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is higher than the highest. Love is greater than the greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God... while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is love, and love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues... from whence they flow forth.

Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God... while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues... from whence they flow forth.

is the child of the eternity. This world is an out-birth out of the eternal which takes on palpability in the anger.

We are children of the eternity: But this world is an out-birth out of the eternal... and its palpability taketh its original in the anger... the eternal nature is its root. Jakob Bohme.

is reciprocal such that the the self is not distinct from other objects but permeates and embraces them.

This doctrine together with the doctrine of the Neoplatonist and of Böhme that the self and the world are reciprocally related and that knowledge of the one affords knowledge of the other led the German idealist to conceive of the self not as sharply distinct from other objects, but as permeating and embracing them. (inwood 1992 : 61)

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