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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector-http://www.levity.com/alchemy/articles.html http://www.levity.com/alchemy/images/hegel1.jpg http://www.levity.com/alchemy/images/hegel2.jpg http://www.levity.com/alchemy/articles_scholarly.html > http://www.levity.com/alchemy/a-archive_oct01.html Subject: ACADEMY : Hegel's triadic triangles From: Susanna Åkerman Date: 29 Sep 2001 Dear Academy, Since we are discussing triangles I want to draw attention to the philosopher Hegel who at one point in the "Philosophy of Right" (1821) said "Reason is the rose in the cross of the present" influenced by the Gold und Rosencreutz Orden in his Berlin period. This has been interestingly debated in " Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition " (Cornell University Press 2001 ) by Glenn Alexander Magee of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He interestingly shows Boehmes' influence on the young philosopher Hegel and reproduces the below Triangle in " Triangles ", described earlier by Helmut Schneider "Zur Dreiecks symbolik bei Hegel" Hegel studien 8 1973 p. 55-77. The diagram cannot be dated but was found among Hegels papers. There is a textual fragment that could have been the reason for Hegel's drawing showing the trinity in connection with the dialectic of Subjective, Objective and Absolute concepts. This is discussed in at Magee's text p. 110-113. He refers to Schneider who argues it is Neo-Paracelsian, neo-Agrippean and neo-Boehmian. Both authors are however lost in decoding the drawing and its sigels. Can we do better on the list? The S in spiritus is drawn in pencil, perhaps reflecting a red letter in some original. It is uncertain whether Hegel himself drew it to shed light on his dialectic or whether he is copying something. Magee's book is from a philosophical point of view excellent in making grey and tiresome concepts glow. Susanna Akerman ^ Subject: ACADEMY : Hegel's triadic triangles From: Susanna Åkerman Date: 17 Oct 2001 There is a written "triangle fragment" in Hegel's papers first described by Karl Rosencrantz in 1844 and translated in H. S. Harris' " Hegel's development: Night thoughts " (part 2, 1983 Oxford UP, first part is called " Towards the Sunlight " 1972). However it speaks of two triangles and is not directed towards this triadic triangle. Also Karin Figala writes about the "Die alchemische Begriff von Capuut mortuum bei Hegel in der symbolischen Terminologie Hegels" in Stuttgarter Hegel-Tage 1970 edited by H. G. Gadamer Bonn 1974. To explain the point of triangles I can only say that Hegel thinks of the trinity and its manifestations first as love and then on a deeper level as the Spirit-coming-to-consciousness-of-itself. I recommend you Magee's book since I am unable to summarize Hegel's thinking. Schneider means the drawing is neo-Pythagorean but Magee roots it in Hermeticism. Herder, Hegel and Novalis all studied in Tübingen, earlier home of Johann Valentin Andreae, and they are influenced in various ways by mystics such and Franz von Baader, Oetinger and the pietists. To explain the point of triangles I can only say that Hegel thinks of the trinity and its manifestations first as love and then on a deeper level as the Spirit-coming-to-consciousness-of-itself. I recommend you Magee's book since I am unable to summarize Hegel's thinking. Schneider means the drawing is neo-Pythagorean but Magee roots it in Hermeticism. Herder, Hegel and Novalis all studied in Tübingen, earlier home of Johann Valentin Andreae, and they are influenced in various ways by mystics such and Franz von Baader, Oetinger and the pietists. There is a long Boehme/Hegel chapter in Magee, and he comments on Hegel's dialectic of the Spirit that was formed early on in his mystical-theosophical youth, and stays on till his old days as in The Philosophy of Right. Note that the triangles are downward showing I guess the descent of spirit in matter and consciousness developing in history. Celestial stellar influx in mineral matter? The sixpointed star of joined triangles is often seen as philosophical fiery water (aesch majim) conjoined in perfect union, here it is the descent that is important, perhaps as spiritual influx and flow in thinking. Magee's book tempts me to look into Hegel's own works that nowadays have good translations, while they were forbidding to read in English fifteen years ago when I took a glance on his philosophy. To read it in German is not easy either I guess, but perhaps it is fun (sic) to look into Hegel's mysticism. It gives me motivation I have lacked hitherto. Also note that Leibniz writes a text on alchemy as Oidipus Chymicus in Acta Berolinensis 1710 in Berlin actually the same title as J.J. Becher in 1664. Can someone look it up and tell us what it says? Leibniz was a member and secretary of a alchemical society in 1667. And he also solved the ciphers in Chymische Hochzeit, but later thought that the Rosicrucians were fiction. Susanna Akerman ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/zgSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== ctrl is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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