[12] Or in English: /# Forth on the ocean is shipped Youth with his thousand sails: Silent in bark barely saved steals into harbour old age. #/
[13] Substantielle, that is, an artistic consciousness which is aware of its own essential nature—Spirit, and the object of pure intelligence—the Ideal.
[14] Perhaps we should rather say a Theosophy.
[15] The Alexandrine School, of which Plotinus and Philo are leading names.
[16] Ein allgemeiner Gedanke. The reference throughout this paragraph to the universality of the ideas of reflection as contrasted with the sensuous image is rather a reference to the abstract conceptions of the analytical mind, that is, which are usually understood as universals in the sense of generic conceptions, than any fuller grasp of concrete reality such as possesses a truly ideal significance. So in its application to the metaphor I imagine what is meant is that we have here the process of dry analysis which merely destroys its significance as metaphor, that is, its synthetic unity for our aesthetic sense.
[17] Ist aufgehoben, here not in the sense of being cancelled, but raised to the expression of concrete unity.
[18] Als blosse Personification, that is, an individualization which impersonates the subjective identity without possessing its concrete substance, a personified shadow like the sphinx. Such appears to be the sense.
[19] Because the content for which such shapes (Gestaltung) are given is itself incoherent, and therefore incompatible with adequate expression.
[20] Sichhervorarbeiten. Our word "elaborate" is here insufficient. Hegel means the mode in which the Idea of art works itself free from entirely potential obscurity into a living force, a real energeia. We cannot say "emerges into daylight," however, because the highest grasp of symbolic art is still only a twilight. It is like the growth of the plant-germ, still underground, or partially so.
[21] Pracktischen. Not matter-of-fact relation, but rather a relation that asserts itself exclusively in action.