Romanticism – with its creative and imaginative drive and impulse – amounts to religion through aesthetic means. Hence, we turn our focus towards beauty in order to achieve our goals. To borrow from one philosopher: “Because it is only through beauty that man makes his way to Freedom.”
Moreover, the opposite of freedom is dependence. Thus, man absolves himself of dependence upon other men and achieves freedom for himself through a very basic and fundamental but nevertheless obscure and repressed logic and rationale, which is that both man and the external world are dependent creatures. A man depends on another man, and that other man depends on yet another man, until finally, you reach a causal necessity for both man and the external world. Hence, the paradox is that man achieves freedom through dependence on none other than the causal necessity and in turn absolves himself of dependence on anything other than the causal necessity. In turn, the causal necessity of both man and the external world is the only truth, with truth serving as the final stage of unio mystico or “mystic union” while the stage of miracles is the first stage, as mentioned before.
Adam A. Azim 