life continued for ever in which to complete the work. Out of every moral success the further “ought” springs up inevitably to condemn you once more.
Religion — religious faith — is different. For it, the good is indeed real, as morality claims that it should be; but there is something more; for in the end nothing else is real. And so you can be good, though you are not good, because as you are and as you stand, you yourself are not real. By worship and self-surrender you repudiate and reject your badness, and will and feel yourself as one with the supreme goodness. “Hear again the vehement expression of mysticism. ‘When reason tells thee “thou art outside God,” then answer thou, “No, I am in God, I am in heaven, in it, in him, and for eternity will never leave him. The devil may keep my sins, and the world my flesh; I live in God’s will, his life shall be my life, his
