Unveiling Historical Mysteries: Cargo Cults to Witchcraft
The Phantom Cargo
Native theories about the evolving position in response to continuously changing conditions. It was not that they did not understand the principles of the system, as the Europeans believed, but that were unacceptable to them because they could see that great men did not work while they adapt to the system meant to work for a pittance. The natives believed they were entitled to the wealth they saw but did not enjoy since the produced work for the white man, and that was the secret that held office.
Messiah
Yahweh had promised that the kingdom of David would endure, but collapsed shortly after David’s death. The site chosen for the development of this great empire was a military hall. Large armies roamed, from the ancient Egyptians to the Romans through Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, and Greeks. The big mystery was because he had fulfilled his promise to God and his people had been enslaved and subjected repeatedly. The answer was that Jews had not kept its promise by violating the sacred laws and ceremonies unclean. When they erase their sins would be forgiven and a new prince would come to avenge his people and build an everlasting.
The Secret of the Prince of Peace
- The time does not seem the most favorable, but we cannot fail to forty years in the conventional chronology, even if we could be wrong about the content of his teachings. The solution would be that Jesus was not as peaceful as is commonly believed and that his teachings were not a break with Jewish tradition.
- The figure of the Messiah is not perfected peaceful until later, when Paul laid the foundations for peace cult following the unsuccessful war against Rome. Paul preached among the millions of exiled Jews living throughout the Roman Empire. There were clashes with the Jerusalem community, who believed that Paul would benefit the non-Jews and violated the laws of the Lord. But by AD 70, the mother church of Jerusalem had lost its dominance and the right conditions for spreading the cult of a peaceful Messiah had settled. The Christian kingdom of God, not of this world and salvation is found in eternal life after death. The Romans were absolved of the blame for his death lay with the Jews. Christianity was the religion of displaced ethnic groups but not the Roman peasants. With the conversion of Constantine and the Roman Empire, Roman Messiah would preside over the deaths of millions of Christian soldiers and their enemies.
Broom and Witches
Some 500,000 people were convicted of witchcraft and were burned between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. First, the question arises as to why anyone should believe in witches flying through the air and, secondly, because this concept became so popular during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Although there are a number of confessions, these were obtained under torture, also forcing him to confess the names of other people in the coven. As a reward for its cooperation witches could aspire to be strangled before the fire. Any confession made under torture had to be confirmed prior to sentencing.
Virtually all societies in the world have some concept of witchcraft, but the European case was fierce and lasted more and caused more casualties than any other. Even in Europe torture was used only after the year 1480. Before 1000, nobody was executed if a neighbor said she had seen him with a devil, but the people accused each other and there was much speculation. But the authorities were little interested in making a systematic witch hunting. At first the church denied the existence of witches flying, was banned after 1480 do not believe that happened.
The Great Madness of the Witches
- The decline of feudalism and the emergence of strong national monarchies was a period of great tension for the European people. Economic development forced a change in the way of making the bourgeoisie towards their subordinates, leaving aside the paternalistic system to move to another where prime resource optimization. The leading theorist of messianism in Western Europe was Joachim of Fiore, whose prophetic system has been described by the historian Norman Cohn as the most influential of those known in Europe until the advent of Marxism.
- Is there a practical explanation of the parallel development of social protest and messianic madness of witchcraft? A conventional view is that witchcraft itself was a form of social protest. According to Professor Jeffrey Burton Russell, an expert on medieval history of dissension, witchcraft, mysticism, the flagellants, and popular heresy all belong to the same category. For forms of rejection are greater or lesser extent, the dominant institutional structure, as this is seen as unjust and oppressive to the masses.
The Return of the Witches
- The Hocus Pocus is not an inscrutable whim. The modern resurgence of witchcraft has clear points of similarity with the medieval madness. There are many important differences. Admires modern witch amid fears the witch of old. No one at the counter you want to burn another to believe or not believe in witches.