How did Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling describe the Absolute in his early writings?

In his earliest philosophical writings, such as On the Possibility and Form of Philosophy in General and Of the Ego as Principle of Philosophy, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling described the Absolute not as God, but as the Absolute ego. He characterized this ego as eternal and timeless, accessible to the individual through a direct, intellectual intuition rather than sensory perception.1

As his thought evolved during his time in Jena, Schelling further developed this concept, eventually defining the Absolute as an indiscriminate unity of the subjective and the objective. In this stage, he posited the Absolute as an absolute identity that encompasses both nature and mind, as well as reality and ideality. He viewed the universe as the most perfect organism and the most perfect work of art, where naturalness and spirituality emerge from this original state of indifference.23