{"id":1578,"date":"2021-10-23T11:41:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T10:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2022-01-27T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T12:15:29","slug":"agnus-dei-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2021\/10\/23\/agnus-dei-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Agnus dei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just go to youtube and type in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Lutz+bachstiftung\">Lutz bachstiftung<\/a>. Listen to the cantatas, \u201cnew\u201d ones being added every few weeks,&nbsp;<em>az egyik gy\u00f6ny\u00f6r\u00fcbb mint a m\u00e1sik,&nbsp;<\/em>and listen to the workshops<em>,<\/em>&nbsp;and the remarkably gifted Lutz, as he conducts and as he plays and sings (all voices and all instruments) and explains its metaphorical relation to the text (scripture, poems, sermons).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, even paradoxically, this is all at odds with the primitive and repugnant truths I\u2019m learning (or rather realizing what I already sensed) about what religions (false supernatural and superstitious cults, all) really are, from the 5 pages of nightly headway that I am making on <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/paperback\/9780691172095\/sabbatai-sevi\">Scholem\u2019s 1000-page historical treatise<\/a> on the \u201cfalse\u201d messiah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All messiahs are false, and all their preachings are just hermeneutics &#8212; human logomancy vainly striving to \u201cresolve\u201d the blatant contradiction (\u201cparadox\u201d) between holy writ and reality with the inexhaustible resources of symbolism and symbolic interpretation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironic, because that\u2019s also what Bach was doing, sublimely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have no resolution, except that music, like all experience, is just&nbsp;<em>feeling<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 feelings that have carried humans to great \u201cheights\u201d (high compared to what?) and also propelled their descent to the basest and vilest of depths \u2013 both symbolized and incarnated in the sacrificing of the real , suffering lamb to the false, fictional deities \u2013 barbaric, willful sadism that is then shamelessly appropriated as symbolic of the \u201cmartyrdom\u201d of the messiah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet I seem to be savoring Bach and Lutz as the epicure savors his mutton or the mystic his supernal communion\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"872\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2021\/10\/lamb1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1579\" srcset=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2021\/10\/lamb1.jpg 872w, http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2021\/10\/lamb1-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/287\/2021\/10\/lamb1-768x528.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Josefa de Ayala (Spanish; Portuguese, ca. 1630-1684). &#8216;The Sacrificial Lamb,&#8217; ca. 1670-1684. oil on canvas. Walters Art Museum (37.1193): Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just go to youtube and type in&nbsp;Lutz bachstiftung. Listen to the cantatas, \u201cnew\u201d ones being added every few weeks,&nbsp;az egyik gy\u00f6ny\u00f6r\u00fcbb mint a m\u00e1sik,&nbsp;and listen to the workshops,&nbsp;and the remarkably gifted Lutz, as he conducts and as he plays and sings (all voices and all instruments) and explains its metaphorical relation to the text (scripture, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2021\/10\/23\/agnus-dei-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Agnus dei&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[74,76,75,78,73,77,79],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}