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Yukio Mishima, my friend C. and I

to: Claudio Ascii

In November 1970, Italian newspapers gave the news of the puzzling death of Yukio Mishima, writer famous at home but unknown in Europe (actually already in Italy five of his novels were translated, and was in proportion to the Nobel Prize), commander of a group variously called neo-fascist or neo-Nazi, the "Company of the shields" committed suicide by "harakiri" (because it took years to learn that journalists do not write well, and indeed the condition was suppuku right) in front of the cameras that pick up after the armed occupation of a police station in Tokyo. For us boys the news was stunning: the authors used the Italians, the greater-strength or post-strength, pampered and spoiled by adults, the idea of \u200b\u200bsuicide was shocking: yes it did Cesare Pavese, as they said in a low voice, and Ernst Hemingway, but both were considered a bit 'strange, and it even seemed that a fascist Mishima, with his private army, a true samurai, one who had harangued the soldiers in the name of the Tenno?
With our group of friends discussed it a bit ', and for some it was the beginning of a long fidelity. My friend C. bought a poster that depicted him, and put in a Mussolini in the Piazza Venezia and Senator Wallace, who fell victim to an attack. By the time we bought Midsummer Death (Simon and Schuster, 1971), with the introduction of Moravia raving, reading it carefully, collected writings in the sixties, which brought us back to a Japan known only through the films of Kurosawa and the stories made parents about Nipponese allies who had fought with us against the Yankees (and still enough to hear Patriot Act hardening of the writing of those who wanted to be in the midst of the fire, and you are not), and we got the voice of the waves (1956), the first book published in Italy by Feltrinelli in 1961, the tender love story between the young fisherman Shinji and the beautiful Hatsu, discovering one of the variations of the writer, the poet of love, heterosexual and homosexual, linked to a Platonic view of beauty and youth that still inspires more of a thrill for the veiled eroticism and the delicacy with which it comes.
But what we read was not a drop in what he called the "four great rivers" of his life: theater, drama, body, action. As the Years went by, the picture was complete, the texts and Mishima began to come out. In the eighties, the writer ideological veto over the "fascist" it was available to the reader a large mass: sign of a consumption of ontological great Japanese writer, like all due literary successes (and specifically those consequences: for example, Italian Guido Morselli), or a feeling of superficiality Italian experience, which opened in the decade after the massacre in Bologna divided his vulgar taste among the "new writers" Italians and the ancient samurai?
Theatre, then, as my friend Hitler (1968, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1983) un'amarissima comedy that was to investigate the history of Rohm and Strasser, right and left of the Nazi party, removed from the SS and that went a back cover that makes you laugh reread hours (there was talk of market saturation, the ideological rejection, we support this contention with the quote from a reader of the infamous magazine Frigidaire, not even if it was the search for '), prose, and the list could be endless, touching all areas of Japan's traditional and the modern literature: from stories to novels, stories of love A virtue as shaky (1957, Einaudi, 2010), which reconstructs the fifties in Japan the story of Emma Bovary as a science fiction UFO wonderful Stella (1957, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010), the beautiful Golden Pavilion (1959, Feltrinelli, 1983), considered one of the masterpieces of Mishima, which tells how the monaco Mizoguchi ignite the Kyoto Zen temple to destroy all trace of beauty , playing on impermanence and emptiness of form, drawing a very long discussion that would be a lesson in aesthetics, ending with the tetralogy of The Sea of \u200b\u200bFertility, output between 1969 and 1970, under the titles of Spring Snow, Horses on the run, The temple of dawn, The Mirror of Deception (Simon and Schuster, varied and, in novels and short stories, vol. II, Mondadori, 2006), an extraordinarily fresco in Japan that goes from 1912 to 1970 (first then concluded of suppuku) to end in 1975, in which they move and meet, in later incarnations, and Honda Shigekuni Kyioaki Matsugae, in a complex game of recognitions and losses, false recognitions, representations in the round of extraordinary characters.
And then the body, karate, kendo, exercises with the Tate-no-Kai, the Society of Shields, Sun and Steel (Ciarrapico, 1981) with the introduction of Marcello Veneziani, and Pierre Pascal, who mocked Moravia, a spiritual testament, one following the idea of \u200b\u200bcultural and youth of the body, even the transformed culture (then called it) in a metaphysical, establishing that body, and words were more united than the literature he did not believe, and finally action, designed and advocated preraffigurata and a thousand times, from The Way of the Samurai (Simon and Schuster, 1983)), eighteenth-century commentary on a text, the Hagakure of Yamamoto Joch, samurai and then Monaco, Spiritual Lessons for young samurai (SE, 1988), a posthumous collection of articles and pieces that end with the proclamation read before suppuku; the formation of the Tate-No-Kai, exercises with the militants, and until just that day in November 1970. Meanwhile, critics had begun to bear fruit. We read Mishima and integral culture (Sannokai, 1980) by Joseph Fino, which reported a sense of adventure mishimiana to his true being, co-belonging to a mythical world now that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki had ceased to exist; Life and Death of Yukio Mishima (1974, Feltrinelli, 1985) a comprehensive biography of Henry Scott Stokes' semi-official "to whom he was close enough to try to understand it, but to no avail because of a flawed 'Western background, and the vision of the void or Mishima (1980, Feltrinelli, 1982) by Marguerite Yourcenar instead indulged the idea of \u200b\u200ban "empty metaphysical" unbridgeable, but not by Westerners but by reading Mishima (so to speak) from Orientalist, it was difficult to find out where the gap is not what we call anything or nothing. We read the conference proceedings, Mishima: the sword, the pen, the blood (RAID, 2001) that re-welding between the spiritual and material life, words and body, art and politics, and The Wounded Angel (Liguori, 2007) by Emanuele Ciccarelli, an in-depth analysis, especially literary translators and one of the most knowledgeable of ' by Mishima, to date the text offers a broader survey of his work, and there were the films directed by Paul Schrader, Mishima (1985), written with his brother Leonard, who combines biography and fragments of his works, Hollywood film and very little "feel".
Forty years have passed since then, from those days of 1970. Quietly in the seventies, Mishima was a surge in Eighties and nineties are still running out of his unpublished works and reprints. Even at times when I was in, from political point of view, at positions further away from the traditional Mishima (but maybe that was a way to search a tradition), I could not help but andarmi to read every now and then something of what had written. Had a few pages of a novel, essay, article, as we re-read every now and then a fragment of Plato, the Bhagavad Gita, or Homer to Nietzsche, looking for inspiration than late. Forty
, but the media seems not to have noticed it, almost nobody talked about Mishima, have not been edited new book of criticism. Paradoxically, it came out a novel SF, Lazarus (Urania Mondadori) by Alberto Cola, in which the writer comes back to life in Japan in the future, that Japan's post-cyberpunk imagery drawn years, a sign of un'americanizzazione feared has come true, interesting novel, but definitely that would destroy a myth, if certain myths were destroyed. Forty years and my friend C. and I are not two more high school students, but two vintage men lords, but still we wonder about Mishima, looking at me all the days of a sticker bearing the words "... and among men the samurai "and some old photographs yellowed by time and demand of the young postulant at the Great Master: When you kill, sensei?

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Paul of Tarsus, who invented the Arabic Christianity

Why no historian has ever questioned about the likely relationship between Saul (Paul) el'etnarca Herod Agrippa?

by: Paul Boccuccia

In 1983 the eminent Professor Robert Eisenman examined the references that appear in the Acts of the Apostles on the relationship between Paul "of Tarsus and the dynasty in power in Palestine with Tetrarchs successors of Herod, in a communication entitled "Paul as Herodian" read at the Society of Biblical Literature in the same year the lecture was published in an article along the same lines appeared on the London magazine "Higgest studies. The thesis
the American scholar who was both the doctrine that the work of Paul, "Apostle to the Gentiles," were placed in perfect harmony with the policy of King Herod and his successors tetrarchs, namely that of overcoming the conflict between Jews and Gentiles, so marked in the religious field, and then reflecting socio-political, in order to unify and pacify the country by their government, which in fact is the Jews who lived together "Pagans". With his doctrine of the overcoming of the Mosaic Law and the Sinaitic Covenant through the universal redemption accomplished by Christ, Paul gave a doctrinal basis for the program Herodian and through his missionary work among the Jews of the Diaspora they laid the political foundations. Paul, Therefore, according to Eisenman, clung to the small but powerful party of the Herodians, obviously encouraged and bankrolled by the Roman authorities for their continued interest in the program conciliatory Herod and approving those of his successors. What the great American scholar said no, and Paul did not write about is something very obvious, so obvious that it escaped the scholars say that Paul (or Saul) that not only belonged to the Herodian party, but also to the Herodian family, since he the same person mentioned by Josephus in the Jewish War as Costobar Saul's brother, a relative of ethnarch Agrippa I and his son Agrippa II, and that the easiest of genealogical reconstructions appear to be his uncle and his cousin ...
We are really puzzled over this incredible void of interpretation of historical references very evident, so clear to us to reject the temptation of pride for what we understood, and we can not banish from his mind the suspicion that by all we do not notice that it took the Saul of Josephus and Saul - later Paul of Acts were the same person: a grandson of Herod, the son of a son of Salome, the sister of the tyrant and his demon inspired crime family. Too much time would have been devastating to see what was so clear ... in fact
comparing the text of Josephus in Jewish Antiquities (Book XX - 4) and "Luke" Acts of the Apostles (Acts, 9 / 1-ff) we see a disturbing parallel: Josephus writes: "Costobar and (his brother) Saul had gathered bands of troublemakers, and they were of royal lineage (Herodian) and enjoyed favors because of their kinship with Agrippa (Herod Agrippa, ethnarch and puppet of the Romans in Palestine), but they were wild and ready to plunder the property of the weak. " And the writer of Acts wrote, "while Saul still breathing (e) threatening to slaughter the Lord's disciples ..."
It is evident the absurdity of a police mission entrusted by the High Priest in Damascus of Saul, as a point of view of jurisdiction Diaspora Jews depended on the local Roman authorities, on the other hand, in the group of documents found at Qumran there is a roll called "Damascus": this was the code name used by the Essenes to indicate their sect, and not a geographic location, much less the Syrian city of that name. In the context of Acts, the mission of religious police to Saul in Damascus is used as a priori justification of the "fall on the road to Damascus," Saul of the same, followed by the conversion. But we can deduce that Saul came into relationship with "Damascus" or with the Essenes, it is apparently converted integralism religious sect and not a Christian did not exist anywhere, and that will be invented by the same year after Saul became Paul on the occasion ...
As is clearly stated by Josephus in "Jewish War" (II - 418 et seq.) "Costobar and Saul were brothers" , and their Hebrew names for nothing can be mapped to an area north Edomite Arabs in general and in particular. In the biblical context, there is no history Flaviana Costobar and is quoted only Costobar brother of Herod the Great, the second husband of his sister Salome, who got rid of him just as he did with her first husband, accusing him of conspiring against Herod. However, Salome Costobar and had a daughter, Bernice, who married her cousin Aristobulus son of Herod and Mariamne Hasmonean. The couple had three sons, one of whom Herod Agrippa I, ethnarch future of Israel and a second, Herod of Chalcis (a tiny kingdom in Phoenicia), and third, another Aristobulus, the abandonment of their title and retired to life Private giving itself to trade with the Roman masters.
addition to go into business with Rome, Aristobulus bar Costobar inherited from his mother Salome Roman citizenship, which she had inherited from his father Antipater in which he had granted by Julius Caesar had the support of the military in the fight against Pompey. He then passed it on to children, we hypothesize that Saul and his brother were Costobar II (Which was named after his grandfather), a character in the text makes no mention of Flavian. E 'for this reason that Paul proclaims in Acts to be a Roman citizen by inheritance of title and not to have paid a high price and it is because of such a lineage that Josephus says of Saul and his brother Costobar, "Son heir "(firstborn in Aramaic Barnabas) who" enjoyed favors because of their kinship with Agrippa "and that" they were of royal blood. "
It 'still suspect or at least surprising that no historian or scholar who has ever asked for this relationship to exist between the humbug Saul el'etnarca Herod Agrippa his son and heir to the title. And moreover, as there has ever been asked if it was possible that they had lived in the same year between 45 and 66 two characters as the Flavian Saul and Saul, later Paul, the Acts, who have committed violence in youth squads, identified as different individuals. One of the royal family and relatives of a puppet king, the other son of a craftsman of Tarsus, who was born in the Diaspora but lived in Jerusalem and, though a Pharisee, a good relationship with the priestly cast of collaborators ("Sadducees") and with ethnarch Agrippa II and with his sister Bernice, his mistress and future emperor Titus's lover
... It would have been devastating to conclude that the 'Apostle of the people "in the end was great-grandson of quell'Erode that the Gospels attribute the persecution of the Child Jesus and the Massacre of the Innocents ...