For every action there has to be a reaction. The universe is alive!
As is written: one ascends and is crowned, while the other descends to be crowned. It is here that the Infinite manifests its finity, and the point (1) emerges from the nothingness.
Of course, at this point, it has no reflection. Only One is pure, and unadulterated. It is the first emanation from Zero… But, as we have emanated, we actually begin at one or Aleph א, or we begin at the Oneness of the World, and then identity occurs at the 2nd, when the bifurcation occurred. In order for an event to be “recognised” there has to be an observer, to the One there has to be another, to recognise the One. And that other cannot be the One, else it is purely self-referential and can thus provide little unprejudiced information.
From the 0 comes the 1, now we have 0 & 1, which represents the 2 states of existence—the state of existing and that of non-existing. From these two states all the subsequent complimentary components are derived. That is because the two elements, 0 & 1, are actually 1, in totality (i.e. infinity) it will always be balanced. Translated, that says that for everything that emerges, there has to be a “reflection”. In other words, if there is more energy here, there has to be less somewhere else (even if that somewhere is a composite of places).
This is the reason the 2D dynamics is so powerful and effective - though extremely destructive, as it ignores everything in the middle (the excluded middle).
What has manifested in our “reality” as the infinite, had to “exist” in the Nothingness, else where could it have come from? So the Infinite Nothingness does not mean Nothingness that is endless alone. It also speaks of the Nothingness that IS (or contains) infinity - which is full of everything that ever was, is, or could be. That is, the “moment” of “revealing the Hidden”, signified by the emergence of One, where the Nothingness manifested, or acknowledged, Its (in)finity, and Existence “began”.
In order for infinity to exist there needs to be an infinite amount of distinguishable events. There also needs to be an observer, a perceiver of the events, which means that they have to be perceived as finite events, else there can be so observation. Unless we propose an infinite observer, who we would call G-d, our observer has to be finite too, or at least that part of the the observer that perceives—as perception itself is a finite, almost measurable, event. In order for this observer to observe a “finite” event, it has to have something that is finite, i.e., a finite consciousness. And thus we have 2 finites.
Now, I can accept that the Infinite would have to be aware of the finite within it. But, in order for the infinite to exist, it would have to contain an infinite amount of finites—a “simultaneous” event. The infinite can only manifest—to the finite mind—with an infinite amount of finites in it. Though, mathematically, it is possible to have an infinite number of infinities in infinity.
However, essentially, these is only one infinity, from which all other are born. (Russell’s paradox) then there is the possibility that it contains an infinite collection of infinities. And one could posit infinities so large that their “finite” entities are themselves infinite. In fact, we exist in just such an infinitely entangled infinity.
Note: That is why empirical science will never discover Paradise. Because it is infinitely entangled. If an infinite line become a circle and an infinite circle a line, then how can we tell the difference from a finite perspective? We stumble blindly into the bowels of the infinite, with mathematics as our compass, and our torch, and have faith that there is a line (a straight one at that) to the Garden where we will eat of the sweet fruits of our non-existence, in the company of the Divine One.
Question: Is there an infinite that could exist with nothing finite in it? My response to that line of reasoning is that there is no point in referring to something as infinite, if it is not from a finite standpoint. Infinite has no reference to infinite itself. We might argue about a larger or smaller infinity, but the Infinite Itself has no such concern.
Question: So, how does a finite have an idea of the infinite? The deep question here is whether this finite event can have a concept of infinity only if it contains something of the infinite in it. But if it is part of an infinite “collection” or manifestation, then it by definition has something of the infinite - even by just being a part of it. Just as every number is a finite expression of an infinite set of numbers.
Our existential question here is one of consciousness. How can the finite event have any idea of an infinite event? Does an animal have any concept of infinity? Perhaps the question to ask here is, does the animal have any idea of the finite? Does it have any idea of time - not in terms of local patterns - but in terms of some over-arching veil of the finite despairing that it is not infinite - something which it can never be, as it is the very anathema to its existence. Borges claims that the human being is the only animal that is mortal. All the other animals, unaware of the impending doom, live in an endless moment.
My essential point here is that one can only talk about infinity from a finite point of view. For it there was not a finite, or an infinite subset of an infinite, there could be no idea of an infinite.
The only other possibility is that everything that exists as an apparent finite event is actually part of an infinite one, and, even if we are enclosed in the specific finite event we are experiencing—life itself—it is definitely part of a far greater event than just my individual life.
Before we can even begin this conversation, we have to enter into a space of complete Nothingness… Emptiness… Endlessness - which can have no beginning and no end. An anachronism, as how can a finite being imagine no beginning? Even the thought of no beginning, itself must have a beginning - in the essence of the events of a finite consciousness, which itself is ever expanding. We work with discrete quantafied awareness, one step at a time. Our journey is not continuous. In the realm of the finite existence, everything is finite. It has a beginning and an end.
The only way to intellectually engage in the exploration of the Infinite, is through keeping a history - so that one can obtain a perspective that can see further/deeper into the currents which shape human existence. The only way one could fashion tools with which to explore the Infinite realm is through using tools which are shaped over many generations by our ancestors. The test of time is always true. Mathematics is an example. Kabbalah is another.
Let us settle on this point. Although we need to unfold this sequentially, we must understand fully, that in order for the Infinite to emerge, the Finite must have emerged at the same “time”/simultaneously. This is because in some fashion, the dynamic of Creation happened from everywhere at once. From the finite view, however, in the beginning emerged One, the point of origin. And from this point, it expanded, and became the the midpoint in the roundness (the Agol). “Thus the space emerged equally everywhere” in the balanced pleroma of the Source. But this essential One is itself Everything (and thus Infinite). So we move from the Endless, Unknowable Ineffable Nothingness, to the One, that is Everything, including this Nothingness.
Once we accept the One(ness) of everything we can speak of its first step, the “Birth of the Son”. Where One becomes two… and the Narrative begins while .
At the same time, the Infinite is manifesting and dressing itself in the veils of the finite.