Daniel, Prophet

It was this Darius who suffered Daniel to be exposed to hazard for refusing to bow down to the idol which he had set up. The circumstances, however, tended only to establish, the authority and influence of the prophet who was advanced to be one of the three presidents appointed to rule over the hundred and twenty provinces... 

Will the trial of John Demjanjuk become, in a sense, the writing on the wall Will it bring a turning point in the Treblinka Holocaust, in the immolation of the Jews as a whole As the Prophet Daniel put it in Daniel 5 mene, tekel, u-pharsin - or, in English, weighed in the balances, and found wanting . 

The Tables began under the direction of Daniel R. Stull in 1959. Major contributions in the first two years were made by Thomas E. Dergazarian, Samuel Levine, and Louis A. DuPlessis. In 1969 Harold Prophet succeeded Daniel R. Stull as project director and continued in that position until his untimely death in late 1972. Malcolm W. Chase has been the project director since late 1972. 

Both the Zohar the Denudata, another Kabbalah text, describe The Ancient of Days as having a furnace and three skulls. The prophet Daniel, reputedly a great alchemist, wrote of the Ancient of Days in the Book of Daniel... 

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