12. Philosophy and Theosophy

Now the next question is: do we arrive at any reality at all from such subjective thinking, at something permanent? And now it is a matter of the fact that, as we have characterized, the subjective is initially, precisely constructed in thinking, formal, that it initially looks like something added to the objective. Certainly, we can say: basically, a circle or a sphere in the world is completely indifferent to whether I think it or not. My thought, which is added to reality, is completely indifferent to the world of experience around us. This exists in itself, independently of our thinking. It is therefore possible that although our thinking is an objectivity for us, it is none of our business. How do we get beyond this apparent contradiction? Where is the other pole that we must now grasp? Where is there a way within pure thinking to create not only form, but also reality with form? As soon as we have something that generates reality at the same time as form, then we can connect to a fixed point in terms of epistemology. We are everywhere, for example when we construct a circle, in the special case that we say: What I say about this circle is objectively correct - whether it is applicable to things depends on the fact that when I encounter things, they show me whether they carry the laws that I have constructed. If the sum of all entelechies dissolves in pure thinking, then a remainder must remain, which Aristotle calls matter, if it is not possible to arrive at a reality from pure thinking itself.