Rilke for Dummies, part 1

[Mark Kohut]

1) a restless anguished Western [Christian] 'mystic' of some kind who, however,
had it in for Jesus Christ hisself. Who then became furiously anti-Christian: he wrote
to the the Princess of Thurn and Taxis from Cordova that that city did it. 
 
2) God became " a direction given to love"...later. Came to believe that if man evolved
then God must too.....Perfect he couldn't be...We seek him; He seeks us..........
 
3) developed a 'gospel of things' which went so far as to call out as false the names
of things...all just sensuous--if felt right--expressions of God
 
4) so, his theology became a kind of pantheism or panentheism, which we all
discussed re Against the Day.....so, since God is life, He contains all the contraies,
too. 
 
5) Wrote a play with a White Princess, a spiritual and/or physical virgin waiting.....
(she sleeps with a Cross).
 
6) Since death intensifies life, Rilke believed it--death or Death--was--or should be 
a part of our daily life....awareness, etc. I guess.....So,
 
7) if love (of all kinds) was a good end (of life) then love, physical, all kinds had to
contain death in it..............[see GR passim]
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