Having risen above the meaningless position of holding these distinctions, which are not distinctions at all, to be still such, consciousness knows the immediateness of the presence of ultimate Being within it to be the unity of that Being and its self: it thus knows itself to be the living inherent reality, and knows its knowledge to be Religion, which, qua knowledge viewed as an object or knowledge with an objective existence, is the utterance of the religious communion regarding its own spirit.
Ezberdinak ez diren ezberdintasun horiek oraindik ezberdintzat hartzeko pentsamendu-gabeziaren gain dagoen kontzientziak badaki zerizanaren presentziaren bitartegabekotasuna bere barnean zerizanaren eta bere norberaren arteko batasun gisa; badaki, orduan, bere norbera berbaitan bizi gisa eta bere jakite hori erlijio gisa, zeina begietsitako edo baden jakite gisa elkarteak bere gogo propioari buruz egiten duen hitzaldia den.