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which are always dualizing, yet also always 

 unifying in one process (the Psychosis). Thus 

 the individual as Ego is eternally self-propa- 

 gating, making and remaking himself in cease- 

 less process ; this self-generation does not fall 

 outside of himself into another Ego, but is 

 within himself, is indeed his own self-creativ- 

 ity and source of all other creativity of the 

 self. Creation of the body and creation of the 

 mind have long been felt as intimately related ; 

 in fact they bear the same name in human 

 speech. The genetic process of the Ego (as 

 we may call it in this connection) produces 

 the internal individual, while the genetic pro- 

 cess of the organism throws out the external 

 individual through indefinite repetition with- 

 out self-return wherein is seen the outer in- 

 dividuation of Nature. Now this outer indi- 

 viduation of Nature is what will become in- 

 ternal in the Ego which is such self-division 

 within itself, and also the self-unification. 

 Looked at from this point of view, Conscious- 

 ness may be deemed the self-sexing of the in- 

 dividual and the overcoming of the same in 

 the one process; but such an individual is 

 no longer merely natural, but an Ego, which 

 has the power of individuating itself eter- 

 nally, whose self-begetting is just its being. 

 On the other hand the Ego has risen to be 

 the very image and personation of the ere- 



