The Tree

Start with nothing, but remember that nothing, the consummate absence, is also the absence of definition. Nothing becomes limitless; to aid interpretation, this becomes limitless light. All this is evidently without form, until a point of this light appears in the darkness. This point recognizes itself, multiplies, and becomes many; though the duplicates do not burn so brightly as the original, they solidify progressively . . .

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