 God is not to be conceived as mere abstract Being () but as the primary Will at the basis of all things and an everlasting process or activity (').This process functions as a self-generation of God, in which we may distinguish two aspects—the immanent or esoteric and the eminent or exoteric.Only insofar as the "primitive will" thinks or is conscious of itself can it distinguish knower and known, producer and produced, from which proceeds the power to become spirit.