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PANDORA’S CAN OF WORMS

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Metaphorically speaking, to open a “can of worms” means to inadvertently create numerous new problems while trying to solve one.  Example: “Corruption in politics is such a can of worms that many journalists won’t take the risk of seriously investigating it.”

The “open a can of worms” metaphor is a modern extension of Pandora’s Box. In the original story, a mortal was warned not to open a box belonging to Pandora. When curiosity got the best of this mortal, she opened the box and inadvertently released numerous plagues on the world. According to legend, after all the destruction was released from the box the only thing remaining in Pandora’s box was Hope.  

The “lesson” we are supposed to “learn” from the Pandora fable is this: “As long as the “can” remained sealed, there would be no harm”.  Have Hope.  And don’t ever look into the box where all the creepy, nasty creatures are hiding!

However, if we are want to have “Truth and Justice” or  “Peace and Prosperity” in this world, we have to be willing to open Pandora’s Can of Worms.  If we don’t identify and control the individual beings who are the source of crime, corruption, insanity, poverty, they will escape capture and continue creating chaos in the world.  Once they’re out of the can, it’s a real bitch putting them back in again.

Fortunately, there are only a relatively small number of beings in the world who are responsible for the chaos and pestilence of society. They are criminals, bankers, politicians, military madmen and the scientific and artistic robots who make their destructive activities seem “reasonable”.   The madmen who create chaos are the same lunatics who hire media moguls, performers, film makers to “sanitize”, and “beautify” and “glorify” war, crime and insanity. BEWARE: They are just as crazy and criminal as the madmen they work for.

Go ahead and open Pandora’s Can of Worms!  We already know what happens when we don’t.  We can’t control what we can’t see.

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FEY: SPIRITS OF THE AIR

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Faery Land

“There is a difference between this world and the world of Faery, but it is not immediately perceptible. Everything that is here is there, but the things that are there are better than those that are here. All things that are bright are there brighter. There is more gold in the sun and more silver in the moon of that land. There is more scent in the flowers, more savour in the fruit. There is more comeliness in the men and more tenderness in the women. Everything in Faery is better by this one wonderful degree, and it is by this betterness you will know that you are there if you should ever happen to get there.”
― James Stephens, Irish Fairy Tales

The word fairy derives from the term fae of medieval Western European (Old French, from Latin fata: Fate) folklore and romance, one famous example being Morgan le Fay (‘Morgan of the Fae’). “Fae-ery” was therefore everything that appertains to the “fae”, and so the land of “fae”, all the “fae”. Finally the word replaced its original and one could speak of “a faery or fairy”, though the word fey is still used as an adjective or to refer to the word fairy as a plural.

In alchemy in particular they were regarded as elementals, such as gnomes and sylphs, as described by Paracelsus. This is uncommon in folklore, but accounts describing the fairies as “spirits of the air” have been found popularly.  Many of the Irish tales of the Tuatha Dé Danann refer to these beings as fairies, though in more ancient times they were regarded as Goddesses and Gods.

When considered as beings that a person might actually encounter, fairies were noted for their mischief and malice. Some pranks ascribed to them, such as tangling the hair of sleepers into “Elf-locks”, stealing small items or leading a traveler astray, are generally harmless. But far more dangerous behaviors were also attributed to fairies. Any form of sudden death might stem from a fairy kidnapping, with the apparent corpse being a wooden stand-in with the appearance of the kidnapped person.

Fairies can be observed when the “third eye” is activated.