CRACKING THE SELOUS CODE AFTER 200 YEARS IN SHAKESPEARE’S PLAY
Adam and Eve in the Merchant of Venice Painting by H.C. Selous
Renaissance as the Great medieval civilization is fundamentally a time of enlightenment for the worshiper of new pagans from the previous era of the old pagans. Material as the major worship of the Renaissance era is reflected by the story of Eden (God’s garden) where Satan refuses to prostrate Adam:
“And when we said to the angels, “Prostrate to Adam,” [so] they prostrated except Iblees. He refused and was arrogant and became of the disbelievers.” (Qur’an, Al-Baqarah, 2:34)
“Allah said: ‘What prevented you from prostrating, when I commanded you to do so?’ He said: ‘I am better than he. You created me from fire, and him, you created from clay” (Qur’an, Al A’raf 7:12)
“Allah said: Descend from Paradise, for it is not for you to be arrogant therein. So get out; indeed, you are of the debase” (Qur’an, Al A’raf, 7:13)
This philosophy is the beginning of civilizations that destroy themselves, namely satanic politics that do not like diversity, otherwise like arrogance, cunning, and greedy natures. In diversity, we need mutual synergism where the Scripture cites:
“O humanity! Indeed, we created you from a male and a female, and made you into peoples and tribes so that you may ˹get to˺ know one another. Surely the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous among you.” (Qur’an, Al Hujurat 49:13)
“There is no difference between Jews and Greeks. They all have the same Lord, who gives his riches to everyone who calls on him.” (Bible, Romans, 10:12)
“For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness, All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”(Bible, Mark, 7:21–23)
The painting of H.C. Selous illustrates the Merchant of Venice drama by William Shakespeare in the Victorian Era. H.C. Selous in his painting insert a picture of Adam and Eve, and the old Serpent coiled around a tree that representation of three men who are discussing about a usury confrontation between Jewish and Christian, namely Shylock, Bassanio, and Antonio. The painting repeats the history of the Eden scandal of the hereditary sin of Adam, Eve, and Satan or Devil. The fall of Adam and Eve is upon their free will that defied God’s mercy who had forgave their sins over God’s prohibition which is a prohibition from eating the fruit from the forbidden tree. Women as a symbol of beauty and destruction for them is manifestation of eve’s creation that is created by God from Adam’s rib and drops of hot steam from hell and holy water from heaven.
According to William M. Branham in Yehoshua (2019: 1), the Serpent was Satan or the Devil having had sexual intercourse with Eve in the garden of God, while the seed was sperm.
“The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.” (Bible, Genesis, 3:2–3)
“You will not certainly die, the serpent said to the woman: For God knows that when you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” (Bible, Genesis, 3:4–5)
“When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it.” (Bible, Genesis, 3:6)
The serpent seed of heaven comes from the cunning nature of Satan’s deception when he instigates and slanders Lucifer the fallen angel that Lucifer attracts and likes Adam’s wife Eve whereas Satan also likes Eve. Devil is an insurgent nature who comes from the story of Lucifer and Satan’s rebellion against God upon their Serpent nature that crafty seducing Eve as Adam’s right. Finally, they rebel against God which creates the star war between Lucifer’s army and God’s army which makes them driven from God’s heaven to earth.
“Allah said, “O Adam! Live with your wife in paradise and eat from wherever you please, but do not approach this tree, or else you will be wrongdoers.” (Qur’an, Al A’raf, 7:19)
“So the great dragon was thrown out the ancient serpent, which is called the devil and Satan, the one who deceives the whole world. He was thrown to earth, and his angels with him.” (Bible, Revelation, 12:9)
“So he made them fall, through deception. And when they tasted of the tree, their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten together over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And their Lord called to them, “Did I not forbid you from that tree and tell you that Satan is to you a clear enemy?” (Qur’an, Al A’raf, 7:22)
God expels them from heaven to earth as guardians of the earth and produces human generation. God prohibits eating the fruit (sexual intercourse) from the tree (Eve) which makes them produce human generation until the end of the world (immortal). God prohibits them from approaching the tree that is analogized to a woman.
Eve as a tree can produce fruit that means bearing children along human history as they said immortal, in Qur’an Al A’raf (7:20) cites, “Then Satan tempted them in order to expose what was hidden of their nakedness. He said, “Your Lord has forbidden this tree to you only to prevent you becoming Angels or immortals.”
Adam and Eve on earth as Guardian learn what is good and evil from their whole life on earth with all of generations. Bible, Genesis (3:5) cites, “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” And then some of their human generation will be becoming enemy to each other from what Qur’an Al Baqarah (2:36) cites, “After a time Satan tempted them with that tree to disobey. Our Command and brought them out of the state they were in, and we decreed, “Now, go down all of you from here; you are enemies of one another. Henceforth you shall dwell and provide for yourselves on the Earth for a specified period.”
Bankers Control Over Europe In Renaissance
William Shakespeare and H.C. Selous epicly describe what happen in heaven and on earth as a repetition history from the heredity sin of Adam and Eve which is described by H.C. Selous in Victorian England. Where 19th century Europe, especially England was in massive industrial revolution based on bankers’ control. Sexual intercourse bears generations throughout human history and precisely same with usury bears immortal money. Usury destroys the essence of human beings as Guardian who living in balance with nature.
Shylock as a moneylender is a manifestation of Serpent Seed who cunning, arrogant, racist, and greedy over shining material things for oppressive power that is described in the Merchant of Venice script. In the script, the friendship between Antonio a rich Venetian merchant and noble Bassanio collaborate in Renaissance Era advancement as a phase transition from traditional feudalism to modern feudalism that is based on usury practicing. The Christian church and noble families energized in civil law determined to permit Jews to money lending at interest, and at the same time, they forbid Jews from engaging in multiple livelihoods and land ownership rights. According to Greenblatt in M. Kish-Goodling (1998:334), in early modern Europe, Jews did not fear for Christian church excommunication that law prohibited Jews from owning land but permitted Jews for money lending at interest as a livelihood of Jews.
There is the invisible hand that playing in anti-Semite, where in the first paragraph is stated as “politics of Satan” that engendering massive usury practicing worldwide until nowadays. It is all caused by personal ascendancy and human cunning that greed for defending their dominance upon personal property rights. Shylock, Bassanio, and Antonio as moneylenders, noble man, and Venetian merchants. Their existence synergizes for defending their ascendancy and expanding capital. Therefore, they are mutually in need and fight with one another.
Bassanio a noble man wants to marry Portia for their noble, rich, and beautiful whereas at that time Bassanio is bankrupt because of his hedonistic lifestyle. He needs 3.000 ducats to propose marriage to Belmont in Portia’s palazzo. Bassanio put down Portia as her golden fleece from seat Belmont Colchos’ strond and many Jason come in quest her. His statement in the Merchant of Venice script cites:
‘Nor do I now make moan to be abridged
From such a noble rate. But my chief care
Is to come fairly off from the great debts
Wherein my time, something too prodigal,
Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,
I owe the most in money and in love,
And from your love I have a warranty
To unburden all my plots and purposes
How to get clear of all the debts I owe.’ (act 1, scene 1, line 130–140)
‘In Belmont is a lady richly left,
And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
Of wondrous virtues. Sometimes from her eyes
I did receive fair speechless messages.
Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued
To Cato’s daughter, Brutus’ Portia.
Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
For the four winds blow in from every coast
Renownèd suitors, and her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos’ strond,
And many Jasons come in quest of her.
O my Antonio, had I but the means
To hold a rival place with one of them,
I have a mind presages me such thrift
That I should questionless be fortunate!’ (act 1, scene 2, line 170–180)
According to Paparinska (2017:71), the Golden Fleece is royal power symbolic and gold wealth of Colchis in ancient Argonaut voyage perspective. Hence, contemporary scholars’ research for Golden Fleece is gold collecting with the help of animal hides. Portia is Bassanio’s Golden Fleece, paying out all of his entire debt and becoming rich nobleman again who claims Belmont’s seat as a suitor like Jason in Greek mythology. He asks a help to his close friend Antonio to help him once more time for lending money cause the ship that bringing Antonio’s merchandise is sailing. In the script is stated:
‘Thou know’st that all my fortunes are at sea;
Neither have I money nor commodity
To raise a present sum. Therefore go forth:
Try what my credit can in Venice do;
That shall be racked even to the uttermost
To furnish thee to Belmont to fair Portia.
Go presently inquire, and so will I,
Where money is, and I no question make
To have it of my trust, or for my sake.’ (act 1, scene 2, line 185–190)
Antonio’s motive for helping his close friend Bassanio is to aim for their Christian brotherhood that is called kinsman redeemer, as stated in script:
‘Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,
Gratiano, and Lorenzo. Fare you well.
We leave you now with better company.’ (act 1, scene 2, line 60–62)
Antonio as kinsman redeemer of Bassanio where kinsman redeemer in Bible that is:
“Then after he is sold he may be redeemed. One of his brothers may redeem him, or his uncle or his cousin may redeem him, or a close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he grows rich he may redeem himself.” (Bible, Leviticus, 25:48–49)
“If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold.” (Bible, Leviticus, 25:25)
Kinsman redeemer is changed in meaning when Boaz redeems Ruth as a poor slave with his wealth in bible Ruth (4:9–10) cites, “Then Boaz announced people, today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Killon and Mahlon. I have also acquired Ruth it he Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses.” Otherwise, in Merchant of Venice, Antonia rich merchant redeems Bassanio as a lavish noble in bankruptcy with interest loans. It is opposite to the sacred nature and moral of the truth where God’s command in Qur’an Al Maidah (5:2) cites, “Cooperate with one another in goodness and righteousness, and do not cooperate in sin and transgression. And be mindful of Allah. Surely Allah is severe in punishment.”
Kinsman redeemer in Renaissance Europe is the power paradox that transformed becoming Jews and Christian tradition for centuries until nowadays. Usury is prohibited in religion and spirituality, it destroys humanity and nature through misuse of kinsman redeemer meaning, there is always a way to swerve God’s command upon forbidden usury for their power protection that in bible cites:
“Take thou no usury of him, or increase: but fear thy God; that thy brother may live with thee.” (Bible, Leviticus, 25:36)
“Does not engage in usury or charge interest, but refrains wrongdoing, promotes true justice between men.” (Bible, Yehezkiel, 18:8)
Jews majority take Deuteronomy as a way of life that usury moneylender is permitted:
“Do not charge a fellow Israelite interest, whether on money or food or anything else that may earn interest.” (Bible, Deuteronomy, 23:19)
“You may charge a foreigner interest, but not a fellow Israelite, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you put your hand to in the land you are entering to possess.” (Bible, Deuteronomy, 23:20)
Jews were expelled from holy land and wandered around Europe about hundreds years as a second punishment of God upon their mortal sin of usury practice, rewrote the Torah, and killed the prophets. Hosein (2002) reveals, they were punished because they changed the Torah to make Haram (usury) becoming Halal. They rewrote the Torah to make permissible to money lending on interest only for non-Jews, and they killed prophets by deception.
Satan will seduce human beings until the end of human history as there is in Qur’an Shad (77–83) cites, “[Allah] said, ‘Then get out of Paradise, for indeed, you are expelled. And indeed, upon you is my curse until the Day of Recompense.’ He said, ‘My Lord, then reprieve me until the Day they are resurrected.’ [Allah] said, ‘So indeed, you are of those reprieved until the Day of the time well-known.’ [Iblees] said, ‘By your might, I will surely mislead them all except, among them, you are chosen servants.” There is the Satan pattern that conjures in bible Deuteronomy that infiltrates racism, power of greediness, and cunning nature. Whereas God’s nature is holy and good for all of his creatures, then everything in authentic goodness precepts comes from God.
Shylock the moneylender uses Deuteronomy double standard that charges Antonio as enemy the outsider from Israelite with a pound of Antonio’s flesh. A pound of flesh is Antonio’s heart that Shylock targets to cut as symbolic of the Christian era in Jews’ hands and ruling the world by spreading the power of usury tradition into Christian’s hearts.
This kindness will I show.
Go with me to a notary, seal me there
Your single bond; and in a merry sport,
If you repay me not on such a day,
In such a place, such sum or sums as are
Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit
Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleaseth me. (Act 1, scene 3, line 155–163)
Ay, his breast!
So says the bond, doth it not, noble judge?
“Nearest his heart.” Those are the very words. (Act 4, scene 1, line 265)
Jewish Diaspora and antisemitism are satanic politics that play on Jews as victims to legalize usury in Europe. According to M. Kish-Goodling (1998:336) stated, “All interest prohibited in the reign of Edward VI. This prohibition produced no effect. In Elizabethan England transformed the concept of usury, under Queen Elizabeth in 1571 permitted individuals to charge 10 percent interest on loans.” Shylock represents a Venetian banker who dominates nobles, merchants, and queens. By lending money from usury moneylender, the queen or king represents Portia and Bassanio that controls merchant (Antonio) above usury moneylenders help (Shylock) to maintain their wealth and power. As there is G. Tarpley in Gabriel (1996: 16), cites, “Venetian Bankers Come to England and reveals the secret that Italian bankers, philosophers, political operatives, and economic predators flooded into England and controlled the monarchy completely. The control of kings, queens, popes and despots fell to the control of central banks that came to rule most European nations as monarchs were transplanted by Italian Republics.”
The marriage of Queen Portia and noble Bassanio is supported by merchant Antonio as their bondman on the loan that means the queen and king dominate mercantilism and they are controlled by virus infection of Shylock a Venetian banker. A pound of flesh is a bond if Antonio cannot repay his loan that means attacking Antonio’s heart where a pound of flesh is equal to a man’s heart around 400 grams. A pound of flesh is a human heart that symbolizes a vital part of human life, if Shylock as a banker holds and controls all aspects of life that are king, queen, duke, merchant, and civic population. In script stated:
Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more
But just a pound of flesh. If thou tak’st more
Or less than a just pound, be it but so much
As makes it light or heavy in the substance
Or the division of the twentieth part
Of one poor scruple nay, if the scale do turn
But in the estimation of a hair,
Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate. (Act 4, scene 1, line 338–346)
The bond of interest is only a pound of flesh and no drop of blood, flesh without blood means humans that lives like a zombie. Evil usury controls all aspects of life, society lives in too much timid, alive but dead.
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