Essence transforms being to nothing. Illusory being is the negative of Essence, but produced by Essence as its own negative. Being is illusory being . It is the negative posited as negative. Only through its product, some thing can be for itself.
Essence is self-relation in relation to other.
They accordingly assert themselves as essential , and instead of passing over into their opposites, they appear rather as absolute, free, and indifferent to one another. On the one hand, Essence issues from being which is illusory being, on the other hand, illusory being is the result of Essence, which is sublated being. The difficulty of understanding Essence is because of this circularity. Therefore, the distinction of essential and unessential is externally posited, that is, it requires a third . This third is Reflection as thought process.