92. The whole in the singular is called _Individual_. The individual is
an example of computation, which admits only of being developed, from
its comprehending the whole of arithmetic in itself. Nothing individual
can persist eternally; it must eternally move itself, consequently fill
up everything, displace everything, must become itself the universe.
MAN.
93. Time consists of single acts; i. e. the life or the absolute act
does not work with one stroke, but an infinite number of times. All
acts, therefore, taken together, all finite things in time, are equal
to the primary act or the Eternal.
94. There are two totalities, a primary totality 0 +-, and a secondary,
or the summing up of all numbers 0 + n-n; the former the eternal, the
latter the finite totality, or the one the eternity, the other the
infinity.
95. The more a thing has adopted into itself of the Manifold of the
universe, by so much the more is it animated, by so much the more does
it resemble the Eternal. It is conceivable, for a finite or living
essence to unite all numbers or acts in itself, without, however,
its being the very Eternal. It would, however, be obviously the most
perfect finite essence, and, as a secondary totality, be the likeness
of the primitive; the former the compound universality, the latter the
identical.
96. Such an essence would be necessarily the highest and last,
whereunto creation could attain; for more than the universe cannot
be represented in one thing. With such an essence creation would be
closed or would terminate.
97. Since the realization of the Eternal is a becoming self-conscious,
so is the highest creature also a Self-conscious, but a Singular.
Such a creature is the finite God, or God become corporeal. God is
_Monas indeterminata_, the highest creature is _Monas determinata,
Totum determinatum_. A finite self-conscious being we call Man. Man
is an idea of God, but that in which God wholly, and in every single
act becomes an object unto himself. Man is God represented by God in
the infinity of time. God is a Man representing God in _one_ act of
self-consciousness, without time.
98. Man is God wholly manifested. God has become Man, zero has become
+-. Man is the whole of arithmetic, compacted, however, out of all
numbers; he can therefore produce numbers out of himself. Man is a
complex of all that surrounds him, namely, of element, mineral, plant
and animal.
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