Schelling and Arguments for the Existence of God

The following passage from Schelling is one that deserves much thought and reflection. I am planning on writing a full post on it soon. He is on to something here that is very important and needs to be taken seriously by anyone who wants to argue for the existence of God. It is an insight that is phenomenological and deserves more explication and study.

"That there is an Absolute Ego can never be proved objectively; that is, it cannot be proved with regard to that ego which can exist merely as an object, because we are supposed to prove precisely that the Absolute Ego can never become an object. The ego, if it be unconditional, must be wholly outside the sphere of objective proof. To prove objectively that the ego is unconditional would mean to prove that it was conditional. Yet in the case of the unconditional, the principle of its being and the principle of its being thought must coincide. It is, only because it is; it is thought only because it is thought. The Absolute can be given only by the Absolute; indeed, if it is to be absolute, it must precede all thinking and imagining. Therefore, it must be realized through itself, not through any objective proofs, which always go beyond the mere concept of the entity to be proved." - F.J. Schelling, Of the Ego as the Principle of Philosophy, §3 1796