Witches and War June 21, 2011

Thank you, I’ always trying to use a good wording, but when writing in the English language it’s a little bit more difficult for me than in German and it particularly takes more time.  When writing in my home language, especially in some chats, I drew the words faster than “Billy the kid” his sixgun!   But in English I think I better shun any wordfight…..

To answer your question about witches is a little bit difficult, because it’s a theme that leads from the medieval age till our century, only in some different facets.   Concerning the ancient witches, Heinrich Kramer, James Sprenger and all the others self-constituted witch-finders in England, Germany, the Netherlands and not to forgot the most cruel of all, Torquemada of Spain.   In my eyes they’re all alike at the bottom, they use the definition of “witch, heretic, magician," and so on, as a synonym for people they are afraid of. For people they can’ t understand cause their minds are too small.   And so these people may be a potential danger for their social position, or better their personal might. So they must vanish!   The easiest and best way was to denounce them to be in conspiration with some dark forces of the evil.  The rest will be done by the public opinion.  And, proofed by the history, it worked very well.

The women of this times only had the additional problem, that in the eyes of the medieval clerics they should have to do absolute nothing with any kind of science or so.   And if they did anyhow, they must be not normal woman, they must be something strange. So the clerics decided: “Let’s call them witches, amour of demons.”    The males didn’t have this fundamental problem, so they must be extremely strange to get the privilege to be denounced as a magician or a heretic.  But a few succeeded,like Giordano Bruno, Galileo Galilei or Michele de Nostredame .

And not to forget Jaques de Molay and Geoffroy de Charnay, burned at the stake with many others of the Templar Knights by King Phillipp IV of France.  Certainly for being heretics and sodomists to gather the peoples at Phillips side.  The truth was that Phillips kingdom was totally out of money and he wanted to have the big treasures of the Templars to restore his decrepit situation.  And to gather the people was very easy, cause many of them also had bank loans at the Templars.

So that’s my opinion about the real character of the so called witches only a substitute for inconvenient people, who have had the pity to be at the wrong time at the wrong place.  But this only could happen in the medieval times, the century of enlightenment changed all this. Today science and analysis are established and such things like denouncing an other cause he only has an other opinion about some things is impossible

Isn’t it ???

Here is a small fairytale:

Once upon a time in the Land of the unlimited options there was a famous wizard. He was very ingenious, and his King was in a great dangers to get smashed by an evil enemy.  So the king demanded the wizard to build him a weapon that is strong enough to destroy the enemy and to save his kingdom. The wizard was a great patriot  and using all his magic spells and with the help of many fairies and dwarfts he finally succeded !

He has build the weapon for the king and he called her “Trinity”

But in the moment, the wizard tested the weapon the first time, he immediately realized what he has done!   Like Prometheus, he had stolen the divine fire from the gods, to give it to the ignorant mankind. Afraid of what’ he had done he said: “Now I’m become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”   But it was to late, the king takes the weapon and won his war.

A few years later there was another enemy that bothers the king.  Again he went to the wizard and demands a weapon much stronger than the last one to smash the new enemy like he did with the last.  The wizzard refused and said: “No, my king, I failed last time, the result will blame my soul for ever I will never do it again!”

By hearing this the king gets angry and he will bring the wizard to a tribunal.  He will accuse him to be a...what’s the hell what???  A wizard? a witch? a heretic????   No,no,no -times had changed, this words are mega out, none of them will convince the people, the king needs a new slogan.

Night after night,he reflected to find a new outrage, he can blame at the wizard with. -Finaly one of his advisers hat a brilliant idea: “Let’s call him and all the others in our kingdom, that have dissenting opinions “Kommunists!”

This works as well, as calling someone a “witch” in the medieval age, suddenly all the people of the kingdom are against the commendable wizard, he lost all his privileges and was send to exile for retirement.

Nice fairytale, isn’t it ?

It’s a fairytale that happened in a century long, long ago.   And It’s nice, cause it has ended peacefully, the king gets his weapon from an other wizard, but the enemy also has a wizards with the same talents.   He also builds his king the weapon, and he also had the same twinges of concience. His king also accused him and send him to exile.  But a few years later mankind recognised the earnings of the two wizards.  The first one got rehabilitated and decorated with a price for his merits to control this kind of weapons and the other wizard was decorated with the Nobel Price of Peace.

I think this solution is much better then the medieval one, maybe mankind is growing more and more out of her kiddy shoes.  Perhaps in another two or three centurys she will be adult.  And adults uses witches only in fairytales for their childrens and not as victims to hide their own fears and imperfections.

This Fairytale above also bring us to the other Theme.  Both of the wizards are like Faust,they sold their souls to a “Mephisto like” person to get more knowledge of the “What the world fits together in her interior core.”   Faust recognized what kind of sacrilege he has done, in the moment his “Gretchen” died in prison.

The two wizards in the moment, they broke the seal, that fits the “world” together.   A third wizard didn’t had have such compunctions, he first sold his soul to a demon, to get the money to play with his fancy toys, doesn’t matter what this toys will harm. When the demon gets out of money, this wizard immediately resold his soul to the king, to get more money so he can build bigger toys. This wizard wasn’t accused at all, he was decorated with everything the king can offer, and he always was the public's darling, till he died in prosperity and glory.

He never reflected, what one of his inventions will cause, he never worried about, where the workers will come from, that are building his toys, he never wasted one thought, where the money is coming from, if only it comes in time.

The first two wizards are only remembered by a few scientists and historians.  The third one will be in the minds of mankind forever, cause he was the one who brought the man to the moon!   The first two wizards were accused for being “witches.”  The third one was honored and adored.

Now my two final questions:
First: Which one of them is the better one ?????
Second: Must a “witch” or a wizard always be the bad one ?????

And to make the answers a little bit more difficult, just like Pauline Réage did by disclaiming the last chapter of “Story of O”.   Be sure, If I had been the third wizard, I did just like him, cause I also like to play with expensive toys………

Have a nice time
Jonny wizard of the words

(Not to confound with J.Robert Oppenheimer, Andrei Sacharow or Wernher von Braun)

Oh I’ve forgotten a little Item concerning you, I always had the feeling, you remembers me to someone, that may also be the reason, I send the mail to you, not your profile, it was your picture.  Now I’d found it in the deepest bytes of my memory. It was in the early 1970 th In a cinema, the movie was called “Soldier blue” The voice of the singer was fascinating, as well as the Lyrics of the song. After the movie I baught the record of the kanadian singer at the cinema box office. The picture of the singer was at the cover. Buffy Sainte Marie. Just have a look at youtube for her
“Soldier blue.”  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ZinGhUZ_8

and her most popular song which is always ascribed to Donovan, but written by her and perfect fitting to the fairytale above "Universal Soldier."  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGWsGyNsw00&feature=related

A poem and an explanation

I had written a poem and I was asked to explain it. First is the poem and then the explanation. Okies? Good. Let me know if it makes sense to you.

I have yet to name it~

Homer was a loner who never went to Paris, but who so spoke of him. Now, my man Virgil spoke of what happened after the fall. It was rather Romanesque, but architecture had nothing to do with it. He also did the rounds a la Dante. I thought it was hot on the spot at nine. Number nine repeating a beat of conception without reception because the antennas were down. Don’t frown! Alas cry for it was never paradise despite being a divine comedy. Do I detect a paradox? - Arachne

THE SIMPLE EXPLANATION:

Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey in which he writes about the Trojan war. Paris took Helen and caused Troy to fall. Paris was a person and not a place. Anyway, It is a beautifully written Greek tragedy.

Virgil wrote Aeneid from a Roman point of view. The main character Aeneas was also a character of Homer's Iliad and Virgil wrote of him finishing his journey in Rome.

The reference was made about Dante in regard to Virgil's trek with him through the nine levels of hell with the ninth being the worst one. The Divine Comedy consists of three books: Inferno, Purgartorio, and Paradiso in that order.

I use the number nine to represent the number of months for gestation of a human embryo. The repetition represents the continuation of life as well as the continuation of the nine levels of the Inferno which represent the nature a human exhibits albeit to varying degrees.

To cry because it was never paradise is to reference Paridiso. How can any of it be a comedy divine or otherwise? Even paradise can be lost according to John Milton.