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The Gnostics of the 12th century cognized the transcendental as
"an intelligible sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
-- Joseph Campbell, Transformations of Myth Through Time
(1990,
Harper & Row) Hyperspherical PolarityThe term pseudosphere is used in science and geometry to refer to a spherical array of an infinite number of vectors, each equal in length. A hyperspherical polarity is simply a pseudosphere in a higher dimension (like a four-dimensional pseudosphere) whose vectors are infinite, representing a pure polarity -- a polarity between a singularity and a higher-dimensional infinity. So, the Hyperspherical Polarity refers to the polarity between the Universal Singularity and the Infinite Void. The "space" around the Universal Singularity represents pure nothingness where the concepts of space and time as we know them are meaningless. (Keep in mind that even the empty space in our physical Universe is much more than nothingness.) Imagine, as far as it is imaginable, the state of the Universe at the Planck time of the Big Bang (a mere 10-44 second after the Universal Singularity at t=0), where all physical forces of the Universe are still unified. Although this point in spacetime history is associated with an extremely tiny size, we can also relate the present hypersurface of our still expanding Universe to a hypersphere, which we tend to image as being a good deal larger. As far as the hyperspherical polarity itself is concerned, any notion of size or spatial extension is completely meaningless. The Singularity of the Big Bang is not localized in spacetime -- space and time did not exist at t=0, and we cannot point to the location of the Big Bang in space (except in a "pseudo" sort of way by pointing in every direction at once into the blackness of infinity all around us). In the same way, the Hyperspherical Polarity is a purely ethereal dynamic condition that cannot be localized in spacetime, and yet is the source of our entire physical Universe of experience, from the Big Bang to the present, no matter where or when we happen to be. It is important to realize that what we are visualizing is a single state of polarity which is spherical in nature. Rather than being composed of an infinite number of rays as such, it is more like a single polarized spherical condition with an infinite radius -- a pure homogeneousness, a single reality representing all possible realities superimposed. The Hyperspherical Polarity is an undifferentiated and timeless projection.
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