Ludendorff, Mathilde: History of Creation - used

In her second major work, The Origin and Nature of the Soul, Mathilde Ludendorff examines in depth the prerequisites and the nature of the experience of God within the human soul, indeed all the fundamental laws of the soul of living beings. Her doctrine of the soul begins with the first part, the history of creation. All of creation has been a preliminary stage of the soul. Anyone who wishes to understand its crowning achievement, the human soul, must first grasp the other stages of creation, beginning with ether and primordial nebulae. The human soul is the microcosm in which all stages of creation of the macrocosm are once again reflected. It creates the conscious cosmos within itself. It is not essentially separated from the unconscious cellular soul and the subconscious animal soul, but rather encompasses both within itself, enriched by the experience of consciousness. In this work, the highest philosophy and religion unite with natural science in order to enable us human beings to transcend ourselves. All unresolved enigmas of the laws of the soul are made comprehensible from the clear light of fundamental insight, in wondrous harmony with all the facts of experience and science. Since for all times this greatly enhances for many the evidential power of this monumental philosophical vision, we welcome the fact that the philosopher proclaimed and described the preliminary stage to the first living being—one that natural science had sought in vain—and that fourteen years after the first publication of the work (1923), natural science discovered the protein or colloid crystal named and described by the philosopher. In the spring of 1939, the poetic work The Song of Creation in Sacred Nights was created for this book and now, as its first part, enriches the work immeasurably. Just as in the work Triumph of the Will to Immortality the poem How the Soul Experienced It, through the poetic beauty of its form, profoundly conveys the rich content of insight to the human being, all the more so here, where the becoming of the universe is contemplated from the nature of God and bestowed upon the reader in poetic beauty. A further enrichment of the work is provided by the artistic drawings of Lina Richter, which depict the most essential stages of creation in artistic perfection and at the same time with scientific fidelity.

Pages: 154

Topics: Doctrine of the Soul · Philosophy · Experience of God · Creation · Natural Science · Cosmos