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self-externalization makes itself absolute object. The 

 internal and the external, subject and object, are in 

 their ultimate and absolute significance complementary 

 and completely interfused phases of the one infinite fact, 

 the one eternal deed, the absolute actuality of the divine 

 Reason forever revealed to Intelligence, whether creating 

 or created, in the infinite process of the universe. 



Thus, the universal Potency as self-objectifying 

 thought fills infinite space and everywhere meets only 

 with itself. Its self-externalization is thus at the same 

 time a return to and collision with itself. And the tre- 

 mor of this collision is the logically first (or simplest) 

 phase of the infinite heart-beat of the universe. It is 

 centrality infinitely diffused, and hence, everywhere 

 present. As has often been said, the circumference of 

 the universe is nowhere; its center is everywhere. 



It is from this infinite diffusion of centrality that 

 infinitely manifold lines of differentiation result. Thus 

 the universal Potency specializes itself into endlessly 

 varied particular forms. That is, particular forms arise 

 only as the manifestation of the universal Potency; and 

 it is at once evident that each form is adequate only to 

 the partial manifestation of the universal Potency, which 

 must therefore continue itself and complete its own 

 manifestation through still other forms. 



The Universal is thus far indifferent to the perpetua- 

 tion of this or that particular form. Rather, as the con- 

 tinuous Reality of which the particular forms are but the 

 discrete phases, its activity must result in the fusing of 

 form with form. In other words, the dissolution of one 

 series of forms is involved in the integration of others. 

 Each particular form as inadequate to the complete 



