an idea.............................

 

That is the continual manifestation, within each of us, of the Divine Word that generated the cosmos when time and space themselves began.  That is the initial biblical characterization of the spirit of what is highest; the initial manifestation of the spirit of the one God.  This is a stunning idea, a revolutionary idea, a world-ordering idea, a civilization-engendering idea—an idea that is a precondition for optimized psychological and social order alike. It is from that presumption of our implicit individual value—to say it again—that we derive our infinite set of natural rights (and, let us not forget, as we are so prone to, natural responsibility).

-Jordan B. Peterson, We Who Wrestle with God: Perceptions of the Divine