God’s self-knowledge occurs through human self-consciousness and knowledge of God

Evidence

The ‘careful and thorough speculation (gründliche Spekulation)’ that demands such a knowledge of revelation includes three ‘propositions’: ‘God is God only so far as he knows himself: his self-knowledge is, further, a self-consciousness in man and man’s knowledge of God, which proceeds to man’s self-knowledge in God.’ — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 656

Categorization

• DEFINE: The triple proposition shows Hegel’s identity between God’s self-knowledge and humanity’s knowledge of God — a bridge concept.
• XREF: Connects to Malabou’s broader thesis: plasticity as the exchange of form between God and man, relevant to the reader’s brain-plasticity project. — connects to: Human representation of God is grounded in God’s prior self-representation; Consciousness’s distance from God mirrors and derives from God’s own self-distancing — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 163; Consciousness mirrors divine self-relation rather than constituting it (+2 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The three-way collapse — God’s self-knowledge, man’s knowledge of God, man’s self-knowledge in God — condenses the whole speculative identity thesis into one recursive proposition.

Broader Connections

• Human representation of God is grounded in God’s prior self-representation #expands (0.85)
• Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770
• Consciousness’s distance from God mirrors and derives from God’s own self-distancing #expands (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 163
• For Hegel God’s essence includes self-representation and being-for-itself #corroborates (0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 815
• Consciousness mirrors divine self-relation rather than constituting it #contradicts (0.78)