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September 9, 2001 As the sand blows over the plains of Ashur, the ancient city of Mesopotamia, the religious capital of the first civilization, lies quiet. Ashur fell in 614 BC, bringing to an end the final chapter of a nation that had discovered God and invented writing, numbers and science. The Ashurai were the first people to create art and literature. Beginning with the earliest forms of picture writing, they sculpted the first depiction of the concept of the triune Ashur, the very concept that the Western civilization would claim to be theirs. However, as the Western nations, relying on Hebrew, Greek and Roman traditions, did not understand the symbols that the Trinity was based on, they failed to understand what the Trinity represented in its ancient symbolism. Of course, the religious writings of the Ashurai could have contributed to an understanding of the Trinity, but the Western scholars cannot understand them. The major difficulty is the pronunciation of the Ashurai language. The Western educational system has never used Ashurai scholars to help them decipher the pictographic or the cuneiform writing invented in Mesopotamia. Western historians have recorded the history of the Ashurai people in error. Also, since the Scriptures were recorded from the very beginning in the Ashurai language, Western theologians failed in their interpretation of the Scriptures. Western Christianity adopted the Greek translation of the Bible from the beginning in an effort to supposedly better understand the word of God, as their languages were based on Greek; however, the end result was the reverse. Today there are thousands of translations based on the Greek and Latin Scriptures that are full of contradictions and outright errors. Furthermore, hundreds of denominations have hatched their own translations and formed different churches. Western Christianity is fractured in thousands of pieces. The chaos is so great that atheists, who believe that the universe was created by the "big bang," think themselves superior philosophically and have taken over the educational system in the West. They have also made the "separation of church and state" into a legal concept to which everyone in the US is forced to adhere. The reading of Scriptures is outlawed in public schools, not only as religion, but also as literature. Therefore, the knowledge of Scriptures has been denigrated and the religious establishment is floundering in ignorance regarding the origins of Christianity. Ironically the first written documents of Mesopotamia recorded the creation of the universe. This ancient theology is the basis of all Scriptures. The language of Scriptures is even designated by modern scholars of Judaism as Ashurit. It began as picture writing or pictographic language. It became stylized and was called cuneiform, and later it evolved into alphabetic writing. It's interesting that the pictograph representing Ashur shows God in His Triune Essence. |
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Archeologists estimate that there were about eighty million Ashurai people at 800 BC living in Mesopotamia. Today the Ashurai nation is hanging by a thread. There are less than a million still speaking the old language. Mesopotamia in the Ashurai language is called Bet Nahrein, or the Land between the Two Rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. It was known from the time of the Greeks until the early part of the 20th Century as Mesopotamia, the Greek translation of the name "Bet Nahrein." Under the Ottomans, the Ashurai had autonomy in the mountainous regions of north Mesopotamia. World War I disrupted their lives and they lost all their lands and their autonomy. The Ashurai were allied with the British, US, France and Russia during WW I. They fought again as Allies in WW II, but they were never recognized officially by the US or Britain. In 1932, the British terminated their protectorate in Mesopotamia and the country was renamed "Iraq." The Ashurai Levies who had secured the borders of Mesopotamia from the outside and the inside, while fighting the Axis Powers as the Smallest Ally, were promised by the British and the Allies a resettlement in their own homeland. The Allies reneged on their promises and the British exiled Mar Eshai Shimmun XXIII, the Patriarch of the Ashurai people to Cypress. He was assassinated in San Jose in 1975. The Ashurai people now seek peace wherever they live. The 20th Century has been devastating to their culture. The educational systems in the West have failed to record or present the true history of the Ashurai people in a true light. They have ascribed the Ashurai history and civilization to others in the Middle East and claimed the Ashurai contribution to Christianity as their own. During the Apostolic Age, the Ashurai adopted Christianity as a whole when their king Abgar was cured of leprosy by two disciples of Jesus. Their churches celebrate this event to this day. Though decimated by persecution in their homelands, reduced in number to the point of extinction, the Ashurai people's language in its ancient form is still the key to the Scriptures. This is the same language in which the Epics of Creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood, were written. This is the language Abraham spoke; it is the original root of the Hebrew language. Today, modern Aramaic and modern Hebrew are not the same language, as they have evolved for two thousand years. Also the Arabic and Greek languages have changed, as have all languages. However, only the Ancient Aramaic is the scribal language of Scriptures. As we begin the 21st Century, I don't believe there is need of a territorial imperative for the Ashurai people. They are free wherever they live, because true freedom is based on one's inner perception, it is a spiritual phenomenon. I believe the sacred role of the Ashurai as a nation is to witness to Jesus Christ. That's all that matters now. September 12, 2001 What happened in the US on the day of September 11, 2001, will never be forgotten. The definition of the word civilization has lost its meaning in the world. Mesopotamia is the Cradle of Civilization, but today nobody remembers the people who gave it birth. |