Jena Philosophy of Spirit

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|285| must show itself from the action itself – The church is spirit knowing itself as universal – the inner, absolute security of the state; the singular one counts as singular – everything external is in itself insecure and unstable;¹⁹³⁾ in it its complete guarantee; what man does out of religion he does out of his own thinking,¹⁹⁴⁾ in so far as it is not an insight – the universal thought, not forsaking one in all the different manifoldness of the singular, this is duty – or to this I must surrender myself; it is, is justified in the absolute essence – morality in the absolute essence, in so far as it is my knowing – there absolute essence in general.

193) In the margin: They work only on the singular; they do not count absolutely –

194) In the margin: God is everywhere – is pure thinking, when man is secretly with himself – his solitude, his thinking, is precisely with him

Religion as such is in need of existence, of immediate actuality – it [is] the universal;¹⁹⁵⁾ hence under the lordship of the state, – and is used by it, serves it – used – for it is the actuality-less, which has its self in actual spirit, and thus is as sublated. – Conversely it is again thinking that raises itself above its actuality; this inner obstinacy which gives up its existence and is ready to die for its thought, – [is] the unconquerable, which dies for the thought, – to which pure thought is everything, [has] its inner thinking as such or the meaning of the doing which otherwise appears as a contingent one – So high has thinking as such been raised – gone joyfully to death for the sake of faith – But the state which subjects itself to the church is either given over to fanaticism, and lost, or else [there] would be introduced the rule of priests, which demands not the externalization of doing and existence and determinate thought, but of will as such, and indeed in existence as such, and indeed not against the universal, being-recognised – but against a singular will as such.

195) In the margin: particular estate, determinate character.

From religion heaven flees in actual consciousness – man falls down to earth – and finds the religious only in imagination, in it –

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