Kto się inkarnuje i dlaczego? Orientalna lektura Króla-Ducha

Abstract

Comparison of Buddhist texts and King-Spirit by Juliusz Słowacki bring interesting results. Here there are both examples of similar forms of literary, philosophical systems and rules of incarnation of human consciousness. The Polish poet’s King-Spirit can thus be regarded as a record of the discovery of the entity in the chain of previous incarnations. It is also an act of faith in the spiritual principle of the universe. Juliusz Słowacki was an artist who combined elements of Far Eastern thought, Buddhist-Vedic culture with content Jewish-Greek, Slavic and Polish. More than the cultural erudition evident in the poem is the great poet’s imagination, which takes the form of romantic imagery. Above all these factors, there is still an aura of individual spiritual initiation of the poet of Polish Romanticism.