{"id":1568,"date":"2020-11-20T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2024-05-12T22:50:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T05:50:53","slug":"novalis-the-healing-art-of-fairy-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/es\/novalis-the-healing-art-of-fairy-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Novalis y el arte curativo del cuento de hadas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>\u201cThe fairytale is the touchstone of poetry . . . everything poetic must be like a fairytale. The poet worships chance.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><em>\u2014 Novalis<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8220;The fairytale is mightier than philosophy.&#8221;<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8212; Bruce Donehower, after Novalis<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This 20-minute lecture video is from a Meeting of the Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities held on November 20, 2020. At the bottom of the post are performance videos in English and German of the fairytale &#8220;Hyacinth and Rosebud&#8221; by Novalis.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Novalis &amp; The Healing Art of Fairytale&quot;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/583886003?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Novalis thought very highly of fairytales<\/strong>. Much of what Novalis says about the spiritual importance of fairytales is echoed by Rudolf Steiner one hundred years or more after Novalis died. This is entirely in keeping with the extreme importance that Rudolf Steiner gave to Novalis \u2014 for example in the Last Address.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most arresting statements made by Rudolf Steiner about the fairytale is that <strong>\u201cfairytales can help counter illnesses.\u201d<\/strong> We find this statement in the book <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/the-world-of-fairy-tales-by-rudolf-steiner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The World of Fairy Tales<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, which is featured in the Books section of this website.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>English Version:<br \/>\n<\/strong><em><b>Hyacinth and Rosebud<\/b><\/em><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><strong>by Novalis<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Hyacinth and Rosebud&quot; by Novalis\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/439300333?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>German Version:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>Hyazinth und Rosenbl\u00fctchen<\/em> von Novalis<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cHyazinth und Rosenbl\u00fctchen\u201d \/ Ein M\u00e4rchen von Novalis\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/441409986?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>\u201cIn a genuine fairytale, everything must be miraculous, mysterious, and interrelated; everything must be alive, each in its own way. The whole of Nature must be wondrously blended with the whole world of the Spirit. In fairytale, the bonds between anarchy, lawlessness, freedom, the natural state of Nature make themselves felt in the world . . . The world of the fairytale is a world which is opposed throughout to a world of rational truth, and precisely for that reason is it so thoroughly an analogue to a world of rational truth, as Chaos is an analogue to finished Creation.\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u2014 Novalis<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1570 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0391-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0391-1.jpeg 443w, https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0391-1-233x300.jpeg 233w, https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0391-1-9x12.jpeg 9w, https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/IMG_0391-1-400x516.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>\u201cPoor child, who has not yet loved!&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The picture above is by William Blake<\/strong>. Contemplate it for a moment. (Blake and Novalis have a lot in common \u2014 they were contemporaries.) Contemplate this picture and imagine that you are carrying on your shoulders a child such as this. Is the child happy? Sad? Frightened? Worried? Angry? Sick? Is the child having a fit, or maybe is it afraid of the world?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I\u2019ve always been fascinated by a remark made by <strong>Novalis<\/strong> in which Novalis said that Goethe\u2019s <em>Fairy Tale<\/em> [<em>The Green Snake and Beautiful Lily<\/em>] is \u201c<strong>Narrated Opera<\/strong>.\u201d Not opera in a total musical form, but narrated opera, Novalis says. Spoken opera. Usually when I tell my musician friends that I am making fairytale videos with speech artists in Fair Oaks \u2013 tiny &#8220;narrated operas&#8221; \u2013 they smile and say: \u201cOh good! I\u2019ll give them to my grandchildren.\u201d But these tiny narrated operas are for adults! As Novalis and Rudolf Steiner pointed out, every adult needs to hear a true fairytale in the right way! Every adult has a child inside, as Steiner pointed out \u2013 a child who needs to hear the true fairytale, repeatedly. But maybe the adult doesn\u2019t let the child listen to such stories. Oh my! How sad! The adult would rather explain the deep hidden meanings in the fairytale and say wise things or teach lessons \u2013 but the child only wants to enjoy a narrated opera.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>&#8220;G\u00f6thes M\u00e4rchen ist eine erz\u00e4hlte Oper.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Novalis<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cThere is a great difference in whether or not one has as a child grown up with fairytales. The soul-stirring nature of fairytale pictures becomes evident only later on. If fairytales have not been given, this shows itself in later years in weariness of life, in boredom. Indeed, it even comes to expression physically: fairytales can help counter illnesses. What is absorbed little by little by means of fairytales emerges subsequently as joy in life, in the meaning of life \u2013 it comes to light in the ability to cope with life, even into old age. Children must experience the power inherent in fairytales while young, when they can still do so. Whoever is not capable of living with ideas that have no reality for the physical plane, \u201cdies\u201d for the spiritual world.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Rudolf Steiner<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u201cThe fairytale is the touchstone of poetry . . . everything poetic must be like a fairytale. 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