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The Essence of Christianity

Note 3 — Chapter VI · THE MYSTERY OF THE TRINITY AND THE MOTHER OF GOD.

George Eliot translation

The heart comprehends only what springs from the heart. From the character of the subjective disposition and impressions the conclusion is infallible as to the character of the object. The pure, free understanding denies the Son,—not so the understanding determined by feeling, overshadowed by the heart; on the contrary, it finds in the Son the depths of the Godhead, because in him it finds feeling, which in and by itself is something dark, obscure, and therefore appears to man a mystery. The Son lays hold on the heart, because the true Father of the Divine Son is the human heart,3 and the Son himself nothing else than the divine heart, i.e., the human heart become objective to itself as a Divine Being.

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