Walter wrote:
> > die Schere von E. Jünger > > 2 > > > > Die Kulte können nicht ohne Bilder bestehen. Selbst in der Wüste muß zum > > mindesten ein Stein gesetzt werden. Dort ist etwas geschehen, dessen > > wird gedacht. Vielleicht fiel ein Meteor vom Himmel, oder es ist nur ein > > Gerücht. Dann wirkt das Gerücht stärker als die Tatsache. > > Die Bilder sind das Urgestein der Kulte; sie leben länger als die > > Götter, zu deren Ehren sie errichtet worden sind. Wir stehen vor einer > > Statue, die aus dem Schutt geborgen wurde, und fühlen: Hier muß ein Gott > > gewesen sein. Obwohl wir weder das Heiligtum noch seinen Namen kennen, > > berührt uns ein verborgener Sinn, der auch dem Künstler selbst > > verschlossen war. Im Kunstwerk lebt ein Glaube, der jedes Dogma > > überwährt. > > 2 > Cults can't persist without images. Even in the desert at least a stone > has to be put up. Something took place, is memorated. Maybe a meteor > dropped from heaven or it is just a rumour. Then the rumour works > stronger than the fact. > Images are the primordial rocks of the cults, they outlive the gods to whose > honour they were errected. We stand in front of a statue drawn from rubble > and feel: a god must have been present here. Though we neither know > this sanctuary nor its name, we are touched by a hidden sense, which > was also concealed from the artist himself. There lives a belief in a work of > art that outlasts any dogma. > ****** What do we have here? Art and Religion are inseperable in the life of man. That is real art and real religion. We are talking about more than just life and liberty, which are indeed important. Much more we are talking about the essence of man himself. He worships and creates. "In dieser Hinsicht betrachtet...." And what is just thrown together is simply fashion, which will not remain because of it lack of conection with the real. "Daher erschöpfen sich im alltäglichen die Mode..." The state of modern Art today is a good example. Ezra Pound said it well in Canto XLV, "no picture is made to endure nor live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly." "Wo bilder fallen..." That is all of the images and cults, which have fallen await the new image/revelation/idea. Somthing will replace them otherwise we are threatend with loss. Nihilism! This is "die neue Erscheinung", which I mentioned in another Post. What we can be sure of, is that this book is about metaphysics, the ultimate nature of existence, reality and experience. And then he dives rapidly into one of his favorite subjects, which is Fate. Man as his own Autobiographer, but at the same time bound by fate. One of the great enigmas of our existence."-und dieses Pfund ist vorgegeben, schon ehe er das Licht der Welt erblickt." Quite clearly Fate speaking here. Die Schere for those who haven't picked it up yet, is the Schere of the Norns, the three goddesses of fate. Who by the way also control the fates of the gods themselves and of course man. Just some additions. Greetings. Abdalbarr.
