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universal" This iraolies thai he first had io be
su-bmer"gecl in the elernert'Us vJhrch wou.lC later" ev'oke his
censu.re" 'l'he ccnvergence of polarit,¡r perrnitted hirn
to cJ.evelop a 'cangible poiilt of depariure for" a fruii-
fu-l course of lif e '
i.s 'i,he second boolc opens, Paracel-sus has speni
fr'¿o of his most impressionable years as a pupil in a
latin school rrraintained. in. a tnonasiery of closed ord"ers.
'ihe irlport of the preced-i-ng nystical allegories has
hoan nrniaeted inio [he narratj-ve r.¡iii'r -üire r"esult that
one Ís sfron¡lly. avÍare oí bire cìichotonly of' the situaci-on.
The cu-rreni r¡hich flov¡s beneath the l-evel of 'ühe
narrai:'-ve infuses the work r,riuh a sense of irnpencì.ing
crisis betvaeen ideology and rj-tual, echÍcs anrÌ practice '
l¡jj-l;h a gentleness '¡'¡hich can s.till resort to rathter
strong lines oí disii.nction, ti-olbenheyer ha.s ant,icipated
the seed of aLienation å.nd. loneliness by contrasting fhe
]roung lad. r,',rith -uhe regulated self-satisfaction of the
latin ¡nonles. The irnpact of 'bhe d.escrrpfìons eradicates
the suggestion of fore-shad-owing as a- rnere literarl'
device, and e>lpands the potential of this l;ecirnic¿ue into
a concepu of F,ealitY"
trljie jviilnche hielien ihn für einen Honuncu-lus und
für einen ciiensbbaren Teufel, der 7wn Scheine nu-r
das schiuarze Schütergewand tru-g.1Ì or