15. Goethe's Search for the Depths of Becoming and the Mysteries of the World in His “Faust” The Luciferic and the Ahrimanic Temptation

GA 272/1916-09-11/p027 ·1916-09-11 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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If one is well acquainted with Goethe, one can well understand his peculiar feelings towards being and becoming, and then one has a deep, deep understanding of Goethe in this interpretation of this saying. So we see how Goethe penetrates to the deepest human secrets. This going blind through worry is really the counterpart to man becoming blind through Lucifer in paradise.

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