Longing for love & ideological 'choices' re:30304


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Every
{non-}religious
or {non-}ideological system
does in the course of time fit itself
to the shape of the human soul,
and there can be no doubt
that out of these {il-}logical and even {un-}couth
symbols people were able
to fashion for themselves ways
of genuine devotion
and consolation?
The desire for immortality
is very strong in the human mind,
and the religious/ideological life turns on
that desire!
The Egyptian religion was an immortality religion
as no other religion had ever been?
As Egypt went down under foreign conquerors
and the Egyptian gods ceased
to have any satisfactory political significance,
this craving for a life of compensations hereafter,
intensified!

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After the Greek conquest,
the new city of Alexandria became the centre of Egyptian religious life,
and indeed of the religious life of the whole Hellenic world!
A great temple, the Serapeum, was set up
by Ptolemy I at which a sort of trinity of gods was worshipped!
These were Serapis {who was Osiris-Apis rechristened},
Isis & Horus ......
These were not regarded as separate gods
but as three aspects of one god,
and Serapis was identified with the Greek Zeus, the Roman Jupiter
and the Persian sun-god ....
THIS worship spread wherever the Hellenic influence extended,
even into north India and
western China.

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The idea of immortality,
an immortality of compensations and consolidation,
was eagerly received by a world in which the common life was
hopelessly WRETCHED?!
Serapis was called 'the saviour of souls.'
"After death,"
said the hymns of that time,
"we still are in the care of his providence."
ISIS attracted many devotees.
HER IMAGES stood in her temples,
as Queen of Heaven,
bearing the infant HORUS in her arms ...
Candles were burned before her,
votive offerings were made to her,
shaven priests,
consecrated to celibacy,
waited on her altar.

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The RISE of the Roman Empire
opened the western European world to this growing CULT!
The temples of Serapis-ISIS,
the chanting of the priests and the hope of immortal life,
followed the Roman Standards to Scotland
and Holland ...!
BUT there were many rivals
to the Serapis-ISIS religion?
Prominent among these was Mithraism.
THIS was a religion of Persian origin,
and centred upon some now forgotten mysteries
about Mithras
sacrificing a sacred and benevolent bull!
HERE we seem to have something
more primordial than the complicated and sophisticated Serapis-ISIS beliefs?
We are carried back directly to the blood sacrifices
of the Heliolithic stage
in human culture .............
The BULL upon the Mithraic monuments
always bleeds
copiously from a wound in its side,
and from this blood springs
new life ...
The votary to Mithraism
actually bathed in the blood
of the sacrificial bull ......
At his initiation
he went beneath a scaffolding upon which
a bull was killed
so that the blood could actually
run down
on him!

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BOTH
these religions,
and the same is true of many other of
the numerous parallel cults
that sought te allegiance
of the slaves and citizens
under the earlier Roman emperors,
are personal religions.
THEY AIM
at personal salvation and
personal immortality.
The OLDER religions
were not personal like that;
they were SOCIAL.
The OLDER
fashion of divinity
was god or goddess of the city FIRST or
of the STATE,
and only secondarily of the individual
{compare Capitalism & Communism}.
The sacrifices were a PUBLIC &
not a PRIVATE function ...
THEY concerned
COLLECTIVE practical needs
in this world in which we live!
But the Greeks first and now the Romans
had pushed religion
OUT of politics .............
Guided by the Egyptian tradition
religion had retreated
to the OTHER world .............

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These NEW
private immortality religions
took all the heart and emotion out of the OLD state religions,
but they did not actually
REPLACE them?
A typical city
under the earlier Roman emperors
would have a number of temples to
ALL sorts of
gods!
There might be a temple
to Jupiter of the Capitol, the great god of Rome,
and there would probably be one to the reigning Caesar?
For the Caesars had learned from the Pharaohs
the possibility of being gods ...
In SUCH
temples a COLD and
STATELY political worship went on,
one would go and make an offering and burn a pinch of incense to show
one's
LOYALTY!
But
it would be to the temple of ISIS,
the dear Queeen of Heaven,
one would go with the burden of one's
PRIVATE TROUBLES for ADVICE and
RELIEF!
There might be local and eccentric gods ...
Seville, for example,
long affected the worship of the old
Carthaginian VENUS?
In a CAVE or an underground temple
there would certainly be an altar to Mithras, attended by
legionaries and slaves ...
AND there would also probably be
a synagogue where the Jews gathered to
read their Bible and uphold THEIR faith
in the UNSEEN G*D of ALL the EARTH .........
Sometimes there would be
{PINK} trouble with the Jews about the political side of the state
religion!
THEY held
that THEIR G*D
was a jealous G*D intolerant of idolatry, and
they would refuse to take part in the public sacrifices to Caesar!
THEY would not even salute {remember old Mordechai!?}
the Roman Standards for fear of
idolatry ...

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En zo zie je maar weer:
't kan verkeren?!
Aapmenschjes eerbiedig buigend
voor de grootste grijze greyback BOSS,
BIGBREASTED SISS head of his HAREM:
bow low, or ELSE ... ?!
BIGTREE BIGROCK BIGRIVER
BIGMOUNTAIN BIGFIRE
small hearts burning
on the prairy
where cowboys
& cowgirls sing their song of
eternal love &
veneration thru the ages of god and
goddesses imitating
each other
CHANGING RETURNING
burning yearning
mother isismaryhorusjesus
massesofglassespassesunder
damocleskletst
father greybeardsonofgodinotherwordsreverence
preferenceorother ends?
child st
starts feeling thinking seeing asking
basking conclusions and
the stories continue & go on everywhere always
all ways on the road
towards .............
no end:
alleen de juiste middelen kunnen het doel 'heiligen' en geen enkel doel
'heiligt alle middelen!'
09 jul 2004 - bewerkt op 12 jan 2008 - meld ongepast verhaal
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