It becomes an abstract assumption made to account for concrete reality. Its existence hinges on finite bodies and is inextricable from their existence. Eddington had the courage to declare that the universe is ultimately coextensive with an omnipresent consciousness and that its stuff is this consciousness. Though Space-Time is the necessary condition of all relative knowledge, it cannot determine the nature of Reality or be itself Reality. That absolutely new qualities emerge in the different stages of evolution cannot be accepted.
Nothing can emerge from nothing.
Matter, primary qualities, secondary qualities, mind and Deity become inseparable form consciousness. The nisus or the eternal urge of Alexander ought to be a spiritual drive or aspiration for the attainment of the consciousness of perfection. It cannot be an unconscious effort, for unconsciousness and perfection have nothing in common. The nisus is not the product of the universe, but its source, meaning and value. If Deity is not yet evolved, religion does not exist.