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Rudolph Eucken

CHAPTER VII
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There will be opposition between the sordidness of the mere individual will and the divine will, but that is because the spiritual life has not been gained.
When the highest state of spiritual personality has been reached, then man is an expression--a personal realisation of the Absolute, is in entire accord with the absolute, indeed becomes himself divine.
This does not rob the term personality of its meaning, for each personality does, in some way, after all, exist for itself.

Each individual consciousness has a sanctity of its own.

But the being-for-self develops more and more by coming into direct contact with the Universal Spiritual Life.
Here, then, we arrive at something that appears to be a paradox.

We have the phenomenon of a being that is free and existing for itself, yet in some way dependent upon an absolute spiritual life.

We have, too, the phenomenon of a human being becoming divine.


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