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How The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests Uncovered Ancients Texts

Why Tiananmen Square Will Be Remembered as the First Defining Moment of the Information Age

Marshall Masters, July 2006

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters made history when they forced the injustices of a repressive government into the global limelight. Not only did they give new freedom to an ancient culture, their courage also triggered the publication of millennia-old wisdom texts for the benefit of all humankind.  One such text is called The Kolbrin Bible.

Mention Tiananmen Square today, and it may not ring a bell at first. If so, just describe the picture of that courageous young man who stopped a column of Red Army tanks for over half an hour, and it will click.  This is because this "Kodak moment" of courage is the defining image of the information age.  A time when the most repressive and brutal regime in the world at that time could not seal the hemorrhage of phone calls, faxes, simple e-mail messages and message board posts to the outside world from protesters and sympathizers. Thanks to their efforts, the atrocities of a brutal communist government were subsequently exposed to the world, and it was deeply humiliated. 

In a very real sense, Tiananmen Square was the electronic pen of the new Information Age and it was mightier than the repressive sword of a brutal government.  Not because it was wielded by a "prestigious" world body or by a "powerful" global power, but rather, by a relatively small band of students, intellectuals and labor activists with the guts to peacefully confront their own government.  Sadly, their grievances were answered with a horrible massacre and the organizers will be forever haunted by the lives lost.  Yet, future historians shall lovingly remember them with enduring reverence.  Why?

Like the fresh water that encourages a seedling to find the light, Tiananmen Square redefined human communication as it left its mark. In the process, it also defined a new context for the news reports we saw on our televisions each night, about the fall of the Soviet empire and about a new technological wonder called the Internet.

Today, most regard the Internet as a convenient information and communication tool.  Yet how many of us truly appreciate it's "other" power? Its inherent ability to unleash vital human knowledge from the bonds of repression.  This is a hidden blessing of the Information Age and the Internet.  

Case in point is The Kolbrin Bible.  This ancient wisdom text was targeted by English King Henry II for destruction 1184 when he initiated a murderous arson attack on the Glastonbury Abbey. After the attack, the surviving Celtic priests recovered what remained of the texts and fled to Scotland.

Had King Henry II been successful, the result would have been a loss for humankind no less significant than the destruction of the Library of Alexandria by the Roman Empire.  This is because the first parts of The Kolbrin Bible were written by Egyptian academics even as Moses was leading the Jews through the Sinai following the Exodus. Originally penned in an old Egyptian hieratic, this massive work was later translated by the Phoenicians into their own 22-letter alphabet, which later became the root of the English alphabet.

The Phoenicians plied the seas between their home port in modern day Lebanon and the tin mines of Britain and carried a copy of the text to Britain where it was embraced by the Celts.  In it, they found historical accounts and prophecy similar to their own Druid folklore.  Following the death of Jesus, they were inspired to write the later parts of The Kolbrin Bible in the old Celtic language.

Ever mindful of the need to protect this ancient manuscript from an English monarchy as brutal as any Chinese communist cabal, the Celts kept the manuscripts in hiding for centuries. Eventually the texts were translated into continental English by succeeding generations of secretive caretakers, who patiently awaited the arrival of the "right" moment in time when it could be shared with the world.

That "right" moment came in 1989 thanks to the courage of the Tiananmen Square protesters. Their courage also sped the fall of the morally corrupt Soviet empire, interest in the newly-invented Internet and something else that has been long overdue. Knowledge caretakers no longer labor need to labor anonymously, under the threat of political or religious repression.  Thanks in part to the courage of the Tiananmen Square protesters, these knowledge caretakers can now share their texts more easily and safely than ever before in the history of humankind.

Thus inspired, the Hope Trust of England, the last known caretakers of The Kolbrin Bible knew the time had come to gift this ancient work to the world.  In 1992 a senior member of the trust began distributing copies of The Kolbrin Bible.  Today, it is available on the Internet and can be purchased in any bookstore in the Western world.

Let there be no doubt about it.  Tiananmen Square was a defining watershed event for the Information Age.  As such, it is gift to human knowledge that will keep on giving for generations to come.  We can only hope that those brave souls who sacrificed so much in those heady days of 1989 will know all they've done for humanity, for they have done so very much.