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 The Unheard can no one hear! Slip within each blossom-bell, Deeper, deeper, there to dwell,— In the rocks, beneath the leaf! If it strikes you, you are deaf."                         —Faust. Part II.

We also must not forget the beautiful verse of Hölderlin:

"Where art thou? Drunken, my soul dreams Of all thy rapture. Yet even now I hearken As full of golden tones the radiant sun youth Upon his heavenly lyre plays his even song To the echoing woods and hills."

Just as in archaic speech fire and the speech sounds (the mating call, music) appear as forms of emanation of the libido, thus light and sound entering the psyche become one: libido.

Manilius expresses it in his beautiful verses:

"Quid mirum noscere mundum Si possunt homines, quibus est et mundus in ipsis Exemplumque dei quisque est in imagine parva? An quoquam genitos nisi cælo credere fas est Esse homines?             Stetit unus in arcem Erectus capitis victorque ad sidera mittit sidereos oculos."

The idea of the Sanskrit têjas suggests the fundamental significance of the libido for the conception of the world in general. I am indebted to Dr. Abegg, in Zurich, a