Seht da den Menschen! Aus dem Franzoesischen: Ecce homo

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in a fullness of joy and happiness free from all painful labor and all dangerous struggle.

They say that in the first of these points in time, where evil Uebel did not yet exist, or what is the same, where no being had yet separated itself from the divine realm göttlichen Bereich, our bliss Glückseligkeit would not have needed to extend beyond our existence; had it extended that far, it would only have been to grow into the infinite Unendliche, which is the only thing that existed within us. Nothing would have emerged from us but the expression of our joy Freude and love Liebe, which would have ascended uninterruptedly to our source, just as our source would not have stopped descending into us. We would not have needed to manifest anything else, because everything around us would have been full, and the truth Wahrheit, which would then have filled everything, would have considered us only as its eternal worshipers Anbeter, but not used us as its signs and witnesses, because

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all beings Wesen would have enjoyed its sight and presence at once, and then nothing would have been lacking for the fullness of all their inclinations and insights as soon as they had the spectacle of immensity Unermeßlichkeit in activity before them.

We do not need to raise our gaze to such a high order of things here; we will be content to consider the moment of our missions into the universe Weltall, which according to the above opinion is only the second point in time of our origin Ursprung; since the first is so far from us that we would not even have the idea of its possible existence if the second did not serve as a mediator Vermittler for it.

In this second period Zeitraum, which we will consider throughout this writing as our original existence, we received our character as signs and witnesses of the deity Gottheit in the universe; as such, we were filled with all divine powers göttlichen Mächten and all divine clarity Klarheiten, according to our sublime destiny.