| Contents | writes his letter per airmail, with airmail stamps for his son James; is not happy that Paul has not spoken with Saxl and only shortly with Mary Warburg; is keen to develop Paul's intellectual interest, something which he has stopped doing with Felix [Warburg]; is determined to explain to his brothers the importance 'of their own creation, the Bibliothek Warburg'; considering the bad situation in which Germany finds itself, its importance cannot be ranked highly enough if its scope for growth can be realized; is pleased that Max Warburg, after having read the Schifanoia lecture, understands Warburg's principally new method; does Paul remember 'fat' Mr. [Richard] Schütt, who was the first who estblished a seismographic station in his house and all Hamburg laughed at him?; only, later, the state bought his house; at present, the state is a beggar; but the Bibliothek Warburg is a station from which to observe the oscillations of human values, between virtue and contemplation or brutal action and calm observation; he has started to research the opposites, polarity, by the help of images and actions [Atlas project]; it is his experiment, equal to the [Heinrich] Hertz experiment to prove the link between light and electricity; his experiment is to show the way from the most brutal action to the most sublime emotion, its phases are the stations of the suffering of humanity; fears that his explanation is a bit weak as he cannot supply the images to document the 'solidity of his insight'; he will do so in Hamburg, after 15/08/1924, but requests that Paul sets apart three days for Warburg's explanations; if the Bibliothek Warburg is going to serve its purpose, then the basis has to be broadened, topics to include breakthrough to the Far East, widening of classical views of astrology through the Franz Boll library; the crossing points of cultural movements rose out of the ambivalence of star signs; in short, he needs to have more rooms, needs to extend so that the seismograph can be effective; 'we brothers, Max, Paul, Aby, Fritz and Felix, are only atoms in a system which makes us functionaries of adjustment against external waves and about our consciousness'; Paul and his mission of adjustment between the North Americans and Europeans is true to the mission of the Warburgs; requests that the letter be typed; sends greetings to Jim [James Loeb and [his wife] Tony, Nina, Bettina |