One can view the nature of the spirit in two ways: The nature of the spirit is the source of every particular manifestation of life rising to self-consciousness; it is the dark depth nourishing the roots of being, a depth unilluminated by personal self-consciousness (it is the “subconscious” or the “superconscious,” the extraconscious, the not-yet-conscious); it is in general the unconscious as well as the preconscious principle in the personal spirit. Without this source, without potentiality that