Hegel and all of German Romanticism stems from this German Christian Cabala traditin. A huge influence on the 19th century
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Replying to @Meaningness @jaspergregory
There is some interesting scholarship on that. Hegel and Hermetic Traditon, full pdf http://www.conspiracyschool.com/sites/default/files/resources/hegelandhermetictradition.pdf …
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Replying to @faustroll @jaspergregory
Thank you!! OMG there’s so much important stuff to read. I studied the Hermetics (initially via Frances Yates) way back.
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It certainly would make *sense*, texturally speaking, for the Romantics to have been influenced by the Hermetics
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Replying to @Meaningness @faustroll
Hegel came from the weird Pietist Town in South Germany that also produced Electrical Theology
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I forget the name
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The weird region is Swabia and it goes way back in Weird Gnostic Christian history
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I know almost nothing about Germany much less Swabia but had a girlfriend who spent time there and from her description >
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> I think of Swabia as the Hobbit Shire. Eccentric but good-natured & mainly harmless
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