Empathic Expressions (P)(C)1997 A. Alexander Volenski Side-2 of the tape. Rome Okay...here begins side-2. The Mother, as Ovid wrote, 'the Mother is absent, seek the Mother'. The missing links are hidden, seek the missing-links. This is what he's talking about. It's the same basic principle that's passed down from/through all the mythologies in the world on the planet Earth. In their ancient history they all were aware of 'something missing'...something censored, hidden from them. This to them (the missing link) was an unnatural thing. And Ovid talks about...is expressing the same points here, 'the Mother is absent'...he's saying, the missing link that we know is supposed to be there...because we know there's always a mother...but it's absent, it's not there, where is it? Seek it!...trying to find it...and this is the same basic principle I've been talking about throughout all of these tapes. If the human-race is to succeed, they are going to have to raise their spirituality in a global sense, they're going to have to raise the emotional maturity levels on a global sense also. They're going to have to find out what is absent. They're going to have to seek it. And to seek it, they're going to have to be aware and not so naive, and not led like a bunch of sheep...they're going to have to look at this 'destructive-force' concept, they're going to have to identify it, and get rid of it...okay... There's some very exquisite artwork done, silver-plates, they almost look gold, silver and gold combinations perhaps. All kinds of...in this particular one, depicting Cybele. Cybele, also Cybebe or Agdistis, ancient Oriental and Greco-Roman Deity; her full Roman name was Mater Deum Magna Idaea (Great Idaean Mother of the Gods). Legends agree on her location of origin to be Phrygia in Asia Minor (west-central Turkey); and later during classical era's at Pessinus on the slopes of Mount Dindymus, or Agdistis; she represents the Natural Deity of all Asia Minor. In all aspects, Roman, Greek, and Oriental, the Great Mother has the same characteristics and essential qualities; most prominent is her Universal Motherhood. The Mountain Mother, she was also named, which placed her over the 'wild nature'. Attis was her love, he it is recorded bled to death under a pine tree, the Day of Blood is on 24 March...a tragedy. The Great Mother must not be confused with other Goddesses, for only she is regarded as the giver of life to Gods, human beings, and beasts alike. There's all kinds of things in it, there's flying chariots, Winged angeles carrying torches for lighting, there's a pillar with a snake wrapped around it, there's a balance with people standing on it, trying to keep it balanced, there's a huge chariot pulled by Lion's surrounded by soldiers with shields and short spears...quite a few things, but it's really elegantly done, and it's just a plate. So one can realize also that that area of the world of Rome, the energy content there is very creative. You know, when I start to move along here with some of these pictures of different sculpturing, plates, etc., I begin to get a feeling here, that in many ways Rome is the 2nd try, another try at trying to overcome this destructive problem. And perhaps that's why they (Rome) brought in so many different myths from different cultures they conquered in the world...brought it (mythology) into the Roman area...perhaps that's why, one reason why they did it/was because they were trying to in some way look at all the 'other-tries' and what happened to them (in them) to overcome this problem of humanity on a planet Earth...to understand the 'hidden riddle'...and while they had the strength to be conqueror's of those Nations, they were looking also for the missing links and the side-roads that were taken...so (it appears the correct roads) were never discovered. This missing link thing can be also like a hugh treasure of some sort, an extremely valuable thing, something so valuable that there are individuals in the Universe, in this Galaxy, that would like to have it...somehow perhaps it is hidden on the planet Earth, who knows? These are just ideas, but I think that as one moves along, they're going to have to look in these directions, and use their spiritual development to find answers. I think that the human race is born with so much sincerity, it's filled with all kinds of compassions's, and these things I think started/founded a lot of Nations, those attributes, those moral attributes. Those natural moral things I think founded a lot of Nations, but over time those attributes were somehow swept aside or hidden in a corner, or overlooked, and other things began to take place at the same location. Then one finds a decline in the social order, the moral order, they find declines in all different levels of human personality and character. And what happens from that point is, corruption comes in, and the destructive force takes over...and then it is able to utlize all of the dominating force that conquered those areas. ...So I want to repeat here also, that I think that the main focus should come on the foundation of Rome (it's very beginnings 1500BC forward). There I believe, there was some of the most unique and important aspects to Rome; but that they were lost. They were lost, covered up, covered over, whatever...those moral and character aspects were established, and somehow they were changed. And this is the point...and then one sees the result of that change. I would imagine a military General in present time that looks at the conquering power that the Roman's had, would be very pleased with that historical documentation; because it shows success in conquering. I think that a/someone in a political position that looked at the historical Senate of Rome, and all it held together for so many centuries, would be pleased with some of that history. Of course it's all a lesson anyway, and that's fine...however, who is looking at the 'People'? What were the People like? Where the People's expressions at a higher level or a lower level than we find today in a country like the United States of America? Are we heading in the same direction as Rome headed in? And if that is true, what good is it? We already see the outcome, we see the failures that eventually took hold--why follow a pathway that we already know is going to end a certain way...a way that we don't have to have...a way that is really not the way at all. So I'm going to repeat again here, that in order to succeed...one...in this technical era, technical advanced century, in order to succeed, the spiritual level, the emotional maturity level of the people, has to be raised up. If it isn't...within a few decades, maybe even less than that, the power and the luxury and wealth of the United States of America may be completely devastated. It's very had to visualize this...I see it as a truth. The only thing that would have saved the Roman Empire, would have been an advanced level of emotional maturity, an advanced level of spirituality and visionary abilities in all of the citizens! Then the government, the political system, their religious system, their military system, would also be extremely advanced. And the ultimate outcome of that Nation would have been entirely different than it was. This Principle, you can find it in any Nation on the planet, it's the same problem...if you don't raise the people, bring them up, if you continue to censor them spiritually, culturally, if you continue to hold their moral and their emotional maturity levels down at a base level, low level, then there's no way that that culture or Nation will have any longevity to it...longevity in the sense of thousands and thousands of years. ...And there are things in the destructive force, that wants to utilize a mechanical control system, that/which runs completely by itself, perpetual...they will use that system to control the human being. This new 'cloning system' that we have now, that's been finally publicized after years and years of study in it... during the 2nd World War with Germany, there's all kinds of documentation's of cloning experiments. When one looks at the material that's been publicized recently (on cloning) they have the impression that it just all of a sudden was discovered. They've had this information and have been working on it for 50yrs, can you imagine what they've got! Can you imagine a destructive-force obtaining total-complete control of a satellite, instant communication power and system, and technical system...and have their own clones that look like human beings, running it all... what's going to happen to the natural human, the real human...think about it a little bit. ...And to overcome this kind of problem, one is going to have to raise the spiritual and the emotional maturity levels of the entire human race on this planet, that's the only thing that's going to save it. I'm not a doom's-day person, I never have been, I've always looked for the way, the natural and the good way, and I've always been a conqueror in a sense also...to overcome obstacles. I've never believed in the impossible...to me the impossible is only a temporary barrier. It's only placed there to be overcome, it's a challenge. Anyway, I get carried away on some of this, but it's important information, it's important things to think about and talk about. If one could go back 5000/3000yrs to Greece or Rome, or in Alexandria, Egypt...where it was the center of learning of the known world, when they had the library there, the Library of Alexandria Egypt...if one could go to any one of those locations, they would hear conversations like I'm giving you right now on this tape, between other individuals. They discussed this same kind of thing, the only difference was in that time it couldn't be recorded instantly like I am recording it, it was only a 'word of mouth' thing, so it didn't have...you couldn't replay it over and over and share it with other individuals; you couldn't share one conversation with very many individuals, only a hand full, whoever was within ear of it all. You see, those were difficulties, but look how advanced the human race, what they came too, even living in those difficult times. A very short life span, a very hard thing to get all food that one wanted, it was a more difficult time, but look how they advanced in their emotional maturity levels in some areas (era's), and how they advanced intellectually, how they advanced spiritually... But what the point here is--that we have the abilities now, let's utilize them, lets start focusing in directions we need to go in; and also at the same time realize that there's a lurking monster that's...it's here...if it isn't here, it will be here shortly. Do you think all these 'space probes' that have been sent out, are just sort of floating around out there in nothing? Do you think they can't be traced back to where they originated? What do you think is out there in that Universe? You see, there's all kinds of things out there, all kinds of things. When you look at the solar-system that this Earth is part of, 'that's unnatural', it's unnatural to have one-planet in a solar system this size with the only life on it, just one. That is so far out of balance it's ridiculous, it's a wonder...I wonder why on-one else has ever discussed this kind of thing--at least I haven't come in contact (with such discussions), there probably have been, but I haven't come in contact with it. ...The point I'm trying to make here is, if one listens to their 'self', and searches for the truth within themselves, they're also going to see falsehoods around them in different things; they're going to know what to believe and what not to believe. I find very few people today that I talk too, that totally 100% believe in the Darwinian Theory of Evolution. There's a big question-mark there. ...You see, this is a big problem that is all tied and linked with a dominating force of technology that doesn't have a human element to it, it's mechanical. What would happen if the Automobile no longer needed the human to run it? You just sort of sat in it, and it took you wherever you wanted to go, that would be nice wouldn't it...but what if that Automobile decided it didn't want to stop for Pedestrains crossing the street...ah, they (the mechanical) would just run over them...you see, (and the mechanical would say) "that's just a human being, the population is to great anyway on the planet, just one less to feed or support". You see, there's all kinds of very-harsh ways of expression attached to this technical-mechanical system. And that's why the women have told me in the last few years, "everything is out of control, Alex." You know this censorship is not going to save the human race at all, it is going to eventually either put it (the humans) into total slavery on this planet, or annihilate it/them. And (the technical- mechanical-system) they'll take all the nice virtues that they find in different aspects of the human race, somehow they'll tie it into a mechanical computer system, and then get rid of the human, (and say), "we don't need that anymore, we can artificially make this stuff, we can stamp them out and put them all over the Universe, the Milky Way". Eventually the whole Milky Way will be nothing but a gigantic unnatural Galaxy, made up of artificial things, nothing 'real' about it at all, nothing unique about it at all. And then what will happen to the Galaxy, the Absolute Source, the Center? You see, is that part of this 'riddle' that we're in/of, here on this isolated planet in this solar system, Earth, is that part of the riddle that we have to overcome...do we have to conqueror this destructive-force...if we do, the only way we're going to conqueror it, is to raise the spirituality... The Fathers of this Country put a Constitution together designed to overcome this problem, and what's happened...you see, now they're trying to change that (the Constitution). (We hear comments like), "oh, we don't like that wording right there, we better amend-it, and change it to this...this is what the people want". (Statements like that are) so out of proportion that it's unbelievable. The People haven't even been given the truth of what's going on... Anyway, moving on here...the foundation of Rome, the Destiny. I know I get carried away a little bit, because there is so much importance involved here...I mean...look at ancient history, the billions of sacrifices, human sacrifices in the sense--not sacrifices in some kind of a religious context as far as that part, but sacrifices, individual everyday sacrifices and family sacrifices that have been passed down for thousands and thousands of years, all directed with the hope that the new generation would understand, that the lesson was learned, and how to overcome it, and not make the same mistakes twice. There have been billions of sacrifices on this planet, very human warm heart felt givings...and that's also another reason I get carried away, is because I am in touch with some of those...what they represent; and I feel it. And I say to myself, "ha, if something isn't done, and done soon, all those sacrifices will be for naught!" You see what I mean, so I do get excited, do get excited about it and I should, every human being should. In a way, what I'm saying on this tape is justified, I mean it fits right in...this tape is an empathic-expression of Rome, the Roman Empire, Imperialism, all of that...conquest, the Republican periods of Rome, the Imperial periods. You see, it all fits together. You know, I read somewhere about Julius Caesar... Julius Gaius Caesar, born 12 July 100BC; killed at Rome, 15 March 44BC. Roman General, Statesman, Orator, and Author; he was a dictator. He reformed the calendar, so named the Julian Calendar. On 15 Februrary 44BC he refused the Crown, and was assassinated a month later by Statesmen led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus, in a Senate House. A patrician by birth, Caesar married Cornelia in 84BC; he was a General, waged war and conquererd many Nations--he also aided Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt. ...Julius Caesar...that some of the translations I got from his life, there was somewhere a comment about the Coliseum, and when it was opened...he didn't want that...that's what it said in the translation, he didn't want that kind of thing taking place, that type of brutal display, but the people wanted it, the controlling factions of the Nation wanted it...what was that all about? You see what I'm talking about...when I was in Rome and I went to the Coliseum...it was an afternoon, I went there, and walked inside...a lot of cats in it...and I looked at it, looked down...stood in the audience area on the west side of it, southwest side, and looked into 'the pit'. You see...and I just thought about all of what took place here/there; it's not as big as it looks...but what happened here? There was a lot of silence inside of me, but the cats were there...there were cats running around all over, a few people. It's kind of a thing that shows what a culture that is completely imbalanced and out of moderation with itself, in its luxuries and power--what it can become...some of the things that can become part of it. Coliseum, also Colosseum, Flavian Amphitheater; built at Rome, SE of the Forum, 620ft by 513ft with seating for 50,000 spectators; unlike earlier amphitheaters it was a free standing structure; begun 70AD by the Flavian Emperors during the reign of Vespasian. During Julius Caesar's time there were similar displays, and eventually a large theater was specially built for those thousands of hand-to-hand combats between gladiators, animals and men, and the martyrdom of early Christians. The seats were all marble, the enterior faced with marble, there were sub-passages, dens, drains, chambers, with inner passages and vaults largely brick and concrete; it's performaces lasted 400yrs; it was struck by lightening many times, and also by earthquakes. The Coliseum wasn't the only type of entertainment in Rome, it was just a sector of it...this thing ran 7-days a week, it was open 7-days a week...all day, on and on...you see, but that was just one area of entertainment in the city of Rome. The reason I'm mentioning this is because it's such an outstanding focus point, everyone...when one looks at ancient Rome, what do they see...I don't see it in this description that I have in this document; I don't see any pictures of the Coliseum, it's kind of not there... But in contemporary time we see pictures of the Coliseum all the time...why, why is this? Is this/it, a reminder of a lesson to be learned, is it a form of humility? What is it? What does it represent? Who's wrote about that, who's taken the time to really get into it? It would be nice to see a combination, a combination of a man and woman who have the abilites to write-ancient and historical-literature, at a very high level. It would be nice to see them sit down and write something just about the Coliseum, and what the lessons were to be learned there. If we're going to raise the spirituality and emotional maturity of the race, then these things are going to have to be written about, they're going to have to be documented and expressed in various context, in various ways, and high ways, and intelligent ways, and sophisticated ways even. We're going to have to look at these examples; they are placed, they really did happen, they took place, they're real! And in many spiritual-dimensions, I'm sure that parts of whatever took place in the Coliseum, still-exist somewhere in some way. That's all part of the human development, the spiritual raising of self; that will all be part of it also... (Moving on here) In the 1st century BC, Virgil wrote some Latin epic poems on the foundation of Rome, how it was linked to Apollo, and the Goddess...or by Sibyl, a Priestess of the God Apollo... Virgil, also Vergil, Latin, Publius Vergilius Maro; born 15 October 70BC, Andes, near Mantua, Italy--died 21 September 19BC at Brundisium; the greatest Roman Poet. Virgil, son of a prosperous farmer in the Roman province of Gaul; he received a thorough education and studied at Cremona, Mediolanum, Neapolis, and Rome, where he dovoted himself to rhetoric philosophy and poetry. Although his life was peaceful/quiet, his poetry in some areas reflects the general turbulence in Italy. Virgil became a member of Augustus' court circle, and was a patron of an Imperial Minister, Maecenas; in his later years he lived in Campania. His works include: 'Eclogues/Bucolics, Georgics, AEneid'; Virgil died of a fever after returning from a visit to Greece. ~ Sibyls, in ancient mythology, a special elderly woman reputed to possess powers of prophecy/divination, and intercession with the Gods in behalf of those who resorted to her. Heraclitus, in the 6th Century BC, mentions a prophetess named Sibyl, and the legend spread; in 350BC she is mentioned by many writers; eventually, there became--1 to 10 Sibyls: Cimmerian, Cumaean, Delphian, Erythraean, Hellespontine, Libyan, Persian, Phrygian, Samian, and Tiburtine. Of these, the most celebrated was Cumaean Sibyl, where she appeared before Tarquin the Proud, and offered him 9-books for sale, he refused to buy, thus she burned 3, and offered the remaining 6 at the same price, he refused again, and she burned 3 more, and offered the remaining 3 at the same price, Tarquin was astonished, and bought the books. These were the Sibylline Books, which contained directions of worship of the Gods, and the policy of the Romans; they were kept with great care at Rome, and consulted only by the direction of the Senate. Destroyed at the burning of the Temple of Jupiter in 83BC, fresh collections were made, which were also destroyed around 400AD. Also the 15-Sibylline Oracles, date from 2nd century BC to the 3rd century AD; they are a mixture of Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian material. ...and he (Virgil) was guided by her (Sibyl) on a visit to the Underworld. In the story/poem, Virgil's talking about AEneas, who sailed the Mediterranean and reached the shores of Italy. And how he (AEneas)was taken by Sibyl to the Underworld and reunited with his father, who told him the future greatness of the race of Rome that he was destine to found, and showed him the soul's of the famous Roman's of the future, waiting to be born... You see how it's all tied together...'the future' is coming. The future is coming to meet us, the future is sending messages, sending messages on how to overcome this destructive-force, how to build a world that is complete, and not filled with all this warring and chaos. And what happens...when censorship arrives...(it tries) also to block those things out (the positive healthy things). To raise the spiritual levels, people are going to have to be educated in a sense of allowing them to have the means to educate themselves...to find their own directions. There doesn't have to be so many new discoveries, there needs to be a revolution in (learning ancient) 'historical history'; that's the 'references'. The references are the important points. AEneas became an important symbol of Roman moral values, preservation and sense of duty that marked his early struggles to found the Roman race. The symbolism was particularly stressed in the reign of the Emperor Augustus, 31BC to 14AD from the family Julii..so one would read Virgil...and he also wrote many things on agriculture too. Virgil is also mentioned in the work of Dante, which came about 1200/1400yrs later. Virgil is within the 'Divine Comedy' of Dante; an exceptionally important thing to read also... You see, the 'ancient-song' is playing over and over, it's the same song, and we're just adding new lyrics to it; Virgil added his lyrics in his time, Dante added his at his time...it's the same story...the only difference, is now there's a point of no-return coming up with the technology available here in the century. It's like saying, "you've had 7000yrs Human Race, let's get this together...and that's all you're going to have...this is it...either do it (seek the missing link, overcome the riddle), or lose". I mean, that's kind of a harsh way of looking at it, but that kind of an analogy seems to be floating around...I'm running low on this tape, and I know I didn't bring in a lot of...I didn't define a lot of points that are recorded in Roman mythologies, just some basic ones...and I talked about a lot of other things. But the point here is that, 'this is what-has been produced as I went through this chapter'...one is going to have to have faith in these tapes to be sincere and as truthful as possible--as I can make them--with what I have to work with, and that there also is a sort of a visionary development involved in these tapes that are linked to whatever I'm exposed too at the time; and to realize, even though some of the subject matter seems to be somewhat separate from the subject, still it's all part of the same (theme)--it's all linked together. So here I'll have to close...perhaps later I'll be able to do some more on Rome. 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