grasps what being as such and as a whole is, so that in reflection it is given the measure not only of its own being but, in principle, of all being. The measure by which it will henceforth measure every being is its own light, which itself is nothing other than the coincidence of being and consciousness, the complete measurement of what is unveiled for itself. This coincidence is being’s identity with itself in consciousness, in which the subject constitutes itself as such. Consequently, it gives
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