M
re Loco - on the other hand
Wed Dec 10 20:12:12 2003
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On the other hand, in ye olde wisdom, the Moon is associated with imagination. However "imagination" in that context is insight into another sphere of existence.

Medieval monks in England would burn their sandals on the night of a full moon and then dance in the smoke which is said to have smelled of fish. They were known as lunatics. The nearby, non-Christian Celts in Wales began describing their neighbours as living in "Lloegr" etymologically meaning "land of the lunatics". England is still called "Lloegr" in Wales to this day.

Modern psychiatry considers schizophrenia to be a failure of the mechanism in our minds that prevents us from mixing up products of our imagination with reality - a failure that did not prevent a now famous individual from going on to win the nobel prize for mathematics with his Beautiful Mind.

Ancient esotericism agrees with the prospect that such imagination is a hazard, but disagrees about its nature, holding that it emanates from the Moon or Luna (or Hekate), the goddess controlling humans who are not aware of their fate and who is thus writing their fate for them.

But before we go labelling a person and deciding unilaterally that someone has gone "barking" along the Moon River or fallen out of their tree staring at it, it might be a good idea to realise that insights from Lunar imagination are known to have occured. Arthur C Clarke dreamt up communications satellites; M P Shiel in 1896 wrote a novel about a race of supermen, dressed in black who roamed Europe murdering those whose flaws impeded humanity, the story was entitled The S. S. Both authors were from England, land of the "Lunatics"

Whether they were drawing on the imagination as defined by the pseudo-science of psychiatry or listening to the whispering snakes that form the hair of the moon-goddess Hekate, the predictive powers of both were rather astute, and both would credit imagination and be equally mystified as to its source.

It was Mithras - product of a virgin birth, who resurrected from the dead in a cave and rolled back the boulder blocking its entrance - who sacrificed a bull to Luna.

It is man who is enthralled by the moon, symbolised by a coiled snake. The alchemical snake represents the moon, and still entwines our symbol of medicine.

I'd say that the sky is not falling. Nor is the moon rising wrong. Interpretaion is what is flawed, either by the writer or the reader or both.

What is going on is that imagination is running riot and is being Set to run riot upon an entire population.

I'd say the guy is a "Fool" adrift upon a nation that is a Ship of fools" - note the lower-case f in the latter.

I would say that the sky might well fall-in figuratively speaking and the crescent moon symbol could well have something to do with that.

As above, so below.

What greater insult than to land an Eagle (Ahura Mazda) on Hekate's face, and out toddles Armstrong (the Archer), all chariotted to her by Apollo.

Payback time had to come eventually:)

But I don't think it's the sky falling; more like the Earth rising - Yellowstone?

M