of metaphysics into technology and psychology. The moon, which for Goethe was the symbol of man’s purest emotions and, in his portrayal of the classical Walpurgisnacht, the scene of the wild revelry of the love powers of the universe, is now merely a target for American and Russian missiles. This is called demythologizing but it is much more. It is in fact the elimination of the sacred and the loss of the “power of the heart” (Siewerth) to sense the “majesty of being” (Hans André) in the immediacy