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19. Sep 2017|18:16 |
In metaphysics, it is necessary to start from the idea that the
Supreme Reality is absolute, and that being absolute it is infinite. That is absolute which
allows of no augmentation or diminution, or of no repetition or division; it is therefore
that which is at once solely itself and totally itself. And that is infinite which is not
determined by any limiting factor and therefore does not end at any boundary; it is in the
first place Potentiality or Possibility as such, and ipso facto the Possibility of things,
hence Virtuality. Without All-Possibility, there would be neither Creator nor creation,
neither Maya nor Samsara.
The Infinite is so to speak the intrinsic dimension of plenitude proper to the Absolute; to
say Absolute is to say Infinite, the one being inconceivable without the other. We can
symbolize the relation between these two aspects of Supreme Reality by the following
images: in space, the absolute is the point, and the infinite is extension; in time, the
absolute is the moment, and the infinite is duration. On the plane of matter, the absolute
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is the ether – the underlying and omnipresent primordial substance – whereas the infinite
is the indefinite series of substances; on the plane of form, the absolute is the sphere – the
simple, perfect and primordial form – and the infinite is the indefinite series of more or
less complex forms; finally, on the plane of number, the absolute will be unity or unicity,
and the infinite will be the unlimited series of numbers or possible quantities, or totality.
The distinction between the Absolute and the Infinite expresses the two fundamental
aspects of the Real, that of essentiality and that of potentiality; this is the highest
principial prefiguration of the masculine and feminine poles. Universal Radiation, thus
Maya both divine and cosmic, springs from the second aspect, the Infinite, which
coincides with All-Possibility. |
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