/lit/ - Literature

>David Welsh notes that, "Goethe made frequent use of the idea of unifying opposites in the sense derived from the alchemical mysticism, both in his literary and scientific writings.
>"I was pleased to imagine to myself a divinity which reproduces itself from all eternity, but since a production cannot be thought of without multiplicity, this divinity necessarily applied to itself at once as a Second Person, whom we recognize by the name of the Son."