is no corruption in man, and no fall, and no need of a redemption. When the individual, however, attaches himself to the other formations of the earth, and seeks the knowledge of himself in them (for, in fact, conscious knowledge of them dwells only in him), he is only in a condition of becoming, and is in a state of fall and corruption, or of discord and confusion; and he finds his redemption only in Man as such, Man in himself. Therein he finds in fact that very oneness of the eternal being and