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THE STAR IN THE WEST
(this meaning
mathematically , if it
be extended
in
no dimension
or category '), the
result is Unity , and
the unknown
factor X is eliminated .
“
This is the Advaitist
idea of the future of man ; his
personality , bereft
of
all
its
qualities
,
disappears and
is
lost
,
while
in
its
place
arises the impersonal Unity
,
The Pleroma
,
Parabrahma
,
or
the Allah
of
the Unity
adoring followers
of
Mohammed
.
(
To the Mussulman
fakir
,
Allah
is
by
no
means
a
personal God
.)
“
Unity
is
thus unaffected
,
whether
or
no
it
be
ex
tended
in
any
of
the categories
.
But we have already
agreed
to
look
to
O
for
an
Uncaused
.
“
Now
if
there was
in
truth O‘before
the beginning
of
years
,'
THAT
O
WAS EXTENDED
IN
NONE
OF
THE CATE
GORIES
,
FOR THERE
COULD
HAVE
BEEN
NO
CATEGORIES
IN
WHICH
IT
COULD EXTEND
!
If
our
O
was the ordinary
O
of
mathematics
,
there was not truly absolute
O
,
for
O
is,
as
I
have
shown
,
dependent
on
the
ideas
of
categories
.
If
these existed
,
then
the whole question
is
merely thrown
back
;
we must
reach
a
state
in
which the
O
is
absolute
.
Not only
must we get rid
of
all
subjects
,
but
of
all
predicates
.
By
o
(
in
mathe
matics
)
we really mean
O
",
where
n
is
the
final term
of
a
natural scale
of
dimensions
,
categories
,
or
predi
cates
.
Our Cosmic
Egg
,
then
,
from which
the pre
sent universe arose
,
was Nothingness
,
extended
in
no
categories
,
or
,
graphically
,
Oº
.
This expression
is
in
the
present
form meaningless
.
Let
us
discover
its
value
by
a
simple mathematical process
!
0
0
°
=
01-2
O
Multiply
by
1
=
ñ
O
Then
O
'
“
Now the multiplying
of
the infinitely great
by
the
n
o
[
:]
n
n
X
O
xoo
n