'Troilism,' Pieczenik?

In one of his very recent YouTube videos, Dr Steve Pieczenik puts out his view about the Katie Hill escapades - with the throw-away observation that as someone who was raised in Europe, he is well-aware of the private, adult behaviors of European people (you know, that they get up to these kinds of antics); and he mentions 'troilism' as the type of thing Hill was involved in.

Well, I think he probably means the French thing 'Troislisme.'  Which is pronounced 'trehwa-lees'm,' and not 'troy-lism,' as Pieczenik keeps saying.

Troilus was a character - a very young man - in Homer's Iliad, who was murdered quite inexcusably by Achilles. There is some vague reference somewhere in literature about inconsolable loss being akin to the loss the family of Troilus felt when he was killed. 

Glittering magical mysteries in the dark...

The Shakespeare play 'Troilus and Cressida' is not at all well-understood even by the highest Oxford scholars, fundamentally because even the ancient Greek story is 'obscured' deliberately to kept its lessons from being understood by those not considered 'initiated...' In other words, it forms part of the 'Mystery religion' cult rites, sometimes also called 'the Rites of Orpheus' or the Eleusinian Mysteries. The Eleusinian Mysteries have their place in the Christian Gospel incident of the demons being allowed to enter into a herd of pigs - that then rushed headlong over a cliff and into the raging sea and rocks beneath.

Last week's resignation of Representative Katie Hill is capable of being termed 'Troi-lism' on account of the fact that her husband did watch her participate in some amatory carryings-on with another young woman (Troilus was forced by Ulysses to watch his betrothed Cressida flirt with Diomedes). However Dr Pieczenik never explains that this is what he means by employing the term: on the other hand I believe he is slightly misleading in that he mentions European 'Menage a trois' (three people in one romantic relationship), and appears to conjoin the two ideas. But let's anyway grant that his main point was not concerned with what the thing occurring actually was, or what the term for it ought to be - but that Hill was compromised more by the goings-on happening on government time, and perhaps also 'with government employees.'

That's the world's greatest modern living fashion designer,
on the left there - the French Julien Fournie.
I give you gold, don't I, Pieczenik? Even you, get the gold, from le moi, my friend.

'Troislisme' is simply just three lovers being involved together with full knowledge of each of them; it contains no undercurrent of misadventure or corrupt purpose in terms of 'leverage,' let's say (IE Achilles was forced - or tricked/seduced - into the war by his own ego being challenged by Troilus; Troilus is a noble figure in the story). 

But the story of 'Troilus' cannot be understand except only by the most highly enlightened on some fairly 'dark and obscure spiritual understandings...'

You see - Diomedes never died. He was 'favored,' to put it mildly, by Athena, and eventually in the Homeric narrative, attains Mount Olympus where he lives eternally. So it could not have been that Cressida did wrong when flirting with a divine being. Regardless of that she had an Earthly lover. And therefore both Achilles AND Troilus had jumped to incorrect conclusions. 

Fournie's work - on the actress Audrey Fleurot;
his 'usual' catwalk girls are rubbish - you need to see his
work on, or with, actual clients. It's brilliant.

'Jumping to incorrect conclusions' is partly the 'moral of the story' but as far as the Eleusinian Mystery part - well, I'm not going to tell you because it is a 'mystery' but all the Oxford scholars slander the truth by always saying 'the experiences (of the Mysteries) came from psychedelic drugs.' What 'psychedelic drugs?!' 

In fact there is so much nonsense written even in esteemed academic literature about the Eleusinian Mysteries that one wonders why they are so intent on deceiving - and frankly, to me it has the feel not so much of deceiving but innue that they don't really know, and so they are lying to feign as if they do know. 

I mean one could hardly be more obvious about it when they insist in translating Telesterion as 'Hall of Initiation' or 'Completion!!' I mean the word obviously, to any Greek speaker means a place of transporting to some far distant place - like a portal or in our modern era an airport. Literally it means 'to carry you far way.' What TF has that got to do with 'initiation?'

And there's never been any discoveries about any kind of psychotropic substance in the 'kalathos' and the idea that pennyroyal (which has been found in these lidded baskets) has psychedelic effects is laughable. 

No. The Eleusianian Mysteries are about transport to another 'world' and the rites were passed on to high-born young women (Parthenoia) so that they could protect themselves by knowing how to incapacitate people who conspired against them, but also to assist in the physical 'birthing' of spirit beings of particular types during ordinary childbirth, and how to transport that person during death: 'Eileithyia' being the patroness of the Eleusianian Mysteries. And 'mystery' in any case, coming from the pre-Egyptian, likely Sumerian 'Mes' which are similar to the Golden Sutras idea in the Vedas, being the several dozen 'words of power' that were benefactions to the human race when it was first installed in the planet.  

The German poet Schiller was an initiate. 

And here is a modern German band called 'Schiller' whose music is put to the lyrics derived from some of the poet Schiller's work, and re-created in a modern idiom by Xavier Naidoo - and whose work is instructive in the way that all great art is:

'Sehnsucht' means a great longing.