Seht da den Menschen! Aus dem Franzoesischen: Ecce homo

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to reflect them Widerstrahlen in a straight line and thus teach us to know them fully; and we no longer need to investigate what fact, what reality he is called to be a testifying witness to above all beings, because we see in him the speaking expression of the eternal primal ground Urgrund and the irrefutable similarity Gleichartigkeit that binds them together, and because among creatures he is like the active sign of the total cause Gesammtursache, or like the most comprehensive manifestation Kundgebung that internal divine thought allowed to go forth from itself.

If man is the only being sent to be the universal witness of the universal truth, then let us collect his testimonies Zeugnisse, let us not leave him without having carefully questioned him, without then having compared him with himself, in order to clearly determine the manifold insights we can obtain from his various statements!

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The primary statements Hauptaussagen of man are, firstly, that if he is so obviously a holy and sublime thought of God Gedanke Gottes, even if he is not the thought "God" himself, his essence is necessarily indestructible unzerstörbar; for how could a thought of God perish?

Secondly, that since God can only make use of His thought, man must be infinitely dear to Him; for why should God not love us, how could He not love His thought? After all, we take such great pleasure in our own.

Thirdly (and this is the most important statement of man), if man is a thought of the God of beings, we can only read ourselves in God Himself, only understand ourselves in His radiance Glanz, because a sign is only known to us insofar as we have elevated ourselves to the nature of the thought of which it is the witness and manifestation Kundmachung, and because,