The consciousness which makes this distinction that is no distinction, which asserts that actual existence has no validity, and at the same time that itis real, that pure morality is both truly essential, and also devoid of essence ,such a consciousness expresses in one and the same breath the thoughts which it previously separated, and itself proclaims that it is not in earnest about this determination and separation of the moments of self and in itself or intrinsic being; but that on the contrary, what it asserts as having absolute being outside of consciousness, it really keeps enclosed within the self of self consciousness, and that what it asserts to have absolute being in thought, or to be absolutely intrinsic being, it for that very reason takes to be something that has no truth.