"No religion has established this truth so well: 'Nature is but a moment of the idea.'"
"A moment of the idea!" murmured the priest in astonishment.
"Why, yes. God in taking a visible envelope showed his consubstantial union with it."
"With nature—oh! oh!"
"By His decease He bore testimony to the essence of death; therefore, death was in Him, made and makes part of God."
The ecclesiastic frowned.
"No blasphemies! it was for the salvation of the human race that He endured sufferings."
"Error! We look at death in the case of the individual, where, no doubt, it is a calamity; but with relation to things it is different. Do not separate mind from matter."
"However, sir, before the Creation——"
"There was no Creation. It has always existed. Otherwise this would be a new being adding itself to the Divine idea, which is absurd."