December 2, 2005
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For St. Robertson Davies,
whose feast is today:
Apollo and Christ“… a purely
harmonious concept of beauty is not enough…. Apollo, who for Plato’s Socrates was ‘the God’ and the
guarantor of unruffled beauty as ‘the truly divine’ is absolutely no
longer sufficient.”Discuss the following
symbol of Apollo
as the source of
a Christian symbol–
Related material:
The play
“now then again“(Time-Bending Love Story
Comes Home to Fermilab)
with cover art by Roz Francis
illustrating the time 8:05:19,Hexagram 19 in the
Cullinane series
(“A dance results”
– Marie-Louise von Franz),and
Paul Preuss on Apollo,
quantum physics, and
the isle of Delos.
