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Letters to the One - Records of Erotic Madness

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Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness. Experience a collection of letters inspired by erotic madness.

Letters to the One - Records of Erotic Madness Records of Erotic Madness "Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness" says Socrates in Plato's Phaedrus. But as Dodds reminds us in the book The Greeks and the Irrational : "the father of Western rationalism is not represented as maintaining the general proposition that it is better to be mad than sane, sick, or sound. He qualifies his paradox with the words "provided the madness is given by divine gift". For Plato there are four kinds of divine madness: 1. Prophetic madness (whose patron god is Apollo) 2. Telestic or Ritual madness (who

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