Reflections on Lessing's Fragments

vincing and palpable truths, whereby the reader is truly enlightened, improved, and illuminated; whereas through yours, he is led into such moral darkness that he cannot find his way back out of your scholarly labyrinth, unless his will makes the firm resolution to overcome this moral darkness through a higher power of light, and to transform it into light itself.

That the power of your concepts Begriffe: the intellectual framework or academic notions used by the critic is drawn from a very impure source, while mine are drawn from the source of the pure, unoriginated light original: "unanfänglichen Lichts." This term refers to the eternal, divine light that exists without a beginning, a common concept in Christian mysticism and theosophy. itself; of this, you shall be convinced through palpable truths. And as I observe in your writings that you still feel a desire for truth within yourself, I know in advance how my powers of truth will [act] upon your—