EC 409 / God’s War

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(blogs 402 and 403 have been excluded from the internet series for personal reasons. These may or may not appear in possible subsequent book versions.)

 

God’s War = Christian Civil War

 

The Peace Treaty of Westphalia (1648) ended religious wars in Europe http://www.schillerinstitute.org/strategic/treaty_of_westphalia.html . While Protestants, Lutherans specifically, were the obvious benefactors or the peace treaty, the ‘peace’ engendered new wars, of which the War of the Industrial Age, which began about the year 1800 and is ending about now, devastated the nature-at-large on our planet by unleashing secularized Capitalism (accumulation of anything) on a global scale.

 

The treaty also engendered and maintained many falsehoods. For example, my own country of Latvia, which was engendered by the Bohemian religious sect of Herrnhuters, were ultimately denied their accomplishment, because Lutherans were able to point to the treaty, which not only established sovereignty of nations, but created Lutheranism as a de jure revolutionary religious power. As a consequence of having established the middle class as the prevailing class, the treaty denied equal rights to the ludi, who were the ‘common people’, and who exuded an unpleasant ‘smell’ when coming in contact with the inhabitants of the city, where middle class Lutherans were largely residing.

 

In spite of such kudos, the peace treaty introduced a new calamity: it unleashed Capitalism and secularist Christianity (communism).

 

While we know that Capitalism and Communism fought among themselves a civil war known as the Cold War, and that this war was ‘won’ by Capitalism, the latter began an expansion toward the East, of which the current undeclared war in the Ukraine is the beginning of a much larger and more extensive war than presently imagined.

 

Under the rubric of ‘more extensive’ comes recognition of a new history, which is what my blogs are proposing a story for. Such a history will be necessary for the powers to the East of West to create the moral ground necessary to justify the devastation the war (likely to be a prolonged one) is likely to unleash.

 

The war will also release heretofore repressed religious forces as my previous blog (408) argues. By repressing religious wars, the Treaty of Westphalia left unresolved the nature of westernized history, which the defeat of Byzantium in an earlier age allowed the Catholic Church to introduce. The revised story of history resulted in many misinterpretations. For example, it may be argued that Lenin introduced communism, a secular and Christianized form capitalism, which, to use a current phrase, was to bear ‘a human face’. As we know, the ‘human face’ as interpreted by Stalin continued the war of revisionism (Marx and Engels) against the ludi. The immediate forebears of present-day Ukrainians bore much of the brunt of Stalin’s terror, which created irrational angst that supports Ukrainian nazism which is exploited by the federal government of the U.S.

 

The renowned ‘terrorists’ of our day, who claim the religion of the Islam as their own, are in large part a consequence of the Treaty of Westphalia. Prophet Mohammed created a ‘new’ religion out of his disappointment over the defeat of the early Christians (turned over to the Greek-Russian Orthodox Church) by the Gothic Christians of the West. While the Russian Orthodox Church has retained many ritualistic aspects of the early Christian congregations, it accepted the revised ‘New Testament’, written by those who favored forms of government created by the system of ‘new wealth’. Contrary to their wishful thinking, after the consolidation of taxation as ‘the new order’, the brunt of ‘the order of the eye of the pyramid’ was borne by the ludi.

 

The war in the Middle East, of which the war in the Ukraine is part, is a war arising from the repression of an extended map of Transcaucasian ludi https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=map+of+the+transcaucasus , who—as I have been arguing—coincide, more or less, with the former people of the wood exercising their right to their interpretation of longue durée history. It is they who give rise to the warriors, aka ‘terrorists’, and in due course deliver their inheritance as proto-communist warriors to Lenin and Stalin. If the same, now become Muslim ‘terrorists’ (of whom the Ukrainian Banderists are, not surprisingly, close cousins), gain the upper hand over the West (or East), where populations are largely neo-Christian in orientation, they will not hesitate to kill a large number of them in an irrational frenzy of anti-Stalinist revenge—though they will not know whence the motivation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NePChnsuMNs.

 

The above ought to give sufficient reasons to do further research on the chronology of history as proposed by the Russian mathematician Anatoly Fomenko. A new chronology and a new story will go hand in hand, and will inform us of what we will at a later time perceive as obvious. Last, but not least: Orthodox Christianity and Russia need to come clean on the nature of history—if either has the will to survive the attack of the Goths.

 

Eso’s Chronicles 340 / 16
Odds and Ends 
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RE-POLARIZING GOD (5)!

Several of the threads of argument throughout these blogs have been a search for the Godhead. One of them was mentioned in the immediately preceding blogs:

1.    That since more than a thousand years ago, the seed of coercive government was planted through the institutionalization of taxation. Taxation should not be confused with gifting, which gifts were meant, for the most part, for the temple and its priesthood, the healers of body and soul.

2.    The institutionalization of taxation could not be accomplished without replacing the ‘old’ priesthood with a new and obedient one. The procedure of deinstitutionalization of old traditions is well known also today. It is called ‘regime change’, and is justified through arguments that claim that the ‘old’ regimes are authoritarian in nature, but the ‘new’ ones bring democracy. What occurs in fact is that the ‘new’ introduces a globalized fascist central government masquerading as democracy.

3.    The policy of regime change began with the replacement of the ancient temple authority, a de facto non-government, or a system where people governed themselves, and where the ‘non-government’ (consisting mostly of wandering healers) taught the people what was required to sustain self-government. This author traces this process to the Byzantine Empire and its Emperor Alexis I, who demonized and torched one such Temple authority: King John Basil under the pretext that he was a ‘heretic’ and headed a heretical ‘religion’ from a Temple known as the Temple of the Bogomils or God Lovers. Indeed there never was a ‘temple’, because the Bogomils worshipped in the wood, which they regarded as their temple.

4.    The Bogomils were in fact the first Kriste-ians, aka Children of Johns (Ians). In any event, John Basil, one of the better known Healers of the Kriste-ians, was persuaded by Emperor Alexis I to leave the wood and come to Byzantium. This was done under the pretext that Alexis was interested in John Basil’s ‘doctrine’ of self-government. When in Byzantium, the real Rome of the day, John Basil was quickly declared a heretic and arrested as an enemy of the Empire. A great pit was dug at the Hippodrome, which pit was filled with firewood, which was lit, and John Basil was made its first victim.

5.    Indeed, the Empire’s act of incinerating the Healer instituted the idea of God as an immortal presence in a Raum (German or Gothic for ‘space’, aka Roma). Whereas before this institutionalization of God, God had not existed as an ‘affirmative’ Being, because eternity was thought of in terms of reincarnation, that is to say, that the Mind itself was a kind of Godhead, an invisible soul or spirit that was not called God, because it was—to put it plainly—everywhere, and could float from body to body. This was why God is, to this day, easily imaginable as a Father figure or an “aged man, but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress….” (Yeats), and sing itself into an “artifice of eternity”.

6.    Once self-governance and the wood were eliminated by substituting these with a proto-capitalist King, a centralized government of a verbally asserted ‘democracy’, there necessarily arose many ideas of who God is, even though before that time, he had always been ‘an artifice of eternity’.

7.    Emperor Alexis I replaced John Basil, The Healer, who never supported the tax that was paid by slaughtering the Peoples reindeer herds for their fur, with a fictionalized Healer, whom he called Chez Jesus, aka Christ Jesus. It was to be the function of this regime change, that taxation was accepted and that God was to become a unipolar figure through Jesus.

8.    Today a Unipolar God has been made—at least in theory--the spiritual head of a globally centralized government under the aegis of Washington, D.C., Brussels, and a few other ‘chosen’ and obedient vassal cities. Washington continues the ‘crusades’ begun by the Goths, who were eventually driven from Byzantium by a rebellion of the people of the wood, assuming for themselves a new identity known as mohamedans. These Mohamedans-Muslims had been pulled together from a remnant of the people of the wood by one  Mohammed, behind which name we can easily discern the name of Yohan-med, or King John.

 

9.
It is interesting that the ‘terrorist’ adherents of Yohan-med appear not to fear death, even as their method of martyrdom leaves much to be desired—especially as it involves the death of many ‘innocent’ fools living in the desserts of capitalist cities. The short-comings of the martyr-followers of Yohan-med hinder the reversal of the contest for the authority of the God-head, but retains it in favor of post-modernist capitalism.
   

10.  The rationalization of taking the life of ‘another’, no matter how sophisticated the arguments may be, can never re-polarize Religion and reestablish it as a space in an equilibrium in which the Raum of the Wood retakes some of its lost space and resettles it with the reincarnated lives of the martyrs without the blame of innocent victims putting such a burden on their souls that they cannot rise from their graves, and remain not only half-dead and unreincarnated wanderers in the desert of the Dead, but make that desert a continuation of The Dead of The Urban Empire.

Eso’s Chronicles 163
The Forgotten Christians of Tibet (7-2)
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I know of course that Christianity is supposed to have originated with the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. For a long time, I, too, held to that belief, but the paradox of Christianity: that it acted more like a secular religion than a spiritual religion took its toll. It made no sense why religion should be so empty of ideas and will to resist the rampage of capitalism. I began to investigate the sources of Christian beginnings.

First of all, were historical sources of Christianity itself, and those who disputed these sources. In due course, I realized that the story of Christianity that is being propagated in our day and for some centuries in the past, may be a false Flag story, perhaps even a False Flag.

The first solid touchstone for the story of Jesus as a False Flag was my discovery of an alternate version for the story of King Oedipus by the Greek writer Sophocles. Rather than go along with tradition and Freud and see the play as a story of mother and son incest, I discovered—through my long time curiosity about the whyfores of ancient human sacrifice—that the story could even better be interpreted as a story of betrayal of religion http://oedipusrexrewritten.blogspot.com and community.

The second step, the discovery of the real story about Jesus, came quickly soon thereafter. Having read Anna Comnena’s “The Alexiad” and coming across the story of the Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna in Bart Ehrman’s fabulous book “Lost Christianities”, I realized that the story of Polycarp is a twin to the story of Basil the Bogomil in “The Alexiad”. True, the available stories tell us that Polycarp merely imitated Jesus; however, it is just as believable that Jesus’s name was replaced by that of Polycarp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarp . The meaning of the name ‘rich in fruit’ http://www.behindthename.com/name/polycarp is consistent with that of praise for a king, Basil, or, for that matter, Jesus. Besides, the name ‘karpos’, fruit, has an easy pareidolic association with ‘carp’, a fish. In days past, carp was the main ingredient in a dish of the poor, re gefilte fish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefilte_fish .

Once I got that far into the labyrinth, I began to suspect that the assignation of religion to a specific originator was a story not likely to be true either.

The evidence for this came from my ethnic inheritance, the Latvian language. It happens that in Latvian the most needed teaching for the solidarity of a community is passed from parents, especially the mother, to children by way of the Latvian language itself. This is not by do or don’t directives, but by word inflections imbedded in the language, the inflection that makes a word an endearment. The Latvian language is capable of endearing every word that touches object and subject, including verb. Therefore, if a child is taught to use endearments, a Latvian was/is able to endear (no doubt, with irony) even his-her enemy. Unfortunately, due to the close interlink, neither the pedagogic or political systems are interested to pass this inheritance along.

For this linguistic phenomenon to occur and maintain its potential (though ignored) to our day, not only must a language be extremely old and untouched by a superego dictating laws from above, it likely enjoyed many centuries of freedom and experienced itself as being a worthwhile and practical tool of social intercourse.

Such discoveries as above, also led me to see the name of ‘John’, which has many cognates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_(given_name) (and the link gives only an inept sketch of the extensive use the name has been put to), in a new light. The name obviously reaches thousands of years into the past. One of the common links between the many cognates is that they denote travel, moving, roads, guardianship (jandarme), animal herding, kingship (Gengis), and sacred office. Of the latter, I especially note that the name of Mohammed, also lends itself to the pronunciation of Yohammed or Johan(m), i.e., John. It led me to see that the cognates were not limited to the consonant j or g as the first letter of a name, but that numerous consonants, such as b, d, g, h, j, p, v, w, and all the vowels were put to use as well.

One of the tools that I use to make my discoveries is pareidolia. A widely and deliberately overlooked method in scholarly circles, pareidolia is a device used by ‘the poet within’ every one of us. While our conscious self may pay no attention to parallel meanings or sounds, ‘the poet within’ may pick up on it without much effort or guilt. This often happens through words in a song, especially rhymes, either at the end of lines or imbedded in the text.

One word that could long ago have been put to better and more accurate use is ‘pagan’, but because of rigid academism never was. The word is far more telling when pronounced ‘pa-yan’, because then we clearly see that the prefix ‘pa-’ is meant as a put-down to the name of ‘Yan’. A full explanation will take more space than I have here, but  the pronunciation ‘pagan’ is trying to eliminate the association of ‘pa-yan’ with an archaic form of Christianity better pronounced as ‘cross-yan’ (X-yan), The prefix ‘pa’ erases the ‘X’ by reducing it to ‘pa’. X is of course nothing but a mark for a cross road , which is a place to gather and confer.

An entirely different story may be accessed through the name of ‘uriankkai’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriankhai , a forest dwelling people closely associated with the Evenks (see below). The Uriankha may have contributed to such modern names as Juri (a cognate of George), and by way of Korean to ‘orangutan’ (yorang…).

Having reached this level of familiarity and confidence, I began to look for patterns that might indicate the use of language as a tool to pass along communal values. Another language (aside from Latvian) that I read had the ability was the above mentioned Evenks (also known as Tungus) http://www.hunmagyar.org/turan/evenk/ , a herding people, who once used to follow reindeer herds with the seasons. I noted that if ‘evenk’ were to derive from the verb ‘to herd’, the verb of Jahnis (John) in Latvian would have been ‘to yanc’, which may have led to the verb ‘to dance’, originally meaning to milling around. When looking for information about the Evenk language, found little of the kind of information I was looking for. Academics appear mainly interested in grammar, not what a language aside from subject and object communicates or that it transforms itself with the help of pareidolia.

This is a long way about to come to the Tibetan people of whose efforts to resist their cultural elimination by the Chinese government through self-immolation is in current news. This Wikipedia link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Tibet mentions that Christianity has been noted in Tibet in the early 5^th and 6^th centuries. Along with my theory that communal-moral-religious values were passed on through language, I suggest that indeed Tibetan Christianity preceded Western Christianity. If Bön, said to be a shamanistic Tibetan religion, may also be pronounced as Yon, then we have a link not through any specific historical name, but a transmission of religious values by their imbedment in sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_K_mMhZrPs  and languages.

Incidentally, Islam and early Christianity have the same roots, rather than the divisive separation created by secularist extremists on either extreme.