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Lucian Blaga's philosophical system was an expression of philosophy as "World view" (Weltanschauung), one he elaborated upon in four trilogies: The Trilogy of Knowledge(1943) consisting of The Dogmatic Aeon, The Luciferian Knowledge and The Transcendent Censorship; The Trilogy of Culture (1944): Horizon and Style, The Mioritic Space, and The Genesis of Metaphor and the Sense of Culture; The Trilogy of Values (1946): Science and Creation, Magical Thinking and Religion, Art and Value; and The Cosmological Trilogy: The Divine Differentials (1940), Anthropological Aspects, and Historical Existence.[16][17] The categorization and arrangement of the works was an editorial testament of the author before his death.[18] Additionally, some of his less expansive writings are cited along one or another Trilogy by scholars.

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We shall remember once, too late, This simple happening, so fine, This very bench where we are seated, Your burning temple next to mine. From hazel stamens, cinders fall White as the poplars that they land on, Beginnings want to be fecund, May gives itself with sweet abandon. The pollen falls on both of us, Small mountains made of golden ashes It forms around us, and it falls On our shoulders and our lashes. It falls into our mouths when speaking, On eyes, when we are mute with wonder And there’s regret, but we don’t know Why it would tear us both asunder. We shall remember once, too late, This simple happening, so fine, This very bench where we are seated Your burning temple next to mine. In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.
Lucian Blaga - "May gives itself with sweet abandon"
December 1960

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