In a powerful passage he explains this further: «And if it is acknowledged that to see God through God and not through finite relations is
supreme beatitude, then there must be some relation bearing upon the divine Essence to make it intelligible.
For each individual the business, the duty and the interest of life consist in achieving, in opposition to others, his own utmost uniqueness and personal freedom; so that perfection,
beatitude,
supreme greatness belong not to the whole but to the least part.