Resurrection

Reflections in Memory of the Freedom Fighters Who Died in April for a Better World

I did not begin this blog to gain personal advantages. I deeply believe in the necessity of a Renaissance in Europe, and I know that the right time for it has come. Many voices like mine say it clearly: We all wish to be like prophets – we sense the times, we are moved by a noble vision, and with our voices we try to manifest this beautiful vision.

The month of April 2026 is a special month. On April 5th, the Catholic and Protestant world celebrated Easter. One week later, on April 12th, the Orthodox world. In between, on April 10th, the world commemorated the 200th anniversary of the Exodus from Missolonghi. I deliberately write “the world” and not just Greece, because the heroes who, on Easter night 1826, decided to break out of the besieged city of Missolonghi and met certain death at the hands of a huge Turkish army, came from all over the world. These heroes fought in Europe against empires for the values on which the West was built: the values of Greek (and Roman) culture and Christianity. The humanistic ideal of the free individual against slavery and subjugation under an oppressive regime.

A threefold event around the same ideal. The Resurrection.

In addition: On April 19, 1824, Lord Byron died in Missolonghi, where he wanted to help the Greeks in their liberation from the Turks. On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was murdered by the Nazis after dedicating his life to resistance against Hitler.

In the sky in April 2026, a stellium in the sign of Aries takes place. The Sun, Mercury, Mars, Saturn, and Neptune form a kind of “planetary parade”. Spiritual meaning: Aries stands for the first spark, for beginning, pioneering spirit, and courage. This stellium is interpreted as an energetic wake-up call that can promote personal breakthrough, new beginnings, and technological advances.

Right now, “Sterben will ich um zu leben” (“I want to die so that I may live”) – the closing chorus of Gustav Mahler’s 2nd (Resurrection) Symphony – is ringing in my head. Let us read this text. It begins with two stanzas from Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock’s “Auferstehung”:

"Rise again, yea, rise again,

wilt thou, My dust, after brief rest!

Immortal life

He who created thee will give thee.

Hallelujah!

To bloom again I am sown!

The Lord of the harvest goes

And gathers sheaves,

Us, us who have died!

Hallelujah!"

Gustav Mahler wrote the rest of the text himself:

Alt solo: O believe, my heart, o believe: Nothing is lost to thee!

Thine is, yea thine, what thou hast longed for,

Thine what thou hast loved, what thou hast fought for!

Soprano solo: O believe: Thou wast not born in vain!

Thou hast not lived and suffered in vain!

Chorus and Alt: What has come into being must perish!

What has perished must rise again!

Cease from trembling!

Prepare thyself to live!

Soprano and Alt solo: O Pain, thou piercer of all things!

From thee I have been wrested.

O Death, thou all-subduer!

Now thou art subdued!

With wings which I have won for myself

In fervent love’s endeavor,

I shall soar away

To the light to which no eye has penetrated!

Chorus: With wings which I have won for myself,

I shall soar away!

I shall die, to live!

Rise again, yea, rise again, wilt thou,

My heart, in an instant!

What thou hast beaten,

To God will it carry thee!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBKeMnP2mnQ

After the sound of the trumpets of the Last Judgment and the flutes of the spring birds, the choir and the soprano sing, like the reawakened souls of the dead who waited for resurrection, the Klopstock text. They are the souls of the righteous of all times, who believed in Jesus and made no compromises with the evil of this world. They lived for the truth and died for the truth.

It is a secret, a mystery of our Christian culture that has inspired countless world-improvers – people who had no fear of death when they were filled with love for humanity.

They thought: We cannot live and watch every day as people are oppressed and murdered. “Look how everything in nature is free, blooms, loves, and bears fruit – that is life! Life is holy and there is no life without freedom.” For this truth they were willing to sacrifice everything.

I understand their sacrifice for this ideal. Because it is not only about our short life on this earth. After us come other people. It does not end with our death. Perhaps there is even rebirth, perhaps we will return to this earth once more. People will live on this planet forever. They deserve a better life. We must do everything for the future so that coming generations can live in freedom.

These people were always ready, in every age, to give everything so that we could live a better life today. There have always been such people, and there still are today. Ready to give everything for a better future. Even their own lives. “To die in order to live.”

I honor them. I honor the heroes of Missolonghi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the resistance fighters of the Kreisau Circle and the July 20, 1944 plot. They are Athanatoi. Immortal. And that is the meaning of “eternal life”. These people live – they never truly died. And on the Day of the Last Judgment they will rise again and meet a beautiful, free, peaceful world for which they worked courageously. For these people there is no death. That is the meaning of the Resurrection and the deeper meaning of Easter, which for over 2000 years has inspired all freedom fighters and pioneers.

Today is April 18. Day Number One of the new life. I wish that from today onward we live only in truth. Always say what we think, what we dream, what we wish. Always, when we see a lie, speak it out without fear. Only on truth can one build a new, healthy, and free world.

On my blog, from today onward, I will report my truth. My deepest wish is a better world. Good morning then, new world.