Note 323

The ESF is the stepwise transformed, originally residing in the elementary [aspect of things], groundwork and presupposition of Being. The most general form of the ESF is therefore the source of all properties, that is, of the sensible constituents of all objects. This matrix of all sensible properties is, it is true, undoubtedly a product of observation and thinking, but one may also take it as non-sensible principle [i.e. an objective and immaterial principle], similar to the abstracted ultimate concept of "Substance" -- a something that, as uniquely defined selfness, is really existing [not the concept but what is intended by it] -- together [material matrix and (conceptually obtained) Substance] constituing the  static  groundwork of the world phenomena, which, among other things, must be supplemented by an  active  urge of structuring or passive urge to differentiate or to develop (both expressions in the end do not differ). So :  "Substance" implies the formation of variants which then are being kept in temporary existence by their ESF. This triple segmentation (matrix, Substance, ESF] is in turn to be viewed as unity. Who can "understand" this should not glorify himself, because one can only feel it or believe it.

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