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: I think that most of the literature about Heraus is worthless. For instance, the three most important theories of H are admittedly the logos doctrine, the cosmology and the panta rei. But if we try to grasp any of these subjects with the help of the books or articles written by some renowned scholars, the result is surely disappointing. Take for instance a book called "Heraus. The Cosmic Fragments" by G.S. Kirk. This author says seriously that the logos is a material entity, an "actual constituent of things"; but the logos is the eternal law or rule of order of all phenomena. Certainly it is a law that controls material entities, but this can not mean that the logos itself is material. Newton's laws also control material entities, but only an insane man would say that these laws are themselves material. When it comes to cosmology Mr. Kirk says that the theory about the fiery origin of the world and of its ending in fire (the ekpyrosis) is a stoic forgery. He goes on saying that fr. B30 is a metereological text, but he also adds that H did not consider air as one ot the cosmical mes that make up the world. So H proposed a metereology that excludes air. And why not an astronomy which excludes the heavenly bodies or a geology which excludes the earth? When Kirk reaches the texts about the panta rei we find another big surprise. This theory is another forgery, now by Plato, who was not so clever as Kirk, since he did not realize that the fragments about the river deal with the concept of measure. But what measure can a river represent, because if a river is a river it must contain some flowing water. The measure itself is completely irrelevant, because the volume of water certainly changes from winter to summer, or from a dry year to a rainy one. So of what measure is this solemn scholar talking about? Maybe Kirk should have called his boring book: Heraus. The COMIC fragments. But H already warned that: "erudition does not teach understanding." (fr. B40) : I hope this comments may give rise to a new debate about the great Dark. : Juan Pablo

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