[88F-EOC: p. 120]
“Judaism is worldly Christianity; Christianity, spiritual Judaism.” [88F-EOC: p. 120]
[89F-EOC: p. 120]
“If we let fall the limits of nationality, we obtain – instead of the Israelite, man.” [89F-EOC: p. 120]
[90F-EOC: p. 120]
“… the Christian made the requirements of human feeling the absolute powers and laws of the world.” [90F-EOC: p. 120]
[91F-EOC: p. 121]
“Christianity has … changed the desire for earthly happiness, the goal of the Israelitish religion, into the longing for heavenly bliss, which is the goal of Christianity.” [91F-EOC: p. 121]
[92F-EOC: p. 121]
“The highest idea, the god of a political community, of a people whose political system expresses itself in the form of religion, is Law, the consciousness of the law as an absolute divine power; the highest idea, the god of unpolitical, unworldly feeling is love; the love … whose power is the unlimited power of the imagination, of intellectual miracle-working.” [92F-EOC: p. 121]
[93F-EOC: p. 122]
“… nature listens not to the plaints of man [as expressed in music and song], it is callous to his sorrows. Hence man turns away from Nature, from all visible objects. He turns within, that here, sheltered and hidden from the inexorable powers, he may find audience for his griefs. Here he utters his oppressive secrets; here he gives vent to his stilled sighs. This open air of the heart, this outspoken secret, this uttered sorrow of the soul, is God.” [93F-EOC: p. 122]
[94F-EOC: p. 123]
“The man who does not exclude from his mind the idea of the world, the idea that everything here must be sought intermediately, that every effect has its natural cause, that a wish is only to be attained when it is made an end and the corresponding means are put into operation – such a man does not pray: he only works; he transforms his attainable wishes into objects of real activity … . In other words, he limits, he conditionates his being by the world, as a member of which he conceives himself; he bounds his wishes by the idea of necessity.” [94F-EOC: p. 123]
