They are therefore participants.
The Philistines
Similarly, to speak of the Philistines as though they are a cohesive manifestation makes it more difficult to diagnose their effects upon thought and to engineer methods of dealing with their chameleon-like nature; and if headway is made in that direction, they just might stiffen as one, just to give them time in the surprise to escape scrutiny.
They are difficult. To perceive a thing in them is to deal with something else. This aspect of their nature is useful for those who would encounter things as they are, not as they appear. Such a person cannot control— indeed, he may not even be able to predict— what another might do, even if they are seemingly straightforward in their dealings with others.
I would like to deny the implacable dualism of the Canaanite, but I'm hard pressed to find a way of expressing the basis of my bias that doesn't cement the validity of pervasive dualism in the minds of those with whom I interact. My bias is confession of the weakness of my argument That being said— there, the hinge flops again— dualism is intrinsic to logic, itself: "if" points to "then" as surely as does "if not," while "then" has an on-again, off-again relationship to both. Forgive me. It seems I've strayed from the subject, but just a bit. To argue how much will have us going back and forth by the bits if I don't put an end to it, here.
Having done just that myself in this narrative, the Canaanites are "those who turn the back" upon life's difficulties. They may puff themselves up to rise above a duality, claiming for a short spell to be immune from its destructive pull; but they are mistaken in that claim. It's a flicker in well-rounded thought, just as a "floater" can intrude as illusion in a steady eye.
This Goliath would be a perfect champion, and this gnat, this "floater "called the double dalet was already an afterthought in the minds of those in the know. The monster could not possibly fail in the contest with the shepherd; and if the other side could raise a more likely champion, Goliath would clear the field in less than a day. They would share the luxurious afternoon with their side on top, their demands fully satisfied. There would be singing around the campfires as evening came!
Underneath such bravado, the Canaanites are cowards, sure enough. They prefer that others take their risks; but they simply don't understand that killing's not much use when ideas are on the line. There were experienced assassins within the alleyways, but not in open confrontations. It was in their nature to let substance run its course in its own time. The interim would provide them time enough; for their ability to envision was in no way great. How could it be? They kept turning while turning yet again.
Raise an argument with a Canaanite and he will do his best to bandage the wound in his soul by finding a way to parry your assault without adding substance to the discussion. Goliath would do fulfill just that function. Principles? Bah! Goliath's repugnance would make such dialog implausible. His height and his girth would insulate them from all issues but penalties for spilling blood, and the blood would fade with the memory of the victims. Canaanite survival would render matters of equivalency as moot; and in the end, whether victim or aggressor, none would long remember much of what it had all been about, in the first place.
The Canaanites were offspring of father Cain nyq through Kenan nonk, which is to say that they trafficked in remorseless murders, denying involvement and shifting blame when confronted about the lives they destroyed. To such accusation, they would raise false flags, content that things would work out, when all was said on done. They would face no sanctions for bargaining with blood.
What could be better than this high-stakes drama, with the Philistine home-team in the catbird seat, thanks to the ogre who would lift their colors before their enemies! There was not a man among the Philistines who would attempt to hold ground under attack from the Cyclops, let alone try to defeat him. God take pity on the Israeli champion! They certainly would not, and neither would he.
To bring them to the front lines, they had been sold the story that this was a war over gods and spiritual favoritism: but it was clear to all of them that nation was confronting nation over boundaries on parchment and ears of corn in the field.
The pot calls the kettle black. Such duplicity over disagreements are natural and are to be expected. Nations, like the groups of people of which they are comprised, are to be expected to wrangle over advantage. That being the case, let the surrogate Goliath be responsible for the losses Israel would incur: that they would, in part at least, the losers would put part of the blame on him, building duplicity in their reactions to loss. A perfect outcome!
This phony talk about favoritism and perfection! Surely, everything is perfectly what it is, or else it would not be! Surely a cosmos that is riddled with imperfections speaks of either an accidental creation or an imperfect Creator! A god that, supposedly, can do anything would be able to juggle imperfections for a better outcome at any time or end troubles at will. A benevolent creator would grab hold of each malefactor as it falls into his hands, be it man or nation, dumb blocks of wood that they are! Made in god's image, are they? That goes a long way to explaining why duplicity has characterized the nations, from the start!
To put a finer point on it, the Canaanite who is willing to speak argues that his inaction is without bias because it provides neither endorsement nor denial of anything at all, nor does it advocate for any outcome beyond what develops naturally, its own. They claim to know nothing and are happy to have any agree that it must be so.
This oblique approach to living their lives belies their claim of non-involvement. They claim to be superior to all who lose their compass and join in the overthrow; but to make such a claim is a confession that they are intimately involved, but in a hidden way. By their own standards, therefore, they condemn themselves for failing to find an effective and honest way of escaping the warpath. They are comfortable with ineptitude. A right way to go is of no interest. Were those of the opposition capable of finding a clean path forward, they argue, they would prove the need, and therefore the existence, of their god; and the fact that we cannot give voice to such path argues against the existence of such a god.
The quintessential Canaanite defers from committing himself to solutions in order to insulate himself from the very outcomes he can envision. His garment might be in rags, but he reasons that rags are better than the threads offered by the mystics who now stand in opposition to their realism.
It's one thing to admit to being powerless, unable to resolve the dilemmas one faces from day to day. It's altogether another thing altogether to wash one's hands of it all, as deluded Pontius Pilate would do, a short time down the road. Between the frying pan and the fire, the Canaanite would consistently choose the skillet.
Children of Cain through Ham, meaning "heat," Canaanites live under the curse decreed for their good by Noah, meaning "the will to arise, to be elevated, favored." They are servants to Japheth (to those who are expanding by opening themselves unto productive growth). Japheth practiced consideration for himself and others; and he is therefore welcomed in the tents of Shem (in the tabernacle of the Name) in perpetuity.
As a result of Noah's curse, the rashness of Ham, their nearest patriarch by natural predilection, is tempered by the blessing of shame, which works for the good of the Canaanite lineage. Noah's prophecy concerning the service of Cham's progeny to the heirs of Japheth and Shem is reason for caution against judging the troublesome tribe uncharitably, if other caution against judgment should be considered irrelevant.
In their occupation of the sphere of intelligence in Adam Kadmon, it is understood that the Canaanites are unwilling to apply their minds for enlightenment: they turn their backs to it, either actively or passively. They prefer, as it were, the slavery of Mitzraim— of Egypt, the grandest of slave states; for the Canaanite is more comfortable with the iron-clad definitions and the specified and strictly regulated boundaries of Egypt than with the struggle towards liberty that comes by crossing the fearsome Sea of Reeds into an arid wilderness of questionings, with its unknowns and the likelihood of scarcities and hardships. Egypt frees them of the burden of decision making.
The Red Sea, sometimes called the "Sea of Rods," signifies a commitment to put an end to all faulty expressions, at the risk of great physical discomfort and possible death, by confronting the dilemmas that rise up against the spiritual creature whose life is imprisoned within a fleshly shell. This commitment, the Canaanite fears to make; and so, he is unhappily committed to twisting back and forth in the status quo. Canaanites are "sensible," according to the wisdom of the world, by the operations of an alienated spirit.
ynonk Canaanite, Canaanites כנעניpeddlers: cowardly dissemblers
they alter k their profiles n to make themselves congruent o with the expectations n of those they encounter y
Gematria 200 r: pretenders
Ordinal 65 hs: they exhibit symptoms of significant distress only as they worry s over factors h (65 hs) that trigger y alerts a (11 ay) > within their souls b (2 b).
| The sigil is suggestive of an on-looker sitting in a chair, with legs crossed. By this, alone, he is active on two levels, but he also has one arm resting in its lap, the other raised to its head, and his facial is doubly bifurcated by the complexities. | ||
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