginative adaptation of the cloverleaf
design taken from the coat of arms of
The Tripartite
Medusa
Freud has shown that the number 3 is the symbol of the
penis, and that tripartite symbols symbolize the genital:
I should like, however, to devote a few words to one symbol, which , as it were, falls outside this class -- the number 3. Whether this number owes its sacred character to this symbolic connection remains undecided. But what seems certain is that a number of tripartite things that occur in nature- the clover leaf, for instance - owe their use for coats of arms and emblems to this symbolic meaning. Similarly, the tripartite lily - the so called fleur de lis and the remarkable heraldic device of two islands so far apart as Sicily and the Isle of Man - the triskeles (three bent legs radiating from a center) - seem to be the stylized versions of the male genitals[9] .
However, since Freud himself has shown that the little
child is convinced that females possess a penis like his own[10],
when the triskeles , the clover leaf or the tripartite symbol are
associated with a feminine image, it means that the intention is to symbolize a
female penis.
Medusa, a female with snakes as hair - the snake is a confirmation
and repetition of the number 3, i.e. a female penis - is an instance. (Cf., Three Women:
the Penis and Medusa, the Female Genital and the
Nazis ).
In our unconscious - as in
children mind - the world around is invested by a process of eroticization and
personification. As Freud and Abraham have shown, trees and stones, cities and
landscapes are bodies, bodies' part and sexual organs. We speak of Jerusalem
Jerusalem Jerusalem
The Neturei Karta in Meah Shearim
If I forget you,
By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him. I will get up now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn't find him. The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?" I had scarcely passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, Into the chamber of her who conceived me. I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That you not stir up, nor awaken love, Until it so desires. (Canticle 3:1-5)
In Jerusalem ,
not far from the walls of the Old
City
Well, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is stickiness to an idea,
ideology or religion. Speaking of ideologies and religion, if one stands on a
peg of a ladder, whoever stands on a higher peg is considered a fanatic and
whoever stands on a lower peg is considered an apostate. What interests us is
the substance of this sect. And substance, to me, means psycho sexual level.
In the 19th century, those people set themselves in Jerusalem, and established
their settlement as close as possible to the Mount of the Temple and the centre
of the emotional life of the nation. At that time the Ottoman rulers of the
Land eyed suspiciously at every attempt of Jewish settlement, particularly in
the Land's Holy Sites and Jerusalem, which are considered sacred by the Muslims
too.
So they settled for a new block, built outside the walls of the Old City. They
wanted to be as close as possible to the centre. They stick there, and they
consider an apostasy to settle anywhere else. The physical closeness to the
most Holy Site is of pivotal importance to them. It is a question of
intimacy. Like a little Oedipal child, who is eager to stay attached to his
mother gown, and never to be torn from her intimacy.
At difference from other groups of Jews, who began to settle the Land in the
same century, they declared themselves as anti - Zionists. Namely they
rejected fiercely the idea of political life and nationhood for the Jews in
Palestine. The very idea of Jewish independence is to them an idiom for Evil.
In The Exile and its Consequences for Jewish Monotheism
I sustained that Zionism represented the collective resurgence of Oedipal
lust for the Mother - in its displacement into the Promised Land - and the
concomitant rebellion against the Father's rule (religion), which was unconsciously
interpreted as inhibiting the return of the Sons to the Mother's body and
intimacy.
Therefore, Zionism was born as a political and non - religious movement. In
some cases it was interpreted even as anti - religious. Jewish religion
and tradition were interpreted as an inhibition of heterosexual lust, and
therefore were rejected by the first pioneers - settlers. Later, moderate
religious Jews embraced the cause of Zionism too, and became National
Religious. That was some sort of compromise and synthesis between the love
for the Mother and the acceptance of the Father's rule. The aggressive content
toward the Father - peculiar to the Oedipal position - was successfully
repressed.
To day most religious Jews are Zionist, and do not see any contradiction in
their position. On the contrary, they consider it to be the perfect synthesis
for possessing both maternal love and the father's approval. After all, the
Torah - another maternal symbol - was given by God to Israel as an act of Love.
The same is true for the Promised Land, which was given by God as a sign of his
benevolence
Now, we have a sect, which displays no less heterosexual lust for the Mother's
body than the Zionists. However, they declare to be anti - Zionists.
Furthermore, the Neturei Karta call the Zionists apostates, criminals,
and even Nazis. They call names even those Jews who are Zionists and
religious. In their eye, if they are Zionists they cannot possibly be good
Jews.
Why criminals and Nazis ? Criminals because they dare to rebel to the Father's
yoke, and Nazis because the Holocaust was inflicted upon the Jews because of
that rebellion. To them, the Holocaust is a punishment by God for apostasy.
Henceforth, the true Nazis are the Zionists.
In Jews Hugging and Kissing Ahmadinejad I
have shown how and why it occurred that in their eagerness to display their
faithfulness and total submission to the rule of the Father - as they interpret
them -, those Jews do not hesitate to wish for the destruction of the State of
Israel and to allay with its worst enemies. The hint is that they see in a
second Holocaust the just punishment for the Zionists'rebellious and aggressive
drives. Aggressive drives toward the Father because of Oedipal lust toward the
Land.
As we have seen, the Oedipal lust for the female genital, Jerusalem and her
holy places, is felt by the Neturei Karta in even a more intensive and
uncompromising hysterical way than by the Zionists. The Neturei Karta ,
who live in Meah Shearim don't even contemplate the possibility of phisically
detaching themselves from the Holy Place for a small moment.
One content explains the other. The uncompromising lust explains the
uncompromising submission to the rites of the Father. The intensity of the
excitement explains the anxiety for the Father's wrath. The more a little
Oedipal child feels excited by the proximity of his mother's intimacy, the more
he dreads his father's anger. The anxiety and the terror are truthfully
expressed in Genesis' verse:
They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden. Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" The man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself." (Gen. 3:8-10)