110. Space has first arisen out of time, as the third idea out of
the second, but only ideally. It has arisen out of it, while, time
being the act of positing, it is the posited; now as time posits from
eternity, so is space also from eternity and in eternity. The eternity
of space, however, depends not upon duration, but upon extension; it is
unlimited.
111-112. Space is everywhere, as time is ever. Two spaces can no more
exist than two times. There is only _one_ Eternal. Time and space are,
however, nothing special that has attained unto the Eternal, but the
Eternal itself. They are also not two kinds of qualities subsisting
near each other, but are _one in kind_. The series of numbers is
infinite, thus universal; space is consequently universal.
113. Space is an idea like time, a form of God like time; it is the
passive form, the extended 0 = + 0-.
114. All temporal things are also in space and limited. An unlimited
thing extended through the whole of space is an absurdity. God's
operation only is extended through the whole of space; it is space
itself; when he willed to act, he became time; but when he was time, he
became space.
115. Space has not been created, but has emerged out of the Eternal; it
is nothing new in the universe, nothing next to God and present with
him, but coexistent with God.
116. Single things must be both in space and in time; or a real thing
first originates, where time and space cross each other at one point;
they cross, however, everywhere, and therefore things are everywhere.
117. There is no void or empty space, no time and no place, were a
Finite could not be; for time and space are virtually the manifesting
primary act, the zero that has become thing.
POINT.
118. Time has begun with number, space with the point, with the
spatial nothing, with the zero of space. This point necessarily posits
itself "ad infinitum;" it extends itself also in all directions, and
necessarily in equal distances. Such an extended point is the _Sphere_.
119. The sphere is nothing peculiar, nothing new in the thoughts of
God, but only the point expanded, while this again is but a contracted
sphere, just as the totality of numbers is an expanded 0, and this
their contracted sphere.
120. Space is spherical, and, indeed, an infinite sphere. The sphere
has been posited with space, and consequently from eternity; it is also
an idea, and that, indeed, the total idea; for time and space have in
it been posited together.
121. For God to become real, he must appear under the form of the
sphere. There is no other form for God. God manifesting is an infinite
sphere.
122. The sphere is, therefore, the most perfect form; for it is the
primary, the divine form. Angular forms are imperfect. The more
spherical a thing is in form, by so much the more perfect and divine is
it. The Inorganic is angular, the Organic spherical.
123. The universe is a globe, and everything, which is a Total in the
universe, is a globe.
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