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Suicide or assassination?

Széchenyi: Sad End of the Great Visionary

Erika Papp Faber
http://www.magyarnews.org/news.php?viewStory=1865

Following the events of March 1848, when Petőfi’s ”Talpra, magyar!” stirred the ember of independence into flame, a Hungarian government was formed, independent of Austria. Count Batthyány Lajos, who agreed with most of Széchenyi’s ideas, was leader of the Opposition Party in the Upper House, and became the first Prime Minister of the new Hungarian government. At the same time, Kossuth was the Opposition leader in the Lower House, and Batthyány began to lean towards Kossuth’s idea of independence.

It was Batthyány who appointed Széchenyi to be Minister of Transportation. This seemed to be a natural culmination of Széchenyi’s monumental projects to develop and improve navigation and rail transport throughout the country.

Although Széchenyi was fundamentally opposed to Kossuth’s radical idea of total independence from Austrian rule and had great reservations about accepting the appointment, he did so nevertheless (March 23rd, 1848) for the sake of presenting a united front.  But he noted in his diary that he had thereby signed his own death sentence, that he was sure to be hung,  together with Kossuth. Because he feared that Kossuth’s policy would bring national disaster: ”I clearly see outlined before me the most complete dissolution of all the elements of Hungarian life”, he wrote in his diary on July 5th.

He had always considered working with the Habsburgs the only way to achieve viable progress, and so he still spoke out in the new parliament against a break with the empire, but he did not prevail. By this time, Kossuth’s ideas of total independence had become the heady inspiration of the people, while Széchenyi’s ideas were no longer fashionable. 

As the Viennese Court began to backtrack on its initial acceptance of certain reforms, Széchenyi  endured increasingly serious pangs of conscience, reproaching  himself with causing the ruin of the nation by his ideas that had opened the way for this liberal, and what he regarded as a dangerous and destructive, process.  ”There has never been anyone who has brought greater chaos into this world than I ! O my God, have mercy on me!”

So after five months, in September 1848, he resigned as Minister of Transportation. And had a nervous breakdown.

His doctor took him to the neurological Goergen Clinic in Döbling, on the outskirts of Vienna, Austria, which he would never leave again.  His wife Crescence (see the June 2016 issue of Magyar News Online) moved to Vienna to be near him, and they were in constant contact.  She would visit him, bringing him personal items he requested, and in the letters they exchanged almost daily, they discussed their sons Béla and Ödön. Neither of them was willing, or able, to continue their father’s zealous commitment to service for the betterment of their native land. They were both a sore disappointment to Széchenyi.

His condition improved with the treatment provided at the Clinic. After a while he was able to receive visitors, many of whom also had the welfare of Hungary at heart, and who came seeking his advice. He even helped some of them to publish their writings. He also began writing again, revising his ”Pesti por és sár” (Dust and Mud of Pest), and ”Hunnia”, and starting a new book titled ”Önismeret” (Self-knowledge, expounding on different pedagogical themes), but these were never published.

More important, and having fatal consequences, was his rebuttal of an ”anonymous” work entitled ”Rückblick” (”A Backward Glance”), which attempted to justify the Austrian Minister of the Interior, Alexander Bach’s repressive terrorist measures applied in Hungary. Popular opinion guessed that the author had been Bach himself. Széchenyi entitled his reponse ”Ein Blick” (”A Glance”), making Bach and his politics a laughing stock through ridicule and puns.  It was published in London in 1859, and became known as ”The Yellow Book”.  It caused the fall of the Bach regime, but also Széchenyi’s death.

On March 3rd, 1860, the Viennese police carried out a house search in Széchenyi’s quarters at the Goergen Clinic, and seized his writings, on the basis of which they presumed to discover a wide political conspiracy. They told him that he could not stay at the Clinic any longer. He feared they would take him away by force.

On Easter Sunday, April 7th, 1860, Count Széchenyi István was found dead in his suite of rooms at the Goergen Clinic in Döbling, with a pistol on his left thigh.

Suicide or assassination?

While historians tend to accept Széchenyi’s death as a suicide, there seems to be sufficient circumstantial evidence for his having been murdered by Austrian decree. Details supporting this view were provided by dr. Kacziány Géza in his book ”Széchenyi meggyilkoltatása” (The Assassination of Széchenyi), originally published in 1931, and reprinted in 2000.

Széchenyi had sometimes received visitors who were served a meal from the Clinic’s kitchen.  One such visitor was Baron Jósika Samu, Chancellor of Transylvania and a strong proponent of the Empire among the Hungarians. On the day of his latest visit, the main dish was truffles, which Széchenyi was fond of, and it was very likely that he would eat a good portion of it.  However, he had digestive problems that day, and did not take any.  His guest, on the other hand, had several helpings. On arriving home, Jósika became sick, and they called the Court doctor who diagnosed intestinal cramps and treated him for them. Twelve days later, the Baron, who had a strong physique,  was dead. It is worth noting that, while Jósika was sick, no one from the Court inquired about his health!

It is also interesting to note that Széchenyi himself had asked Dr. Goldberg whether it might be possible that, for 20,000 forints, an assistant doctor would mix poison into a patient’s food ?  The doctor objected, horrified, whereupon Széchenyi remarked, ”For that much anyone would do it.” Dr. Goldberg left, highly insulted.

When the investigating magistrate examined Count Széchenyi’s corpse, he found him sitting in an easychair, both arms resting on his thighs, with the discharged pistol on his left thigh.  The left side of the head was totally smashed, the skullbone several steps away on the floor. The bird shot found in his brain could not have had such a violent effect. There was no blood spattered anywhere.

It is obvious from this report that the shot that killed Széchenyi came from the left side.  Now the Count was not left-handed!  And it is not likely that the hand that pulled the suicidal trigger would fall on his thigh, together with the pistol that he used. It would rather have fallen by his side, and the pistol to the floor!  It is thus more than probable that the body’s position had been tampered with.

Dr. Goldberg testified that Széchenyi was often thinking about suicide and the immortality of the soul.  True, this was one of the recurring topics in his diary.  But the day before his demise he played chess with Count Zichy, some game with two servants, and chess again with his secretary Kiss until 10 o’clock.

The old servant Brach, who locked the door at 10 o’clock every night, testified that he knocked on the Count’s door at 7 in the morning, and getting no answer, sent for assistant doctor Goldberg, and then stepped into the room with him. He said they found him in the easychair with the discharged pistol in his right hand. – Presumably this was not the first time the servant received no answer to his knock. Why did he right away send for the assistant doctor only on this particular morning?  He probably knew about what was to happen the previous night and to whom he had given the key. A week later Brach too was dead.     

Dr. Goldberg blew out his own brains, and his suicide was never explained. Széchenyi’s old valet Grosz became seriously depressed and died within a short time. Kiss, the last person to see Széchenyi alive, locked himself into his own room when he heard the horrendous news, and when Széchenyi’s son Béla came looking for him to discuss funeral arrangements, yelled that he wouldn’t let himself be murdered like his master, and attacked Béla with a dagger. He had to be subdued by force and also died soon thereafter.

Biography of the remarkable
Count may be found on Amazon.

The investigation into Széchenyi’s death revealed that Dr. Goergen, owner of the Clinic, had been an informer for the Vienna police, reporting on Széchenyi’s doings and on his visitors. He had requested earlier that he be relieved of ”this dangerous patient”. He even asked Széchenyi’s relatives to move him somewhere else. But the family did not want to disturb Széchenyi, to deprive him of the comfort of the five-room suite he enjoyed at Döbling. And so he stayed. (In a work entitled "Gróf Széchenyi István intelmei Béla fiához" - Admonitions of Count Széchenyi István to his Son - Fenyő Ervin asserts that Dr. Goergen was censured for not supervising better Széchenyi's visitors, and for the fact that Széchenyi had a pistol in his possession.   He survived Széchenyi only by a few months, and whereas Kacziány states that the circumstances of his death were never disclosed, Fenyő claims he died of peritonitis that same October.)

Although no suicide note was found, the last entry in his diary was, “I can’t save myself.”  Count Széchenyi István is buried in the family mausoleum at Nagycenk.

Erika Papp Faber is Editor of Magyar News Online.

99 essential health tips (we like no. 94)

Live Longer, Prevent Disease, Feel Happier After 50

I'll have the tofu and a side of seaweed salad please..........

Alzheimer’s Disease: Could New Approach Lead to a Breakthrough? | Fortune

Could it be as simple as loading up on a particular amino acid, L-serine?  Stunning research by an industry maverick, and superb journalism from FORTUNE.  May change the molecules in your head --- figuratively, and literally.  Must read.

See also https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5343079/

Table 2

Ranked frequency of consumption of the 25 top food items in the Ogimi diet compared to rank content mg/g of l-serine

Overall rank	Item	Ogimi name	Median	SER rank	Serine (mg/100 g)
1	Citrus depressa juice	Kugani	1	15	162.7*
2	Oryza sativa	Gohan	2	19	128.1
3	Momordica charantia	Goya	5	21	64.0
4	Tofu	Tofu	6	1	2351.5
5	Undaria pinnatifida	Wakame	8	5	771.4
6	Saccharina japonica	Kombu	9	10	391.5
7	Glycine max	Edamame	9	3	1670.3
8	Ipomoea batatas	Beneimo	10	8	480.0
9	Ulva lactuca	Aasa	10	17	138.8
10	Artemisia princeps	Fuchiba	12	4	805.3
11	Sargasssum fusiformis	Hijiki	12	12	339.5
12	Pork	Samaniku	12	2	1799.5
13	Gynura japonica	Handema	12	6	649.3
14	Monostroma nitidum	Aasa	13	16	138.9
15	Hypnea charoides	Moi	16	14	196.5
16	Gracilaria vermiculophylla	Sunna	17	13	253.9
17	Cladosiphon okamuranus	Sunui	17	20	74.1
18	Gloiopeltis tenax	Funui	18	11	353.3
19	Chondrus ocealltus	Sinumata	19	22	52.8
20	Codium yezoense	Biru	20	7	512.5
23	Diginea simplex	Nachura	21	18	135.9
24	Cycas revoluta	Sotetsu	22	9	455.4
25	Katsuwonus pelamis	Kotsuo	Unranked

The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles | WIRED

The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles | WIRED

Thought-provoking and disturbing.....another superb piece from WIRED.....

Trevor Bauer: Why is Indians star pitcher so contentious, hated? | SI.com

Trevor Bauer: Why is Indians star pitcher so contentious, hated? | SI.com

Terrific piece of journalism....

Open mind, open ear

Like rock climbers, rodeo riders, brain surgeons and jet fighter pilots trying to land on an aircraft carrier in the pitch black of night, Christians strive to do what seems to be impossible. In their case, they strive to be "good." Humans aren't "good," no matter what Jean-Jacques Rousseau said. It was God himself who said the heart of man was "desperately deceitful and wicked above all things." Later, he said "become you therefore perfect...."

Paradox?

In Chicago we know Christians struggle to be "good," because just now we have three of our leading churches in tatters: Willow and Harvest, with pretty spectacular public implosions, and old guard Moody, much quieter, they dampened down the flames of the Julie Roys investigation last year, and no one seemed to notice or much care about the shenanigans at the top of their food chain.

One of Christians' not-so-good traits is a perpetual appetite to engage in internecine warfare. Among Christians, we have many breeds of cat, and they don't much care for the other breeds. For example, we have Emergents (let's be cool) vs Prosperity Types (let's be rich) vs dour old line Evangelicals (God is not interested in you being cool or making money but what he really wants is you to suffer to become a better Christian).

It's a triangle of trenches, all three sides dug in, with showers of artillery fire from time to time.

One of the public faces of Christianity that some like and many like to dislike is Joel Osteen, award-winning author.

I stumbled on his show last Sunday morning when I was on the treadmill doing intervals at the gym. I was watching Tennis Channel on TV8, and saw his face come on TV7. "I know his name is Joel, Joel, Joel......" I couldn't think of his last name. After some minutes, I thought I'd tune in and figure it out.

As soon as I heard his voice --- boom, OSTEEN!! Of course. I had never been his fan, but I knew who he was, I knew he was featured on 60 Minutes, etc.

The message and me connected. I kept listening. To the end. Everything he said was sound, Biblical, helpful, despite the invective hurled by his critics.

I realized God has different ministers for different people at different times in their life. One size does not fit all. Joel Osteen is unflaggingly optimistic, and in today's world, that is worth something to a lot of people, e.g., the attendees who pack out his 16,800 seat auditorium in multiple services per week, and the millions who tune in over TV.

Joel is not perfect, and I am not touting him. But give a listen with an open mind. It might rearrange the molecules in a way pleasing to both you and God.

(In the era of Identity Politics, we know open-mindedness and listening are both in short supply.)

Still.

Here it is:

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Wishing this was US

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Thoreau said....

IT IS EASIER TO SAIL MANY THOUSANDS OF MILES THROUGH COLD AND STORM AND CANNIBALS, IN A GOVERNMENT SHIP, WITH 500 MEN AND BOYS TO ASSIST ONE, THAN IT IS TO EXPLORE THE PRIVATE SEA, THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEAN OF ONE’S OWN BEING ALONE.

Henry David Thoreau 

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Potential Breakthrough for Alzheimer’s Disease

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An amino acid found in soy and seaweed appears to forestall or repair compromised brains....



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Herland Report TV (HTV): "What happened in the US was the liberal-Left wing class ceased to represent the working class against the capitalist exploit employer. They created a new victim group and a new exploiter: the white heterosexual male", says Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.

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The case against Burke was jaw-dropping even for a city with a long history of public corruption......

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Whole Foods has organic potatoes from Igl Farms, Antigo, Wisconsin.  OK to eat the skins, no fungicide, we confirmed with the producer.....

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Calls to mind Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry: "Do you feel lucky........"

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Can't transfer music files to your Android smartphone? Here's the fix

Windows just wasn't reading the folders on our Moto X4.  Chat said be sure you have the driver.  OK fine, we had it before because we transferred music to the phone before.  Maybe it got corrupted, so we reinstalled as per these instructions:

Angela: Here is the link for you to download Motorola device manager, John:
https://support.motorola.com/us/en/solution/MS79106
 Angela: Please download it first.
 john.: ok
 Angela: Would there be anything else aside from this?
 john.: Dl to PC right?
 Angela: Yes.
 john.: That page doesn't have the driver on it.
 Angela: Sorry.
Here:

https://support.motorola.com/us/en/solution/MS88481


and try this:
https://support.motorola.com/us/en/solution/MS87731
 john.: OK the first one is the driver. Do I need to reboot?
 Angela: Yes, and the second link is the instructions.

So we dl'd the driver and still not able to read the phone. 

Duh.

So this time, we CALLED tech support.  Much better result:

The drill-down for Moto X4:

Settings
System
About
Build no.
(Stand on your head)
Tap 7 time on build no. till you see:
"You are a developer"
(Do 25 push-ups)
Go back
Developer options
Turn on USB debugging
(Twirl 3 times clockwise, then 3 times counterclockwise.)
Then:  Notifications when plugged in offers options for
Charging or file transfer
Done.
(Apply cold cloth to forehead.)

Parentheticals optional.

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Avenatti and his most prominent client, Trump accuser,
Stormy Daniels.

Avenatti drinks approximately 15 shots of espresso each day–and makes sure everyone around him knows it. His chiseled jaw seems perpetually jutted forward, his wiry frame coiled. Veins bulge on the temples of his egg-shaped head. ....

Filings in a related bankruptcy case show that Avenatti’s firm had tax troubles. Court documents dated January 2018 reveal that Avenatti had paid $1.5 million of an outstanding $2.4 million tax liability but that the firm still owed the IRS approximately $880,000. Federal attorneys claimed in May that Avenatti had missed the first installment of that payment. Avenatti says his firm has “fully satisfied” all of its tax liabilities. The U.S. attorney’s office in L.A. declined to comment.

It wasn’t just fellow lawyers with whom Avenatti had troubles. In 2013 Avenatti teamed up with the actor Patrick Dempsey to buy the Seattle-based coffee chain Tully’s. But just two months after they finalized the deal, Dempsey sued to get out of the partnership, claiming in court that Avenatti had borrowed $2 million to help buy the company without telling him. Avenatti had purchased the Tully’s chain through a company he established in December 2012 called Global Baristas. In 2017 the IRS claimed Global Baristas owed $5 million in federal taxes. In March 2018 Tully’s closed all its stores.

New York magazine piece on David Boies

Weinstein, left, his counsel, Boies right

To those outside this professional circle, though, the Black Cube operation was appalling. In response, Boies issued a carefully worded email to his firm. He wrote that Weinstein’s “request to contract with investigators seemed at the time, like a reasonable accommodation for a longtime client,” but acknowledged it was “not thought through” and conceded that it “was a mistake to contract with, and pay on behalf of a client, investigators who we did not select and did not control.” He tried to rationalize away the conflict-of-interest issue by saying he thought he was actually serving the interests of the Times by testing the reliability of its sources. But beyond that, Boies sought to assign most responsibility to Weinstein and “his other counsel,” who he said were more closely involved in overseeing Black Cube. “Had I known at the time that this contract would have been used for the services that I now understand it was used for, I would never have signed it,” he wrote. “I would never knowingly participate in an effort to intimidate or silence women or anyone else … That is not who I am.”

==============================================

The takeaway, at least from these two vignettes:  surgeons get blood on their hands, lawyers....criminality.....hard not to get soiled from one or the other if you're in medicine or law....

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship - Areo

Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship - Areo



What if we write a paper saying we should train men like we do dogs—to prevent rape culture? Hence came the “Dog Park” paper. What if we write a paper claiming that when a guy privately masturbates while thinking about a woman (without her consent—in fact, without her ever finding out about it) that he’s committing sexual violence against her? That gave us the “Masturbation” paper. What if we argue that the reason superintelligent AI is potentially dangerous is because it is being programmed to be masculinist and imperialist using Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Lacanian psychoanalysis? That’s our “Feminist AI” paper. What if we argued that “a fat body is a legitimately built body” as a foundation for introducing a category for fat bodybuilding into the sport of professional bodybuilding? You can read how that went in Fat Studies.

NPR, CBC, ABC and the worldwide work of the NWO

CBC: An Exquisitely Canadian Form of Torture - henrymakow.com

Henry Makow's column just nails it here.  To which we would add:  Don't you just hate that fake stutter the on-air "males" employ to sound "sensitive" and "caring?"

We don't just bring you problems, we bring you the antidote:   Fred and Carrie skewer public media perfectly in Portlandia.....

NPR Podcast | Portlandia | Season 8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsufMtUOXtI

A must watch.....

Twin Cities Woman Undergoes Arm Surgery After Flu Shot « WCCO | CBS Minnesota

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Illusion v Reality: Trump and the Myth of the Self-Made Man

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Timeline of Jason Van Dyke shooting of Laquan McDonald - Chicago Tribune

Timeline of Jason Van Dyke shooting of Laquan McDonald - Chicago Tribune

Illusion v Reality: Fit to be Justice of the Supreme Court?

My sinister battle with Brett Kavanaugh over the truth - by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Thirty-something attorney from privileged background engages in witness tampering, and cover-up to advance his career.  For spectators of the Ford v Kavanaugh main bout, this is a must read.

=============================

Conclusion:

Mr Kavanaugh went on to write the Starr Report on the Foster death. But Mr Knowlton got the last word, literally. He filed a 511-page report at the US Federal Court with evidence alleging a pattern of skullduggery, and asked that it be attached to the Starr Report.

The three top judges did not agree but they ordered that a shorter 20-page version be attached at the end, despite vehement protest from the Starr office. This had never happened before in the history of the office of the independent council.

This summary asserts that the FBI had “concealed the true facts”, that there had been witness tampering, and that the report had willfully ignored facts that refuted its own conclusions. There it sits in perpetuity, a strange rebuke for Mr Kavanaugh by his own fellow judges on the federal bench.

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So here we have (the suppressed) evidence of Vince Foster shot in the neck not in the mouth, as per suicide.

Marvelous government deception redolent of the Warren Report.  The reality behind the illusion.  There is always a "reality behind the illusion" it would seem...

Kill them, castrate them, feed them to swine

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Trump: An Assessment - PaulCraigRoberts.org



Brilliant analysis, must read.

Debt Rises: The Government Will Soon Spend More On Interest Than on The Military

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Bach and this matter of heaven

I have loved the music of Johann Sebastian Bach for years, decades, a near lifetime.

Among my prized CDs (millennials please google the term), is my box set of his entire works (155 CDs, Brilliant Classics).  I have attended a Bach Marathon (Ravinia), organized and attended by the late Edward Gordon and executed by the brilliant Anthony Newman, more than 30 years ago, yet still fresh in the memory:

Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Prelude, fugue Eb, BWV 552 Harpsichord Anthony Newman
Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Wachet Auf Harpsichord Anthony Newman
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Sun-Sep-08-1985 Bach, J.S. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047 Orchestral Anthony Newman

I have myself played Bach:  Two-Part Inventions, Three-Part Inventions, Well-Tempered Clavier, Goldberg Variations.  I have listened to his works for countless hours on classical radio, and in concert halls across America.  I wrote a book about his cantatas.  I had a vague sense I had pretty much 'heard it all,' knew all his works, major ones at least.

Then, one day, turning on classical WFMT Chicago in the car, I found myself midway among passages that I thought might be Scarlatti, but no, there was something more going on here ... that something turned out to be Bach.  It was his Aria variata (alla maniera italiana) in A Minor, Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis (BWV) 989.  In the Italian manner, indeed.  I was not familiar with the work.

It appears on a new DG recording by Vikingur Olaffson, an Icelander.  Another new discovery, two in one day. Not bad.

Olaffson's record label introduces him as follows:  "For his new Deutsche Grammophon album, Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson explores the wellspring of Johann Sebastian Bach’s keyboard music, delivering experimental, innovative and timeless performances.

"Víkingur Ólafsson is a musical free spirit with a mission. He first made the classical world sit up and listen in early 2017 with his recording of solo piano works by Philip Glass – a fascinating journey through the time and space of their minimalist structures. Glass is now followed by Bach. Set for release in September, Ólafsson’s second Deutsche Grammophon album, the pithily entitled Bach, contains a mixture of original works and transcriptions, which the pianist has woven together in intriguing style."

Quite so.  Additionally, the sonic clarity, warmth and brilliance of his tone was absolutely stunning, as were his interpretations, by turns, joyful, playful, profound, tragic, and everything else that comes to us as "Bach."

As I listened, the 989 dispersed my workaday concerns.  It elevated, ennobled, encouraged, uplifted, and transported. Indeed, for these moments, I found myself in another part of the galaxy, teleported by Bach to a better place, a perfect place.

The experience prompted the wonderment (prompted by several recent deaths in the family):  where has Bach himself been since his departure from this terra firma July 28, 1750?  In heaven, the subject of so many of his sonic meditations, developing his art?

We think so.  Bach's personal motto was Symbolum: Christus Coronabit Crucigeros, which translates, “Symbol: Christ will crown those who carry His cross,” or “Christ will crown the Cross-Bearers.”

There are some 1126 BWV opus numbers (Even this large number is incomplete as many of Bach's works have been lost, e.g., he wrote some 300 cantatas, of which we still have 200 sacred cantatas and another 16 secular cantatas5). Most of this production came about in a 50-year period.  Let's do the math.  Nearly 270 years have passed since Bach himself passed.  Five productive lifetimes.  If he has been in heaven, composing, could he have added another 5,630 works (5 x 1126)?

The mind boggles.  What would these impart, what would be their magnificence of expression, their power, glory, majesty, "sound?"

For those of us who think it near just compensation for all the ills, insults, and injustices of life to have heard the works of J.S. Bach, it might be heaven to find out.

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John A. Sarkett wrote Bach and Heaven:  The Promise of Afterlife in the Text of the Cantatas.  Other titles include Classical Music Saved My Life, Obscure Composers (1, 2, and 3), and Death in classical music:  making friends with the unfriendly.  See sarkett.com

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“I think, as of (Wednesday), a cross should go up on the church somewhere,” Love said, “so no person is put on a pedestal except for Christ.”

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Warming up for his fall anti-Trump world tour, Obama gives a speech in S.A., the "Nelson Mandela lecture."   As to be expected, the mainstream press goes to work overtime promoting it.

But who was cult figure and icon Nelson Mandela -- really?  As per usual, reality turns out to be vastly different from PR illusion.  Pays to review the real facts as partial counteraction to the brainwashing one gets on a daily basis.

More:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/12/06/9-questions-about-nelson-mandela-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask/?utm_term=.c57da7f74d2c

https://www.thetrumpet.com/11238-the-truth-about-nelson-mandela

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Major Gen. Smedley Butler concluded it was all a scam:



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