"Amen I'm telling you that there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power." (Mk, 9:1)
"Amen I'm telling you that there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." (Mt, 16:28)
Matthew edits a Markan passage in which Jesus predicts an imminent political and spiritual liberation.
This makes me even more appreciative of Poul Anderson's reproduction of such expectations and aspirations in a work of fiction. Tatiana Thane asks Chunderban Desai:
"'Still, Commissioner, what if bein's five or ten million years ahead of us should decide Terran Empire is in need of reconstruction?'"
-Poul Anderson, The Day Of Their Return IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, February 2010), pp. 74-238 AT 7, p. 131.
Gabriel Stewart announces to Tatiana that the Builders will make her son more than human while his eyes shine with belief. One of the Aenean Riverfolk asks whether the dead will rise when the Old Shen return...
On Aeneas, as in Palestine, people and generations live on after these prophecies have not been fulfilled.
An Elder Race does make contact in Anderson's The Avatar.
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That's a religion in a think disguise...
That should be "thin" disguise...
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
And of course, cosmenosism was cooked up by Aycharaych as a tool for making more trouble for the Empire. Inspired by the example of Islam he was trying to trigger a jiihad that would leave the Empire "convulsed and shattered."
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
I think that Aeneans like Tatiana Thane had already formulated Cosmenosis but Aycharaych exploited it as he would have exploited any other world-view.
Paul.
Kaor,, Paul!
I would need to reread THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN, but I remain skeptical of that. I think it's more likely Aycharaych took a few wispy notions floating around Aeneas and expanded them to become the fraud Cosmenosism was. Including inserting contradictory ideas into it, to breed disputes, schisms, heresies, etc.
Ad astra! Sean
Jaan's "revelation" from Caruith was much more detailed and specific than Cosmenosis.
Kaor, Paul!
Except it was a fraud, a lie, a "branded" part of Jaan's mind hissing at him.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Yes but it was something more and other than Cosmenosis.
Paul.
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