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primary act becomes in its first operation not merely a 

 posited nothing, a numerical series ; not merely time, not 

 merely an aoristic line, but a Linea determinate ; in short, 

 God can step forth into time only as radius. The Monas 

 determinata is a Monas radialis, or a centroperipheric 

 monas. 



128. The essence of the primary antagonism is a centro- 

 peripheric antagonism. As centre is related to periphery, 

 so is here one pole related to the other. Polar existence 

 and central or peripheral existence are one. Primary 

 polarity is centroperiphery. The primary line is con- 

 stantly in a state of polar action, which is called tension ; 

 for it is always converging and diverging, at once central 

 and peripheric. Every line originates, therefore, only by 

 tension, and is only by it, yea, every line is nothing else 

 than this tension. 



129. Aline, one extremity whereof strives towards the 

 centre, the other to the periphery, the one to identity, 

 the other to duality, will exhibit itself in the world as a 

 line of Light, in the planet as a Magnetic line. Magnetism 



is centroperipheric antagonism, a radial line, , 



the action of the line being cleft at one extremity. Mag- 

 netism has its root in the beginning of creation. It is 

 prophesied with time. 



SURFACE, ELECTRICITY, OXYDATION. 



130. The periphery is the boundary of the sphere, and 

 is, consequently, a superficies or Surface. This, there- 

 fore, originates also directly with the positing of the 

 --Eternal. 



131. As the primary line is not a purely polar, but a 

 radial line, so is the primary surface not a level, but a 

 curved, or convex surface. 



132. There is no level surface in the universe, no pure 

 surfaces any more than pure lines. All surfaces are 

 curved. For example, those of drops, of the heavenly 

 bodies, of animals. The surface of a sphere is no Con- 

 tinuum ; but consists properly of the divided peripheric 

 and upright extremities of the radii ; it is a . 



