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striving towards centre, a realization of the first divine 

 idea. Gravity cannot, therefore, be perceived in the uni- 

 verse as a whole, but only in its parts. 



158. If gravity is the primary act that has become real, 

 so must everything originate out of gravity, or everything 

 must acknowledge gravity to be the common mother of 

 the finite. It is in all cases, or in every individual thing, 

 only the gravity, the Ponderose, which exists, otherwise 

 nothing exists ; for verily nothing exists without the 

 divine primary, which is incessantly a central, act. 



MATTER. 



159. Points, which strive towards the centre, are com- 

 pressed, because they would all occupy one and the same 

 spot. These points, however, are forces, which take up 

 space and therefore exclude other points. A space that 

 excludes another is Matter. Everything which has been 

 said of gravity holds good in respect to matter ; for 

 matter is only another word for gravity. A heavy thing 

 is a material thing. 



160. To the totality of a thing belongs not merely its 

 figure nor its tension or motion simply, but also its 

 gravity. This is, however, a whole sphere. Matter is, 

 consequently, a total position of the primary act, a trinity 

 of ideas. 



161. Matter has been imparted with space and time. 

 Ah 1 space is material ; ay, matter is itself the space and 

 the time, the form and the motion ; for space is nothing 

 special, but only extended or formed force. It is here 

 also shown that the nothing does not exist. There is as 

 little nothing in the universe as there is an in mathe- 

 matics. So soon as the nothing is, it is something. The 

 whole universe is material, is nothing but matter ; for it 

 is the primary act eternally repeating itself in the centre. 

 The universe is a rotating globe of matter. 



162. But the universe is an acting gravity, a matter, 

 in which the centroperipheric antagonism is active ; it is 

 therefore everywhere matter only, which acts. There is 

 no activity without matter, but also no matter without 



