the divine nature, yet there is still infinitely conscious will, which clings to our conception. It is only an abstraction; but still it is justifiable, in order to enable us to perceive the fact that God is not infinitely conscious will for the first time at the conclusion of the procession of the Trinity, but that He already was so at the commencement and in the midst of that procession. But no otherwise than in this procession is He absolute Life living itself forth. The conscious will of the
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