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    Supports→A thing more truly is what it is destined to become than what it currently seems to be.

    If teleology is taken seriously, everything about a thing is to be explained in terms of its telos or goal.

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    (4) Teleological Identity. Religious world views in which it is the ultimate destiny or purpose of the cosmos to achieve oneness with or to fully express deity provide a fourth model for understanding pantheistic claims of identity. The true identity of the universe is that which is revealed at the end of all things. For example, on the Absolute Idealist scheme, history culminates in the complete realization of God or Absolute spirit in the world and so, as Schelling put it, in the last days “Go

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