Just as one can think of all the powers and faculties of the soul, even that of consciousness, as dis appearing by halves, but in such a way that the substance always remains; so likewise one can without contradiction represent this extinguished half as pre served, yet not in it but outside it; onlya since everything real in it, conse quently having a degree, and so its whole existence, lacking in nothing, has been halved, another particular substance would arise outside it.