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TTKSDAV, DECEMBER 16. 10S8 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THREt JEREMY CHRISTMAS MiAUVlMie, AT THE HOMG OP RUSH AUDSUPPEM. A Yuletide Story BY WALT SCOTT ftHO NAMES VClVETAW y N0WJ 1 h : . i il THE INVISIBLE JEREMY 6ETS AM IPEA IMTO THE MIND OP RUSH... AHA(?PCHAPAC-Vr WtCPC'Z) COMIWG RIGHT ) ) TER AT THE DOORO TT 4V"P. SIR'. ,4H DEMANDS FOOD - -v-, s W mm wM- Council Not Unanimous On Wisdom Of Expedition Escapee From State Prison Spent 5 Years As Minister SALEM 'API A man who es- "I can't nrcach laws I haven't caied from the Oregon stale pris- obeyed." said Milligan, lanky. on in 19o2 says lie spent his five blond and 28. years of freedom as a minister. I "Kverything I do now will be Billy Robert Milligan made the to elorily God." he said. comment as he talked with a re- Milligan said he spent most of porter in the slate prison here 'he time in Dallas. Texas, worked Monday night. at several jobs and also was Milligan was taken into custody minister in an Assembly of God in Texas sever?.! weeks ago and Church. then returned here. j Milligan said he was sent to the "I didn't live in constant fear1 prison on a two-year term for car during the fr.e years of my free-Khelt Following his escape, Milligan children, he said, and his wife !l said, he married. He now has twoU-xpecting another. dom, but 1 knew sooner or later that 1 would be picked up." he said. By GEORGE W. CORNELL Associated Press Religion Writer The caravan stood in readiness. It had taken nearly three months to prepare for the 1,200-mile jour ney. Shouts of leather-shirted cal vary officers mingled with the bawl of animals as supplies were loaded. t Somewhere . . . somewhere in Judea . . . was the destination. The chief camoleer rushed about, yelling instructions and gesturing violently, as sweating slaves hoist ed rope crates and grain bags to the backs of kneeling freight beasts. Dust swirled in the bright Persian sunlight, ' Blankets, tents, foodslufls, wa ter flasks and other necessities, along with chests of rare treas ures, were stowed on the wooden pack saddles, divided equally by weight on either side, and bound to tne uprights. : Since it would be a rigorous trip only about 490 pounds of cargo, iwo-uuras the usual maximum was placed on each camel. A crowd of jostling townspeople looked on, women veiled in their chadors; dark, hirsute men with laughing eyes. "A fool's expedition! Those grey beards chase the wind." Behind a brick wall, inside the palace of the royal Magian Coun cil, a circle of white-gowned men sat around a fire, staring silently into its leaping flames. Among them were the three (the number and their identifications are matters of divergent ancient Accounts, but the most common listing is used here) who had de termined to track the genesis of B star.. They were Melchior, pale, old, white-bearded; Gaspar, a tall, rud y young priest, and black-skinned Balthasar, of medium age and stat ure, .whose ancestors may have .come to Persia in the days when its empire stretched to Ethiopia. J Not all their fellow Magi con doned this quest to honor a hypo thetical "Blessed One" of alien jbirth. Nor would they, as the en duing years proved, accept its val- lauy. u smacked of national dis loyalty. . . f. But the tenacityof High Magus :Melchior and his supporters had jovercome this narrow view. The .Strange mission was decreed. : Seeking Divine guidance, the counsellors sat now to "contem "plate the beams of the fire with a most pious mind." So their proph et, Zarathrustra, had taught. So Moses heard God on fiery Sinai and in a burning bush. Finally, the group rose and filed out of the altar room. After fare well embraces, the three travelers donned their turbans and- fur- trimmcd cloaks, strode out to the water lakes and yapping jackals, traveled on through the wooded foothills of the Zagros. The caravan climbed the sleep trails into the mountains on Per sia's western rim. and descended into the lowlands beyond. Wild boars, cheetahs and other carni vores infested the area and bul- waiting train and mounted their uuls sang from the box trees, dromedaries. The military escort was supplied Khikh!" The gutteral command 'as a routine to such royal en- burst from the camoleers. Theyitourases, even though the fratrici- jerked at the halters, and t h c beasts rose, growling, to their feet The troop of mounted bowmen moved forward, the golden eagle I for the mission. dal King Phraates IV, dominated by an Italian concubine he called "the goddess Musa," had no taste of Persia fluttering on their ban ners. The long trek was on.- In what city the march began is uncertain, but since the Magian priesthood served as one of the two councils to the king, it may have been at Hecatompylos, the northern capital "of a hundred gales." Or, they may have left from the winter castle in Ctesiphon, with its stately domes and arcades, or from the former hundred-columned capitol at Persepolis, or the once sovereign western city, Susa. At any rate, despite some tradi tions saying each of them came from different places such as Me dia, India, Tharsis, Arabia, Nu bia and Ethiopia, this is flatly re futed by the Apostle Matthew who cites a single homeland "their own country." 1 he overriding evidence is that this was Persia. In' the original Greek, Matthew's gospel specifies tne Magi, who at the time of Jesus' birth and for centuries be fore were widely known as the learned priestly caste of Persia Matthew's original language also connotes "the Far East," and com parisons with other documents of the era show this was the common phrase used for the area of Persia, since it then was under a Parthian dynasty. The weight of tradition agrees. It may be that other nationalities sometimes mentioned refer to ra cial backgrounds, since in the past heydey of Persian empire their re gions had been included. Some still were. Thus, the venturesome Magi. leaving behind Persia's barren ex panse of Drangiana with its salt- The squadron of helmeted arch ers, with their fine-limbed horses led the column down into the plain of Appollomatis, on past the proud ly independent city of Seleucia be side the Tigris, and as far as the Euphrates bridge. For them to go farther might have appeared warlike. The Magi and their retinue of servants likely continued from there alone. A long, hard road, of many months, lay ahead. They tramped on. The saddles chaffed their legs; the sun burned their skin and dust caked their eyes, the trip took six months to a year, other travel logs of the period indicate. What kind of riicn were these who discerned a still small voice. and pursued it across a continent? The annals ol that time tell of their knowledge and insight. Philo, then an Alexandrian philo sopher, said the Magi "behold the books of the nature with more acute perception than usual." A contemporary Roman scholar. Apuleius, calls them "Divinely I wise. The Wisdom of Solomon the Magi "seek for God conversant witn His works, ancient Greek geographer, dolus, said that in all the world's ignorance was one shining excep tionthe truth-loving Magi. Many other ancient scholars, Plutarch, Diogenes, Lacrtius, Pli ny, all speak of the Magian acuity. They were ollicial tutors of princes, Persian and Parthian alike. But none ol this explains the impetus that took them hundreds of miles, in broiling heat of day and chill of night, across the wide Syrian desert to llaleb or Tud- mor, and on along the dusty high way to Damascus. They camped at night in their black goat-hair tents, for it would not be fitting for regal personages to slop in foreign hostels, with their dancers, boxers, knife-lhrow-ers and comedians balancing un derfed infants atop poles. The brilliant star they had seen "in the east" or more specifically translated "at the rising" appar ently did not guide them, lor Judea lay to the west beside the Medi terranean not to the cast. Part of their secret may have been in their "Zendavcsta," the hoary, mystical record of which only one of 21 books survive. Or it may have been in the labyrin thine, dateless processes of t h e past linking their stoicd-up lore and monotheistic beliefs with Juda ism, and its yearning for the king of kings. Whatever the explanation, the Magi's final decision was preci pitated by a star, and as Igna tius described it in the First Ccn- sa.vsjiury, it "shone in heaven beyond being I a 0ihcr stars. ... Its light was ThC inexpressible. . . . Men's ignor Hr0iance was taken away." It was in mat instant, in a flare of intuition and conviction, that Hie Magi had known heaven had touched earth. So they traveled on and on, south along the great trade route trom Damascus, along the eastern snore of Galilee, across the Jericho lord over the Jordan, and to Jerusalem. 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