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also said, that all things are nothing but presentations, 

 thoughts, ideas of God. So soon as God thinks and 

 speaks is there a real thing. To speak and to create 

 are one. All, that we perceive, are words, thoughts of 

 God ; we are ourselves nothing else than such words or 

 thoughts of God, consequently his metatypes or images, 

 in as far as we unite in ourselves the whole system of 

 speech. There is therefore no being without self- 

 consciousness. That only which thinks is (for itself) ; 

 that which does not think is not for itself, but only for 

 some other consciousness. The world differs from God 

 as doth our speech from us. The self-consciousness of 

 God is independent of the world, even as our self- 

 consciousness is independent of our speech. 



65. The divine laws are also the laws of the world ; 

 this has therefore been created and governed in accordance 

 with eternal and immutable laws. 



66. Physio-philosophy is the history of creation ; 

 the creation, however, is the language of God. The sys- 

 tem of thought, however, lies necessarily at the foun- 

 dation of the system of speech. Now the science of the 

 laws of thought is called logic ; physio-philosophy is 

 therefore a divine doctrine of speech or a divine logic. 

 The laws of speech instruct us in the genesis of language. 

 Physio-philosophy is, therefore, the science of the genesis 

 of the world, or Cosmogony. 



FORM OF GOD TRIUNITY. 



67. As the complete principle of mathematics consists 

 of three ideas, so also does the primary principle of 

 nature, or the Eternal. The primary principle of mathe- 

 matics is ; so soon, however, as it is actual, is it + 

 and ; or the primary idea resolves itself in being at 

 once into two ideas, each of which resembles the other in 

 essence, but differs from it in form. Thus it is here one 

 and the same essence under three forms, or three are one. 

 Now that which holds good of mathematical principles, 

 must hold good also of the principles of nature. The 



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