Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
"Finally, in his short book regarding noscriptural 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."
- 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅'𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒔 𝑨𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒔'𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒔, 𝑩𝒚 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆
- 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒏 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅'𝒔 𝑹𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒔 𝑨𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒔'𝒔 𝑨𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒂 𝑬𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒔, 𝑩𝒚 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑲𝒊𝒍𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆
Forwarded from Ghost of de Maistre
“… 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 Dante….” - Carl Jung's “Letter to Max Rychner,” 28 February 1932; Letters I, 88-89.