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manent immaterial invention, and the axiom is the Form- 

 less, Polarless, Timeless. A spirit with form is a contra- 

 diction. But the matter also does not exist, because 

 matter is nothing, because it is only a sphere of central 

 actions, which is gravity. 



1(3(5. 'ilie material universe is called nature. There 

 can be only one nature, as well according to time as to 

 space and to divine animation. There is only one God, 

 whose operations expressed, or materially posited, are 

 nature. Nature has originated out of nothing like time 

 and space ; or with these has nature also been. God has 

 made heaven and earth out of nothing. 



167. God has not found matter co-eternal with him- 

 self, and, like an architect, arranged this to his fancy; but 

 he has, out of his own eternal omnipotence, by his will 

 simply, evoked the world out of nothing unto existence. 

 He has thought and spoken, and it was. 



168. The doctrine of matter is the Philosophy of 

 Nature. It is therefore the science also of all Singulars, 

 like geometry and arithmetic ; thus at bottom is only the 

 third part of mathematics, and is even as certain and 

 demonstrable as this. 



AETHER. 



169. The matter, which is the direct position of God, 

 which fills the whole universe, which is the time in a 

 state of tension and motion, the formed space, the heavy 

 primary essence, I call the Primary matter, the matter of 

 the world, cosmic matter, Oilier. The aether is the first 

 realization of God, the eternal position of the same. It 

 is the first matter of creation. Everything has conse- 

 quently originated out of it. It is the highest, divine 

 element, the divine body, the primary substance 

 = + _. 



170. The aether fills out the whole universe, and is, 

 consequently, a sphere, yea, the world's sphere itself ; the 

 world is a rotating globe of aether. 



171. The sphere of aether, not as yet individualized, I 

 call chaos. From the beginning was chaos, and this was 



