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SPHERE, HEAT, CHEMISTRY. 



140. The line and surface are density, the repre- 

 sentation of time and space ; they have therefore like 

 these originated out of nothing, namely, out of the point. 

 The sphere is the expanded nothing. Nothing thus 

 extended, or nothing posited, becomes a something, viz. 

 line, surface, density, polarity. The line is a long 

 nothing, the surface a hollow nothing, the sphere a dense 

 nothing ; in short, the something is a nothing which has 

 received only predicates. All things are nothings with 

 different forms. The point is = 0, the line = +, the 

 surface = -\ , the sphere = + . 



141. The internal motion of the globe, or the becoming 

 of the globe, is manifested in the universe as Heat, in the 

 planet as Chemistry. 



ROTATION. 



142. The primary sphere is rotating, for it has ori- 

 ginated through motion ; the motion of the sphere cannot, 

 however, be progressive, for it fills everything. God is 

 a rotating globe. The world is God rotating. Alii 

 motion is circular, and there is everywhere no straight I 

 motion any more than there is a single line or straight 

 surface. Everything is comprehended in ceaseless rota-1 

 tion. Without rotation there is no being and no life ; 

 for without it, there is no sphere, no space and no 

 time. 



143. The more perfectly circular the motion of a 

 thing is, so much the more perfect is it. Straight motion 

 is only the mechanical ; such, however, exists not 

 through itself. The more a body moves in a straight 

 direction, the more mechanical and ignoble is it. Straight 

 motion too yields only straight form. 



GEOMETRY. 



144. The sphere with its attributes is the totality of 

 numbers, is thus a rotating number. The universe is the 

 same. In arithmetic the quantity of divine positions is 



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