How did Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling describe God’s creation of the world in The Ages of the World?

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In his work The Ages of the World (Die Weltalter), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling describes the creation of the world as an act of divine self-consciousness.1

According to Schelling, God is originally absorbed in a state of "quiet longing". Through this process, God glimpses ideas within himself, which allows him to become conscious of his own being. This self-consciousness is identified with freedom, and it is this capacity that enables God to project these internal ideas outward, thereby creating the world.1