Dear At,
I thought you'd like to read this that seems to speak of the whole,
" A thousand threads one treadle throws
Where fly the shuttle hither thither,
Unseen the threads are knit together
And an infinite combination grows."
Goethe, Faust, Part 1, sc. 4)
We know ;-) that Goethe was a self professed prattler, and advising..."To see
things as well as we can, to note them down in our memory, to be observant
and not to let a day pass without garnering something; and then to apply
ourselves to those branches of knowledge which give a certain direction to
our thinking, to compare things, to put everything in its right place and
assess its value - a true philosophy, I mean, and a sound mathesis this is
what we have to do now. In doing it we must BE (Goethe's emphasis) nothing,
but try to BECOME everything, and in particular we must not rest and relax
more often than the needs of a tired mind and body demand."
We know that for Goethe it was important that his hands played their part in
learning ;-) so he made his circle of colour on paper and I am sent back in
time/\space to that first unfolding;-) of the black pigment upon the blotting
paper. The hands, 'cutting edge of technology' Bronowski are cutting into
the Ur-phenomena. And somewhere between 'being' and 'becoming' of the
polarised light and dark of Ur-phenomena extending even to truth and lies ;-)
the murky creationing grounds "das Trube", the world between light and
dark... of colours, often clouded and cloudy...what can break through that
primal mistiness?
Goethe reaches back to sketch in the tonalities of old Plato... "blessed
spirit"..." "He probes depth, not so much to explore them as to fill them
with his nature. Every word he utters relates to an existence eternally
complete, good, true and beautiful and he tries to awaken a demand for this
in every breast."
Dear Goethe, always wrestling with the dancing angels upon the
circumscribing, storm chasing rainbow. For though there appear many there is
just the One primal Ur- rainbow. Goethe began believing at the point of
rational and relational despair experienced by those who made too great a
demand upon what can be, may be known. He warns against those who regard as "
-of no importance that which is simply the greatest treasures of mankind,..."
for example, to see the rainbow upon the sky. "Thus we are driven from the
general to the particular and from the particular to the general, whether we
like it or not. (I am Goethe wrote a week or so before he died)
Grateful for friendly interest,
Desirous of continued patience,
Hoping for further confidence."
Mmmmmm.
Love
Andrew
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