By David Garrett Izzo
This quantity discusses the relationships among the philosophy of Mysticism, which lines its lineage again into prehistory, with that of the area of extra conventional philosophy and literature. the writer argues for the centrality of mysticism's function within the philosophical and creative improvement of western tradition.
The connections among those worlds are underscored because the writer examines the works of Heraclitus, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Iris Murdoch, Yeats, AE (George Russell), T.S. Eliot, Joyce, Woolf, Auden, Huxley, Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Tony Kushner, between others.
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Vico in his New Science explained that the initially inexplicable feelings of Awe felt by the primitive tribe about natural phenomena evolved into theological explanations to soothe the frightened tribe. The tribe then ritualized these feelings into their own form of the spiritual manifestation they called God (or a synonym). “He [the artist] gives meaning and order to something which, when it is not ordered, is apt to seem terrifying — the movement toward an inevitable darkness in the future. Man has to make these patterns to give a kind of sense and coherence and meaning to the flux of time; he derives them from elements in nature, strengthens them in his system of symbols, and then re-imposes them upon nature so as to make nature more coherent in his own mind (Huxley, “Art,”189).
This is because the 2. H. Auden: Mysticism as a Literary Theory 27 many haven’t as yet figured out what the need is. Man works and makes history, of which, Heard said, “history is, au fond [at bottom] the history of man finding himself. All his physical achievements, constructive or destructive, can be co-coordinated, and only so if we view them as the symptom of his realization, first of what he really needs, and then what he is, what he has been, and what he may be” (Emergence, 21). (The idea of a psychic evolution is not today so rare in a New Age milieu, but was rather outré when Heard wrote this in 1931.
H. Auden: Mysticism as a Literary Theory 41 pity. Only from wonder, too, can we learn a style of behaviour and speech which is no less precious in art than in life; for want of a better word we call it good manners or breeding, though it has little to do with ancestry, school or income [“Walter de la Mare,” 393–94]. Attempts to understand the feelings of wonder aroused in the tribe by an awesome event, whatever it was, naturally followed the event, and, in order to rationalize these events, the tribe gave to those feelings some kind of supernatural explanation.