05-03-2013, 03:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2013, 04:11 PM by Charles Drago.)
What I originally wrote:
"An example: It is impossible for me and others not to see ritual and magic(k) driving the brutal subjugations of indigenous aboriginal/tribal peoples by their imperialist conquerors long after military and material objectives of conquest have been met."
The replacement by violence of one controlling spiritual/scientific/political system by another may be understood as magical ritual in the sense that Giordano Bruno might have used the term.
(After he conquered the Aztec Empire, Cortés ordered that the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary of Mexico City be built on the vanquished race's most sacred ground. Stones from the temple of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec's god of war, were used in its construction.
Mt. Rushmore was carved into the summit a natural "temple" within the Black Hills, territory of immense spiritual significance for the vanquished Lakota [Sioux] peoples.
It is as if Barbarians had sacked post-Renaissance Rome and painted over the Sistine Chapel ceiling portraits of their bloodthirsty deities and leaders.)
What Bruno represented to the controlling spiritual/scientific/political system of his time was mortally threatening heresy: He combined an embrace of Copernicus's heliocentrism with understanding and promotion of the ancient Hermetic tradition.
Bruno also spoke openly of the Church's hellish condition, conjuring descriptions that might have been written about today's Church:
From The Torch-Bearer: "You will see, in mixed confusion, snatches of cutpurses, wiles of cheats, enterprises of rogues; also delicious repulsiveness, bitter sweets, foolish decisions, mistaken faith and crippled hopes, niggard charities, judges noble and serious for other men's affairs with little truth in their own; virile women, effeminate men and voices of craft and not of mercy so that he who believes most is most fooled, and everywhere the love of gold."
I do not even remotely approach the status of Bruno scholar, so I'm treading very carefully so as not to cross the dilettante line.
What I cannot help but note, however, is that JFK represented a Bruno-like threat to the controlling spiritual/scientific/political system of his/our time.
And what I cannot help but conclude is that those at the pinnacle of the Sponsorship level secretly included spiritual -- or magical -- ritual within the larger conspiracy they set in motion.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a heretic.
The executions of heretics are presented as magical rituals. And the heretics know it.
As Jan reminds us in his signature, another victim of the Conquistadors, the last Inka Tupac Amaru, invoked his greatest deity as he spoke his last words: "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
"Mother Earth, witness how my enemies shed my blood."
Upon hearing his death sentence, Giordano Bruno said, "Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam."
"Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it."
Bruno was roasted by the friars in 1600.
Some 363 years later, Kennedy's mind was blown out in a car.
We are told that his last word's were, "I'm hit."
An unknown comedian suggested that they might have been, "I need a hardtop like I need a hole in the head."
I prefer to think of them as, "And we are all mortal."
"An example: It is impossible for me and others not to see ritual and magic(k) driving the brutal subjugations of indigenous aboriginal/tribal peoples by their imperialist conquerors long after military and material objectives of conquest have been met."
The replacement by violence of one controlling spiritual/scientific/political system by another may be understood as magical ritual in the sense that Giordano Bruno might have used the term.
(After he conquered the Aztec Empire, Cortés ordered that the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary of Mexico City be built on the vanquished race's most sacred ground. Stones from the temple of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec's god of war, were used in its construction.
Mt. Rushmore was carved into the summit a natural "temple" within the Black Hills, territory of immense spiritual significance for the vanquished Lakota [Sioux] peoples.
It is as if Barbarians had sacked post-Renaissance Rome and painted over the Sistine Chapel ceiling portraits of their bloodthirsty deities and leaders.)
What Bruno represented to the controlling spiritual/scientific/political system of his time was mortally threatening heresy: He combined an embrace of Copernicus's heliocentrism with understanding and promotion of the ancient Hermetic tradition.
Bruno also spoke openly of the Church's hellish condition, conjuring descriptions that might have been written about today's Church:
From The Torch-Bearer: "You will see, in mixed confusion, snatches of cutpurses, wiles of cheats, enterprises of rogues; also delicious repulsiveness, bitter sweets, foolish decisions, mistaken faith and crippled hopes, niggard charities, judges noble and serious for other men's affairs with little truth in their own; virile women, effeminate men and voices of craft and not of mercy so that he who believes most is most fooled, and everywhere the love of gold."
I do not even remotely approach the status of Bruno scholar, so I'm treading very carefully so as not to cross the dilettante line.
What I cannot help but note, however, is that JFK represented a Bruno-like threat to the controlling spiritual/scientific/political system of his/our time.
And what I cannot help but conclude is that those at the pinnacle of the Sponsorship level secretly included spiritual -- or magical -- ritual within the larger conspiracy they set in motion.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was a heretic.
The executions of heretics are presented as magical rituals. And the heretics know it.
As Jan reminds us in his signature, another victim of the Conquistadors, the last Inka Tupac Amaru, invoked his greatest deity as he spoke his last words: "Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
"Mother Earth, witness how my enemies shed my blood."
Upon hearing his death sentence, Giordano Bruno said, "Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam."
"Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it."
Bruno was roasted by the friars in 1600.
Some 363 years later, Kennedy's mind was blown out in a car.
We are told that his last word's were, "I'm hit."
An unknown comedian suggested that they might have been, "I need a hardtop like I need a hole in the head."
I prefer to think of them as, "And we are all mortal."