[69F-EOC: p. 67]
“God the father is I, God the son Thou. The I is understanding, the Thou love. But love with understanding and understanding with love is mind, and mind is … the total man.” [69F-EOC: p. 67]
[70F-EOC: p. 69]
“The pure, free understanding denies the son, - not so the understanding determined by feeling, overshadowed by the heart; on the contrary, it finds in the Son the depths of the Godhead, because in him it finds feeling, which in and by itself is something dark, obscure, and therefore appears to man a mystery .” [70F-EOC: p. 69]
[71F-EOC: p. 72]
“Love is … essentially feminine … . (…) Love apart from living nature is an anomaly, a phantom. Behold in love the holy necessity and depth of nature!” [71F-EOC: p. 72]
[72F-EOC: p. 75]
“God above the mediator is nothing else than the cold understanding above the heart, like Fate above the Olympian gods.” [72F-EOC: p. 75]
[73F-EOC: p. 77]
“ … men , when they know the word, the name for a thing, fancy that they know the thing also.“ [73F-EOC: p. 77]
[74F-EOC: p. 78]
“Words are not really less rich , less pregnant than music, though music seems to say more, and appears deeper and richer than words, for this reason simply, that it is invested with that prepossession, that illusion.” [74F-EOC: p. 78]
[75F-EOC: p. 80]
“The opposition between the noumenal or invisible divine nature and the phenomenal or visible nature of the world … is the opposition between the nature of abstraction and the nature of perception; but that which connects abstraction with perception is the imagination … .” [75F-EOC: p. 80]
[76F-EOC: p. 80]
“All religious cosmogonies are products of the imagination.” [76F-EOC: p. 80]
