"Spirit is the infinite return into itself, infinite subjectivity, not represented but actual divinity, the presence of God, not the substantial in-itself of the Father or of the Son and of Christ, who is the truth in the shape of objectivity. The Spirit is rather what is subjectively present and actual; and it is only through this mediation [in the community] that it itself is subjectively present as the divestment into the objective intuition of love and its infinite anguish. This [is] the Spirit of God, or God as the present, actual Spirit, God dwelling in his community."
— Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Volume III: The Consummate Religion
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