The narrow road of empty breadth
implies inseparate empty depth
Just as so too the notion of unbounded cosmic reality
entails existence of unending diversity
Minus necessity of accompanying might
to cohere the diverse infinite.
A veritably contentless intense kinetic, that,
though disposed to selfappear as pure
force minus ongoing scattering dilution,
is ipso facto itself but all surface.
For latent power of Spirit is no more forceful than its reality as thing kinetic and formally runs no deeper than its trust of self in actu
to dispense and expend of itself
its own expanding revelation
as self-explanation.
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{Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface; £10.}
“…Wie es aber eine leere Breite gibt, so auch eine leere Tiefe, wie eine Extension der Substanz, die sich
in endliche Mannigfaltigkeit ergießt, ohne Kraft, sie zusammenzuhalten – so ist dies eine gehaltlose Intensität, welche als lautere Kraft ohne Ausbreitung sich
haltend, dasselbe ist, was die Oberflächlichkeit….”
(The 2010 Terry Pinkard trans.:)
“However, in the way that there is an empty breadth, there is also an empty depth, just as likewise there is an extension of substance which spills over into finite diversity without having the
power to keep that diversity together –
this is an intensity without content, which,
although it makes out as if it were a sheer
force without dispersion, is in fact no more
than superficiality itself.
The force of spirit
is only as great as its expression,
and its depth goes only as deep as it trusts itself
to disperse itself
and to lose itself
in its explication of itself. – “
