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To: koan who wrote (69188)	2/27/2017 4:04:53 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Another quote by Plato: " At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet"....You know all the great polymath thinkers of the Islamic Golden age referred to the Greeks as the 'Ancient Wisdom'. One could easily say that this title could be shared with ancient Persians as well, starting with Cyrus the Great 550BC whom Alexander adored 200yrs later & used as a gold standard template for rule & conquering hero. For if any one ruler emerges first in human history that was just & deserved the title of 'Great', Cyrus was it. Even the Hebrew Bible calls him the King of Kings & Messiah over a dozen times. All the original ideas of One God of Light, the Angels & Archangels, Messiah, Prophet & God's Messenger, Day of Judgement, Resurrection & Life Eternal , The End of Times...even Paradise & God's "Holy Spirit" comes from them. Before the coming of Cyrus & Perisan rule, the Hebrews could barely imagine any coherent heaven or hell & were not even thinking in terms of an after-life or eternal life in a heaven. ( Hell was some nebulous pile of smoking fuming sands, Shaeol, this about it for the afterlife part, for the Hebrews couldn't even really imagine a heaven or after life) What's more if one looks at almost every great Islamic Golden Age thinker or great Sufi poet, from Jalaladin Rumi , Shams Tabrizi or Hafez to Omar Khayyam, Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and all the rest, they were all Persians. Islam's greatest thinkers were not Arabs in the beginning, all that great wisdom only appropriated from those older, more sophisticated & ancient Persian & Greek cultures, pretended as their own. Thankfully inspired them to preserve much of it that we have today...