倫敦2012年：奧運火炬接力與普羅米修斯

倫敦2012年：奧運火炬接力與普羅米修斯
London 2012: The Olympic torch relay and Prometheus
By VC |
May 19th, 2011
Translation by Autumnson Blog

London is getting ready for the 2012 Summer Olympics and the Olympic torch relay will begin on May 18th 2012. This ceremonial event, where people from all walks of life carry the Olympic torch across the host country, is particularly symbolic to those who began this Olympic traditions.
倫敦在準備2012年夏季奧運會和奧運火炬接力將於2012年5月18日開始。這儀式性的活動，來自社會各階層的人携著奧運火炬走遍主辦國，特別地有象徵性對那些開始這奧運會傳統的人。
In Greek mythology, the original “torch-bearer” was Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from the gods in order to give it to humanity. Fire was considered by ancients as being a tiny spark of the sun, which was considered to be the physical manifestation of deity (see Sun Worship). By bringing fire to mankind, Prometheus has therefore enabled humans to partake in “all things divine” and even allowed them to aspire to become gods themselves. For this reason, Prometheus is particularly revered in secret societies, as his myth is the ultimate representation of the philosophy and the goals of mystery schools: ascension towards divinity and immortality through man’s own means.
在希臘神話中，原本的“火炬手“是普羅米修斯，那從眾神偷去火種以圖給人類的泰坦。火被古人認為是太陽的小火花，被認為是神的實體顯現。通過將火帶給人類，普羅米修斯因此使人類能夠參加“所有神聖的事物“，及甚至讓他們一展抱負自己成為神。為此原因，普羅米修斯在秘密社團特別地受尊敬，因為他的神話是哲理和神秘學校目標的最終代表：通過人自身的手段向神聖和不朽提升。

Prometheus carrying the torch
普羅米修斯手持火炬

In esoteric teachings, the act of “carrying the torch” is symbolic of man’s awareness of his own “divine spark” and represents his aspiration to become “one of the gods”. This is, in a nutshell, the core philosophy of the world’s elite, which is heavily influenced by the hermetic teachings of Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism and Illuminism. For this reason, Prometheus’ Torch of Illumination is often found in the occult elite’s symbolism.
在深奧的教義中，“手持火炬“的行為象徵著人類覺察自己的“神聖火花“，及代表他的抱負去成為“眾神之一“。這概括地說，是世界精英的核心理念，很大程度上是受到共濟會、玫瑰十字會和光明會的密封教義影響。出於這原因，普羅米修斯的光明火炬經常被發現在神秘學精英的象徵意義中。

Prometheus Fountain at the Rockefeller Center. Behind the fountain is written: “Prometheus, teacher in every art, brought the fire that hath proved to mortals a means to mighty ends.” Read the full Vigilant Citizen article on the symbolism of the Rockefeller Center in the article entitled Sinister Sites – Rockefeller Center.
在洛克菲勒中心的普羅米修斯噴泉；噴泉背後寫著：“，每一種藝術的導師普羅米修斯，帶來火種那已對凡人證明是一種往強大目標的手段。“

Probably the most famous torch bearer in the world, the Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by French Grand Orient Temple Freemasons.
也許是世界上最有名的火炬手，自由女神像由法國東方大濟寺的共濟會員送給美國。

A hand carrying a torch at the top of the pyramid atop the Los Angeles Central Library (full article on the Library  here)
洛杉磯中央圖書館上蓋的金字塔頂部的一隻手拿著火炬（圖書館的完整文章在這裡）

The myth of Prometheus is, in many ways, similar to the myth of Lucifer – whose name is Latin for “Light Bearer”. Since Lucifer fell from Heaven to the earthly realm – bringing with him “the light of Illumination” – he is considered in occult schools to be the Bringer of Light, of the Morning Star, of intellectualism and of enlightenment.
普羅米修斯的神話是，在許多方面，類似路西弗的神話 - 他的名字拉丁文是“光的持有者”。由於路西法從天堂墮下來到人世間 - 帶著他的“照明之光” - 他在神秘學學校被認為是光明使者、晨星使者，知識追求使者和啟蒙使者。
Since the Torch of Enlightenment is the main symbol representing the elite’s philosophy, is it surprising to find it prominently featured in a ritual opening the world’s grandest sporting event?
由於啟蒙的火炬是主要的象徵代表精英的哲理，它是否驚訝去發現它突出地在世界最大的體育盛會的開幕儀式上客串？

在奧運會
In the Olympics

The first Olympic torch relay
第一次奧林匹克火炬接力

The first relaying of the Olympic torch was held at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, during the Nazi Regime. Despite the fact that Hitler banned Masonic organizations from Germany (he identified them as servants of the Jews), his regime was nevertheless inspired and deeply steeped in by secret societies. He had a great respect for the symbolism and the constitution of secret societies.
奧運火炬的第一次傳遞於1936年在柏林奧運會期間舉行，正值納粹政權時。儘管那事實希特拉在德國禁制共濟會的組織（他辨明他們是猶太人的僕人），但他的政權然而是由秘密社團啟發和深深地沉浸。他對象徵意義和秘密社團的憲法有很大的尊重。

“All the supposed abominations, the skeletons and death’s heads, the coffins and the mysteries, are mere bogeys for children. But there is one dangerous element and that is the element I have copied from them. They form a sort of priestly nobility. They have developed an esoteric doctrine not merely formulated, but imparted through the symbols and mysteries in degrees of initiation. The hierarchical organization and the initiation through symbolic rites, that is to say, without bothering the brain but by working on the imagination through magic and the symbols of a cult, all this has a dangerous element, and the element I have taken over. Don’t you see that our party must be of this character…? An Order, that is what it has to be — an Order, the hierarchial Order of a secular priesthood… Ourselves or the Freemasons or the Church — there is room for one of the three and no more… We are the strongest of the three and shall get rid of the other two.”
- Hermann Rauschning, “Hitler Speaks”

The Nazi Party was heavily influenced by Germanic mysticism. Several members of the Party were part of the Thule Society – an occult secret society based in Munich. Despite its outward differences with other secret societies such as Freemasonry, in the end of the day, when all is said and done, all of the inner-most teachings of these society are pretty much the same.

Since “occult minds think alike” the torch relay became part of the Olympic tradition. So, every two years, entire countries gather and celebrate the passing of Prometheus torch, which can only be lit by the ultimate source: the sun – symbol of the deity.

Since most people who assist to these torch relays – including the torch carriers themsevles- know nothing about the occult meaning of the event, the carrying of the Olympic torch remains a stunning example of the elite’s rituals and philosophy being celebrated in front of a dumbfounded crowd. Clapping for and cheering their local light-bearing Lucifer, the masses celebrate, once again, the extent of their own ignorance.


Other Illuminati symbolism in the 2012 Olympics:
在2012年奧運會的其它光明會象徵：

Inside the Olympic stadium. Pyramid with lighted capstones…
在奧林匹克體育館內，有點燃頂石的金字塔...

One-eyed mascots…
單眼的吉祥物...

Here’s a recent BBC article celebrating the torch relay and describing some of its history:
這是一篇最近的英國廣播公司文章，慶祝火炬傳遞和描述它的一些歷史：

倫敦2012年：什麼是奧林匹克火炬接力？
London 2012: What is the Olympic torch relay?
“It is an utterly thrilling thing to do,” says Philip Barker.

The Olympic historian and author has a lump in the throat just at the memory of running, torch clasped in his hand, high in the Taygetos mountains above Sparta, Greece.

He was a part of the torch relay, the human-powered running feat that bore the flame on its journey from its source, Olympia, to the Atlanta Games in 1996.

From 18 May 2012 the Olympic torch relay will tour the UK in the run up to the London Games – taking 70 days, with about 8,000 torchbearers.

Organisers say 95% of the country’s population should be within one hour of the route which will end with the lighting of the cauldron during the opening ceremony in the Olympic stadium, Stratford.

They hope that the emotion felt by Philip Barker will be shared by the nation and among crowds lining the route.

But how did the Olympic Games come to have this almost cultish following of a naked flame?

The perception of the torch relay is that it’s a contemporary re-enactment of an ancient Greek tradition.

In reality, it is a phenomenon just of the modern Olympics, only beginning in the 1936 Summer Games in Berlin, and for the Winter Games at Oslo in 1952.

But the idea is rooted in a mash-up of Greek myths, thought to date from around the 6th-5th centuries BC.

The stories concern Prometheus. He was a Titan and “friend to man” who stole fire, a sacred element, disguised inside a narthex stalk (a kind of giant fennel) from Zeus, the father of the Gods, and gave it to mortals.

The flame is kindled from sunlight – with back up flames lit on previous days in case it is cloudy
聖火是由陽光點燃 - 有備份火焰在幾天前點燃以避免它是陰天

The ancient Greeks had Lampadedromia – torch relay races – where the winning team lit a sacred flame, possibly as part of the cult worship of Prometheus and his defiance of the gods to impart knowledge to mortals. The modern relay has a nod to the flame-kindling vestal virgins from the rival Roman civilisation thrown in.

It also conjures the spirit of the “sacred truce”, a peace declared across ancient Greece in the months before an Olympic Games and communicated by runners who travelled the country.

As University of Oxford classicist Cressida Ryan puts it: “It’s an amalgam of bits of mythology.

“Agreeing on the facts doesn’t really matter, it’s too long ago to know. Today it is used as a force for good – someone has taken an idea and run with it.”

An Olympic flame first burned at the Amsterdam Games, 1928, but it was not until 1936 that a relay with a torch took shape, under the Nazi regime and sports organiser Carl Diem.

A flame was kindled in Olympia using the sun and a parabolic mirror, then carried to the Berlin stadium by runners through Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia – countries that later would fall under Nazi domination.

Fire was a symbol of Hitler’s regime, and torchlight processions were a feature. The leadership aimed to draw a direct link back to ancient civilisation. As Ryan explains: “They wanted a symbolic bridge between ancient Greece and modern Germany. And light is a symbol of purity – the bright, white, pure, stunning light of the ancient Greeks was something that fed into the Aryan myth.”

Adolf Hitler’s favoured filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl captured that myth, documenting the event for her 1938 film Olympia.

Post-war, for the 1948 London Olympics, organisers embraced the idea of the torch relay. Despite the austere times, the torch was mobbed by crowds along the route.

Since then, the torch has enjoyed a mostly high old time, every four, and latterly two, years, changing design with each Olympic host city and each decade’s trends.

The relay has sometimes gone with a theme – Rome 1960: The Ancient Relay; Mexico City ’68: The Relay to the New World; Seoul ’88: Harmony and Progress.

The modes of transportation have become ever-more outlandish – on skis, Oslo 1952; Skidoo, Calgary ’88; and ski-jumper, Lillehammer ’94.

The torch has taken to the water with swimmers, in Veracruz, Mexico, ’68 and in Marseilles, France for Grenoble ’68 as well as underwater at the Great Barrier Reef for Sydney 2000.

It has taken to the skies – on Concorde, Albertville ’92; via satellite, Montreal ’76; parachute, Lillehammer ’94. And the torch, without flame, has been into space, twice, ahead of Atlanta ’96 and Sydney 2000.

Canoes, steamboats, wagons, horses, camels and many sportspeople and celebrities have also played their part.

It has also drawn protest, most prominently from pro-Tibet and human rights campaigners in many countries when it was flanked by Chinese bodyguards in its round-the-world-tour ahead of Beijing 2008.

And until at least the 1950s, it was rather a sexist torch – no women were allowed to take part.

The flame is sometimes accidentally extinguished en route, apparently “more often than they like to let on,” says Barker.

In case of such an event, it can be re-lit with special back-up flames from Olympia carried with the relay, often in miners’-style lamps.

Should a cloudy day threaten the initial ceremony when women kindle the flame from the Sun at Olympia, there are also a series of flames kept in reserve from the “practice kindles” in the days leading up to the televised event. The torch has been used to light the cauldron by sporting legends like Muhammad Ali, by athlete Li Ning suspended on wires, by paralympic archer Antonio Rebollo and as fire amid water by runner Cathy Freeman.

Clockwise from top left: Muhammad Ali, Salt Lake City, 2002; Li Ning, Beijing, 2008; Cathy Freeman, Sydney, 2000; and Antonio Rebollo, Barcelona, 1992; use the torch flame to light the cauldrons


It is all part of the facade that Olympic-minded historians say stokes enthusiasm for a positive sporting event, often among people who cannot be at the Games themselves.

The founder of the modern Olympic movement, Pierre de Coubertin hoped the Olympic torch would “pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.”

Thirty Olympiads on, for carriers like Barker, that symbolism is key.

“When it is your turn to carry the flame, you think emotional thoughts, think of people who have competed in the Olympics, Jesse Owens, great heroes like Steve Redgrave,” he says.

“You feel part of that because you’re helping take the flame to the stadium. It was extremely special, very emotional.”

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vigilantreport/london-2012-the-olympic-torch-relay-and-prometheus/

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