/lit/ - Literature

>>21449663
You list Germans, but not the Irish? I always found them to be one of the most shameless ethnic lobbies in the USA. People like fucking Representative Pete King were literal IRA shills in Congress.
Not that I am actually opposed to the IRA or the inevitable Irish unification, but can you imagine the outrage if some Indian descended Rep. was constantly shilling for Kashmir to go to India?
Cubans in Miami are the worst of all though. They have no intention on returning to Cuba, but they still vote as if US foreign policy depended entirely on keeping that fucking embargo going

>>20366685
>Eriguena, and even Proclus, had advanced Platonism beyond what the Zohar was attempting to recreate.
Gershom Scholem basically says as much in his origins of kabbalah, that the early kabbalists copied the works of Scotus Erigena, thus kabbalah and all its derivative influence through history is ultimately an extension of Hibernian masonic conspiracy

>It is not difficult to suppose that the first kabbalists of Provence and Aragon, around 1180-1220, had direct or indirect knowledge of Scotus Erigena, whose influence reached its high point at that time, just before the condemnation of 1210. Many Cathars too seem to have made use of Erigena's work
as is suggested by two extant testimonies. Writings of Erigena were no rarity in the cities where the first kabbalists lived, before Honorius III ordained the destruction of all copies found in France.

>This would also explain the strange deviation of the kabbalistic schema from the classical Plotinian hierarchy of being; it seems that the hierarchy of the Timaeus had somehow been transmitted to the author in a mystical transformation such as can be found in Erigena's book

>To be sure, many elements in the language of the kabbalists argue in favor of a dependence on Erigena