Wotan

this is an article from C. G. JUng. Published in 1936. And an ecellent complimentary source to Heinrich Heines text “Rat eines Träumers” presented hee in Multi-lingual Pod too earlier.

Jung is referring precisely to the psychic side and the collective unconsciousness in German culture. Though this dimension is to be integrally broadened it nevertheless is abolutely crucial for any understanding .

And I am writing about it not simply as intellectual excercise. its an existential endevor. And it was an even brutal experience within myself last 40 years.

Its clear that Nietzsche-as quoted here by C.G: Jung -felt and sensed this same psycho-physical force. He was the most lucid author from last 150 years in Germany. He ended as broken soul.

its a fantastic and tough challenge at once to finally tame and galvanize Wotan for the 21st century.

Wotan

“In Germany shall divers sects arise,


Coming very near to happy paganism.


The heart captivated and small receivings


Shall open the gate to pay the true tithe.”



- Prophecies of Nostradamus, 1555

“It is above all the Germans who have an opportunity, perhaps unique in history, to look into their own hearts and to learn what those perils of the soul were from which Christianity tried to rescue mankind. Germany is a land of spiritual catastrophes, where nature never makes more than a pretense of peace with the world-ruling reason. The disturber of the peace is a wind that blows into Europe from Asia’s vastness, sweeping in on a wide front from Thrace to the Baltic, scattering the nations before it like dry leaves, or inspiring thoughts that shake the world to its foundations..”

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