MAANDAG 14 MEI 2012
Verzonden: "Subject: KONING JUAN CARLOS EN KONINGIN SOFÍA VAN SPANJE VIJFTIG JAAR GETROUWD Date: May 14, 2012 10:35:28 AM GMT+02:00 To: LIESBETH HALBERTSMA Cc MARC VAN HOORN Beste Liesbeth, Vandaag zijn KONING JUAN CARLOS VAN SPANJE en KONINGIN SOFÍA, die ik voor het eerst en het laatst heb gezien in SALAMANCA als beschreven in 5 MEI 1996 GELUKWENS AAN DE PRINS VAN ORANJE, vijftig jaar getrouwd. Volgens het bericht SPAANS KONINGSPAAR VIERT GEEN GOUDEN FEESTJE wordt deze heuglijke gebeurtenis niet feestelijk gevierd. De vraag die daarbij rijst is natuurlijk wat daarvan de reden of de oorzaak is. In dit verband denk ik aan mijn in het Engels gestelde op 11 MEI 1996 voorgenomen toespraak als vermeld in 12TH OF FEBRUARY 1997 SPEECH ON BEHALF OF HIS MAJESTY KING JUAN CARLOS OF SPAIN. Ik citeer:
Majesty,
Concerning the relationship between Heydanus, Erasmus and Cervantes
I have the honour to tell You the following story. During many
ages the people of the Iberian continent has been fighting a long
struggle of more than seven centuries against the representatives
of a culture who had occupied the actual Spanish territory. From
the small areas of León and Old Castile the authentical
inhabitants started the combat to reconquest their right to express
themselves freely and to be able to live according to the norms
of their own faith. Also from our regions representatives of the
noble families rushed into their defense. I can limitate myself
by mentionning the names of Charles Martel and Charles the Great,
but there were more who remain relatively hidden in history of
European society. At this historical moment we find ourselves
on a historical place that evoques the thought of the existance
of the powerful noble families of the Heydenrijk, the Western
European civilization of the sixth and seventh century. In this
town Middelburg we remind for example a descendant of that civilization,
Man of State Gaspar van der Heyden, also called Heydanus.
During the government of Emperor Charles V Gaspar van der Heyden
was born in 1530 in Mechelen, between Antwerp and BRUSSELS, as
the son of the noble family of Hainault. Just like the christians
from Your country were convinced of the truth of the norms of
their faith Gaspar must have felt dat convictions are a product
of the cultures giving us our right of existance. From the first
confrontation with the spiritual values of the roman church until
his death in 1586 Heydanus dedicated his whole life on the defense
of the convictions of the inhabitants of our low countries and
became the founder of the Reformed Church of the Netherlands.
Perhaps superfluous to mention that his initiatives caused the
Dutch-Spanish conflict of 1568 till 1648. From 1566 till 1578
Heydanus had his residence here in Middelburg. He was a good friend
of Prince William of Orange and Marnix of Saint Aldegonde, the
writer of our national anthem. On the 12th of June 1575 Gaspar
was a witness at the marriage of Prince William and Princess Charlotte
de Bourbon. A spiritual ancestor of Gaspar van der Heyden was
Erasmus of ROTTERDAM (1465-1536).
He had a very good relationship with Spain. He ever said: "I owe more to Spain than to my allies and which other nation however". The proclamation at that time of the Unity of Religion by the Catholic King and Queen although caused the rejection of his books. Erasmus had manifested himself as the advocate of a dared ideal of religious freedom: he preached an internalized christianity that should abandon dogmas, ceremonies and rules. Between 1522 and 1525 Spanish erasmism was born. After having established Emperor Charles V in Valladolid in 1522 the Spanish philosophers Vergara, Gattinara and Valdés became strongly under the influence of Erasmus. In Spain particularly the erasmian ideas about the law of love and peace found a response. Erasmism reaped its most important triumphs in Alcalá de Henares. In 1525 the printer of Alcalá printed the most important works of Erasmus, like the Enquiridion or the Handbook for the Christian Knight. In 1508 Erasmus already wrote his Praise of Lunacy. In the same city of Alcalá de Henares in the year 1547 the famous writer don Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra was born, just like Heydanus as the son of a noble family. There will not be any doubt that the thoughts of Erasmus have considerably influenced the spirit of don Miguel. From 1559 the Council of the Inquisition forbid the greatest part of the religious works of Erasmus and many erasmists were convicted to prison and even to the stake. In that atmosphere Cervantes - with his critical mind - evidently could not express his erasmian ideas in the open. Although Cervantes lived some time later the power of the Inquisition still remained considerable. Consequently it was very probable that Cervantes exposed his ideas in his Don Quijote under the cover of the lunacy of his main character. A similar idea we also find in the Praise of Lunacy of Erasmus. In this booklet lunacy talks and says: "The truth is hated by kings. But with my lunes it is just so curious, that not only true observations, but even direct terms of abuse are heard at with pleasure; yes, the same declaration produced by the mouth of a wise man, that would have cost him his head, produces, heard from a lune, incredible pleasure." If the personalities that surrounded don Quijote not had held him for a lune, don Quijote would have landed in prison on the first occasion. The erasmism of Cervantes can fairly well derive from a direct approach to and a thorough contemplation on the work of Erasmus, since Cervantes was a pupil of the Madrilan humanist Juan López de Hoyos, who quoted the name of Erasmus in 1569, ten years after the index of inquisitor Valdés. The Praise of Lunacy dealt with universal madness. It was the satyre on the ideals and human illusions. In this booklet Erasmus ridiculized the noble ideals at the time and honoured lunacy. This way he expressed that passion leads to madness, that this madness causes a vital impulse, so much that this could contribute to the progress of the world. This social problem of the end of the fifteenth century we also see reflected in the don Quijote. The passion of don Quijote to read romances of chivalry made him mad and on a certain moment he took the decision, or: he received the vital impulse to travel around the world to attack every injustice, to put right what is wrong and to protect widows and orphans. Cervantes introduced in the Quijote the duality of the most supreme and the ridiculous, that Erasmus had labelled as essential characteristic of lunacy. In the supreme illusion of the madness of don Quijote we find the highest possible ideals of christian humanism, such as charity and inner devotion and still much more which is to be found in the Enquiridion. The Enquiridion was translated in Castillian in 1524 and the success was so great that no other religious book ever had found its equal since the introduction of the art of printing in Spain. It appeared in 1526 with the inquisitorial approval of don Alonso Manrique. In this book Erasmus invited everyone to let to be born in him or herself a new human being. The christian knight, whose ideal image he painted, had to go his way with invulnerable armour, shining in power and faith. He had to ride his horse with open vision and not paying attention on death. The most essential characteristic of christianity was according to Erasmus rule five of the Enquiridion, in which he stated 'that one should pay little attention to all visible matters and how good it is to direct ourselves always to the invisible things". According to Desiderius Erasmus one had to raise from the flesh to the spirit, from the visible to the understandable and to get into practice the ideas of the spirit. Thoughts that have not lost their actual value. We find still more influences of Erasmus in the thoughts of don Miguel, like the pastoral ideal, the moral fantasy, the probability of the fantasies, popular wisdom, the ideal of simpleness and the ethics to be prepared to forgiveness and resignation. Cervantes designed an own vision of the world, based on expressions of people of all parts of society. Cervantes based his vision on the world on what him appeared to be and not on uniform objectivities. Cervantes and Erasmus strengthen themselves for the spontaneous right, a critical attitude against reality, traces of subjectivity, the autonomous use of sense, both concerning secular as sacral matters, the from individual virtue dependant honour and the free will. What is the significance of the situation for nowadays? The free will and freedom of opinion form the basic conditions for the development of the European Union. A new European faith is necessary for our youth and new norms, based on ethics, integrity and human dignity. The Dutch Spanish conflict ended in 1648 with the Treaty of Munster. The contacts between our countries diminished, but many Dutch hispanists remained the contact with Your country and educated many Dutch speaking people to be a teacher in Spanish in the Netherlands, inclusive Belgium. Thanks to their contribution from 1998 Spanish will be accepted officially in the educational system of our country. Exactly 350 years after the Treaty of Munster. At the same time we need to open a labour market for our future pupils.
Majesty,
Your presence here, as the Sovereign who restored democracy in
Spain, is a prove of the strong relationship we have, the coronation
of the ideas of Cervantes, Erasmus and Heydanus and point of departure
for a future fertile collaboration. I hope to meet You in the
year 2000. Thank you very much. "
Vanuit die achtergrond kijk ik naar de STATISTIEK VAN VANDAAG. Gisteren 1758 bezoeken. Verder geen bijzonderheden beste MAAGD: U kunt wat zenuwachtig zijn, maar als u uw verplichtingen serieus neemt komt alles dik in orde. Wijdt u aan het opgedragen werk en denk even niet aan financiële restricties. Geef anderen een goed voorbeeld; dat heeft meer effect dan u denkt. SCHORPIOEN: Laat u niet van de wijs brengen door obstakels. U hebt goede ideeën die u niet moet laten afremmen door ontbrekende fondsen. Bijt uw tijd; er is verandering op til. Bewaar uw goedgeefsheid voor mensen die het echt nodig hebben. Dat is ook keihard nodig. Want ik heb mijn eigen geld nog niet retourontvangen van ASR VERMOGENSBEHEER en gaat de aandacht hierbij uit naar 31 JULI 1998 BAAK À LA CARTE. In dit verband denk ik ook nog aan mijn brief 25 NOVEMBER 1997 EUROPEAN CERVANTES FOUNDATION ON BEHALF OF THE PRINCESS DIANA FUND uit november 1997. "
13: 00 In dit verband gaat de aandacht THANS uit naar BANK CERVANTES BENELUX en CERVANTES ONROEREND GOED.