Because this consciousness at first knows universality only as immediate, and necessity as necessity of the heart, the nature of the realization and the activity is unknown to it; it does not know that thisrealization as what affirmatively is, is in truth rather the implicit universal in which the individuality of consciousness, which entrusts itself to it in order to be this particular immediate individuality, really ,perishes; instead of acquiring a being of its own, it therefore attains to being the aliention of itself.