[31F-TDI: p. 214]
“ ‘The Conscientious Historian Speaks to the Conscience’:
Bruno and Jacob Boehme and Spinoza were the noble men
Who prophetically laid the ground for this feast of reconciliation [“… of spirit with nature.”].” [31F-TDI: p. 214]
[32F-TDI: p. 224]
“ ‘The Universal Cure’:
Zeus was a great sinner, but the God of Christianity merely suffered;
If you recognize that there are sins in God, you will be free of them.
‘ “No, That is Too Wicked!”
but, Unfortunately, True’:
If you wish to be delivered from sin, pious one, just become a pagan;
Sin came into the world with Christianity.
‘What I am’:
You ask what I am? A resurrected pagan
Who returned to life through the death of the Savior.” [32F-TDI: p. 224]
[33F-TDI: p. 230]
“ ‘A Critical-Exegetical-Dogmatical-Philosophical Doubt’:
“Adam lays the blame for the Fall on you; but is it not possible
That the fruit fell from the tree by itself?
(…)
‘A Qualification’:
Meanwhile, even if the fruit did not fall from the tree of itself –
Which is very dubious, as I have just noted –
Then it was high time that Adam had knowledge of the vulnerability of simple innocence
And gathered a more noble fruit.” [33F-TDI: p. 230]
