Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily: Sociology I never wanted it to

I never wanted it to end’ BETH O’LEARY

For longer than anyone could remember she and her brother

In this candid and courageous book

restoring more than 150 letters that were excised purely to achieve what was then deemed a ‘publishable length’

Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily: Sociology I never wanted it toIn 1794, Goethe and Schiller were engaged in a correspondence concerning the connection of the human soul with the world of the senses on one hand and with the suprasensory on the other. While Schiller approached the question in a philosophical way, Goethe embodied his thoughts in a fantasy entitled The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. In his fantasy, Lily represents the ideal world of the suprasensory that is separated from the