ABSTRACT
Representational form is dialectically sublated in the gathering of the cult and the simplicity of thought: that is, in the return into the self and the mental assimilation of the death of Christ by the singular concrete subjects. Self-revelation has, for one aspect, the representational form of successive and objective events, but as its other aspect, it has the form of subjective absorption in the community of faith. At the end of §565, this conclusive moment is already announced: ‘such a form of finite representationalism is also sublated in the faith which believes in one spirit and in the devotion of worship (in der Andacht des Kultus)’.32 The gathering and contracting of the self in devotion makes possible the transition to speculative thought, to pure and non-representational thought. Henceforth, ‘in this form of truth, truth is the object of philosophy’.33
