' The Nought '...

The One behind the Many is not to be mistaken for the figure one which is followed by two, three, and so on.

It is on the contrary the mysterious Nought out of which all the units which make up multiple figures themselves arise.

If we do not call it the Nought it is only because this might be mistaken as utter Nihilism.

Were this so then existence would be meaningless and metaphysics absurd.

The true ineffable Nought, like the superphysical One, is rather the reality of all realities.

From it there stream forth all things and all creatures; to it they shall all return eventually.

This void is the impenetrable background of all that is, was, or shall be; unique, mysterious, and imperishable.

He who can gaze into its mysterious Nothingness and see that the pure Divine Being is forever there, sees indeed.




-- Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 5: The Void As Metaphysical Fact > # 42
-- Perspectives > Chapter 19: The Reign of Relativity > # 49 Paul Brunton