ll did not
enact, nor the will of any finite being, nor the will of all finite
beings together, but to which my will and the will of all finite
beings is subject.

* * * * *

Agreeably to what has now been advanced, the law of the supersensuous
world should be a _Will_.

A Will which acts purely and simply as will, by its own agency,
entirely without any instrument or sensuous medium of its efficacy;
which is absolutely, in itself, at once action and result; which
wills and it is done, which commands and it stands fast; in
which, accordingly, the demand of Reason to be absolutely free and
self-active is represented. A Will which is law in itself; which
determines itself, not according to humor and caprice, not after
previous deliberation, vacillation and doubt, but which is forever and
unchangeably determined, and upon which one may reckon with infallible
security, as the mortal reckons securely on the laws of his world.
A Will in which the lawful will of finite beings has inevitable
consequences, but only their will, which is immovable to everything
else, and for which everything else is as though it were not.

That sublime Will, therefore, does not pursue its course for itself,
apart from the rest of Reason's world. There is between it and all
finite, rational beings, a spiritual tie, and that Will itself is
this spiritual tie of Reason's world. I will, purely and decidedly, my
duty, and it then wills that I shall succeed, at least in the world of
spirits. Every lawful resolve of the finite will enters into it,
and moves and determines it--to speak after our fashion--not in
consequence of a momentary good pleasure, but in consequence of the
eternal law of its being.

With astounding clearness it now stands before my soul, the thought
which hitherto had been wrapped in darkness--the thought that my will,
merely as such, and of itself, has consequences. It has consequences
because it is infallibly and immediately taken knowledge of by another
related Will, which is itself an act and the only life-principle of
the spiritual world. In that Will it has its first consequence, and
only through that, in the rest of the spiritual world which, in all
its parts, is but the product of that infinite Will.

Thus I flow--the mortal must use the language of mortals--thus I flow
in upon that Will; and the voice of conscience in my inmost being,
which, in every situation of my life, instructs me w