The Star in the West

258 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