A new light in the sky of thought appears in the form Spuras Martin, who with his brilliant debut The victim refused of Prometheus, a groundbreaking contribution to the interpretation of mythical images of thought and intellectual history of the West does.
Spura is making in his book nothing less than a reconstruction of the crossroads and breaks in the development of consciousness of the West, which opens in a clear, formulated philosophical perspective, like the present humanity can get out of the impasses in which it has fallen by this development. Central to his investigation, which borrowed as much to the conceptual language of Heidegger as the thought forms of anthroposophy, a philosophical meditation is about the nature of sacrifice and myth. Spura developed a completely new shape - like new in comparison with the approaches of other mythographers 20th Century - the myth to think, which is neither symbolic nor naturalistic, but simply spiritual. The myth is an image of the real story. This story is primarily spiritual and consciousness story. The images of myth, whose meaning he entbirgt describe this very spirit and history of consciousness and embrace a period of millennia. They reach far back in time without writing and have the same degree imminent future of humanity. They relate as much our present. They contain not only information about the history of humanity as a collective, but also descriptions of mental processes that took place in each individual and still play.
is not only the myth thus receives a whole new meaning - which in truth only his forgotten is old, eternal - but also the revealed religions, especially Christianity, which can be thought of as a necessary consequence of the developments described by the myth. The truth of Christianity can be thought , as well as the truth of the myth. They are not mutually opposed. They are also not opposed to philosophy. Rather, the philosophy is to turn its back end to the myth, in order to have it a revival. What the geniuses of the German Frühidealismus have formulated a program will be redeemed by Spura possible in a broad sense, that philosophy must be re-mythology, while retaining the clarity of the concept and the rational form.
All of Spura studied myths describe the relations of men to the gods and the changes of these relations. The emergence of the rational mind, philosophy and science two and a half millennia is the result of actions of the gods, who initiated those enormous change in the consciousness of Western man, by which they were drowned himself: by which they vanished gradually from the consciousness of humanity, to live on in the unconscious depths of human souls. Not only in the Greek myth goes Spura the certificates of these upheavals, but also in Germanic. The story of Prometheus, the fate of Tantalus, the Demeter and Persephone, of Apollo and Dionysus, the Edda, the Nibelungen, Beowulf and Parzival make each of different points of the same operations or specific aspects of these processes dar. Prometheus brought the humanity that the light of consciousness and Sciences and entbarg in this way beings, he covered both the gods - the being - from the people. In the figures of Dionysus and Apollo, in the fortunes of Demeter and Persephone, of Orestes and Iphigenia was preparing to overcome before the awareness of these historical episodes Prometheustat. The captive in the Caucasus and the hope of the Pandora experience a new and profound light. The fate of Baldur and tell the tales of the twilight of the gods, albeit from a different perspective, from the advent of the rational, conceptual view of the world and the possibilities of overcoming them.
testified in a very different kind of Job, the relationship of man to God. His assurance of salvation and his confidence that his redeemer lives, represent a major step in the development of knowledge of the people of God and of himself dar. appears in it from the history of Judaism, a burgeoning relationship of humanity to the wisdom, to Sophia, which can only develop in the coming year with the involvement of thousands of real historical consequences of the Incarnation.
The alchemy of the Middle Ages and the "Aurora Consurgens of Thomas' Aquinas Spura obtained by a unique depth of interpretation, which is proving its relevance to the present, finally, the Rosicrucian mystery and the Isis-Osiris-Horus myth, which is reflected in the immediate present.
The impending transformation of Western consciousness is to win but not without a confrontation with evil. In many forms of the myth speaks of the evil that prevails in the deep layers of being and the human soul, and in modern times, especially in the presence of a new phenomenon takes shape. With impressive precision and clarity Spura characterizes the configurations of this man- created evil in the end are united international scientific rationality and the sham real structures of a second nature, which becomes detached from their producers in the technomorphic layers of existence. What in the realms of technical artifacts in the cyber world and the global information systems is taking shape is a specifically modern manifestation of evil that threatens the people in their being. While the man in the image of the divine archetype, the potential inside her, by returning to the divine wisdom and love, the gap between itself and its origin to overcome, tears in the "images of images of a new ontological shift" going on by humans, which threatens to drag him with her into an abyss of illusion and death, from which there is no escape. Spura offers in his analysis, a myth fed by the philosophy of technology, which relates to Heidegger, but far extends beyond it. This is also the place where he dealt with the temptations and aberrations Sloterdijk and his praise of self-modeling technomorphic of man.
out the future path of the West through the redemption of evil. Only the integration of the shadow figures that have emerged out of a man whose transformation through love, will also deliver the forged in the Caucasus Western intellect. The ratio must be life-destroying love to be redeemed, the powers of the heart must be included in the intellect, the thinking has to verchristlichen when the threat of Apocalypse is to be averted. Finally, throw
Spuras analysis, a completely new light on the greatest crimes of the 20th Century, the Holocaust, the Nazis and communism. Impressively, he argues that the deeper will of Nazism and communism, the totalitarian will, which alienated the people being and propels him into the sacrifice of others, is by no means overcome. The dehumanizing political religions of the 20th Century, which brought hecatombs victim to self to get in power, from the oblivion of being and the denial emerged of self-sacrifice, they continue to dominate in metamorphosed form the companies that allegedly emerged from overcoming them. Economism, consumerism and technocracy, which have taken the place of the totalitarian systems are based, and also to the oblivion of being and the denial of self-sacrifice as that. The danger that threatens us is, however, much harder to detect because it is obscured by illusions. In the re-emergence of eugenics and medical practice of selection is becoming apparent that the repressed and seemingly vanquished returns.
Humanity stands at a crossroads. Either way it sets the continued refusal of the victim, or it is able to align themselves with the models, a different kind of myth. He tells of the search for the divine Sophia, the love that redeems the evil. He tells of the voluntary adoption and transformation of the shadow of the death and resurrection, which can result from the abandonment of the already fleeting. He tells of how the fire of the heart saved the intellect of the people and the gods themselves alienated. The myth will be considered. He is not a vanquished stage of development, but the continued flowing source of being, from which we draw our life. He is concerned, it can us not fall back into a world of the irrational, but just keep us from such a relapse, which is that we succumb to the unexposed myths of rationalism. This promises us the Promethean light of knowledge, without the redeeming and reconciling love of Persephone. He wants us to believe in this light alone lies our salvation. That is not true, this already shows the fate of Tantalus.
Lorenzo Ravagli
Martin Spura, refused the sacrifice of Prometheus: The Ariadne thread of Western intellectual development
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