Spiritual reading; “Barbarians” — inspiring, disgusting, shocking, fascinating drama of Ancient Germany in revolt against Rome — and its profound lessons

Higher, nordic civilizations in our galaxy have progressed far beyond earthlings, stuck in terrible mental habits on a planet that is often hellish as a result.

November 17

We are well aware that many of you are in the process of calling up your nemeses, of bringing into the light of consciousness those beliefs, patterns, thought forms and values which have overshadowed and hindered you for many lifetimes.

*** Yes, many lifetimes

It is possible and it is common to dig your heels in, remain in denial, and refuse to progress.

The excellent book (and HUGE BESTSELLER) called Conversations with God has God saying to the author, Neale  Donald Walsch (of German Wisconsin background), that, sadly, he has spent, gulp, HUNDREDS of lives here spinning his wheels….. hundreds of painful existences making only the most minimal progress in all these incarnations, where  pain loomed large, marital conflict, strife with one’s kids, dying in battle, being killed by roasting-hot poison gas from a volcano (as when Vesuvius annihilated Herculaneum and  Pompeii), disease, epidemics, injuries, famine, starvation, enemy invasion, rape, pillage, invasion, robbery, poverty and either a quick and horrible death or a long, drawn-out, fatal malady where you go grimly downhill for weeks or months before death.

And even then, despite all the lessons  implicit in these tragedies, all the things earthlings bring on themselves, you refused to grow and change very much at all.

In fact, you drew the insane conclusion from all this horror that there is no God at all, no loving God, anyway, maybe just a callous god, and that your life and you are meaningless.

They think just as the horrible, murderous, wicked villain Macbeth did …..in the famous Shakespeare (Edward de Vere) play:

All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing.
— Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17–28)

 

You refused to learn any lessons. You forgot who you are, a child of God, and you stayed a slave of your egoic mind, and that wild mind of yours is torturing you and thwarting every good goal you have.

So it takes you HUNDREDS of lives of self-caused misery, you and other humans like you, to change just a little. And you keep being sent back here because you keep flunking life though God, angels, and loved one in the hereafter love you and  so much want you to succeed.

Again…..

 

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All around the planet, the membrane which separates conscious from unconscious is thinning and it becomes more and more obvious to many people what it is that they are indeed engaged in struggle with.

And these struggles, broken open, revealed for what they truly are, are of a magnitude and power you have not seen before.

If this is not happening for you, it may, and soon.

You all need to find your own way in this time. You are the heroes and you alone must choose your course and your stance. If you fail in this, if you lean too hard on anything—a structure, a religion, a person, an outside source of any sort—then you will likely return to the same place again when you have gained the tools you need to do it on your own.

And while this is fine and you will each take the time and experience you need in order to achieve the mastery point you have set as your individual goal, there is no harm in gathering the many advantages that are on offer.

Today we want simply to remind you that you are already the masters of your own lives. You do not need to become, you need only to remember. We see you as great, branching, sheltering trees—magnificent, ancient, powerful and deep-rooted. You have and are all that is needed. It is your fear and illusion which lead you to imagine that you are nothing more than a skinny sapling, subject to the animals, insects, and elements.

No, you are source, you are home, you are shelter, you are strength and fortitude, you are wisdom; you are life.

When you engage with your worst nightmares, remember please that you have already won, and try not to give it all away when you hear the persuasive voice of fear whispering in your ear. No one gains when you do that. Everyone loses.

We love you deeply, we are always here with you, and we are so happy to be able to encourage you to remember the truth of who you are, especially as the very earth seems to shiftt beneath your feet.

All our love and blessings.

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…..”Barbarians”: egoic Ancient Romans versus egoic Ancient Germans

This was a big-budget 2020-21 Netflix series from Germany (and not too politically correct, actually), a semi-fictional drama, about the actual historical events 2,000 years ago when many of the German tribes finally united under a young German leader (Hermann/Arminius, who had actually been raised in Rome himself and was a high officer in the legions) and rose up successfully against savage, arrogant and brutal Roman rule.

In a perfect, gigantic ambush, the Germans annihilated three legions and 20,000 trained, battle-experienced Roman soldiers.

An awesome sight for  friend and foe, three Roman legions on the march, the result of 700 years of Roman valor and  military science.

A Germanic warrior reported to Thusnelda, a real person and the heroic princess who married Arminius: “Romans as far as the eye can see. It is a river of steel.”

But they WERE defeated, annihilated, in fact, and this changed all of history, because Rome never absorbed the Germans (or the Slavs to their east) and after 500 years of insane white-vs-white strife, the Germans (who were smart and learned Roman military science) destroyed the Western Roman Empire — and the Dark Ages began.

The fall of Rome set the white race back a thousand years.

There is great heroism and also appalling egoic behavior on both sides….. white people on this planet being such a “mixed bag,” then as well as now.

The Ancient Germans in the show speak in modern German with excellent subtitles in all major languages. The Romans are played by Italian actors and speak in correct Ancient Latin, with subtitles in every language also.

Hermann/Arminius must choose between betraying and breaking the heart of his own adoptive Roman father — who in this series is depicted as being the main Roman general, Varus, himself — versus betraying his own nation, Germany, by helping his adoptive fatherland, Rome, terrorize and enslave his native kinsmen.

Varus (l.), the Roman general crushing Germany and insanely showing extreme contempt for every German he meets, including even village and tribal leaders, is (in this series) the adoptive father of Arminius (r.) The two men will ultimately meet again as mortal enemies. It all really happened.

As I discussed in a blog the other day,

A Roman villa under a Somerset field

…the Romans were exceptionally brutal, raping, torturing, stealing, and crucifying, and all about the “glory” of violent conquest, the lucrative pillaging of homes and farms, and the taking away of innocent men and women (who had never attacked Rome) as their wretched slaves in the mines, galleys, fields — and brothels…….

So while the neighboring peoples did see the amazing progress of Greco-Roman life — great cities, gorgeous temples, fine art, delicious wines, efficient sewage systems, roads, schools, aqueducts, courts, law-and-order, and with the high seas free, thanks to Rome, of murderous pirates and the woodland roads cleared of cut-throat highwaymen — they also saw horribly high taxes and sickeningly brutal punishments.

Look, by contrast, with the old America before the jews ruined it. Millions of Europeans gladly crossed 4,000 miles of dangerous ocean to voluntarily become Americans, learn a new language and different customs, and build a new life based on beautiful things: justice, hard work, free public education, the rule of law, family, free speech, and both religions and freedom of religion.

Rome, truly glorious in many ways, could have taken that uplifting, un-egoic path, too.

Instead, it was this:

The Roman soldiers came regularly for “tribute” (a kind of tax, a levy) from each German village: ‘Give us, barbarians,  hundreds of pounds of grain, or cattle or sheep, or furs or leather.’

If the village Reiks protested the village was poor and even near starvation, the Roman officer replied:

“Barbarian, in your village I also see plenty of children. So,fine, then we will take your children as our slaves.”

And for a merely symbolic act of defiance, civilian German men, women and children are crucified in the village as “rebels” ….Germans, living on their own ancestral land, being called “rebels,” and treated back then just like the jews treat the Gaza Palestinians right now.

They are nailed alive to crosses to slowly die in agony.

And the Roman order, given to the village “reiks” (chief), is that their bodies are to hang there in the village until they rot and the birds eat away their rotting corpses, right down to the skeletons, a daily, enduring horror show:

Beholding all this obscene cruelty is the beautiful Thusnelda, daughter of a reiks, and thus a kind of princess, who swears to avenge these villagers. All this is accurate history.

She even marries Hermann/Arminius, who is not the man she really loves (that is the handsome and brave Folkwin Wolfspear), out of sheer admiration for him, and her realization that this Romanized German is exactly the right man — with all his noble blood, courage, sincerity, and Roman military background — to lead the Germans (amateur warriors) to victory over the far more sophisticated, professional Roman legions.

And all this is true. The Romans wrote plenty about Varus, Arminius, his wife Thusnelda, and the mega-catastrophe in the Teutoburg Forest.

Trailer to Season 1 of 2:

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(Netflix costs $6.99 a month. I got it only last night, and just to watch this series.)

Season One, thankfully, and surprisingly for a neo-German production, had almost no “woke” elements…. though the spectacle of the beautiful Thusnelda slaying heavily armored, highly professional Roman soldiers, armed only with a lance, well…. it IS possible, but not too likely she would have survived more than five minutes in the massive and climactic battle in the Teutoburg Forest that comes at the end of Season One.

The actress Jeanne Goursaud, who is excellent as Thusnelda, a strong yet feminine woman of the high leadership class, in real life has a French father and a German mother. Maybe she actually descends from Thusnelda.

But many viewers were rightly disgusted and said so in the comments when Season Two brings in a German warleader who is (wait for it) a black female. 😉 LOL!

But overall the series was excellent….. And it showed the disgraceful jealousy, the envy, greed, disunity and treachery among the Germans which made the task of liberating Germany which Hermann/Arminius had embraced infinitely more difficult…. And, in an act of loathsome ingratitude and envy,  other German chieftains actually assassinated Arminius, the very man who had liberated their nation, the Ancient German version of George Washington! 🙁

And are white people any better today, 80 generations later?

Consider this: Most of my readers had one or several incarnations living under Rome.

Are you donating now in my extreme financial crisis, or lying to yourself?

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