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 474 SCHELLING'S CO-WORKERS. ergo cogito et sum; my being and thinking are based on my being thought by God. Conscience is a joint know- ing with God's knowing {conscientid). The relation between the known and the knower is threefold. Cognition is incomplete and lacks the free co-operation of the knower when God merely pervades {durchwohnf) the creature, as is the case with the devil's timorous and reluctant knowl- edge of God. A higher stage is reached when the known is present to the knower and dwells with him {beiwohnt). Cognition becomes really free and perfect when God dwells in {inwohnt) the creature, in which case the finite reason yields itself freely and in admiration to the divine reason, lets the latter speak in itself, and feels its rule, not as for- eign, but as its own. (Baader maintains a like threefoldness in the practical sphere : the creature is either the object or, rather, the passive recipient, or the organ, or the represen- tative of the divine action, i. e., in the first case, God alone works ; in the second, he co-operates with the creature ; in the third, the creature works with the forces and in the name of God. Joyful obedience, conscious of its grounds, is the highest freedom). Knowing and loving, thought and volition, knowledge and faith, philosophy and dogma are as little to be abstractly divided as thing and self, being and thought, object and subject. True freedom and genuine speculation are neither blind traditional belief nor doubting, God-estranged thinking, but the free recog- nition of authority, and self-attained conviction of the truth of the Church doctrine. Baader distinguishes a twofold creation of the world and a double process of development (an esoteric and an exoteric revelation) of God himself. The creation of the ideal world, as a free act of love, is a non-deducible fact ; the theogonic process, on the contrary, is a necessary event by which God becomes a unity returning from division to itself, and so a living God. The eternal self-generation of God is a twofold birth : in the immanent or logical process the unsearchable will (Father) gives birth to the comprehensible will (Son) to unite with it as Spirit ; the place of this self-revelation is wisdom or the Idea. In the emanent or real process, since desire or nature is added to