. The Open court. SUSANNA VON KLETTENBERG IN HER FORTY-FOURTH the National Museum at Weimar. upon a garment. The soul pictured with extreme vivacity eventsand times long past, and felt, by means of this, events that wereto follow. Those times are all gone by; what follows likewise willgo by; the body, too, will fall to pieces like a vesture; but I, thewell-known I, I am. She does not consider her life as a sacrifice but on the contraryas the attainment of an unspeakable joy. She says at the conclu-sion of her autobiography: 88 THE OPEN COURT. I scarcely remember a commandment: to me th
. The Open court. SUSANNA VON KLETTENBERG IN HER FORTY-FOURTH the National Museum at Weimar. upon a garment. The soul pictured with extreme vivacity eventsand times long past, and felt, by means of this, events that wereto follow. Those times are all gone by; what follows likewise willgo by; the body, too, will fall to pieces like a vesture; but I, thewell-known I, I am. She does not consider her life as a sacrifice but on the contraryas the attainment of an unspeakable joy. She says at the conclu-sion of her autobiography: 88 THE OPEN COURT. I scarcely remember a commandment: to me there is nothingthat assumes the aspect of law; it is an impulse that leads me,and guides me always aright. I freely follow my emotions, andknow as little of constraint as of repentance. God be praised thatI know to whom I am indebted for such happiness, and that I cannotthink of it without humility! There is no danger I should ever. CHARLOTTE SOPHIE HENRIETTE BUFF. Later on wife of Johann Christian Kestner. Redrawn from apastel in the possession of Georg Kestner of Dresden. become proud of what I myself can do or can forbear to do: I haveseen too well what a monster might be formed and nursed in everyhuman bosom, did not a higher influence restrain us. The nobility of character of Fraulein von Klettenberg, of thisbeautiful soul, contributed not a little to purify the young poetsmind, and her interest in mysticism caused him to study alchemyand to read the works of Theophrastus, Paracelsus, Agrippa von Goethes relation to women. 89 Nettesheim and other occultists, the study of whose books provedhelpful in the composition of Faust. We have evidence that thisthoughtful and mystical lady had a real sense of humor, for whenone of her friends, Fraulein von Wunderer, entered the CronstattInstitute, Susanne had her own portrait painted for her in the dressof a nun. The picture came into Goethes possession in 1815. At Wet
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