Thursday, June 28, 2012

sic permanet gloria mundi?

The myth of Er suggests that we did choose our parents, and the idea that all that we do on earth -- also suggested in the lines toward the end of Goethe's Faust "Es kann die Spur von meinen Erdetagen/Nicht in Äonen untergehn" (lines 11583-4) -- might be permanent, if not in "this world", could be termed in contrast to sic transit gloria mundi: sic permanet gloria mundi.
This assumes some such reality as the Zoroastrian daena sub specie aeternitatis.

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