XIII. Before the Door of the Spiritual Soul

In Faust, later on, as re-discovered by Goethe, is the figure of a man who has utterly lost the human being. Ever intenser becomes this search after Man. For men have only two alternatives: either completely to blunt themselves to the awakening inner sense of their own being; or else to pursue this longing search for Man, so that this search becomes an inherent element of their soul.