...necessary to remind the reader of the words j/jt into the mouth of the Erdgeist by the genius of Goethe : Thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the Garment thou see'st Him by. This Garment of God is the Universe. The Loom of the Erdgeist roars as the shuttles fly on their cyclic...

...woven out of his own substance. The same idea has been beautifully expressed by Goethe, who says: " Thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply and weave for God the garment thou seest Him by." STANZA III.— Continued 11. It (the Web) expands when the breath of Fire (the Father) is upon it;...

...motion, Birth and death, An infinite ocean ; A seizing and a giving The fire of living : 'Tis thus that at the roaring loom of time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest him by." — CABLTLE. MANY of the most impressive utterances of the primi- CHAP tive Indian philosophy are to...

...89.4-5. 'wild-roaring Loom of Time': Carlyle's translation of lines from Goethe's Faust (1.508-9): "'Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, / And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by" (Sartor 1.8.55; see 2.10.205, 3.9.268). 89.19-21. 'I have painted so much,' said the good Jean Paul,...

...expressed in Sartor with a quotation from the Earth Spirit's speech in Faust, Part One ("Nacht"): "Tis thus at the roaring Loom of Time I ply, / And weave for God the Garment thou seest Him by."56 Here it is important to distinguish Carlyle's and Faust's contempt for the lesser reality of...

...OF "THE BUILDER,' AND OTHER AUTHORITATIVE SOURCES The seizing and the giving The fire of living Tis thus at the roaring loom of time I ply and weave for God The garments thou seest Him by —Goethe, from Faust Acknowledgments From those who found the publisher...

...endless motion Birth and death, an infinite ocean A seizing and giving The fire of the living. 'Tis thus at the roaring loom of Time I ply And weave for God the garment tiiou seest Him by. Now there are infinite numbers of these garments, but none of them are GOD, though...