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Journal of Poetry, Science, and Statecraft Winter 1995 $5.00 rrhink Like Beethoven! FIDELIO You can subscribe directly to Fidelio} or you can JOIN THE SCHILLER INSTITUTE and receive Fidelio as part of the membership: Read our magazine, and help mak' e a new Golden Renaissance a reality! --------- � CLIP AND SEND ---------------------------------------- Sign me up as a member of the NAME ______ __________�-- --------------------- Schiller Institute ADDRESS _______________________________________ o $1,000 Lifetime Membership o $ 500 Sustaining Membership CITY ____________________STATE ___ ZIP ______ o $ 100 Regular Annual Membership TEL. NO. __________________ _____________________ All the above memberships include Occupation/Affiliation ________________________________ 4 issues of Fidelia ($20 value) and 100 issues of New Federalist ($35 value). OR I wish only to subscribe to Fidelio Clip and send together with check or money order to: $ 20 o for four issues Schiller Institute, Inc. P.o. Box 20244, Washington, D.C. 20041-0244 “It is through beauty that one proceeds to freedom.” —Friedrich Schiller Vol. III, No. 4 Winter 1994 SYMPOSIUM EDITOR-IN-CHIEF William F. Wertz, Jr. The Creative Principle EDITOR in Art and Science Kenneth Kronberg ART DIRECTOR Some Simple Examples Beauty as a Necessary Alan Yue Of Poetic Metaphor Condition of Humanity EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Kenneth Kronberg Helga Zepp-LaRouche Denise Henderson 4 14 BOOKS Katherine Notley African-American Spirituals What Mathematics Fidelio (ISSN 1059-9126) is And the Classical Setting Can Learn From published by the Schiller Of Strophic Poetry Classical Music Institute, Inc., P.O. Box 20244, Washington, D.C. 20041-0244. Dennis Speed Bruce Director Editorial services are provided 23 37 by KMW Publishing Company, Inc. © Schiller Institute, Inc. The Fraud of Fidelio is dedicated to the Algebraic Causality promotion of a new Golden Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr. Renaissance based upon the 57 concept of agap¯e or charity, as that is reflected in the creation of artistic beauty, the scientific mastery of the laws of the physical universe, and the 69 practice of republican statecraft ‘Man Measures His Intellect for the benefit of our fellow men. Through the Power of His Works’ Subscriptions by mail are $20.00 for 4 issues in the U.S. William F. Wertz, Jr. and Canada. Airmail subscriptions to other countries are $40.00 for 4 issues. Editorial 2 Creativity Will Defeat the ‘Conservative Revolution’ Payment must be made in U.S. News 86 Legal Experts Call for LaRouche Exoneration currency. Make check or money order payable to 86 ‘Classical Music Month’ Celebrated Schiller Institute, Inc. 87 Michael Gelber Memorial Fund Established 88 Institute Conference: ‘A Bridge from Hell to Purgatory’ On the Cover 89 LaRouches Lead Seminar in Slovak Republic Domenico Ghirlandaio, An Old Man and His Grandson (c.1480), Exhibits 90 ‘A Passion for Antiquities’ Louvre, Paris. SEE inside back Books 92 Anselm of Canterbury, Complete Works cover for analysis. (© Photo Réunion des Musées 93 The Works of Philo Nationaux) 94 Leibniz, Sun Yat-sen on China 96 Dionysos Rising FID 94-004 Creativity Will Defeat The ‘Conservative Revolution’ hereas many people might tend to see the monarchy), the world as a whole is now lurching toward results of the November 1994 elections in a collapse which could become a “new Dark Ages.” Wthe United States as a “conservative revo- To remove this cancer from our midst, we must lution” against New Age liberalism, the fact of the understand what it is we must defend, what we must matter is that the “conservative revolution” shares save and revive. many of the same axiomatic assumptions as the New Thus, the purpose of this issue of Fidelio is to render Age, and both are committed in their own ways to intelligible to you, our readers, that aspect of humanity destroying those institutions of the United States which underlies the institutions introduced by the which we have inherited from the Fifteenth-Century Renaissance, which the “conservative revolution” Golden Renaissance. Those institutions, as discussed would destroy. That unique quality of humanity in this issue’s article by William F. Wertz, Jr. on the which we must campaign to save, is nothing less than transformation of the tradi- human creativity itself. tional notion of natural law As Lyndon H. LaRouche, effected by Nicolaus of Cusa, EDITORIAL Jr. has written: “In all are as follows: pro-oligarchical, or related ‘conservative’ campaigns to 1. The idea of the modern destroy modern European civilization, the essential sovereign nation-state republic; target selected for destruction is the Mosaic notion that 2. The obligation of the state to foster scientific and tech- each individual person is in the living image of God nological progress; and the Creator. In that Mosaic tradition, against which this feudalist-like ‘conservatism’ directs its bitterest 3. The role of the state in promoting the education and hatreds, the individual person is proven to be in the related cultural development of persons, in order to image of God the Creator by the fact that each make possible a form of society committed to scientific possesses a non-deductive, Socratic form of creative and technological betterment of the condition of both intellectual power. This power is a ‘divine spark of the individual and the family. reason,’ which sets each person apart from and above Everything positive that has been accomplished by all lower forms of life.” mankind in the last 550 years, has been the result of the Moreover, as LaRouche stresses in his article this introduction of these institutional commitments, espe- issue on “The Fraud of Algebraic Causality”: cially as those found expression in the American Revolu- “Creative reason is imago Dei, is capax Dei; without it, tion. However, because modern society has thus far there is no imago Dei, no capax Dei.” failed to completely free itself from the grip of those The oligarchical pagan’s contrary view, is that man is “conservative,” usurious families centered in oligarchical a talking species of lower beast. The oligarch, for whom Venice beginning six hundred years ago (and most Aristotle is the paradigmatic philosopher, will not per- recently radiating from the institution of the British mit his subject slaves or other lower social classes to 2 On the Theater he stage is the institution where instruction Tand pleasure, exertion and repose, culture and amusement are wed; where no one power of the soul need strain against the others, and no pleasure is enjoyed at the expense of the whole. When grief gnaws at our heart, when melancholy poisons our solitary hours; when we are revolted by the world and its affairs; when a thousand troubles weigh upon our souls, and our sensibilities are about to be even know that creativity exists. For purposes of politi- snuffed out underneath our professional bur- cal control, he insists that the human mind is capable dens—then the theater takes us in, and within its only of sense-perception and deductive logic. He keeps imaginary world we dream the real one away; we his subjects enslaved in the world of the senses, of pas- are given back to ourselves; our sensibilities are sions, and denies them access to the higher intellectual reawakened; salutary emotions agitate our slum- faculties that make them truly human. bering nature, and set our hearts pulsating with To defeat the “conservative revolution” and its New greater vigor. Here the unfortunate, seeing anoth- Age confederates, our citizens must become wittingly er’s grief, can cry out his own; the jolly will be imago Dei, i.e., self-consciously creative. This can only sobered, and the secure will grow concerned. The be accomplished to the extent that the difference delicate weakling becomes hardened into man- between creativity, and mere logical deduction, is hood, and here the first tender emotions are awak- rendered intelligible to the mind of every citizen. ened within the barbarian’s breast. And then, at We present here a symposium of articles which last—O Nature! what a triumph for you!— demonstrate the principle of creativity at work in Nature, so frequently trodden to the ground, so poetry, music, and physical science. It was commis- frequently risen from its ashes!—when man at last, sioned by Lyndon LaRouche, as a demonstration of in all districts and regions and classes, with all his his assertion that “[e]ducation of the citizen requires a chains of fad and fashion cast away, and every bond secondary education in not only the principle of cre- of destiny rent asunder—when man becomes his ative discovery in physical science, but also the same brother’s brother with a single all-embracing sym- principle found in all great Classical forms of poetry, pathy, resolved once again into a single species, for- tragedy, music and painting.” getting himself and the world, and reapproaching In addition to LaRouche on creativity in the physi- his own heavenly origin. Each takes joy in others’ delights, which then, magnified in beauty and cal sciences, the symposium includes an article by strength, are reflected back to him from a hundred Helga Zepp-LaRouche entitled, “Beauty as a Neces- eyes, and now his bosom has room for a single sen- sary Condition of Humanity,” and works by Kenneth timent, and this is: to be truly human. Kronberg (“Some Simple Examples of Poetic —Friedrich Schiller, Metaphor”), Dennis Speed (“African-American Spiri- from “Theater Considered As a Moral Institution” tuals and the Classical Setting of Strophic Poetry”), and Bruce Director (“What Mathematics Can Learn from Classical Music”). The “conservative revolution” can be defeated; images of the Creator. Only then will we have the our nation, and the contributions of Western Civi- capacity to build and perpetuate free societies. In the lization to all humanity, can be saved.

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