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There is further contained in the Power an original determination to raise itself to the perception of the Imperative, the practical realisation of which is now rendered immediately possible by the recognised Existence of the whole domain of Intuition. But how and in what way can this elevation be accomplished ? That which abides firmly in Intuition, and is indeed the very root of it, is Instinct; - by its means the Power itself is made dependent on Intuition, and is imprisoned within it. The condition and the only means for the now possible realisation of the Power, is therefore the liberation of itself from Instinct, and the abolition of the latter as the invisible and blind impulse of schematising, - and in the abolition of the principle, the consequence of it - imprisonment in Intuition - is likewise abolished. Knowledge would then stand forth in its primitive unity, as it is perceived at first by the Doctrine of Knowledge; - in this its essential unity it would manifest itself as dependent, and as requiring a substratum - a unity which shall exist absolutely through itself. Knowledge in this form is no longer Intuition, but Thought; - and indeed Pure Thought, or Intelligising.