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In Corbin, Faivre and traditionalist school, we just see an anachronistic and narrow-minded misinterpretation of Aristotle through the lens of struggle sessions inherent to Christianity. Hence the situation where Platonism appears somehow esoteric to some people in counter-distinction to Aristotle, following the clichéd battle lines stemming from Platonic influences in Catholicism and chains of reactions to it.

In terms of the platonic-alchemical distinction (Plaotnic-Hermetic), evolutionism in German romanticism reflects alchemic traits and Jung reflects platonic traits, in terms of how they relate to their narrative of the nightside(ie. just what was rejected in the development of universalism/Christianity). What about evolutionism/apocalypticism?

"Arnold's historiography was based upon the concept of a radical incommensurability between "Athens" and "Jerusalem"(faith), which simply do not speak the same language and share no common ground; and the same logic of incommensurability governs Ennemoser's contrast between the discursive "daytime" consciousness of the brain and the experiential "nightside" consciousness of the soul"
Protestant struggle session..

apocalypticism vs. evolutionism, platonic vs. alchemy (Ennemoser) The former within Christianity, the latter between paganism. IN ADDITION, the complex of church/state, scripture/reason, ego/cogito.

It seems clear that in post-Enlightenment it is Marxism and Hegelianism which offers the pagan substrate for the "Catholic" iteration of secularity, whereas the reactionary rejection of it its protestant iteration, which explains perfectly why the right wing of the modern day is not counter-enlightenment in spirit (Kill All Normies etc) even though it aligns itself against the pagan elements of post-Enlightenment

The historical relation of alchemical mindset to modernity

Dualism between the platonic and alchemical paradigm