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The Ring

Introduction


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Appendix I
Appendix I I

Key Colour Coding

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[756W-{3/1/70}CD Vol. I, p. 194]

[P. 194] {FEUER} “… R. explains to him [Heinrich Porges] how it is that the Holy Grail can be regarded as freedom. Renunciation, repudiation of the will, the oath of chastity separate the Knights of the Grail from the world of appearances. The knight is permitted to break his oath through the condition which he imposes on the woman – for, if a woman could so overcome a natural propensity as not to ask, she would be worthy of admission to the Grail. It is the possibility of this salvation which permits the Knight to marry.” [756W-{3/1/70}CD Vol. I, p. 194]

 

[757W-{3/17/70?}BB, p. 177]

[P. 177] {FEUER} “Sculptors and poets give nation what it would like to seem, - the musician – what it really is. – Terror of inner world basis of sublime. (…) Effect of music always that of sublime: form, however, that of beauty, i.e., in first instance, liberation of individual from conception of any causality. – Musical beauty form in which musician plays with sublime. Beeth. = Schopenhauer: his music, translated into concepts, would produce that philosophy.” [757W-{3/17/70?}BB, p. 177]

 

[758W-{3/17/70?}BB, p. 177]

[P. 177] {FEUER} “Banality of world, wishing without sacrifice to enjoy what delighted him whenever he extracted himself from life. – Saintliness. Church.” [758W-{3/17/70?}BB, p. 177]

 

[759W-{6/5/70} CD Vol. I, p. 228]

[P. 228] {FEUER} {SCHOP} R. says, ‘When the ring was snatched from her[Bruennhilde] I thought of Alberich; the noblest character suffers the same as the ignoble, in every creature the will is identical.” [759W-{6/5/70} CD Vol. I, p. 228]

 

[760W-{9/18/70} CD Vol. I, P. 272]

[P. 272] {SCHOP} “He [Schopenhauer] regards it as an ineptitude of Nature not to havecreated yet another species, since between gifted and ungifted human beings there is indeed a gap wider than between human beings and animals. One has only to watch a theater audience, in which one person is utterly absorbed and concentrating, the other inattentive, fidgety, vapid. Between these two persons no understanding is possible, and therein lies the mystery of the gifted person in a world in which he must regard as identical with himself a creature who no more resembles him than an ape does.” [760W-{9/18/70} CD Vol. I, P. 272]

 

[761W-{10/11/70} CD Vol. I, p. 282]

[P. 282] {FEUER} “In the evening a conversation about sense of duty, right and wrong. ‘What I recognize,’ says R., ‘is not the works but the belief – not to do what is right against my inclinations, but to do what is good from all my heart.” [761W-{10/11/70} CD Vol. I, p. 282]