Numbers and figures

In this week, while preparing ourselves for Eastern, I want to forget Corona for a little while. I will return to the subject next week. As a summary however there is the poem of Novalis, from his novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Novalis was a scientist.

Wenn nicht mehr Zahlen und Figuren
Sind Schlüssel aller Kreaturen
Wenn die, so singen oder küssen,
Mehr als die Tiefgelehrten wissen,
Wenn sich die Welt ins freye Leben
Und in die Welt wird zurück begeben,
Wenn dann sich wieder Licht und Schatten
Zu ächter Klarheit werden gatten,
Und man in Mährchen und Gedichten
Erkennt die wahren Weltgeschichten,
Dann fliegt vor Einem geheimen Wort
Das ganze verkehrte Wesen fort.

When numbers and figures
Are no longer the keys to all creatures,
When those who sing or kiss
Know more than the deeply educated,
When the world returns itself
To free life and [true] world,
When light and shadow once more
Give birth to true clarity,
When we recognize in tales and poems
The true story of the world,
Then the whole false-turned core of things
Will fly away before one mysterious Word.

Mieke Mosmuller

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Mieke Mosmuller is a physician, writer and philosopher. She writes about current events that touch on her philosophical-spiritual development path that she started in 1983….

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