[117F-EOC: p. 188]
[Footnote:] “ … I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.” [117F-EOC: p. 188]
[118F-EOC: p. 197]
“… when religion advances in years, and, with years, in understanding; when, within the bosom of religion, reflection on religion is awakened, and the consciousness of the identity of the divine being with the human begins to dawn, - in a word, when religion becomes theology, the originally involuntary and harmless separation of God from man becomes an intentional, excogitated separation, which has no other object than to banish again from the consciousness this identity which has already entered there.” [118F-EOC: p. 197]
[119F-EOC: p. 204]
“Religion is a dream, in which our conceptions and emotions appear to us as separate existences, beings out of ourselves.” [119F-EOC: p. 204]
[120F-EOC: p. 205]
[Footnote:] “The denial of a fact is not a matter of indifference; it is something morally evil, - a disowning of what is known to be true. Christianity made its articles of faith objective, i.e., undeniable, unassailable facts, thus overpowering the reason, and taking the mind prisoner by the force of external reality … .” [120F-EOC: p. 205]
[121F-EOC: p. 208]
“Reason, the mind of the species, operates on the subjective, uncultured man only under the image of a personal being. Moral laws have force for him only as the commandments of a Divine Will … . … the subjective, uncultured man sees in conscience, in reason, so far as he recognizes it as his own, no universal objective power; hence he must separate from himself that which gives him moral laws, and place it in opposition to himself, as a distinct personal being.” [121F-EOC: p. 208]
[122F-EOC: p. 208]
“… revelation must not be regarded as outside the nature of man. There is within him an inward necessity which impels him to present moral and philosophical doctrines in the form of narratives and fables, and an equal necessity to represent that impulse as a revelation.” [122F-EOC: p. 208]
[123F-EOC: p. 209]
“ … Nature ‘unconsciously produces results which look as if they were produced consciously’ … .” [123F-EOC: p. 209]
