How history ends up in the now
The VOC built up a network of hundreds of settlements in Asia: from small offices and warehouses to imposing buildings. The center of the VOC in Asia was Batavia (Jakarta) on Java. Batavia was founded in 1619. In that year the Calvinist Jan Pieterszoon Coen captured the port city of Jakarta by force. He had a large fortress built there the Castle of Batavia with workshops, warehouses and homes for the VOC personnel. A famous quote from him was, do not despair, do not spare your enemies, for God is with us. This only illustrates how ruthless he was and I don't need to mince words about the Dutch VOC past. It is well known that we were mourners, ruthless, combative, inventive but above all Cruel. You could compare us to pirates on land. Around the Castle grew the city which in turn was surrounded by walls.
Meanwhile, some 50 years later 1670, the VOC has also expanded to other islands including the north of Sumatra. Here the Toba Batak lived on Lake Toba. It was a fairly isolated people thanks to the location of the village. Far inland on the lake, the Batak were protected from the influence of seafaring European colonials. Although there is one story known that a lost VOC explorer, the one who had to discover new areas, did indeed end up with the Batak. The searcher entered the village on his horse until the priest frightened him with a waving staff and a singing text.
Indigenous people were not respected but one person frightened even the Dutch. Namely the priest. Nobody wanted to get a spell on them. The fear of black magic travels for centuries through the cosmos, gods and punishment even reaches back to the ancient Sumerians , Egypt, Greece and lives on in many cultures and religions until today.
Not me, but the universe has decided that this book temporarily belongs to me, to unravel the story and bring the knowledge of ancient times back to the present. A challenge, which makes my blood run faster. This cannot be a coincidence. I who have been walking the mystical path for years. Mysticism has always played an important part in my life. Even as a little girl I was trained by my father with riddles. Taken by his hand and put in touch with the underlying meaning of form and symbolism. **This book is for me the ultimatum of mysticism, the longer I look at it the stronger the attraction becomes with this book. The symbols on the inside inspired me from the first sight and I like to tell you more so that it can come to life for you too. **
A symbol?
A symbol is a bearer of meaning; it has a form on the one hand, and a meaning on the other. The meaning of a symbol is conventional; it is usually based on agreements that the users of the symbol once made. One symbol can carry more meaning than a thousand words. The power of a symbol is immense and we see them today mainly in logos. The uniqueness of a symbol is that it travels the world without a language barrier. That it connects cultures/people & unites people with a similar train of thought. A symbol usually travels unchanged through time. On the other hand, you often see misuse of symbols.
Let's take the example of the Swastika. In my travels through Indonesia I often saw the Swastika sign at Hindu temples. It generally stands for life force, luck or holiness. If we ask Hindus or Buddhists about the Swastika, they will have a very different interpretation than we experience in the Western world. In the years before and during World War II the swastika was used by Hitler and the Nazis. Since then, the swastika has been associated in Western countries mainly with National Socialism and its racist extremist ideology, despite the very ancient history of the symbol itself. This also indicates the danger of misinterpretation. Mainly when it comes to MASS recognition.
The meaning of a symbol can have a deeper meaning for certain initiates. This means that in many old orders and societies you have several divisions where through growth and initiation you gain access to the deeper meaning of symbols and rituals. The more knowledge you have, the differently that one symbol is interpreted. The multiplicity is multiplied and an intensely deep connection and communion can arise.
We humans always want to explain everything. Fortunately, science is developing more and more, yet we must resign ourselves to the fact that the unexplainable is what will always fascinate us and that we are only able to grasp what's given within our consciousness.
I feel by everything that researching this particular book is going to give me wonderful experiences. Experience is the most important teacher of human beings, daring to live and face ever new and challenging opportunities that come our way. Overcoming past fears and patterns that no longer serve us. The journey within ourselves in which we start asking questions about ourselves and the life we lead. In this way we slowly detach ourselves from our short-sighted thought patterns, in order to then see the world anew with expanded and new eyes. True teaching means expanding our perception and detaching ourselves from limiting views.
For the inexplicable cannot be expressed in words.
For the greatness of the unexplainable can only be EXPERIENCED!!! As human beings we are limited between time and space, and what we want to explain is located outside these two regions. In short, as long as we do not expand our consciousness, we will not gain insight into what lies behind our reality.
So if we see our consciousness as a starry sky that we can only expand if we look upwards.
Turning deep within yourself to re-establish the deepest connection with your true being or self and through this connection to learn to trust our intuition again.
Intuition is also a beautiful human aspect, it is basically our energy antenna, it picks up energy, it gives answers through a feeling and it is not about how well we listen to this feeling as we pick up the signals it sends. Actually it is another way of communicating with ourselves. And this way of communicating used to be much more important than it is today. How well are you connected to yourself and are you listening to your intuition? ... Our unconscious brain knows many answers much earlier than our conscious brain.
My Curiosity leads to observation of the book
Which leads to research
Which leads to discovery
Which eventually leads to insight
So I'm going on a journey.
Will you travel with me?
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