tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post114267093152190049..comments2024-03-07T12:57:35.296-05:00Comments on Varieties of Unreligious Experience: On academiaConrad H. Rothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-51828306304057624842007-02-05T11:29:00.000-05:002007-02-05T11:29:00.000-05:00I will dedicate a posting with one or more picture...I will dedicate a posting with one or more pictures to illustrate biblical origins of alchemy on my blog.<br /><br />As for Goethe, as contradictory as the Bible sometimes:<br /><br />"In der Beschränkung zeigt sich der Meister" (The Master is identified by his restriction) is also one of his statements. <br /><br />He wrote much about a lot of subjects, but within each subject/theme/work every word has a sense and almost nothing is redundant.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08731308036195016808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-36065789007633838682007-02-04T17:31:00.000-05:002007-02-04T17:31:00.000-05:00i like your blog.i like your blog.anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13151593642095875498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-31549517892268065472007-02-04T17:26:00.000-05:002007-02-04T17:26:00.000-05:00Thanks, CP. Erik, yes; I have Jung's book of essay...Thanks, CP. Erik, yes; I have Jung's book of essays on alchemy. It is an interesting subject, as you say, more of a symbolic language than a science. Have you read Keith Thomas' <em>Religion and the Decline of Magic</em>? It talks about exactly these sorts of issues. What parts of the Bible are you referring to, by the way?<br /><br />As for Goethe:<br /><br />"A man should not restrict himself to one thing, for then he will become mad; rather he should have a thousand things, a confusion in his head." Appropriate, don't you think?Conrad H. Rothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01916542057749474124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-92228713363063880292007-02-04T15:35:00.000-05:002007-02-04T15:35:00.000-05:00Dear Sir,
if I may say so, is it not too much as...Dear Sir, <br /><br />if I may say so, is it not too much asked if, when your business and thoughts allow you to do so, you would be so kind to give an English translation of the advice given to Goethe as appearing in your blog's heading? I, and I presume not only I, would be very much obliged in their appreciation of this wish's fulfillment.<br /><br />Sincerely yours,<br /><br />Erik. :-)Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08731308036195016808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-91894602352851130552007-02-04T15:25:00.000-05:002007-02-04T15:25:00.000-05:00Thank you for this alchemist post. What I learned ...Thank you for this alchemist post. What I learned about alchemy is that it was of course rejected and despised by official church doctrine, and subject to much mockery, but when you read C.G. Jung on it and Goethes' Faust part II, one gets curious. I think it was an attempt to gain spiritual insight in supernatural, religious reality outside the official written words of Holy Scriptures. Remnants of alchemy one can find in Freemasonry and Rose Cross Orders and I think some parts of the Bible itself gave rise to its emergence in early Middle Ages. In the 18th century alchemy passed away because of the rise of science, which impeded symbolic treatment of chemical processes (same process as if you rationally explain a good poem, as so often teachers and "textbooks" do Secondary Schools)Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08731308036195016808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20433842.post-78777543504478970832007-02-04T10:25:00.000-05:002007-02-04T10:25:00.000-05:00Hi,
Congratulations on becoming a Blog of Note. ...Hi,<br /><br />Congratulations on becoming a Blog of Note. Well done.<br /><br />Regards,<br />CoralCoralPoetryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11562277129959477435noreply@blogger.com