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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] Artist: Anton Webern Album: Anton Webern: Complete Works – Pierre Boulez, Ensemble InterContemporain et al. Track: Fünf Kanons nach lateinischen Texten für Sopran, Klarinette und Baßklarinette, Op. 16 – 1. Christus factus est |
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Jetzt entscheidet unser Geschmack gegen das Christentum, nicht mehr unsere Gründe.
[Agora é nosso gosto que rejeita o cristianismo, não mais nossas razões.]
Illuminations from C.G. Jung’s Liber Novus (c. 1914–1930).
Il a prononcé alors distinctement, bien qu’avec une extrême lenteur, ces mots que je suis sûr de rapporter très exactement : « Qu’est-ce que cela fait ? Tout est grâce. »
Je crois qu’il est mort presque aussitôt.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] Artist: Antonio Vivaldi Album: Vivaldi: The Complete Sacred Music – The King’s Consort, Robert King et al. Track: Longe mala umbræ terrores, RV 629 – 3. Descende o cœli vox |
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שתי שנים ומחצה נחלקו בית שמאי ובית הלל. הללו אומרים: נוח לו לאדם שלא נברא יותר משנברא, והללו אומרים: נוח לו לאדם שנברא יותר משלא נברא. נמנו וגמרו: נוח לו לאדם שלא נברא יותר משנברא, עכשיו שנברא, יפשפש במעשיו.
[For two-and-a-half years, the School of Shammai and the School of Hillel debated. The former said, “It is better for man not to have been created than to have been created”, and the latter said, “It is better for man to have been created than not to have been created”. They finally took a vote and decided that it were better for man not to have been created, but now that he has been created, let him examine his past deeds or, as others say, his future actions.]
This theme of the separation of lovers is an ancient one in Sanskrit and Indian literature. In the Mahābhārata the story of Nala and Damayantī illustrates this sentiment. The ideal lover is better exemplified in a woman than in a man. The man is enmeshed in desire, sensuousness, and egoism. The Hindu wife is the ideal of conjugal fidelity, total devotion, and self-surrender, extending even to heroic sacrifice of self. The husband is the model of infidelity, which only better allows the wife to demonstrate her selfless devotion. This devotion of the wife for her husband has the character of religious ascesis. Thus Charlotte Vaudeville remarks, in Evolution of Love Symbolism in Bhagavatism:
The Indian Epic, therefore, knows preman as an ideal love relationship between husband and wife, rising above mere sensual desire, kāma. But it is the wife, and she alone, who is really transformed and elevated by it, so to speak, her own sādhana. The pure Hindu wife, the Satī, is already a type of Bhakta.
