God’s Anger
This fragment, which concerns the source of God’s anger, was composed by Hegel during his Jena period (1801-1807). It is one of the most terrifying images of life/the world/existence ever written. No writer of fiction has ever used words so magnificently. To better understand the passage, read it once, and then read what I have bolded, and then reread the whole passage. Who ever masters Hegel’s work and ideas, possess not a kingdom of thought but the ruins of that kingdom. (I have made small improvements to the translation for the sake of comprehension.)
“God, having become Nature, had extended Himself into the [splendor] and the mute cycle of formations, become conscious of the expansion, of the lost punctuality, and grown angry about it. The anger is this shaping, this gathering into the empty point. He finds Himself as such, and His essence is poured out into unquiet, restless eternity, where there is no present, only a wild going outward, always becoming as fast as [it is] transcended. This anger, while He is this rushing outward, is at the same time an absolute going into Himself, a growing into a central point. In so doing His anger devours His formations into Himself. Your whole realm of extension must pass through this central point: by it your limbs are crushed and your flesh mashed until it becomes part of this fluidity.”
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