Si vis pacem, para bellum
Huhne’s scepticism of “Rome the Protector” runs through chapter four, and especially the way Rome used attack as a means of defence - eventually conquering the known world.
Huhne’s scepticism of “Rome the Protector” runs through chapter four, and especially the way Rome used attack as a means of defence - eventually conquering the known world.
She uses phrases, such as “the dynamics of repressive autonomy”, and
“the subconscious empire of repressive ideas”. By and large, defence becomes a
trap to our freedom, in an over-controlled environment of resentment and
obligation.
She seems to have an almost Howard-like suspicion of the march of
civitas and Romanitas, while admiring the achievement.
Rome – Hyborian Bridge 2 – coopted native deities (Sulis-Minerva),
and the “uncivilized naturalness” is the subject of chapter five. There is the
whole Arthurian cycle and the round table as a type of mandala. There is the
Celtic worship of water and,
The Celts would make sacrifices of prized
possessions by ritualistically throwing them into rivers, lakes and streams. In
these myths we meet the Lady of the Lake and the Fisher King, both who appear
from a mysterious realm to guide the hero. (page 102)
Something similar happens in the Kull story, Delcardes’
Cat.
The cat, Saremes, is a ploy of a noble lady who persuades Kull it can
talk. The cat sends Kull on a fool’s errand to rescue Brule from The Forbidden
Lake. After fighting some beasts, he meets the lake people in their hidden
city. It finally transpires Sameres lied, and the lake people here act as
Kull’s guidance, parting amicably.
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The noble lady’s ploy being uncovered, to have the cat persuade Kull to
allow her to marry a savage, Kull relents.
The Celtic dominion of water carries-over into Christianity and the
numerous holy wells and healing waters such as Lourdes. Hohne has released a
number of short music videos under “Get Tribal” that prove she is something of
Bruce Lee and something of Howard!
The direction she seems to go in is “uncivilized naturalness”, and she
is probing this idea that beneath all scientific thought is a mystery.
There remains a mysterious quality to
life that no amount of measuring has been able to uncover. (page 120)
She attributes this to the number 3 that exists between two opposites.
We can only access inspiration and
intuition if we give ourselves permission not to know. Asking questions, we
move into a space opposite from logical reasoning. (page 121)
She interprets the Arthurian tales in a similar sense, the knights
finding “clues to solving a deeper mystery.”
To put it in (my) nutshell, the mystery is: why is there a sun, a moon,
an Earth and the planets and stars? This is the physical reality that we see
and apprehend. It’s not the same as a photo or a video, which are composed of
light. It’s not a theory such as Relativity. It’s simply, why are things as
they are and not something else?
The answer is actually psychic. So therefore I think her dream universe
of myths must contain that question, even if unspecified. The psychic realm is
a type of perfection of understanding that is beyond logic.
The Arthurian tales often read like a type of heedless action,
especially of Percival, the fool! No real thought, just odd events and
encounters and gallant deeds. This is the type of dreamlike mythical universe
that has been lost to solar measurement – which is not the physical universe
(lenses Hyborian Bridge 56).
In the Arthurian tales, the Lady of the Lake
The Lady of the Lake attends to the
mysteries of her deeper realm, while projecting an image of the Lake as a
barrier to her true residence. (page 120)
These resemble the blocks that in dreamsleep are lowered and the
ego-defences crumble.
Merlin guides Arthur toward the shores of
the mysterious Lake (unconscious). Portraying the inspiration of our untapped
potential, the Lady of the Lake has a more real residence, deep below the
water. It is guarded by a reflection or imaginary image just as the
subconscious keeps us recreating our version of existence. The strange events
at the Lake resemble how this gate recedes as we drift off to sleep. This
allows for the free expression of our more real residence that remains deep
below the surface. (page 122)
Obviously a lake is physical and the psyche (Self) is psychic. The
physical world resembles or carries clues to the psychic.
Unfortunately, science is neither physical nor psychic, but is order (measurement).
This puts us in a solar universe of perspective (the vanishing point of
technique). Essentially, everything that “they” say is material – the dollar or
wormdollar $ -isn’t physical in the sense of a lake, a forest (which have psychic
symbols). It exists in a universe of numerical compulsion (see Slick Hyborian
Bridge 62/1) and competitive order. If you watch a film by David Atten-bore
you will see hunting and flying and so on but you will be told it is a
competitive order.
This misses out the entire world of disorder or death, which is the
result of predation. From disorder is rebirthed order and this is the strength
of a cyclical destiny.
Order does not exist in the physical (body) sense of Earth/sun/moon,
only in the theories of acolytes of dead sorcerers.
A hunt is an exercise in disorder slashing through forest and dale (much
as Sir Percival jousting with saplings). This quote by Luc
Besson says it all.
“In
mid-debate over the ecology and biodiversity tragedy hitting the entire planet,
Orne hunters are asking me to kill deer that pass by my home!? Should I put my
children on the balcony while I’m at it? These people are on the wrong side of
history.”
This must be
typical of the modern mindset that thinks death is less important than life
even though both are equally vital for life! On Earth, forest, range, river.
Burne-Jones, The Beguiling of Merlin