32 MATHESIS. 



133. The surface of a globe has no centre, no 0, like 

 the radius ; but is an absolute Dualized, a without 0. 



134. This mode of operating of the primary act is 

 manifested as electricity. Electricity is a merely peri- 

 pheric antagonism, without centre, thus without union ; 

 an eternally Disintegrated without rest. Electricity is 

 thus also a special form, under which polarity makes its 

 appearance, and is likewise rooted in the primary crea- 

 tion. There is, consequently, no thing which were not 

 magnetic and electric. 



135. The idea of a surface is constantly that of sur- 

 rounding. It is not generated by a section of a globe, but 

 by the completion, the circumferential limitation of the 

 sphere. The essence of the sphere is boundary. Every 

 surface is finite, is convex. In the divine position a surface 

 never occurs, save on the boundary of the primary sphere. 



136. As no thing can exist without a line, without a 

 radius, so also none can be without surface, without cir- 

 cumscription. The single surface is identical with the 

 Locus of the old philosophers. Every Finite is a closed 

 whole, and that thing is of the most perfect kind which 

 has the most perfect closure, surface, periphery (or skin). 



137. The surface is also not different from the primary 

 act, but a form of the primary act itself ; or a boundary, 

 which, however, never remains stationary, but is always 

 displaced by means of the eternal act. Therefore the 

 world is at once unlimited and limited; the latter in 

 reference to the closure of the surface, the former to the 

 endless expansion of the same. 



138. The periphery is the object in divine conscious- 

 ness, the point which, posited without the centre, is thus 

 one and the same, centre (subject) and periphery (object). 

 It is everywhere the same point, the same 0, wherever it 

 be posited. Hence the profound saying, " Mundus est 

 Spli&ra, cujus centrum ubique, circumferentia nusquam" 



139. The surface stands in antagonism to the line, 

 like periphery and centre ; it stands perpendicular upon 

 the radius, and can never pass parallel to linear action^ 

 Electricity ranks in eternal antagonism to magnetism. 



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