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07/10/11(Sun)06:08:51 No.339899097The
Qabalists and Hermeticists expanded this idea of Nothing(Ain), and got a
second kind of Nothing which they called "Ain Soph"-"Without Limit".
(This idea seems not unlike that of Space.) They then decided that in
order to interpret this mere absence of any means of definition, it was
necessary to postulate the Ain Soph Aur-"Limitless Light". By this they
seem to have meant very much what the men of science meant, or thought
that they meant, by the Luminiferous Ether. (The Space-Time Continuum)
All these ideas are evidently without form and void; these are abstract conditions, not positive ideas.
The
next step must be the idea of Position. One must formulate this thesis:
If there is anything except Nothing, it must exist within this
Boundless Light; within this Space; within this inconceivable
Nothingness, which cannot exist as Nothing-ness, but has to be conceived
of as a Nothingness composed of the annihilation of two imaginary
opposites. Thus appears The Point, which has "neither parts nor
magnitude, but only position".
But position does not mean
anything at all unless there is something else, some other position with
which it can be compared. One has to describe it. The only way to do
this is to have another Point, and that means that one must invent the
number Two, making possible The Line. Zero becomes Two. 0=2, And so on.
It's
pretty interesting to note that many Quantum physicists agree with most
of the ideas about origns of the univeres with religious philosophies
such as Vedanta or Kabbalah. |
