This being so, it is now no longer possible to consider the human and the divine to be entirely in opposition.

And the more the spiritual personality develops, so much the less does the opposition obtain, until a state of spirituality is arrived at when all opposition of will ceases--then we attain perfect freedom.

"We are most free, when we are most deeply pledged--pledged irrevocably to the spiritual presence, with which our own being is so radically and so finally implicated." Thus freedom is obtained in a sense through self-surrender, but it is through this same self-surrender that we realise spiritual absoluteness.

Hence it is that perfect freedom carries with it the strongest consciousness of dependence, and human freedom is only made possible through the absoluteness of the spiritual life in whom it finds its being.
English philosophers have dealt at length with the question of the possibility of reconciling the independence of personality and the existence of an Absolute.

From Eucken's point of view the difficulty is not so serious.