Bestsellerförfattaren Dan Brown donerar 300 000 Euro till Amsterdams
Ritman-bibliotek, Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, för att digitalisera 3500
ockulta böcker:
http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/3500-occult-manuscripts-will-be-digitized-made-freely-available-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29
"If there’s one thing The Da Vinci Code’s Dan Brown and “The Library of
Babel”’s Jorge Luis Borges have in common it is a love for obscure religious
and occult books and artifacts. But why do I compare Borges—one of the most
highly-regarded, but difficult, of Latin American poets and writers—to a famous
American writer of entertaining paperback thrillers? One reason only: despite
the vast differences in their styles and registers, Borges would be deeply
moved by Brown’s recent act of philanthropy, a donation of €300,000 to
Amsterdam’s Ritman Library, also known as the Bibliotheca Philosophica
Hermetica House of Living Books.
The generous gift will enable the Ritman to digitize thousands of “pre-1900
texts on alchemy, astrology, magic, and theosophy,” reports Thu-Huong Ha at
Quartz, including the Corpus Hermeticum (1472), “the source work on Hermetic
wisdom”; Giordano Bruno’s Spaccio de la bestia trionfante (1584); and “the
first printed version of the tree of life (1516): A graphic representation of
the sefirot, the 10 virtues of God according to the Kabbalah.”"
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