This is what has also occurred in the foregoing; but it must be added that reflection, by ending up with the sublation of itself, does not thereby have nothing for result, so that the positive knowledge of the essence would then be an immediate reference to it, divorced from that result and self originating, an act that starts only from itself; on the contrary, the end itself, the foundering of the mediation, is at the same time the ground from which the immediate proceeds.