"how the spirit of the depths considers the soul:

as a living and self-existing being, and contradicts the spirit of this time, for whom the soul is

a thing dependent on man, which lets herself be judged and arranged, and whose circumference we can grasp.

what I had previously called my soul was not at all my soul,

but a dead system.

Hence I had to speak to my soul as to something far off and unknown, which did not exist through me,

but through whom I existed."