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Learning the Sublime
The entire journey of taking the ring to its doom, has been designed by Tolkien as a journey of learning the sublime. Obviously, Tolkien knew that this could not be a short journey. He seems to suggest that the ring might be defeated in the mind of the bearers long before the entrance to the cave of doom is reached.
The whole process of taking the ring back to the den of the mother of the pigs--the Aristotelian notion of a grossly distorted image of man--should theoretically be completed by society, by the time it gets to this point.
Tolkien suggests that the Gollum process and the ring must vanish together in a single act, since both come from the same mother, and as the mother goes, so goes everything that hangs onto her ghost. This means that the development of the role of the Gollum must be happening in parallel with the process of taking the ring back. When the mother of the pigs is being defeated by this process, when she is seen for what she is, when she is seen as a lie that never was a part of the truth, all subsequent lies must fall as well and become lost forever. This process of unmasking the lie must happen for the ring and for the Gollum processes by which their common doom can be achieved.
A global bankruptcy reorganization of the world would naturally unfold from that. It would be the inevitable response once the Gollum process has been cleansed from the land. One would have to take stock to see what is left standing that is of real economic value and could serve as a foundation for the rebuilding process. There is presently only one political leader on the world scene who is courageous enough to make this proposal right now, in the hope to save enough of the real economy with which a rebuilding can actually be achieved. This man is Lyndon LaRouche. He proposes a dual approach. One element consists of the proposal that the entire IMF, World-Bank, and private central banking empires be dismantled and the control over currencies be given back to society through public institutions operating in sovereign nation states. That process corresponds to destroying the ring of power over society, the Frodo process. The other element, the global bankruptcy reorganization, would be the equivalent to destroying the Gollum processes. The combination of both, has the potential to save our civilization, if not society itself.
So, it all adds up perfectly what Tolkien has laid before us, doesn't it?
It is interesting to note that in our present time we have a political leader emerging who is standing up for these essential universal principles, principles that are so fundamental to our survival that a fiction writer understood them two thirds of a century ago, who is not a trained economist. It is ironic that this man, Lyndon LaRouche, stands alone, and remains alone to represent what Tolkien had laid before us in metaphor in the Lord of the Rings, who developed his perception of the underlying universal principles out his own resources as a human being, who worked from a different perspective perhaps, but converged at the same conclusion, as indeed this must be case if there exists only one truth.
As absolutely essential as correct political processes are for building peace and the humanist and economic self-development of society, other processes are also required. They may have a lower visibility, but they are equally as important, since without them the political and economic processes cannot achieved, that are required.
One can identify four of these non-political processes in the Lord of the Rings. Each process is represented in the saga by a person. The most profound of these processes is represented by Galadriel, Lady of the Elves, the White Lady, Lady of Lorien.
The processes of Galadriel
Galadriel is also referred to as the Lady of the Woods. She lives in a land called Lothlorien, in a great hall built high off the ground in the crown of trees. We are told in the saga, as she receives the people of the fellowship of the ring, that with a single look she is able to open a person's heart in complete honesty with oneself, to lay bare hidden desires, but also to bring out what is the heart's true design. She also possesses a mirror, made by a clear surface of water, in which a person is able to see the present, past, and future, as desired, but also things unbidden. With these she opened a path before the people of the fellowship of the ring, perhaps by way of a vision of things that may come to pass, but can be prevented.
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