Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship or Heinrich von Ofterdingen Kikegaard real deepswarm 08/15/24 (Thu) 03:34:54 No. 1
These two books are the key to unlocking the dispute of Schelling-Fichte, corresponding to the conflict between groups of Goethe & Jung, and the group of poets/naturalists led by Novalis.
>… One should not place the kind of spirituality within Novalis, on the same level as what Goethe had. Goethe came to it through a regulated, out of a Higher World directed course towards an initiation, up to a particular stage. Novalis, by contrast, lived a life which one can best describe by saying: This young man, who left the physical plane at the age of twenty nine and who gave the German intellectuals more than a hundred thousand others could give, he lived a life which was actually a memory of a previous one. Through a quite specific event the spiritual experiences of earlier incarnations appeared, presented themselves to his soul and flowed in gentle, rhythmically woven poems from his soul. >Rudolf Steiner