Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
"Finally, in his short book regarding scriptural interpretation, Johann Gerhard goes so far as to employ the aid of occult Hermetic philosophy, something that had become popular during the Renaissance. He uses a series of quotations from the Corpus Hermeticum to show that even pagan occult philosophy agrees with the Bible that spiritual understanding could only come by way of illumination and purification of the mind. Regarding this last extremely odd philosophical appropriation, it should be observed that Gerhard believed that Hermes Trismegistus was not only a real person, but a contemporary of Moses, from whom he gleaned his ideas about spiritual illumination."
- ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐ '๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฉ๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
- ๐ฑ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐๐๐ '๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐'๐ ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐, ๐ฉ๐ ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
โโฆ Faust is the most recent pillar in that bridge of the spirit which spans the morass of world history, beginning with the Gilgamesh epic, the I Ching, the Upanishads, the Tao-te-Ching, the fragments of Heraclitus, and continuing in the Gospel of St. John, the letters of St. Paul, in Meister Eckhart and in Danteโฆ.โ - Carl Jung's โLetter to Max Rychner,โ 28 February 1932; Letters I, 88-89.