The
publication of Albert Einstein's private diaries detailing his tour of Asia in
the 1920s reveals the theoretical physicist and humanitarian icon's racist attitudes
to the people he met on his travels, particularly the Chinese. Written between
October 1922 and March 1923, the diaries see the scientist musing on his
travels, science, philosophy and art. In China, the man who famously once
described racism as "a disease of white people" describes the
"industrious, filthy, obtuse people" he observes. He notes how the
"Chinese don't sit on benches while eating but squat like Europeans do
when they relieve themselves out in the leafy woods. All this occurs quietly and
demurely. Even the children are spiritless and look obtuse." After earlier
writing of the "abundance of offspring" and the "fecundity"
of the Chinese, he goes on to say: "It would be a pity if these Chinese
supplant all other races. For the likes of us the mere thought is unspeakably
dreary." June 12
In Einstein’s chart the Sun [23pi] is conjunct the star
theta Pisces [23pi]. The current New Moon [22ge] at Pasadena, California is
placed on the MC and squares Einstein’s radix Sun placed on the descendant of
the New Moon chart.
Pisces is the
constellation of the two fishes. One fish swims westward, horizontally along
the ecliptic plane. The westward swimming fish articulates our primordial
autonomic (sleeping) nature, and our unconsciously reactive participation in
the cycle of mortal life (in other words going along with mass consensus). It
is of our inherited genealogies that we are born into and the behavioral
patterns they express. The eastern fish leaps upward, vertically from the
ecliptic plane, seeking a greater freedom at the shores of sidereal Aries. The
eastern fish articulates our desire and capacity to ascend from our inherited
past and its ideologies, and our effort to awaken from submersion in the
tumultuous psychic emotional human world articulated by southern Cetus.
Cetus, the Sea-Monster stands for all those primal energies
that have not yet been mastered by humankind. This also includes racial
prejudice. Pisces can have a tribal mentality. The tribal, “Us vs. Them”
mentality is a weight dragging humanity down. And Einstein despite his
brilliance in science was not free of racial prejudice.
Confirming this is the fact that Einstein’s Sun [23pi] is square
the asteroid Hopi [23sa] which rules racial prejudice! And this square has been
activated by the New Moon [22ge] placed very prominently on the MC at Pasadena,
the location of the Einstein Papers Project.
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