It is not possible to avqid the impression that the idea of such arealm is simply the hypostatizing in awholesale way of the fact that actual existence has its own possibilities. But in any case devotion to such remote and unattached possibili- ties simply perpetuates the other-worldliness of religious tra- dition, although its other-world is not one supposed to exist. Thought of it is arefuge, not aresource. It becomes effective in relation to the conduct of life only when separation of essence from existence is cancelled jwhen essences are taken to be possibilities to be embodied through action in concrete objects of secure experience. Nothing is gained by reaching the latter through acircuitous course.