Powerful story. Western civilization will unify against these facist Jihadis or be subjegated and ultimately snuffed out. Laws, borders and morality mean nothing to these killing machines.
We're not going to die. YOU ARE.
This Van Gogh doesn't seem to have been the sort of fellow we'd like to have in our civilization anyway ~ a second front to the conflict with the Moslems perhaps?
There could be a lot more to this than a mere war on civilizations. Here's something of interest found from the USENET:
From the Presages of Lynette:
#5
Out of Mirkwood the Necromancer is purged,
But retreat, forseen, had been planned for long.
The stroke was too late, the Shadow has resurged,
Beyond the Sea of Rhun, where they speak in song.
#8
A medieval sage wrote: the world would be smaller around,
That there would be travel by sky, by sea and over ground,
That in a land long inhabited without a fight,
The wars would resume with new vigor and might.
Vanquished between Hammer & Sickle, Stripes & Stars,
Skies filled with planes, seas & roads with ships & cars.
From behind the Crooked Cross, the Shadow passed out of sight.
But under the Crooked Crescent, it returns for a new fight.
#13
A medieval sage wrote:
a great English empire would come to be,
For over 300 years would its power last.
Its armies would cross by land and by sea.
Lusitania would not be pleased when this had passed.
In the land between rivers shall arise a new state,
It will grow into a new Caliphate.
For over 300 years will its power last.
But the Shadow won't be pleased when this has passed.
#3
A medieval sage wrote:
that in the year 1999, the month of July,
The great King of Terror would descend from the sky.
But under the watchful vigilance of a world in wait,
The future was postponed over two years beyond its date.
From the fires of a great war was forged the Rule by Five.
Many years have passed, and it continues to survive.
But the Shadow of the great King of Terror heeds no state.
The Old World Order makes war with its new religion of hate.
#4
In a time when Venus shall eclipse Mars,
A great yearning will awaken to reach the stars.
A Green Tide shall sweep over the lands,
Where today there is nothing but desert sands.
#11
Revived in the New World were the legions of Rome,
Who sought to make the world its new home.
The son of its chief shall be the last man to command,
But there will be more after him to rule the land.
My interpretation on #5 & #4:
Mirkwood is the Tolkienesque metaphor for Afghanistan, "speak in song" undoubtedly refers to tonal languages, the "Sea of Rhun" is far to the east in the Tolkien world. In that light, that makes #13 particularly interesting and revealing...
#4 is almost certainly not an astrological reference, but a reference to the symbols for Venus & Mars which are also, respectively, the female and male gender icons. That makes #11 particularly of interest.