Friday, July 10, 2020

beelzebub's opposition to jewish animal sacrifices

at first I thought abdil must be a temple jew in old jerusalem, what, with the slaughter at the time to humanity's idols and gods and the differentiation of cows and sheep and doves as clean or otherwise and the priestly tribe - the levites - making a living off of the offerings just as Jerusalem's temple priests did. even the festival of zadik where abdil manifested his conversion to 'beelzebub's' creed - zadik is a hebrew word for righteous or saint. except it is not old Jerusalem but east, and Beelzebub even enjoins abdil to think not like a khorassianian ass - khorassianian being some Persian.  it might be a jew in the diaspora, especially as the scene takes place in the direction of babylon.  in time it might even be pre-moses, except that all that is described is consistent with the old testament, rife with sacrifice, especially with regard to the above-mentioned clean and unclean and the permissible sacrifice of cattle, sheep, and doves.  as a contemporary being I find the extent of sacrfice in the old testament shocking and wonder if life could be so different way back when.  (jews no longer sacrifice but muslim sacrifice continues... to that same hungry god of abraham.)  beelzebub's declarations on the subject are are diametrically opposed to the old testament: "I am quite sure that if any one of them should become aware that in destroying another’s existence he is not only committing an evil deed against the true GOD and every real Saint, but is even causing them, in their essences, sorrow and grief that there should exist in the great Universe ”in-the-likeness-of-God” beings-monsters who can manifest towards other creations of our COMMON CREATOR so consciencelessly and pitilessly; I repeat, if any of them should become aware of this, then certainly not one among them could with all his heart ever again destroy the existence of beings of other forms for Sacrificial-Offerings." isn't Beelzebub here saying that what's gone wrong - something monstrous leading towards conscienceless and pitiless manifestations - was introduced into the old testament itself. this puts into relief the protagonist Beelzebub himself, pro god, anti-god?

perhaps this was the illogicality which would incite his affecting to reasons of others, practically inciting a revolution, constituting the sins of his youth, poking his nose in others' business, getting him exiled in the first place.