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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.
They arrived there, not with any
map or preordained itinerary or
directional signals, but with the
burning force with which they
started the lorce that outruns all
transient knowledge their faith
Prior to that, he said, he had;
just been roaming around follow
ing his discharge from the service.
Alter serving one year, Milligan!
said, he wnlked away from the:
prison's annex.
Milligan said he wilt go into
court soon and enter a plea of
;uilty to an escape charge. I
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