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"Whatever voice the gods once had, whatever remains of it still, must now only be heard as it is forced through the painted image-mask of mankind." A piece on the consequences of the religious developments of Homer: anthropomorphism, personal ego, and the problem of evil.

"Whatever voice the gods once had, whatever remains of it still, must now only be heard as it is forced through the painted image-mask of mankind." A piece on the consequences of the religious developments of Homer: anthropomorphism, personal ego, and the problem of evil.

@istvaeonic returns with a second installment of his series on ancient views of nature and rejection of "supernaturalism", with a novel application of Walter Otto's works on Greece to the Germanic pantheon and worldview. Read below:

@istvaeonic returns with second installment of his series, "Against Supernaturalism in Germanic Heathenry". In it, a novel interpretation of Otto's "The Homeric Gods" to the gods of the Germanics gives insights into ancient views of nature. Read here: wandervogel.art/p/the-teutonic…

"Among all peoples, the Greeks have dreamt life's dream most beautifully." —Goethe A free 1.5hr radiocast on elements of paganism in the inspiring thoughts and beautiful art of the German Romantics, and implications for today:

"Romantic Paganism": A free 1.5hr radiocast On the image of the Greeks in German Romanticism, the beginning of a new religion... Monday

For the Greek, madness was superior to sanity, for only the former comes from the gods. The third and final part of a series on ecstasy and religious experience, on the irrationality of the Greek and his statements of daimons & psyche; a presentation of "the Ecstatic Principle".

"Experience cosmically!"—an unpublished command of Nietzsche. But what was meant? One word unlocks the key, and it was well-spoken in German art and philosophy: Rausch. Part II of series on "ecstasy" and religious experience, investigating Nietzsche's Dionysian "intoxication".

"Ecstasy—not morality, not reason, not tradition—is the ruling principle of all that is religious." The first of a short series in a phenomenological investigation of religious experience, beginning with "participation" in animism and the masks of Greek tragedy. Please enjoy:

@istvaeonic begins series on Germanic heathenry with a critique of the "supernaturalism" of Semitic religions, which must be contrasted with the immanent natural religion of man's organic past. In first installment, he investigates ancient meaning of "nature"... enjoy: