Universal spirit becomes literally present within self-consciousness through worship.

Evidence

In ‘natural religion’ (the religion of the Parsees and early Indian religions), ‘spirit knows itself as its object in a natural or immediate shape’. In the ‘religion of art’ (Greek religion), consciousness produces itself in the form of a ‘Self’, so that when consciousness admires its object, it is in fact intuiting itself, as we see in the beauty of classical art. Here ‘naturality’ (Naturalität), formerly the religious object for spirit, is annulled. But it is for the first time in Revealed Religion that the spirit’s attainment of self-knowledge is actually incarnated in a man, a determinate self. From this point on, spirit becomes selfconsciousness while the divine essence becomes human. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In the philosophical vision of spirit as such, spirit is studied as self-instruction and self-cultivation in its very essence, and its exteriorizations (seine Äußerungen) are stages in the process which brings it forward to itself (seines Sich-zusich-selbst-Hervorbringen), links it to unity with itself (seines Zusammenschließens mit sich), and so makes it actual spirit. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 281 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Revealed religion marks spirit’s becoming-subject through self-revelation; The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 700; Human reality is the pure effort to become God, desire being its expression — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1348 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Revealed religion alone incarnates spirit’s self-knowledge in a determinate man #corroborates (0.90) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 770
• Revealed religion marks spirit’s becoming-subject through self-revelation #expands (0.85)
• Spirit develops by externalizing and returning to unite with itself #expands (0.85) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 281
• The eternal becomes spirit by self-differentiating and sublating its own difference #expands (0.82) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 700
• Human reality is the pure effort to become God, desire being its expression #expands (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1348
• All human projects aim at becoming God through self-causation #expands (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1445
• Outward religious behavior can be a means of producing inner piety #corroborates (0.72) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1020