How is it really possible that self-activity can arise out of dependence?
Eucken does not attempt to explain, but contends that an explanation cannot be arrived at through reasoning.

We are forced to the conclusion, we realise through our life and action that this is the real state of affairs, and in this case the reality proves the possibility.

"This primal phenomenon," he says, "overflows all explanation.

It has, as the fundamental condition of all spiritual life, a universal axiomatic character." Again he says, "The wonder of wonders is the human made divine, through God's superior power." "The problem surpasses the capacity of the human reason." For taking up this position, Eucken is sharply criticised by some writers.
When we approach the problem of the nature of the Absolute in itself, the main difficulty that arises is whether God is a personal being.

God, says Eucken, is "an Absolute Spiritual Life in all its grandeur, above all the limitations of man and the world of experience--a Spiritual Life that has attained to a complete subsistence in itself, and at the same time to an encompassing of all reality." The divine is for Eucken the ultimate spirituality that inspires the work of all spiritual personalities.