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>At lunch a recollection of Aeschylus’s chorus (the female hare and the eagle) causes him to remark on the nobility of this outlook, and he feels it was things like this that might have led to accusations of blasphemy against Aeschylus, this connection between holiness and Nature was probably at the bottom of the Eleusinian mysteries. In our times, R. continues, religion should seek to influence ethics, and allow faith to be represented by art, which can transform illusion into truth.
>Herr v. Stein reads to us the translation he has made of Aeschylus’s chorus, and it seems to us very good. “That is religion,” R. exclaims.
>In the morning we talked at length about religion and art. R. describes how art works in metaphors and allegories as such but at the same time conveys to the emotions the truth behind the dogmas. Aeschylus’s Oresteia, he says, is undoubtedly more profound than all the Eleusinian mysteries.
>At lunch a recollection of Aeschylus’s chorus (the female hare and the eagle) causes him to remark on the nobility of this outlook, and he feels it was things like this that might have led to accusations of blasphemy against Aeschylus, this connection between holiness and Nature was probably at the bottom of the Eleusinian mysteries. In our times, R. continues, religion should seek to influence ethics, and allow faith to be represented by art, which can transform illusion into truth.
>Herr v. Stein reads to us the translation he has made of Aeschylus’s chorus, and it seems to us very good. “That is religion,” R. exclaims.
>In the morning we talked at length about religion and art. R. describes how art works in metaphors and allegories as such but at the same time conveys to the emotions the truth behind the dogmas. Aeschylus’s Oresteia, he says, is undoubtedly more profound than all the Eleusinian mysteries.
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