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ization, which is ever and absolutely its own process of 

 concretely relating itself to itself. 



Thus as self -particularizing (that is, self -differentiat- 

 ing) universal the World-Energy is seen to be the one 

 absolutely self -poised Individual. 



Universality, particularity and individuality prove, 

 then, to be the complementary, mutually inclusive, abso- 

 lutely interfused phases of the one total World-Energy. 

 Each necessarily implies and in its own unfolding is 

 found already to contain the others as vital elements 

 or phases of itself. 



Special attention, indeed, should be given to this fact. 

 These three phases are the logical or rational, and hence 

 necessary, phases of the World-Energy; and they are 

 necessarily co-existent phases. To be World-Energy at all 

 it must be individual, and prove itself to be such through 

 its own sclf-particularization as the one absolutely active 

 universal. 



But to regard the World-Energy as potentiality merely 

 is still to form a very abstract, inadequate conception 

 of it. Potentiality merely as such must itself be im- 

 possible. The potential cannot be even potential save 

 through a potency capable of bringing about the full 

 realization of what is potential. Hence the potentiality 

 could not possibly precede the potency in time; though 

 it is, of course, "first" in logical order, or in point of 

 simplicity, and thus may well be first in the chronological 

 order of our investigation. And in the multiform aspects 

 of the finite world, in the world of change, all particular 

 phases of existence undergo development and decay, and, 

 in so doing, undergo a series of logical transitions in 

 time; and the chronological order is here found to 



