Originally Posted By Lady Starlight I need a bit of help with this one. Can anyone please tellme what this means? " vocatvs atque non vocatvs deusaderit " I saw it in a Doctors office and no one could tell me what it said. lol Thanks in advance.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Well, several websites had several answers, and here's a typical one: Jung carved a Latin inscription above the door of his house in Kusnacht, Switzerland: "VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT." In English translation, the inscription reads: "Called or not called, the god will be there." Aniela Jaffe says: "It is the answer the Delphic Oracle gave the Lacedemonians when they were planning a war against Athens" (1979: 136). In a letter of November 19, 1960, Jung explains the inscription: By the way, you seek the enigmatic oracle Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit in vain in Delphi: it is cut in stone over the door of my house in Kusnacht near Zurich and otherwise found in Erasmus's collection of Adagia (XVIth cent.). [Jung had acquired a copy of the 1563 edition of Erasmus's Collectaneas adagiorum, a compilation of analects from classical authors, when he was 19 years old.] It is a Delphic oracle though. It says: yes, the god will be on the spot, but in what form and to what purpose? I have put the inscription there to remind my patients and myself: Timor dei initium sapiente ["The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."] Here another not less important road begins, not the approach to "Christianity" but to God himself and this seems to be the ultimate question. (1975: 611)
Originally Posted By oneyepete LOL!! If I don't use the strainer, My noodles would be awefully sticky.
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Hi, Stacers! xoxo (oneyepete, I'm such a dork. I read the sticky noodles here and posted the answer in Free Association: sticky wicket) I need to be put down. *sigh*
Originally Posted By Lady Starlight Thank you for your help with this. When I go back tothe Doc's, I'm going to let them know just what it says. Hope they can remember it.lol
