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Our research on lessing philosophical and theological thought focuses on the relation between reason and revelation. With regard to the eighteenth century, lessing was a true enlightened and at the same time an untruthful ally of the aufklarung (enlightenment) movement. He was a true enlightened, since he considers the reason as the only trusty instrument in the search to truth, and his world vision is full of optimism. On the other hand, lessing can be depicted as an untruthful ally, since he takes asa starting-point the revelation contained in the bible, which the deists have yet rejected. In the final conclusion of his treatise the education of the human kind, lessing concepts of god and divine revelation seem to be fully reduced to the notion of an innate-life-principle that animates all beings. The proclamation of a new eternal gospel time, or the adulte human reason time, indicates obviously that lessing thought ended up by being far from christianity. Even though lessing starts his reflexion at a point the deists have denied, and he ends it at a point the deists have not yet reached, namely the pantheism, lessing links up finally with them in the same search of an absolute paradoxically measured up to human finitude.