[54] That is, in Greek cosmogony.
[55] What: Centimanen refers to I do not know, possibly a name for Arges, Ceropes, and Brontes.
[56] The sense is "which is not merely (to take the obvious case of opposition which is, however, not the one here described) totally outside the Absolute and incidental to," etc. Hegel's words would admit of the interpretation that this was part of the conception he is describing. But this is obviously not so, for, in that case, the negative would be ascribed to both the Absolute and the "other God."
[57] Ist Unterscheiden, is that which involves differentiation. To posit a quality is to distinguish from other qualities. A fundamental, aspect of Hegelian logic.
[58] Glied, part of one organic totality.
[59] Hegel uses an expression somewhat similar to Milton's "Among the faithless faithful only he." Den Bisherigen refers primarily, of course, to the Persian and Hindoo peoples.
[60] Wie des Innern überhaupt, i.e., the Inward with its significance as the Absolute.
[61] In seiner Abgeschiedenheit vom Leben. In other words the corpse was preserved as still the only appropriate external form of Life. Though Hegel separates the two aspects of Egyptian belief they were necessary concomitants of each other.
[62] I have translated Innerem here by "soul," but it expresses of course too much if taken strictly in its most personal sense.
[63] Aberglaube, not "superstition" so much as belief that is intuitive, not rationally deduced. The emphasis is on ahnt.