2.  In this separation of consciousness simple substance holds onto the opposition against self-consciousness while also deploying it to exhibit the nature of consciousness of distinguishing itself within itself as a world articulated into masses.  ²Substance thus splits itself into a differentiated customary ethical essence: a human law and a divine law.  ³Similarly, the self-consciousness confronting it assigns itself, according to its own nature, to one of these powers, while as knowledge, it divides itself into the ignorance of what it does on the one hand and the knowledge thereof on the other, which latter is thus a deceived knowledge.  ⁴This shows that consciousness does in fact experience both the contradiction of those powers into which substance divided itself and their mutual destruction, as well as the contradiction of its knowledge of the customary ethics of its action with what is in and for itself ethical, and ultimately suffers its own downfall.  ⁵In fact, however, through this movement customary ethical substance becomes actual self-consciousness or this self becomes the self existing in and for itself in which, however, the customary ethical order has already been destroyed.