Various lights are gleaming within Man. and to each of them we must concede its natural right , each may be let to blossom in its way ... These lights are our teachers. not Man himself. Paracelsus. 1493- 154 l On the borders of Egypt, Eth iopia, and Arabia, there are some areas ful l of gold mines from which a lot of gold comes. May people are engaged in prospecting for gold ... In chains they have to work night and day .. . No one cares about their well-being; be they weil or sick and tired. they are always lashed to work with whips until they fall dead. World History by Diodorus, l st century B.C. So I said to them: Whoever wears golden jewe ls shall take them off . They handed the gold to me, 1threw it into the fire and what came out is this calf. 0 T , Exodus 32 ,24 Oh, could Man ban the gold and the infamous greed for it from life' The gold that is vi lified and cursed by the good and that was discovered to turn Man into a criminal. Gaius Plinius Secundus. 23-79 A.D. They enjoyed the gold very much, they grasped for the gold like apes, for they hunger for gold, they search for gold like pigs. Bernardino de Sahagun, The Conquest of Mexi co from an Indian point -of-view, 1529 How high shal l earth increase in worth? They try to pull from deepest mine the god of greed, the prey of time . Oh. if in this peak of visibility they'd dig up matters unfit to see tha t render worthless gold and silver . Caption on the copper engraving „The Miner'' by Christoph Weigel. 1699 After a treatment in baths ond furnaces . the refuse and scrap metal is transformed again in its original purity into that noble metal wh ich is the basis of industrial gold working: the highly refined ster ling gold. „The Book ofThe Gold", 1975 Grave-digger Stole Gold Teeth from Graves Vienna. After a routine control of Viennese shops buying and se lling precious metal. . Austrian daily newspaper. 1987 Just like in the „Gold for lron" campaign in WW 1. he took jewelry and precious metals mainly from women in order to finance armament. The fact that incidentally some statues happened tobe gilded, too. was of no importance to most people. Daily newspaper, August 1990 The gold was se ized in thefts and burglaries in Western states. The ex-minister of the interior, then, personal ly took care of sales in his home country. Daily newspaper, October 1990 - 26 -
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