“When we have found this unity [monism] it is not we who have found it; it is that Unity that has found itself through us. And yet this Unity has not even thus found itself for it is no self. If it were itself, it would not have found itself, and if it has found itself it is no longer itself. Thus the Absolute as well as we must run off in opposite directions simultaneously. It must be pure act and to be pure act it must act in still greater heights of separation from all contact with all temporal plurality. On the other hand, it cannot, at the same time, be active in the direction of pure affirmation. But this affirmation is affirmation of pure temporal individuation and as such is at the same time negation of pure unification by negation and separation.”

Cited in R.J. Rushdoony’s “The One and the Many,” pg. 127.

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BTW, Paul and I have a new article coming together for ya! Sorry for the delay. It’s fall sports season, which means that I have been nonstop busy covering games.

I’m reading a couple of Gershom Scholem books; that new Cagliostro book; finishing up Darnton’s Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment; Pestalozzi and his Times: A Pictorial Record; Porset’s Les Philalèthes Et Les Convents De Paris; Fabre’s Un Initié Des Sociétés Secrètes Supérieures; Baigent’s new Armageddon book which I’m going to review cause I was sent it for free (…and I won’t be nice to him!); a book about Saint-Simon; Franco Venturi’s Roots of Revolution; Grusd’s B’nai B’rith; a Mazzini book … and a few more. They never seem to get finished when you do it it like that.

What have you been reading lately? I’m in the middle of a collection of essays on metaphysical naturalism. Great stuff, especially when dealing with the topic of monism (something Weikert touches on in his lecture).