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Goethe - Miscellaneous quotes 1
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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God did not rest after the six days of creation: he is still continuously at work, as on the first day. Surely it wouldn’t have been much fun for Him to build this lumbering world out of simple elements and let it roll about in the sunshine year in, year out, if he hadn’t had the plan to build upon this material basis a training ground for higher spirits. And so He is continually at work in great geniuses, so as to pull the common people up