Do you not see that when the Real deserved existence for its own sake, non-existence became impossible for it? Similarly, if the possible deserved non-existence for its own sake, its existence is impossible. That is why we made it manifest. We said in the Book of Knowledge that the possible did not deserve non-existence for its own sake, as some people say. Rather, what the possible deserved is that its description of non-existence takes precedence over its description of existence for its own sake. Not the nothingness, and for this reason he accepted existence by preference. Therefore, the nothingness upon which existence is weighted is not the nothingness that precedes its existence, but rather it is the nothingness that has in exchange for its existence in the event of its existence that if existence had not been, nothingness would have been, so that nothingness is the weightage over which existence is weighted in the essence of the possible. This is what is required by rationa