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His neck and hairy chest,
He put on his tunic, took his big stick, and limped out
Of the door.
…
He went back to the bellows,
Turned them to the fire and set them in action.
All twenty bellows blew on the furnaces
Emitting a modulated kindling puff (‘pantoìen eùpreston
aütmèn’),
Now fit for quickening,
Now for the opposite,
According to Hephaestus’ purpose and the progress of the work.
Our investigations have been conventional to this date. The
foundation has been reasonably scholarly. We now dip well below the
scholarly threshold into the kaleidoscopic realm of speculation.
British engineers George Sassoon & Rodney Dale have
interpreted this description of the Ancient of Days as a machine for
manufacturing manna, a kind of still, described in anthropomorphic
terms. 1399 The engineers saw the still as a bacterial multiplier for
manufacturing bread. They may well have been on the right track, but
misinterpreting common bread for sacramental bread. Stills similar to the
description of the Ancient of Days are commonplace in alchemy,
particularly the double pelican with two interlocking cucurbits. 1400
Moses of Leon describes the operation of the Ancient of Days as
follows: 1401
Into the skull ... distils the dew from the white head ... and
covereth it. And that dew appeared to be of two colors and by it
nourished the field of the holy apple trees. And from this dew of
this skull is the manna prepared for the just in the world to come.
And by it shall the dead be raised to life. And the manna did not
appear to be derived from this dew except at one time: the time
when Israel was wandering in the desert. And the Ancient One of
All fed them from this place. But afterwards, it did not fall out so
more fully.
The ceasing of the manna in the Bible is analogous: 1402
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the
old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any
more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
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