The sickle against the hammer: communism and the origins of deviant evil. By Dilip Rajeev
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mongst the Greeks, the legend of Creation runs thus. Heaven mated with
Earth. Heaven and Earth generate offsprings. Heaven often returns to unite with Earth. The offsprings are often seen consumed by back by Heaven. A few of the offsprings think of this process of consumption, as a process of eating, death, killing, and in fear act against Heaven. Cronus, one of the offsprings, sickle off Heaven’s phallus, while he emerges again to bond with Earth. From the genitals of the Uranus god, the Father-God who were uniting with earth, thrown into the oceans, emerges Aphrodite – the goddess here perhaps symbolizing superficial beauty in manifest reality that distracts the created from its purpose of return. The bonding of Heaven with Earth, is renewal, it is the movement of created beings on the earthrealm to beauteous inner worlds. This movement were perceived in deviant perception, as an act of killing, and in fear, the beings created frameworks which opposed the Profounder. Communism fundamentally opposes Heaven-Earth philosophies. The number of innocents murdered by the idea runs higher than the total deaths in war, of the two world wars put together. The symbol of it is a sickle, acting against a hammer. The poverty, famines, and suffering generated by it is unparallaled. The recorded deaths outnumber by dozens of times the deaths the Nazis perpetrated. Crimes such as persecution of peaceful religious folks, organ harvestation from innocents, continue happening to this day in communist societies. In mythology, the phallic principle has associations with Heaven. It is the Father Principle who Creates. In India we find worship of the Siva Linga Principle. Literally the term Siva Linga implies, Siva’s phallic. Thor’s hammer is a powerful weapon wielded by the god. The hammer is expandable, in the case of Thor’s weapon. And again a phallic symbol. . The sickle acting against it is a symbol of opposition to the creating and renewing source. The Phallic Nature of the principle that which is abstracted as the Father, found abstraction in the hammer. Its denial, opposition to, in the form of the sickle.
The hammer as depicted in an ancient runic inscription, resembles the neuroanatomical axis. The brain and the spine, and were an ancient symbol of the Divine.
Image details: Stephens, George. 1878. Thunor the Thunderer, carved on a Scandinavian font about the year 1000. London: Williams and Norgate; Copenhagen: H. H. J. Lynge. Page 33. Digitized by Google, available at http://books.google.com/books?id=X5YFAAAAQAAJ&hl=en. Stephens states that is is from "Göransson's Bautil, No. 776".The runestone Sö 86 from S. Åby ägor. George Stephens lists this stone among those which bear the face of Thor. The inscription reads : asmuhtr : auk : fraybiurn * litu kera : meki * siRun * at * herbiurn * faþur : sin :. In English "Ásmundr and Freybjôrn had the rune-decorated landmark made in memory of Herbjôrn, their father." Image in public domain.
The hammer in the runic inscription is seen emerging from a higher head-space.
In a neuroanatomical sense, the hammer symbolizes the brain and the spinal cord. The head of the hammer, the dual-lobed brain. And the handle, the spinal cord. The sickle acting against it, demonstrates action against the profounder will of Man, the deeper mind, the order in nature, the order in natural creation. In Freudian writings it is said, the Ego acting against the Id, is the origin of all psychosis. The Ego are the set of deviant notions that act in self-preserval. The Id is the natural force in the human, the force emerging from God, maintaining the profounder order of generation and renewal of worlds. Whether Freud were aware of the profounder sense in his philosophy, the principle he observed is that when man moves away from the deep natural order in nature, the harmonious HeavenEarth movement, there is emergence of hysteria, psychosis, and disorders of the sorts.
Ancient philosophies such as the Sankhya attribute the origin of the world to the primordial man-principle, impulsing in the feminine waters. The created periodically destroyed, and returned things to the source. There is periodic renewal. The created principles that align, were rewarded by movement to more beauteous realms, and others left destructioned, or annihilated. The structuring of the moralorder of the worlds were so as to ensure the pattern is sustained. The husband-wife ordering, the importance of study of profounder phenomenon, the ability of man to align to the profounder impulsing and rise, transforming himself, found in eastern traditions, have an origin in the idea that the primordial masculine in the virginal waters of creation genereate the world, thus also generate renewal, true beauty and prosperity in the manifest world, and that aligning to this profounder principle in Nature, the Primordial Man, one is perfected, and returns to the origin.
Among the Buddhist traditions, Among Indian traditions, in the Greek tradition, is found the idea of a divine weapon, labelled the Vajra. The word Vajra is at times used with a phallic connotation. In its symbolic form, it resembles the human spinal cord structure, with its two expansions. The spinal cord has two enlargements, the cervical and the lumbar. In India legends the origin of Vajra is said to be the spine of a saint who sacrificed himself. The Vajra is a weapon that thunders. Zeus and Indra who wield the weapons are gods of thunder and lightning. Neuro-electricity thunders downward from the brain ordered in union with the Primordial One, the thunder destroyes the evil in the body, the deviant states, and reorders the system to the primordial, perfect, ordering. Man is the manifest neuroanatomical thought. “I think, therefore I am,� wrote philosopher Descartes.
The Indian god Indra wields the thunder weapon, while riding on a white elephant. The Cerebellum and brain-stem region, seen from the side resembles a white or grey elephant head. The Tibetan symbolism, the aspirant transforming himself into a Divine form, is seen holding a bell in one hand, and the Vajra in another. The impulsing of the bell, is the perception of the primordial neuroanatomical impulsing. The primordial nature reflecting himself on to the neuroanatomy of the aspirant.