Nothing new under the sun – read this
Long story short, I am currently going through 6,000 pages of Philo’s writings.
Half is Greek, half is the English translation, so let’s call it 3,000 pages.
Here’s what I just came across, in his treatise called SPECIAL LAWS, Book II, 2: 37-42
There is literally nothing new under the sun, and maybe, just maybe, things are not the ‘worst they’ve ever been’ after all, as sometimes it appears.
Read on.
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SPECIAL LAWS 2: 37-42
Much graver than the above is another evil, which has ramped its way into the cities, namely pederasty.
In former days the very mention of it was a great disgrace, but now it is a matter of boasting not only to the active but to the passive partners, who habituate themselves to endure the disease of effemination, let both body and soul run to waste, and leave no ember of their male sex-nature to smoulder.
Mark how conspicuously they braid and adorn the hair of their heads, and how they scrub and paint their faces with cosmetics and pigments and the like, and smother themselves with fragrant unguents. For of all such embellishments, used by all who deck themselves out to wear a comely appearance, fragrance is the most seductive.
In fact the transformation of the male nature to the female is practised by them as an art and does not raise a blush.
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These persons are rightly judged worthy of [—] by those who obey the law, which ordains that the man-woman who debases the sterling coin of nature should [—] as a disgrace to himself, his house, his native land and the whole human race.
And the lover of such may be assured that he is subject to the same penalty. He pursues an unnatural pleasure and does his best to render cities desolate and uninhabited by destroying the means of procreation. Furthermore he sees no harm in becoming a tutor and instructor in the grievous vices of unmanliness and effeminacy by prolonging the bloom of the young and emasculating the flower of their prime , which should rightly be trained to strength and robustness.
Finally, like a bad husbandman he lets the deep-soiled and fruitful fields lie sterile, by taking steps to keep them from bearing, while he spends his labour night and day on soil from which no growth at all can be expected .
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The reason is, I think, to be found in the prizes awarded in many nations to licentiousness and effeminacy.
Certainly you may see these hybrids of man and woman con tinually strutting about through the thick of the market, heading the processions at the feasts, appointed to serve as unholy ministers of holy things, leading the mysteries and initiations and celebrating the rites of Demeter.
Those of them who by way of heightening still further their youthful beauty have desired to be completely changed into women and gone on to mutilate their genital organs, are clad in purple like signal benefactors of their native lands, and march in front escorted by a bodyguard , attracting the attention of those who meet them.
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Disclaimer: I’m just quoting Plato here, his views should not be construed as my own…
But there is literally nothing new under the sun.
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was this Philo or Plato?
It was Philo.
It is very interesting how the same errors persist throughout human history, sometimes disguised as slightly different terms. In the time of Ancient Egypt, there were also effeminate people portrayed in paintings as neither man nor woman, but we can call them ‘trans’ as we do today. At that time, they were actually used as objects of pleasure, so to speak. Have you read the works of Flavius Josephus?
Yes…. I got banned from Chat GPT 2 years ago, because of them.
This is a recent report on an issue you have addressed previously.
https://beeley.substack.com/p/israel-girls-raped-in-ritual-ceremonies
Interesting, that this story is breaking cover in the ‘outside world’….
And disheartening, that now they are using it to tar all Israelis as deviants who hurt and abuse Palestinians.
More people really need to start speaking out about the Sabbateans that took over our communities…. it’s the only way we can start to sort the wheat from the chaff, come clean about what is really going on – and restore the holy name of God-fearing Jews and the Torah in the world.
UPDATE:
https://www.ritualabuse-israel.org/?sfnsn=wa
Someone sent me this, in Hebrew, on the same topic, with a very interesting piece by a R Friedman on Sabbatean ritual abuse, and much more besides.
We all owe it to the kids in our midst to stop looking away, and to finally start to tackle this properly, with emuna, and to understand that continuing to sweep this under the rug = enabling the worst evil in the world to continue.