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Holiness (n.) began ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠as fear of the deranged: the fanatic, the possessed, the religious epileptic were experienced as the highest types of power — as divine.

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Holiness (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its arrogance gets along famously with a base and crafty soul.

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Holiness (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the holy God is an ideal erected so that man can feel, in its presence, the palpable certainty of his own absolute unworthiness, a madness of the will without example.

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Holiness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the horizon of the ideal for everything myopic by nature; for philosophers, it is just shutting the door where their world begins.

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Holiness (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠just the set of symptoms of an impoverished, enervated, incurably corrupted body.

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