GOD

God is Spirit. Spirit is a Being eternally experiencing its own being, creating from nothing. It is a self-applying perfection, infinite and limitless, existing in itself and for itself. Perfection and infinity equal Pleasure. Hence, Spirit is Pleasure. This self-fulfilling and all-fulfilling, self-applying and eternally essentiating Perfection is the substance and the subject at the same time. That is why God is Pleasure, something substantial and spiritual, which is the only reason why it is a positive state of the cognitive apparatus. The perception of pleasure is therefore a manifestation of the Substance; it is its activity or the consequence of God's will; it is Its intervention into the nervous system.

God is the Absolute, which means that He is omnipresent and a constituent part of everything; He may be only in himself or ruthlessly outside himself; He may be here and elsewhere simultaneously; He may be, inexplicably, somewhere out there; He may be only here and everywhere at the same time; He may be the one who loves infinitely only here and nowhere else; He may be merely somewhere and everywhere at the same time. God exists inside and outside the world. God is where he wants to be. God is by Himself and beyond Himself; He may be within Himself and beyond Himself. He is therefore omnipotent.

The essence of God is transcendence, namely the transcendence of the entire self. Though God is All in One, it is not necessary that One be in All. God is true if he is transcended in his totality. His essence, which is Perfection, comprises this All and the Surplus. Only when He and the Pleasure are the latter, is Evil weaker and thus defeatable. Outwardly oriented, God is the Grace of pleasure and Pleasure is the Reason for the real.

The determination of God and Pleasure belongs to themselves; whereby God's determination is the matter of His pleasure, i.e., due to its essence, the pleasure in it is always surpassed, which only logically completes His inaccessibility, and the determination of Pleasure is the matter of His self-applying essence.

The conceptual determination of God does not change His universal into the particular, His infiniteness into finiteness, the unlimited into the limited. On the contrary, while the word changes His general into the particular, because of his eternally essentiating transcendence and absolute essence, God himself already exists beyond this determination or His particular essence. While still in this determination, God is already beyond it and encompassing it.

For God to be God, i.e., an absolute, infinite, self-referring, omnipotent Being, He can also be the substance of His own essence and the spirit of His own entity. Thus God is the mind and in Him exists his truth, which is the content of His reason, so that His essence stems from it and is determined and afformed by it, but in such a way that His very dependence on His essence is God himself, that is to say, the subject/reason of His own truth. This means that God, while depending on his truth, while being the truth itself, ruled by his mind, is already external to it, independent and sovereign over it. This is the only veritable truth of God. God is already the substance and is already the truth of His own measure, His own power and His mind, which is in Him, because God himself is knowing. God, by being complete in himself, is already absolute, outside the notion of this completeness. And this is the absolute Good, preceded by Evil, which is defined by limitedness, dependence, incompleteness. However, Evil itself is only possible when the truth, the substance, the subject of this Evil are outside it and this is the absolute of Good. Thus Evil is that which is mercilessly sealed in its non-fulfillment and is powerless against fulfillment from outside. The definition of God as himself unto himself and in himself, mastering, constituting and reflecting, determining and making a law of His own truth of His own free will, can thus only be understood as Grace, which surpasses the essence of intellect and the power of will, already embracing all the cognizant aims and principles and subordinating all logical laws.