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yet alone, therefore, it is not perfectly equal to 0. It is a retrovertent, 

 and consequently the second act, which presupposes the positive. 

 By the — we know what is not; the — is, however, a nothing in 

 every respect. The — is the copula between and + . 



" 52. If the + is the posited, so is it a nothing posited or deter- 

 mined. This position is, however, a number, and therefore a mathe- 

 matical something. The nothing thus becomes a something, a Finite, 

 a Real, through the simple positing of itself, and the something be- 

 comes a nothing by the removal of its self-position. The nothing 

 itself is, however, the mere neglect of its self-position. The some- 

 thing, the + — , has consequently not arisen or emerged out of 

 nothing, or from the latter something associated with another been 

 produced ; but it is nothing itself; the whole undivided nothing has 

 become unity. The nothing once posited as nothing is = I. We 

 cannot speak of production or evolution in this case ; but of the com- 

 plete identity and uniformity of the nothing with the something ; it is 

 a virgin product or birth." — p. 11. 



" MAN. 



" 97. Since the realization of the Eternal is a becoming self-con- 

 scious, 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 

 Monas indeterminata, the highest creature is Monas determinata, 

 Totum deter minatum. 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 H . Man is the whole of arithmetic, compacted, how- 

 ever, out of all numbers ; he can therefore produce numbers out of 

 himself. Man is a complex of all that surrounds him, namely, of ele- 

 ment, 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, 



