57 - The Symbol Thieves
It starts with words, but this goes much further.
The German translators of my English books told me most earnestly that I cannot
use the word “totality” because German speakers would immediately think of “a
totalitarian state”, aka The Third Reich, and freak out.
I don’t believe it!
The word, totality, is as old as the hills. It means something complete,
something where all parts are present. It is a very useful word and I won’t
allow just any old thief to come along and to run off with this beautiful,
useful word – because if we allow this, we will have LOST SOMETHING IMPORTANT
that belongs to all of us – lost it for all times, and with it, the energetic
qualities as well.
This must not be allowed to happen, and if a situation occurs where someone like
Hitler runs off with a powerful ancient sun rune, the beautiful and potent
symbol of the eagle, Greek temples and Hellenic beauty standards in general,
then we must RECLAIM SUCH SYMBOLS immediately, because if we don’t, not only
will we suffer a profound loss as a species, but also because our symbol poverty
is already at critical levels and we simply can’t afford to lose any more of
them!
To let the Christians run off with the cross, the Satanists with the upturned
cross, the KKK with the burning cross, the homosexuals with the rainbow, the
witches with the pentagram, the sado-masochists with the triplet, the Nazis with
the swastika and Islam with the crescent moon is absolute insanity and destroys
our cultures. It also breeds an ever growing sense of danger and stress as one
symbol after the next is carted off by some sub-section of humanity.
Symbols, just as words, are supposed to be the servants of humanity and not the
other way around.
I therefore propose that as an experiment we could try and draw some symbols,
such as a swastika, pentagram, Star of David, a cross on a piece of paper and
work with our own emotions and responses until these ancient symbols have been
cleared of all contortions and they are bright and fresh once more.
Then, we need not fear them any longer, don’t need to hate them any longer and
have not only freed ourselves from some serious restrictions in mind and body,
but we may even learn something brand new about the universe through the clean
symbol which was made by a human at some point, and belongs, like all symbols
do, to ALL HUMANS.
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