The soul, or rather one of its forms of ac tivity, speculative reason, proceeds to recreate from within or posit the world, and to read a new title clear to what sense had lost.

It is all will and idea, or, Froschammer thinks, imagina tion; the real and rational are identical.

Nature is derived, evolved, construed.

The pantheistic soul of the individual, the oracle of the world soul, the sole mouthpiece of God, itself transcendent, is given a rank and dignity unprecedented in many ways, even by preexistence theories, and the personal soul of the thinker becomes a parvus in suo genere deus, the organ of all the categories, and its self-consciousness is deemed the blossom of all the world processes, with conscience the vicegerent of the Divine, conviction immediate, the certainty of reason almost convulsive, re-revealing religion, etc.

This, too, is the stage of the great postulates, Platonic myths of a transcendental self, a world soul that creates by thinking, a supernal will that is energy, ideas that are archetypal, a con science that is autonomous and absolute, etc.