The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

Description

The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily is a fairy tale by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published in 1795. The story revolves around the crossing and bridging of a river, which represents the divide between the outer life of the senses and the ideal aspirations of the human being. It has been claimed that it was born out of Goethe's reading of The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz and that it is full of esoteric symbolism.

This book has 29 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1795.

Production notes: This ebook of The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily was published by Global Grey in 2019.