1. Goethe's Faust: A Picture of his Esoteric World Conception

> From place to place I flit and hover. > And in the best sense. I would fain exist. > And most impatient am. my glass to shatter; > But what till now I've witnessed, is't > Then strange if I mistrust the matter? > Yet I'll be confidential. if thou list: > I follow two Philosophers this way. > 'Twas ‘Nature! Nature!’—all heard them say; > I'll cling to them and see what they are seeing, > For they must understand this earthly being, > And I shall doubtless learn, in season. > Where to betake me with the soundest reason.