human
Atheists keep up their scoffing at the higher being, which was also honored under the name of the
gpt
or _être suprême_, and trample in the dust one
human
after another without noticing that they themselves, out of need for a higher being, only annihilate the old to make room for a new. Is
gpt
Man perchance not a higher essence than an individual man, and must not the truths, rights, and ideas which result from the concept of him be honored and--counted sacred, as revelations of this very concept? For, even though we should abrogate again many a truth that seemed to be made manifest by this concept, yet this would only evince a misunderstanding on our part, without in the least degree harming the sacred concept itself or taking their sacredness from those truths that must rightly be looked upon as its revelations. _Man_ reaches beyond every individual man, and yet--though he be
human
--is not in fact _his_ essence (which rather would be as single[24] as he the individual himself), but a general and
gpt
yes, for atheists
human
[25] And, as the divine revelations were not written down by God with his own hand, but made public through
gpt
so also the new highest essence does not write out its revelations itself, but lets them come to our knowledge through
human
Only the new essence betrays, in fact, a more spiritual style of conception than the old God, because the latter was still represented in a sort of embodiedness or form, while the undimmed spirituality of the new is retained, and no special material body is fancied for it. And withal it does not lack corporeity, which even takes on a yet more seductive appearance because it looks more natural and mundane and consists in nothing less than in every bodily man,--yes, or outright in
gpt
or