"Hegel and Hölderlin seek a way beyond the controversies between rational and revealed religion, or Spinozistic pantheism and orthodox monotheism. They hope for a future religion that would encompass both an infinite aesthetic diversity and a unified philosophical and religious conception. For Hegel, this takes the form of 'monotheism of reason and heart, polytheism of imagination and art' (SP 511; WZB 1, 235-36) while Hölderlin imagines a world in which 'everyone honors his own god and all honor one common god in poetic representations' (E&L 239; SWB 2, 568). Aesthetic imagination appears as a form of mediation between faith and reason, and so offers a response to the problems of theology and philosophy alike." Joshua Billings, Genealogy of the Tragic, 137.
"Hegel imagines a reciprocity of mythical imagination and philosophical reason, which will make 'the people rational' and 'the philosophers sensible' as the basis of a 'new religion, [which] will be the last greatest work of humanity" (SP 511-12; WZB 1, 236)." Ibid, 137-138.
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