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From: "Jud Evans" <Jud-AT-sunrise74.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [heidegger-dialognet] RE: Heidegger's analysis of poetical language & RE: Time, Space, Potential
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 22:54:36 +0100



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From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl>
To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>;
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Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 9:25 PM
Subject: [heidegger-dialognet] RE: Heidegger's analysis of poetical language
& RE: Time, Space, Potential


> A shrink says:
> Here the only helpful is symbol, which according to its nature of paradox,
represents the tertium that does not exist - according to the sentence of
logics -, being instead the living truth. That's why we can never hold
neither PARACELSUS, nor the alchemists for the fact they used their secret
language: a deeper understanding of the soul becoming problematic teaches us
quickly that it is far better to reserve your judgment than to hurry to
proclaim urbi et orbi the signification of things. Is true, however, that
exists a understandable desire for a non-duplicity clarity; but we forget
that soul things are life processes, i.e. transformations, that never have
to be univocally determined if we do not want to transform what is living
and moving in something static. The undefined conceived mithologem and the
shining symbol express better, more perfect and, thus, infinite times
clearer the soul process that the clearest notion; because symbol does not
mediate only a conception on the procedure, but also - what is maybe of the
same importance - an experience or an empathic re-living the procedure,
whose clear-obscure can only be comprehended by an inoffensive empathic
feeling and no way by the brutal intervention of clarity. (C.G. JUNG in
Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon)
Paracelsus
What Jud does is double-thinking as defined by GEORGE ORWELL in 1984:


Jud:
Because I deny the existence of all the souls, secret words and 'to bes' and
the prounouncements of medieval alchemists and wizards.
My assessment.of Paracelsus, although a Catholic seems to have acheived
outstanding medical improvements is well summed up in this quote from
Britannica.

. In 1530 he angered the city council of Nürnberg by writing the best
clinical description of syphilis up to that time, maintaining that it could
be successfully treated by carefully measured doses of mercury compounds
taken internally, thus foreshadowing the Salvarsan treatment of 1909. He
stated that the "miners' disease" (silicosis) resulted from inhaling metal
vapours and was not a punishment for sin administered by mountain spirits.
He was the first to declare that, if given in small doses, "what makes a man
ill also cures him," an anticipation of the modern practice of homeopathy.
Paracelsus is said to have cured many persons in the plague-stricken town of
Stertzing in the summer of 1534 by administering orally a pill made of bread
containing a minute amount of the patient's excreta he had removed on a
needle point. (see also Index: pneumoconiosis)
He was the first to connect goitre with minerals, especially lead, in
drinking water. He prepared and used new chemical remedies, including those
containing mercury, sulfur, iron, and copper sulfate, thus uniting medicine
with chemistry, as the first London Pharmacopoeia, in 1618, indicates.
Paracelsus, in fact, contributed substantially to the rise of modern
medicine, including psychiatric treatment. Carl Gustaf Jung, the
psychiatrist, wrote of him that "We see in Paracelsus not only a pioneer in
the domains of chemical medicine, but also in those of an empirical
psychological healing science."

Encyclopaedia Britannica.

he seems quite a well balanced figure to me as far as his medical activities
are concerned anyway.  As far as his spiritual writings are concerned the
enclyclopaedia doesn't mention any.

Tudor:
After all, it is not I who accused on heidegger-dialognet-AT-yahoogroups.com
three honorable men of three quite differently defined styles as being the
same person. Troll-ing on a serious list I do not find sane either! (Maybe
he has a hidden propaganda agenda, however paranoid this would sound).

No, no secret agendas - no conspiracy theories  - no flying saucers or loony
gurus - just plain old denial of the existence of ghosties, and all the rest
of the transcendanlist Adams Family.

Best wishes,

Go for Gold!

Jud.







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