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★ 162 ★ his gaze would become, how sharp his judgment, how sublime his disposition!

33. A true prince is the artist of artists. That is, the director of artists. Everyone should be an artist. Everything can become fine art. The prince's material is the artist; his will is his chisel: he inspires, employs and directs the artist, because only he sees the whole picture from the correct perspective, because only he is the one to execute the great idea through which through which the unity of power and idea is expressed completely in the present. The regent produces an infinitely diverse spectacle, where stage and ground floor, actor and audience are one, and he himself is poet, director and hero of the play at the same time. How delightful when, as with the king, the directrice is at the same time the hero's lover and the heroine of the piece, when one catches a glimpse of the muse in her, it fills the poet with holy passion, and his lyre attunes to gentle heavenly melodies.

34. In our time, true miracles of transubstantiation have occurred. Does not the court transform itself into a family, the throne into a shrine, a royal marriage into an eternal covenant of the heart?

35. When the dove become the companion and beloved of the eagle, the golden age is near or already here, even if it is not yet publicly acknowledged or generally widespread.

36. Whoever now wants to see eternal peace and wants to gain love will travel to Berlin and see the queen. Then they can convince themselves that eternal peace loves heartfelt righteousness over all else and because of this, they will let them be eternally bound forever.