category with miracle, or rather, it is the first miracle … ; the principle of which all further miracles are the spontaneous result.” [81F-EOC: p. 101-102]
[82F-EOC: p. 112]
“The doctrine of the creation sprang out of Judaism … . The principle which lies at its foundation is, however, not so much the principle of subjectivity as of egoism.” [82F-EOC: p. 112]
[83F-EOC: p. 112-113]
[P. 112] “To him who feels that Nature is lovely, it appears an end in itself, it has the ground of its existence in itself: in him the question, Why does it exist? does not arise. Nature and God are identified in his consciousness, his perception of the world. (…) The generative force is to him the primal force: he posits, therefore, as the ground of Nature, a force of Nature, - a real, present, visibly active force, as the ground of reality. Thus does man think where his relationship to the world is aesthetic or theoretic (for the theoretic view was originally the aesthetic view … . [P. 113] (…) When, on the contrary, man places himself only on the practical standpoint, … making the practical standpoint the theoretical one also, he is in disunion with Nature; he makes Nature the abject vassal of his selfish interest, of his practical egoism. The theoretic expression of this egoistical, practical view, according to which Nature is in itself nothing, is this: Nature or the world is made, created, the product of a command. (…)Utilism is the essential theory of Judaism.” [83F-EOC: p. 112-113]
[84F-EOC: p. 114]
“The Jews have maintained their peculiarity to this day. Their principle, their God, is the most practical principle in the world, - namely, egoism; and moreover egoism in the form of religion.” [84F-EOC: p. 114]
[85F-EOC: p. 117]
“World-old usages, laws, and institutions continue to drag out their existence long after they have lost their true meaning. … what was once good, claims to be good for all times.” [85F-EOC: p. 117]
[86F-EOC: p. 118]
“Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image.” [86F-EOC: p. 118]
[87F-EOC: p. 119]
“ … Jehovah is the ego of Israel, which regards itself as the end and aim, the Lord of Nature.” [87F-EOC: p. 119]
