When Ideas Become Gods, Consciousness Of Harmony

An Artist Is He Who Has His Center Within Himself. He Who Lacks This Must Choose A Particular Leader And Mediator Outside Of Himself, Not Forever, However, But Only At First. For Man Cannot Exist Without A Living Center, And If He Does Not Have It Within Himself, He May Seek It Only In A Human Being. Only A Human Being And His Center Can Stimulate And Awaken That Of Another.

Through Artists Mankind Becomes An Individual, In That They Unite The Past And The Future In The Present. They Are The Higher Organ Of The Soul, Where The Life Spirits Of Entire External Mankind Meet And In Which Inner Mankind First Acts.

If One Writes Or Reads Novels From The Point Of View Of Psychology, It Is Very Inconsistent And Petty To Want To Shy Away From Even The Slowest And Most Detailed Analysis Of The Most Unnatural Lusts, Gruesome Tortures, Shocking Infamy, And Disgusting Sensual Or Spiritual Impotence.

The Analytical Writer Observes The Reader As He Is; Accordingly, He Makes His Calculation, Sets His Machine To Make The Appropriate Effect On Him. The Synthetic Writer Constructs And Creates His Own Reader; He Does Not Imagine Him As Resting And Dead, But Lively And Advancing Toward Him. He Makes That Which He Had Invented Gradually Take Shape Before The Reader's Eyes, Or He Tempts Him To Do The Inventing For Himself. He Does Not Want To Make A Particular Effect On Him, But Rather Enters Into A Solemn Relationship Of Innermost Symphilosophy Or Sympoetry.

Religion And Morals Are Symmetrically Opposed, Just Like Poetry And Philosophy.