The English we use is freely taken from the various 'Englishes' that are currently dividing up into: Street English, formal English and legal English. Of course there is also business English and the dread medical English but they are merely formal mixed with jargon.

 

When the book of Ballymote was written (by hand) there were many ancient dialects and this book was an attempt at an explanation - almost an early dictionary. At this time words and spelling was being pieced back together after government interference forbade people to speak their own languages let alone write them.

 

Every 'languish' has its dialect or 'patois' which becomes a bi-lingual must for groups and gangs but generally English is the Rosetta stone between thousands of languages and ways of speaking.

 

In other words our style is mixed and always aims to make the point clear in a way appropriate to the subject in hand.

 

MAKING HISTORY

 

The time of writing is February 2011; history is being made as we write and as you read ... and that's not just on the telly. Most of the people we encounter regard history as being annals of the past or as the media call it - 'militainment' and such programming as the government think fit to carry the advertisements. And programming it is. Carefully planned and on schedule. Ed Bernays, alas, lives on.

 

Not so very long ago - maybe a thousand years BC is when it all began - according to the Romans. Different time lines differ but it seems that Lucius Brutus set up a Roman Republic after many hundred years of plunder and misgovernment by suppression and murder of neighbouring peoples and theft of conquered wealth, simply put, stealing.

 

The Romans - originally Latinos had moved to Italy from Germany and conquered the Italic people who had been getting on nicely - albeit tribally and creating a great deal of wealth due to good stewardship of a fertile land. The pre Romans were categorised by historians as the 'bronze age'. The Romans named themselves after Romulus - famous for murdering his twin brother Remus. From there on - their history was one, after another, account of bloody battles with the boasted dead count, for voracity and power.

 

Enslavement - a Roman habit - was found to be a poor way to run an army and even mercenaries lacked the spirit of the defending peoples. So the mean Romans were finally, in 400 BC, forced to pay their armies after several hundred years of getting nowhere in Italy, despite bullying and subjugating surrounding states to their cruelty and greed. They found that letting their own poor (plebeian workmen) own the land on which they lived and take up political office, built communities. This gave them the strength and wealth to enter their second millennium as the Roman Empire.

 

Then for two millennia, the Roman Empire, with further impetus from the Roman Church, now the Roman Catholic Church, set about ransacking and taxing their own people and as many nations as they could invade and pillage. Their predilection for human sacrifice may have also spurred them to start battle after battle resulting in seemingly endless bloodshed.

 

The gladiatorial rituals were not enough to satisfy their craving for blood which became a state supported practice in official arenas, where people and animals murdered innocent slaves and criminals publicly for fun. This routine, by the very few, still revolts the majority of men and women as practised in a 'Roman' tradition. The Romans were famous for being really slow to catch on.  Certain basics in human intelligence, that other civilisations were taking for granted, took the Romans centuries, even millennia, to recognise. In religious matters they showed little understanding of their own hotch-potch of plagiarised ideas from overseas.

 

One example was understanding the 0 zero as an important aspect of mathematics and philosophy. Their system of numbers was as primitive as their manners and as their social behaviour.

 

They were busy raping the Sabine women to get breeding stock, indulging in gladiatorial blood sport echoed in todays wars where soldiers are paid in void-contract money. Their pornographic worship of torture was even used to intimidate the spread of the truth of Christianity that was brought about by the English King James Bible.

 

At the same time, in India, Hindu Brahmagupta was gazing at stars and re-introduced fundamental concepts such as the number zero to the Indian and Arab worlds that the Romans (aka the Europeans) did not grasp - let alone incorporate - for nearly 2 millennia.

Romans had no need of zeros. The higher truths of the void had no meaning to them. In India, the Socratic method of asking 'Who am I' has been long used to achieve the highest realization possible for man. The term for such who are 'awake', 'a Christ' or 'a Buddha' reflects the realization of the ground of being, the void, the Mind behind all appearance.

An Indian sage, Ramana Maharishi (picture left) used the intense concentrated through of a 'who am I' enquiry to achieve the highest realization possible to man. You too can ask 'who am I'... you are certainly not the name on a piece of paper written down in a Roman Law Government Office. Knowing this, is the key to end the servile dependence and weakness in us, that those who are in power, introduce through suggestion and then preach that we cannot overcome.

 

The English sage Raphael, who studied with Ramana Maharishi, went on to set down the hidden wisdom teachings of every continent in his notebooks under different names. His teachings can be paraphrased as 'In Mind we live and move and have our Being' - a purely objectivist philosophy - all ideas, including pure sibjective identity - I AM - are objective to Mind in which they arise. The wisdom teachings, reason, science, mathematics, common law, law of void, bring us to the unalterable conclusion. There is no debt that pyramids on to infinity. It is absurd. There is no statute of limitations on fraud. 

 

In the middle ages the Mauri and other Islam peoples from Northern Africa were occupying the part of Europe now known as Spain and Portugal.

 

They built wonderful mosques and educated Spain in mathematics and refined ways that survived the Romans' habitual desecration. Now many mosques are adapted as inspiring, breathtaking Roman cathedrals.

This showed the Romans some beauty as they absorbed them rather than their usual systematic destruction, torture and genocide from which most 'Moors' fled. Today's emperors are doing the same, more subtly, the plunder being done 'legally' or in terms of ideology and other institutions like the banks.

 

CHANGING CONCEPTS

 

And that's only the Romans. We do not live in a post history era. We can do better than this. We can do it quicker and have more enjoyment of our lives along the way.

 

When everyone changes all at once it does not feel like a change. It is a natural progression to something new and wonderful that just works. It is possible to simply turn aside from the state of bad, tamas - in the Indian culture - to sattva which is the good; the light. Whereas there is a third state or element that progresses it from one aspect to another. Rajas it is.

 

Now rajas is the intermediary in this tradition that allows the two states of divisive dualism to blend into a three-state way of being.

 

Rajas is the work. It is the stewardship of the land and spirit of the people. It is the cultivation of and the caring for others.

 

It is so natural to humanity as a functioning body or bodies, that consciously introducing this simplicity into projects and creations can automatically allow for creativity and productivity on a large scale.

 

People lying down will get up and wonder why they went into a mini rip van winkle state at all. How about – we all get up? How about? ... how about so many things?

 

Of course it's going to take learning. Of course it's going to take education and thinking anew in the way of unschooled thought. A word of warning that was swept under many a carpet. There's an unpopular aspect to this which is why the dual model took off so readily. We are all inured in the right and left, the good and bad, the red and the blue and the North and the South and always the winners and the losers.

 

 

The warning is that introducing rajas to a culture means work.

 

"There is no labour from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world." 

Wallace Wattles

 

And the most satisfying.

 

What is created from rajas, working, will set the ship sailing. That's the ship of honest money (deliverable, voluntary gold standard) and common law.

Trade maketh the ship to go

anon - old saying