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

– that is, he has entered into an elective affinity with the spiritual that has become of the sensual – then what has become spiritual meets him with a warm welcome, then he is not only a free human being, then he is a human being enveloped in the effects of grace. Goethe points out how deeply significant everything becomes for the human being that he enters into by way of elective affinity, and how real it is for the human being who is interwoven in some way, having been taken up from the physical into the spiritual. And how real are the things that people do in the moral and spiritual realms, how these are not just, as materialism believes, something temporary, but something that continues to have an effect, something that has significance for developing humanity. This is what Goethe shows in this final scene. That is what makes this final scene so magnificent.