Novalis's personal worldview- informed by his education, philosophy, professional knowledge, and pietistic background- has become known as "magical idealism", a name derived from Novalis's reference in his 1798 notebooks to a type of literary prophet, the "magischer Idealist" ("magical idealist"). In this worldview, philosophy and poetry are united. Magical idealism is Novalis's synthesis of the German idealism of Fichte and Schelling with the creative imagination. The goal of the creative imagination is to break down the barriers between language and world, as well as the subject and object. The "magic" is the enlivening of nature as it responds to our will.