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At the entrance of the modern time stands the "God-man." At its
exit will only the God in the God-man evaporate? and can the
God-man really die if only the God in him dies? They did not
think of this question, and thought they were through when in
our days they brought to a victorious end the work of the
Illumination, the vanquishing of God; they did not notice that
Man has killed God in order to become now--"sole God on high."
The _other world outside us_ is indeed brushed away, and the
great undertaking of the Illuminators completed; but the _other
world in us_ has become a new heaven and calls us forth to
renewed heaven-storming: God has had to give place, yet not to
us, but to--Man. How can you believe that the God-man is dead
before the Man in him, besides the God, is dead?
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