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The colonial era was the last period of “peace” that Europe can be said to have deserved. […] The very Nation being invoked had lost its romantic prestige: the flag protected the interests of the State, not the passions or honour of the best elements in the body social. And the office of the State was now no more than the honorific one of a board of directors […]
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Don Giovanni is the demon of unalloyed immanence, a prisoner of worldly appearances, and the martyr of a more and more deceptive and despicable sensation, whereas Tristan is the prisoner of a realm lying beyond night and day and the martyr of a rapture which is transformed at death into unalloyed bliss.
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[…] we become aware of two streams into which all mysticism divides […] The first stream is that of ‘unitive mysticism’, which aims at a complete fusion of the soul with the divine. The second stream may be called ‘epithalamian mysticism’, which aims at a marriage of a soul to God, and which therefore implicitly maintains an essential distinction between creature and Creator.
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