Lessing, as reported by Jacobi, expressed his satisfaction with the poem "Prometheus," saying: "This poet's point of view is my own; the orthodox ideas on the Divinity no longer suit me; I derive no profit from them: [Greek: hen kai pan],--( _un et tout, the one_ and _the all_),--I know no other." Schelling, in his earlier writings, while he was Professor at Jena, and before the change of sentiment which he avowed at Berlin, represented God as the one only true and really absolute existence; as nothing more or less than Being, filling the whole sphere of reality; as the infinite Being (_Seyn_) which is the essence of the Universe, and evolves all things from itself by self-development.

Hegel seeks unity in every thing and every where.
This unity he discovers in the identity of existence and thought, in the one substance which exists and thinks, in God who manifests and develops himself in many forms.

"The Absolute produces all and absorbs all; it is the essence of all things.

The life of the Absolute is never consummated or complete.

God does not properly exist, but comes into being: 'Gott ist in werden.'-- _Deus est in fieri_.