22 MATHESIS. 



MOTION. 



80. Polarity may be viewed as a single positing of 

 + ; if, however, this positing repeats itself, Motion 

 originates, viz. when many + + - are consecutively 

 posited, and thus the principal poles separate from each 

 other, as in an iron bar when magnetizing. Time is a 

 polar positing of the primary act, and an endless repe- 

 tition of this positing ; through this originate individual 

 things, whose succession is motion. 



81. Primary motion is the result of primary polarity. 

 All motion has originated from duplicity ; consequently 

 from the idea in a dynamic not a mechanical manner. 

 A mechanical motion, which might be produced ad 

 infinitum by mechanical impulses, is an absurdity. 

 There is nowhere a purely mechanical motion ; nothing, 

 as it is at present in the word, has become so by impulse ; 

 an internal act, a polar tension lies at the bottom of all 

 motion. 



82. Motion itself, however, is not twofold in charac- 

 ter ; it is unity, but the result of duality. In time we 

 have to distinguish the polar act of position, and the 

 act of repeating this position, which is motion. Motion 

 is the simple repetition of the polar, twofold act, or the 

 ceaseless separation of poles ; but, as in every polar line 

 the two poles are in all cases together, so even is this 

 mutual separation of poles only a repetition of polarity. 



83. Motion also is not created, but has emerged 

 directly from the Eternal, is the primary function itself 

 repeated. Motion is the ever self-manifesting, conse- 

 quently progressive God. 



84. Motion is thought, which is manifested as speech. 

 Thought polarizes the fingers. If the thought be power- 

 ful it moves them, and through them other bodies. 

 Speech is only a thought that has passed over into motion. 

 The world is the thought of God that has been translated 

 into motion, the moved thought of God thought spoken. 

 It is here evident that the world is not simply the thought 

 but the language of God ; for there is no action without 



