Astrology
And the king said to them, A dream have I dreamed,—and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.
Then spoke the Chaldeans to the king in Aramaic,—O king to the ages live! Tell the dream to thy servants and the interpretation we will declare.
The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The word from me is unalterable: If ye shall not make known to me the dream and the interpretation thereof ye shall be cut in pieces and your houses into a dunghill shall be turned. [Know full he.]
Daniel became chief of the Magi because he had a Djin and could do no wrong and he said to the King:
“The secret which the king hath asked the wise men, the magicians, the sacred scribes, the astrologers are not able to declare unto the king; but there is a God in the heavens who revealeth secrets, and hath made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what shall come to pass in the afterpart of the days:
Thy dream and the visions of thy head upon thy bed are these:— As for thee O king thy thoughts upon thy bed arose regarding what should come to pass hereafter; and he that revealeth secrets made known to thee what shall come to pass. But as for me—not for any wisdom that is in me more than any of the living is this secret revealed to me,—therefore it is in order that the interpretation—unto the king they should make known, and that the thoughts of thy heart thou shouldst get to know.
As for thee O king thou wast looking when lo! a great image, this image being mighty and the brightness thereof surpassing was standing before thee,—and the appearance thereof was terrible. As for this image its head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms were of silver,—its belly and its thighs of bronze; its legs of iron,—and its feet part of them of iron, and part of them of clay.
Thou didst look until that a stone tare itself away, not by the aid of hands, and smote the image upon its feet, which were of iron and clay, [reinforced concrete. It is likely that all concerned would understand it as reinforced concrete as they already know about straw reinforcing clay baked and coated with glass.]—and they were broken in pieces.
Then were broken in pieces at once the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the gold, and became like chaff out of the summer threshing-floors [here entreth the windeth and we can get started]
And the wind carried them away, and no place was found for them [three winds appeared out of nowhere on the 11th September 2001 and carried away almost completely all the substance of the World Trade Centre of the Port Authority of the City of New York. Nobody looked for the residue, not even the buildings that were left to be destroyed afterwards.]
—But the stone that smote the image became a mighty rock and filled all the land. [And this stone was used to understand what really happened.] This is the dream, and the interpretation thereof we will tell before the king. [So go ahead and ask the one true god for a good computer and an internet connection that fills the earth so you can share in what follows to the best of your ability, for the day is old and you have missed so much.]
Thou O king art the king of kings,—for the God of the heavens hath given unto thee the kingship, the might, the power and the dignity; and wheresoever the sons of men do dwell the wild beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens hath he given into thy hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art the head of gold.
And after thee shall arise another kingdom, inferior to thee,—and another—a third kingdom, of bronze, which shall bear rule throughout all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be hard as iron,—in like manner as iron breaketh in pieces and crusheth all things,—even as iron which bringeth to ruins all these shall it break in pieces and bring to ruins.
And whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes, part of them of potter’s clay and part of them of iron the kingdom shall be divided, and of the hardness of the iron shall there be in it,—forasmuch as thou sawest the iron combined with the miry clay; and the toes of the feet part of them iron and part of clay,—some part of the kingdom shall be strong, but a part thereof shall be brittle; and whereas thou sawest the iron combined with the miry clay they shall be combined with the seed of men, but shall not cleave firmly one to another,—lo! as iron is not to be combined with clay.] Who can pretend not to recognise how late in the day this is?]
And in the days of those kings shall the God of the heavens set up a kingdom which to the ages shall not be destroyed, and the kingdom to another people shall not be left,—it shall break in pieces and make an end of all these kingdoms, but itself shall stand to the ages. Forasmuch as thou sawest that out of the rock a stone tare itself away but not with hands and brake in pieces the clay, the iron, the bronze, the silver and the gold the mighty God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter. [I may be wrong but it has all the makings of the ingredients of the Interent O Things.]
Exact then is the dream And trusty its interpretation. Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and unto Daniel paid adoration; and a present and sweet odours gave he word to pour out unto him. The king answered Daniel and said—Of a truth your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a Revealer of secrets,—seeing thou wast able to reveal this secret. [Let us see if our sons and our daughters can do the rest.]
JOEL 2:28-31
