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Chapter 8 - Proposal for a RenaissanceJacky asked again, "Does anyone have anything to add?" I told him that I did. I commented on Dagmar's presentation. I told Jacky that I felt he didn't fully appreciate the profundity of the principle behind Dagmar's suggestion, the principle of universal love and universal sovereignty all rolled into one. I told him that according to all evidence, these two principles rolled into one are the greatest universal constitutional principles of all times. Nothing comes even close. Having been put forward and agreed to in the Treaty of Westphalia, these principles ended wars; established the brotherhood of man; ennobled civilization; put the principle of sovereignty on the map; and raised the very image of man to a height of dignity that has never been superseded on a constitutional platform. I told Jacky how it began. It began in Greece in the seventh Century BC, at a time when the Greek people existed largely as isolated mountain tribes with a limited vocabulary, who were intellectually captivated by a far flung, largely antihuman, mythology, whey therefore were vulnerable to attacks by the empires of the time. I told him that Homer changed all that. Homer was a poet. With his epic poetry, Homer fielded a high level language. He literally snatched the people out of the clutches of their ancient mythology and gave them a human dimension. Evidently he knew that he had to create a high level language to do that, a kind of language that enabled the people to contemplate the advanced humanist concepts that he wanted to convey; that he did convey in his epic poetry. In this manner, Homer started a humanist intellectual tradition that lived on to the present day; that became intertwined with the Egyptian intellectual tradition and was developed further and further; that survived the empires and the dark ages; that eventually became the key element of all the great advances that unfolded thereafter in European civilization. I pointed out to Jacky that a lot a great geniuses developed quite early in the background of this unfolding intellectual tradition; people like Solon, Socrates, and Plato, who carried the torch forwards. I told Jacky that this rapidly unfolding intellectual tradition literally changed the face of humanity at this time. It marked this period with such achievements that that this era became a jewel in the chain of human development. It is known today as the Greek Classical Era. I suggested that this designation doesn't tell half of the story. This almost explosively unfolding intellectual tradition had touched people's consciousness everywhere in that part of the world. It nourished scientific developments and spiritual development, and not only in Greece, but in all surrounding areas. It became reflected in the kind of scientific development in Egypt that enabled the people in the Third Century BC, to discover that the earth is a sphere, and to calculate the circumference of it with near perfect precision. This knowledge gave rise to the first transoceanic voyage from Egypt to north and South America in the late 200 BC time frame. I also pointed out to Jacky that the same intellectual tradition also furnished the stage for the development of Christianity that largely reflected this tradition. Many of the parables and teachings of Christ Jesus have their roots in this momentous humanist intellectual tradition that Christianity became a part of, even an expression of it. Then came Rome. I suggested to Jacky that Rome likely fulfilled the same function that Hitler fulfilled in the twentieth Century, to destroy the humanist intellectual tradition that threatened the Empires. Rome was set up to be a fascist empire, forged together by the sword and the rule of little minds that despised the discipline that developed in intellectual traditions. Rome became ruled by people who were literally 'empty' as human beings, without a trace of humanity, fascist people steeped in greed, lust, power, and bestiality. Rome's destructive rampage nearly destroyed civilization. It unleashed a chain of dark ages that lasted well over a thousand years; that continued to decimate humanity for many centuries even after Rome itself had collapsed and vanished. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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