But to guide them out is just to teach them the Phenomenology . You won't be fully out until you teach the Phenomenology to those who don't yet know it. In other words, I'm collecting my reward. Of course, after a while . . . . But let's get back to the story.
Philosophical consciousness has something to learn while it raises natural consciousness.
In watching the progress of natural consciousness, philosophical consciousness is remembering and re-living its own history. It is like a parent who repeats his or her own grown as he or she guides his or her child to adulthood. So The Phenomenology of Spirit is like the diary kept by a parent raising his or her own child to adulthood. Indeed, philosophical consciousness really is like a parent. It's like a seed that has grown into a tree of knowledge which has produced new seeds of its own.