Human
Cycle; Ideal of Human Unity; War...
Such
was the supreme aim of the ancient sages who had the wisdom which rational man
and rational society have rejected because it was too high a truth for the comprehension
of the reason and for the powers of the normal limited human will too bold and
immense, too infinite an effort. Therefore it is with the cult of Good, as with
the cult of Beauty and the cult of the spiritual. Even in its first instincts
it is already an obscure seeking after the divine and absolute; it aims at an
absolute satisfaction, it finds its highest light and means in something beyond
the reason, it is fulfilled only when it finds God, when it creates in man some
image of the divine Reality. ... the ethical is like the aesthetic and the religious
being of man a seeking after the Eternal. -p144