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Sep. 27th, 2023 02:16 am"Conjuration was counted among the capital crimes in those days. The phenomena were more credible at the time than today. For Faust the realm of ghosts, though it has largely become a spiritual world, is still “not closed,” yet he is only concerned with the success of his conjuration. Religious or moral scruples no longer worry him. Likewise, in our time, the intellectual devoted to the Muses is confronted with the question of what the drug can impart. His final aim cannot be the kinetic intensification of powers, happiness, or even freedom from pain. He is not even interested in the sharpening or refinement of insight but, as in Faust’s cabinet, in “that which enters.”
This “entering” does not mean that new facts become known. The enrichment of the empirical world is not meant. Faust strives to get out of his study, while a man like Wagner will remain there and feel happy the rest of his life. “It is true, I know much, but I want to know all” - there is no end to that, and in this sense the discovery of America also belongs to facts; no spaceship can lead out of that world. No acceleration, even if it carried us to the stars, can annul the primary dictum, “From yourself you cannot flee.” This also applies to the intensification of the vital force. Multiplication, even involution, does not change the cardinal number. More is expected from that which enters than intensification of a dynamic or vital kind. At all times it was hoped that it would bring an increase, a complement, an apposition. That does not imply involution but addition".
Неожиданно конвенциональное выражение алхимической стадии ферментации от Юнгера (из эссе Drugs and Ecstasy, выписка из непереведенных Annäherungen, напечатано в составе Myths and Symbols: studies in honor of Mircea Eliade (1969)
This “entering” does not mean that new facts become known. The enrichment of the empirical world is not meant. Faust strives to get out of his study, while a man like Wagner will remain there and feel happy the rest of his life. “It is true, I know much, but I want to know all” - there is no end to that, and in this sense the discovery of America also belongs to facts; no spaceship can lead out of that world. No acceleration, even if it carried us to the stars, can annul the primary dictum, “From yourself you cannot flee.” This also applies to the intensification of the vital force. Multiplication, even involution, does not change the cardinal number. More is expected from that which enters than intensification of a dynamic or vital kind. At all times it was hoped that it would bring an increase, a complement, an apposition. That does not imply involution but addition".
Неожиданно конвенциональное выражение алхимической стадии ферментации от Юнгера (из эссе Drugs and Ecstasy, выписка из непереведенных Annäherungen, напечатано в составе Myths and Symbols: studies in honor of Mircea Eliade (1969)