Cosima's Diaries

Diary Entry of January 6, 1875

Overview

R. continues his engrossing reading in Gfrorer, spinning out bold reflections on the Trinity and the relation between sexes, will, idea, and world. She writes to Baron Hofmann about concerts, and the evening is brightened by the company of the mayor, whose conversation she always enjoys.

Content

Wednesday, January 6:

R. tells me a lot more about what he is reading in Gfrorer's book, which he finds of endless interest; among other things, for example, the definition of the Trinity made shortly before Christ's birth: God the Father, masculine; the Holy Ghost, feminine; the Redeemer as the world stemming from them; will, idea, and world, the world emerging from the division of the sexes.

I write to Baron Hofmann about the concerts. In the evening the worthy mayor, with whom conversation is always a great pleasure.