GR translation: with Death as validator

[jochen stremmel]

Death punches the ticket of the assassinated?

Not sure.


2013/4/16 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>

> P167.11-23   Why do they want Rathenau tonight? What did Caesar really
> whisper to his protégé as he fell? Et tu, Brute, the official lie, is about
> what you’d expect to get from them—it says exactly nothing. The moment of
> assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come
> together, with Death as validator. When one speaks to the other then it is
> not to pass the time of day with et-tu-Brutes. What passes is a truth so
> terrible that history—at best a conspiracy, not always among gentlemen, to
> defraud—will never admit it. The truth will be repressed or in ages of
> particular elegance be disguised as something else. What will Rathenau,
> past the moment, years into a new otherside existence, have to say about
> the old dispensation? Probably nothing as incredible as what he might have
> said just as the shock flashed his mortal nerves, as the Angel swooped in.
> . . .
>
> I searched through the source given in the Companion: Waite, Pictorial Key
> ( http://www.sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/ ) and could not find the word
> "validator" anywhere.  And I am wondering if the explanation given even
> makes sense here.  Could the "validator" mean something else?  Anyone can
> shed some light on this?
>
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