Jena Philosophy of Spirit

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|282| thought, but it is a longing for heaven, and a longing likewise for the earth; the former is the pis aller. – It has satisfied through religion, the trust that the events of the world and nature are reconciled with spirit, and that no discord, no unreconciled, selfless necessity reigns in them –

Religion, however, is represented spirit, the self which does not bring together its pure consciousness and its actual one, to which the content of the former stands opposed in the latter as an other. –

The¹⁸⁴⁾ thought – inner Idea – of absolute religion is this speculative Idea, that the self, the actual, is thinking; – essence and being the same, – this so posited that God, the otherworldly absolute essence, has become man – this actual one, – but likewise this actuality has sublated itself, become a past one, and this God, who [is] actuality and sublated, i.e. universal actuality, is the spirit of the congregation – That¹⁸⁵⁾ God is spirit – this is the content of this religion and the object of this consciousness – α) of pure consciousness α) eternal essence, Son, and Spirit, here all the same essence; not the difference, the indifference of immediate being posited this¹⁸⁶⁾ β) God, the essence of pure consciousness, becomes to himself an other, which

184) In the margin: Religion* representing the unity of knowing and of truth – or as spirit [, which] is absolute essence, not dead essence but this life within itself – as living God – * Alongside: the same as spirit of the people only immediacy

185) In the margin: α true religion – in so far as the absolute essence is spirit β revealed religion without mystery – for God is the self – God is man.

186) In the margin: β) philosophy nature, which goes into itself; becomes evil* – but conversely this being within itself is the loss of the positive, in itself; God takes on the shape of the self; this which is in itself, the presupposed, presents itself in its existence** – precisely that the divine sacrifices itself – that abstract essence; it is not man that dies – but the divine; precisely thereby it becomes man – * Above: concept the pure negativity ** Above: externalization, culture – of abstract essence

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