"In his poem Allerdings Goethe replied, ‘Nature has neither kernel nor shell, (knows neither within nor without); she is everything at once.’ ‘The Greeks,’ he said, ‘brought great truths to the world in the form of Gods; we, on the contrary, state these truths in abstract terms.’ Goethe felt himself one with nature, ‘my thinking does not liberate itself from objects — my beholding (anshauen) is a kind of thinking, my thinking a kind of beholding.’ Man and creation are a unity; ‘everything that is in the object is in the subject’ ... ‘He who will deny that nature is a divine revelation might as well deny all revelation ... my own way of looking at things has taught me to see God in Nature and Nature in God.’ And to Jacobi he wrote, ‘You put your trust in faith, I put mine in direct vision.’ , ‘Those who understand my writings and what I stand for will have to admit that they have attained a certain inner freedom.’ Goethe speaks of a rejuvenated creation, mankind fashioned by new creative thinking. R.Steiner.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:21:11 +0000
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