December 16, 2005

• Jesus vs. the Goddess:
  A Brief Chronology
  

  In 1946, Robert Graves published “King Jesus, an
  historical novel based on the theory and Graves’ own historical
  conjecture that Jesus was, in fact, the rightful heir to the Israelite
  throne… written while he was researching and developing his ideas for
  The White Goddess.”

  In 1948, C. S. Lewis finished the first draft of The Lion, The Witch,
  and The Wardrobe, a novel in which one of the main characters is
  “the White Witch.”

  In 1948, Robert Graves published The White Goddess.

  In 1949, Robert Graves
  published Seven Days in New Crete [also titled Watch
  the North Wind Rise], “a novel about a social distopia in which
  Goddess worship is (once again?) the dominant religion.”

  Lewis died on November 22, 1963, the day John F. Kennedy was
  killed.

  Related material:
  Log24, December 10, 2005

  Graves died on December 7 (Pearl Harbor Day), 1985.

  Related material:
  Log24, December 7, 2005, and

  Log24, December
  11, 2005

  Jesus died, some say, on April 7 in the year 30 A.D.

  Related material:

  Art Wars, April 7, 2003:
  Geometry and Conceptual Art,

  
  Eight is a Gate, and

  
  Mathematics and Narrative.

  

  Plato’s Diamond

  

  – Motto of

  Plato’s Academy
  

  “Plato is wary of all forms of rapture other
  than reason’s. He is most deeply leery of, because himself so
  susceptible to, the literary imagination. He speaks of it as a kind of
  holy madness or intoxication and goes on to link it to Eros, another
  derangement that joins us, but very dangerously, with the gods.”

   

  — Rebecca Goldstein in
      The New York Times,
      three years ago today
      (December 16, 2002) 

   

  “It’s all in Plato, all in Plato;
   bless me, what do they
  teach them at these schools?”

   

  – C. S. Lewis in
  the Narnia Chronicles

  “How much story do you want?”
  – George Balanchine

  
  

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