…you how to be a human being it does not give you the rich information that comes through reading the classics. You know Plato, Goethe, Shakespeare Oh what do we want with that? You know what's the relevance, you know the term, and all this came in the…

…who understood symbols, the symbolic sense of the imagery of the Christian Tradition. For Thomas Mann, the great people were Goethe, Who's just inexhaustible with this stuff, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche then I also ran into Spengler the decline of the west and…

…wasn't the only one. And then when Darwin brings out in the middle of the 19th century what was already a rather old theory Goethe has it and others of the evolution of life it was contrary to the idea of fixed species and again this thing well, the…

…this is an inevitable consequence of the last imperialistic stage of a culture. Rome faced the same thing. Virgil deals with this and Goethe Foresaw it in the Faust in the last act of part two of Faust He's in this period where ground rooted people are…

…are men who understood the symbolic sense of the imagery of the Christian Tradition. For Tobias Mann, the great people were Goethe, Who's just inexhaustible with this stuff, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Then I also ran into Spengler, the decline of the west…

…this is an inevitable consequence of the last imperialistic stage of a culture. Rome faced the same thing. Virgil deals with this and Goethe Foresaw it in the Faust in the last act of part two of Faust He's in this period where ground rooted people are…

…wasn't the only one. And then when Darwin brings out in the middle of the 19th century what was already a rather old theory Goethe has it and others of the evolution of life it was contrary to the idea of fixed species and again this thing. Well, the…

…myth this is Hermes Mercury. In Egyptian usually Toth, the ibis god the baboon god. In Christian, the holy ghost. Goethe presents the masculine guide in Faust as mephistopheles. And not infrequently the dangerous aspect of the mercurial figure is stressed,…

…comes the depth psychology, which was simply restating what had already been stated by Nietzsche and Schopenhauer and before that Goethe, that there is a spirit within which moves things and the outer apparitions are causally explained perhaps but there's a…

…and is resurrected they're all associated with lunar powers. And then in India You're in a tropical zone, a jungle zone, and as Goethe says when he talks about the Shakuntala there you have the blossom and the fruit at the same time. Time seems to be…

…it in yourself too the word in yourself where do you find it if you don't find it in well yourself? Goethe says: all things are metaphors. Alles vergängliche ist nur ein gleichnis everything that's transitory is but a metaphorical reference. That's what…