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With such an essence creation would be closed or would 

 terminate. 



97. Since the realization of the Eternal is a becoming 

 self-conscious, so is the highest creature also a Self- 

 conscious, but a Singular. Such a creature is the finite 

 God, or God become corporeal. God is Nonas inde- 

 terminata, the highest creature is Monas determinata, 

 Totitm, determinatum. A finite self-conscious being we 

 call Man. Man is an idea of God, but that in which 

 God wholly, and in every single act becomes an object 

 unto himself. Man is God represented by God in the 

 infinity of time. God is a Man representing God in one 

 act of self- consciousness, without time. 



98. Man is God wholly manifested. God has become 

 Man, zero has become -\ Man is the whole of arith- 

 metic, compacted, however, out of all numbers ; he can 

 therefore produce numbers out of himself. Man is a 

 complex of all that surrounds him, namely, of element, 

 mineral, plant and animal. 



99. The other things below man are also ideas of God, 

 but none of these ideas is the whole representation of 

 arithmetic. They are only parts of the divine conscience 

 posited in time ; but man is God, planted or posited 

 uninjured in time. Man is the object in the self- 

 consciousness of God; the creatures below man are, 

 however, the objects only of the consciousness of God. 

 Thus, if God places before and from himself only single 

 qualities, there are worldly things ; if, however, God in 

 this crowd of representations attains to his own entire 

 representation, then arises Man. God is = + , Man 

 = _l- GO en, the animal is = + n n. The ani- 

 mals are only represented in part. The subject of self- 

 consciousness is = + ; the objects, however, are 

 the numbers which are equivalent to this, being = GO 

 + 3 + 2 + l + 0_l_2_3-oo. Thus if all 

 numbers, all world-elements, together with their per- 

 fections, occur in consciousness = + , there is a 

 Man ; if only single, and perhaps but few things, such 

 as food, stones, &c. (with the entire exception of the 



