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being.
Nature that
is like
and that creates It
no longer any being
It sees
unto the hiunan
after the
manner
man.
of
their
it
ter Eckhart, as well as Tauler,
Jacob
follows
development in the sense-world Meis-
according to purely natural laws.
Boehme with Angelus
would needs in
soul,
no longer makes the organic forms to
be created by a man-like God;
up
in
feel
and
also
Silesius,
the deepest satisfaction
contemplating this natural science.
The spirit in which they desired to behold the world has passed over in the fullest sense to this view of Nature, rightly still
of
it is
What they were
understood.
unable to do,
when
viz.:
to bring the facts
Nature themselves into the light which
had risen for them, that, undoubtedly, would have been their longing, if this same natural fore them.
science
had been
laid be-
They could not do
it;
for