[12] That is acting in subservience to eternal forces, not directing those forces. Hegel conceives the event as supplying the lines of direction through which the forces are effective.
[13] Aus der Dumpfheit des Bewusstseyns. Out of the confusions of consciousness.
[14] I have adopted the masculine gender in accordance with the text, though of course it does not imply personality in the ordinary sense.
[15] I suppose the meaning is that it is a purely objective panorama.
[16] Seiner Sache, Somewhat vague and difficult to translate. It means more than his affair or business.
[17] Trauer. Mournfulness or gloom is perhaps better.
[18] Liv., ii, c. 32.
[19] Lit., so far as they do not emphasize essential phases in (Momente).
[20] I presume the allusion is to the way, already illustrated, the Homeric gods do not take themselves seriously.
[21] Messias, Canto II, w, 627-850.