But the spherical surface, the world of the individual, has at once an ambiguous meaning: it is the actual state of the world as it is in and for itself, and it is the world of the individual; it is the latter either in so far as the individual has merely coalesced with that world, has let it,just as itis, enter into him, behaving toward it as a merely formal consciousness; or, on the other hand, it is the world of the individual, in the sense that the actual world as given has been transformed by the individual.