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Here are dreams and tales of trivial and great matters throughout all my life; of great figures of the past in literature, philosophy, politics, science, mathematics, art; of friends of my youth and of my broken heart; dreams of other worlds, other me's that might have been or still may be even if beyond our touch; writers and books that enchanted me; my reflections on religion, God, the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism and other faiths; thoughts of hostility Jews have faced throughout the ages, of the vows of Israel's destruction and of Israel's eternal imbroglio with the Palestinians; as well as, yes, of life and death, of my death at age 10 in a world that might have been and almost was; of the Charleston I knew and loved as a child, of free will and determinism. In a word, what you will find in these pages is me, - and you will find a little of yourself.
Time will no longer extend infinitely into the past, nor will it come to an abrupt beginning. Big Bang will be as if it had never been; it will vanish from the scene. Perhaps, instead of one world there will be many worlds, and many you's in place of you. What happened to all the you's you might have been if you had made different decisions at critical junctures in your life? Are they still out there somewhere, living their lives? Is it possible you can visit with them? In your new world, straight lines will no longer exist; they will all be curved, but some will seem as if they are straight! Numbers will become beautiful of themselves and have little to do with things! Number theory results - oh, yes, at a low level - are attained here, but some perhaps unknown to mathematicians to this day! Death? What is death? You will explore that question with me and find many possible answers including that death may be but occasional brief interludes between lives of your animus or soul.
The tale is of a beautiful Spanish girl beloved by all Madrid but burned at the stake in 1680 as a Jewess. The tale opens sixty years later with the mystery of an ancient Spaniard, El Deslengua, the tongueless one, who knew her, her father, a young nobleman who loved her, and a giant gypsy who did not dare. Who was El Deslengua? What was his role in the story? How did their tale of darkness, death, torture, and superstition become a tale a faith, love, hope, and light? It is all told in the tale.
COME VISIT the future with me. The Brotherhood of Jesus Christ - a new Christian One True Faith - becomes the dominant religion in an impoverished America. Watch as its founder, the Reverend John Sand Forrester, attains a Constitutional Amendment declaring the United States a Christian nation. Jewry once again becomes the scapegoat of a nation rife with unemployment. Watch as Forrester seeks to drive Jews from the nation. See his dismay as his daughter Susan falls in love with a young Jewish scientist - one whose experiments tamper with the very soul of man. Watch Islam attain supremacy throughout the world except in America and Israel, and as Islam vies with Forrester for domination in America. Follow Al Mahdi, reincarnated after fourteen centuries, as he brings mankind to the End of Time, foretold both in the Bible and the Qur'an.
Here I, a 92-year-old Jew, tell of One True Faith - of the ""morally infallible"" One True Faith of The Roman Catholic Church which in recent years has pleaded for reconciliation among all mankind but in earlier years burned Jews at the stake and buried thousands of witches alive for their sins. I tell, too, of another One True Faith, risen upon the scene, this of Islam, calling for the eradication from the face of the earth of ""infidels,"" all of other faiths, including Judaism and Christianity. Is Israel reluctant to permit the Palestinians to have a state of their own? Why? Can it be because the Palestinians wish to reserve to their state the right to eradicate Israel? Is it true that there is a Conspiracy among Jews, a Bond, that has held them together throughout history? Yes, it is true! I confess and reveal that Bond within the first dozen pages of this volume.
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