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/p042 ·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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> "Conflict between form and formlessness. > Preference for formless content > over empty form. > Content brings form with it. > Form is never without content. > These contradictions, instead of unifying them, make them more disparate. > Bright, cold scientific striving. Wagner. > Dull, warm scientific striving. Pupil. > Enjoyment of life of the person seen from the outside, Part I. > In dullness, passion. > Enjoyment of action outwards, Part II, and enjoyment with consciousness. > Beauty. > Enjoyment of creation from within.

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