CHAPTEE XXIII. 



FUNDAMENTAL MODES OF MANIFESTATION OF THE 

 



WORLD-ENERGY AS SPIRIT. 



~T"Y7^E have seen that the World-Energy is necessarily a 

 * * self -consistent, self -unfolding system. We have 

 now to indicate the chief fundamental phases involved in 

 the process of actualization of that system. We have, 

 indeed, already traced in outline the proofs that the 

 World-Energy is the ultimate potentiality; and, as such, 

 the primal potency. Nevertheless, it still hovers before 

 our view rather as an abstract system than as a concrete 

 totality. 



And yet, that the World-Energy must be such con- 

 crete totality is evident from the fact (as previously indi- 

 cated) that potentiality itself necessarily implies or pre- 

 supposes the existence of a potency wholly equal to the 

 realization of such potentiality. And the potency itself 

 can be such only as active energy unfolding itself into 

 concrete realization. 



That realization, too, must in the nature of the case be 

 complete so far as the potency is complete. The potency 

 is only so far as it is actively unfolded. Hence, the 

 realization of the totality of existence as totality must 

 forever be. It cannot possibly become or enter into 

 existence, out of non-existence, nor could it ever have 

 been in process of becoming. Though all becoming is 



