36 MATHESIS. 



second is the collection of the primary acts or points into 

 the unity, and this is gravity. Centrifugality originates 

 only in a constrained manner or with reluctance, for the 

 primary act always seeks the centre, and only moves 

 towards the periphery, because it has no longer any place 

 there. If centripetality be regarded as a force, then is 

 centrifugality no force, but only centripetality itself 

 retreating from the centre ; even as cold and darkness 

 are probably no particular forces in themselves, but only 

 weaker degrees of heat or light. 



153. Gravity is not motion simply, but motion unto a 

 centre, unto rest. 



154. That which is itself in the very centre is there- 

 fore not heavy. The primary act is not heavy. 



155. As all finite things are positions of the primary 

 act in the sphere out of the centre, so are all of them 

 heavy. Gravity is the force that strives unto the centre, 

 and which is there impeded by other forces already present 

 therein. A finite thing, that is not heavy, is a contra- 

 diction. The gravity of the single thing is weight. The 

 world itself has no weight, or else it must be heavy in 

 relation to something else without it. The ideas of 

 gravity and weight, as we speak of them in reference to 

 individual things, are not applicable to the world, still 

 less to God. 



156. Gravity is also nothing new in the world, but it 

 is only the positing of the centre in space. As neces- 

 sarily as the Eternal, when it manifests itself, must appear 

 under a definite form, so also must it be necessary with 

 the eternal effort, to return into itself or appear as gravity. 

 Gravity is nothing different from the primary act, nothing 

 specially created ; but the spherical position of the same 

 tending unto the centre. 



157. Now, as the sphere has originated put of nothing, 

 so also has gravity originated out of the same. The 

 form is a formed nothing : the form is, however, no form 

 without internal forming force, and to this gravity 

 belongs. The being of form and the. being of gravity are 

 one. Gravity is a weighty nothing, a heavy essence, 



