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• September: Goethe, then a young man of 16, travels to the University of Leipzig with two passengers from Frankfurt. Most of the journey takes place in the rain and the carriage sometimes has difficulty climbing hills. As the travelers left their seats to walk behind the horses, the young man noticed a strange and luminous object on the ground: Suddenly, in a ravine to the right of the road, I saw a kind of amphitheater wonderfully illuminated. In a tubular space shone an incalculable number of small lights placed one on top of the other; and they shone so brightly that the eye was dazzled. But what troubled most in this vision was that the lights were not fixed, they jumped here and there, went up and down and vice versa, in all directions. The largest number of them, however, remained stable and radiated. It was with the greatest secrecy that I agreed, when I was called, to move away from this spectacle that I would have liked to examine more closely... It remains to be seen whether this was a pandemonium of goblins or an assembly of luminous creatures; I cannot decide. [[6th book of his autobiography according to Kenneth Anger, film director and occult scholar]]{.source}