thrid letter (continued)

Our overcoming our physical tendencies while attempting to move closer towards God (or perhaps Schiller's so called "moral realm") is a critical matter of understanding. This is not to say that we need to know fully the entire picture, however it is important the we become aware of and take grasp of our relationship to Man, Nature and God in order to draw nearer to each. With each relationship there comes with it a lack (either emotional, physical or spiritual). Through lack in one, we ought to draw closer to the others as they are all bound in form. As we continue to mature we begin to recognize just how significant our understanding of these three essential relationships shape and mold us. (and often times, vice versa: objectification)

Our relationship to the physical and the moral: "is a question of abstracting man's physical character its arbitrariness, and from his moral character its freedom; of making the first conformable to laws and the second dependent upon sense impressions; of removing the former somewhat further from matter, and bringing the latter somewhat closer to it; and all this with the aim of bringing into being a third character that, kin to both the others, might prepare the way for a transition from the rule of mere force to the rule of mere force to the rule of law, and that without in any way impeding the development of moral character, might on the contrary serve as a pledge in the sensible world of a morality as yet unseen."