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Clearly, if that which is "eternally real" will influence all future prehensions by actualities (PCH: 715), then it cannot be true that "the creative process feeds on its own already achieved products and on nothing else" (PCH: 629; italics added). The creative process evidently feeds – -- and must feed – -- also on what never was nor could have been an "already achieved product" of the creative process, since it is some necessary aspect or other of this very process – -- one of the "defining characteristics" without which there neither would nor could be such a process. As such, it is "eternally real," in no way a temporally produced product of the process.

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