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MARTIN MOORS
+ the noetic matrix comprises the following aforementioned elements:
consciousness, spiritualness freedom, cognizance;
while the noematic matrix comprises:
¢ facticity: “Allin the mysteries is factum: from the beginning to the end,
as is displayed in a tragedy, all is based on an event /Ereignis]”;
¢ priority: “Content of the account of mysteries /Mysterienlehre] are [...]
the pure causing divinities [...]. The esoteric of mythology can only be
the pure principles, the causes, also only the pure potencies, which we
have put forward at work throughout the whole mythological process”;?
« one-ness: “The apex of the account of mysteries was the fact that
the causing divinities [...] were the mere different shapes of one and
the same God who was moving by itself, through itself, and in itself”;’°
+ pure spiritualness: “The main content of the mysteries was nothing
else than the history of the religious consciousness itself, or, stated
objectively, the history of God himself, who had himself elucidated and
sublated from the original state of non-spiritualness unto complete
spiritualness. The final content of the mysteries is thus the pure spiritual
God.”""
These two matrices—the noetic and the noematic—are designing by
themselves an “account of mysteries” /Mysterienlehre]. | explicitly emphasize
“by themselves” because the account which manifests the truth indwelling in
esoteric mythology is altogether a subject-less (also pre-historical) account of
truth and cognizance. In his Historical-critical Introduction to the Philosophy of
Mythology,” Lecture eight, Schelling borrows a neologism, coined by “the well¬
known Coleridge” to express the itself-positing actuality of mythology and its
gods: “Mythology is not allegorical; it is tautegorical.”’* Schelling elucidates the
meaning of the expression “tautegorical” as follows: “Because consciousness
chooses or invents neither the ideas themselves nor their expression, mythology
emerges immediately as such and in no other sense than in which it articulates
45th Lecture, 357, also 298: “die Mysterien waren etwas, was begangen wurde - res, sacra,
quae fiebant.”
9% 42nd Lecture, 318-319.
1 42nd Lecture, 320.
1 Sth Lecture, 351.
2 This is Book I of the Introduction to the Philosophy of Mythology (Einleitung in
die Philosophie der Mythologie, Erstes Buch: historisch-kritische Einleitung in die
Philosophie der Mythologie), which is itself Volume I (Erster Band) of his Philosophy of
Mythology (Philosophie der Mythologie) in Schellings Werke: Nach der Originalausgabe in
neuer Anordnung, ed. Manfred Schröter, Berlin, Beck’schen Verlag, 1927-1959 und 1962¬
1971 (abbreviated SW). We are using the English translation by Jason M. Wirth (Foreword)
and Mason Richey — Markus Zisselberger (main text), State University of New York Press,
Albany, NY, 2007 (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy).
3 Op. cit., 136 (SW XI, 195-196).
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