The realm of spirits, having formed itself in this way within existence, constitutes a sequence in which one spirit replaced the other, and each succeeding spirit took over from the previous spirit the realm of that spirit’s world. The goal of the movement is the revelation of depth itself, and this is the absolute concept. This revelation is thereby the sublation of its depth, that is, its extension, the negativity of this I existing-within-itself, which is its self-emptying, that is, its substance–and is its time. In itself, this self-emptying empties itself of itself and, in that way, exists within its extension as well as within its depth, within the self. The goal, absolute knowledge, that is, spirit knowing itself as spirit, has its path in the recollection of spirits as they are in themselves and as they achieve the organization of their realm.