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tìi I rJun!'.qerl ebnis i'/hich pf'ovokes an erlpatìly aud syrn-patliy
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in the rea-ci-er"
Iri terrirs of Paracelsusr i;houghi, the implica'üions
of ]rumau developnent rnilitate against tire exclusiotr of
forces rchich Lle -r:eyoird. iru:nan oercectiOn. 'l-irere are
cosliric or ctivine influr-ences v¡hicli consiantly seek ou-t
the u-nsuSïrecting, reaciy to touch Í'ertÍ1e receptiveness
r,vhici-r iiren must reserve ihe right bo ma-ke ju-d..genients
corisistenr \'rilil couvic'bion' I'ts â- tree expallci-s in ever
increasing rings of g,ror.,ith, builiiing o11 l'ühat has gone
on before, hurinart ex-oerieilce by 1.he SAIîe ioken coirìpounds
itself so Uhat boiir within ¡;enera-,,ions aûd ileyonci them,
men lna-y stand on the shoulcLers of giants atrd perceive
new realrrls. This is the pattern of Kolbenheyerrs
Farilc_elfìllq, a pa_õtern whose three sbages a.re each in-
troC-uced by an allegory of gerrtle mysticisa. 'Ihe tirree
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ÞrJd.6EÞ rra urr' pattefn A-fe SynOnymOU-S WiNh the thfee
boolcs of the trilogy: Book f (li-e tçi_ndlrgit) is the
norind of earll .r fnr^nr¡t,ion: Pook -I (Uas I-Jg L IUL¡ UI çqf ! '/
Gesti.r4)
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represents transforrna'bion and action; ihe final book
(Das ]lriite Re-ì ch) is the fru.ition and resolu-tion"
The bhree individ-u.al prel-ucles to each of the three
boolcs bogether f orrn one narr¿Ltive, a.nd one of ihe
.,nifrrincr al oments in the entire i'Iork' Ihe inter;ore'LatiOn
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