Seht da den Menschen! Aus dem Franzoesischen: Ecce homo

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if we keep ourselves far from that divine and creative light göttlichen Lichte, whose expression we are meant to be in our capacities as we are in our essence, we would only be an insignificant witness without value or character! This is a precious truth, which demonstrates why man is such a dark being, such a complicated puzzle in the eyes of human philosophy Philosophie.

But if we now read ourselves in our sublime source, how can we conceive of the dignity of our origin, our great rights, our holy destiny Bestimmung?

You people of the past, present, and future, every one of whom is a thought of the Eternal Ewigen, do you well understand how great your insight and your bliss would have to be if all your divine seeds Keime were in their activity and development?

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But if, despite all these great privileges, your fate Schicksal still brings you to mourning and sighing, and denies you pleasures, at least strive—by reflecting the rays of your generating sun Sonne from within yourselves—to keep before you what man was in a time past for you, of which the testimonies remaining in you speak enough that they were not always foreign to you!

Man can no longer be what he was; but he can always feel what he should be. He can always feel the low state of his transitory and bodily substance Substanz, which has only a passive power over him, namely that of consuming his gifts and strengths through the disorder and darkening to which it is susceptible, while his power of thought Denkkraft has the active power to create, so to speak, a thousand capacities in his bodily being leiblichen Seyn that it would not have received by nature and without the will of man; a distinction,