Liegt es an mir? Läuft nur mir die Wirkung gewisser Wörter auf eine Weise das Rückenmark hinunter, daß sie mir Ahnungen von Erlebnissen erwecken, die es gar nicht gibt?
For, seen in the light of thought, the world always is phenomenal; and virtue subordinates it to the mind. Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion, not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul. Therefore the soul holds itself off from a too trivial and microscopic study of the universal tablet. It respects the end too much, to immerse itself in the means. [...] It accepts whatever befalls, as part of its lesson. It is a watcher more than a doer, and it is a doer, only that it may the better watch.
Intellectual science [...] fastens the attention upon immortal necessary uncreated natures, that is, upon Ideas ; and in their beautiful and majestic presence, we feel that our outward being is a dream and a shade. Whilst we wait in this Olympus of gods, we think of nature as an appendix to the soul. We ascend into their region, and know that these are the thoughts of the Supreme Being. [...] Their influence is proportionate. As objects of science, they are accessible to few men. Yet all men are capable of being raised by piety or by passion, into their region. And no man touches these divine natures, without becoming, in some degree, himself divine. Like a new soul, they renew the body. We become physically nimble and lightsome; we tread on air; life is no longer irksome, and we think it will never be so. No man fears age or misfortune or death, in their serene company, for he is transported out of the district of change. Whilst we behold unveiled the nature of Justice and Truth, we learn the difference between the absolute and the conditional or relative. We apprehend the absolute. As it were, for the first time, we exist. We become immortal, for we learn that time and space are relations of matter ; that, with a perception of truth, or a virtuous will, they have no affinity.
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. [...] As when the summer comes from the south, the snow-banks melt, and the face of the earth becomes green before it, so shall the advancing spirit create its ornaments along its path, and carry with it the beauty it visits, and the song which enchants it; it shall draw beautiful faces, and warm hearts, and wise discourse,
and heroic acts, around its way, until evil is no more seen.
Not until we have for a long time unsystematically collected observations to serve as building
materials, following the guidance of an idea concealed in our minds, and indeed only after we have spent much time in the technical disposition of these materials, do we first become capable of viewing the idea in a clearer light, and of outlining it architectonically as a whole.
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.......... stále viac a viac zjednocovať sa so všetkým živým ..... unify yourself ever more and more with all that is living ..... sich immer mehr und mehr mit allem lebenden vereinigen ...............
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