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The in-fact abstracted, idealistic and hopeful ideas, systems, beliefs, notions,… of how to improve, if not solve, the human condition, by those who know so little of its history is, though they are adults, childish.

If the moon is not Romanticized, it can remind, literally, of the meta-physics in which our earth life is.

Which bears more: the idea or the stone.

Goethe’s Faust v Augustine’s pilgrim.

Goethe:

“Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen.” (11936 f.)

Augustine:

Wer nimmer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen.

Contrasting beliefs in human nature and spirit.

Fighting off a humdrum day, uninterestingly overcast, with Augustine, his two cities and the Fall of Rome.

Inside, obscured by so much broad in human – oft all-too-human – society, daily life, politics, human dreaminess and strivings, survival and successes,…in core, really often ignored and neglected, stands the belief, the idea, the notion of life and world sub species dei.

Who needs the notion of the burden of millions of the Grand Inquisitor of Dostoyevsky when you have the preachings of Billy Graham?

Many good people are unable to express themselves without clichés, standard ideas, emotions and expressions. But they and most don’t notice.

There is a deep inner world of difference whether one views Augustine as Saint, “Church Father”, or a man in his time.

At each of the “historic locations” to which I traveled in search of History… I never could readily leave until I had sought to try to absorb an essence which in all probability was long since not, if ever, there.

The problem of the ontos of ruins.

The unconscious assumptions, or beliefs, which I bore in all of these searchings at the locations of stone remnants…