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The feminine principle – lV
In previous posts on the feminine principle we noted that, in Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, Life was linked with desire, and Love with death, and further that man can be redeemed only by and through woman. The theme in … Continue reading
Posted in Mysticism, spirituality
Tagged Beauty, darkness, death, desire, knowledge, language, life, light, Love, sacrifice, sexsual desire, Spirit, sufism, symbolism, transcending, woman
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Tristan and Isolde (the feminine principle) – lll
In the last post we quoted Wagner (“What Destiny separated in life emerges as life transfigured by death”), noting how his real spiritual aspirations, his actual yearning despite his failings in the ethical and moral sphere, have been either by-passed … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, Poemas/cuentos, spirituality
Tagged artistic creation, Beauty, ego, Immortality, spirituality, surrender, the Self, transformation
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Tristan and Isolde (expanded)
Tristan und Isolde Liebestod – ‘love death’ – is the central theme in Wagner’s opera with that title. A theme that reverberated through European culture from the time of the Romantic revolution – especially German Romanticism (Fichte, Schelling, etc.) – … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, ego, experience, Immortality, Isolde, life, Love, realization, surrender, Tristan, Wagner
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Opinions/Passion/Beauty
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain, therefore, awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. Plato I know full … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy, Poemas/cuentos, spirituality
Tagged Beauty, passion and good counsel, poetry and music, present opinions
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Life is purposeless (Jean Klein)
“Where there’s an ego there is purpose. And when there is no sense of “I” there is no purpose. Life is purposeless. There’s only beauty in living in the eternal. If you believe you are the individual “I” you are … Continue reading
The Beauty of Creation
Traveling through the creation, the virtuous man is led to the apprehension of a Master of the creation; . . . when he observes the beauty of this material sunlight, he grasps by analogy the beauty of the real sunlight. … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, Creation, religion, spirituality, St. Gregory of Nissa
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Unanimous Tradition / Tradición Unánime 