[Footnote 38: What Hegel means is that calling an aspect of sense bodily or natural itself implies a distinction from that which is spiritual, or only cognized by mind, and this distinction is not present to the earliest human cognition of Divine reality.]
[Footnote 40: Except in the conceptions of the Hebrew prophets this is only true subject to qualification even of the God of Israel. For he was evidently associated with the thunder, to take but one case--the deliverance of the tables of stone on Sinai.]
[Footnote 41: _Phantasie_ may often be translated by the word imagination, but here the element of caprice and dependence on sensuous image rather than creative impulse directed by a principle of selection is to be emphasized.]
[Footnote 42: _Ein Taumel_, _i.e._, the dance as of intoxication.]
[Footnote 43: This is obviously a difficult passage to follow. The main thing to remember is that Hegel is here describing the movement of a dialectical process, that is the purely objective, rather than the point of view of personal or even national experience. Such vivid expressions as _Taumel_ and _schamlos hineinrücken_ remind one of the Platonic dialectic.]
[Footnote 44: Hegel's editor has Brahman here, but according to a passage lower down (p. 59) it should rather be Brahmâ.]
[Footnote 45: _Hinaufschrauben_, lit., a screwing up to--a screwing that in fact crews the head off.]
[Footnote 46: _Verdumpfens._ Either Hegel wrote _Verdummens_, or more probably _Verdampfens._ The idea of "becoming mouldy" makes no sense.]
[Footnote 47: This I think is the sense, though Hegel expresses it by using words such as _das Personificieren und Vermenschlichen_, and lower down _das Subjektiviren._ But previously he has rather contrasted that false kind of personification which seeks for the significant in the expression of the subject, his deeds and acts, rather than in grasping the motive centre of personality, the subjective principle itself, and it appears more intelligible in a passage, which is sufficiently hard to follow in any ease, to preserve that contrast.]
[Footnote 48: There is apparently only one ring and sceptre, but the words used are capable of the interpretation that would attach one for each of the hands.]