What was Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling’s unfinished work The Ages of the World about?

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Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling’s unfinished work, Die Weltalter (The Ages of the World), was intended to recount the history of God.1

In this text, Schelling describes God as originally existing in a state of quiet longing. God achieves self-consciousness by glimpsing ideas within himself, a process that is identical to freedom. This self-consciousness ultimately empowers God to project these ideas outward, thereby creating the world.1