Ongoing Battle Over Language
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(Conspiracy Nation, 06/18/07) - If you have ever read any "Old
English" you know that spellings don't seem to be defined. For
example, John Donne writes:
"Nothing but man of all invenom'd things
Doth worke upon itselfe, with inborn stings."
It is not that Donne couldn't spell. It's just that correct spelling
had not yet been defined. That gradually changed after Francis Bacon,
"love child" of the "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley (Lord
Leicester), helped translate the King James Bible. Thus was born "the
King's English." Bacon also wrote many, if not all, of the so-called
"Shakespeare" plays. Those plays contain a secret code. But, writes
William Henry, "Bacon's greatest code of all may be the English
language... The English language, it is widely acknowledged, owes a
profound debt to the English translation of the King James Bible and
upon the plays of Shakespeare." ("Francis Bacon and the Sign of the
Double A." From Forbidden Religion by J. Douglas Kenyon (Ed.))
(Further mind-boggling information on Francis Bacon is reportedly
available in a book by Virginia Fellows, The Shakespeare Code. That
book is currently on order by Conspiracy Nation. But you yourself
could simply turn off the television and read the book instead of
waiting for piecemeal information possibly to appear in future issues
of Conspiracy Nation.)
Language plays a role in the Roman Catholic Church. Until the
pontificate of John XXIII, and coincident with a Moscow-Vatican pact
of 1962 which forbid Rome from condemning Communism, Latin had been
the lingua franca of the Church. Thereafter, Latin began to disappear,
replaced by native dialects. Now, however, Pope Benedict XVI is
reportedly about to issue a document which re-opens the way to the
optional use of the old Latin Mass. "Known as a motu proprio,
signifying that it is the Pope's personal initiative, it reflects
Benedict XVI's thinking on the subject since long before he was
elected pontiff." ("Pope puts his weight behind the revival of Mass in
Latin," by Paul Bompard. The Times (U.K.), June 18, 2007)
Imagine if here, in the United States, the leaders had decided to
change the official language from English to Esperanto. Esperanto is
the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language.
The goal of Esperanto was to create an easy and flexible language as a
universal second language to foster peace and international
understanding. ("Esperanto", Wikipedia, June 18, 2007.) Suppose the
USA leaders had decided, "Let us embrace the new international
language, Esperanto." That would enormously change the identity of the
United States, since language has a subtle effect on thinking. In the
same way, the Vatican's 1960s rejection of Latin caused, in the view
of some, a collapse or crisis in Catholicism.
Also in language news, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has
begged Latino immigrants to please learn English. "This is politically
not the correct thing to say, but here I am, getting myself into
trouble," stated Schwarzenegger. "But I know that when I came to this
country, I ... very rarely spoke German to anyone." ("Latinos reject
governor's English-immersion advice," by John Wildermuth. San
Francisco Chronicle, June 16, 2007)
This, of course, was an outrage, that the California Governor had
humbly asked immigrants to learn English. "They are busy working; they
don't have time to learn," chided one critic. Schwarzenegger's
statement was "both insensitive and irresponsible," complained
another. (Ibid.)
Another language battle involves use of the "N word" and the "F word."
On the one hand, "N*gg**" and "F*gg**" are increasingly taboo. On the
other hand, the words gain shock value thereby and comedians get in
trouble for using the words. The so-called "Politically Correct"
people are notorious for arbitrarily defining what language we can and
cannot use. For example, they decided we cannot say "cripple" but must
say "handicapped" instead. But upon further investigation it was found
"handicapped" suggested "cap in hand" and implied beggars. And so it
was ruled we must say "disabled" or, better yet, "differently abled."
As regards Black Americans, correct terminology has evolved from
"colored" to "blacks" to "African-Americans" to (coming full-circle)
"persons of color."
The late Malachi Martin could have helped make sense of all this. His
charming Irish brogue used to be heard in the wee hours of the night
on Art Bell's radio show. Sadly, Father Martin is with us no more.
(Caveat emptor. Tapes of Malachi Martin are available at
http://triumphcommunications.net/mmartin.html Conspiracy Nation is not
connected with sales of the audio tapes and accepts no responsibility
for customer satisfaction.)
Father Martin (1921-1999) held doctorates in the Semitic Languages,
Archeology and Oriental History. Martin was also a member of the
Vatican advisory council and was privileged to secretive information
pertaining to Vatican and other world issues. At one time a Jesuit
priest, Martin was released by Pope Paul VI from the vows of poverty
and obedience in the Jesuit Order, but at Martin's request confirmed
his vow of celibacy. ("Malachi Martin", Wikipedia, June 18, 2007)
Martin obviously did not like what was happening in the Jesuit Order.
He explains the situation in his bestselling 1987 book, The Jesuits:
The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. In
1540, the Society of Jesus, derisively called "Jesuits" by their
enemies, was set up "as a special group of Pope's men, his soldiers."
This makes it especially remarkable that, soon after the Moscow-
Vatican pact of 1962, of all people, it would be the Jesuits who were
in subtle rebellion against papal authority. Conspiracy Nation takes
no side on this issue. The Jesuits apparently reject the Pope as
intermediary between God and His children.
A "modernist superforce" (Marxism?) is seeking to reshape Catholicism,
claimed Father Martin. A side-effect has been an impact upon "the day-
to-day life of Catholic priests and laity." (http://
triumphcommunications.net/books.html) A return to the Latin rite could
become a rallying point for traditional Catholics. (Bompard, op. cit.)
But "Is Language a 'Language' Language?" asks Roy Lisker. Noam Chomsky
"initially obtained his research monies from the U.S. Army Signal
Corps, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of
Naval Research." Since then, according to Lisker, Chomsky has become
an "Arch-Pope" of language. The ancient prophets restricted their
chastisements to our bad conduct. The Arch-Popes of Language have
widened the scope to restriction of our grammatical constructions, our
thought patterns, and our brain waves. (qtd. in Popular Alienation by
Kenn Thomas (Editor))
The battle is, from one perspective, between sovereign overlords of
language and ongoing human language inventiveness. Not long ago, the
word "ain't" was verboten in academia. Then somehow, "ain't" began to
be admitted. It is an "illegal immigrant," so to speak. Invaders
carrying a foreign tongue refuse to "surrender their weapon" and learn
English. Communists infiltrated the Vatican and overthrew Latin. Pope
Benedict XVI has launched a counter-attack. On top of it all, forces
are circling to swoop down upon "hate speech."
Iñigo de Loyola, known as Ignatius of Loyola, would not have been
fooled. In his time, when he helped create the Jesuits, he saw that,
universally, a war was in progress. But the true war was against a
force which sought the destruction God's children. That force could
manifest itself in uncountable ways. Iñigo began to develop Spiritual
Exercises. Every Jesuit novice needed to have, and to learn to use,
silence. In these times of apartness, each individual member analyzed
their inner activity, whatever basic forms had been allowed into one's
inner theater of consciousness.
Fascinated by the success of the Jesuits, Reichsfuhrer Heinrich
Himmler studied the Order. Himmler even dreamed of training his elite
Waffen SS combat troops along Jesuit lines. Others, such as Adam
Weishaupt, have also tried to follow the Jesuit formula. These wrongly
assumed the Jesuit Constitutions to be the essence of Iñigo's Order.
But such assumptions were wrong. The strength of the Jesuits had been
spiritual.
Oddly, "the nearest historical parallel to the Jesuitism of Iñigo de
Loyola is to be found in the Leninism of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov,"
comments Martin (op. cit.). Jesuitism remained strong, until it
collapsed from within, "smashed by the ones who knew and understood it
best: the Jesuits themselves."
The battle is spiritual. That does not mean you withdraw from the
world. It means you are not fooled by manifestations. "If you followed
Iñigo, in other words, you were not only spiritually oriented; you
were a hardheaded and practical realist." But you never mistook the
manifestation for the ultimate reality.
Deeper than the ongoing battle over language is something else. What
exactly is it? Malachi Martin would have offered valuable insights.
His kind voice is missed.
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