AND ITS SELF-CONSERVATION. 291 



But the more complex and adequate this particular 

 manifestation of the absolute Subject, only so much the 

 more must such manifestation itself bear the character 

 of subjectivity and ultimately suffice as a distinct, 

 independent subject. 



It would seem,, then, that the World-Energy as Spirit 

 not only objectifies itself in the forms of existence per- 

 taining to the space-world, but that it also differentiates 

 itself as spiritual essence. In the first place, indeed, the 

 latter underlies the former. But also, in its more ade- 

 quate phase of self-objectification, it must approximate 

 ever toward the development of actual, independent 

 spiritual units, or true individuals. 



Nor can the subjectivity or spirituality of the World- 

 Energy itself completely realize itself save through per- 

 fectly fusing the inner and the outer in the units arising 

 through the highest phases of its activity. Not merely 

 must it blend these phases in general in its own single 

 Individuality. It must also develop itself in its own 

 differentiated phases up to the point of the fusion of 

 universality and particularity in the highest type of these 

 differentiated phases. Not otherwise, indeed, could 

 creation be really conceived as complete. Thus the 

 highest type of existence in the created world is seen to 

 be at once the culmination of the whole process through 

 which particular forms of existence arise, and also the 

 development through that process of actually realized 

 genuine individuals, as the fused unities of universality 

 and particularity necessarily arising through the eternal 

 seli-differentiation of the World-Energy as Spirit. 



Thus the universal, absolute Subjectivity or sponta- 

 neous creative Power, self-specialized in the forms of 



