Illusory Being [Schein]

Just as nothing is at first in simple immediate unity with being, so here too the simple identity of essence is at first in immediate unity with its absolute negativity. Consequently, ground is itself one of the reflected determinations of essence. Ground, like the other determinations of reflection, has been expressed in the form of a law; everything has its sufficient ground. The determination of reflection, in so far as it withdraws into ground, is a first, an immediate determinate being in general, which forms the starting point. At first, form stands opposed to essence; it is then the simple ground relation, and its determinations are the ground and the grounded. Secondly, it stands opposed to matter; it is then determining reflection, and its determinations are the reflected determination itself and the subsistence of the determination. Lastly, it stands opposed to content; and then its determinations are again form itself and matter.