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AIR AND ÆTHER

At their highest significance these conjoined symbols stand for Matter and Spirit.

“All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small also was infinite. And when they were all together, nothing was clear and distinct because of their smallness; for air and æther comprehended all things, both being infinite; for these are present in everything, and are greatest both as to number and as to greatness." - FAIRBANKS, Anaxagoras, 1.

At the beginning, that is, prior to involution, the parts of being were contained within the whole; and the parts themselves were not what they were destined to appear, since within them also was that infinite possibility which was the reflection of That whose image they bore. And in homogeniety, no part was distinguishable from the whole. Spirit and Matter,-Mind and Form, were the AKEM-MANŌ root of all existent things. All things comprise them, and these elements are the sum total of existence, and are eternal.

See Also

INVOLUTION
HEAVEN AND EARTH
MONAD OF LIFE