Friedrich Schiller, Sinnsprüche, aus "Die Sendung Moses", Autograph Beethovens

"Ich Bin, Was da ist" / "Ich bin alles, was ist, was / war, und was seyn wird, / Kein sterblicher Mensch / hat meinen Schleyer / aufgehoben" / "Er ist einzig von ihm selbst, / u. diesem Einzigen sind / alle Dinge ihr Daseyn schuldig".

("I am what is there" "I am everything which is, which was and which will be. No mortal has raised my veil" "He created himself and all things owe their existence to him".)

According to Schindler these words were Beethoven's "admission of faith", he kept them on his desk. They were taken from an essay by Schiller about the foundation of the Jewish State by Moses, in which the nature and character of Egyptian wisdom and religion are laid out. Schiller explains, "Under one of the old columns of Isis there were the words: "I am what is there" and on a pyramid at Sais the ancient strange inscription was found, "I am everything which is, which was and which will be, No mortal has raised my veil" (...). In the hymn which the hierophant or the head of the shrine sang to the person to be initiated, the first information written about the nature of the deity was, "He created himself and all things owe their existence to him".