Hindu Medicine c5.s1.24

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restless. But he was also happy to be free again and he looked forward with confidence to the experiment of fitting himself into a new life. One day he came to my house and we talked in peace and quiet, from early morning until afternoon. He spoke of Heidelberg under the Nazi regime: even the beauty of the landscape had lost its charm and glamor through the impact of the deeds of men. He told me about his children with whom he was reading the sagas of classical antiquity and some of the works of Sophocles. He commented on English literature of which he had an even more intimate grasp now that he was living in the Anglo-Saxon world. He dwelt on his latest interests: the symbolism of the figures depicted on playing-cards and that of the chessmen. To him, the king on the chess board—this monarch who is so entirely dependent on his subordinates for his defense and rarely capable of taking a piece by himself—was the exact copy of the Hindu king who in spite of all his might is more endangered than all his subjects and must always work through his courtiers.⁶ Listening to all this and much more