Fidelio, Volume 13, Number 1-2, Spring-Summer 2004
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Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft Spring/Summer 2004 $10.00 Goya and the Spain of Carlos III Francisco Goya y Lucientes, he fact that the great ‘Carlos III in reflecting his favorite saying: ‘First TFrancisco Goya y Hunting Costume,’ Carlos, then King.’ Lucientes (1746-1828) was 1786-88. No progress could have been made the official painter to the in Spain without Carlos having reduced court of Carlos III, demon- the power of the strates the importance the Inquisition and its King attributed to the Jesuit allies. The promotion of both the Inquisition was sciences and the arts in ultimately abolished his fight against the in 1813, only to be oligarchical Spanish reinstated by Inquisition and the super- Fernando VII, and stitious mental habits of Goya attacked its a population oppressed re-establishment in by centuries of Hapsburg his ‘Inquisition rule. Scene.’ Goya is perhaps best Our cover painting, ‘The known for his widely Scala/Art Resource, NY reproduced prints, the Third of May, 1808, Disasters of War, which depicted the or The Executions brutality of the 1808 Napoleonic Francisco Goya y of Príncipe Pío invasion of Spain, and the Caprichos, Lucientes, ‘Gaspar de Hill’—Goya’s which relentlessly lampooned the Jovellanos,’ 1797-98. image of the psychological backwardness of a Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid resistance of the Spanish population deprived of Spanish people to scientific education by the Aristotelean Goya’s portrait ‘Carlos III in the invading army of Napoleon, whom Society of Jesus (Jesuits), who controlled Hunting Costume’ uniquely captures the Synarchists had brought to power to all education in Spain prior to their the loving spirit of this king, who prevent the spread of the American expulsion by Carlos in 1767. devoted his efforts to promoting the Revolution in Europe—is a republican Goya was recruited to the battle to welfare not only of his own people, but homage to unarmed courage, free Spain from the grip of feudalism by of all human beings, as evidenced by his martyrdom, and the Sublime. Gaspar de Jovellanos, who introduced support of the American Revolution. him to the Royal Economic Society, In Goya’s painting, Carlos is shown [SEE ‘Spain’s Carlos III and which Jovellanos directed before without the trappings of royalty, the American System’] becoming Carlos’s Justice Minister. Jovellanos, whose portrait Goya painted in 1797-98, eulogized Carlos at his death in 1788 for his leadership in the fight to introduce economic development policies into Spain and its colonies, policies later realized in the U.S.A. as the American System of political economy. Francisco Goya y Lucientes, ‘Inquisition Scene,’ c. 1816. Scala/Art Resource, NY “It is through beauty that one proceeds to freedom.” —Friedrich Schiller Vol. XIII, No. 1-2 4 Spring/Summer 2004 Religion and National Security: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Threat from Terrorist Cults William F. Wertz, Jr. Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. EDITOR Kenneth Kronberg 26 ART DIRECTOR Spain’s Carlos III and the Alan Yue American System BOOKS William F. Wertz, Jr. and Katherine Notley Cruz del Carmen Moreno de Cota Fidelio (ISSN 1059-9126) is SYMPOSIUM: published by the Schiller CLASSICAL DRAMA &HISTORICAL SPECIFICITY Institute, Inc., P.O. Box 20244, Washington, D.C. 20041-0244. The Big Knife: www.schillerinstitute.org Editorial services are provided Hollywood’s Classical Drama! by KMW Publishing Harley Schlanger Company, Inc. © Schiller Institute, Inc. 65 Fidelio is dedicated to the Approaching Classical Tragedy promotion of a new Golden Renaissance based upon the In American Life concept of agap¯e or charity, as An interview with Robert Beltran that is reflected in the creation of artistic beauty, the scientific 69 mastery of the laws of the physical universe, and the Clifford Odets’ The Big Knife practice of republican statecraft And ‘Trumanism’ for the benefit of our fellow man. Harley Schlanger Subscriptions by mail are 78 $20.00 for 4 issues in the U.S. and Canada. Airmail Editorial 2 Defeating Synarchism, and the Sublime subscriptions to other countries are $40.00 for 4 issues. Translations 90 Friedrich Schiller: ‘Of the Sublime’ Payment must be made in U.S. 100 Abraham Kästner: ‘On the Conceptions that currency. Make check or Underlie Space’ money order payable to Schiller Institute, Inc. News 102 U.S. Conference: Youth Must Take Leadership 103 Scientists, Youth Hear LaRouche in Moscow 106 Launch Mexico Flank against Synarchists On the Cover Pedagogical 109 Knowing the True Geometry Francisco Goya y Lucientes, The Third of May, 1808, or The Exhibits 114 Rembrandt: The Painter’s Drama Executions of Príncipe Pío Hill (1814). (Scala/Art Resource, NY) Books 119 Children of Satan II: The Beast-Men 120 Constantine’s Sword 121 Arthur Miller, His Life and Work FIDPD-13-01 continuing Martinist tradition of the French Revolution period’s Mesmer, Cagliostro, Joseph de Maistre, et al., is, once again, a leading issue of the current time. This was, originally, the banker-backed terrorist cult used to direct that great internal, systemic threat of 1789-1815 to France, and to the world of that time. This same banker-cult symbiosis was behind Mussolini’s dictatorship, and behind Adolf Hitler’s role during 1923-45. This was the threat posed by prominent pro-Synarchists inside the British Defeating Synarchism, Establishment, who, during the World War II setting of Dunkirk, had attempted to bring Britain and France into that planned alliance with Hitler, And the Sublime Mussolini, Franco, and Japan—which would, if achieved, have aimed to destroy the U.S.A. itself by aid n his essay “Of the Sublime,” a translation of of that consort of global naval power. That was the which appears in this issue of Fidelio, Friedrich enemy which we joined with Winston Churchill to ISchiller writes: “Great is he who overcomes the defeat, in World War II.” fearful. Sublime is he who does not fear it, even when Since the late 1700’s, the aim of Synarchism has he himself is overcome. ... One can show oneself to be been to prevent the spread of the Europe-engendered great in good fortune, sublime only in misfortune.” American Revolution, and ultimately, to destroy the On April 20, Mark Sonnenblick, a member of the United States through the simultaneous deployment of Schiller Institute and long-time associate of Lyndon ostensibly left-wing terrorists (anarchy), such as the and Helga LaRouche, passed away after a year-long, Jacobin terrorists of the French Revolution, and right- heroic battle for life, following wing fascists, beginning with unsuccessful open-heart the Emperor Napoleon surgery. Mark, who was fluent EDITORIAL Bonaparte, for the purpose of in Spanish and Portuguese, had imposing fascist order long been active in the work of (Synarchy). Schiller Institute in Ibero-America in opposition to the As LaRouche has emphasized, ever since the Synarchists Quijanohacks. consolidation of the British Empire by the British We dedicate this issue of Fidelio to Mark’s fighting East India Company at the end of the Seven Years’ spirit, and to that of two other heroes in the fight War in 1763, the United States and its Leibnizian against Synarchism, Carlos Cota Meza, of Mexico, American System of political economy have been the who passed away in March 2002, and historian primary pole of opposition to that Empire. All of H. Graham Lowry, who passed away last year. All world history since then, to the present day, has three were persecuted for their principled opposition ultimately been a war between the British Empire to the Quijanohacks. All three showed their true and the American System. mettle as sublime souls, not only in their resistance to In this issue of Fidelio, we present the extraordinary political persecution, but also in their refusal to history of Spain’s King Carlos III, whose 1759-1788 succumb to death even in the face of debilitating reign was a reflection of the same Leibnizian disease. influences which gave birth to the United States. As Lyndon LaRouche demonstrates in his Contrary to the Synarchists, who hate Carlos’s Promethean fight for justice against the renewed memory almost as much as they hate the U.S.A., the Synarchist threat to humanity from the bankers true cultural matrix which defines the positive identity behind Dick Cheney’s Iraq war today, to be a leader in of the nations of Ibero-America is not “Hispanidad”— a period of crisis such as ours, requires such a sublime a Synarchist concoction based upon an anti-Semitic, character. ultramontane, feudalist version of Catholicism best In his essay, “Religion and National Security: The expressed by the Spanish Inquisition—but rather, the Threat from Terrorist Cults,” LaRouche writes: pro-American, Leibnizian policies of Carlos III and “The Synarchist threat from the presently his advisers. 2 While he was King of Naples in 1739, the young Carlos III prevented the establishment of the Inquisition from Schiller’s Don Carlos and invited the Jews, who had been expelled from YES—YES—I shall repeat it. Give us back Naples in 1540 by the Hapsburg Charles V, to return. What you have taken from us. As the strong, As King of Spain beginning 1759, Carlos banished the With generosity, let human bliss Grand Inquisitor from Madrid, and later, in 1767, Stream from your horn of plenty.—Minds mature expelled the Inquisition-allied Jesuit Order from Spain Within your worldly structure. Give us back and all its possessions. It is not surprising that the head What you have taken from us. Thus become of the National Synarchist Union in Mexico in the late Among a million kings, a king. 1930’s, Salvador Abascal, lamented that Carlos III’s expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767, marked “the true .