Full Idea
(Like Schopenhauer) Schelling understood the Absolute - spirit rather than will - to manifest itself as nature in which man evolves with self-consciousness.
Gist of Idea
For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves
Source
report of Friedrich Schelling (Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature [1799]) by Peter B. Lewis - Schopenhauer 4
Book Reference
Lewis, Peter B.: 'Schopenhauer' [Reaktion Books 2012], p.96
A Reaction
The influence of Spinoza seems strong here. Is his Absolute just Spinoza's 'God'?