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creatu-reliness. It is the i:rotivat,ing factor vrhich
tra.nsfers rneia.physical awa-reness into conscì ou-s
aciion and verbal syrnbols. ft is a realization of
r'¡hat has earlier been irnpliecl by sensa¡ion"
Paracelsus has becorne the jlii.ensch cier rLiitl,e, 58
living at the cross-roads of insti¡uiions, socia.I
forces, anci transceridant thoughts" i{e is the man
to i,vhorn i-r, hae- befallen to experience the freedom
of ihe outcast r^¡hich his earlier years ira-d presi-unecl-
to irnon. l3itter loneliness is a bu-rden i^¡hich has io
be borne in oi"der to al,tain self-knowledge. íiith
recognirion of the forces converging viithih hirrt
coÍres the key io ihe harrnonÍc structu.re underi-ying
tire unity and Ðurpose of life.
ltDie Zwischenv¡elt de:: Gestirne, sie umkreist
dich und. füllt * uras clu. nur fü.hleno ahnst
d-ein innerstes ioresen mit liräften und Trieben,
die deinen elernentarischren Sinnen erst offenbar
r¡¡erden, wenn clu, schon längst clen l'iillen o.eil:s
Gestirnes na.chlebst. Lern dein Gestirn erfassen,
d.ein irirtnament ersçþliessen, uncl d-u r,rirsi d-ich
selbst erkennen,lT )Y
¿iL no time in ihe process of r3econring cioes Ûhe
value of hi-s exi:erience becoi-ne red.uced lo a corûmon
denominaior r.¡hicir is socially acce,o-t,able; ratirer does
it forcibly lead to å sharpened seIISe of 1,lelüJl_in.sa'nkei¡i,
'r,he tension of v¡hicir is one of the creaii-ve ageirts i,vhich