Jesus used strong language and physical action against only one element of society in First Century Judea: those basing at and near The Temple of Solomon Version 2, which was located in the Judean Capitol City of Jerusalem. That element comprised members of three professional guilds: clergy, lawyers, and teachers. Against medical doctors, tax collectors, soldiers, government officials Roman or Jewish, laborers, housewives, children, farmers, architects, athletes, elderly, diseased, etc. Jesus had neither harsh words nor deeds.
Clergy, lawyers, and teachers were the unique object of Jesus’ righteous wrath. When, a few years after His crucifixion and resurrection, Titus executed God’s response to the treatment of Jesus by Jewish clergy, lawyers, and teachers, all at Jerusalem suffered, but clergy, lawyers, and teachers suffered the most: they lost their meeting hall, their base of operations, their fleecing grounds, The Temple of Solomon Version 2. It has never been rebuilt. It will not be rebuilt.
The Temple of Solomon Version 2 was a bloody and blood-thirsty institution physically and spiritually. Romans were aghast at the daily effusion of blood, considering it, rightly, a health hazard. It was a slaughter house, in more ways than one, not a House of Prayer.
In America today, the correlate of The Temple of Solomon Version 2 is the College and University. There for thieving, nefarious activities meet the three most consequential culprits in civilizational paralysis: clergy, lawyers, and teachers. In America and most countries of The Latin Church today, clergy and teachers are considered different professional guilds, the former hardly even worth acknowledging. They are different professional guilds, but they are closely related. In First Century Judea, at Jerusalem, clergy and teachers functioned nearly as the same force in Jewish common life.
That The Temple of Solomon Version 2, — rather than, say, Herod’s palace — was the base for Jewish clergy, lawyers, and teachers indicates that the profession of Theologian (clergy) is the most consequential and therefore the most responsible among the five professional guilds. Until modern state legislatures saw opportunities, most colleges and universities were thrown into existence by clergy. This accords with the observable phenomenon of morale (spirit) having more effect on the general well-being of individuals and societies than heredity, training, mind, body, intellect, or economic interests do.
How to restore authority to the Profession of Theology? Why, clean it up, of course. Take out the garbage. No additions, modifications, or reforms are needed, puissant, or indicated. Simply eject the basura. Eject who does not represent or practice the profession’s burdens of responsibility, who reject the profession’s ancient and classical terms of art. Does an Engineer reject algebra? Does a Theologian reject Logos Theology?
And how does this cleaning up start and proceed? It starts in the homeschool. It proceeds outside present colleges and universities and their accreditation organizations. It proceeds through mentorships, internships, fellowships available from private and public entities as well as self-conducted by the individuals concerned.
Most importantly, the economics of learning the Profession of Theology — as well as of learning the other four professions — is reversed from the industrial economics practiced by colleges and universities: for profit business masquerading as non-profit benevolence. Instead, the student is paid to learn the profession rather than pays to learn it.
The Profession of Arms in the USA employs this economic model since 1802. The model rightly supports persons learning any one of the five professions. When the student is paid, the teacher is in charge, comme il faut, and incentives run in the proper direction.
Again, to restore authority to the Profession of Theology, take the learning of it outside the so-called religious institutions: churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, meeting halls, psychobabble centers, sentimentality retreats and clubs, etc. These are now like The Temple of Solomon Version 2: for-profit businesses operated by businessmen for self-aggrandizement. Stay away from them. They are marked for destruction on account of their leaders’ rejection of discussion regarding Shirdi, Sathya, and Prema Sai Baba.
Finally, remember that a Theologian is by nature both philomath and polymath. Remember also that every person experiences inside themselves impulses characteristic of a Theologian. If you want to know about something, anything, you have the makings of a Theologian. Probably other impulses will predominate over time, comme il faut, because Theologians are not required in large numbers. A few will do quite nicely. They must keep their guild free of clutter, garbage, trash, which is to say cheats, idlers, and charlatans. The inner necessity of a Theologian is Study.
Make yourself reading lists and make quiet time
to read the materials you have listed.
University of the Professional Guilds
Principle I
Principle II
Principle III
By Artists M and F Graham
At Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India
