At 08:03 30-11-99 +0100, you wrote: > >DIE SCHERE #45: Notes by Günter Rebing > >#45 proceeds where #37 left off. EJ continues applying his categories of occult >phenomena to the life of Antonius as told by Athanasius. Some of Antonius's >supernatural doings are classified as foreseeing the future, others as telepathy. >It is difficult to say what train of thought connects the paragraph's last >sentence about the transpersonal value of asceticism to what came before. Perhaps >that sentence has to be understood as "Asceticism bears fruit not only for the >ascetic but for others as well". Günter, Indeed, that's the result. I think Juenger means here the process of telepathy itself. "Normally" asceticism makes possible transcendental experience, by "cleaning" the medium. (It is in this context that Juenger made the comment about Mohammed and his forbidding of alcohol, in Annaeherungen(?)) Here asceticism makes the body accessible for far remoted "energies". The simultaneously perceived energy in this case is of the dying man. >The anecdote that follows serves the purpose of illustrating the telepathic >capabilities of Antonius. EJ sees fit to correct Athanasius who believed that >Antonius showed prophetic powers in this episode. However, he quotes without >comment the somewhat queer attempt of Athanasius to defend his saint against the >potential accusation he might have caused the death of one of the two brothers. Why queer? He just tries to discern, what is of God, and what is of man. And with it, of course, to prevent accusations against the bringer of bad news. Athanasius needs an argument. Antonius doesn't, because he has the experience and considers it as normal. greeting, René ----------------------------------- drs. René de Bakker Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam Afdeling Catalogisering Faculteiten tel. 020-5252368
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