Re: VMs: MS408 Character Development

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:

> All the same, the Papke "translation" of the VMs may indeed prove to be 
> a repository of useful spiritual content for some people. But I would 
> argue that this might equally well be true of Hermann Rorschach's ink 
> blots (or perhaps even enneagrams), and for much the same reason: any 
> personal transformation arising from it (for good or bad) is probably 
> better to be attributed to the psychologist / psychoanalyst using it as 
> a tool and to the subject's own desire to change.

	Indeed!  The Runes are popular for New Age divination, but 
they are simply pre-Christian adaptations of the 
Etruscan/Latin alphabet.  This also brings to mind Kircher's 
misinterpretations of Egyptian hieroglyphics.  The ancient 
Greeks, in fact, seem to have thought that the hieroglyphs 
had a mystical or magical character.  However, they are 
simply another form of writing, and have as much or as 
little mystical character as any other.

Dennis

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