The Submerged Reality: Sophiology and the Turn to a Poetic Metaphysics by Michael Martin

Author:Michael Martin [Martin, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621381136
Amazon: 1621381137
Publisher: Angelico Press
Published: 2015-02-06T23:00:00+00:00

were constantly preoccupied with purging poetry from nature, the earth, the human soul and the sciences. Every trace of the sacred was to be destroyed, all memory of noble events and people was to be spoiled by satire, and the world stripped of colourful ornament. Their favourite theme, on account of its mathematical obedience and impudence, was light. They were pleased that it refracted rather than played with its colours, and so they called this great enterprise “Enlightenment.” One was more thorough with this business in Germany: education was reformed, the old religion was given a new, rational and common sense meaning by carefully cleansing it of everything miraculous and mysterious; all scholarship was summoned to cut off taking refuge in history, which they struggled to ennoble by making it into a domestic and civil portrait of family and morals. God was made into the idle spectator of the great moving drama, performed by intellectuals, whom the poets and actors should entertain and admire at the end.70

None of this, according to Novalis, could amount to anything good.

Though it has been argued that Novalis adjusted his understanding of Catholicism in a way that it conformed to his own religious sensibilities, such an assertion, I think, does a great disservice to the poet.71 It seems to me that he understood Catholicism—and his times—quite well. He clearly had an idiosyncratic—and sometimes heterodox—way of explaining it, but his intuitions are right on the mark. “Christianity has three forms,” he writes:

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