Holy City

Ibn al-Baytar was bom in Malaga in Spain, apparently the son of wealthy parents for he was able to afford to travel to far-off lands. Generally, the early sightseers in the Arab world left home to make the honored pilgrimage to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. This was a religious duty required of every Moslem, but the farther away from these holy shrines, the more difficult was such an undertaking. For those who could afford the pilgrimage, however, the trip offered a wonderful opportunity to visit other countries and meet new people. 

When the yogi went back to the grassy field in search of his body... it had disappeared. The saint disregarded this minor inconvenience as Siva s grace. He went to Chidambaram, Dancing Siva s holy city, and seated himself at the base of a pipal tree. People began to flock there to see the holy man. 

The fifth obligation of every Muslim is a pilgrimage. We are obliged, at least once in our lives, to visit the holy city of Mecca. 

Palissy was very interested in the holy city of Revelation. See Palissy, Recette veritable, 115-117. 

Zaslani joined us and said that he hadn t heard anything from the Agency in Jerusalem about my journey from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. 

We passed a road sign in English, You are entering Jerusalem climbed a little slope and the Holy City lay spread out before us under the pall of the rain clouds. 

We came to another hilltop, and there before us, basking in the sun, lay the Holy City. Approaching this time from the east, we saw the walls of the Old City directly before us, with the sun gilding the dome of the Mosque of Omar. To the left was the Vale of Hinnom, with the Hebron road winding away through it like a white ribbon across a brown scarf. Beyond were the hills on which stood Government House, still with the Union Jack bravely displayed, and Allenby Barracks-symbols of a British authority soon to vanish from the land. 

Prospects for a truce in Jerusalem looked a little brighter. The Jerusalem Arabs, especially the men of substance, were beginning to see more advantages in an arrangement which would keep the Holy City from becoming a fighting zone. 

Tuthmose III did not mention Jerusalem in his list of Palestine conquests. This could mean a number of things. Perhaps Jerusalem was not an important city at the time or it had another name. It may have escaped sacking, or perhaps its record was lost or not recorded. Of these, the most likely is that Jerusalem had another name at the time. This was quite probably Kadesh, the Holy City of the God of Light. 

It is widely thought that the Palestine Kadesh plundered by Thutmose III is Jerusalem. The name Kadesh actually means Holy City and many biblical references identify it directly with Jerusalem. " For example, in about 700BCE Isaiah said of the people of Jerusalem ... 

Therefore, Kadesh the Holy City is most probably Jerusalem. This would certainly be consistent with Jerusalem s position as the most important city in Palestine, where Salma the Son of Light was worshipped. As we have seen, Thutmose III plundered the legendary treasure of King Solomon here in 1480BCE, at least four hundred years before the conventionally accepted time. 

The dislodged Hyksos re-established in a S nian town that they also called Kadesh or Holy City. This was Kadesh on the Orontes River. Today the Orontes River forms part of the border between Lebanon and Syria just above Damascus. 

The blessing of Abraham with holy bread and wine at Salem suggests Salem was a special alchemical or metallurgy site from early times. The Palestine campaign of Thutmose III indeed confirmed this in 1480BCE. Jerusalem, or Salem, was Kadesh or the Holy City and seen as the most important city in Palestine long before King David made Jerusalem his capital. 

The slaughtering of animals is done in a specified manner that kills the animal as humanely as possible, prevents contamination of its meat, and, ideally, is slaughtered by a pious man using a sharp knife and a single cut that severs the windpipe and the jugular vein, draining the animal of its blood. The animal is also blessed before it is killed (the animal s face is turned toward the holy city of Mecca and a prayer is said over it). The process is very similar to that of the kosher slaughtering of animals. 

Five Mile Act. Bubonic plague. Second Anglo-Dutch War (to 1667). The Holy City, The Resurrection of the Dead ( ) One Thing is Needful ( ) and Ebal and Gerizzim ( ), two verse collections. 

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