March 21, 2024
CUCK-OLD-RY-ISM
pla-gia-rism (abducting an egg from someone else’s nest, and claiming to be its true parent)
plagiarism
cuck-old-ry-ism (laying an egg in someone else’s nest, intentionally concealing its true parentage)
cuckoldryism is plagiarism in reverse. Yes, I have just now coined this new word!
This short note is an afterthought arising from my recent article, touching on the topic of ‘plagiarism’,
“Christianity Is a Western Branch of Buddhism” & C.S. Peirce’s ‘Abduction’ (January 8, 2023).
The metaphoric ‘nest’ in my recent article would be the ‘brain’ of any scholar who is unaware of
Eusebius of Cæsarea’s fraudulent faking of the “Letter of Pseudo-Aristeas”, and interpolated passages
of Philo’s Moses 2.36-37, and Flavius Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews, Book XII, Chapter 2.
On my view, any scholar who believes that Philo’s Moses 2.36-37 passages were genuinely written
by Philo, or that Flavius Josephus’s passages in his Antiquities, XII, 2: 5, 6, & 13, were genuinely written
by Josephus, is being mentally cuckolded by someone else. I believe this ‘someone else’ was the great
“historian” of Christianity, Bishop Eusebius, who was writing in the 1st quarter of the 4th century CE.
It may appear that I am being very harsh with ‘Saint Eusebius’. But that is not at all my intention. In
The Unknown Buddha of Christianity: The Crypto-Buddhism of the Essenes (Therapeutæ and Qumranites)
(2019), I have argued, in the book’s section entitled ‘How Crypto-Buddhism Won the West!’, pp. 147-175,
that Eusebius was only following the advice of the Greek philosopher, Plato, concerning ‘Noble Lies’!
It was the same advice taken – more than 550 years earlier – in the Library and Museum of Alexandria,
by the compilers of the Hebrew Pentateuch, who then translated it into the Greek Septuagint.
Does the reader know that the female cuckoo bird makes reconnoitering flights to check out the nest
where she plans to surreptitiously lay her eggs? She takes note of her victim’s onset of egg laying –
even the color and size of the eggs of the poor unwitting victim! – female cuckoos are known to adjust
the color and size of their own eggs as a match. Next: How Plato’s ‘Noble Lies’ are ‘Cuckoo’s Eggs’!
Plato’s dialogue, The Laws, provided vital foundational influence on the rise of Christianity in the
second quarter of the second century CE. Influence (in English translation) often called ‘Noble Lies’.
Metaphorically I would call these the ‘Cuckoo’s Eggs of Purposeful Misinformation’. It has been
understood that Plato’s ideal ruler, his high officials, and scholars would know that they were not true.
But every effort would be made by the ruling class to keep the ordinary citizens ignorant of the truth.
Disclaimer: In this article, I [ML] am not at all intent on determining what Plato may have really
meant by his discussion of these so-called ’Noble Lies’. What I want to emphasize here is the
historical use made of his discussion by later rulers, their administrators, and advisors.
Neil Godfrey, writes of such later events in “How Plato Inspired Moses: Creation of the Hebrew Bible”
< https://vridar.org/category/book-reviews…/gmirkin-plato-and-creation-of-hebrew-bibl… >, which comments on
one of Russell E. Gmirkin’s epoch-making books, Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible [PCHB]
(New York: Routledge, 2016), and is filed under ‘Gmirkin: Plato and Creation of the Hebrew Bible’,
in Godfrey’s blog, ‘VRIDAR’: