It is submerged in this Notion of itself, for it has been driven to the limit of its extremes, and, moreover, in such a way, that the moments distinguished whereby it is real, or is still consciousness, are not only for us these pure extremes; on the contrary, what it isfor itself, and what is for it intrinsic and what is for it existence, have evaporated into abstractions which no longer have any stability ,anys bs tance, for this consciousness itself; and all that before was essential being for consciousness has reverted into these abstractions.