BRUNO AND He
man.
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the tasks that are set
fulfils
him in the feeling
He
SILESIUS
of
an external
necessity.
says to himself: Through this iron
necessity
it
given into thy hand to
is
withdraw from
very iron necessity
this
the link which has been allotted to thee.
"Ye men, learn but from the meadow flower: how ye shall please God and be as
beautiful
without
well."
why and
— "The
rose
exists
because, she blooms
because she blooms; she takes no heed of herself, asks not
if
men
man who has arisen upon feels
in
see her."
The
the higher level
himself the eternal,
necessary
meadow meadow flower
pressure of the All, as does the flower; he acts, as the
The feeling of his moral respon-
blooms. sibility
grows in
immeasurable. not do
is
all his
doing into the
For that which he does
withdrawn from the
All, is
a
slaying of that All, so far as the possi-