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Sie sollte zeigen, wie wir den Sinn von Leiden und Schmerzen einsehen können, wenn wir sehen, wie sie erstarren, sich kristallisieren in physischen Dingen und Organismen bis zum Menschen, und wie durch ein Verflüssigen des Erstarrten der Geist bei uns wiedergeboren werden kann, wenn wir sehen, daß im Geist der Ursprung des Schmerzes, des Leides ist. Das, was uns der Geist gibt, ist Schönheit, Kraft und Weisheit, das verwandelte Bild der ursprünglichen Stätte des Schmerzes. Deshalb hat nicht mit Unrecht ein geistvoller Mann, Fabre d’Olivet, den Vergleich gebraucht, um das Höchste, Edelste, Geläutertste in der Menschennatur in seinem Hervorgehen aus dem Schmerz zu zeigen, daß das Hervorgehen von Weisheit und Schönheit aus dem Leid vergleichbar ist einem Vorgang draußen in der Natur, dem Geborenwerden der wertvollen, schönen Perle. Denn aus was wird sie geboren? Aus der Krankheit des Muscheltieres, aus der Zerstörung innerhalb der Perlmuschel. 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