Consciousness become self-consciousness through externalisation or expression which are themselves only special forms of internal processes that go beyond consciousness. Expressions such as this would seem to begin at a certain level or intensity and presumable also end at another level or intensity. The expression is for the sake of an unrevealed nature, and so what is most real for it is that unrevealedness. Is production the result or error or its cause? Your purpose is only to say and think these dim approximations and intricate evasions towards an end which is also your own end. This end is not in time but in the very form of the thought that brings the thinker to light only for it to be immediately dissolved in its own light and shadow.