http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/nyregion/7-children-die-in-brooklyn-fire.html
Brooklyn Fire Kills 7 Children, City’s Worst Toll Since 2007
A hot plate warmed food in the darkened kitchen in Brooklyn, allowing an Orthodox Jewish mother to feed her family while observing the Sabbath prohibition on lighting a flame.
Upstairs, she and eight children slept.
Upstairs, she and eight children slept.
That small convenience led to the city’s deadliest fire in eight years, after flames that began in the kitchen ripped through the home, trapping seven children ages 5 to 16 in their bedrooms, as their mother and a 15-year-old sister, cloaked in thick smoke, jumped out of second-floor windows. They were the only two survivors.
[ The two women are most probably embodied in our historical context by the Orthodox and Coptic or Orthodox + Catholic churches who are coming under attack from the iconoclasts. Theologically, they could be Eve/Norea or Barbelo/Sophia.
for more see:
http://control-avles-blogs.blogspot.com/2015/01/17-december-2014.html
Very related - "Uninflammable sophia"
http://jesus-partisans-balkans.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-uninflammable-sophia.html
"And I shall withdraw with everyone who will know me. And they will enter into the immeasurable light, (where) there is no one of the flesh nor the wantonness of the first to seize them. They will be unhampered (and) holy, since nothing drags them down. I myself protect them, since they have holy garments, which the fire cannot touch, nor darkness nor wind nor a moment, so as to cause one to shut the eyes......"
The Concept of Our Great Power
A fire with no flame (prohibited on the Sabbath) . The Archons will self-destroy with their "dark fire". The two women escaped from the second floor, while the kids were downstairs - as the archons are in the abyss where they meet their end.
“And a great clap of thunder will come out of a great force that is above all the forces of chaos, where the firmament of the woman (Sophia) is situated. Having created the first product, she (Sophia) will put away the wise fire of intelligence and clothe herself with witless wrath. Then she will pursue the gods of chaos, whom she created along with the prime parent (Yaltabaoth). She will cast them down into the abyss. They will be obliterated because of their wickedness. For they will come to be like volcanoes and consume one another until they perish at the hand of the prime parent (Yaldabaoth). When he has destroyed them, he will turn against himself and destroy himself until he ceases to exist.”
On the Origin of the World 126:13 ]
The authorities attributed the fire to an unknown malfunction in the electric hot plate. Such devices are often used by observant Jewish families, who turn them on to heat food before the Sabbath begins Friday night and keep them going through the following day.
Mayor Bill de Blasio arrived in the early afternoon on Saturday and walked inside the shell of the house with firefighters. “You can literally see what was a home for a large, strong family and now it’s wiped out, every room empty, burned and charred,” he said, adding: “This is a tragedy that has very few examples to look at, it’s so painful, it’s so difficult.”
On Saturday, investigators found a smoke detector in the basement of the home at 3371 Bedford Avenue, near Avenue L, but had not found any on the first floor, where the fire started, or the second, where the family slept. They were still searching the debris.
“We believe there were none,” Fire Commissioner Daniel A. Nigro said. “That’s always a tragedy in itself.”
Just after midnight, flames began to fly off the large hot plate on a first-floor kitchen counter, near the back of the home in the Midwood section of Brooklyn, a neighborhood populated by many large Orthodox families. On a day of rest for observant Jews, it would have been one of the few electrical appliances in the neighborhood that were flipped on.
In upstairs bedrooms connected to the kitchen by an open stairwell, the Sassoon family slept: their mother, Gayle Sassoon, 45; four girls: Eliane, 16; Siporah, 15; Rivkah, 11; and Sara, 6; and four boys: David, 12; Yeshua, 10; Moshe, 8; and Yaakob,
[ In gnosticism every being has its opposite gender countepart, even the archons. It would be hard to find a jewish family with 14 kids - 7 boys and seven girls, so instead they've used 3 girls and 4 boys, the allegory still holds
“This ruler (Yaltabaoth), by being androgynous, made himself a vast realm, an extent without limit. And he contemplated creating offspring for himself, and created for himself seven offspring, androgynous just like their parent.”
Hypostasis of the Archons ]
5. Their father was away at a conference, and given the Sabbath prohibition on electronic communication, he did not learn what had happened until several hours after the fire, when the Police Department reached him at a synagogue.
[ In gnosticism every being has its opposite gender countepart, even the archons. It would be hard to find a jewish family with 14 kids - 7 boys and seven girls, so instead they've used 3 girls and 4 boys, the allegory still holds
“This ruler (Yaltabaoth), by being androgynous, made himself a vast realm, an extent without limit. And he contemplated creating offspring for himself, and created for himself seven offspring, androgynous just like their parent.”
Hypostasis of the Archons ]
5. Their father was away at a conference, and given the Sabbath prohibition on electronic communication, he did not learn what had happened until several hours after the fire, when the Police Department reached him at a synagogue.
For some time, the fire smoldered in the kitchen unnoticed, fire officials believe. But as soon as the blaze reached the stairwell, it shot upstairs, the combustible wood of the home feeding its rapid rise, the authorities said. The stairwell turned into a pillar of flames.. Four children in two bedrooms in the back of the house were confined to their rooms as thick smoke filled the home. Three more children were stuck in a front bedroom.
[ GOD is a pillar of fire AND smoke in the Old Testament Exodus 13:21. This is a cryptic tale of Barbelo and her daughter Sophia/Achamoth or Eve and Noria (?) who survive the coming presence of God , the so called conflagration/ end of the world (2 Peter 3:7,10,11). In gnosticism, the "elect" are saved by angels each time the demiurge tries to torch them. As previously mentioned, they believe God will torch himself with fire and brimstone. In sci-fi movies in the "alien invasion" sub-genre, this twist is when a protagonist uses the beam weapons/lasers of the aliens against them and destroys their mothership or planet.
"Then the god of the aeons will give them (some) of those who serve him [...]. They will come upon that land where the great men will be who have not been defiled, nor will be defiled, by any desire. For their soul did not come from a defiled hand, but it came from a great commandment of an eternal angel. Then fire and sulphur and asphalt will be cast upon those men, and fire and (blinding) mist will come over those aeons, and the eyes of the powers of the illuminators will be darkened, and the aeons will not see them in those days. And great clouds of light will descend, and other clouds of light will come down upon them from the great aeons.
Abrasax and Sablo and Gamaliel will descend and bring those men out of the fire and the wrath, and take them above the aeons and the rulers of the powers, and take them away [...] of life [...] and take them away [...] aeons [...] dwelling place of the great [...] there, with the holy angels and the aeons. The men will be like those angels, for they are not strangers to them. But they work in the imperishable seed. "
Apocalypse of Adam
Another possible [but unlikely] inspiration could be the "higher God"'s fire punishing the 7 (hebdomad) evil rulers of the world
"And when the perfect number is completed, so that the Mixture shall be dissolved, I will give commandment that they bring all tyrant gods, who have not given up the purification of their light, and will give commandment to the wise fire, over which the perfect pass, to eat into those tyrants, until they give up the last purification of their light."
Pistis Sophia chapter 45 ]
Gayle Sassoon was separated from some of her children by flames that acted as a burning barricade,
[ The Egyptians as carriers of the sparks of Sophia? And the OT jews as "servants of the archons/hebdomad"
And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.
Exodus 14:20 ]
Mr. Nigro said. After jumping from the second floor, she stumbled to a neighbor’s door, but could do little more than knock and ask for help. Siporah Sassoon, her second-oldest child, also managed to jump out, but her seven siblings were trapped behind, wailing from the bedrooms. “She valiantly tried, although she was badly burned, to get out and get help,” Mr. Nigro said of Ms. Sassoon. “She was very brave.”
Three and a half minutes after several neighbors called 911, firefighters arrived. By then, flames eating through the first floor forced them to spray water on the blaze before they could enter. The stairwell was still barely navigable when they charged inside.
Firefighters fought through the flames, found the children in their bedrooms and grabbed them, passing them through windows to colleagues who were waiting on ladders and on a porch behind the house.
“They took them out every which way,” said James Long, a fire department spokesman.
The firefighters started resuscitation efforts as they rushed the children to waiting ambulances. They were taken away to various hospitals but seven could not be saved. Gayle and Siporah Sassoon both sustained burns and smoke inhalation, and were in critical condition on Saturday. The mother was at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, which has a hyperbaric oxygen chamber for burn victims. Siporah was at Staten Island University Hospital North.
The fire was the city’s deadliest since March 2007, when nine children and a woman from two families were killed by a fire in the Bronx. That blaze started in a cord attached to a space heater, then raced up a staircase in a 100-year-old wooden building.
The fire, the leaps to safety, and the unsuccessful rescues cast anguish over a Brooklyn block still flecked with the previous day’s snow. A large, square, charred hole gaped from the front of the light-colored, red-roofed house.
On Saturday morning, many neighborhood residents had not yet heard the news because they had turned off their phones, televisions and computers the night before in observance of the Sabbath.
A neighbor who gave only her first name, Bonnie, said the mother, a beautiful and popular girl in high school, had married in 1998 and moved to Israel, and that her husband worked in banking. She had moved back to Brooklyn about two years ago, to the house on Bedford Avenue where she grew up and is still owned by her family, to be closer to her large extended family of Syrian Jews in Midwood, Bonnie, 40, said. The mother’s parents live in New Jersey, she said.
“They’re a very close-knit family,” Bonnie said. “It’s a tragedy.”
Reached by phone, a man who identified himself as a relative of the family but refused to give his name said between heavy sighs that “it’s not a good time.”
The home is at least 90 years old, according to records from the Department of Buildings. A neighbor who has been living across the street since 1969, Robert Latish, said the age of the homes — his was built more than a century ago — made him even more vigilant about using smoke detectors.
Mr. Long, the fire department spokesman, said that at a minimum, homes are typically required to have a smoke detector on every floor as well as outside areas where people sleep.
“They’re beautiful homes on this block but God forbid you have a fire,” said Mr. Latish, the neighbor.
Having loosely known the family for a long time, Mr. Latish said he considered them kind, close and observant. Even the youngsters dressed the part.
“All in the hats,” said Mr. Latish, 61. “Very nice people, very religious.”
At Jacobi Medical Center, where Ms. Sassoon had been taken, exceptions were being made Saturday to the Sabbath restrictions on cellphone use. A rabbi chaplain was giving a volunteer an order of kosher food to be delivered to the hospital: bananas, cake, challah bread, gefilte fish, salad, diet coke, spoons and forks.
Heather, a first cousin of the mother, took a car to the Bronx in her pajamas and was in the family waiting area on the second floor at Jacobi Medical Center. She did not want to give her last name because of concerns she would offend religious sensibilities about modesty and privacy. “I saw it on the news,” she said. “It was the house I used to go to every day. I saw the address I almost fainted.”
She called her cousin “a religious, good girl,” a who “gives everybody strength.” The children, she said, sometimes wore matching outfits and were well-behaved “little angels.” Learning that her cousin would likely live was a relief, but raised another troubling question.
“How’s she going to cope?” Heather mused. “How on earth?”
Correction: March 21, 2015
An earlier version of this article included an incorrect age range for the victims of the fire, based on information from the police. The children were ages 5 to 16, not 5 to 15. It also misstated the age of the girl who escaped the burning house by jumping out a window, based on information from the authorities. She is 15, not 14. An earlier version of this article also misstated the number of people killed in a 2007 fire in the Bronx. Nine children and one adult died as a result of that fire, not eight children and one adult.
An earlier version of this article included an incorrect age range for the victims of the fire, based on information from the police. The children were ages 5 to 16, not 5 to 15. It also misstated the age of the girl who escaped the burning house by jumping out a window, based on information from the authorities. She is 15, not 14. An earlier version of this article also misstated the number of people killed in a 2007 fire in the Bronx. Nine children and one adult died as a result of that fire, not eight children and one adult.
The location of the incident. Between Avenue L and AVENUE M. Or abbreviated - AVE.M. or Ave Maria.
[ same as downed flights MH370 and MH17 or reverse - HM - Hail Mary, the english version]
Three blocks away we find Our Lady Help of Christians Church.
In 1572, the Islamic Ottoman Empire intended to invade Christian Europe. Pope Pius V called Christian armies from all over Europe to defend the continent and asked the believers to pray to Mary in order to help the Christians. The defeat of the Muslim Turks was attributed to the intercession of Mary under this title.
.........Possibly warriors returning from the Battle of Lepanto (October 7, 1571) visited the sanctuary of Loreto, and saluted the Holy Virgin there for the first time with this new title.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Help_of_Christians
"Mary" in this tradition, is pictured with a crown on her head:
“The maiden[Sophia] is the daughter of light / Upon her stands and rests the majestic effulgence of kings [a crown?] (...) In the crown of her head the king is established....."
-Acts of Thomas Version 1
"My Church is the daughter of light; the splendour of kings is hers. Charming and winsome is her aspect, fair and adorned with every good work. Her garments are like unto flowers, the smell whereof is fragrant and pleasant. On her head dwelleth the King, and He feedeth those who dwell with Him beneath. Truth is placed on her head, joy moves in her feet .... "
-Acts of Thomas Version 2
