Stirner And Essence

It seems obvious by now that Stirner, an early, pioneer existentialist and core Romantic, disavowed the ontology that each object is but a sensed phenomena whose appearance is but a dim reflect of the essence or form that is the spiritual and ideational archetype of that particular, perceived and experienced object or existent.

I remain an idealist and admit that there are forms that existence in heaven somewhere that somehow participate in reality and inhere in each perceived existence. I also regard the concrete particular as real more than illusion, substantive as it is rather than being mere appearance.

I also admit that the rationally conceived of essence, or intuited essence, is more real and less deceiving than is the less real and more deceiving, perceived concrete existent, but that the latter is real and can be perceived as it is in itself, much of the time.