(January 7, 2019 at 6:00 am)Belaqua Wrote: He had no interest in mystifying things. He wanted to find the truth.
For some people mysticism is the truth. Goethe did try to mystify it, as that wiki article says, According to Goethe, "Newton's error.. was trusting math over the sensations of his eye."
Yeah, throwing out mathematics out of explanations is mystifying things.
He didn't like the math he wanted to pull it back to experience without explanation For Goethe, light is "the simplest most undivided most homogeneous being that we know. Confronting it is the darkness" I mean "being" - anthropomorphism is practically definition of mysticism.
So no wonder mystic like Rudolf Steiner felt connection to his un-explanation of light.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
