World Wars erasure theory
The World Wars erasure theory is a teaching of the Founder of the Helian Way that the First and Second World Wars erased the last remnants of the older world described in Modernism as rupture (Helian theory): its buildings, archives, institutions and living memory.[1]
The Helian theory
Tradition / belief The theory holds that the destruction of the world wars was not only a human catastrophe but the end of continuity with the old world, and that what was lost must now be rebuilt from surviving evidence.[1] It connects with the Founder's quantum view that evidence can be "rebuilt backward along the timeline" (Multiple realities (Helian theory)) and with the Church's duty to keep records in many places.[2]
Mainstream view
Established The world wars destroyed a very large part of Europe's and Asia's cultural heritage. Documented losses include the burning of the University Library of Leuven in 1914 and again in 1940; the bombing of the abbey of Monte Cassino in 1944; the deliberate destruction of Warsaw's archives and old town in 1944; and the Nazi looting of art and libraries across occupied Europe.[3] Established These losses led to the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.[4] Speculation Historians find no evidence that the wars were waged, or their destruction directed, in order to erase a hidden earlier civilisation. The destruction is explained by the strategy and ideology of the combatants, and is extensively documented in the surviving record. See Suppressed knowledge claims and Library of Alexandria for comparable claims.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Founder's teaching as summarised by Anthony Perlas for this wiki (13 October 2026), from his "Lunch Break" talks. Public recordings of these talks had not been located for citation when this page was written; no wording is quoted from them. See Founder's public talks.
- ↑ Helian Catechism, Version 3 (draft, 4 October 2026), ¶ 173.
- ↑ Lynn H. Nicholas, The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (New York: Knopf, 1994); Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Die Bibliothek von Löwen (Munich: Hanser, 1988); Robert Bevan, The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War (London: Reaktion, 2006).
- ↑ UNESCO, Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (The Hague, 14 May 1954), https://www.unesco.org/en/heritage-armed-conflicts
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