http://www.classicistranieri.com/mp3/bwv4/bach_bwv4_leh_2_christ_lag_in_t.mp3 the "Gospel" ER Already four centuries before the appearance of Jesus in Greek culture was present the figure of a hero rose from the dead to bring salvation to men . This is Er, the warrior of origin yachts, whose legend (?) Is given by Plato, in Republic X 614b et seq. I used the question mark after the word legend, as if to date there are some who regard the canonical Gospels as historical sources, why, then, should doubt the word of a distinguished and influential philosopher Plato, who, elsewhere, is not kind to the popular religious traditions (especially those of Orphic origin) or of very ancient tradition which certainly belongs to this story? Basically, I do not think the author jokes that when, after the exposure of things che l’anima Er ha visto nel regno dell’oltretomba, conclude: “Così, Glaucone, il suo racconto si è conservato e non è andato perduto, e potrà salvare anche noi,se gli crederemo …”(Repubblica, X, 621c). E', del resto,difficile non sospettare che il topos della resurrezione di Gesù e del suo scopo salvifico per le anime individuali sia stato suggerito ai seguaci dell’eresia ebraica da lui fondata da questi racconti che circolavano nella cultura religiosa ellenistica, influenzata a sua volta dai temi orfico-pitagorici(come è noto il giudaismo originario non conosceva il tema della salvezza dell’anima individuale dopo la morte e anzi neppure il concetto di anima). Indeed, I am inclined to observe that Her has offered a way of salvation to men without laying down any yoke of bondage and that his miracle is a thousand times more amazing and admirable than the one attributed to Jesus Er, in fact, rose after 12 days of death, while his body, yet extraordinarily affected by the decomposition, had been placed on the funeral pyre to be burned, instead, Jesus, dead, could not resist that one day and a half. But, now, here is the gospel of Her: "Er ... son of Armenia, the original yacht. He was killed in the war and when, on the tenth day, they carried off the field the bodies have decomposed, was taken up intact and brought back home to be buried on the twelfth day, when he was already lying on the pyre, he returned to life and told what he had seen in the place where he was. He said that his soul, after leaving the body, set off like so many, until they reached a great place in which were two adjacent pits in the ground and two others, corresponding to the first, high in the sky. In the midst of them sat the judges, who, after pronouncing their sentence, ordered to the right to take the right path leading up to the sky, with a sign attached to the ruling on his chest, to the unjust to take the road to left descending down, too with a mark on the back where they were made for all the sins they had committed. Coupling his turn to the courts told Er that was supposed to report what he saw men there and ordered him to listen and observe everything about that place. " Since then the story we learn that the souls who during his earthly life had been stained with some blame susceptible of forgiveness, of atonement had to make a journey lasting thousands of years underground, while the virtuous and pure souls ascended directly into the celestial world, where they could cover (probably for the same number of years) "visions of bliss and extraordinary beauty." After this stop thousands of years, all souls are destined to incarnate in a new body and then to choose a new life. Only the souls stained by sins inexperienced ("evil incurable"), including the tyrants who are guilty of the worst injustices, are intended to be tortured by some entities which have the appearance of men and then rushed to the fiery eternity in Tartarus. Reincarnation Ananke to govern with his daughters Lachesis, Clotho and Atropos (the Fates cd). The difficulty of this stage is that each soul, in order to draw, is called to choose his new life among the various models and human and animal (twn biwn paradeigmata) that a herald to those charged throws in front of them After this impressive proclaims: "Proclamation della vergine Lachesi, figlia di Ananke! Anime effimere, ecco l’inizio di un altro ciclo di vita mortale, preludio di nuova morte. Non sarà un demone a scegliere voi, ma sarete voi a scegliere il vostro demone. Chi è stato sorteggiato per primo, per primo scelga la vita alla quale sarà necessariamente congiunto. La virtù non ha padrone, e ognuno ne avrà in misura maggiore o minore a seconda che la onori o la disprezzi. La responsabilità è di chi ha fatto la scelta; la divinità è incolpevole”.
La difficoltà della scelta risiede in tre ostacoli: (a)in ogni modello di vita sono variamente mescolate caratteristiche negative e positive, per esempio ci può essere la prestanza fisica insieme alla povertà or conversely, the rich nature along with a wicked and perverse, and so on, (b) the souls as they raffled to first choose the model of life which unite, decreases the number of lives available to those who are last in order of draw, for which they have so to speak, less choice, (c) not all souls are wise enough to recognize what are the best ways of life (in essence should be those that do not cause too much suffering in this life and yet not lead to stain the soul of sins that would make it necessary, after death, a new round of Atonement, when not even to eternal damnation in Tartarus). Another factor that significantly affects the ability of anime to choose the best life is the amount of water they drink from the river Lethe before being finally sent to the new mortal body. The water of this river has otherworldly fact, the ability to cancel, as they are drunk, all memory of previous experiences in life and stay in the millennium of Hades. From a complete forgetfulness can only save the souls who do not drink too much. Although this is not stated explicitly, the ultimate salvation of the soul should be to end the cycle of reincarnation, with admission to the final and perpetual celestial world. To this end, however, the soul must be really very wise and rational to be able to finally get to live a perfect life, free from any contamination of sin of any stain of injustice. Not that I'm telling people to believe in the word of Her, but if some people today still believe in the historical truth of those facts and that the narratives of those dark mythographers known by the names of Mark, Matthew, Luke and John attributed to Jesus, then you can not pretend to challenge the historical reality of the resurrection and the voyage of Her, to doubt when Plato, in Republic X 621c, says "So, Glaucon, his story has been preserved and is not lost, and may even save us, if you will believe in him [...] ". One thing is certain and that is that according to this source (Plato, Republic, X, 614b) that is nothing less than the Gospels, but on the contrary, in the minds of educated men, certainly exceeds them in credibility and authority, we learn that, perhaps a millennium before Jesus (the Orphic religion may have ancient origins), another man was believed that men had risen to communicate a message of salvation and, what is more important, without impose any yoke of bondage, nor give rise to a oppressive ecclesiastical organization of the fundamental human freedoms .
