Re: EJ and religion

[abdulbar@execpc.com]

>Just thought that I might recommend an essay for those who
>are interested in EJ and religion:
>
>Uwe Wolff, "Dichten, Danken, Beten", _Magie der Heiterkeit_ (Hrsg,
>Guenter Figal und Heimo Schwilk), 1995,  pp. 255 - 264.
>
>Wolff claims that all EJ writing has a religious base.
>
>Wishing a continued pleasant summer
>
>Bertil Haggman


Could you possibly post the article for the list, at the moment I have
little or no access to german language periodicals.

I myself agree with such a premis as this. Somehow EJ does believe in a
source, my only point is that he has certainly made a break with the
traditional approach to religion and the God head. One of my favorite
quotes from the Paris Diaries is as follows (my translation):

Unknown in the old languages, the great mythos,
Roman law, the Bible and Christian ethic,
the French Moralists, the German Metaphysic,
the poetry of all the World. Technical Goliaths,
dwarves on true life-therefore massive in critique, in destruction,
it is in that, hidden from them, that their true contract lies.
Deformed, atrophied, blurred in all that which has to do with beauty and love.
Single eyed titans, spirits of darkness, deniers and enemies of all
creative powers,
who can sum up a million years of their efforts,
without leaving one work behind that weighs up to one blade of grass, one
grain of wheat, one mosquito wing.
Far from poetry , wine, dreams,  games and hoplessly caught in the heresy
of presumptuous school masters.
They have their task. (Ernst Jünger, Paris Diaries.)

Here I believe Jünger is pointing at a ordered universe in which a form of
revelation is at work even now. This has a quality of understanding of the
nature of evil that is worthy of Goethe. Mephisto says  the famous words
"ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will, und stets das Gute
schafft." and further "Ich bin der Geist, der stets verneint! Und das mit
Recht; denn alles, was entsteht, Ist wert, daß es zugrunde geht; Drum
besser wärs, daß nichts entstünde. So ist denn alles, was ihr Sunde,
Zerstorullg, Kurz das Böse nennt, mein eigentliches Element." Goethe "Faust
pt.1" These lines are often quoted and a god example of a unified
understanding of the cosmos, in Islam the term is Tawhid, which roughly
translates as unity. Though Goethes entire weltanschauung is formed by this
very method, which of course has its roots in Taoism and all the other
great world revelations as EJ points to.

Another addition to keep this thread alive.

Abdalbarr