Seht da den Menschen! Aus dem Franzoesischen: Ecce homo

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which is the true mark and identifying sign to which the phrase seht da den Menschen behold the man is bound. As stated, an intimate and perfect knowledge of this abandonment is the first indispensable condition of our beginning Versöhnung reconciliation.

Hardly does man take even one step out of his inner self before the fruit of that darkness envelops him. It joins with his spiritual activity just as his breath, as soon as it leaves him, would be seized and infected by putrid and corrosive vapors if he breathed in a corrupted, stifling air.

Supreme Wisdom knows so well that our immersion is so great that it requires the greatest caution. It sends us help by penetrating into this state. Unfortunately, it is also too often forced to turn back upon itself because of our terrible Verderbniß corruption. If a mortal has been so fortunate as to feel the proximity of this holy Wisdom and

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to perceive by its light the dreadful Gift poison of which we are composed, and the sad, grieving bitterness that Wisdom feels about it, then he will know from experience and through analogy how much danger man runs as soon as he steps out of his Mittelpunct center into the outer regions.

With what Klugheit prudence do the wise not distribute their words to you? How cautiously they go to work so as not to stain the treasures of Wahrheit truth through the contagion that infects our abysses. They know very well that the Lichtquell source of light lies in the inner and invisible center. The reason why the world has progressed so little on the hallowed path of the Wort Word is that it usually throws its word into the outer regions. It never takes the precaution to ground it in the lebendige Wurzel living root or the inner word. This is the only hearth that can animate all our true words,