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30 MATHESIS. 



LINE, LIGHT, MAGNETISM. 



124. While the point expands, it is active ; this active 

 expansion is a simple repetition of the point, and this is 

 a Line, which in the sphere, however, is a Radius. With 

 time originates not merely a series of numbers, but toge- 

 ther with it also the line. The line and time are of one 

 kind, repeated positions of the nothing, of the point. It 

 is consequently clear, how that time were a repeated 

 positing of the Eternal itself : for the line is only a 

 repeated self-positing of the point, of the nothing. God 

 fluctuating in his eternity, and the point, are one in kind ; 

 but God acting is a line, being or existing a sphere, i. e. 

 the point in the act of being. 



125. The line is nothing new in creation, but time 

 itself, when regarded more closely. God creates the 

 line as little as he does time ; but this originates unto 

 him, while he moves, while he thinks. It is impossible 

 to think without producing a line. The line is therefore 

 from eternity, is a series of numbers. 



126. The essence of the line does not consist in its 

 two extremities being continued with equal significance 

 into the Infinite ; but in its radiality, i. e. that one extre- 

 mity turned towards the centre has become central, con- 

 verging, absolute ; but the other turned towards the 

 periphery has become divergent, finite, multiplicity. The 

 primary line is a line produced with two antagonized 

 characters. The central extremity is 0, the peripheral is 

 the bisected zero = . This radial line gives us the 

 antetype of a new polarity. The two extremities are not 

 related as + and towards each other, but as and 

 + . At the instant, when a line originates in the 

 universe, it is not a line merely, or an indefinite line that 

 originates ; but one that is definite at both extremities, 

 polar, indeed, but after a determinate fashion. Nothing, 

 not even a finite thing, exists in an indefinite manner. 



127. There is no mathematically straight line in the 

 world : all real lines are polar ; they are all rooted in 

 God by one extremity, by the other in finitude. The 



