Wat is myDi-waarheid? Re: 26-3 {komtG*Dooitklaar?}


WE
have already seen
how the empire of Alexander
fell to pieces
and was divided among his generals
and companions?

~

AMONG
these adventurers
was a kinsman of Alexander's named Pyrrhus,
who established himself at Epirus,
which is across the Adriatic Sea
over against the heel
of Italy.

~

IT WAS
his ambition
to play the part of Philip of Macedonia to Magna Graecia,
and to become protector and master-general of Tarentum, Syracuse
and the rest of that part
of the world.

~

HE HAD
what was then
a very efficient modern army;
he had an infantry phalanx, cavalry from Thessaly -
which was now quite as good as the original Macedonian cavalry -
and twenty fighting elephants;
he invaded Italy and routed the Romans in two considerable battles,
Heraclea in 280 B.C. and Ausculum at 279 B.C.,
and having driven them north,
he turned his attention to the
subjugation of Sicily.

~

BUT THIS
brought against him
a more formidable enemy than were the Romans at that time:
the Phoenician trading city of Carthage,
which was probably then the greatest
city in the world.

~

SICILY WAS
too near Carthage
for a new Alexander to be welcome there
to the Carthaginians;
Carthage was mindful of the fate that had befallen her mother city Tyre
half a century
before.

~





SO SHE SENT
a fleet to encourage
or compel Rome to continue the struggle,
and she cut the overseas communications of Pyrrhus.
Pyrrhus found himself freshly assailed by the Romans,
and suffered a disastrous repulse in an attack he had made
upon their camp at Beneventum
between Naples and
Rome.

~

AND
suddenly came news
that recalled him to Epirus.
The Gauls were raiding south ...
But this time they were not raiding down into Italy;
the Roman frontier, fortified and garded,
had become too formidable
for them!

~

THEY
were raiding down
thru Illyria {which is nowadays Serbia and Albania}
to Macedonia and Epirus.
Repulsed by the Romans,
endangered at sea by the Cartaginians,
and threatened at home by the Gauls,
Pyrrhus abandoned his dreams of conquest and went home in 275 B.C.
and the power of Rome was extended
to the Straits of Messina.

~

ON
the Sicilian
side of the Straits
was the Greek city of Messina,
and this presently fell into the hands of a gang of pirates.
The Carthaginians, who were already practically overlords of Sicily
and allies of Syracuse,
suppressed these pirates in 270 B.C.
and put in a Cartaginian garrison
there.

~

THESE myDi-
pirates appealed to Rome
and Rome listened to their complaint.
And so across the Straits of Messina the great trading power of Carthage
and this new conquering people, the Romans,
found themselves in antagonism,
face to face!

~

IT WAS
in 264 B.C.
that the great struggle between Rome and Carthage,
the Punic Wars, began ...
In that same year Ashoka was beginning his reign in Behar
and Shi-Hwang-ti was a little child,
the Museum in Alexandrie was still doing good scientific work,
and the barbaric Gauls were now in Asia Minor
and exacting a tribute from
Pergamum.

~

THE DIFFERENT
regions of the world
were still separated by practically insurmountable distances,
and probably the rest of mankind heard only vague and remote rumours
of the mortal fight that went on for a century and a half in Spain, Italy,
North Africa and the western Mediterranean,
between the last stronghold of Semite power and Rome,
this newcomer among Aryan-speaking
peoples.

~

THAT
war has
also left its traces upon issues that STILL stir the world?
Rome triumphed over Carthage,
but the rivalry of Aryan and Semite was ro merge itself later on
in the conflict of Gentile and Jew.
OUR myDi-history now is coming to events whose consequences
and distorted traditions still maintain a lingering and expiring vitality in,
and exercise a complicating and confusing influence upon,
the conflicts and controversies
of today!

~

IN OTHER
myDi-words:
OUR myDi-ROOTS go back quite a long way?
NOW were are looking at OUR WORLD from SPACE.
WE go back to our myDi-experiences from the past in body and mind:
the beginnings of life on earth with fishes, reptiles, birds
and mammals.

~

WE wonder
about our human relations
with each other, monkeys, apes and 'sub-men', the 'neanderthaler'
and the 'rhodesian man', Adam and Eve, Lucy and Darwin and
the first 'true' men .............

~

WE discover
our 'first primitive thoughts',
the beginnings of cultivation and primitive 'neolithic' civilisations ...
WE still live among the 'burial grounds' of our ancestors,
the remnants of 'ice-age-nomads', Sumeria, Egypt and
the beginnings of writing and all kinds of
'primitive' nomadic
peoples ...

~

IN OUR HUMAN
BODY AND myDi-MIND
we go to sea with 'them',
and discover once more the myDi-stories
of Egypt, Babylon and
Assyria?

~

OUR
'primitive' Semitic and Aryan and
other related ancestors all over the rapidly changing myDi-world
full of vast explorations by way of religions,
empires, Jews, priests and prophets, Greeks and Persians,
Alexander's journeys thru 'our old world',
the Museum and the Library,
Buddha and Ashoka,
Kong Fu Tse and Lao Tse,
Rome and Carthage and our 'own myDi-world'
of
TODAY?!

WE
are able to say almost anything
with our myDi-
WORDS,
but if it is 'really'
TRUE,
THAT still is
something we each have to discover by ourselves
{AND together!}?

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