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    Eli: Blind Man Walking
    Eli: Blind Man Walking
    Eli: Blind Man Walking
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    Eli: Blind Man Walking

    By Ronald Lee Weagley

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    Robes, uniforms, and discipline respected, Dr. Weagley served his country in the US Army as a Morse code operator in East Africa, the US Navy Reserve as a chaplain, and subsequently his church as a believer.
    He labored in several business-world settings, studied in numerous academic institutions obtaining multiple degrees, served in the non-profit service for the church as an administrator executivepresident of a retirement community, CEO of a parochial school, director of a social service systemand the family served in parish ministry together.
    In 2007, Dr. Weagley, (an ordained minister in the Lutheran Church in America) contracted his arch foe turned guardian dark angelGuillain-Barre Syndromea paralyzing virus. Mobility restricted, he turned his attention toward a lifetime desire: to write tales of truth, justice, and faith trapped in historical timenot only as a preacher but also as a witness. ELI is a historical fiction adventure (wrapped in religious motif threads) that captures Dr. Weagleys inclination toward freedom, justice, pride, and hope that plates eternal salvation.
    Currently in retirement, Dr. Weagley enjoys writing tales of truth shielded in historical fiction in order to communicate the wisdom and blessings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Adventure, religion, and social behavior options fill the pages of his work as he tries to build palatable messages around characters that have suffered collateral damage in life situations.
    Time and circumstance meet patience and faith in his works. Good and bad options bombard and abound confusing the imbalance of honor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJun 14, 2012
    ISBN9781468597752
    Eli: Blind Man Walking
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    Ronald Lee Weagley

    The sanctity of truth frequently evades when the flame fades to the darkness as if bowing to the will-o'-the-wisp corpse torch, a ghostly light term for a fantasy phantom sometimes seen at night or at twilight over bogs, swamps, and marshes. During his life, the Reverend Doctor Ronald Lee Weagley donned many titles, not only son, grandson, nephew, boy, Ronnie, Private, Specialist, Lieutenant, Captain, Padre, Mister, Pastor, father, husband, Assistant to the Bishop, and “hey-you,” but also a few of the more colorful adjectives unprintable at this writing,. He lays claim to all and to none of the aforementioned, preferring additional more tranquil options: lover, husband, soul mate, dad, or friend. Our egos know our lists. Occasionally remorse delivers a taint tart’s bite of lemon for our palate as we wish we were more deserving of the privilege titles flashing in ones recall; but we are often know for what we do and not who we are actually. Dr. Weagley was born Ronnie for some reason known only to his departed mother and father. His maternal grandfather Roy Franklin Hahn, who read the bible regularly, prayed incessantly, and invoked the deity at random, occasionally as a blessing and occasionally in wrath, contributed significantly to Dr. Weagley’s value system until later in life when congruity touched him in a religious environment. A tour in Africa with the United States Army Security Agency as an enlisted Morse code operator /Traffic Analyst trailed with a business career as branch manager with a national loan company and over ten years in the United States Navy Reserve as a Chaplain. In addition, several years as a trucking company president’s staff member coupled with two academic degrees, two professional degrees and a myriad of continuing education experiences in homiletics, organization development, business management, pastoral ministry, and related areas, served him well in his vocation. Each contributed as if a straw in the flame of the wisp tale that declares light in darkness. Dr. Weagley and his wife of fifty-three years, with four children, thirteen grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, retired to retreat to a slower pace in service. Illness struck, pointing a new path. The paralytic virus Guillain-Barre Syndrome morphed his mode of operation from a stand-up robed preacher into a seated keyboard author telling tales, spinning yarns, and pontificating lucidly. His favorite phrase, “Seek and you shall find,” best captures as well as elaborates his life and his dreams while his sermons, services, and sincerity scream from the pages of his creative fiction works, rooted in reality, SEASCAPE, TRIBE ARPEGGIOS, WALLACE, JED, and JIM.

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      Eli - Ronald Lee Weagley

      © 2012 Ronald Lee Weagley. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 06/12/2012

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-9777-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-9776-9 (dj)

      ISBN: 978-1-4685-9775-2 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012907948

      Graphics, renderings, and special graphic enhancements by Milt R. Hays, Mireiha , 2012

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Dedication

      Characters

      Prologue

      Chapter One Situation

      Chapter Two Books

      Chapter Three Teacher

      Chapter Four Family

      Chapter Five Nomads

      Chapter Six Smallpox

      Chapter Seven Dreams

      Glossary

      Dedication

      Youth predicates the assumptions that temporal life has no ending, that happiness equals treasures collected, and that nothing can bring diminishing harm to the inevitability of the moment, all suppositions based upon tolerable acts of conformity within cultural expectations, that is, perform acceptably and receive the entitlement rewards.

      Natural Nu (fiction), from the Calusa village of NO (history)—dubbed Eli by the sixteenth century occupation colonials while at war—is the key protagonist Calusa natural master of a tale set in historical fiction. Cowpox blinded, a Spanish missionary tutored, and Mayan heritage roots in a creation speculation enabled him to see clearly although blind by using an array of sharp innate senses under specialty categories: precedents, intuitions, and deductions.

      In the 1599 Geneva Bible edition, John, Chapter 9, verse 39, Jesus said, I am (come) unto judgment into this world, that they which see not, might see; and that they which see, might be made blind. Again, Jesus spoke in Matthew 13:13, Therefore speak I to them in parables, because they seeing, do not see and hearing, they hear not, neither (do they) understand. Are we not all blind when we see?

      The ELI adventure tale tests many presumed theological assumptions; and using the Calusa three EYE metaphors for the triune souls of man, Eli offers variant options for thought that move over the real-time reality line into fictional-fantasy magic parallel in root to Christianity.

      As a mark of eternal gratitude, this work recognizes the privilege to serve the Risen One who gives sight

      To family, sympathetic colleagues, and fellow soothsayers that answered calls for assistance, while strapped to the rickety table of limitations rolling in transit through life, I extend appreciation.

      In respective love, we give thanks to God for allowing the awareness of the fact that the Kingdom of God is within us.

      Ronald Lee Weagley

      Characters

      Ahitub, "son of brother of good," fifth son of Eli and Mary

      Antonio de Mendoza, First Viceroy of the New Spain Viceroyalty in 1535

      Benjamin, son of Judah alias Judd, ala Jud, brother of Mary and companion to Eli in his blindness

      Calusa, tribe of Escampaba naturals that camped in the village of NO

      Chief Carlos, vibrant but placid Calusa chief that preceded Chief Pedro Carlos

      Chief Pedro Carlos Calusa, Calusa chief antithesis to Eli, succeeded Carlos’ cousin Caalus, Escampaba Kingdom chief in Calos, the main Calusa village on Estero Bay mound north of NO, the Senequne unknown/unnamed successors

      Columbus, 1492, Spanish explorer that discovered Americas

      David, "beloved" fourth son of Eli and Mary Calusa

      Eli Calusa, (ee’lie, meaning God is exalted) born a warrior in 1534 as Nu of the Calusa village NO known, as NufumNO—slurred abbreviation of Nu later named by Conquistadors as Eli. They thought he lied about his name

      Escampaba, natural Nation of the Calusa from which Eli emerged first as NufumNO and then into Nu

      Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abraham religions, she was the first woman created by God, in the Genesis creation narrative—(see Lilith)

      Father Phinehas, fictional Roman Catholic Jesuit priest who befriended, taught and converted NufumNO to a high priest named Eli, who was likely descended from Aaron’s fourth son, Ithamar. God opened Hannah’s womb and a son, Samuel, was born and raised by high temple priest, Eli, along with Eli’s two sons, Phinehas and Hophni, brothers but wayward sons

      Felipe, Calusa chief, succeeded Carlos who was his brother-in-law and cousin

      Flower, birth mother of Nu, an intelligent Escampaba (Calusa) maiden also from NO, married Shell

      Hernando Cortez, in 1519 conquered the landmass later named Mexico.

      Hernando de Soto, Spanish explorer into Tampa Bay in 1539

      Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, Spanish explorer shipwrecked in the Florida Keys and lived with Calusa for seventeen (17) years

      Ichabod, "glory departed" eldest son of Eli and Mary

      Juan Carlos Calusa, youngest grandson of Reuben Carlos, great-grandson of Eli

      Juan Ponce de Leon, 1513, explorer of Florida who named the state, "Feast of Flowers"

      Judah, alias Judd, ala Jud, father-in-law from the Calusa village Judun and follower of Eli

      Lilith, In Jewish folklore, from the 8th–10th centuries Alphabet of Ben Sira onwards, Lilith becomes biblical Adam’s first wife, created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. She contrasts with Eve, created from one of Adam’s ribs

      Mary Calusa, daughter of Judd, wife of Eli, mother of Ichabod, Samuel, and David, and sister of Benjamin, called Cricket

      Nu, Shell and Flower named their eldest son Nu but the name slurred into NufumNO and the conquistadors thought he lied, thus they named him Eli

      NufumNO, the slurred birth name that produced Eli

      Panfilo de Narvaez, Spanish explorer into Tampa Bay in 1528

      Panther, Chief of the Tuckahoe Nation

      Pedro Menendez de Aviles, Spanish explorer, who built a garrison in 1566 with Jesuit mission, San Anton de Carlos at Calusa capitol and wrote a report

      Reuben Carlos Calusa, "behold, a son," son of Ahitub, grandson of Eli who becomes heir to the pox scarred tradition at age eight (8)

      Samuel, "heard by God" second son of Eli and Mary

      Saul, "called by God" third son of Eli and Mary

      Senequne Calusa, first chief recorded for the Escampaba Calusa

      Shell, father of Nu, was a warrior in the Escampaba (Calusa) tribe from NO

      EBB TIDE

      PROLOGUE:

      10,000-BC-Mayan Naturals entered Florida

      5,000-BC-People live in wetland villages

      ONE:

      1513-Juan Ponce de Leon arrives in southwest

      1517-Francisco Hernandez de Cordoba returned and was attacked

      1521-Juan Ponce de Leon mortally wounded and dies in Cuba

      1528-Panfilo de Narvaez expedition in Tampa Bay withdrew

      1539-Hernando de Soto expedition in Tampa Bay

      1534-Eli born as Nu from NO

      1539-Eli’s first Capture

      1549-Eli Recaptured w/Cuba & cowpox

      TWO:

      1550-Hernando de Escalante concepts

      Fontaneda arrived shipwrecked in the keys

      1553-Eli 1st Oracle

      THREE:

      1557-Oracle-#2 revelations

      1564-Senequne, succeeded by his brother, (unknown name

      Carlos succeeded by his cousin/brother-in-law

      Felipe Carlos succeeded by cousin, Pedro

      1566-Spanish Explorer Pedro Menendez de Aviles, strikes peace

      Chief Carlos offers his sister in marriage

      Aviles left a garrison of soldiers and Jesuit mission

      San Anton de Carlos at the Calusa capitol

      FOUR:

      1567-Eli marriage and children

      1569-Aviles garrison abandoned

      FIVE:

      1583-Eli on Sinai in the swamp

      SIX:

      1595-Hurricane & Smallpox

      Families & Benjamin die

      Reuben Carlos aids Eli

      1614-Spanish attacked Calusa

      SEVEN:

      1630-Eli Dies at eighty-six (96) years of age

      POST:

      1666-Chiefs marry into alliance tribes

      1697-Franciscan missionaries established a mission to the Calusa

      Calusa migrate toward the Florida Keys

      1711-Evacuations sent to Florida Keys and to Cuba

      1743/63-Spanish transferred Florida to English Kingdom

      Extermination by collateral damage

      Seminole assimilation

      1763-Pockets of renegade Calusa survived in the swamps

      EXTINCTION

      Prologue

      ELI is a historical sequel companion to TRIBE ARPEGGIOS, JIM, and SCORPION.

      This work embodies a uniquely mystic natural charismatic spiritual leader with a disposition motivated by circumstance and a discipline fueled by intellect at odds with the normal cultural expectations as taught by the Calusa natural (Shell People) that occupied southwest Florida for centuries using tribe based violence, retribution, and war to survive, meagerly.

      Rather than a continuing genocide war—at the hands of the greedy European interlopers inflicted on the backs of the naturals—Nu (Eli) offered those who followed him a bloodless and passive alternative, a non-violent life-style.

      Eli slowly constructed his approach during trances and oracles as motivated by periodic visitations with his ethereal dream companions who visited occasionally in visions, so to speak in bellicose.

      Although only a homosapien and not an otherworldly avatar, nevertheless, Eli felt instructed as regards behaviors, attitudes, and decisions that conflicted the Calusa survival amidst the conquistador acts of genocide for wealth.

      The Eli plot was a contradiction to the cause and effect survival pattern implicit in the legends and oral traditions taught in the Mayan techniques employed by their ancestors—who knew, but did not know why they knew that their acts were the will of the great sky God(s). The spark of awareness light arrived with the darkness of captivity and remained for all to see through the pupil (soul eye) of a blind man walking after Father Phinehas introduced Eli to Jesus.

      Living out of the sea, the Calusa stood in defiance to surreptitious invasions that incorporated the use of weapons whether for retaliation, for conquest, or for plotting initiated by others. Eli’s footprint on the path of life was a mark of peace that held the Key to the Kingdom of eternity as an answer hidden, but in plain sight. The balance equivalent to hate, vengeance, pride, and violence resided quietly within life travelers, not outside.

      Teaching—the way, the path, the trail—was the task that befell Eli. He stuttered and stammered in speech, staggered and slipped in his saunter, and employed stillness and silence in his charisma image, all of which betrayed little for emulation as viewed by the ferocious shell people.

      Eli persisted—true to his personalized commission—while his sons faltered in their frailty, ultimately precariously, while maintaining their learned truths. Deep within the stream of life for each participant, there rested a desire for more than what revenge against injustice permitted. The peace of conscience burned brightly for those who remained valid in the struggle. The most faithful gave back to the source of their strength for the validity of their cause.

      Eli, formerly named Nu from the village of NO (beloved), was an Escampaba Calusa natural that the colonials dubbed Indian in the erroneous generalization of misdirection rendered (literally) by Christopher Columbus in 1492 A.D.

      Juan Ponce de Leon—seeker of the Fountain of Youth—felt the blade of the Calusa shell knife. He died in Havana, Cuba from wounds inflicted by the towering seven-foot tall Calusa goliaths during a swamp battle.

      Eli, was born into the fray, suffered contradictions, and emerged with a new direction and a new name, a contraction formed by the conquistador jailors when they could not believe he truly was Nu from the village of NO. Their conclusion was that he lied (he lie); therefore, in gravel grunts worth noting, they produced the name Eli.

      Simultaneously, a patron tutor, a Spanish Jesuit priest, saw the spark of light in the eyes of Eli; and after quoting scripture, the priest assumed patronage of the young captive.

      Inevitably or unfortunately, whichever fits the eye of the beholder, cowpox blinded Eli while held captive in a Cuba prison. He emerged as a mystic soothsayer whose personal actualization was to be a

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