Markus Soeder, Turkey, and the Search for European Identity

In four successive articles (‘Markus Söder, Germany, Turkey, Europe, and the Apostate Free Masonic, Anglo-French Elite’; ‘Turkey as Birthplace of the European Identity, Mr. Markus Soeder's Historical Ignorance’; ‘Markus Soeder, Europe, Orient, and the Obsolete Colonial History Model’; ‘Minister Markus Soeder, and the Falsehood taught as History in Europe’), we commented briefly on the false History diffused in Europe by the colonial Anglo-French academia. Their interests in this regard involve the promotion of a great number of misconceptions and aberrations that are necessary to keep average Europeans unaware of Europe’s true History and Identity; this in turn is a prerequisite for the most efficient implementation of the targets of the Apostate Free Masonic Lodge and the Anglo-French elite. 

These misconceptions and aberrations are at the origin of the inconsistent and ludicrous contents of Mr. Markus Soeder’s interview in which the historically ignorant Bavarian minister asserted that for cultural reasons Turkey will never become EU member state, and that the ongoing negotiations and all related deliberations should therefore end soon (http://www.welt.de/politik/article1531451/Die_Tuerkei_wird_nicht_Mitglied_der_EU.html).
 
These misconceptions make the Europeans ignore following basic historical truths:
1. Islam, Turkey, and the Ottoman Civilization are inherent part of the European Culture and History.
2. The European Identity was mainly formed on today’s Turkish territory.
3. Europe was civilized because of the expansion of the Ancient Oriental cultures.
4. Modern European preconceived theories and approaches (Greco-Romano-centrism) were composed in times of limited knowledge and scarce sources, and were politically motivated (as form of anti-clericalism).
5. The aforementioned erroneous approaches were not rejected (as they should) after the discoveries of the Orientalists, which were also based on erratic, preconceived, colonial approaches and attitudes.
6. Not only Oriental civilizations’ traits and global impact have been kept unknown to average people but the Classical Greek and Roman civilizations have been presented gravely deformed and viciously distorted.
7. Through the above mentioned historical forgery, nefarious patterns, models and prototypes are selected by the ruling classes and academia of Europe, and projected among the average Europeans with disastrous results.

In the present article, we will complete our brief analysis of the catastrophic patterns, models and prototypes chosen from the ill-perceived, and largely imaginative Classical World of the modern, racist, European Greco-Romano-centric academia and politicians.

Top Political Model Selected in Europe: A Civil War theoretician
 
No one has observed in Europe so far that too much of study focused on Thucydides did a lot of harm to Europe since the Medieval Ages, plunging the continent into civil wars for which Europe retains the tragic world record.

How could Europe possibly avoid the Napoleonic wars, the two World Wars, and so many other wars, the Hundred Years war, the Thirty Years war, and the Cold war, since European education has long been voluntarily permeated by the spirit of discord, friction, and hostility - as majestically and uselessly revealed throughout Thucydides' Civil War (Peloponnesus War) and Caeasar's De Bello Civili?
 
Generations over generations in Europe have been educated on the basis of fratricidal wars in Ancient Greece, and in Ancient Rome. It is absolutely tragic that Thucydides' Civil War and Caeasar's De Bello Civili are still widely used within European educational systems, although they represent two of the most tarnished pages of European History.

An ominous, suicidal model: Ancient Greece

Going back to Ancient Greece, we find difficult to believe that post-WW II Europe and post-Cold War European Union could not find more destructive, harmful, counterfeit and thus impermissible model as 7th – 4th centuries BCE Ancient Greece, a circumference oscillating between Sparta and Athens, Corinth and Argos, Thebes and Megara, Chalkis and Eretria, always engulfed in wars and disputes.

What could be the common denominator between the modern European effort of unification and the paranoia of rupture after fracture, and over-splitting after quarreling, as splendidly recorded and attested in Ancient Greece?
 
How can the tiny politicians of Athens, the impoverished kings of Sparta, the wise men of Argos, the merchants of Corinth, and the dictators of Thebes – always focusing on their lot and disregarding the entirety, always unable to consider anything in non-divisive terms – be possibly taken as model by today's Europeans without a drastic setback for the European reunification project?
 
European intellectuals and academics must understand once forever that Cleombrotos and Perikles, Epameinondas and Cleisthenes cannot anymore be taken as models, Demosthenes and Thucydides cannot anymore be taught and used as foundations of European culture, and the city-state that condemned Socrates to death cannot anymore be given any credit; in fact, it deserves only oblivion.

If Europe is to be based on solid moral foundations, certainly the Greek Heritage can serve this effort and offer numerous moral examples as described within original historical sources. But these sources encapsulate theoretical principles that are diametrically opposed to those of the Apostate Free Masonic Lodge, and are therefore kept under silence. 

Another, Unknown, Aegean World Antiquity

Today's Europe needs the humble spirit of the Pre-Socratic philosophers, who admitted that they traveled and studied in the great temples – universities of Babylonia, Persia and Egypt in order to transfer the Lights of the Civilization back to Uncultured Greece.

Modern Europe needs Pythagoras' contemplations, Plato's discernment, Xenophon's adventurism, Arrian's grandiosity, Strabo's universalism.

Above all Europe needs Alexander's dream that many centuries later was overwhelming enough to motivate great people like Ptolemy II, Cleopatra VII, Caesar, Octavian Augustus, Trajan, Julian, and Justinian.

Europe needs the research spirit of the Librarians of Alexandria, and in this regard, Eratosthenes is far more valuable than Lycias, Diodorus Siculus overshadows Lycias, and Heliodorus eclipses Euripides.

Europe needs to delve into the Gnosticisms of the Late Antiquity, and Poimandres, as the first Book claimed to have been entirely written by the Supreme God, Hermes Trismegistus, is far more instructive and enlightening than Aristotle’s collected works.

Late Antiquity, not Classical Times: the Correct Source of Inspiration for EU

With Turkey and Croatia proceeding through official negotiations with Europe, it would be wise for European administrators to examine the prospect of Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Kosova, Ukraine, Moldova, Transnistria, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Serbia, and Russia to complete the picture. 

This would be the only way to ultimately set up the European House heralded by M. Gorbachev long ago. With all this it becomes clear that the European Union has nothing to do with a small city – state of the Ancient Mediterranean or a modern national state formed around a single – people nation.

The historical model for Europe, whether old fashioned and myopic politicians like Markus Soeder are able to understand it or not, is the Ancient Oriental Empire.

The European Union is the de facto revivification of the Roman Empire; no matter how one is ready to accept it and perceive it, whatever Europe’s historical references may be, the Eastern Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire, Justinian's Empire of Reconquista, Octavian's Empire (still with some strong democratic features) or to Theodosius' Christian Empire of Tyranny and Genocide, the European Union is the revivified Roman Empire.

The European Union relates to the Eastern Roman and the Ottoman traditions of Nova Roma / Constantinople / Istanbul, to the Russian tsarist ideals of Third Rome, and to the legends of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

As all these imperial formations sought to resuscitate the Universalist Dream of Alexander, the Macedonian Empire remains the ultimate European point of reference to the Ancient Mediterranean world: all the Greeks, except the Lacedemonian Spartans, were united under the non-Greek, Macedonian scepter of the great conqueror, who was full of contempt for the mean, tiny cities – states of the execrable, individualistic Greek microcosm of Athens, Thebes, Argos, Corinth, and Sparta.

Imperium and Democracy can coexist.

A European Imperial Educational and Cultural reference to Alexander does not consist in a threat for the Democratic Ideals and Principles elaborated by modern European philosophers and intellectuals over the past three centuries.

It would be a dramatic confusion to interpret the term 'imperial' as 'undemocratic' or 'totalitarian', although – it is true – throughout many historical periods 'imperial' became synonym of the 'absolutist' and the 'cruel'.

At its original connotation, the 'imperial' does not contradict but it rather corresponds to the Humanist ideals that were elaborated in Renaissance Europe.

Imperium signifies ultimate peace, one country encompassing a great number of communities and peoples sharing the same rights and bearing the same responsibilities, all living in peace, one country with citizens of varied origins and beliefs who all enjoy progress and prosperity without borders separating one from another and generating wars and conflicts.

Drop Athens; Search for Persepolis, Jerusalem, Thebes, Assyria, and Nineveh!

A Universal European Union, stretched from the Atlantic to Tigris river, to Caucasus mountains, and – why not – to Vladivostok in the northeastern confines of Asia would be the splendid materialization of the most daring Vision of Alexander the Great.
 
As such it would lead us to the origins of his dream, back to the Achaemenid Empire of Iran, when Cyrus the Great (Alexander kneeled before his tomb at Pasargadae) was viewed as Messianic model by Deutero-Isaiah.

A Universal Europe will ultimately look to Sargonid Assyria, when Sargon of Assyria (722 – 705 BCE) accepted in Nineveh the preaching of Jonah and his great grandson Assurbanipal who was viewed by Esdras as 'Great and Just'. On the other hand, Alexander had acceptted Assurbanipal as the unsurpassed model of imperial and strategist achievement)

Similarly with the three cases of Assurbanipal, Cyrus, and Alexander, and contrarily to the various cases of the Epigones (the Seleucids, the Ptolemies and the Attalids), the Romans, the Eastern Romans, and the Ottomans on one side and the Arsacid Parthians, the Sassanid Persians, the Umayyad and the Abbasid dynasties, and the Safevid Persians (under whom the Middle East was always divided), the Ultimate European Union - as an accomplished Eurasian Empire - would consist in a supreme universal achievement and would certainly incorporate the remaining parts of the Middle East within its borders.

That is why Turkey's candidacy and adhesion can help familiarize Europeans with the Oriental Heritage which is also theirs, as we already said in previous articles. This approach would also make of Alexander the Great the central figure of the European History; it would also make of the Late Antiquity the focal period for all Europeans to discover, understand, re-assess and utilize as source of ideological inspiration and common cultural background.

Drop Herodotus; Ferdowsi and Nezami are more European!

Like this, the Messianic Legend of Alexander, which emanated from his exploits and adventures, searches and fights, and later split in Western (Pseudo-Callisthenes' Alexander Romance) and Eastern (Ferdowsi's Shah-nameh containing chapters on Iskander Dhu' Qarneyn and Nizami's Sekander-nameh) versions, will be found reunified within the Greater Eurasia that should be the ultimate aspiration of all the peoples of the world.

In today’s Europe, if the European academia and ruling classes opt for Life and Peace and reject Death and Strife, more attention should be given to practices and choices that characterized the Great Macedonian Monarch.

His respect for the 'Other' made him gain the sympathy and the commitment of all the peoples he invaded from Egyptians to Babylonians and from Jews to Persians.

Alexander transferred his capital to Babylon, Pella was too small and marginal, and Athens had gone with the wind.

Alexander became a Shah in Persia, and as centuries later Ferdowsi put it, he became Darius in his stead!

Son to Amen – Ra, Alexander was depicted as Pharaoh on various Egyptian temples, contributing to the enlargement and the renovations of some of them like the Opet festival temple of Amen at Thebes of Egypt – Luqsor.

This did not prevent him from kneeling in front of the Grand Rabbi at Jerusalem, and at the same time he founded 33 cities in his name, and in all of them a theater, typically Greek an institution, was built and functioned.

Mr. Markus Soeder has to understand that already the European Union with 27 member states does not reflect anymore the realities of the times of the six members of the European Coal and Steel Community (1951) and the European Economic Community (1957).

With Turkey, the entire Balkan Peninsula, Ukraine, Caucasus and Russia, the situation will differ tremendously. The center of gravity will not stay for long around Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg. Warsaw, Odessa, Kiev, Istanbul and Moscow will certainly pull Europe's gravitational center to the East.

Where to delve in for cultural and educational inspiration, if not in the times of Alexandria, Antioch, Ephesus, Caesarea, Tarsus, and Imperial Rome?

With so many Turks in Germany, what possible experience and eventual wisdom can one find in Pericles' Athens?

Contrarily, a better study of, a greater focus on, and a higher concern for Alexandria will help.

Assessing historical sources of the Late Antiquity, we will understand better what made possible for Egyptians, Greeks, Macedonians, Persians ('ek tes epigones'), Phoenicians, Jews, Aramaeans, Nubians, Libyans, Sudanese Kushites (Meroites) and other populations to live peacefully in Cosmopolitan Alexandria and thence expand to Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean.

The same sources will help us realize what went wrong, and how we will prevent it from happening again.

We need to learn how successive terrible discords and continuous fratricide conflicts occurred first between the Greeks and the Jews of Alexandria, later between the Jews and the Greek – Roman populations of Alexandria, and then between the Christians and the Egyptians, the Coptic and the Greek patriarchates, and finally the Muslims and the Copts.

Alexandria ad Aegyptum can educate Mr. Markus Soeder far more than erratic Athens.

The challenges of our times and the devices we have to face impose therefore refocusing the Greco-Roman studies around
1. Philo of Alexandria rather than Aristotle,
2. Flavius Josephus rather than Herodotus,
3. The Gnosticist masterpiece Pistis Sophia rather than Sophocles,
4. the Periplus of the Red Sea rather than the Pindaric odes, 
5. Plutarch than Isocrates, and
6. Hermes Trsimegistus than Plato.

Can we possibly understand Europe’s Muslims, Islam, and the Coran – written by Allah –, if we do not place at the epicenter of the European Education Poimandres the first book written by the Only God, Hermes Trismegistus, as the Alexandrian Hermetic Gnoctics believed 600 years before the birth of Prophet Muhammad?

Classical studies, culture and education in Europe cannot be left in their obsolete, inconsistent, and upside down form that dates back to the colonial times of a divided Europe plunged in fratricidal wars.

Either the Turkish people and government decide finally to adhere to Europe or not, Turkey must also incorporate new approaches and groundbreaking changes within the current, deficient to a certain extent, system of Turkish Education.

This would be a proof that the entire country, the average Turkish society, and above all the intellectuals and the academia, demonstrate a great part of concern for a sumptuous part of Turkey's historical heritage that encompasses among the rest a most thrilling figure of the World's Intellectual Adventure: Celsus.

Antedating the European Renaissance philosophers and erudite scholars by more than a millennium, Celsus was their top prototype; it is about time that he becomes Mr. Soeder’s as well. For the Bavarian minister, a visit to Ephesus – in Turkey – would thus trigger the awakening of his European conscience, and the end of his unacceptable intellectual lethargy.

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Picture: Ephesus, Celsus' Library - in Turkey