“On Great Lone Hills”

"...may the darkness of the current fascist onslaught be as short as the lives of those orchestrating it, the US, UK, Europe on behalf of themselves utilizing the Zionist and aristocratic Arab tools."

Rubicon & Griobhtha

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The stricter literal Finnish translation gives the patriotic translation into English; however, the translation below has been the standard English translation for decades, and expresses an idea driven into the minds of westerners for years. It is replete with more religious overtones, and its strength resides in its universal appeal to passion for something better in our natures. Interestingly, Sibelius was loath, at first, to include this hymn in the end of the larger piece… I’m glad he did, just as I’m glad Beethoven included the chorus Ode To Joy. Echoing G A Borgese, may the darkness of the current fascist onslaught be as short as the lives of those orchestrating it, the US, UK, Europe on behalf of themselves utilizing the Zionist and aristocratic Arab tools.

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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir burned this into my heart when a boy. Now it burned my heart considering all the death I had dealt, and helped to deal from above. It’s a patriotic song, and shows a longing for Peace, but Peace gained at the expense of Truth will never last. In two world wars, German soldiers stormed into war wearing belt buckles emblazoned with the words, “Gott Mit Uns” – God With Us. Since the supposed end of WW2 the US has made the world sick with its own colonial version of God With US, even when slaughtering in the mountains of Central America and elsewhere. I stood on those hills and slaughtered for every American and their God.

View Central America [and the Middle East and more] today and you will see what the American God has wrought, Corruption. The American God (Capitalism) truly “walks abroad in garments of might”, but there is no “path of splendor” or crowning of light – only death, power, and corruption. Granted, these words were written in defiance of the Nazis, but they are words that every American, including land thieves and slavers, have known and felt incessantly from the founding of the republic.

On great, lone hills, where tempests brood and gather,
Primeval Earth, against Primeval Sky,
We, faring forth, possessed by fervent longing,
Have found a throne, eternal and high,
Have knelt at last in wordless adoration,
Till fire and whirlwind have both gone by.

With ardent song we greet the golden morning.
By faith upborne, remember not the night.
The whole wide world, triumphant hails the dawning.
God walks abroad in garments of might,
The hills, behold, are now a path of splendor,
Transfigured all, and all crowned with light.

-- Hymn from Finlandia – Jean Sibelius
-- Words by Veikko Antero Koskenniemi

Hymn from Finlandia

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Rubicon spent just under three years as a military Scout. During that time he was awarded the “AF Cross, 2 Silver Stars, 4 Bronze Stars, Defense Superior Service Medal, AF Good Conduct Medal, and the CIA Distinguished Service Medal” (ODNI). When he refused to kill further, he was stripped of these awards and was abandoned with his PTSD by the military and thrown away.

Sean Griobhtha (gree-O-tah) is a combat veteran. His latest book is X Rubicon: Crossing Life, Sex, Love, & Killing in CIA Proxy Wars: An indictment of US Citizens: ignorantia non excusat, which details the life of Rubicon (“2.5 years Deception & Death; 40+ years locking away Emotions & Truth”). It’s important that you read the Foreward, Or, The Vanguard; written by a highly intelligent woman with a heart of empathetic gold; she’ll bring you in gently, which neither Rubicon nor I would ever do.

Mrs Rubicon has been tutoring dyslexics and non-dyslexics in reading and writing for over three decades. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Humanities, and a Master’s degree in Pastoral Care and Psychology. She completed Pastoral Care training at the University of Chicago Hospital; and she has worked with various court systems in turning children around. She has volunteered in school sponsored reading programs where we’ve again witnessed her skill in improving even the most recalcitrant students. She holds teaching certification in Orton-Gillingham tutoring from the Michigan Dyslexia Institute.

If you enjoyed this writing, you can tell Crossing Rubicons that their writing is valuable by purchasing X Rubicon from Amazon, Ingram, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, your local independent book seller, or your favorite digital store. View about the author, the book, and abridged translations here. If you would like to understand the effort and trouble that went into publishing this book, read X Rubicon: Author Statement.