I won't make any comments, because the quotes speak for themselves, more than I ever could:
"Thanks to the boundless expansivity and indissolubility of the successive consciousness, a human being, still remaining his same self, may attain and realize all the limitless of fulness of being, and therefore no higher species of beings in place of him are either necessary or possible. Within the limits of his given reality a human is only a part of nature; but constantly and consistently he is infringing these limits. In his spiritual offspring- religion and science, morality and art- the human being is revealed as the center of the universal consciousness of nature, the soul of the world, the potentiality of the absolute unity-of-the-all coming to realization, and consequently, above him there can be only this same absolute in its perfect at or eternal being, that is God."
"Recognizing in love the truth of another, not abstractly, but essentially, transferring in deed the center of our life beyond the limits of our empirical personality, we by so doing reveal and realize our own real truth, our own absolute significance, which consists just in our capacity to transcend the borders of our factual phenomenal being, in our capacity to live not only in ourselves, but also in another."
"Love's primordial power here loses all its meaning, when its object is degraded from the height of the absolute center of immortal individuality to the level of a fortuitous and easily replaced demands for the production of a new generation of human beings, a generation that may be a little better or may be a little worse, but is in any case relative and transitory."
"If, inevitably, and without our own volition, the existent idealization of love reveals to us through empirical appearance a distant ideal image of the beloved object, this is not, of course, only that we might delight in it, but that by the power of true faith, active imagination and real creativeness we might transform, in accordance with this true exemplar, the reality not corresponding to it, and might embody it in a real phenomenon."
"But it is the seperation of the sexes- not eliminated by their external and transient union in the act of generation- it is this seperation between male and female elements of the human being which is already in itself a state of disintegration, and the beginning of death"
"The elephant and the raven prove to be significantly longer-lived than even the most punctiliously virtuous human."
"But love, as I understand it, is, on the contrary, an extraordinarily compelx affair, bosure and intricate, demanding fully conscious analysis and investigation, in which one needs to be concerned not about simplicity, but about the truth..."
"If for me, who am myself on this side of the transcendental world, a certain ideal object appears to be only the product of my own imagination, this does not interfere with its full reality in another higher sphere of being."
"This living ideal fo the Divine love, antecedent to our love, contains in itself the secret of the idealization of our love. In it the idealization of the lower being exists together with an incipient realization of the higher, and in this is the truth of love's intense emotion."
"Good tidings from a lost paradise- tidings of the possibility of recovery- we accept as an invitation to become finally naturalized in earthly exile, to enter without delay into full and hereditary possession of our own minute portion, with all its thistles and briars."
"Only by consistent acts of conscious faith do we enter into real correpsondence with the realm of the turly-existent, and through it into true correlation with our "other". Only on this basis can we retain and strengthen in consciousness that absoluteness for us of another person (and consequently also the absolutelness of our union with him) which is immediately and unaccountably revealed in the intense emotion of love, for this emotion of love comes and passes away, but the faith of love abides."
"In this way, that which lies at the basis of our world is being in a state of disintegration, being dismembered into parts and moments which exclude one another."
"the body of the universe is the totality of the real-ideal, the psycho-physical, or simply (in direct agreement with the idea of Newton about the sensorium Dei) it is a mystical body,"
"Already also in the natural world everything apper tains to the idea, but the true essence of the latter demands not only that everything should belong to it, that everything should be included in it, but also that the idea itself should belong to everything, that everything, i.e., all particular and individual beings, and consequently each one of them, should really be possessed of the ideal unity-of-the-all, should comprise it in itself. Perfect unity-of-the-all, in accordance with its own conception of itself, demands complete equilibrium, equivalence and equality of right between the one and the all, be tween the whole and the parts, between the general and the particular."
"But as this organic solidarity in the animal does not reach beyond the limits of its bodily structure, so also for it the image of the complementary “other” is wholly limited to such a single body with the possibility only of a material and partial union. Therefore the supratemporal infinity or eternity of the idea, operating in the living creative power of love, assumes here the base, rectilineal form of limitless propagation, i.e., the repetition of one and the same organism in the monotonous replacement of single temporal existences."
"True union presupposes the true separateness of those being united, i.e., a separateness by power of which they do not exclude, but mutually replenish each other, each finding in the other the fulness of his own proper life. As in the love of two individual beings, diverse but enjoying equal rights and of equal worth, each serves the other, not as a negative limitation but as positive fulfillment, so in precisely the same way it must also be in all spheres of collective life; every social organism ought to be for each of its members not an external limit of his activity, but a positive support and fulfillment."
"it is requisite above all that we should have a relation to social and worldwide circles as to a real living being, with which we (never merging into inseparability) are in the closest and fullest reciprocal action."
"that any conscious activity of humanity determined by the idea of a cosmic syzygy and aimed at embodying the unity-of-the-all ideal in that sphere or another actually produces or sets free real currents of spirit and body. These currents gradually take possession of the material environment, animate it and embody in it some images or other of the unity-of- the-all—the living and eternal likenesses of absolute humanity."
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Extremely fascinating work. Sublime concept.
Pub:
Lindisfarne Press 1985
"Thanks to the boundless expansivity and indissolubility of the successive consciousness, a human being, still remaining his same self, may attain and realize all the limitless of fulness of being, and therefore no higher species of beings in place of him are either necessary or possible. Within the limits of his given reality a human is only a part of nature; but constantly and consistently he is infringing these limits. In his spiritual offspring- religion and science, morality and art- the human being is revealed as the center of the universal consciousness of nature, the soul of the world, the potentiality of the absolute unity-of-the-all coming to realization, and consequently, above him there can be only this same absolute in its perfect at or eternal being, that is God."
"Recognizing in love the truth of another, not abstractly, but essentially, transferring in deed the center of our life beyond the limits of our empirical personality, we by so doing reveal and realize our own real truth, our own absolute significance, which consists just in our capacity to transcend the borders of our factual phenomenal being, in our capacity to live not only in ourselves, but also in another."
"Love's primordial power here loses all its meaning, when its object is degraded from the height of the absolute center of immortal individuality to the level of a fortuitous and easily replaced demands for the production of a new generation of human beings, a generation that may be a little better or may be a little worse, but is in any case relative and transitory."
"If, inevitably, and without our own volition, the existent idealization of love reveals to us through empirical appearance a distant ideal image of the beloved object, this is not, of course, only that we might delight in it, but that by the power of true faith, active imagination and real creativeness we might transform, in accordance with this true exemplar, the reality not corresponding to it, and might embody it in a real phenomenon."
"But it is the seperation of the sexes- not eliminated by their external and transient union in the act of generation- it is this seperation between male and female elements of the human being which is already in itself a state of disintegration, and the beginning of death"
"The elephant and the raven prove to be significantly longer-lived than even the most punctiliously virtuous human."
"But love, as I understand it, is, on the contrary, an extraordinarily compelx affair, bosure and intricate, demanding fully conscious analysis and investigation, in which one needs to be concerned not about simplicity, but about the truth..."
"If for me, who am myself on this side of the transcendental world, a certain ideal object appears to be only the product of my own imagination, this does not interfere with its full reality in another higher sphere of being."
"This living ideal fo the Divine love, antecedent to our love, contains in itself the secret of the idealization of our love. In it the idealization of the lower being exists together with an incipient realization of the higher, and in this is the truth of love's intense emotion."
"Good tidings from a lost paradise- tidings of the possibility of recovery- we accept as an invitation to become finally naturalized in earthly exile, to enter without delay into full and hereditary possession of our own minute portion, with all its thistles and briars."
"Only by consistent acts of conscious faith do we enter into real correpsondence with the realm of the turly-existent, and through it into true correlation with our "other". Only on this basis can we retain and strengthen in consciousness that absoluteness for us of another person (and consequently also the absolutelness of our union with him) which is immediately and unaccountably revealed in the intense emotion of love, for this emotion of love comes and passes away, but the faith of love abides."
"In this way, that which lies at the basis of our world is being in a state of disintegration, being dismembered into parts and moments which exclude one another."
"the body of the universe is the totality of the real-ideal, the psycho-physical, or simply (in direct agreement with the idea of Newton about the sensorium Dei) it is a mystical body,"
"Already also in the natural world everything apper tains to the idea, but the true essence of the latter demands not only that everything should belong to it, that everything should be included in it, but also that the idea itself should belong to everything, that everything, i.e., all particular and individual beings, and consequently each one of them, should really be possessed of the ideal unity-of-the-all, should comprise it in itself. Perfect unity-of-the-all, in accordance with its own conception of itself, demands complete equilibrium, equivalence and equality of right between the one and the all, be tween the whole and the parts, between the general and the particular."
"But as this organic solidarity in the animal does not reach beyond the limits of its bodily structure, so also for it the image of the complementary “other” is wholly limited to such a single body with the possibility only of a material and partial union. Therefore the supratemporal infinity or eternity of the idea, operating in the living creative power of love, assumes here the base, rectilineal form of limitless propagation, i.e., the repetition of one and the same organism in the monotonous replacement of single temporal existences."
"True union presupposes the true separateness of those being united, i.e., a separateness by power of which they do not exclude, but mutually replenish each other, each finding in the other the fulness of his own proper life. As in the love of two individual beings, diverse but enjoying equal rights and of equal worth, each serves the other, not as a negative limitation but as positive fulfillment, so in precisely the same way it must also be in all spheres of collective life; every social organism ought to be for each of its members not an external limit of his activity, but a positive support and fulfillment."
"it is requisite above all that we should have a relation to social and worldwide circles as to a real living being, with which we (never merging into inseparability) are in the closest and fullest reciprocal action."
"that any conscious activity of humanity determined by the idea of a cosmic syzygy and aimed at embodying the unity-of-the-all ideal in that sphere or another actually produces or sets free real currents of spirit and body. These currents gradually take possession of the material environment, animate it and embody in it some images or other of the unity-of- the-all—the living and eternal likenesses of absolute humanity."
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Extremely fascinating work. Sublime concept.
Pub:
Lindisfarne Press 1985
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