AtD (which contains everything) & money and alchemy link....

[Mark Kohut]

There we go...the very probable Pynchon connection....
which exact citation you, Ian, may have sent around before.....

Love our collective unconscious. So to speak.



----- Original Message ----
From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2009 2:16:04 PM
Subject: Re: AtD (which contains everything) & money and alchemy link....

In Aion and in Mysterium Coniunctionis, CG Jung refers extensively to
the second part of Faust as representative of the alchemical
literature of the time.  If you want to view a movie that pursues some
of these conspiracy theories extensively, and sometimes rationally,
check out http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/dloads.htm (sorry, I don't
know how to create a hyperlink in plain text.)

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 3. Money and Magic
> By Hans Christoph Binswanger
> University of Chicago, 1994
> A large and startling theory spills out of this offbeat little volume: Modern money systems have deep roots in alchemy, the Renaissance science of turning base metals into gold. For evidence, Hans Christoph Binswanger, a Swiss economist, turns to literature: the second and less well-known part of Goethe's "Faust," published in 1832. Faust, the alchemist, and Mephistopheles, his diabolic helpmeet, again wager Faust's soul, this time on the creation of money, which they intend to use to save the debt-ridden emperor. The adventurers fashion notes from worthless paper and bold promises and then "materialize" their airy currency by buying land. The transmutation of paper into money and then into property stirs within Faust an ecstatic vision of limitless growth. But Binswanger argues that the ecstasy masks a lurking agony: In a world of boundless, alchemical paper, when is enough, enough?
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