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Now and Then....

The poetic guidance and spiritual wisdom of Hermann Hesse 💜 found earlier this week in “The Seasons of the Soul” a selection of his poems previously unpublished in English 📖✨

A dear friend first introduced me to Hesse with the book Siddhartha, given as a birthday present 💝 omg, in the years that followed I read nearly every book he’d authored!! 😍 one after another, and I bought this book of poems too 😊 but have only dipped into it so far..!

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I just read the ‘Foreword‘ written by Andrew Harvey, it begins:

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“As the great deciding crisis of our civilisation continues to explode, the wisdom of voices like Hermann Hesse’s — wisdom like a dry but rich old red wine — becomes ever rarer and ever more important. Hesse’s voice is particularly necessary because it speaks with deep sincerity of one of the key spiritual adventures of the last hundred years, that of fusing together the best of the Western philosophical and mystery traditions with the highest understanding of unity and divine identity of the East. This is an adventure that many of us believe provides the fuel for the next evolutionary stage of humanity and for the birth of a universal mysticism that can lead to a whole scale transformation of all forms of earth life.”