Thoughts, ideas, ideated concepts, the mind itself, all are the prime movers of transcendent reality, but not only of transcendent reality - for without the transcendent self we could not appercieve the material world at all. It takes a mind forming thoughts to make sense (slight pun intended) of all that we see, touch, hear, taste and smell, for all these sensations are routed through our nerve endings to our brains where, finally, they are noticed transcendentally - or not at all. logos, I think this is such an excellent elaboration of what Voegelin means by transcendance in this essay -- one of the modes of his model of noetic consciousness, Intellect-Transcendence-Ideation-Reason. Thank you so very much!
And who knew you'd have a real-life example come along to prove Voegelin's point, eh? ;^)