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Hello. I'm happy to be here again, while the love of Yami no Yugi and Yu-Gi-Oh! is still within me. It's a long time that I'm in the path of that love, and as long as a lover feels his love, that love deserves to be cherished. I'm here because here are my partners to that love. And that love motivated me to see and find in Yu-Gi-Oh! a thought and ideas that deals with the condition of man and the world and in the struggle between light and darkness, and its place in our lives and our time.

The principles and ideas that are expressed in the Orichalcos Saga are some of the best of the thought of "Yu-Gi-Oh!". I hope to start the introduction with that saga through a dialogue between Yami no Yugi and Rafael in episode 157:
Rafael says Yami can't defeat him, because Doma has a strength that Yami doesn't have. It's the strength to admit the darkness of the heart. Rafael says that darkness exists inside one's heart, just as light does. If the world is in balance, light and darkness exist on both sides. If Yami is bound to the heart's light, Doma is bound to the heart's darkness. Darkness always surpasses the light. It lies in the depths of despair, so deep that it's impossible to find. Rafael says that Doma's sorrow and despair is deeper than any other's.
Yami says Rafael is wrong. Revenge and destruction—what will become of the world if that's all there is? There would be nothing but vanity.
Rafael says: "You're right. I think only vanity will exist if we can't insist. But... what will it be if vanity doesn't exist, then?". Rafael says he'll tell Yami the real purpose of Doma—it's to set human history back to zero.
Yami is horrified.
That dialogue expresses the struggle between light and darkness that's in the Orichalcos Saga: the dark defines its goal and its essence as "vanity", says that it express itself as the despair and emptiness within a person's mind and aspires to bring the world to voidness; from the other side, it is told here about the balance that exists in the world between light and darkness, but it is possible to conclude from Rafael's words that in the Orichalcos Saga (and also in our time and in this world, as I hope to write later), the time has come to an absolute struggle between light and darkness, in which the purpose is "to destroy the darkness on this planet", as Yami no Yugi says later in the Orichalcos Saga.

The despair that is mentioned in the previous paragraph is an amotion that its origin is in weakening of an emotional connection of a person with something that have importance in that person's eyes and a bad feeling that that connection (or its fulfillment) has no hope and expectancy. Such a connection is an inner alliance or friendship of the person with the object of the connection, that can be an idea, a thought, a principle, an item, or another person (in the case of the last, the friendship is also exterior). Such friendship is the one that is mentioned many times in the Orichalcos Saga as something in which the struggle of Yami no Yugi and his companions supports and/or as something that supports that struggle.

Such friendships are in the essence of a person's thought and they are in the basis of a person's ability to feel and to experience. While Doma aspires to emptiness and claims that such friendships has no hope and expectancy, Yami no Yugi conducts a struggle against Doma and darkness and for the sake of such friendships. That struggle concerns all of us: our lives are moving in this game between the positive and the negative, in a battlefield that its general description can be summarized with a few basic terms; those terms are describing the motives and essences of our experiences and our thoughts in life.

In our generation, there is one struggle of that kind that has become more important than ever. It is the human aspiration to spirituality, in front of which stands the greatest paradox and crisis that can be. The darkness and despair that surround every person who has a spiritual aspiration, and that contradict that aspiration by that that they force on him the mortal nature of this world and prevent him from seeing even as little as a trace of the spiritual dimension and existence to which he desire, are the severest hit at the most essential friendship of a person, at the mother of all friendships: the experience of the pneumatic, absolute and infinite origin.

Therefore, this generation, which is the generation that have seen the struggles of Yami no Yugi and his thought and philosophy, is the generation that in their inspiration should go to a similar struggle, against darkness, and in order to open a door to the light and to immortality; and may we shall receive inspiration from the words of Yami no Yugi to the captives who were inside the Orichalcos god: "Within us, there's an everlasting sense of readiness to train our companions, a container that holds our memories. It doesn't matter how many times we ourselves are damaged. As long as we believe in that container, we can live again and again, forever in it. We can stroll under the light in our heart at any time.".

































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