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And
THIS
mental welding
of the Jews
was neither planned nor foreseen nor done
by either priests of statesmen ...
Not only
a NEW KIND OF COMMUNITY but
a NEW KIND OF MAN comes into history
with the development of the Jews!
In the days of Solomon
the Hebrew looked like becoming a little people
just like any other little people of that time
clustering around court and temple,
ruled by the wisdom of the priest
and led by the ambition
of the king?
But already,
our myDi-reader may learn from the Bible,
THIS NEW SORT OF MAN
of which we speak,
the Prophet,
was in evidence ...
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As troubles thicken
round the divided hebrews
the importance of these Prophets
increases ........
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WHAT WERE THESE PROPHETS?
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THEY were men of the most diverse origins.
The Prophet Ezekiel
was of the priestly caste
and the Prophet Amos
wore the goatskin mantle of a shepherd,
but all had THIS in common,
that they gave allegiance to no one but to the G*D of Righteousness
and that they spoke directly to the people!
THEY came
without licence or consecration ...
"Now the Word of the lord came unto me":
THAT was the formula.
THEY were intensely political.
They exhorted the people against Egypt, "that broken reed,"
or against Assyria or Babylon;
they denounced the indolence or the priestly order
or the flagrant sins of the King!
SOME of them
turned their attention to what we would call now
'social reform.'
The rich were "grinding the faces of the poor,"
the luxurious were consuming the children's bread;
wealthy people made friends with and imitated the splendours and vices of foreigners;
and THIS was hateful to YHWH {Jahweh}, the G*D of Avraham,
who would certainly punish this land!
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THESE fulminations were written down and preserved and studied!
THEY went wherever the Jews went,
and wherever they went
they spread a NEW
religious
spirit ...





THEY
carried
the common man
past priest and temple,
past court and king
and brought him face to face
with the rule of Righteousness ...
THAT is
their supreme importance in the history
of mankind!
In the great utterances of Isaiah
the prophetic voice
rises to a pitch of splendid anticipation
and forshadows
the whole earth united and at peace
under ONE G*D ...
Therein
the Jewish prophecies
culminate ...
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ALL
the Prophets
did not speak in this fashion,
and the intelligent myDi-reader of the prophetic books
will find much HATE in them,
much PREJUDICE,
and much that will remind him of that evil stuff,
the propaganda literature and advertisement business
of the present myDi-time.
NEVERTHELESS
it is the Hebrew Prophets
of the period
round and about the Babylonian captivity
who mark the appearance of a NEW POWER in the world,
the power of INDIVIDUAL MORAL APPEAL,
of an appeal to the FREE CONSCIENCE of mankind
against the fetish sacrifices
and slavish loyalties
that had hitherto
bridled and harnessed
our race ...

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