Is there a Santa?

We started by reiterating that we were not going to give away the ending of The Magus. Dr. Sexson did however give us a translation of the Latin at the end: "May those who have loved, love again tomorrow. May those who have not loved, find love tomorrow." I may not be exact with that one, because we kept going. We have an assignment to blog about a specific paragraph in The Magus, a deep discussion about said paragraph. We went over the three parts of the mythological journey (separation, initiation, and return/transformation). We mentioned that one can go up (like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz), or down (like Alice in Wonderland). We mentioned also the story of Orpheus whose wife died from a snake bite at their wedding. Orpheus went into the Underworld, and played his music (he was amazing), and Hades allowed Orpheus to take his wife back. I didn't get the wife's name written down. This lead to a mentioning of Truly, Madly, Deeply, which is a movie where the husband dies, and either he doesn't want to leave her, or the wife doesn't want him to be gone. He ends up a ghost either way, and discovers other ghosts who are threatening the wife, so he must pass on in order for her to be safe. We mentioned a piece of poetry "Until the Fire and the Rose are One", or at least you can find it that way. We spoke about how at the end of The Magus we see that the guy needs to be changed, and not the other way around. I have written that I don't like Urfe because he's an idiot, and for no other reason. We mentioned "Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus", and The Painted Veil. We then watched a YouTube clip from Peter Brooks movie adaptation of Mahabharuta (please check the spelling before using that), the specific scene where Krishnu is speaking to this prince and states what he is. It states the essence of wisdom. This lead to the Oppenheimer quote when the atomic bomb was being tested: "I am become death destroyer of worlds" which comes from the Krishnu speech. When we weren't covering this we were telling stories of how we lost our belief in Santa. There were some great stories (including revenge by telling younger siblings). Catching them red-handed is always amusing as well. However I have (though I lost Santa 11 years ago) proof that there is in fact a Santa:

This is from an episode of Granada's Sherlock Holmes series. It's actually Mycroft Holmes (the older brother of Sherlock) creeping on an English Lord he suspects of stealing a precious gem. The episode is called "The Mazarin Stone" it's on YouTube if you want to check it out.