12. Philosophy and Theosophy
GA 246/1908-08-17/p048
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Aristotle can be supplemented here by Fichte. In Aristotle's sense, one can first arrive at the formula: Everything that is around us, including that which belongs to invisible worlds, makes it necessary for us to counter the formal of entelechy with a material. - For Aristotle, the concept of God is a pure actuality, a pure act, that is, an act in which the actuality, i.e. the formation, simultaneously has the power to produce its own matter, not to be something that is opposed by matter, but something that in its pure activity is itself matter.
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