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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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matters which I knew very well, and preached
to me proudly about my want of modesty. After
we had made it up again, I imparted to him all
my observations, and gave him more of my
confidence than was perhaps wise. I confessed to
this man, whom I had never seen, everything,
and let him admonish me seriouslv, for I
regarded him more as an idea than a person; he
was for me a messenger of Providence, my good
angel.

Then there occurred between us a strong
difference of opinion which led to very lively
discussions, without, however, leading to any
bitterness. As a theosophist, he preached
“Karma,” i.e., an abstract total of human
destinies which balance each other so as to
result in a kind of Nemesis. He was accordingly
a champion of the mechanical view of the
universe, a representative of the so-called
materialistic school. To me, on the other hand, the
powers had revealed themselves as concrete, living,
individual personalities, who guide the
course of the world and the destinies of men,
as self-conscious entities or, as the theologians
say, as “hypostases.” The second difference of
opinion was regarding the denying and putting
to death of one’s own self, which always

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