GR translation: with Death as validator

[David Morris]

Key: "The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the
ignorance of power come together, with Death as validator."

Brutal unadorned power dynamic is the message here. No illusions to soften
reality. The finality of the dead victim's real Death sweeps away soothing
words.

A "Validator" implies an argument exists, as in a court of law.  Webster's
online sez Validation means*:* an act, process, or instance of
validating<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/validating>
; *especially* *:* the determination of the degree of
validity<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/validity>
 of a measuring device.

And "valid" means:
1
*:* having legal efficacy or force; *especially* *:* executed with the
proper legal authority and formalities
2
*a* *:* well-grounded or justifiable *:* being at once relevant and
meaningful
*b* *:* logically correct
Death ends further argument.

David Morris


On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:

> 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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