We stopped at "... on fattafottafutt." (599.8)
Our next reading session will be in 2020 on the 6th of January at the usual time. Till then have a good time and a good beginning to the next decade!
The section we read is very dense with hidden meanings. (We had read previously of HCE and ALP sleeping, and then of the breaking of the dawn.) Let us look at a few of these sentences and their possible interpretations:
- You have eaden fruit. (Thinking in terms of the garden of Eden, of Adam and Eve, of the apple, one could say that the person, HCE (?) has reached enlightenment.)
- It was a long, very long, a dark, very dark, ... stumble-tumbling night. . . Now day, slow day, from delicate to divine, divides. (This refers to the traditional view of creation and destruction. The period of destruction lasts long.)
- Padma, brighter and sweetster, this flower that bells, it is our hour or risings. (In the Hindu mythology, creation takes place when the supreme god Vishnu wakes up with the urge for creation. A Padma (lotus flower) emerges from his navel on which the creator god Brahma is seated. (See the painting below!) The creation of the universe starts. It is our hour of risings!
- In that earopean end meets Ind. (Joseph Campbell explains: "This is the moment of Sandhyas, when the opposites come together. Europe and India, empirical knowledge and intuitive wisdom, are now one.")
Our next reading session will be in 2020 on the 6th of January at the usual time. Till then have a good time and a good beginning to the next decade!
The section we read is very dense with hidden meanings. (We had read previously of HCE and ALP sleeping, and then of the breaking of the dawn.) Let us look at a few of these sentences and their possible interpretations:
- You have eaden fruit. (Thinking in terms of the garden of Eden, of Adam and Eve, of the apple, one could say that the person, HCE (?) has reached enlightenment.)
- It was a long, very long, a dark, very dark, ... stumble-tumbling night. . . Now day, slow day, from delicate to divine, divides. (This refers to the traditional view of creation and destruction. The period of destruction lasts long.)
- Padma, brighter and sweetster, this flower that bells, it is our hour or risings. (In the Hindu mythology, creation takes place when the supreme god Vishnu wakes up with the urge for creation. A Padma (lotus flower) emerges from his navel on which the creator god Brahma is seated. (See the painting below!) The creation of the universe starts. It is our hour of risings!
- In that earopean end meets Ind. (Joseph Campbell explains: "This is the moment of Sandhyas, when the opposites come together. Europe and India, empirical knowledge and intuitive wisdom, are now one.")
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| (A miniature painting from the Pahari region, Master painter from Mankot, 1700/20, Museum Rietberg, Zürich) |
