 Second, transcendental freedom is fundamentally incompatible with the “all- encompassing reality and causality of the deity” (1904b: 187). God is the ultimate uncaused cause, and the only way to understand this thought is by assuming a “timeless causality” between God and the intelligible characters (noumenal selves)—a view which ends up undermining the freedom of the latter (1904b: 186–9)