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"In the spiritual Nature-Kingdom, man must everywhere seek his peculiar territory and climate, his best occupation, his particular neighborhood, in order to cultivate a Paradise in idea; this is the right system. Paradise is scattered over the whole earth, and that is why it has become so unrecognizable." NOVALIS, Translated by U.C.B.
"Man began in instinct and will end in instinct. Instinct is genius in Paradise, before the period of self-abstraction (self-knowledge)." Ibid