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fini'te being for infinitlr ¿¡s unfli-nchingly acihered to,
the limitatíons of aspirai;ion are reconf irmed, and the
dependence of the hr.una.n spirit bor"n of frallty and
craving strerigih fincÌs a nel'ü song.
rt j-s si-gnificant thai the flrst canlo begins
r,.,¡ith Paracelsus being ti,venty-one years of age ju-st turo
years younger than ihe poet l.rho reaffirms his desires.
Thus at an age iuhich prornises the fullest scope of life
yet to come, the fígure remains vdthin the lirni-r,ai;ions
of youthful selfishness; his aspiraCions are necessarily
one-sid-ed., if not narrolv. In ljror,,rningl s version, youthT s
clesire for r^rell defined issues incomrnensu-raie r'¡ith
realii¡r i5 prorninent, and for this his early argument is
incorrsisten'i, although compelling, Paracelsus aspires to
attain pure knowledge unblended vdth hope, ioy, fear or
rroe; being sa'bed i'rith the possibillties of po\rer and
success he constrains his life and ne.-glects the totality
of existence. 'I'he regaining of balance is thus the perspective
of this v¡ork, a balance to be a-chieved by the
reconcitiation of bhree principles of God., tirrou-gh union
of knowledge and love'
The valiciity of ihese pr.i nciples for the resoluti on
and cause of conflict is atbested io be the iraditional
pattern of the theme which subordinaces man to God, and