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    BROTHER KLAUS* om Bet ai tc At Se on he Visns athe iene reser Kin ate tener noe be Saou pee wp ub per iose Boy meee tl eae ew epee Fe fe oil a ap sow ote morsnaal ek Nouri cree ao ahr hast wlan to te whi ie ot ive mn a mols Dip ce ee Hine ny eps ane a ae sce ike tte emcee ipl sa abbr dia apse ge Sina yee Uo a ee inept owgelat te stints epee casa ile sheep Pept ack Sa kg alt wine ‘ati a Ss ah ab tp mst sr an a Sav Sears te Se to ry Pipette tourist Dele a ea Sacay Spina ale ay no 8 7 ‘renis, or whatever elie these morbid dings may be called, and te reduced to the right denominator by some competent au thovity, Medically, I ean, find nothing "wrong with Brother [Klaus Tee him ara somewhat unossal but im no wise patholog- ical perion, 1 man aller tay own heaves my brother Klaus. [Rather remote, 10 be sute at this distance of more than four ‘hundred year, separated by exlture and creed by those lashion- able tides whieh we always Chink constitute a world. Yet they mount to ho more than linguistic difculies, and these do not limpede understanding of the csenias. So Tite, in fac, that Tyas able to converse, in the primitive language of inward ‘ison, with a man who in every Way was even further removed from me than Brother Klaus~2 Pueblo Indian, my friend Ochwiahiano (Mountain Lake"), For what itefets us here Snot the historical personage, not che wellknown figure ab the Dietof Stans? but the “niend of God," who appeared but afew times on the world stage, yet lived along life in the realms of the soul, OF what he there experienced he left behind only scant traces, s0 few and inarticulate that itis ard for posterity to form my picture of his inner He. Te ha vas intrigued me to know what a hermit does with Inseif all day long, Can we sill imagine a real spiritual ane cchotite nowadays, one who has not simpy crept avay-t0vegetate in miandvopie sup? A solitary fellow, like an old ele- pancho rerentfully defies the herd instine:? Can we imagine formal perwon living a seasble, vital existence: by himself, ‘with no wate partner? : Brother Klaws had & house, wife, and chdzen, and we do ‘not know of any external factors which could have induced him, {0 betoihe a hermit, The sole reason for this was his singular inner life; experienecs for which no merely natural grounds fan he adduoed, decisive experiences which accompanied him ‘rom youth wp. These things seme to him of more vilue than fordinary husnan existence: They were probably the object of bis daily interest and the source of his spisiual vitality, Te hei tea aig tf even eo ce SE wich spt ea he rednias ‘hotest are otf wha dangh hea (Nilo -tfeuy se othe eae mene a be Confederate. Ck ‘onbrge Meda oy, Vs Dm) ‘ound ier ike an anecote fom the He of sah who iri td a Nau ene il “Ao ie thr Klay began ina to met des no oe you Eva se {Sahow you my boa in whk fam laing ad sce toe teal th dating: Aad he bough mes ere wae wich ix tpoten” So evden Broker Kine arsed tome masons "anatine” eter ae sug Wane fd intepet the tng ia aprenel oie ae a iit aaniy wu sm of sly mao fave ees Gondola! one of ese wits aw ou ae Be fe "Did henotttcne tam ne gs sta ee ‘hoa the teraction othe wel Wins see ne patted inhi chapel and nigh whi asin Sea nie aveletedhe cme eunee ofthe Godhead Hoste "ith Sol he derived “kindy his den so hi 77 Hee cae wih te sll ny Vin, i ata the green gone forae hermes as Me Aecrding tthe ode Soper wan apn Te siping nei in be Wn tana ee Te ae an oor mae nomenon owe Thtscem ate tere almaen ado fr the tp of cog he ‘ion Jat a ene aig into en ae roan ee Mer wine of cil adden an vide Seer Seed Tas losing acre leap ths And ean snore impentve tie inl vison wn the nger ee {>be aint andthe prea and ore pene ath thera the mind to mas onl vende elie ima undensnaing Sh yon b's wemeon Conn ma al seme he nerd aha ee vas en ctmay to dawning ond elke hee we byte fling tone en Sc aks ema ee oe mer in ater and aber rata in Bre Clan cer ge ‘eh The maul uta omy arg eke be at Pas veto Rabe Da Ser ‘Meck Gundtinge Clon or Canoga, tek ad ‘pcr hon vi te ty of Pg ee rin theo td wit hop 38 | ‘Now what has “inzupted™ here, and wherein les is mighty “impression”? The oldest source, Wellin’ biography, narrates the following on this score: {Al who came tom were filled with terror atthe fs ance, As to the exc of this he irmelf ed to ay Chat hea ae perc, Tight seienbling# human face. At the ight off he fated that hi Dpert woul Dust Into Itde pleas Overcome with terror, he ine stant tured his face away and fel to the qr. And that was the venan iy is face as now table to then. "This is borne out by the account which the humanist Karl ‘ovis (Charles de Bouelles) gave to a fiend in 3508 (ome twenty yeas ater the death of Brother Klaus: 1 wih to tll yo fa vison whieh append oi in the sky om a ight when the ste wete asin 484 he tod fm prayer sd cont templation, He sew the nad of a human gore wats ering {Sty fal wrath aad teens So weshall noe go wrongin surmising chat dhe vision wasters ing in the extxeme. When we consider that the mental atiude ‘of that age, and in particular thae of Brother Klaus, allowed no ‘other interpretation than that thi vision represented God hin self, and that God signified the summum bonum, Absolute Per fection, then itis clear that such vision must, by it violent tantra, have had a profound and shattering effect, whose as “imilation into consciousness required years of the most stent us spiritual effort. Through subsequent elaboration this vision then became the soealled Trinity Vision. As Father Stoed ightly conjectors, the “wheel” or circles were formed on the ‘basis of, and as parallel o, dhe lfuteated devotional books that were rend atthe time, As mentioned ahove, other Klas even coms to have posteated sich a book himself Later, ax a result of frter mena elaboration hee wee med the pos of ‘he wheel andthe sie secondary circles, a dhown in the old pic- he ofthe vision inthe parish church at Sachsen {ide we i eb he Lan rm Li or ol in quicue Broder Clan Shut sen dete (Wenn, ‘ah, bs Chat in Suet pe 39 ‘a> “jibevson of light was not the only one which Brother Winus:hale He even thooghe that, ile stl ia his others womb, he had seen a star that outibone al thers in bightnes, and later, inhi itu, he sw avery similar str repeatedly ‘The-vilon of ligt had, therefore, qccurred reveral tes be {oren his ie, Light means imnaton fe an illuminating fab that “irupee” Using a very eaitioss formulation, we ld say the the underlying factor ere sa considerable te Sion of poychic energy, evidenly comesponding to some very Jmmportan unconacions content. This conten: hasan cverpowen ing effect and holds the concioss mind spellbound, The te Inout power of the “objective pay” ba been named "demon “Gos” in all epochs withthe sole exception ofthe recent presnt, We he become x bth in mates of religion that we correctly sy “unconslows,” beewuse God bas in fat ‘tame unconscious to x ‘hit is wha always happens when things are interpreted explained, né dogmatized antl they become o encrusted wih man made images and words tha they «an no longer be seen. Something sila sexs to have bape pened to Brother Klaus, whieh is why te mediate cxpeicnce bhrse upon hiem with appalling trot Had his vison" been an sthnming and edifying atthe present pire at Sacseln, no such tert would ever ve emanate rom it "God" isa primordial experience of man, and rom the re ‘mocet times humanity har ken inconcelvble pins ithe to powray this baling experienc, wo swiniate ie by means of Inerpreation speculation, and dogma, or che co deny i, Aud again and agin it has happened, and sil happens, that one hha to much about the “good” God and know i too el, so that one confuses him with one's vm dest and regu therm tiered bce hey can eal ak couple of and 1 ‘uperttion and an idolatry every Bit tad Getler dalton tee “Co canbe cache cate ce IWtenc, Even a modern theologian lke Gogarten *is quite sue At God éan only be good. A good man doc not tesily me ‘wat then would Gogarten bave made ofthe Blosed Brother lsu Presumably he would have liad explain to hitn that ested the devil in person, Sitges rei aia Wal 0 Yo sama tog HE ‘sa Fab eee ee Gia alin oa ca mee wees ssc at ae Sg ee eee ath ence for so worthy and shrewd a man as Brother Klaus, See rr at mre a ee eatin al eae me ae

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