the great invisible God, a human strategy, aphorism 426

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Only the great invisible God, the God which has no other gods before it — repetition — can save.  As far as I can see from here, it is the only perspective on reality capable of worship.  It is the only reality which reconciles “mind” and “the immediate surface.”  It is not a third reality next to the material and the mental, that is, the immediate and the illusory, but is the bridge across the two.  It is where and how they overlap.  It makes “mind” necessary to the reality.  All other perspectives fail.  The “mind” alone is quixotic.  The “immediate” is incomprehensible and leaves one desperate and humiliated.  Repetition has the simplicity and strength to recline in beauty but which nonetheless remains incorruptible.

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