Supertranscendence

Perhaps I should say "supertranscendence," for whereas he previously treated love in hyperbolic terms, he now positively outdoes himself in spiritualizing his relationship with his lady.

By a redoubled going-beyond it can elevate itself above itself to a supertranscendence that would explain its genesis, as the metaphysical world explained the genesis of the physical world and the sensible “evidences.” Thus the path of meta-metaphysics is opened up.

Whenever there is transcendence, vertical Being, imperial State in the sky or on earth, there is religion; and there is Philosophy whenever there is immanence, even if it functions as arena for the agon and rivalry (the Greek tyrants do not constitute an objection to this, because they are wholeheartedly on the side of the society of friends such as it appears in their wildest, most violent rivalries). Perhaps these two possible determinations of philosophy as Greek are profoundly linked. Only friends can set out a plane of immanence as a ground from which idols have been cleared. In Empedocles, Love lays out the plane, even if she does not return to the self without enfolding Hatred as movement that has become negative showing a subtranscendence of chaos (the volcano) and a supertranscendence of a god.