1. Punks traditionally have "No Future"
Whatever happened to all of the zeroes, who played
in punk bands? Punk had no future!
It was a time of great joy in Rome, especially in
the Vatican! Pope Clemens-8 (the clement) had declared the year of
1600 a. (after, AD say the Christians) a jubilee year, in
reminiscence of the legendary year of the birth of Jesus. In Britain
at that time, many people had become weary of the scandals and crimes
of the Tudors. A reunification of the Anglican church with that of
Rome was imminent. And didn't they all believe, after all, in the
same holy book, regardless of what it might teach them? Most
Christians of that era basically agreed that the things that the
Bible told them had to be regarded as true to the word. And if the
world seemed to be different, let it be damned!
There were however, heroes who were seeing things in
heaven and earth absolutely differently. One most famous of them was
Giordano Bruno. Just in the jubilee year of pope Clemens-8 they
burned him alive at the stake. It was on February the 17th. This
human sacrifice reminds a bit of that of Jesus, who had been a punk
and a lawless rebel too – but a dunce, not a wise genius.
Around the year of 1600 a. most astronomers and some intellectuals
had already, silently taken up the new lore of Copernicus, based on
that of the ancient Greek Aristarch. This heliocentric model had been
finally niggled out by another Deutsche, John Kepler. Their basic
idea was that of a cosmic sphere that had the Sun at it's centre. But
it was the Italian Giordano Bruno, from a town near Naples, who went
far beyond all this with his cosmological speculations. He wrote:
»Unique is therefore the cosmos, immeasurable
space, the universal lap, hugging everything, the region of ether;
wherein everything stirs and moves. Within it exist – rich in
number – planets, earth balls, suns and earths; who are visible
and perceptible. Countless others must be reasonably inferred...
Therefore there is not only one world, one earth and one sun, but so
many worlds like we see shining sparks above us...«
Until today, the teachings of Giordano Bruno are
rather forgotten. Bruno was a philosopher of the era when it was
still hotly disputed, whether our Sun might circle around our Earth
or vice versa. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Deutsche (German) astronomer
from remote Eastern Prussia, had already pointed out that the
heliocentric model of space, with the Sun in the middle, just better
meets with the observations and calculations of the astronomers. The
Vatican however automatically took the side of all those who believed
that the geocentric model, with the Earth in the middle, would meet
better with their interpretation of the Bible, and also with their
Italian Catholic sense of intuition.
Mr. Bruno thought out what we know today, that the
universe is replete with celestial bodies. So what? The problem
Christians have with this lore is, that the Bible doesn't mention
other suns and worlds. Therefore, already in the year 1277 a. the
Vatican had decided that it was not allowed to teach such a lore.
When Giordano Bruno dared to teach such things, he broke the law. The
young courageous Italian even dared to speak of alien "sun
worlds", solar systems. So what alien species were supposed to
live there on alien planets, and what alien gods had created these?
Mr. Bruno speculated that there was a common spirit, a kind of cosmic
ghost, that was filling everything in the universe with the same
state of mind. Regarding ourselves, it must be a cruel and crazy
ghost. Giordano Bruno must have had bad ideas about a spirit that
seems to rule the immeasurable sky. In one of his books, with the
title: ›The driving out of the triumphant beast‹, Bruno
put it like this:
»Let us put in order, above all, this sky that
lies within ourselves; and then that visible sky that bodily appears
to our eyes. Let us remove from the heaven of our spirit the she-bear
of rudeness, the arrow of envy, the filly of easy virtue, the dog of
bad slander, the she-dog of ingratiation. Let's ban the Hercules of
brutality, the Lyre of conspiracy … As soon as we will have,
by this way, cleansed our house and recreated our heaven, then also
new constellations, new influences and powers, new destinies shall
rule …«
What was that lore supposed to mean? The idea of a
new heaven and a new earth also briefly appears in the Book of the
Apocalypse. But while the philosophers and pundits were checking out
these ideas, many would find that some voice from the old sky did not
agree with Mr. Bruno.
Giordano Bruno won't come back one fine day to lay
down on Broadway. Surely he even sensed that, and that made him howl
with agony when he died. Thomas Aquinas had justified the death
sentence against so-called heretics, accusing them to »forge
the faith«. But faith is not the same in every mind. Some
people are naturally just wiser than others. Some may also receive
better hints and ideas from the gentler inner voice, that is the
voice of the true god. Mr. Bruno put it like this:
»The very bright light of the Sun does neither
shine to all, nor – to all that it shines to – by the
same way, nor do all turn towards it … their spirits in the
same manner.«
That refuted an ancient Roman proverb: Sol lucet
omnibus – the Sun shines to all. Giordano had been a monk
of the order of the Dominicans, nicknamed the hounds of the Lord. But
already at the age of 18 he took down the pictures of Saint Catherine
and Saint Anthony, who had adorned his cell. He started to read the
books of heretics like Erasmus von Rotterdam. The hounds of the
church of Rome accused him of heresy, and for many years chased him
from one place in Europe to the other, including London. Here and
there he also found supporters, who were better in touch with the
light of true wisdom than others. But just in Italy those enlightened
types seemed to be comparably rare. When he finally ventured back
there, invited into a trap, a college student wrote:
»They tell that the Nolean Bruno now is living
and teaching in Padua. Is this really true? What is this for a man,
who dares to return to Italy.«
Giordano Bruno was born in a town called Nola. The
UTR has it that this name can help to explain his extraordinary
destiny in an astrological way. Ga-Nola is the name of one of the
Greys of the near twin star 61 Cygni. Several such stars form a
cosmic devils' circle around our earth and that of neighbouring
Ga-Leta, directly behind the "dog star" Sirius. Bruno was
correct when he sensed that the two Dogs of the sky are – now
astrologically interpreted – especially mendacious and
pestering constellations. Worse however are the aliens of the
constellation Lyre. Those Greys of the Cräybs indeed are leading
some evil interstellar conspiracy. Our best helpers however live in
the constellation of the Bear. The typical snare of countless evil
aliens is to bind target persons with mendacious chat and bizarre
lust. Greys like Ga-Toma angle for people with similar names, like
Thomas.
It's hard for Christians to even imagine that the
gods, saints and angels they used to commit and pray to are in fact
non-existent in the sky above. But the idea that there exist many
alien worlds in the sky, comparable to our Solar System, surely comes
much nearer to the truth. Some people are just lucky, and wise enough
to sense this. Others don't have this luck. It often leaves with old
age. In 1889 many Italians had come to their senses, religion-wise.
They erected a statue in Rome for Giordano Bruno, at the exact place
where he had been executed. Pope Leo-13 must have fumed with wrath.
He was just in the "exile of the Vatican", it was a strike
against the birth of the nation of Italy. Commemorating Giordano
Bruno, pope Leo-13 declared that he regarded his deeds as:
»Insincere, mendacious, completely egotistic,
intolerant against any opposing opinion, definitely of an evil
nature, and full of a sycophantic flattery that distorts reality.«
Darn, this philippika sounds like the pope's
judgement about his own popery. Only in the year of 1965, when I was
three, some clerics suddenly grew organised and courageous enough to
remove the books and theses of Bruno from their index of forbidden
books. So they are learning, but with the speed of codgers. Soon
later, already Sci-Fi series like ›Star Trek‹ or ›Star
Fleet‹ were popular on TV, and the age of the monumental
mendacious Hollywood Bible films came to a sudden end.
Twenty years ago or so I wrote a gospel song called
›Heavenly Jordan‹. It was about a mythical river
running down from the sky, that should take us to the promised lands
up there in heaven. Indeed that is what God must plan now: To move
with this precious rare world from our devilish neighbours to angelic
worlds, dwelling behind the seven stars of the Big Dipper. We are
bound for a new heaven, and for this we must transform our rather
miserable planet into a new earth. Fractal links are reaching from my
mythical river Jordan to Giordano Bruno. But, just like it is the
case with the real river Jordan in the Land of the Bible, this water
is scarce and precious. It can't quench everyone's thirst. The
current Pope Franziskus took up the name of a monk from Assisi, who
was a weird pauper and a punk within his church. Well, punks
traditionally have "no future".