[alternate Translation:] The Divine Spirit Found A

Indeed In General I Hold That There Is Nothing Truer Than Happiness, And Nothing Happier And Sweeter Than Truth.

To Love Is To Be Delighted By The Happiness Of Someone, Or To Experience Pleasure Upon The Happiness Of Another. I Define This As True Love.

[alternate Translation:] The Divine Spirit Found A Sublime Outlet In That Wonder Of Analysis, That Portent Of The Ideal World, That Amphibian Between Being And Not-being, Which We Call The Imaginary Root Of Negative Unity.

But It Is The Knowledge Of Necessary And Eternal Truths Which Distinguishes Us From Mere Animals, And Gives Us Reason And The Sciences, Raising Us To Knowledge Of Ourselves And God. It Is This In Us Which We Call The Rational Soul Or Mind.

I Also Take It As Granted That Every Created Thing, And Consequently The Created Monad Also, Is Subject To Change, And Indeed That This Change Is Continual In Each One.