Tożsamość medytującego oraz jego „wspomnienie niby”, „rewelacja” i „śnicie niby” w "Genezis z Ducha"
Identity of the Meditator and His “Like-minded Memories”, “Revelations”, “Dreams like” in “Genesis from the Spirit”

Author(s): Grzegorz Kubski
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Juliusz Slowacki; theopneustia; Hexaemeron; Logos; pre-existence
Summary/Abstract: "Genezis z Ducha" (“Genesis from the Spirit”) shows formal affinity with Saint Augustine’s "Confessiones" in the use of Hexaemeron and biblical figures as a figure of the subject’s personal experience. But in Słowacki’s work, the self that speaks is sylleptical. At the same time, it is both a biographical „self” and „I”, literally constructed. The subject writes down visions in the state of theopneustia, but also ostentatiously creates images of the world. He has knowledge resulting from participation in the pre-existence of the Logos, but in the meditation he will save figures of aporia. It is identical with the Logos, but shares the fate of Lucifer. “Placed” by God on the “Ocean rocks” (see Ps 40), or rather Oceanus – it is unknown whether he is only there “out of the body” (see 2 Cor 12,2‒4). Chosen by God, he is not among the chosen people, but among the Egyptians who are “deceived” by Him. In the distant forms of nature, he finds a “memory”, discovers “revelation” and prophetic dreams, but it is not known whether they are all his states as persons, or completely external to him.

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