Now this is just the case here.

Spirit supplies Selection and Motion.

Substance supplies something from which selection can be made and to which Motion can be imparted; so that it is a _sine qua non_ for the Expression of Spirit.
Then comes the question, How did the Universal Substance get there?
It cannot have made itself, for its only quality is inertia, therefore it must have come from some source having power to project it by some mode of action not of a material nature.

Now the only mode of action not of a material nature is Thought, and therefore to Thought we must look for the origin of Substance.

This places us at a point antecedent to the existence even of primary substance, and consequently the initial action must be that of the Originating Mind upon Itself, in other words, Self-contemplation.
At this primordial stage neither Time nor Space can be recognized, for both imply measurement of successive intervals, and in the primary movement of Mind upon itself the only consciousness must be that of Present Absolute Being, because no external points exist from which to measure extension either in time or space.