Respond to Job as the Numbers of Exodus
We’re trying to (re)build civilization, on the solidest
basis, right?
1--What I’m going to tell, 2--the telling, and 3--what I
told.
1—Start with the Map of Culture in Hall’s ‘The Silent
Language,’ page 191 when you search this book on Amazon, or for .01, this is a
10x10 grid of elements. (This works something like this—I don’t have any of my
copies readily to hand in my Kokintz-like creative disarray—housing and war
would result in military bases). Then put Dr. Jordan’s (JBJ’s) 49-book Bible
from ‘Rethinking the Order of the Old Testament,’ on Biblical Horizons into a 7
x 7 grid. Across the top, the first 7
books, down the side, the first 7 books.
1a—Last week, in the 49-book Bible, with a week off for
Public Vindication, a celebration of A. D. 70 and like events, we reached Job,
the 4th book (Numbers, across) of the second set of 7 (Exodus,
down).
1b—What does that tell us? Let’s look at what each of these
books is about, and try to put the 3 into a sentence, maybe an imperative stem,
or an imperative poem. (Note that Mozeson held that a ‘dance of 3 roots,’ if I
recall correctly, made up most Hebrew words—it could be a word too!).
1c—Exodus is ‘beth (house; in Exodus the Tabernacle is built),
Numbers is daleth (door, entrance; enter the holy land), Job is kaph (palm)’.
Maybe in the house perspective, being arrayed for war is necessary to get in
the door, and the hand/palm grasps it.
Or maybe the second day’s firmament between heaven and earth has to do
with the luminaries of the 4th day?
1d—It is much easier to see the 7th iteration of
Joshua’s conquest played out in the rhetoric of Paul in Philemon. (Hat Tip,
Eric Robinson).
1e—We’d need better contexts to get sentences out of this,
we’d need poetry too. Perhaps Mike Bull’s CDATMCG would help. In the Division
section, Job is the Testing of Numbers.
Creation, Division, Ascension, Testing, Maturation, Conquest, Glorification.
1f—Does ‘Beth Daleth Kaph’ make a word?
1g—The next three books are ‘Proverbs--(lamedh (ox-goad;
learn, study, teach; clearly fits Proverbs)’ and then ‘Song of Songs—mem (water)’
and then ‘Ecclesiastes – (nun (sprout, propogate flour-ish (sic) generate’. How might those fit in the Exodus tiara
(modification by CHH of ‘tier) with, respectively Deuteronomy (Proverbs),
Joshua (Song), and Judges (Ecclesiastes)?
2—That’s what I was going to tell. What I’m telling is that ‘Respondeo etsi
mutabor’. I must respond, though I will be changed—I will respond
though I must be changed. That’s Rosenstock’s motto for this age, after ‘Credo
ut intelligam’—I believe in order to understand, and ‘Cogito ergo sum’—I think therefore
I am.
2a—Let’s first respond with JBJ’s 3 (from one of Dr.
Leithart’s books). Maturity, the holy war against the devil and his angels, and
redemptive history. The latter first. We’d say that Job is ‘early days’ and part of
a sequence, just as Numbers is a type downstream from the 4th of 7
days, and also Exodus is such, as a group of 7 in her tiara. In the holy war,
these are ways of fighting, and we need to know what time it is to fight best,
and maturity, I say, would be finding out what kind of imperative
stem/imperative poetry this is, in the whole array of tools that we will have
used, under GodTrinity to emerge victorious.
Summationally, we have been given
X (freedom from the House of Bondage/Egypt) in order to give Freedom,
ultimately from sin, in Jesus.
2b—But let’s do ERH’s too. He shows that each Revolution of
the West has produced at least new speech, new types of persons, new institutions.
(Chapter 5 of Gardner’s ‘Beyond Belief,’ or search ‘Revolutions of the West
chuckhartmanhistoryconductor’ for a summary of that sumery. Use Google’s search
engine for best results.
2c-A new institution from Job? Helping people through suffering? Spread of
the Pastoral Care Handbook (?) that Pastor Meyers has recommended?
2d—New types of persons? Sufferers who talk to God?
2e—New types of speech? We have some in 1, above.
3—What I’ve told. We have the ur-map of culture. We must use it.
3a—And an advantage of this above is that it will take a
long time. Perhaps it could be useful as biological knowledge proliferates
(irony) and Isaiah 65, especially 20, may come to pass. Thoreau’s story of a 300-year search for the
perfect walking stick may apply—it was in ‘Walden’ if I remember correctly.
Love in King Jesus,
Charlie ‘371’ Hartman
PS: I may be coming back to 371, or I may take the Van Buren
Option. That is, in order to get ‘my stuff’ used, I might first have to do some
Trinitarian mutual indwelling in economic transaction, just as the 8th
President, in order to become such, first was appointed to be Ambassador to
London.
PPS: The title of this is an imperative stem. We can make it
into imperative poetry done.
