DEFINITIONS. 



i st. By the expression of Absolute Existence I understand an 

 absolute being, whose existence has no beginning and no end, 

 although its existence is dependent upon another absolute being 

 whose existence is dependent upon itself. 



2nd. By the expression of Universal Essence I understand 

 the primitive source of all beings and objects that can be in the 

 endless universe, distinguished from their phenomical modific 

 ations as matter and force, although the Universal Essence 

 itself is no matter and no force. It is something of a general 

 germ or offspring of all things in the universe as the Embryo- 

 which is somewhat of a structure and a growth of animals and 

 plants, although the Embryo itself is unformed. 



3rd. By the term Actuality I understand the particularization 

 of the universe after its modification or transformation from its 

 general existence into its particularized existence. The different 

 objects and beings as they are before us in their actual existence, 

 although the general existence as an Universal Essence never 

 ceases to be an internal existence of the universe in general. 



4th. By the term of Potentiality I understand the original 

 state of the Universal Essence ere its transformation, which con 

 tained all the objects that were, are and ever can be in the 

 universe in an actual existence, in a possibility (or in a potenti 

 ality) before they come and act in their actuality. 



5th. By Absolute Intellectuality I understand an intellectual 

 Being whose intellectual existence is dependent upon itself and 

 in itself an ideal concept of the whole universe in one Abstract 

 Image; the images of all particularized objects, which ever can- 

 be formed by the laws of Intellectuality, their volumes, modes 

 and quiddities, is a one general ideal image, or an abstract being 

 in itself, which is the Absolute Intellectuality. Yet all menta? 

 images of every one of the particularized objects which arc one 

 generality of the Abstract Being are known and cognizable as 

 separately one in the other in their mutual intertwined relations in the 

 one general Abstract Image of eternal existence, in the absolute 

 unity of the one Absolute Intellectuality. 



6th. By the term Emanation I understand the general force 



