Re: [ejlist] DIE SCHERE #41: Again the text and another translation - and a comment

[03643518060-0001@t-online.de (C. Brown)]

> KERN COMMENT:
> 
> EJ is treading in very shady groves--the subliminal recesses of
> our minds, of everyday life and of history.  His clear formulations,
> expressed in short aphorisms, seem to crystallize working
> mechanisms of the hidden world, and one wants to believe them.
> Yet they evaporate when subjected to the light of day, to the
> consciousness of the reality that returns after their reading.
> Everything foreseen comes true, he says, because it has already
> happened.  Yet Revelation was foreseen and in that sense has
> happened, yet Jesus Christ has not returned to earth, and the
> dead have not awakened.  Nor has any vision of resurrection come
> true.  The dead awaken only in the past.
> 

Suspecting that this comment comes from Gary, I'll put in my two cents. :-)

The other point of view might be that these things are yet to happen 
(the awakening and the return) and are therefore still in time.
EJ's point is to show that larger realities can be uncovered in
lesser occurences. 
The argument (for some) is that revelation is true and EJ intention is
only to indicate reality. It is as if he is remapping ground forgotten
to mankind. It is somehow making the territory useful again but this 
time outside of a strictly christian metaphysic. It is certainly what attracts 
a fair portion of readers to him.

The light of day i.e a metaphor for enlightenment? Expells darkness.
But this is in no way an indication that EJ's meanings are singular
to him or that they will somehow vanish because they are only a 
literary meandering that once exposede to a light (of reason?)
should vanish. They are not the material of phantasy, rather
their reality is far older than one can imagine. EJ distilles 
them for us from his experience and reading reminds the less skeptical,
that they have validity in an age overwhelmed by the material.

In the end the indications as EJ and other greats lay them out, point
to unanswered questions, things that our small minds cannot grasp
without metaphor and likeness. That men like Juenger, Shakespear, Goethe
and many of the others understood and accepted fate is of not little 
consequence. Where they deluded fools? Certainly not.

Wellll enuf prechin' fur the day.
Abdalbarr return'd afta a long break.