“As Being and Life are one and the same, so are Death and Nothingness one and the same. But there is no real Death and no real Nothing ness, as we have already said. There is, however, an Apparent Life, and this is the mixture of life and death, of being and nothingness.”

Source: The Way Towards The Blessed Life or the Doctrine of Religion 1806, P. 4

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