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"Sieh da! Sieh da, Timotheus,
Die KranichedesIbykus!"
Es ist nichtdraussen,dasucht esder Tor,
Es ist in dir, du bringstes ewig hervor.*
The Secret Knowledge
of Friedrich
Schiller
I
by Helga Zepp LaRouche
nyone who writes about Friedrich Schiller must begin
invoking the words Beethoven had intended for the
opening recitative of his Ninth Symphony: "Let us sing
the song of the immortal Schiller." Nothing could be more
appropriate to celebrate the memory of Schiller than Beethoven's
setting of the "Ode to Joy" a composition which the greatest
musician mankind has yet produced grappled with all his life, until
finally unfolding it with supreme mastery in his last symphony.
Indeed, before even picking up our pen we experience a moment
of reverence and exultation in encompassing the colossal achievement
of Schiller, this passionate teacher of humanity, this great,
beautiful soul. His memory awakens a "state of greatest calm and
greatest motion, engendering that fundamental emotion of which
the understanding has no concept and languages no name." For
Schiller casts a spark into our souls that time's passage can never
extinguish.
Friedrich Schiller, the German poet, ranks among those great
geniuses who have enabled humanity to stand today on-_the
threshold of the age of reason, having waged a never-ending battle
in which Schiller fought with his own characteristic furor poeticus.
He was a creative genius; moreover, historically, he was the thinker
who most consciously and explicitly worked toward educating all
mankind to be geniuses, to achieve the method by which it would
eventually be possible to educate every single human being to be a
genius.
Schiller not "only appropriated the innermost secrets of the
Neoplatonic elite, but as is the character of genius he advanced
*" 'Look! Look there, Timotheus, / There are the cranesoflbykus!' " (From Schiller's "Die Kraniche
des Ibykus.") "It's not outside, only fools seek it there; / It is within you, you eternally create it."
(From Schiller's "Die Worte desWahns.")