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Goethe - Faust Part 1
Identifier
000271
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Faust part one – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The mind, however, needs more room
It’s like a master weaver’s loom
A thousand warps move as he treads
The shuttle flies, and to and fro
One stamp combines a thousand threads
Send for a philosopher, and he
Will prove to you that it must be
The first is thus, the second so
Ergo, the third and fourth we know
If first and second were not here
Then third and fourth would disappear
The students love it, I believe
But none of them have learned to weave.
To know what nature is about
First you must drive the spirit out
And when you’ve pulled it all apart
What’s missing is the vital spark
‘Nature’s knack’ the chemists cheer –
But that just means they’ve no idea