1 Beyond oppositions there is no unity. Beyond oppositions there is only variation. 2 Negation discloses the constituent parts. Negation pluralizes. 3 Theory and practice—the object and its shadow, the shadow and its object. They exist in isolation only when we are half-asleep. 4 The immediate reactions of the practical world narrow our sensibility, map onto it abrupt and unforgiving angles. It is the counterintuitive approximation that ascertains any sort of depth, and withi

1 The ultimate unity is a coexistence of unities. The ultimate unity is the ultimate plurality. 2 All of our unities are tenuous delineations, which the mind itself presents as shifting embodiments. Perhaps we wished to preserve in them the sway of self-forgetting acts. To a degree, we have succeeded. The related obsessions with highlighting and erasing the delineations stand in the way. 3 Perhaps there lingers the thought that all human creations can be familiar to us. It is

1 We would find in a sublime calculus that nature is prodigal and our consciousness reticent. Perhaps the arduous labyrinth of our body is home to all correspondences, otherwise too subtle and intractable. 2 Goethe, Emerson, Coleridge, and Swedenborg assimilate the vocabulary of the sciences with ease. They profess the belief that human beings are the sum of creation and, therefore, free to understand themselves through any of its parts. 3 When we grow aware of the path that