[124F-EOC: p. 210-211]
[P. 210] “… ‘if [P. 211] man were a mere organ of the Holy Spirit, human freedom would be abolished!’ Oh, what a pitiable argument! Is human freedom, then, of more value than divine truth?” [124F-EOC: p. 210-211]
[125F-EOC: p. 214]
“The imagination is the original organ of religion. (…) The nature of God is the nature of the imagination unfolded, made objective.” [125F-EOC: p. 214]
[126F-EOC: p. 217]
“But how can he who has all in God, who already enjoys heavenly bliss in the imagination, experience that want [Noth?], that sense of poverty, which is the impulse to all culture?” [126F-EOC: p. 217]
[127F-EOC: p. 217]
“Culture has no other object than to realize an earthly heaven … .” [127F-EOC: p. 217]
[128F-EOC: p. 219]
“The heathen philosophers busied themselves with the natural origin of things. But the Christian religious consciousness abhorred this idea as heathen, irreligious, and substituted the practical or subjective idea of creation, which is nothing else than a prohibition to conceive things as having arisen in a natural way, an interdict on all physical science.” [128F-EOC: p. 219]
[129F-EOC: p. 229]
“I feel the wretchedness of another, I suffer with him; in alleviating his wretchedness, I alleviate my own; - sympathy with suffering is itself suffering.” [129F-EOC: p. 229]
[130F-EOC: p. 239]
“Nothing is more perverse than the attempt to reconcile miracle with freedom of inquiry and thought, or grace with freedom of will.” [130F-EOC: p. 239]
[131F-EOC: p. 239-240]
[P. 239] “ … what thou experiencest in thyself of another existence, proves only that there is something in thee which thou thyself art not, [P. 240] which works upon thee independently of thy personal will and consciousness, without thy knowing what this mysterious something is.” [131F-EOC: p. 239-240]
