Unity is thus unaffected, whether or no it be extended
in any of the categories. But we have already agreed
to look to 0 for a First Cause.
Now if there was in truth 0 “before the beginning
of years", THAT 0 WAS EXTENDED IN NONE OF
THE CATEGORIES, FOR THERE COULD HAVE
BEEN NO CATEGORIES IN WHICH IT COULD
EXTEND| [f our 0 was the ordinary 0 of mathematics,
there was not truly absolute 0, for 0 is, as I have shown,
dependent on the idea of categories. If these existed,
then the whole question is merely thrown back;
we must
reach a state in which the 0 is absolute. Not only
must we get rid of all subjects, but of all predicates.
By 0 (in mathematics) we really mean 0°, where n is
the final term ofa natural scale of dimensions, categories,
or predicates. Our Cosmic Egg, then, from which the
present universe arose, was Nothingness, extended in
no categories, or, graphically, 0°. This expression is
in its present form meaningless. Let us discover its
value by a simple mathematical process!
0!
P=0.4=9, Multiply by 1 =" Then > xGo0xe
Now the multiplying of the infinitely great by the
infinitely small results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE
NUMBER EXTENDED IN AN UNKNOWN
NUMBER
OF CATEGORIES. It happened, when this
our Great Inversion took place, from the essence of all
nothingness to finity extended in innumerable categories,
that an incalculably vast system was produced. Merely