Note 201 — Chapter II
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Blüthen., pp. 266, 260.—Never does this soaring idealism become so definite and apprehensible as when it speaks with the ‘large utterance’ of the Sufis. Angelus has here and there somewhat similar imagery for the same thought. What is with him a dry skeleton acquires flesh and blood among the Orientals.
‘Sit in the centre, and thou seest at once
What is, what was; all here and all in heaven.
‘Is my will dead? Then what I will God must,
And I prescribe his pattern and his end.
‘I must be sun myself, and with my beams
Paint all the hueless ocean of the Godhead.’—(ii. 183; i. 98, 115.)