The "_Philosophy of Mind_" is subdivided by Hegel into three parts. There is, first, the subjective or individual mind (_psychology_); then the objective or universal mind, as represented in society, the state, and in history (_ethics, political philosophy,_ or _jurisprudence_, and _philosophy of history_); and, finally, the union of the subjective and objective mind, or _the absolute mind_. This last manifests itself again under three forms, representing the three degrees of the self-consciousness of the Spirit, as the eternal truth. These are, first, _art_, or the representation of beauty (æsthetics); secondly, _religion_, in the general acceptation of the term (philosophy of religion); and, thirdly, _philosophy_ itself, as the purest and most perfect form of the scientific knowledge of truth. All historical religions, the Oriental, the Jewish, the Greek, the Roman, and the Christian, are _the successive stages in the development or self-actualization of God_.[49] It is unnecessary to indicate to the reader that the philosophy of Hegel is essentially pantheistic. "God is not a _person_, but personality itself, _i.e._, the universal personality, which realizes itself in every human consciousness, as so many separate thoughts of one eternal mind. The idea we form of the absolute is, to Hegel, the absolute itself, its essential existence being identical with our conception of it. Apart from, and out of the world, there is no God; and so also, apart from the universal consciousness of man, there is no Divine consciousness or personality."[50] [Footnote 49: See art. "Hegelian Philosophy," in Herzog's _Real-Encyc._, from whence our materials are chiefly drawn.] [Footnote 50: Morell, "Hist. of Philos.," p. 473.]