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finiteness. By geometry we are actually transferred into 

 the universe, but only into the formal, in which it has, 

 like a skeleton, been sketched for us solely upon a 

 general plan ; namely, as infinite extension, in which line 

 and periphery, central and peripheric action, magnetism, 

 electricity, and rotation, &c., have been prefigured. 



B. HYLOGENY. 

 a> GRAVITY. (First form of the World. Rest.} 



148. In arithmetic the divine acts are only unde- 

 termined = numbers. In geometry the numbers obtain 

 determinate or finite directions, become figures. All 

 figures have, however, an especial direction to the centre. 

 Figures are nought but centres manifoldly posited. 



149. The direction to a centre is, however, an act, 

 which never ceases to operate. The primary act strives 

 therefore to posit ad infinitum nought else than a centre, 

 i. e. points. 



150. If there are points without the centre, it so hap- 

 pens only because the succeeding point shave been displaced 

 by the points that were first posited. The peripheric points 

 are only with reluctance out of the centre. The globe 

 only exists in an uneasy state, because it has no place in 

 the centre. 



151. Every finite thing strives towards the centre. 

 The finite is only something, in so far as it is posited in 

 the centre, and it maintains its value according to its dis- 

 tance from the centre. This exertion or endeavour, by 

 virtue of which things would be in the centre, is Gravity. 



152. What the retrogression of numbers into is, that 

 is the gravity in the sphere. The gravity is a geome- 

 trical reduction of position unto nothing. The sphere is 

 only produced by action, and that indeed by the centro- 

 peripheric. This action must therefore manifest itself 

 in two ways, as centrifugality and centripetality. The 

 first is the dispersion of the primary act or of points, the 



