Hello,
These words echo the first ones of 'Imperialismo pagano': "Reign of
matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it [the West] no longer
possesses breath, or liberty, or light."
Nothing new under the sun, or, should we say, under the moon: "It can
be asked why Vienne and Lyon adhered so passionately to this cult
[the cult of Cybele]. Was it because the Greek-Asian element was so
pregnant there? Was it (in Lyon) because the ancient Celtic goddess
Rosmerta resurrected in Cybele? Was it, more prosaically, because the
temple of this goddess was used as a bank? The Great Eunuch, leader
of the clergy, received there money as deposit against receipt,
opened for merchants the equivalent of our 'bank accounts' and made
time-limited interest loans (the latter was conceived of as a gift to
the goddess). No thief would ever have dared to stage a hold-up in
the sacred area, by fear of sacrilege, punished by torture, and of
evil spells; the goddess was considered vengeful! In short, the bank
story of Lyon started (...) in the caves of the temple of Cybele. Let
us note that, originally, bank was sacralised, just as theatre. When
the Templars became bankers, this did not shock anyone; they were
just following a sacerdotal practice". ("Histoire secrète de Lyon et
du Lyonnais" of J.L. Bernard).
On the relations between the clergy and gold in ancient Greece as
well as on other edifying points related to this one, please see
David Astle
http://yamaguchy.netfirms.com/astle_d/astle_index.html
Thompkins&Cariou
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, <vandermok@l...> wrote:
> In 1929, Evola wrote about America ("Americanismo e Bolscevismo",
in Nuova Antologia):
> "It constitutes a titanic entity having gold as blood".
> To say this now would sound pleonastic or rhetoric, but 76 years
ago it was a true prophecy.
> It is rather disquieting to hear an echo in the biblical
Apocalypse, about the new holy Jerusalem:
> "And the building of the wall of it was of jasper; and the city was
pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of
the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones."
> Well, a treasure alike is the Vatican, that now, little after the
whining day of the Jewish remembrance, does afflict Italy with three
days of national mourning and a never-ending funeral march on TV for
the death of the Polish Pope. Dulcis in fundo, even the "HOLY" soccer
championship has been interrupted. Neither the 'quakes could do it in
the past.
> What an Evola alive would think, at his window in front of the
Janiculum?
>
> F.