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NOTEBOOK # 3
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NOTEBOOK # 3
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THE VISITORS - THIRD NOTEBOOK Racism ? Slavery ? ( Part One )
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It was raining on the city of Bordeaux and night was approaching, that is, more rapidly then usual. At least that was Jo's feeling, He who knew the city well for having stayed in that town every time he had returned to France, every time he was released in any french port wherever his ship docked for a while. The mechanic would leave the boat while a few companions would stay abord pretexting that they were of foreign origin and didn't have any local friend or that their presence was absolutely required aboard the ship. This time, when Jo left his men and the ship, it was in Bordeaux. " It is as if your comrades are taking you back home had said ESHU smiling ; the mechanic had smiled too and said "that 's it precisely"When a few days later the ship left Bordeaux, they had another mechanic engineer aboard. Jo had decided that he would change his life. More then the ship engineer job, the non-stop travelling no longer suited him; Jo had had enough. Oh ! He still loved to see the world, but from now on, he wished to do it differently. He did not want to end forever his travels but now he wanted to do it at leisure and following his whim; anyway that was what he wished.
Now, he is on a wharf, a false wharf in a false port. A few shadows were walking not to far from him; like him they were in the gray of the fog. A few of these shadows, they were really few, were taking cover under umbrellas. Were these umbrellas black? gray or with a flower print? Jo couldn't tell; but most of these zombies, Jo was looking at without paying much attention, were without umbrella, just like him. Most of them were just walking, seemingly not going anywhere. So why an umbrella? Yes, was thinking Jo, to show an umbrella, would mean that they were going somewhere and that between the two points of leaving and arriving they would necessarily be showered. None of these shadows in the fading day was acting as if looking for a way to go. Jo neither. He was just there, waiting. Later in the bus that was taking him to the suburb where his sister lived, the mechanic was asking himself how would he fit in this new life that he had chosen for himself. Was he to take a mechanic job on land this time. He had experienced this before for he had worked in that field before joining the sea job and had not liked it because he had not felt rewarded in the job. It was not the job in itself that had given him problems, it was the men he had to work with. Not that they were bad or naughty with him nor with anybody else; but he could not find his own place in that beehive. On a boat it was different, social monotony lasted only a moment ; and then there were the countries and theirs ports of call, which changed constantly; and were bringing something new to the eyes. But suddendly he had had enough, again; but why? He just couldn't say. yet; this happened very abruptly, he suddenly felt the need to change; he wanted to FAce the situation, to FAce himself maybe. Jo didn't know what would the result be; but whatever it was, he felt that it would help him to grow. " But as a matter of fact - he said to himself-, in a perfectly audible voice; growing but in what sense? In relation to with reference to whom? ". The worry he felt of the days ahead had nothing to do with the job, nor the machines, his secret worry concerned the men he would have to meet; the new FAces with whom he would have to find a new serenity, very different from the one that exists on a ship between the sailors. ESHU had asked him, when he had told him what he was about to do if he would not miss the sea and his seanman's life? If he wouldn't be nostalgic for his travelling life. The life he had known aboard a ship, eventhough it has been a perfectly structured life? Jo had said that he didn't think so and had also said: " I have already been working on land. " Yes, I know, had answered IFA. So no nostalgia but Jo knew that the sea life he was leaving would leave some indelible prints in his soul and that at time, maybe, he would feel some regrets, he kind of guessed that these memories would make his eventual days of rage even more difficult to live. That is why in choosing Bordeaux to installed himself, he was safekeeping some exit for some emotional coming back to his former sea life. Because if he received an unbearable call for his former life at least he could see the ocean anytime he felt like it, Bordeaux being an important port of call.
" Isn't our bridge beautifull ? Especially at night with this kind of electrical illumination, it looks like a ship slowly looking for a harbor; don't you think so? " Jo was speaking this way to his divine friends whom had abandonned him as soon as the ship had reach the dock ; they had left without a word without telling him what were their purposes. He would have taken them in his family, but the gods, had refused appearing not to bother themselves with the daily necessitities; Some other time maybe" had said ESHU. Jo had not insisted. He was also a little apprehensive of the reaction of his own FAmily. Then, one night, turning a street corner, he finds himself in front of his two friends seemingly coming from nowhere. The mechanic was almost not surprised to find them like this.; this sudden apparition enchanted him. He was very happy to meet them; like a lover who finds the object of his desire, but knows that he will have to walk faster in order to find the right mind step that would allow him to reach the thoughs, the sensibility and the totally interior delicatesse with which he would declare himself. There were no demonstration of any kind during this meeting. Jo and his divine friends made a few steps together in the obscurity, in silence, as if this walking in the night was the result of a common desire "-Do we continue to walk Jo ? It is so pleasant. " The mechanic felt satisfied to adjust his walking to the speed of his friends when ESHU made this suggestion. A few passerby in a hurry to find their tranquility were walking faster before the deep setting of the night. ; some would look back to see the trio walking so peacefully in this effervescent world. When Jo asked his friend to admire the bridge, he already knew that this phrase would received a follow-up; but in what direction the answer that would echo his worlds would come back, he had no idea; he knew his friends enough not to try to predict when or where their minds would choose to answer. He felt secure of the uselessness of trying to find what would be the theme that FA or ESHU would choose following what he had just said in an effort to open his mind to their culture. When he first knew them that used to bother him when his new friends. seemed not to pay attention to what he was saying and began talking of a subject of apparently a different nature and far from what he had started the conversation with; but after a while the mechanic would realize that it was only a feeling. In the night of the city of Bordeaux it was IFA that took the subject of the lighted bridge. He said "All bridges are splendid, Jo, all are splendid in the day time as well as in the night. As much as they serve the purpose they were built for.
-Bridges and men ! echoed the mechanic to FA's words. He was savouring the serenity of the instant, this is because, was he thinking, this is because of the quietness of the evening and because of the presence of his friends. He was surprised nonetheless of how calm the god ESHU was that evening. Normally ESHU was fast to interfere in the conversation; like a bulldozer, he would precipitate himself in every opening that IFA might opened or called his attention too and also to whatever words the mechanic would try to enunciate whenever he did not agree with the gods views. Jo was seing that that night it wasn't like that. ; the god remain silent. He choosed to wake him up ; he decided to draw is attention to one of IFA's remark, one he had made sometime ago, when they were still on the boat navigating near Gibraltar. Jo looked at the god and said:
- You have said, when we were still at sea that the Gibraltar 's strait was like a door..
- No, no it was IFA who said that...
- Ah yes ! It's true, but I was under the impression your thoughts were going somehow farther then this evidence. I was under the impression that you meant a lot more then a simple landscape consideration, Am I wrong? - You are right, but it has nothing to do with being divine, it is just a remark about the evolution of the earth in the course of the geological ages. You see a long long time ago, I speak of the time when man was only an eventuallity a potential being…
- You mean when the evolution had not yet created man?
- Yes, that's it. In those day there were no man on Earth ....
- Then there were no gods either !
IFA and ESHU bursted out in laughter ; the mechanic remembered their lesson; the laughter pierced the night and the silence that was surrounding the three friends.; this was good for Jo; he had the feeling that he was flying over the city and it's night; he felt the owner a of new dimension of which he didn't want to learn the limits; it was as if the whole serenity of the world was coming to him. When the laughter resumed the gods added a smile, a smile that carried tenderness. ; Jo was feeling ill at ease, he didn't know how to react, so he kept deeper in silence. While, ESHU was taking a few steps away, he went a little farther leaving some distance between himself and his two companions . The three friends were leaning against the fence that was surrounding the cafe where they had taken place. ; it was a rest in their walk. The bridge could be seen from there fixed in its illumination. Somewhere in the city the noise of the motocycle could be heard, at first it was coming from FAr then became loudlier and loudlier and soon began to disapear progressively in the Bordeaux's night. " Doppler Effect", said FA, very simply; he said so in a low voice like an echo to an internal reflexion. Jo and ESHU kept silent . The god of the crossings turned his head toward the mechanic and went on with the geological explanation; the god said :
- You see, Jo ; man did not exist yet and what you call the Méditerranée was but a lake, a gigantic lake of sweet water. It was closed by a rock barrier at the west entry and another rock barrier closed the east. On one side there was the lake and on the other side was the ocean, the Atlantic sea. At the other end the barriere was situated where is the actual Bosphore, and behind the rock there was another large sweet water lake....
- Today we find sea water in these places....
- Yes Jo, said ESHU, closing with this the mechanic interruption as to continue with his tale. He then said:
- Yes, as a matter of FAct, as you know, earth has knowned some glacial eras during which most of it's water transformed itself into ice ; the ice accumulated in the northernest regions mostly the poles. At the end of every one of these periods, naturally, weather became warmer and the ice melt ; which in turns provokes the rising of the waters. That is what happened at a certain moment at the end of the first icing era when the rock barrier that used to separate the Atlantic from the Mediterrannée collapsed. The sea waters precipated themselves through the hole that became larger and larger and invaded the sweet waters of the Mediterrannée ; that is how this lake became in perpetual communication with the ocean. The phenomena lasted many years, after a few decades, the lake was no longer a lake and its water became completely salted. It is the actual Méditerranée sea.
- And at the other end ? asked Jo ; What happened on the Bosphore side ?
- The Bosphore rock barrier withold during the first rising of the ocean, because the Mediterrannée was acting as a buffer; slowing the stress of the pression on the other rock barrier preserving the actual Caspian Sea thar remained a lake; a large reserve of sweet water around which men installed themselves. Because it is in these times that man appeared on earth. And it was like this until the last icing period known on earth resumed. When the warming came, man existed as I told you ; evolution following it's course had permit man to live on earth...
- So we were here !
- Yes Jo ; these stories are well told in some of the most celebrated mythologies of the people of the world; at time, it is true that often it is given a different presentation. But most important again, is the FAct that this happening was the base, along with other elements, to built the possible pedagogical system to develop man as a social being; this is the principle of elevation. Because of the presence of man during the events, when the Bosphore rock barrier collapsed there were consequences that you can feel even in today. Once again the rising of the waters happened, but this time there were no more protection from the Méditerranée which in turns rised and started to FAll over the Bosphore barrier in the waters of the Caspian sea which was many ten meters lenghts lower. This was a brutal phenomena because the rock barrier collapsed very fast; there was a terrifying noise that could be heard very far. There also the waters became salted and the change was very abrupt; the waters were also covering the lands making them inhospitable to the newborn agriculture that man was starting to practice; you understand that men had to migrate to refuges more suitable to their survival and more agredable. Earth just like man has the ability to constitute some archives, and as you know your experts have started to read those that refer to the collapse of the Bosphore rock barrier. - And about the Mediterrannée ? Are they archives also ?
- Yes, of course Jo ; all that is require is for men to find and analyse them. But as far as Mediterrannee is concerned it will be more difficult, because the event occured much more earlier and there were no man on earth at the time; but I can assure you that these archives exist ; it will require investigation of the elements of planet earth to reach the archives of this particular past. One day it will happen. Man will discover these archives then will read them but in this as in everything ; "patience et serenity"; isn't what is required Jo ?
Jo pushed away his glass and cleared also the ashtray; he set himself confortably in his armchair made of wicker; one of those that the owner of the café had left for the comfort of his customers The mechanic had to move his upper body to obtain a satisfactory angle of sight , through the numerous persons that were standing to see the people marching in a street manifestation. The afternoon was just beginning . In this café of the Sainte-Catherine's street, Jo was enjoying his last hours of vacation ; the next day he would be in Saintes. The kindness of the weather made him forget the apprehension that it had to rediscover the working world; a world that differed of the one that had been his during the last ten years. The roadway in front of him, was occupied by a continuous moving wave of legs, of heads and of slogans of all orders. Despite the vigor of the protestations of the manifestants, Jo could not prevent itself from feeling of nonchalance that emanated from the crowd, he smiled then took a cigarette without paying attention to the box from which he was taking it; during this time his eyes were FAstened on the men and women and the slogans that were passing in front of him. Nonchalance " he said in a low voice ; then he decided to light a match: he took the box, gave himself half a second to admire the cover of the box, a halfdress dancing woman, he rose slowly the hand that was holding the match with the tip of his fingers, one could have thought that he was sorry he had started to smoke. At this moment the crowd was far from his mind. He was just at the point where he would drop the hand and the match on the box with the annoying feeling of a smoker who can't resist, he frozed;. Someone had just called his name. In fact he heard someone saying: Is it true Jo, do these people love us that much ? "
It was ESHU ; Jo had recognized his voice ; he kept silent for a moment then slowly turned his head in the direction from where the voice was coming. The gods were there , two steps away from him. The spirit of the crossing road was watching Jo ; well, he was watching the match that the mechanic was still holding; it was burning slowly making the small noise of the sap in the wood protesting against hell. . IFA, for his part was busy looking at the marching and the manifestants. If anyone would be watching the whole situation he could have imagined that he didn't know either of the two persons with him.; he seemed not concern by their presence. Finally Jo threw away what was left of the small piece of wood after having lighted his cigarette. Now, he was puffing on his cigarette and looked like he was appreciating the pleasure of it. ESHU was observing in silence, he saw the mechanic roughly expulse the smoke from his lungs, where his body was extirping the poison. He look up at the god who had remained standing since his arrival; then his eyes lowered on the finishing cigarette as if he couldn't make up his mind to throw it away. At last finally answering ESHU's intervention : " Do they love you ? You the gods ? I don't know." Raising his eyes to the crowd of the marching people, he gave his attention for a moment to the slogans that everyone was repeating with application; he thought finally that ¨nonchalance" was the right qualification; it was the general impression of what was becoming evident to him ; but he knew that in his mind he didn't really called this feeling like this. His attention leaving the crowd returned to his friends. FA was still looking at the manifestation; ESHU looked passionately interested by the activities of the smoker. Except the few words that were spoken when they interrupted Jo's thinking, the two gods had not say anything; they had not moved either. Finally Jo crushed his cigarette in the astray and following the last words from the god, he said: ;
You know, I don't think that these men and women are thinking of you gods, it can't be of any interest to them. ; ...
- Do you think they really worry for people they are making this demonstration for ?
- Neither, without doubt. But they are under the impression that they are doing some good and that they are doing it well. These men and women are doing well in wishing that there will be a little more understanding and tolerance in the community of men, theirs, ours, while this understanding and this tolerance can become reality in the community of men. It takes courage to defend certain ideas, you said so yourself, not so long ago. I cannot tell you whether they actually love the arabes, the jews, the blacks and other wandering souls, but I am certain that they are concerned with the notion of humanity. For me that is enough to stand against racism, but what I am saying now is common thought and you know it.
- Common thought maybe but probably essential without any doubt. Nevertheless it's important to go further. I mean it's urgent to grasp the problem differently.
- What do you mean ? asks the mechanic ; he wasn't surprise, that once again, his friend moved away from the subject, as to give it a meaning that he would not have thought of; neither was he surprised that it was the god of the pasture-that seems to give the explanation to shed light to the subject. As a matter of fact, FA had turned his attention away from the marching people and started to give some notice to the conversation that was taking place betwen ESHU and the mechanic. As usual the god was just offering the first words of his point, leaving to ESHU the task of explaining the details. FA said to Jo as an answer to his question:
- That is to say we have to stand against evil, but we have to stand also in the name of the good. We have told you once and it is not useless to say it again.
- FA stop talking ; immediately, ESHU took over ; he said :
- Yes, Jo ; as important and necessary that all the feeling of reject that are animating the marching people and no matter how important their action can be, in silence or otherwise, passionately working for understanding between individuals, I say, it is necessary to add another dimension to this fight.
-What other dimension ? What do you mean ? What is it, you are really thinking? Do we have to ask ourselves questions before we take a stand against what is plainly unacceptable?
- One has to understand that a fight will have positive fruits in the expected success only if it is fought against a perfectly well identified and perfectly described evil. As a military strategic officers would say, one needs a good preliminary information...
- So what ? Racism and slavery and all evils of the same thread, are known, well known; what else would you need? What else do you want to discern in this inept wrong in which we are moving like fish in water, pretending that these waters are necessary to our survival.? Isn't clear enough that some people are taking good care of these waters so that they will not loose their opacity , their wichedness and their evasive nature …
- No, Jo ; man doesn't know these waters so well; man feels it's presence; man of goodwill guessed it's true nature; that's all. Nonetheless even if he really knew, this knowledge would be incomplete, confused and it's evasive nature as you say is volontarily underestimated. That is why it's necessary for men to learn exactly what he wants to get rid of; with precise words; it is necessary to define the nature and the composition of these waters if it to be remove from the landscape and to find the real water, the water of life, the water of serenity and harmony; the water that opens the way for man and society. Knowing this water, is the first necessary step for those who are decided to fight against racism; otherwise it is probable that the results will remain insignificant for a long time to come. I am afraid, Jo, that we have not yet reach this stage ; ...
- What do you mean by this ?
- You have to enter the roots of this evil, you have to grasp it's carasteristics; and finally you have to give a precise description of it's functions. I mean that man has to have a clear knowledge of man's customs and habits and the course of the actions that they continue to do voluntarely or not, including those who sincerely try to work for it's eradication. Nothing is simple, Jo ; man feels sometime that a few of its attitudes come naturaly, I can tell you that it is not so; legs, arms and heads come naturally ; yes only man's body is evident; the rest, all the rest proceeds from thoughts; all the rest proceeds on the road to the evolution of beings....
The road to what ? asked the méchanic.
And the hidden answer came:
- Who can tell? ; answered FA ; that was unexpected. The god who had kept to himself, was suddely offering these words as a contribution to the course of reflexion, after this enigmatic sentence he returned to his silence. What was there to understand ? Leêgba can garanty the daily needs, he secure that visibility, he said:
- -That is the problem; towards which road ? To find the proper road, man probably need a few centuries; maybe millenaries or only centuries? Time will tell. In the meantime one should scrutinize life itself and the way it is lived and the undermotivation of the living to find it's teachings. These lessons found in the daily life and underlife of man should determine the sense of the actions to be taken to fight evils. From these teachings, properly lighted with hopes will the road of thought be found...
- But not only that, intervined FA, who once more left the silence in which he seemed to be installed.; ESHU paid no attention; to the words of the god FA ,who is one of the side of the principle of elevation, he continued on his explanation to guide the mechanic in its way of thinking, he said:
- For example, what dit they say in Valladolid? What happened in Valladolid ? That is when it was pretexted that in order to make man it what necessary to destroy him, is this acceptable? The power of the word, the power of the verb was used. And it was done, they imagined, under the banners of divinity. But you must understand that Valladolid was only the result of a long search, a very ancient search, one of these search that exclude nothing, not even the gods; what it unacceptable, and it was done in the name of god, it was based on practices issued from mythical arguments not clearly understood nor assimilated; argument that I am quite sure were never measured for what they really meant and what would be the real results of these actions in the long term….
- - Sem, Cham and Japhet ? Asked the mechanic
-Yes, this is it; but Sem, Cham and Japhet are symbols ; they are ways, roads; they are possible openings that are at the disposal of both individuals and societies. In our world, and there you might understand the profound sense of what I am telling you, the mythic ancestor had three sons that were supposed to share the inheritance: Harmony, fury and serenity; these three concepts are not isolated, but are intimately resting on one another; and it is on purpose that fury is situated between harmony and serenity. This is a parenthesis that we may have to reopened but that would be another subject for another debate.
For what we are talking about, Valladolid didn't invented anything new; that was not an innovation, but something that was quite "evident" has been changed. a Principle that was almost dogmatic and related to genetics and reproduction; bredding and it is in this specific matter that it is important to expose all the details. The gravity of these hours was also due to the fact that the prosecutors and the defendants agreed on this point: To destroy man to realize man. One cannot repair an evil by creating a new one. This in itself defeats all the fight and carry regrets. Let me present the problem under another light: By all means you know the end of the patriarch Noe's story?
- Yes, I know it, I am a christian, and ?
- Well, the legend says that NOE once he walked out of the ark and saw that everything had been destroyed was very angry and what did he do?
- I don't know.
- He was angry, it is said, against the All Mighty, reproaching him not to have any pity for his creatures. God himself answered: "But even you Noe didn't take the defense of your condemned fellow men.. " And as a matter of fact, Noe had not begged from God to allow the survivance of men . This begging was done in their time by ABRAHAM, MOISE, JESUS and a few others... NOE was too happy to save himself; he was a just man and this allowed him to be save, but he didn't not counting on his own virtues request the salvation of the other men. He was too happy to save himself and his family. That was a shortcoming . You have to understand that you can't just save yourself, your beloved ones and your very much care for belongings.
Here is another angle of the same problem. Maybe you know the story of this wise Hindou who saw a sparrow coming to him and asking a place in his shelter ?
-No, I don't know it and it is not the only thing I don't know.
- Well the small bird was fleeing an eagle that was looking for some food. The hermit accepted the sparrow thinking that it was good to protect the little bird. Soon the eagle arrived and ask for his dinner.; the world has been created like this, the wise man couldn't change that by safekeeping the eagle's dinner; he took a scale and put the small bird on one of the two plates of the scale. On the other plate , he put a piece of meat that he cut from his own thigh. The scale would not balance, the bird was heavier. The hermit put more meat from his thigh, still the scale would not balance and no matter how much meat the wise man was putting , it seemed impossible to balance the scale. Suddenly light prevailed in the wise man mind and he himself stepped on the place and suddenly the scale balanced....
- A life is worth another life ! said Jo.
- That's it, Jo ; and this is what was not understood in Valladolid ; it was a dirt, some dirty junk matters, that had installed itself between the clay and the mind.
If it is important to really know the tasteless water to get rid of them, it is equally important to know man intimately; I mean to go very far in this knowledge even of what seems too evident. In order to be able to grasp what we are precisely fighting against. The definitions are numerous. Do you know how Sumer explains and justifies man creation ?
- No.
- Here it is, Jo. One upon a time, it is said that only gods existed, the gods from the top and the gods from the bottom; that means the superior gods and the inferior gods.Are you following me?
- Perfectly well, yes.
- The gods were creating the worlds, but all the creation's work was left by the superior gods to the inferiors to do. The working gods were busy nights and days. They had to work whatever was happeing, wind, rain or snow, because creation is a linear task that cannot be interrupted and it can't be rupture and never ends.; so something terrible happened as it always does when harmony is not the motor of the thought. It is said that the inferior gods rebelled, they were revolted to have to work so hard, and complained that they had to create all the time and by themselves. At this crossing of the roads, the gods had two choices: either they fight or they debate.
- They choose to debate instead of a combat. And it came to light that the inferior gods were right to complained. The superior gods agreed that they were right in their protest. It was in that ocasion that it was decided to create man to help in the creation's duties of the inferior gods. According to this mythic history, man was created to do the gods' work, the creation work!
- - Ah yes ! ! You mean that according to this mythical story, man was borned to be a slave ! A slave to the gods, but a slave just the same ; this is not a glorious condition to be in!
- You're right , Jo, it isn't glorious; but I still have something to tell you in this story and before I do, let me tell you that in Valladolid, it was the same thing that was done, just a little worse. Because, creation, according to Sumer, was justified as a necessity when it happened is was a door towards the future. Indeed, this specific creation made man an actor in the creation of the universe, which is not insignificant. This genesis was making you man, a motor of the action of creation, not only a slave that would have been doing what was required of him. Any action of the Valladolid type, before it is enacted must take into consideration this dimension of the man's part in creation before it becomes acceptable; that is imagining this ou that particular conditions, allows us to listen to the debate that must have taken place in this monastery. In Sumer, when the lower and the superior gods decided to create man, they had integrated this dimension; they had not only given this dimension but they had made sure that it would be efficient by creating this solution, "man", but an autonomous man: That is why "man" is completely free in his mind to decided what he wants to do with his part of the creation work. The gods wanted to liberate "man" from their eventual, occasionnal whims that appears in time or in the times. For this reason it would be wise to moderate your impression of the slave man and the reason that were at the origin of his creation.
- - Why is that ?
- Here it is. According to the mythical stories, this is how they proceeds. Once the decision to create man was taken the gods left the task doing it to the one in their midst that was in charge of these operations, the goddess Matrix. The gods told the goddess Matrix to create man from clay so that he would help the inferior gods in their job. The goddess refused. She refused to to it with only one material because if made of only clay, man would surely become a perpetual slave, the idea that bothers you so much and that you refute with energy and not without reason. So the goddess return to the gods' assembly proposing to the gods to reconsider the essencial of their proposition, and to make it better. So the gods examined the situation and they decided to sacrifice one of their own...
- .- So you are telling me that the first sacrifice was made by the gods themselves.?
- -Exactly, and they did not sacrificed the less between them. They choose the god Wê, god of the intelligence. The god was killed and his essence as well as his raw material were added to clay and this material thus created, was used to create man. At least this is what the legend tells us.
- As you see, thought was part of the event, thought has been there since the beginning; that is why the creation of man is always double; matters and minds in one, there is no one without the other because to create man require both body and soul. That means that the reproduction from clay only is not possible, cannot exist. It has to be breeding from the universe. You must understand that this type of breeding is unique, not because it requires earth and breath, but because it is in the same time the creater and part of the creation. Man also creates with the spirit inside of him. To say that gods are in man it not only a way of speech without significant meaning; it is a way to say that thought that brings towards the light, towards harmony is inside of man, but there is also clay in him. All the works of creation must be create by the totality of it, one cannot take this part and ignored the other. This has to be the base of all fight to comes. This has to be the main reason for any action.
- -Yes ESHU ; said FA ; yourself who is the other side of the unique concept, the principle of elevation, you know that this is nothing but a door, a door that opens towards a domain that cannot be ignored at the beginning.
- -Right, answered ESHU ; however before opening the door, it has to be found and to find it one has to know how to look for it. Listen, Jo, man has only man to do it.
- I don't understand clearly, said the mechanic, slowly; I don't understant why you bring the gods in the problems of slavery and racism ...
But the gods are looking into man's business aren't they ? Screamed ESHU. FA was smiling. ; then he said : - " That outburst is so much like you, ESHU "
Jo was stunned with what the Spirit of thought had just said. After a silence, he spoke again:
- The realization of the universality of man, could produce a fight against slavery; but that is not enough..
- Listen, I don't think that this or this myth can explain human behaviour. I have serious doubts about the capacity of the whole humanity to accept, even unconsciously what is behind these concepts that have for primary mission the justification of early beliefs that are now obsolete...
You are mistaking ; I can tell you that man had not reach this stage of psychic evolution. Human being is not yet capable of sending his archetypes models to the museum in a role playing image. Man is far from having the capacity of mind that would mean that every one and each of his actions would be the result of a conscient thought ; I am not saying reason, because reason depends on time and space. This is true for all the human societies, whatever is their level of evolution or development. Of course some individuals, maybe even some group of individuals , own this clear conscience, but it is cruelly missing in the majority. Even in the indivisuals cases, often other consideration lead them to some action that are not acceptable. I mean that the generosity that should belong to all human kind as one exist in a separate manner in some individuals, but these particular elements were borned from their education, their culture, their history or their temperament and occupies a primordial place in most of theirs actions; and this is true all over the world.
Of course, Mésopotamia is not the only source of inconscious archetypes marking that are more or less exploited volontarily sometime, some other times only by subtile suggestions to justify the actions that are born from the perverse nature of the individual. These archetypes will keep on irrupting in the way man is behaving, and that will not stop by itself. It is necessary to brign these attitudes at the intelligence level, in order not to allow them to give way to negative instinct. Here is an example that can illustrate what I am trying to describe` I just told you some moment before that from where I come from, Thinking consider that harmony, fury and serenity carry the inheritance; because they are doors through which one can enter. And this way of seing can only be true in the hours when our wandering is keeping away from our conscient understanding. You nevertherless can understand that this structure cannot serve the purpose of justifying racism and its avatars, because they are horizontal structures that are crossing humanity; you can not say they belong to this or this racial group and use these thoughts as justification for your own doings; you can't use them to justified the hatred of men for men, because this system belongs to each and every man
- No, ESHU ; again, and once more I do not agree; said Jo. which intervention seemed very interesting to FA ; the god sat upright in his seat; and lightly frown his eyesbrows showing his interest in what the man was about to say.
- Lêgab on the other hand kept silent, but his mouth remained open on the words that he was about to enunciate when the mechanic interrupted him; and that were on their way out and would not allow him to close his mouth. The mechanic smiled, he kept looking at the lips of the eyes' god. Finally the immense waiting of the gods forced him to continue.
- - I can't agree, said the mechanic, that all the racism and ignominous actions from man against man that negates the dignity of any human being, can be explain by a legend or a myth theory. That the myths and the archetypes have influenced our actions is quite easy to see, but it is my opinion that it is our failures that are responsible. And as far as your genesis concept of the creation of the world, I find it troublesome. I worry that you use it as a base for your system of thought. The first reason is as I have already said my first reason -slavery, that I cannot accept. the whole thinking process for the pedagogy cannot be base on this. You see. In essence also it is very worrying, for it means that man- born slave would have no way out, so why fight? Why fight if our actions are only the reproduction of man's common destiny in front of the gods.? Isn't the same as to give reason to those who proclaims that there is a difference of structure between the men of this earth and in a very different meaning then you just described.?
- The question could raise, as I said before, if we were to forget that one of the two element is matter and the other is breath; if we were to forget body and soul, if we were to forget that man is at the same time matter and spirit.
- This genesis doesn't describe any inequality in the essence of man. These inequalities will appear later at the level of the inheritance, and I just told you what should be the result of all this. And most of all what is urgent to do now! If you consider the difference between man's genesis, be it greek, african or others, none of all these genesis is considering a difference or inequality between man, so none of this genesis are wrong in their foundation. No, Jo, there is no way we can explain racism with the myths and only by them; but they are an important part of a lot of human archetypes; these archetypes, are ingrained inside the human subconscious soul, and can be find in many behaviour without any knowledge of the one who is acting; and if these paradigmas are slightly different or not understand correctly, man find himself in the middle of very dangerous winds. That is why, the precise analyse of the waters that we were talking about cannot by omited. On the contrary, they have to be brought to the conscient level, brought in front of the intelligence. It is at this level that they will be examined carefully as I told you. Of course, one can just walk heavily on them, but one should remember that these evils are like serpent, and a serpent can bite. You can't at the same time feed the snake and fight it.; just as there is not one, two, three kinds of racism, no, there is only one racism; the racism that refuse to accept that man is the only reality of the principle of elevation; any other consideration is taking the wrong way.
- - You are right as far as the gods of the legend, the myths and archetypes is concerned in relation with racism. But no, slavery cannot be explained like racism by a story related to the gods. We have to examined each and every elements that compose it and that could explained slavery, more or less completely. We can bring these elements to light if we study the functions of racism and slavery which are part of the same evil; that it is responsible for the past and it is responsible for all that is happening nowadays. We have to examine their roles in the past and in what is being done at the level of groups of human being, but also at the level of the individuals until now. This actuation, better these actuations are equally part of these dirty and troubled waters, even if they appear under certain lights as being favorable in the results. We have to go through this analyse if we want to fight evil and fight for the good.
- As you like ! said Jo, the mechanic. In Valladolid, what would or should have been said or done? Was it right to let them kill all the indians of America? I don't know - answer me, what should have been done?
This interrogation was directed to the god ESHU ; but it was FA that gave the answer. The god gave it from in his place, I mean from the interior; he said:
- What has to be considered? I believe that the first consideration should be the idea of what man think of man. Archetypes like the myths are the first approach. But, this one doesn't believe in the influence of the archetypes nor the myths nor of neither. For the fighter what would his motivations be? You see, Jo, the answer to your interrogation is of the realm of the questions, the first question is the following : In Valladolid were the indians saved from the massacres and are they still being saved today? The rest will follow,Jo ; it will come ; patience et serenity, isn't so ?
P. G. Aclinou. Reims, 12/08/1999
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