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lrGodl Thou. art lovet , bu.ild. It¡r ¡*rrn on iha'i;llr LI
these words of ires'tus undeÏ'Line iLre sa"ae type of lirni-
r,aiion to v¡hích l,aracelslts was a victiiii, Yet ¡his
definition opens onüo a r¡road'er s,ohere for La'ber
development" Throughout lhe pocìr4, the elerirent of
love grol.'is into the proporiions of a human facr-rlty'
a| first rl ...a- nysti c, transcenciental, and romatrtic
passion". " "î? , LZ and-fi-nally a d-ecided-I1r Ch'istj-an
princiole. \.Jhereas it once coulci be scornfu.]-, it be-
co¡nes resolved j,nio compassionate insig;ht. l'ovê e
then, iu tlre principle .,'^¡}ri.cìr So].VeS the cont::ad-iction
betr.¡een moralitl, a-nd- relig-'ion a.ncì- r,"¡hich bi'idge s ihe
chasitt bei;i,veen man a-ncÌ Goci" Bu-t as God is the sou'l:ce
of tiris love, it ret'urns to iiself th::ou'gÌr ntan and
thusclosesthecircleofl:erfectiono.I,hegrovithof
Fesiu-s uo tire point of iransnitltJing lris '¡eh-e'i in love
in|o action has no.U been free fron c.oubt, for it is in
tTre nature of Love to bear ou,i its o¡rv1l âI1tâgonisn'
Thus as both d-efinition of i}od. and. orincip}e of }ife,
itcauseclPa.racelsu-stoshrin}