Dear Nikola, 

This morning Klemens drove me to Waltham where my Massachusetts driver's license was renewed for five years.  What have I done to deserve a penalty of five more years?

One of my mother'favorite poems, was a verse by the 17th century mystic, Johannes Scheffler (1624-1677), d.b.a. Angelus Silesius:
"Und wäre Christus tausendmal in Bethlehem geboren, und nicht in dir: Du bliebest doch in alle Ewigkeit verloren."
("Though Christ were born a thousand times in Bethlehem, and not in you: You would remain lost, for all eternity.")

In my predawn slumber there occurred to me a parallelism between Kant's epistemology and the pietist dogma which permates Bach's music.  Spinoza had persuasively postulated the equivalence of God and Nature.  Deus sive Natura.
Kant's Critique of Pure Reason relocated the locus of reality
from the misleading deceptions of the nature as "outside world"
into cognitive functioning within the human mind.
The pietistic trope of much of Bach's church music explicitly or implictly asserts the inwardness of God with respect to the human body. I cite from the St Matthew Passion what is perhaps the most poignant example.

Mache dich meine Herze rein,
Ich will Jesum selbst begraben,
denn er soll nunmehr in mir,
seine suesze Ruhe haben.
Welt geh aus, lass Jesum ein.
Mache dich mein Herze rein.

Make thee clean my heart from sin.
myself my Jesus will I bury.
there he shall henceforth within
evermore in sweet peace tarry.
World get out, let Jesus in.
Make thee clean my heart from sin.

With Kant's epistemology, it was not the physical body of the God, but the divine principle of reality which was transposed from the profane unreality of the natural world into the sanctity of inward Pure Reason in the individual. Generations later, Kierkegaard would identify the experience of the divine with the inwardness of the believer.

Am I exaggerating the significance of the coincidence?

EJM