
The Delphic Endeavour
Sikelianos’ vision for a new world order based on age-old and universal spiritual principles impacted his entire work as poet, playwright, and essa... ΣΥΝΕΧΕΙΑ
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Sikelianos’ vision for a new world order based on age-old and universal spiritual principles impacted his entire work as poet, playwright, and essayist. And like every true visionary, he had specific and practical proposals, which he set out in his writings, as to how his vision might be realised.
His vision arose as an answer and solution to mankind’s social and political problems in the troubled times in which he lived. He saw behind the historical conflicts a pressing need for a universal spiritual renaissance of mankind, and it was to this goal that he gave the name the “Delphic Endeavour”.
It was Sikelianos’ belief that Delphi provided the perfect centre for a spiritual alliance of peoples and like-minded individuals. It had been a spiritual centre from time immemorial, was regarded as the centre of the ancient world and had been the meeting-place for the Amphictyony, a league of city-states, making it an obvious choice for the new world spiritual amphictyony that he envisaged. He therefore famously organised Festivals in Delphi in 1927 and 1930, the true purpose of which was, however, to draw together spiritual envoys from all nations and highlight the deeper spiritual motives behind the Delphic Endeavour.
Sikelianos’ vision for a new world order based on age-old and universal spiritual principles impacted his entire work as poet, playwright, and essayist. And like every true visionary, he had specific and practical proposals, which he set out in his writings, as to how his vision might be realised.
His vision arose as an answer and solution to mankind’s social and political problems in the troubled times in which he lived. He saw behind the historical conflicts a pressing need for a universal spiritual renaissance of mankind, and it was to this goal that he gave the name the “Delphic Endeavour”.
It was Sikelianos’ belief that Delphi provided the perfect centre for a spiritual alliance of peoples and like-minded individuals. It had been a spiritual centre from time immemorial, was regarded as the centre of the ancient world and had been the meeting-place for the Amphictyony, a league of city-states, making it an obvious choice for the new world spiritual amphictyony that he envisaged. He therefore famously organised Festivals in Delphi in 1927 and 1930, the true purpose of which was, however, to draw together spiritual envoys from all nations and highlight the deeper spiritual motives behind the Delphic Endeavour.