{Historical Circles (3)}[12th September 1989]

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*In an odd way this last theory** fits one of the possible historical cycles – by which the split which TS Eliot noted between thought and feeling after the Metaphysical poets (particularly Donne and Marvel) of the 17^th Century is around C, the intellectualism of the Age of Enlightenment and of the 19^th Century are [sic] around M~ (with Imperialism), and 19^th and 20^th Century industrialism and commerce bring us down to A~, where it is now noticeable that Mrs. Thatcher is knocking the intellectuals and academics off their perches, just as they dethroned religion in the previous sector.

In this cycle, as in others, it is already noticeable that real fragmentation is beginning to occur, and is likely to get worse.

Over the next fifty years or so we have to

(a) ride the tiger – or dragon – of destruction; and

(b) prepare to ensure that the death of each cycle is replaced, not by the tyranny of a new outer circle, but by the transformation in love onto the inner circle.

It is becoming more and more clear that Christ is the key archetype in such a crisis: but not necessarily Christ as we have understood him ([–] my slight sense of disjointedness, in writing the first part of this sentence, suggests).

*{[[Redbook6:165-167][19890726:0019]{Historical Circles (1)}[26th July 1989]ff] 165,

([[Redbook6:201][19890804:1938b]{Historical Circles (2)}[4th August 1989]] 201) →}

**[See last previous entry]

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