What is the report between joy and despair, freedom and feeling to Goethe?

Goethe sees in Nature the true spiritual and moral foundations of humanity. Humanity's depraved condition comes not from some innate sinfulness, but from a disconnection with the spiritual and divine aspects of Nature. Only a return to these true qualities of the world leads to completeness for the individual. The idea that freedom and joy can be found without God's love is what causes misery to Faust.