GR translation: with Death as validator

[Mike Jing]

Thanks, David.  Thanks, everyone.  Will be back at it soon.


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:27 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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