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Faustian 

The Faustian looks for an immortality to follow the bodily end,  marriage with endless space, it disembodies the stone in its Gothic thrust system.

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the Faustian soul, whose prime-symbol is pure and limitless space…blossomed forth with the birth of the Romanesque style in the 10th century in the Northern plain between the Elbe and the Tagus.

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pointed arch Faustian architectural form

The window is peculiar to the Faustian soul,the most significant symbol of its depth-experience.  In it can be felt the will to emerge from the interior into the boundless.

 

The same will that is immanent in contrapuntal music was  native to these vaultings. The incorporeal world of this music was and remained that of the first Gothic, 

Parsifal , prelude - Wagner
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Decline of the West, Chapter  VI: Makrokosmos: (2)  Apollinian, Faustian and Magian Soul
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