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|256| itself. – Right was the immediate concept of spirit – the power, the necessity of its movement, externalizing, becoming other. (The universal, in that it protects my life and is might over my life, is this immediate unity – of the pure will and of existence,130) – of pure consciousness and of myself. Relating myself to it as this immediate unity, I have trust in it –131) towards it only as my negative essence, fear, towards it, which is immediately my will, – not only agrees with it, but in that it is my actual self, I am regent. – It is lord,132) public power, and regent, according to these three sides towards me –)
130) In the margin: Return into itself – in pardon; everything actual deed – evil inner actual – is the actual, as itself – existing, absolute certainty of itself
131) In the margin: pure night of being-for-itself absolute knowing, which is entirely free of all existence
132) In the margin: real spirit immediate otherness universal might
– It is people, multitude of individuals in general, existing whole, the universal power; it is of insuperable strength against the singular, and his necessity and oppressing might, and the strength which each has according to his being-recognised is that of the people.133) But this strength is134) effective only in so far as it is bound into a One,135) only as will; – the universal will is the will as of all and each, but as will it is simply only this self, – the doing of the universal is a One; the
133) In the margin: Concept of the constitution – its universal essence
134) In the margin: α) his knowing of himself as object as alien might – singular
135) In the margin: Freedom of spirit from singularity in general – and the higher freedom from determinate existence
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