True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of all existing institutions she raises her glorious head, as the new foundress of the world.
Wahrhafte Anarchie ist das Zeugungselement der Religion. Aus der Vernichtung alles Positiven hebt sie ihr glorreiches Haupt als neue Weltstifterin empor.
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German quoted in the Fourth Leaflet of the White Rose (1942). English translation in The Dublin Review, vol. 3 (July–October 1837). Different translation in Athur R. Schultz, The Resistance of the White Rose (Middletown, CT: American Education Publications, 1970), p. 87: "True anarchy is the generative element of religion. Out of the annihilation of every positive element she lifts her gloriously radiant countenance as the founder of a new world."