Theory of Colours
Nevertheless, in these mysterious lines added for the 1808 German edition of "Aladdin" after several months of daily contact with Goethe, Oehlenschläger seems to be drawing on Goethe's holistic, non-Newtonian concept of the "Urphänomen" (German: primordial phenomenon) which Goethe used in his scientific works, especially the "Theory of Colours"; at the same time, Hegel was also developing this idea in his own philosophy, involving the concept of the "Gestalt" (Ger: Form), sometimes translated as "formation" or "configuration of consciousness".