- (3) The connection between cause and effect has no beginning and can
Consciousness says: (1) I alone am, and all that exists is but me, consequently I include space. (2) I measure flowing time by the fixed moment of the present in which alone I am conscious of myself as living, consequently I am outside time. (3) I am beyond cause, for I feel myself to be the cause of every manifestation of my life.
Reason gives expression to the laws of inevitability.
Consciousness gives expression to the essence of freedom.
Freedom not limited by anything is the essence of life, in man’s consciousness.
Inevitability without content is man’s reason in its three forms.
Freedom is the thing examined.
Inevitability is what examines.
Freedom is the content.
Inevitability is the form.
Only by separating the two sources of cognition, related to one another as form