[p. 283]
|283| is world – but this existence is concept – being within itself, evil, and nature, the immediate, must be represented as evil, each come to the insight into his evil nature – i.e. that nature turns over into the concept, the evil, being for itself, against the essence that is in itself, but conversely [is] likewise the essence that is in itself; i.e. God appears in nature – as actual; everything beyond has fled – That, now, this opposition itself is null – evil, the actuality that is for itself, is not in itself, but is universal – this is presented precisely in the sacrifice of the divine man – α) the sacrifice of divinity, i.e. of the abstract otherworldly essence, has already taken place in its becoming actual β) the sublating of actuality the becoming of its universality187) – universal spirit – but this a representation for consciousness; – likewise γ) the universality of the self in itself – i.e. the congregation must renounce its being-for-itself and immediate nature – or regard it precisely as evil, and this view of evil sublates itself through the grasping of that representation. – Presentation in the cult;188) in which that self gives itself the consciousness of unity with the essence. – Devotion knows itself in it; cult.
187) In the margin: immediate self – reconciled nature – imagining of the divine into everything natural – peopling with saints, history of saints – apparitions – everywhere immediate presence (new earth, natural sun extinguished) – pain of religion – pure feeling of externalization –
188) In the margin: enjoys the body and blood which daily sacrifices itself in its congregation, and becomes this singular self.
This189) universal spirit, or the spirit of the congregation, is the state of the church,
189) In the margin: synthetic connection of state and church
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