Lord of the Elements

[frittermywig]

Started reading Lord of the Elements: Interweaving Christianity and Nature by Bastian Baan. It's dense but readable; not sure how much of the density is from anthroposophical ideas that I'm unfamiliar with.

I think it's the right book for me. Last night I noted that St. Paul refers to personhood as comprising spirit, soul and body (1 Thessalonians 5:23). I took it as a providence when I read Baan today highlighting the same division in Plotinus and calling it an archetypal image. Helpfully, Baan adds that 'spirit' is sometimes identified as reason or intellect (nous). (I'm trying to understand this without any Greek or Latin.)