Novalis is very inspiring, one of the greatest initiates, disguised as a Romantic . . . here are some jottings from my notebooks . . .
'All that is visible, clings to the invisible,
the audible to the inaudible,
the tangible to the intangible:
Perhaps the thinkable to the unthinkable.'
Novalis
“Novalis’ whole works are based upon an idea of education: "We are on a mission: we are called upon to educate the earth." [1] It has to be made clear that everything is in a continual process. It is the same with humanity, which forever strives towards and tries to recreate a new Golden Age - a paradisical Age of harmony between man and nature that was assumed to have existed in earlier times. This Age was recounted by Plato, Plotinus, . . .”
"Love is the final goal of world history - the One of the universe." (Romantic Encyclopaedia, no. 50)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novalis"
Translation of The Novices of Saïs by Ralph Manheim
They (the disciples) had been lured above all by that sacred language that had been the glittering bond between those kingly men and the inhabitants of the regions above the earth, and some precious words of which, according to countless legends, were known to a few fortunate sages among our ancestors. Their speech was a wondrous song, its irresistible tones penetrated deep into the inwardness of nature and split it apart. Each of their names seemed to be the key to the soul of each thing in nature. With creative power these vibrations called forth all images of the world's phenomena, and the life of the universe can rightly be said to have been an eternal dialogue of a thousand voices; for in the language of those men all forces, all modes of action seemed miraculously united. To seek out the ruins of this language, or at least all reports concerning it, had been one of the main purposes of their journey, and the call of antiquity had drawn them also to Saïs. Here from the learned clerks of the temple archives, they hoped to obtain important reports, and perhaps even to find indications in the great collections of every kind." (113-115)
From: Peter Lamborn Wilson, The disciples at saïs: a sacred theory of earth, Capitalism Nature Socialism, Volume 15, Number 2, June 2004 , pp. 17-30(14) using translation of : The Novices of Sais, trans. by Ralph Manheim, Archipelago Books: 2005. This translation was originally published in 1949. This edition includes illustrations by Paul Klee. The Novices of Sais contains the fairy tale "Hyacinth and Rose Petal."