who are the "professional soldiers"?
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In the context of the old Aeon religions, a professional soldier would be someone who grasps the new Aeon, but chooses to preach the old for money, for community, etc., holding to the past instead of fighting for the future.
That's how I hear it anyway.
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You left out the important part: it's professional soldiers who won't fight. It's an example of the Book's disparagement of people not doing what they're in the universe to do. (It could as well have said, "professional teachers who won't teach.")
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@Jim Eshelman said
"(It could as well have said, "professional teachers who won't teach.")"
I´ve known many of them, they are indeed “teachers” because the only people they like for company are mediocrities who “pay” them with their adhesion for to maintain their status. Of course they are greedy, and tend to the exclusiveness. But they are mundane and finally left behind.
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The main point if the whole section is everyone has an inherent function in the world. Those who ignore or turn from their essential role are worthless pieces of shit.
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@Sl said
"Also they are those who will not “fight like brothers”; that is, those petty enough who will make a distinction between the space marks, somehow. Happy Nuit day, btw."
Ha! I just felt like printing out an image of the stele to put in a photo frame. It never even occurred to me that it was the 8th hah.
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@Jim Eshelman said
"The main point if the whole section is everyone has an inherent function in the world. Those who ignore or turn from their essential role are worthless pieces of (****)."
Damn straight. Did Christ say similar with his "salt of the earth" story, albeit within the framework of the old aeon?
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Yes.
He also cursed a fig tree for having no fruit, and it withered.
Mark has him cursing the tree, then going down and cleansing the Temple of the "moneychangers," and then he and the disciples pass back by to see the tree is withered ("Markan intercalation" - Mark's story-symbol sandwich - the fig tree represents a fruitless Judaism).