Wishful thinking?

"If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come
from the tongue they will not pass beyond the ears."
-Shihab al-Din Yahya al-Suhrawardi (1154-91)

Hermes Trismegistis: Asclepius III (trans.Walter Scott)
Do you not know, Asclepius, that Egypt is an image of heaven, or, to speak more exactly, in Egypt all the operations of the powers which rule and work in heaven have been transferred to earth below?
....the Kosmos will once more be deemed worthy of worship and wondering reverence, and God, the maker and restorer of the mighty fabric, will be adored by the men of that day with unceasing hymns of praise and blessing.

CAIRO (Reuters) - "Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Wednesday that talking to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was "the right thing to do" but Egypt and other parties were best placed to do it.
In an interview with Reuters in Cairo, where Hamas and the rival Fatah group prepared on Wednesday for a national dialogue on a new Palestinian government, Miliband said Egypt was acting on behalf of the whole world in its dealings with Hamas.

Egypt, the only Arab state bordering the Gaza Strip, has taken the lead in trying to mediate a long-term truce between Hamas and Israel after the Israeli assault on the enclave which killed some 1,300 Palestinians in December and January.
It is also the host for a dialogue of Palestinian political groups formally opening in Cairo on Thursday.
Miliband said: "Egypt has been nominated ... to speak to Hamas on behalf of the Arab League but actually on behalf of the whole world. Others speak to Hamas. That's the right thing to do and I think we should let the Egyptians take this forward.""

The March 2 donors conference in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort aims to raise humanitarian and rebuilding funds for Gaza after Israel's invasion at the end of last year, which killed 1,300 Palestinians.

Preliminary estimates put the damage in Hamas-run Gaza after Israel's offensive at nearly $2 billion.

The only certainty is that there is no certainty. No infidel I, certified by the Indiana State Library & endowed by Hermes personally with ceremonial vestures; Last of the True Believers (somehow I just can't believe it...): Marquess of Make Belief, Vizier of 'Alam al-mithal

"The imaginal world is the realm of the symbolic, the alchemical, the visionary, the wonderful."

"Many centuries ago, the philosopher Suhrawardi coined the term "Na Koja-Abad" (Nowhere Land) to refer to a mythical, but nevertheless real place, situated in a kind of interworld between the realms of the senses and those of the intellect. Later Shi'ite traditions referred to it as "Hurqalya" and mentioned its two emerald cities (Jabarsa and Jabalqa) capable of being perceived solely by the Creative Imagination. (This is not the "imagination" of fancy or of wish-fulfillment, but the "Imaginatio Vera" of the medieval philosophers: a kind of organic mirror where -- according to certain Ishraqi philosophers -- images from the material world and archetypal forms from the sphere of the intellect are able to come together and react). Hurqalya was believed to be the real theater of life, bubbling up images into the conscious mind in the form of myth and legend."
http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2005/October/Iraq/index.html

(Suhrawardi) "saw himself as heir to a philosophia perennis begun with the wisdom teachings of the Prophet Idris (sometimes identified with the Egyptian Thoth, the Prophet Enoch of the Old Testament and Hermes Trismegistus), transmitted to his son Seth (possibly the Hermetic figure Agathodaimon), the Persian Priest-Kings known as the Knosrawani sages...".

"It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land."
-Sitting Bull (1831 – 1890)