The Sign

"Thomas Münzer led a group of about 8000 peasants at the battle of Frankenhausen (15 May 1525) their flags and ensigns bore rainbows. Then as he rallied them to battle an actual rainbow appeared in the sky. Taken as a propitious sign of a revolutionary covenant of deliverance from oppression, it did not prevent utter defeat in battle that day. Under torture he confessed that he believed that omnia sunt communia, all things are in common. The rainbow remained the image and symbol of the commons and human equality, if not the causal sign of divine intervention."

The rainbow could serve as a symbol for a new communist movement of the Free Spirit that involves sharing everything in common, a new covenant with God and sexual liberty, putting an end to the antagonism between them, completing the unfinished reformation. The abolition of worldly power and privilege; radical mercy, truth, fearless love; the erasure of shame, guilt and anxiety.