Divine humanity

Hamann opens his Will and Testament of the Knight of the Rose-Cross with “If God is supposed to be the origin all effects in great things and small, or in heaven and in earth, then every numbered hair on our head is as divine as the behemoth, that chief of the ways of God. The spirit of the Mosaic law extends from there to the most disgusting discharge of the human corpse. Consequently, everything is divine, and the question of the origin of evil amounts in the end to word-play and scholastic prattle. Everything divine, however, is also human, because man can neither act nor suffer but by analogy of his nature, however simple or complex a machine it is said to be. This communicatio of divine and human idiomatum is a fundamental law and the master-key of all our knowledge and of the whole visible economy.”