2083 Graphics — a first look
[ by Charles Cameron — index of graphics, first 800 or so pages of the “2083 European Declaration of Independence”, with some analysis ]
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A great deal of work needs to be done on the 2083 European Declaration of Independence, and I thought a useful place to start would be a catalog of images.
The document opens with a graphical title:
That’s probably the largest single graphic in the entire work, and it puts the work squarely in the context of the Knights Templar — with e Templar cross and the full name of the order, “Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonic” or Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. The Templars were a Western Christian chivalric order strongly associated with the Crusades — and the topic more recently of much historical, occult and fictional speculation.
The date 2083 is a date SFE (in the Science Fictional Era) as was 1984 before it — but it was almost certainly chosen for its echo of the 1683 Battle of Vienna, which is commonly taken to represent the turning back of the Ottomans by the Habsburgs, and thus the victory of Christendom over Islam. Two maps show the Umayyad Conquests:
and the Second Islamic Wave, turned back in Spain and at the gates of Vienna:
These can fruitfully be contrasted with a map of “tomorrow”:
it being the author’s contention that France will be the first European country to fall to Islamic dhimmitude. I suspect much the same is implied in this version of the French tricolore:
There are some pointed attacks on leftist intellectuals:
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