How are you in the Whole? By your senses. …Would that I could hold it fast and refer to it your commonest as well as your highest activities.
Did I venture to compre it, seeing I cannot describe it, I would say it is fleeting and transparent as the vapour which the dew breathes on blossom and fruit, it is bashful and tender as a maiden’s kiss, it is holy and fruitful as a bridal embrace. Nor is it merely like, it is all this. It is the first contact of the universal life with an individual. It fills no time and fashions nothing palpable. It is the holy wedlock of the Universe with the incarnated Reason for a creative, productive embrace. It is immediate, raised above all error and misunderstanding. You lie directly on the bosom of the infinite world. In that moment, you are its soul. Through one part of your nature you feel, as your own, all its powers and its endless life.
-Friedrich Schleiermacher
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wow.
Context?
It’s part of his letters to the secular (Enlightenment) academic community, post-French Revolution.
Can you give the citation for the above quote? I’m looking for the larger work.