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personified. The third idea has emerged conjointly 

 from the second and first, and forms therefore the spiritual 

 union, the mutual love between both. It may be there- 

 fore simply called Ghost or Spirit, if it is thought of as 

 personified. 



70. Since every Singular, having been produced 

 through the primary trinity, is only the expressed word 

 of the primary trinity, so also must their qualities be 

 recognizable in the same. The Singular is not simply 

 therefore a position of one idea, but of all three. All 

 things have issued out of the trinity. The essence of 

 the universe consists in the trinity which is unity, and in 

 the unity which is trinity ; for it is a likeness of the 

 primary trinity. Being, generally, is an act, and that, 

 indeed, of a threefold nature. Apart from act or function 

 there is no being. That, which is called nothing, is in 

 itself an act, and there is, therefore, no absolute nothing. 

 The nothing is only something relative to a particular 

 being. Even the mathematical zero is not nothing, but 

 an act. It is nothing only in reference to particular 

 numbers. Numbering is a repetition of one and the same 

 act. The forms or conditions of the primary act are Rest, 

 Motion, and Extension or expansion. 



a. PRIMARY REST. (First form of the Primary Act.} 



71. The primary idea is the position simply without 

 any relation, or any antagonism ; it is the oscillating 

 resting point in the universe, around which everything 

 collects itself, and from which everything emerges ; the 

 Centrum ubique, circumferentia nusquam. The primary 

 idea is the substratum of everything, which will come 

 before us in the sequel of this work. Everything 

 depends upon this primary essence ; all action, motion, 

 and form issues forth from it ; or rather, in all pheno- 

 mena naught else appears than the primary essence in 

 different stages of position, just as in all numbers naught 

 else appears but the zero. The primary idea is the 

 absolute beginning. This primary idea is the non- 

 representable, the never apparent and yet omnipresent, 



