Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology of the life of Moses Hess
- A note on the text
- Bibliographical note
- The Holy History of Mankind
- Dedication
- PART ONE THE PAST AS THE FOUNDATION OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
- 1 The First Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Father
- 2 The Second Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Son
- 3 The Third Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Holy Spirit
- An Interlude (instead of an Introduction) to a correct judgment of these pages
- PART TWO THE FUTURE, AS THE CONSEQUENCE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED
- Appendix: Christ and Spinoza (from Rome and Jerusalem)
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
3 - The Third Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Holy Spirit
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology of the life of Moses Hess
- A note on the text
- Bibliographical note
- The Holy History of Mankind
- Dedication
- PART ONE THE PAST AS THE FOUNDATION OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
- 1 The First Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Father
- 2 The Second Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Son
- 3 The Third Main Period of the Holy History – or the History of Revelation of God, the Holy Spirit
- An Interlude (instead of an Introduction) to a correct judgment of these pages
- PART TWO THE FUTURE, AS THE CONSEQUENCE OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED
- Appendix: Christ and Spinoza (from Rome and Jerusalem)
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Summary
Even as light displays both itself and darkness, so is truth a standard both of itself and of falsity.
ethics ii, 43 noteThe mind's highest good is the knowledge of God, and the mind's highest virtue is to know God.
ibid., iv, 28First Period: North America From Benedict Spinoza to the French Revolution
Europe is dying.
Joh. MüllerAs our Master appeared, Christ has triumphed. And once again, a period has come to the end of its cycle. The history of revelation of God the Son – or the knowledge of God in the feelings of the soul – which has until now dominated the earth, has been fulfilled and closed. With our immortal Teacher, the foundations of the new age have been laid; with him began the history of revelation of God [as] the Holy Spirit, or the purest knowledge of God. When Spinoza was fully formed [ausgebildet], he united once again, like his ancestors Adam and Christ, the conflicts of his age in his divine soul into a living whole. And once again, he saw more than his predecessors and deeper than his contemporaries; for he recognized God who is Life. For God revealed himself to him not in the feelings of the soul, but in the bright light of reason. He who was full of his spirit, was lifted beyond the old quarrels of opinion about the letter of the Gospel, because he comprehended God purely spiritually and honoured him through truth.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004