By Steven M. Wasserstrom
I discovered this booklet to be concise and well-articulated. attention-grabbing dialogue of the Eranos staff and the way the 3 students had a pretty targeted view of faith rooted a extensive array of German philosophers and writers, together with Shelling, Cusa, Hamann, Jung, and Heidegger, all of whom encouraged their romantic notion of mythology. the 3 students mentioned emphasised mythology over religous legislation and put the symbolism and mystical event in a important function of non secular event, minimizing historicism. Wasserstrom additionally calls realization to the Eranos scholar's (excluding Scholem) own esoteric ideals and studies with esoteric teams. attention-grabbing scholarship.
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This tautegory would be taken up as a “phenomenologically” accurate portrayal of the past by the Historians of Religion. This “tautegorical” interpretation of “tradition” privileged mystical symbolism in the study of religion. Corbin and Eliade demanded acquiescence to the proposition that this esoteric core was the religious stuff of religion, that this was religion as such. In other words, this theosophical assumption, and the mystocentrism they derived from it, led them to certain conclusions about an autonomous reality for religious phenomenon; conclusions that have as much to do, perhaps, with early modern notions of esoterism as they do with contemporary practices of critical inquiry.
For this reason, and with the collaboration of some thirty university professors. . Corbin founded, in 1974, the Centre International de Recherche Spirituelle Compar´ee [Universit´e de Saint-Jean de Jerusalem]. . ” On 8 July 1975, Eliade recorded the following in his journal. In the evening we have dinner at Corbin’s. Henry is completely satisfied with the outcome of the lecture series that took place at The University of Saint John of Jerusalem. 36 Antoine Faivre, another of those chosen thirty founders, addresses Eliade’s special approach to initiation explicitly.
But if one opens this folio today, it becomes evident that our perception of this betrayal of mysteries must have vanished. ” So are we again dealing with that mysticalanarchic policy that protects secrets better by pronouncing them than by keeping silent about them? 74 By publicly pronouncing their secrets, mystics succeeded in “keeping” those mysteries. Taking up this mode, the three Historians of Religion wrote “phanically,” in Eliade’s phrase. They too, as Scholem implied, protected secrets by pronouncing them.