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— 41 —
AVENGING JUSTICE

I am the Angel of Avenging Justice

And my celestial sword is sharp

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER…

On behalf of humanity,

I am the avenger

I do hunt down evil souls

to the farthest reaches of the cosmos

..…HALLOWED BE THY NAME

They are quite terrified of me— and rightfully so
Their ending is not quick – and it is not swift – and it is not painless

I avenge Mankind
I avenge the innocent, the murdered, the tortured

THY KINGDOM COME

Justice is done.

Without mercy

And with brutal Finality

THY WILL BE DONE.

Matters ‘cut-both-ways’, my dear young godfather

— 42 —
Guardian Angel of HONOR

I am the Guardian Angel of man acting with Honor.

One individual can ennoble an entire society— and through that society, all of humanity.
Every once in a while, an individual rises above immediate self-interest— for the sake of integrity and/or the greater good— and/or the truth— and/or justice.

Honor transforms all those within its penumbra

Honor honors mankind

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Outline of 120 Angels

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Table of Contents

120 Angels

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(note: an alphabetical INDEX follows all the actual ANGELS;

There is a separate TAB for that INDEX on the RIGHT column

below the TABS for the various ANGELS groupings)

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God’s 120 Guardian Angels

Outline

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# Name

GATE 1

1. of the LONELY
2. of GRATITUDE
3. of SNOWFLAKES
4. of FREEDOM
5. of MERCY

GATE 2

6. of SUNRISE
7. of CUMULUS NIMBUS CLOUDS
8. of CLEAR STAR-FILLED SKIES
9. of DREAMS
10. of RAINBOWS

GATE 3

11. of GEOMETRY
12. of LIGHT
13. of BUBBLES
14. of EXPLORERS
15. of PASSION

GATE 4

16. of ROMANTIC LOVE
17. of CONFIDENCE
18. of KINDNESS
19. of CHILDREN LAUGHING
20. of ELEGANCE

GATE 5

21. of HOPE
22. of WHITE
23. of BLUE
24. of TIDES
25. of LIGHTING SHABBOS CANDLES

GATE 6

26. of COSMIC FULFILLMENT
27. of SEVEN YEAR-OLD BUDDIES PLAYING TOGETHER
28. of FEAR
29. of RAPPROCHEMENT
30. of SENSUALITY

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Reprise to Midrash

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(5,000 or 5 BILLION years later)

To Life, To Life, L’chayim
L’chayim, L’chayim To Life

—Fiddler on the Roof

* * * “The Metaphysical Plan” * * *

God’s 120 Guardian Angels is my mode of explicating the abstract dynamic— Holy Quest for Potential— which I proposed in my first book God and Evil (in 1988), and which I posit as being the core and underlying dynamic of the cosmos.

Using the construct of 120 “guardian angels”, I focus on slices of the richness of the universe and on some important metaphysical themes which directly relate to the metaphysics which I propose.

Some of these themes are relationship-oriented, some are metaphysical, self-actualization-oriented, some hybrid, but all track back to the core dynamic. I chose 120 specific (“guardian angels”) potentialities, but note that each individual— including this author— views the richness of the universe through his/her own subjective lens at any given point in time.

Please note that the Guardian Angels of the universe,
represent, as well, and most importantly,

POTENTIALITIES.

According to God and Evil: A Unified
Theodicy / Theology / Philosophy

these infinite potentialities are at the crux of the cosmic order.
— at the core of the Divine.

And according to God and Evil, these infinite potentialities demanded to be more than just Potentialities—

They demanded EXPRESSION.

They demanded REALITY.

They did not want to infinitely be only ideas or potentiality.

“Na-ase adam b’tzalmenu”
— bereshit 1:26

“Let us make Man in Our image”
— Genesis 1:26

an excerpt from the Yom Kippur service follows >

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Author’s Midrash

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Before the beginning of form

Before the beginning of time

The God of Israel
Lord of Lords
King of Kings

gathered his 100 Archangels

from the far corners of the universe

They stood in a celestial phalanx
10 Archangels deep by 10 Archangels across
Each spanning a light year

Thus, by current measure, the celestial phalanx covered 100 square light years,
if such a comparison can even be made

facing the Divine

I have called you here, Archangels of the Universe
to advise me…
as to whether or not
to create
Heaven and Earth

Advise me, my celestial Archangels

Shall I proceed forward or not?

If I do not proceed, clearly you will never see realization
as more than Ideas
as more than Visions
as more than possibilities

interacting only with the Divine

But you must decide

I seek your celestial counsel.

One by one
the Archangels of the universe
stepped forth……

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Do NOT create
admonished the Angel of LIGHT,
There will be too much suffering

Do NOT create
said the Angel of HOPE,
There will be too much suffering

Do NOT create
said the Angel of LOVE,
There will be too much suffering

Do NOT create
said the angel of BEAUTY,
There will be too much suffering

~continued~

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Preface

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God and Evil is, of necessity,
written in neo-academic style.

God and Good looks at the obverse side of the coin: Good.

And what we discover of the cosmic order is quite majestic and elegant, and, indeed, beyond incredible.

“God’s 120 Guardian Angels”, is my very carefully chosen vehicle to flesh–out further my core proposition of Quest for Potential∞. The book is a very deliberate and calibrated attempt to deal with an infinite and profound concept — through finite means: literary devices (120 Angels), gentle poetic prose, and mythical constructs. Ultimately, the final leap – in accepting or rejecting an overarching metaphysics – must be to feel it in your gut – as no one has been at the Cosmic Center – or at the Creation point – or ‘far enough out’ to have a perspective encompassing all. Indeed, to-the-end-of-time the full and complete truth will never be proved conclusively. Indeed, in any event, it might take until the end of time to relate and explicate the full truth.

~continued~

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Foreword by DROB

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by Sanford Drob

“God’s 120 Guardian Angels”

Eighteen years in the making, David Birnbaum’s “120 Guardian Angels”, the poetic portion of his new book God and Good, is a beautiful and fitting complement to his 1988 masterpiece, God and Evil. Nearly everything about this new work, with the exception of its genuine excellence, contrasts markedly with Birnbaum’s earlier book.

Whereas God and Evil was discursive, closely argued and philosophical, “120 Guardian Angels” is poetic, highly personal, and mythological. Whereas God and Evil was profoundly serious, “120 Guardian Angels” is often light and humorous.

Whereas God and Evil spoke with the highest imaginable degree of generality (declaring, for example, that “Holy Potential is at the epicenter of the Divine”) “120 Guardian Angels” can be extraordinarily particular (Guardian Angel #62 is “Snowstorms on School Days, and #88 is “Playing Chess with Your Son”). However, while Birnbaum’s new work is “particular” in the Aristotelian sense that knowledge of the particular brings clarity to the universal, it is hardly particular in the sense of “particularistic” or “parochial”. Indeed, Birnbaum’s angels, while they do seem to have a fondness for Jewish ideas and activities (Guardian Angel #25 is “Lighting Shabbos Candles” and #75 is “Gemorrah Chavrusahs”), are ecumenical enough to include in amongst them #71 “Ju Jitsu” and #89 “Catholic School Marching Bands.”

Birnbaum, in God and Evil, argued that “Holy Potential” is the “primal thrust of the cosmos” and that man, created in the divine image, has as his purpose the actualization and fulfillment of that potential. In this new book, Birnbaum’s angels speak to us directly and inform us precisely how this potential can be attained. Many of the angels, of course, reflect universally acknowledged ideas and values (Guardian Angel #4 is “Freedom” and #5 is “Mercy”), but it is in the more idiosyncratic amongst them (e.g. #44 “Five-Year Old Girls Giggling”, #50 “Putting-the-Kids-to-Bed”, and #58 “Iron Mill Workers”) that we get the sense that the factory of Holy (and human) Potential is really working.

~continued~

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Part II: God’s 120 Guardian Angels

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Part 2: GOD’S 120 GUARDIAN ANGELS,

click on it in the chapter listing to the right
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BETA: Cosmic TOOL KIT- Shelf #1

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COSMIC TOOL KIT
Shelf #1

[COSMIC TOOL KIT Shelf #2 is to be found at the end
of Cosmic Womb of Potential]

tools:
* DIVISION INTO POLARITIES & DUALITIES *
* SIMULTANEOUS PUSH / PULL TENSION *
* INFINITELY-COILED SPIRALITY *
* COSMIC ‘LEVERAGED BUYOUT’ (“BOOTSTRAPPING”) *
* (INFINITE) RECURSIVENESS & (INFINITE) LOOP-ABILITY *
* 1:1 METAPHYSICAL CORRESPONDENCE *
* MITOSIS OF “0” *
* INEXORABLE LIFE-QUESTING *
* VACUUM-BUSTING *
* INEXORABLE & INFINITE ASCENTS *
* MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MORPHING *
* OPTIMIZATION *
* COSMIC-TAPESTRY-WEAVING *
* QUEST FOR INFINITE DIVINE PERFECTION *
* INTERLOCKING DIVINE INFINITUDE QUEST *
* SUBJECTIVITY OF “INFINITE DIVINE” *
* SIMULTANEOUS OPERATION LEVELS *

note:
Starting with this sub-section, there are NOTES by KHALIL;
There are approximately three dozen NOTES total by KHALIL – all in this Part I of the book – “THE COSMIC WOMB of POTENTIAL”.

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“A carpenter needs good tools”

– Carpenter’s union

~continued~

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MU: Cosmic TOOL KIT- Shelf #2 Extraordinariation

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COSMIC TOOL KIT
Shelf #2

The second set of cosmic tools is elucidated in this section:

[The first set was elucidated in BETA (above)]

tools:
* ONE ORGANIC SUPER-EQUATION *
* INSTINCT-DNA *
* RECURSIVITY IS REGNANT (RECURSIVITY REIGNS) *
* EXTRAORDINARIATION *
* EMOTION-EXPRESSION-DRAMA *
* OPTIMIZING COMPLEXIFICATION/ CONTOURIZATION *
* MACRO-HOLISTIC-OPTIMIZATION *
* CHERRY-PICKED EVOLUTION *
* TEMPLATE FIDELITY *
* METAPHYSICAL > PHYSICAL LEVERAGED BUYOUT *
* CUMULATIVE / MASSED-ARRAY DESIGN *

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••• SUPER-TOOL:
* ONE ORGANIC SUPER-EQUATION *
(my term)
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All subjects and fields and emotions, and, indeed, all history past and future, are all part of our one supra–equation – Q4P∞

All fields and subjects ultimately dovetail
into the supra–equation.
We see distinct snippets, like, say, Biology, Chemistry.
Anthropology.
But at some point Biology connects to the Calculus, etc.
The interaction of Quest for Potential∞ — at the Genesis / Big Bang point — with, what I have called the “Mitosis of “0”, adds major, major complexity into an already complex proposition.

Nevertheless, we can only take matters as far as is appropriate to hypothesize at this point.

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••• TOOL:
* INSTINCT-DNA *
(my term)
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Complex instinct mechanisms,
whether for SURVIVAL, food-HUNTING,
SEXUAL–hunting, MATING, PARENTING, INTER–PERSONAL BEHAVIOR and others, are potentially transmittable genetically via (hypothesized here / what I call) INSTINCT-DNA

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••• TOOL:
* RECURSIVITY IS REGNANT (RECURSIVITY REIGNS) *
(my term)
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Potential within potential within potential.

Schematically:
potential ( potential ( potential……….
grandfather ( father ( son ( grandson ………..

possibility ( metaphysical realms ( primitive reality realms ( modern reality realms ( post-modern reality realms

Torah ( Mishnah ( Gemorah ( Commentary ( Commentary on Commentary………….

cosmic drama ( cosmic drama ( cosmic drama………….

( complex ( extraordinary ( more extraordinary ( even more extraordinary ( ……………

layer ( layer ( layer
[see following section …. EXTRAORDINARIATION……..]

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••• TOOL:
* EXTRAORDINARIATION *
(my term)
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The Cosmic Order endeavors to become ever-more extraordinary and wondrous.

EXTRAORDINARIATION is both the work-in-progress and ultimate goal.

Complexification and Variation have as their end-goals, EXTRAORDINARIATION.

The ‘cosmic trajectory’ is from the bottomless VOID to the limitless EXTRAORDINARY.
This is the ‘cosmic bootstrapping’ I have hypothesized since Book #1. The potential of
mega-EXTRAORDINARY enroute towards the-end-of-the-rainbow is the ‘force-multiplier’ – the ultimate
sui generis ‘metaphysical magnet’ – which propels
the cosmos forward.

Only this potential EXTRAORDINARY could have the power to divide the initial timeless void into ‘positives’ and ‘negatives’, thereby igniting and creating the cosmos.

As extraordinary as one may think matters get, and they are indeed quite extraordinary already in-front-of-our-eyes, one must hypothesize that ultimate matters are quite ‘unbounded’.

(Others may categorize or hypothesize this as Messianic Era, Perfection, Redemption;
But, according to our hypothesis, “supra-EXTRAORDINARIATION” – on-all-fronts – encompassing all secular and spiritual – is the target.)

Extraordinariation helps explain, among other things, the flourishing of –

literature, poetry, art, music

the thousands of species of dainty butterflies, for example

the beauty of thousands of varieties of flowers

Magnificent sunsets

Talmudists

Violin virtuosos

the beauty of the heavens

art in all its variations

the ‘pull’ of spirituality

and, last but not least,

HUMANS – individually and collectively

– with all their wondrous complexity and drives

– and their emergence as the dominant players
on the planet

Like the trek towards INFINITY in math, EXTRAORDINARIATION is, according to this thesis, more of a PROCESS, an ongoing endeavor, an ongoing work-in-progress. The PROCESS is the deal, not necessarily the ultimate ATTAINMENT of a specific discrete goal, which is by definition unbounded, in-any-event.

The unboundedness of the ‘goal’ …with the infinite richness inherent, retroactively empowers the ‘leap from the void’ questing with unquenchable thirst for this (unbounded) infinite attainment.

This work here proposes that EXTRAORDINARIATION –
in concert with the bootstrapping quest thereof – QUEST for POTENTIAL – is the hitherto elusive couplet “holy grail” of metaphysics.

Like two complementary overarching super-dynamic tornadoes, hypothetically linked at their epicenters, these two intertwined dynamics propel the cosmos forward.

Connect-all-the-dots and you will sense better what I am articulating.

We are in the midst of the cosmic “Potential Storm”;
Consequently we see “individual trees”, as opposed to the forest (Quest for Potential) as-a-whole.

All the billions of components and themes dovetail into these intertwined super-dynamics (Quest for Potential/Extraordinariation).

We prefer to maintain them as a couplet, as opposed to merging them into one concept – Quest for Extraordinariation, as that would not truly be on-the-mark.

On an individual level, we quest for potential, and, in rare cases, for potential which is extraordinary.
On an ongoing cumulative level, the quest is ultimately for the extraordinary.

EXTRAORDINARIATION – and its inexorable voracious hunger for variety and drama, as well – “casts a wide net” – including Predator / Prey …..with all the unending brutality entailed, as well. This is philosophically difficult to deal with. Drama in all its permutations, may be cosmically desired. Sof-kol-sof (after all has been reviewed and weighed), it would seem that DRAMA has its place in the pantheon of cosmic imperatives.

(Maybe Khalil can get me out of this one : )

All roads lead to EXTRAORDINARIATION.

[EXTRAORDINARIATION1 is inter-related with……]

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••• TOOL:
* EMOTION-EXPRESSION-DRAMA *
(my term)
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EMOTION seeks ACTUALIZATION, plus the fullest possible EXPRESSION.

Emotion, hard to clinically measure or analyze or photograph,
seeks the fullest possible realization.

Emotion’s actualization-imperative, may play a far greater role in the cosmic odyssey, than hitherto discerned.

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••• TOOL:
* OPTIMIZING COMPLEXIFICATION / CONTOURIZATION *
(my term)
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an inexorable evolvement to ever–more
COMPLEX & SOPHISTICATED & MULTI–FACETED & WONDROUS & OPTIMIZED
EFFICIENT life forms,
fitting in as optimally as possible into the evolving contours of the local and cosmic ECOSYSYTEMS,
as the cosmos orients towards the richest possible
optimally inter–dependent efficient bio–diversification.

The above is an ongoing thrust of the cosmos,
on both a physical level,
and on a metaphysical level
– all geared towards the goal
of INFINITE POTENTIAL DIVINE
within the objectives of optimizing
diversity / beauty / reproductiveness / survivability / viability / efficiency et al.
within the contours of the eco–system
and within the evolving realities of the broader environment

Optimizing COMPLEXIFICATION / CONTOURIZATION
is closely inter–linked with overarching tool………

~continued~

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LAMBDA: A fresh look at some of our concepts

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1:1 CORRESPONDENCE

There is a 1:1 correspondence between what is true on an individual human level, and what is true on a cosmic level.

Man seeks life.
The cosmos seeks life.

Man seeks his potential.
The cosmos seeks its potentiality.

Man seeks ascendance in knowledge.
The cosmos seeks ascendance in consciousness.

Man seeks immortality.
The cosmos seeks immortality.

Man seeks beauty.
The cosmos seeks beauty.

Man seeks love.
The cosmos seeks love.

Man seeks fulfillment.
The cosmos seeks fulfillment.

Man seeks full actualization.
The cosmos seeks full actualization.

Man seeks fulfilling relationship(s)
The cosmos seeks fulfilling relationship(s)

Man seeks The Infinite.
The cosmos seeks The Infinite1.

——————- NOTES by KHALIL ——————-

1 The Infinite and the Cosmos: In passages such as this one it is clear that the author rejects Aristotle’s concept of “eternalism,” a model in which the cosmos is eternal and The Infinite is an actor within the cosmos. This same rejection of eternalism was defended in the Guide for the Perplexed, in Maimonides’ key divergence from Aristotelian principles. The rejection of Eternalism remains a key metaphysical distinction between traditional Jewish thought and classical Aristotelian thought. The author basically dismisses classic Aristotelian thought as fatally linear and simplistic.

~continued~

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