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4. |354| The Germanic Realm

Out of this loss of itself and of its world, and out of the infinite grief thereof — for which the Israelite people had been held in readiness — the spirit, driven back into itself, grasps, in the extreme of its absolute negativity, the turning point that is in and for itself, the infinite positivity of this its inwardness: the principle of the unity of the divine and human natures, reconciliation as the objective truth and freedom that has appeared within self-consciousness and subjectivity — a task whose accomplishment is entrusted to the northern principle of the Germanic peoples.

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    Hegel (Encyclopedia 1817)

    Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Outline (1817), § 452:

    § 452. The spiritual substance, which frees its content, as well as its individual actuality or its self-consciousness, from its limitedness in the fear of death, has raised this to infinity, and therein is an object to itself as universal spirit, which self-consciousness knows as its substance, thereby likewise freed from fear, and which is the actuality corresponding to its concept.

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    Hegel (Simple)

    § 358: The Germanic realm

    From the loss of itself and of its world grows an infinite grief. The people of Israel stood ready for this grief.

    What happens then?

    Spirit falls back wholly into itself. At this outermost point it finds something infinitely positive within. The principle of the unity of divine and human nature. Reconciliation. Truth and freedom now appear in one’s own consciousness.

    Who is to make this real?

    This task falls to the Germanic peoples of the North.

    Summary: Spirit grieves over the loss of the old world. Out of this grief it finds the reconciliation of the divine and the human. The Germanic peoples have the task of making it real.

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