01-01-2021, 03:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-01-2021, 03:45 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-01-2021, 02:56 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: BTW, I think that is one thing that Sorokin didn't quite understand-spiritual currents that at first glance appear to Ideational, but have a mystical quality.
(This is consistent with the idea that we are in a period similar to the Hellenistic Age).
According to the cycle of civilization, that is correct. Our time follows the Renaissance, a very optimistic and dynamic time among the upper classes and their artists and princes, which "brought back" the humanist virtues of the ancient classical world, which shifted the archaic ages into a similar "golden age" in the 6th-5th century BCE.
The death of Alexander in 323 BC ushered in the Hellenistic Age. In this cycle, the corresponding event is the Treaty of Westphalia which ended the 30-years war and ushered in the reign of Louis XIV "the sun king" and his successors, which Louis XV correctly saw would bring on "the deluge." In England this time corresponds to the Great Rebellion, the first upsurge of a more-democratic government, precursor of the French Revolution. These were times of scientific revolution and expansive "baroque" arts.
The triumph of the Roman Republic under Sulla and its shift into the Empire in the time of Christ and the Golden "Augustan" Age and into the latter Greco-Roman Hellenistic Age corresponds to our time of the imperialist conflicts and world wars I and II leading into the "New World Order" in the time of Gorbachev and Bush. Thus we too are still in a neo-Hellenistic Age.
In the 2140-year cycle, the career of Alexander circa 330 BC links up with that of Napoleon circa 1810. The World Wars echo the Punic Wars in this cycle, and Hannibal corresponds with Hitler. There is always more than one cycle going on to reckon with. In this cycle, Uranus and Neptune align in Aquarius in 2165, exactly 2140 years after Christ and the cosmic crucifix of the 4 large outer planets in 25 AD.