[CTRL] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
-Caveat Lector- From http://www.literature.org/authors/baum-l-frank/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz/ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L Frank Baum Each of the following entries is a hot linque @ the site Introduction Chapter 1 - The Cyclone Chapter 2 - The Council with the Munchkins Chapter 3 - How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow Chapter 4 - The Road Through the Forest Chapter 5 - The Rescue of the Tin Woodman Chapter 6 - The Cowardly Lion Chapter 7 - The Journey to the Great Oz Chapter 8 - The Deadly Poppy Field Chapter 9 - The Queen of the Field Mice Chapter 10 - The Guardian of the Gate Chapter 11 - The Wonderful City of Oz Chapter 12 - The Search for the Wicked Witch Chapter 13 - The Rescue Chapter 14 - The Winged Monkeys Chapter 15 - The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible Chapter 16 - The Magic Art of the Great Humbug Chapter 17 - How the Balloon Was Launched Chapter 18 - Away to the South Chapter 19 - Attacked by the Fighting Trees Chapter 20 - The Dainty China Country Chapter 21 - The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts Chapter 22 - The Country of the Quadlings Chapter 23 - Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish Chapter 24 - Home Again Bibliographic Details Origin Project Gutenberg Source File etext93/wizoz10.txt (1996/12/20, 229442 bytes) Published unknown This Online Literature Library is sponsored by Knowledge Matters Ltd Last updated Tuesday, 29-Jun-1999 13:55:27 UTC ~~~ AER + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; I don't believe everything I read or send (but that doesn't stop me from considering it; obviously SOMEBODY thinks it's important) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. --- Ernest Hemingway A HREF=http://www.ctrl.org/;www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html A HREF=http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html;Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]/A http://archive.jab.org/ctrl;listserv.aol.com/ A HREF=http://archive.jab.org/ctrl;listserv.aol.com/ctrl/A To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
[CTRL] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dbj5/oz.html Click Here: A HREF=http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/dbj5/oz.html;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/A - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz An Examination of the Underlying Political Allegory By Grant Wang '01 and Dan Jacobs '01 Send comments to Grant and Dan Contents... Introduction The Yellow Brick Road Silver Shoes Dorothy The Cowardly Lion The Tin Woodman The Scarecrow The Wizard The Witch of the East The Witch of the West The Winged Monkeys The Cat and Mouse Geography of Oz Taking a Stand The Century Since L. Frank Baum Sources College Essay Introduction -- Taking a Stand for the Powerless Majority... It is often said that art can function as a commentary on the times; jazz reflected the roaring twenties, and the peace-loving tunes of the 1970s supported the desire of America's youth to end the Vietnam War. However, some pieces of art are not so conspicuous in revealing their observations. One such piece of art is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum just after the climax of the Populist movement. The idea for the analysis of this author and his work was derived from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: A Parable on Populism, by Henry M. Littlefield. His essay focused on the numerous similarities between Baum's work and the United States during the late 1800s. We share his point of view that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was written as a children's story first and an allegory second. Specifically, Littlefield theorized that Baum concentrated on the development of the Populist movement and the pecuniary motives of the silverites. Littlefield opened the doorway to the symbolism of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for us. From this point, we began research on L. Frank Baum and his career, important figures in the Populist movement, silver versus gold, the election of 1896, the state of affairs in and around the Unites States in the 1890s, and the influence of the book on the twentieth century. After giving ourselves an understanding of the information involved in these topics, we began to analyze The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and look for symbolism within the text. We attempted to relate the characters of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to prominent figures during the 1890s. In this process, we identified similar characteristics between Oz characters and historical figures. After this, we chose quotations from the text that supported our theories for Baum's symbolism. We also searched the text for a single theme that commonly appeared in each of his historical symbols. We found this theme to be Baum's personal belief that the powerless majority, although evidently suffering, was not really powerless; they had the ability to free themselves from the rule of the rich minority. This topic addresses this year's theme, Taking a Stand, by showing how L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as an allegory to convey his stand for the powerless majority during the late 1800s. Baum, like many other artists, used his writing to communicate his opinions of the world around him. However, this presentation was unconventional relative to the methods that other artists have used. The convention would be to write or produce artwork that focuses on the opinion at hand. Baum chose to focus on the children's story and made his opinions a secondary and latent issue. It was in this way that Baum took a stand for what he believed in. The Gold Standard as the Yellow Brick Road... After a few hours the road began to be rough, and the walking grew so difficult that the Scarecrow often stumbled over the yellow brick, which were here very uneven. Sometimes, indeed, they were broken or missing altogether, leaving holes that Toto jumped across and Dorothy walked around. As for the Scarecrow, having no brains he walked straight ahead, and so stepped into the holes and fell full length on the hard bricks. In the late 1890s, a major issue was the currency of the United States. The gold standard was perceived as insufficient and was already almost cornered by Jim Fisk and Jay Gould. Baum, like many others, favored bimetallism. Here, he reveals his opinion that although the gold standard had holes and obstacles, it could still last through the long haul. Silver Coinage as the Silver Shoes... 'The Witch of the East was proud of those silver shoes,' said one of the Munchkins; 'and there is
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-Caveat Lector- KA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The main reason being, the very best of children's literature did not start out as children's literature...it was turned into such by the Victorians and the Edwardians, and solidified in that genre by Disney... But if one is lucky enough to get one's hand on a very early copy of, say, Grimm's, one easily can see that what got termed 'fairytales' were adaptations of earlier folktales, stories told around the fireside for the whole village, adults included... Those original stories contained quite a bit of sex and violence, which got sanitized in the Victorian era, and all but excised in the 20th century... But they were stories which reflected the psyches of the listeners... and dealt with matters both sacred and profane, with day-to-day life and with matters of the spirit...and so it is no wonder that they still 'resonate' with us, as that is exactly what they were designed to do, no matter what era they were told...the issues these stories dealt with are issues we still deal with today...love, politics, day-to-day survival (and the quest to raise oneself above one's station), seemingly random events/disasters and the search for meaning in same... And yes, these stories were a convenient way to present the moral precepts of the dominant religion, whether one prayed to Thor or Yahweh... I think one can only see this as dangerous or "evil" if one is entirely wedded to a religious dogma that considers the ideas in these stories heretical. The irony is, the Christian church latched on to many of the pre-existing legends and gave them a Christian veneer...others were developed later, DURING Christian rule, and presented esoteric Christian precepts in a guise that was palatable and understandable to the illiterate masses (including the aristocracy, most of whom were illiterate throughout the Medeival era...) These are very good points, June. The problem with analyzing children's literature is that it is always written by adults, and thus has to be seen on at least two levels: first, the obvious, "surface" level, where you find the often simplistic plot and one-dimensional characters designed to appeal to and be understood by young minds; and second, the not-so-obvious hidden level, the double meanings, the symbolism and metaphors inserted by the writer often without the conscious intention of doing so. "Fairy tales" are always teaching tales, whether presented that way or not. The Grimms collected the *Hausmaerchen* both to preserve folklore and study the survival of Germanic mythological themes over time, and also to study the evolution of the German language and its dialects, since folk tales and folklore in general tend to preserve archaic speech patterns. What became clear to the Grimms and their successors was that fairy tales are essentially didactic and ritualistc. They teach a lesson, frequently on multiple levels, and they are designed (whether deliberately or incidentally) to reinforce that lesson by being acted out over and over again. When collected into one volume, they become, sometimes, "holy scriptures," and we call them the Bible or the Bhagavad-Gita... = Robert F. Tatman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remove "nospam" from the address to reply. NOTICE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml POSTING THIS MESSAGE TO THE INTERNET DOES NOT IMPLY PERMISSION TO SEND UNSOLICITED COMMERCIAL E-MAIL (SPAM) TO THIS OR ANY OTHER INTERNET ADDRESS. RECEIPT OF SPAM WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE NOTIFICATION OF THE SENDER'S ISP. More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
Re: [CTRL] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Most interesting of all is how we instinctively respond to these
stories with a sense of awe and magic. They touch "something" deep
within us which seems real and not external "propaganda."
The very best of children's literature seems to resonate with
"something" we already know--rather than imposing or teaching
external principles.
Curiously, too, M.P.Travers, author of Mary Poppins, was a Sufi
mystic and later in her life wrote many interesting essays for
Parabola, a journal dedicated to mythological and spiritual issues.
I think one can only see this as dangerous or "evil" if one is
entirely wedded to a religious dogma that considers the ideas
in these stories heretical.
On 11 Dec 98 , John wrote:
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Pro McClelland of Harvard once stated that childerns stories are where the values
imparted from one generation to the next are the most clearly seen.
John
TheDawning of the the new age new world order
D L Cuddy
Chapter Four
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Masons are supposed to be engaged in a search for "light" (Ahura-Mazda is the
"spirit of light") with all of their"heart, mind, and strength."ln L. Frank Baum's
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the tin ma L. Frank Baum (possibly a Buddhist)
was int
erested in Theosophy (which he and his wife joined in 1896), and The Wonderful Wizard
of Oz is on page 36 of the Theosophical University Press 1989- Concerning
Theosophy, Baum pronounced, "God is Nature, and Nature God, " and in the Aberdeen, So
uth Dakota Saturday Pioneer (January 25,1890), he wrote of "an eager longing to
penetrate the s Baum believed in reincarnation, in karma, that there was no Devil,
and "that man on earth was only, one step on a ladder through many states of
consciousness
, through mans 'universes, to a final sta "The author of The Wonderful Wizard of 0Z
was well read in the occult sciences. .Paracelsus, the sixteenth century) Swiss
alchemist and physician, divided all spirits into , four categorie
s: Air the gnomes are the Nomes (the Nome king of The Life and Adventures of Santa
Claus und Ozma of Oz);
and the salamanders are the ,fairies of energy' (the Demon of Electricity of
TheMaster Key; the Lovely Lady of light of Tik-Tok of 0z).
Baum seems to have created a highly sophisticated cosmology by interpreting
this theory of spirits of elementals' in terms of tradirional fairies. This is
basically a religion of Nature.
Modern science itself has its origin in The Wonder full world of Oz the occult
sciences, in the search for the secrets of nature. It is nor by mistake that the
Shaggy Man in The Patchwork Girl of
In many of Baum's works, there are revealing references. In The Master Key,
a boy summons up the "Demon of Electricity," and A Kidnapped Santa Claus refers to a
"Demon of Repentance." The Tin A similar message ("The Power Is Yours") is
delivered today by Ted Turner's (1990 Humanist of the Year) "Cap-tain Planet" cartoon
program on television, where Gaia (the spirit of "Mother Eart
These all lead one to consider the possibility that Baum selected the word
"Oz" because it sounded like "us" (Baum wrote a poem rhyming Oz" with the word
"was"), meaning that if the heart (ti It is also possible that Baum chose
the nam
e "Oz" from the "0" in Oscar Wilde (famous author and Mason, born just two years
before Baum and died in the year 1900, when the Oz books began) and A third
possibility for Baum's selection of the word "0z" is that according to writer Jack
Snow,
Baum once wrote that he always enjoyed stories that caused the reader to exclaim with
"Ohs" an
Baum dedicated Wonderful Wizard of' Oz;( 1900) to his wife, whom he called
"my good friend and comrade." When Baum and his wife traveled to Europe in 1906, they
also went on to Egypt, where M The land of Oz, with its four countries, is
rectangular in shape like the state of Kansas. In the city of Wichita in south
central Kansas, about ten years ago a pyramid was built at 3100 Nort White Light. The
first issue of the comic was called "The Tale of the Kingdom of Light," as the author (
Pamela Wunder Myers) says: "A paradigm [referring to a cultural change] shift occurs
when a 'be In the first comic issue, Sir Cosmic searches for the Land of
"Awes" where he finds the Wonderful Wizard who describes their "Divine Science of Natur
e "and gives a riddle to Merlin that says, Love and cooperation rule in Oz, and
Masons seek light and harmony. Before meeting the Wizard in Oz, the cowardly lion says
he will do what's necessary until the Wizard "promises to give US wha
t we d There is also a certain existentialist and gnostic (transcendental
"self") aspect to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The Wizard in Oz tells Dorothy's
companions that what they most desire is alr says: "Baum's concern is with the
presentatio
n of reality and worth and of the power of the
Re: [CTRL] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Sno0wl wrote:
The very best of children's literature seems to resonate with
"something" we already know--rather than imposing or teaching
external principles.
The main reason being, the very best of children's literature did not
start out as children's literature...it was turned into such by the
Victorians and the Edwardians, and solidified in that genre by Disney...
But if one is lucky enough to get one's hand on a very early copy of,
say, Grimm's, one easily can see that what got termed 'fairytales' were
adaptations of earlier folktales, stories told around the fireside for
the whole village, adults included...
Those original stories contained quite a bit of sex and violence, which
got sanitized in the Victorian era, and all but excised in the 20th
century...
But they were stories which reflected the psyches of the listeners...
and dealt with matters both sacred and profane, with day-to-day life and
with matters of the spirit...and so it is no wonder that they still
'resonate' with us, as that is exactly what they were designed to do, no
matter what era they were told...the issues these stories dealt with are
issues we still deal with today...love, politics, day-to-day survival
(and the quest to raise oneself above one's station), seemingly random
events/disasters and the search for meaning in same...
And yes, these stories were a convenient way to present the moral
precepts of the dominant religion, whether one prayed to Thor or
Yahweh...
I think one can only see this as dangerous or "evil" if one is
entirely wedded to a religious dogma that considers the ideas
in these stories heretical.
The irony is, the Christian church latched on to many of the pre-existing
legends and gave them a Christian veneer...others were developed later,
DURING Christian rule, and presented esoteric Christian precepts in a
guise that was palatable and understandable to the illiterate masses
(including the aristocracy, most of whom were illiterate throughout the
Medeival era...)
June
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[CTRL] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Pro McClelland of Harvard once stated that childerns stories are where the values
imparted from one generation to the next are the most clearly seen.
John
TheDawning of the the new age new world order
D L Cuddy
Chapter Four
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Masons are supposed to be engaged in a search for "light" (Ahura-Mazda is the "spirit
of light") with all of their"heart, mind, and strength."ln L. Frank Baum's The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the tin man wants a heart, the scarecrow a mind, and the lion
wants strength or courage (the master Mason uses the "strong grip of the lion's paw").
In the occult, the heart represents the female (or emotion), the mind represents the
male (or reason), and strength stands for action.
L. Frank Baum (possibly a Buddhist) was interested in Theosophy (which he and
his wife joined in 1896), and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is on page 36 of the
Theosophical University Press 1989-90 catalogue, which features "the principle
source-writings of the modern Theosophical movement and seeks to provide a
comprehensive presentation of the ancient wisdom-tradition."
Concerning Theosophy, Baum pronounced, "God is Nature, and Nature God, " and
in the Aberdeen, South Dakota Saturday Pioneer (January 25,1890), he wrote of "an
eager longing to penetrate the secrets of Nature - an aspiration for knowledge we have
thought is forbidden. " The Theosophists are "searchers for truth" and "admit the
existence of God - not necessarily a personal God. "He believed in the theory of
"elementals' (invisible, vapory beings) popularized in Madame Blatavasky's Isis
Unveiled(1877), and like the Rosicrucians' belief in the combining of God and nature,
and not unlike William Butler Yeats' (Mason and Fabian) search for a new mysticism.
Baum believed in reincarnation, in karma, that there was no Devil, and "that man on
earth was only, one step on a ladder through many states of consciousness, through
mans 'universes, to a final state of Enlightenment, "according to Michael Patrick
Hearn in his book, The Annotated Wizard of Oz (1973). Hearn is also quoted in Children
:s Lirerarure Review, (CLR), vol. 15, as saying:
"The author of The Wonderful Wizard of 0Z was well read in the occult sciences.
.Paracelsus, the sixteenth century) Swiss alchemist and physician, divided all
spirits into , four categories: Air, sylphs; Water, nymphs or undines; Earth, gnomes;
Fire, salamanders. These could be expanded to the ancient idea' of the four states of
matter - gas, liquid, solid, and energy.. A quick glance at Baum 's fairy tales
reveals rhat he wrote about each Paracelsian classification of spirits. His sylphs are
rhe 'winged fairies'(Lulea of Queen Zixie of Ix; Lurline of The Tin Woodman of oz);
the undines are the mermaids
(Aquureine of The Sea Fairies; the wonder fairies of the first chapter of The
Scarecrow of 0z));
the gnomes are the Nomes (the Nome king of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus und
Ozma of Oz);
and the salamanders are the ,fairies of energy' (the Demon of Electricity of TheMaster
Key; the Lovely Lady of light of Tik-Tok of 0z).
Baum seems to have created a highly sophisticated cosmology by interpreting
this theory of spirits of elementals' in terms of tradirional fairies. This is
basically a religion of Nature.
Modern science itself has its origin in The Wonder full world of Oz the occult
sciences, in the search for the secrets of nature. It is nor by mistake that the
Shaggy Man in The Patchwork Girl of Oz refers to Oz as being a fairyland where magic
is a science. 'Both science and magic have the same ends. "
In many of Baum's works, there are revealing references. In The Master Key, a
boy summons up the "Demon of Electricity," and A Kidnapped Santa Claus refers to a
"Demon of Repentance." The Tin Woodman of Oz has a giantess skilled in
transformations, and in Dorothy and the Wizard Of Oz, there is a climb up "Pyramid
Mountain." Baum was a pacifist, and in Ozma of Oz, Dorothy is shipwrecked, and
Princess Ozma (close friend of Glinda, "the greatest of sorceresses") is threatened by
an attack from the Nome king, but he is powerless in the face of her faith and love as
she states, "No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil they
may be, or hurt them or make them unhappy. I will not fight - even to save my
kingdom. "
In the Saturday Pioneer (October 18, 1890), Baud wrote that "the absurd and
legendary devil is the enigma of the Church, "and in the Oz books, he said there were
both "good and "bad" demons and witches. (Baum also wrote a play, The Uplift of
Lucifer, or Raising Hell in 1915.) Remember when you read Revelation 4:3 (". there was
a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald"), that in life Satan
tries to imitate God. Could this be why Dorothy sings "Somewhere Over the Rain-bow,"
while the rainbow looks green in some Oz books
Re: [CTRL] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- Willy Wonka
-Caveat Lector- Interesting.. now someone needs to do a conspiracy view of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" Five children... Augustus: dresses in brown, falls into thick brown muck (earth) Violet: dresses in blue, fills with liquid (water) Veruca: dresses in red, is sent to the furnaces (fire) Mike: dresses in white, is broken into particles and shot into the air (air) Charlie: Floats upwards gently.. (spirit) All of the adults (except Willy Wonka and 'Slugworth') come in matched pairs (George and Georgina, Joe and Josephine, Henry and Henrietta, etc...). In alchemy a frequently used symbol of an alchemical union is a hermaphrodite.. a being with both male and female attributes. Secret knowledge (the 'everlasting' Gobstopper, etc..) abounds, as well as trials used to weed out the weak and undeserving of this knowledge. The odd phrase by the tinker, 'No one goes in and nobody ever comes out' (or something like that). Is this actually some secret message about something? I don't know, I just picked this stuff up the other night while watching it. Maybe Marilyn Manson caught on and that's why the video for "Dope Hat" was made. Maybe not. DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
