It was an article in The Copenhagen Post which first perked my interest in the big Un's Climate Change Conference (COP15).
When I see Beauty and merry-making banned I get suspicious. When I see the spirit of Puritanism and Piety rising like an angry flood across the green land and seeping like an acid beneath the doors of homes and hearts my senses quicken and a stiff ridge rises along the trunk of my spine, traveling the branches of my brain.
"[Christmas] is a religious holiday that has no place at a United Nations function, according to the Foreign Ministry's Svend Olling...." ("Christmas trees banned for climate summit," The Copenhagen Post, 4 Dec. 2009).
"'We have to remember that this is a UN conference and, as the centre then becomes UN territory, there can be no Christmas trees in the decor, because the UN wishes to maintain neutrality,' said Olling" ("Christmas trees").
Jadis, Scrooge, the Grinch, and Puritans don't like Christmas trees either. They prefer cold stone, frozen streams, continual Fimbulvetr, and never having to see evergreen life which defies winter's breath. They are afraid of Spring's warm breath; and large powerful men with wise white beards who keep lists, wear royal crimson, and bring gifts and drop coal upon those who need warming of their constricted hearts. They are afraid of an old one-eyed man sustained upon wine with his eight-legged steed, or his modern team of eight leaping and jingling reindeer.
COP15 claims to be a religious neutral zone, but the banning of decorated and glowing evergreens and observance of Christmas is a highly religious and fanatical act. The hatred of Christmas is rarely an atheist hatred, but always a religious fanatic hatred.
COP15 has very effectively displayed a fear, not only of The Great Flood, but also of The Live Tree. Within the Great White Stone Circle ("No Man's Land") there is barely a live twig across the desert. The few trees are in winter's sleep, and those planted previous to the great gathering are looked upon as inferior due to the fact that they were planted in a time when man believed nature had a pattern and could be guided by pattern.
The dislike of The Live Tree is also evident in the little movie produced for the opening ceremony, "Please help the world," in which the child instinctively clings to the lone and dead tree for protection from The Great Flood swirling beneath her.
The child-actor knows to cling to the tree, knows it should represent shelter from the storm, but in a windswept world where one has lost their Faith (the teddy bear) to the gaping chasm, and The Live Tree is reduced to a skeleton of dry kindling, there is no savior, no refuge from the storm. There is only crucifixion.
The world of COP15 is not one of benevolence or of hope, but of apocalypse, fear, and dark ignorance. It is a world of Deep Ecology, the deep ecology of hell and its laughing lies.
The world will look and feel exactly as the landscaping and the film depict it if the Frost Giants of Copenhagen have their way. They are pulling our tails.
Rather than pushing against the weight of the good people of the world, trying to get them into the dark barn, they are pulling tails with fear in order to get us to pull away from the discomfort and into the barn -- the very place we don't want to go.
The Live Tree represents all that this new group of religious fanatics cannot stand: Life, Knowledge, Protection, Birth, Connection to Heaven, Connection to Hell, Sacrifice, and Resurrection.
The Live Tree, the Christmas Tree is one of the most universal, most religiously neutral symbols inherited by man. Coupled with fire or light it is even more universal. COP15 wants this and ALL myth, ALL religions of the past desiccated. The only way to achieve this goal of obliterating these inherited "religious" symbols is to obliterate the blood in which these beliefs are stored.
Those who believe they will gain profit or save the earth by signing to the treaty will be signing in blood -- the blood of innocents, the blood of the children in their country.
Those who refrain their hand from signing the treaty will be those who have tasted of the fruit of knowledge, who desire the fruit of life, who hold to the ties of the wise elders, the courage of mythic heroes, and the divine patterns instilled in the earth upon which they know and love. Those who do not sign will stand with solid faces against the storm and they will shelter under The Great Tree. Those who do not sign will be like living trees spreading their branches over the children of their land.
images from top to bottom: Jesse Tree, Saint-Quentin Basilica, Aisne, France;
Woman With Flowers, Iran; Olive Tree; Flag of Iroquois Confederacy; detail of Crucifixion, Antonello da Messina; Yggdrasil, Oluf Olufsen Bagge, Prose Edda (1847); Happy Christmas, Viggo Johansen
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