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Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

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Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily - Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
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In 1794, Goethe and Schiller were engaged in a correspondence concerning the connection of the human soul with the world of the senses on one hand and with the suprasensory on the other. While Schiller approached the question in a philosophical way, Goethe embodied his thoughts in a fantasy entitled The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. In his fantasy, Lily represents the ideal world of the suprasensory that is separated from the Green Snake, or the sensory, by a river. The goal is to build a bridge ...

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Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily 1991, Steiner Books

ISBN-13: 9780833400260

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