The Idea behind Bellow of the intellect song of the instinct: a poem

Madre...
Asciendo por la altiva Torre de Babel de mi intelecto
Y cada paso que doy me aleja me embriaga y me sofoca
Me corta del más bello placer
De la risa ingenua de tu boca.
Edipo soy huyendo de Corinto
Recreando el mundo lejos de mi instinto
Creo crear con mi pensamiento
Pero ladro aúllo y bramo de contento.
Triste parádoja de mi ser humano
Que se cree una estrella en el firmamento
Cuando es la feróz comadreja la que me brinda mi sustento.
Por eso clamo: instinto, alma, sentimiento...
¿Donde estás noble animal, donde buscarte?
Ingenua obra de arte del Logos infinito,
Sálvame, oh Madre, del feróz estandarte
de mi ser finito.

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The cosmosophy of Rudolf Steiner is a sort of blueprint of what should be the "Universal Culture" also outlined by Goethe. The work of Steiner is a total commitment to join the two sides of a river. The universe is the last adventure of man, and viceversa (microcosm and macrocosm); 'durable thoughts'; 'free imaginations' and cycles of history; christianity as a cosmic ritual; the inner living experience of the universe; the importance of the notion of karma.
But the universal culture dreamed by Nietzsche and imagined and outlined by Goethe and Steiner may not be possible without the harmony between instinct and intellect. The following are important steps in the process which leads to 'Culture': Delphi and Eleusis; the Socrates Musician of Nietzsche; the sacrifice of intellectuality; Goethe's tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily; Mythos-Logos.
The universal culture of the third Millennium arises from the synthesis between instinct and intellect which is the essential meaning of Mary in its natural attribute of Mother Goddess of humanity. The anthropology of our times must first start studying man from the zero degree of science: the real nature of the human soul.

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The importance of the cultural proposal of Rudolf Steiner (cosmosophy, goetheanism, etc.,) goes beyond any prejudice or cultural convention.
The highway to a Universal Culture is already traced since Delphi and Eleusis and declines the harmony between instinct and intellect.
Beyond the appearances, the real aristocracy of man lies in its soul. The nature of the human soul is the first letter of the human alphabet.

Resumé.
There exists a rational intelligence. But there also exists an intelligence of the soul deeply related to the subconscient and the instinct. Man may harmonise reason and instinct renewing personal communication with active feelings deeply rooted in his subconscient. The most powerful sentiment of this kind concerns his filial relationship with Mother Earth. This instinctive feeling took man out from the caverns to a nomad life to finally settle him in the first urban centers in the dawn of civilisation.
Contemporary man is called to perform history counterclockwise: from his inner world toward the threshold of the Universal Culture which is open in certain myths concerning the soul and the Universal Eternal (Divine) Feminine.
Victor Turner provides us with the theoretical frame that fits perfectly in with our universalist vision of the world. Performance and the 'creating process of sense' (Body, Brain and Culture), according to Turner.

Suite of the outline.

Third the harmony between instinct and intellect:
3) A-. Apollon and Dyonysos at Delphi. B-. The Origin of Tragedy. C-. Troy, Iphigeny and the sacrifice of intellectuality. D-. Goethe's tale of the Green Snake and the beautiful lily. E-. Mythos - Logos.

Fourth the universal Culture of the third millennium:
4) A-. History has not yet begun. B-. The Aristocracy of the Soul. C-. The secret of the invisibility of the astral body: How I rediscovered the zero degree of science.

Synopsis.
Maternal instinct is one of the most powerful in the human subconscient. Since the night of times that feeling has inspired the best of human civilization because it has promoted the harmony between instinct and reason. Performance, and the dialectics between opposite poles are two basic concepts of this courant de pensée.

What is Bellow of the intellect, song of the instinct? The answer is: a vision of the world, a weltanschauung. A particular prism to join the fragments of the shattered reality of man.
A prism inspired by certain aspects of the work of Paracelse, Schiller, Nietzsche, Goethe, Ortega, Rudolf Steiner and Victor Turner, among others. A crystal that humbly pretends to be a theory of human history.

Here is the outline. First our theoretical hardcore:
1) A-. The counterclockwise direction of history: Mary as the genuine Mother Goddess of humanity. B-. The Anthropology of Performance (V. Turner). C-. Body, Brain and Culture (Turner) or the harmony between instinct and intellect.

Second the cosmosophy and weltanschauung of Rudolf Steiner:
2) A-. Is it necessary to be a rebel to understand the world? B-. The cyclic notion of history of Rudolf Steiner. C-. Goethe and the Knight Templars. D-. Kepler and his three astronomic laws. E-. The spiritual communion of mankind. -. The East in the light of the West.

Bellow of the intellect, song of the instinct

[You may also read this work in spanish at: http://www.bramidointelectual.blogspot.com

Foreword.

The purpose of this work is to denounce the destructive nature of scientific, rationalist thought which pretends to analize and define reality from the strict point of view of mathemathics. Reality is something more complex than a mathematical model. Man is the confluence of two dimensions: material and suprasensible, visible and invisible. Man is a complex creature capable of abstract thinking. But man is also an animal, an elementary being belonging to the cosmos and the kingdoms of nature. If modern urban consumer society is going to survive to the terrible consequences of extreme individualism then she is forced to take the path of compromise with instinctive wisdom.
My approach is schematic and my atittude pasionnée. Because I am convinced that behind this simple scheme lies human history's divine plan. Between this scheme that I paint (with such a few colors of my own) thanks to the loan of extraordinary writers - pieces of the puzzle of the cosmic destiny of man - and the ordinary person that likes to save ideas and words, the result is bound to be Spartan, to say the less. Lucky for me that - using the linguistic dichotomy of Ferdinand de Saussure signifiant-signifié - I am standing on human sense itself. The idea overcomes the imperfection of a poor vehicle. I could even say that the Idea which is the main impulsion of this work is self-sufficient and expresses alone. That is why I conceive a complete success in the diffussion of this message. The image that arises out of this pot-pourri of theories, citations and poetry belongs to what Rudolf Steiner has called "the spirit of our times".
An academic historian would define this work as naïf and superficial. A realistic approach of human history is bound to look naïf and even childish to the parched landscape of the academic elite's intellectuallism.
The spirit of our times is trying to say something to man, everywhere, anytime. But the urban consumer is blind and deaf to the elemental message of creative sense that hides behind everyday beauty. Because he is too busy taking care of his image before the demanding stare of his entourage and the mermaid's song of globalised consumer society. The spirit of our times is only heard by certain children and poets. Because his language is that one of the beauty of such simple and divine things as a luminous drop of water, the ineffable grace of a fast ant, the masterwork of a leaf, of a flower, of a rainbow. The spirit of our time wants man to perform that (secret) wish that he carries in the bottom of his heart. A wish veiled and forbidden by the tyranny of logic. That wish is to kiss one's mother in the cheeks, to solidly hug the Great Mother of all mothers, the Mother Earth,to form with her, during an eternal instant, a same being.