ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on transcendent considerations regarding will as thing in itself. The unity of that will here indicated, lying beyond the phenomenon, in which we have recognized the essence in itself of the phenomenal world, is a metaphysical unity. The chapter focuses on magical property of will in 'On the Will in Nature', and prefer here to pass over considerations that have to appeal to uncertain facts, which, nonetheless, cannot be entirely ignored or denied. Everyone is cognizant of only one being in a wholly immediate manner: his own will, in self-consciousness. Cognizant of everything else only mediately, and then judges it by analogy with that one being, which he further carries through in accordance with the degree of his reflection. This fact itself originates in its deepest ground from the fact that there is really only one being, objective apprehension could not penetrate into that inner, simple consciousness; thus the latter always finds only one being before it.
