The Factors of Life 131in which the will appears within the self into an actual
principle of reality. Their own willing appears to them as
a special case of the universal world process; and the uni-
versal world process appears as a universal will. Here the
will becomes a world principle, just as feeling becomes a
cognitive principle in mysticism. This point of view is
called thephilosophy of the will (orthelism). It makes
something that can be experienced only individually into
a constitutive factor of the world.
The philosophy of will can no more be called “science”
than can the mysticism of feeling, for both maintain that
to permeate the world with concepts is inadequate. In ad-
dition to a conceptual principle of existence, both demand
a real principle as well. There is some justification in this.
But since we can grasp these so-called real principles only
through our perception, the claims of both mysticism of
feeling and philosophy of the will are identical with the
view that we have two sources of knowledge—thinking
and perceiving, the latter expressing itself as individual
experience in feeling and in will. According to this view,
since what flows from one source (our experiences) can-
not be received directly into what flows from the other
(thinking), both kinds of cognition, thinking and perceiv-
ing, remain side by side without any higher mediation be-
tween them. Beside the conceptual principle attainable
through knowledge, there is supposed to exist a real prin-
ciple of the world that can be experienced, but not grasped
by thinking. In other words, because they subscribe to the
proposition that what is directly perceived is real, mysti-
cism of feeling and the philosophy of will are both types