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  1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 08:54:51 EDT Nate Cull Nate Cull

    This book on the Eranos lecture scene of the 1930s sounds fascinating. A whole weird mix of characters, from Jewish pacifists to... proto-fascist and alt-right inspiration, Julius Evola.

    "Eranos: An Alternative Intellectual History of the 20th Century" by Hans Thomas Hakl, translated by Christopher McIntosh

    https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=12x_BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA29

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    1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 09:05:44 EDT Nate Cull Nate Cull
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      It's this quote in particular that makes me go 'hmm?'

      Jung did NOT like Alice Bailey, at all, apparently. I wonder just what was so 'horrifyingly cold' about Olga Frobe's Bailey-inspired art, to Jung?

      I mean Jung's stuff isn't all that approachable either and one might well look at his work and think it was pretty weird and dark.

      Were Frobe's geometric Art Deco works that survived... the art that Jung approved of, or disapproved?

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      1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 09:09:03 EDT Nate Cull Nate Cull
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        One of the annoying things about the whole Alice Bailey phenomenon is that it seems like she did most of her writing maybe in the 1920s-30s, but a lot of it wasn't published until the late 1940s, at which point the whole esoteric scene was completely different (because Europe was in flaming ruins... at the hands of an esoteric-themed bunch of bad guys).

        And then Bailey's writings were picked up and hyped in the 1970s, in yet another context, without all of that 1920s-30s scene.

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        1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 09:12:12 EDT Nate Cull Nate Cull
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          but seriously what kind of just... geometric line art... would make Carl 'I am perfectly fine with literally taking life advice from the spirit of Simon the Magician' Jung think that something was 'dealing with the devil', and not in a happy way?

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        2. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 09:13:55 EDT Nate Cull Nate Cull
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          but seriously what kind of just... geometric line art... would make Carl 'I am perfectly fine with literally taking life advice from the spirit of Simon the Magician' Jung think that something was 'dealing with the devil', and not in a happy way?

          are those the ones that Frobe is now famous for? which, okay, the swastika count is non-zero, but, sigh, that WAS the 1920s-30s esoteric scene. These scared Jung?

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          1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 09:17:07 EDT Nate Cull Nate Cull
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            The nonzero swastika count at Eranos wasn't just limited to the art

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          2. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 09:17:54 EDT Nate Cull Nate Cull
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            The nonzero swastika count at Eranos wasn't just limited to the art

            and presumably the actual Nazis didn't bother Jung but some paintings did?

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            1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2019 09:42:51 EDT Nate Cull Nate Cull
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              And not everyone at Eranos liked Jung either

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