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Time is an universal property of things. Exemption 

 from time is only in the Eternal. 



75. Time, not being itself the Finite, but creating it, is 

 not itself a Real, but still an Ideal, a form only of the pri- 

 mary act, an idea, with which finite things have been 

 directly posited. Time is the act of numbering ; num- 

 bering is thinking ; thinking is time. Our thinking is our 

 time. In sleep there is no time for us. God's thought 

 is God's time ; God's time, however, is all time, conse- 

 quently time of the world. Time is not of earthly but 

 heavenly descent or origin. In so far a divine quality 

 belongs to all finite things. They are divine, in so far as 

 they are time ; terrestrial, in so far as they are evanescent 

 moments of time. 



POLARITY. 



76. Time is an action of the primary power; and all 

 things are active only in so far as they are filled or 

 inspired with the idea of time. The whole activity of 

 things, all their forces arise out of the primary act or 

 primary power, are only moments of the same. There are, 

 however, no positive without negative numbers, conse- 

 quently also no moments of time without suppression of 

 the same. There is, therefore, no single force, but each is 

 the position of + and . A force consisting of two prin- 

 ciples is called Polarity. Time is, therefore, the primary 

 polarity, and polarity is manifested at the very instant in 

 which the creation of the world is stirring. 



77. Polarity is the first force which appears in the 

 world. If time is eternal, polarity must also be eternal. 

 There is no world, and in general nothing at all without 

 polar force. 



78. Every single thing is a duplicity. 



79. The law of causality is a law of polarity. Causality 

 is valid only in time, is only a series of numbers. Time 

 itself has no causality. Causality is an act of generation. 

 The sex is rooted in the first movement of the world. 



