Recently, I came across an intriguing example of usage of the word "oligarchy" in my big old dictionary. It said, "the Millennium -- old domination of the landowning and merchant [oligarchy] -- D.M. Friedenberg." (See photo of the dictionary entry below.)
I looked up D.M. Friedenberg and found he was an authority on the use of seals by Jews in medieval Europe. He claimed that there was no usage of seals by Jews in medieval Poland (see https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/27/oa_monograph/chapter/2186169), but that claim has been contradicted. A Polish scholar, Jerzy Mazur, in 2009 wrote the following in an article in Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia ("Jewish Seals in Late Medieval and Early Modern Poland," link at https://www.ejournals.eu/pliki/art/5665/):
Even though there are no preserved Jewish seals from the medieval Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, we can still attempt to reconstruct them by analyzing available artifacts from neighboring countries and provinces, especially those from Silesia and Hungary. One of the most interesting Jewish seals from this region is a golden signet ring found by Marcus Brann in Wroclaw in 1906. This thirteenth century reversible artifact belonged, according to the Hebrew inscription, to Abba ben Abba. Its edge was decorated with an image of a dragon and its rim with a head of an unrecognizable mythological animal. The face of the seal was adorned with a representation of unidentified bird with its head turned to the right and surrounded by small branches of a tree. The signet’s reverse side showed an abbreviated Hebrew inscription deciphered by Marcus Brann as, “Increase my luck (happiness), do not diminish it. Amen, Amen. Amen. Selah. And nothing is here of the Amorites practice.” The formula distancing the owner of the seal from “Amorites’ practices” was employed to confirm that the inscription and ring itself were not connected with magic.
(P. 52)
Having noted a couple years ago that my thinking seemed much clearer after I had stopped wearing my rings, I think that rings can be used to alter thought patterns via the central nervous system. For lack of a better analogy, remember wrapping metal objects around TV antennae to get better reception decades ago? Conductive spirals and rings can greatly enhance reception of specific transmissions made via electromagnetic radiation.
Because I'm not smart enough to have been the first person to notice a difference in my thinking when wearing rings constantly versus no longer doing so, I think that the "magic of the Amorites" is a reference to electromagnetism-based manipulation (or at least "nudging") of other people with the aid of conductive jewelry. I think this is a secret that has been kept from "the masses" for centuries, but it is slowly beginning to come out now.
I'd like to know more about what D.M. Friedberg meant when he talked about this oligarchy he calls "the Millennium," wouldn't you?
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