540 INTELLECTUAL SYMBOLISM. 
governing power, is higher than the thing governed, and cannot, therefore, be its creature 
or resultant. 
298, “ My lawful will, simply as such, in and through itself, must have consequences, 
certain and without exception. . . . The idea of Law expresses generally nothing else but 
the fixed, immovable reliance of Reason on a proposition, and the impossibility of sup- 
posing the contrary. 
299, “I assume such a law of a spiritual world which my own will did not enact, nor 
the will of any finite being, nor the will of all finite beings together; but to which my 
will and the will of all finite beings is subject. . . . 
300. “ Agreeably to what has been advanced, the law of the supersensuous world 
should be a Will. 
301. “A Will which acts purely and simply as will, by its own agency, entirely with- 
out any instrument or sensuous medium of its efficacy; which is absolutely, in itself, at 
once action and result; which wills and it is done, which commands and it stands fast ; 
in which, accordingly, the demand of reason, to be absolutely free and self-active, is re- 
presented. A Will, which is law in itself; which determines itself, not according to 
humor and caprice, nor after previous deliberation, vacillation and doubt, but which is 
forever and unchangeably determined, and upon which we may reckon with infallible 
security ; as the mortal reckons securely on the laws of his world. A Will in which the 
lawful will of finite beings has inevitable consequences, but only their will, which is im- 
movable to everything else, and for which everything else is as though it were not.”* 
302. “Now, the great complex of all this universe, in all time and all eternity, is made 
up of nothing more than the will of the Creator and the wills of his creatures. What is 
all this solid frame of sun, earth, and stars, as far as we can know anything of it, but the 
projection of the will of God upon the mind of man? What is all history but the action 
of the will of man within the limits imposed by the will of God? ‘Will, in some form, 
either Divine or human, is the first principle of all existing things.”} 
303. “ All laws, considered in the origin of their power, are despotic. Sic volo sic jubeo. 
Laws of the will are not laws which the will receives, but laws which the will gives. . . 
How should a law be able to produce a will ?$ 
304. Necessity and Law are, therefore, subordinate to Will and Intelligence, and the 
analogies of Ontology, as well as the postulated Unity of Reason and the teachings of 
Faith, lead irresistibly to a Supreme Active Intelligence, 
* Vichte. : + Solly, p. 11. 
{ Jacobi. See the third Antinomy; Kant, pp. 814-18. ~ 
