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| Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo by Hippolyte Bellangé (1800-1866). |
On October 14, Goethe and Wieland were each awarded the cross of the Legion of Honour by Napoleon.
Goethe revealed no details about about his conversations with Napoleon until many years later (In 1828, Goethe told all about that to his friend Johann Peter Eckermann):
... so Goethe said of Napoleon Bonaparte:
"His life was the stride of a demi-god, from battle to battle, and from victory to victory. "
and:
"It might well be said of him, that he was found in a state of continual enlightenment. "
Yet:
"On this account, his destiny was more brilliant than any the world had seen before him, or perhaps will ever see after him."
Napoleon lost his light.
In 1815, Napoleon was defeated and exiled to the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he died on May 5, 1821.
Napoleon soon reincarnated as a teosophical writer (Pekka Ervast) in remote Finland. His works glorify Goethe as one of the wisest people in the world.
In his own opinion, as an emperor, he had eventually been too selfish. The task was to unite Europe and not to conquer Russia.
1 kommentar:
Usually people, their reputation, are humiliated and annulled when they are dead - here it is just the other way around.
Well done.
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