The Law is for All

94 The Law is for All “Matter in Motion,” although absolute motion through space is a meaningless expression.1 Nonetheless, every point in the cube— there are 2K° of them—has an unique relation with every point in the circle exactly balanced against an equal and opposite relation. We have thus Matter that both is and is not, Motion that both moves and moves not, interacting in a variety of ways which is infinite to manifest individuals, each of which is unlike any other, yet is symmetrically supported by its counterpart. Note that even at the centre of gravity of the cube no two rays are identical except in mere length. They differ as to their point of contact with the circle, their right ascension, and their relation with the other points of the cube. 1 [Sir Arthur] Eddington, [Space, Time and Gravitation: An Outline of the General Relativity Theory. See Works Cited.] 2 Eddington, op. cit., p. 158. 3 [Grk., lit. “comb,” meaning “vulva.”] Why is Nuit restricted to two dimensions? We usually think of 1=28 space as a sphere. “None” — “and two”: extension and potenti­ ality are Her only projections of Naught. It is strange, by the way, to find that modern mathematics says “Spherical space is not very easy to imagine”1 2 and prefers to attribute a geometrical form whose resemblance to the kteis3 is most striking. For Nuit is, philosophically speaking, the archetype of the kteis, giving appro­ priate Form to all Being, and offering every possibility of fulfil­ ment to every several point that it envelops. But Nuit cannot be symbolized as three-dimensional, in our system; each unit has position by three spatial, and one temporal, coordinates. It cannot exist, in our consciousness, with less, as a reality. Each “individ­ ual” must be a “point-interval”; he must be the product of some part of the Matter of Nuit (with special possibilities) and of the Motion of Hadit (with special energies) determined in space by his relations with his neighbours, and in time by his relations with himself. It is evidently “a foolish word” for Hadit to say “Come unto me”, as did Nuit naturally enough, meaning “Fulfill thy possibili­ ties”; for who can “come unto” Motion itself, who draw near unto that which is in very truth his innermost identity?