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Chaos (ex nihilo) -> Existence -> (an nihilo) Chaos

The two chaos’ are not the same.

“ἡ δὲ γῆ ἦν ἀόρατος καὶ ἀκατασκεύαστος καὶ σκότος ἐπάνω τῆς ἀβύςου καὶ πνεῦμα θεοῦ ἐπεφέρετο ἐπάνω τοῦ ὕδατος ”

“And the earth was unseen and unfurnished and there was darkness over this abyss; and a breath of God was brought on above the water.”

In this particular understanding of the elemental types, water represents chaos. The meaning is that the world as first-created is in an unseen, unbuilt chaos (nothingness). Creato ex nihilo.

(This explicit reading doesn’t emerge until the Maccabees, and Protestants carry it despite not having the books from which it stems.)

This idea that ‘nothing’ is a very strange sort of something is not a new idea of course. And it continues as a theme, as for instance here

http://nautil.us/issue/16/nothingness/the-bridge-from-nowhere

Aristotle does seem to show correctly in Physics that the Void cannot be a positive thing or substance in the normal sense, but this field from which things spontaneously, and seemingly randomly emerge –? The void won’t go away. It doesn’t have anywhere to go.

Why give the Cathedral what it wants?

There is a lot about nothingness in western philosophy as well. Specifically about Hegel and nothingness (being at the center of being), you might want to have a word with Zizek.

Also, reading that piece by Dugin that ultraZEN posted, he just seems like a plain old dialectitian, so I was not really impressed. He actually sounds quite Hegelian to me.

It looks like reactionaries everywhere are trying to get to the same place. A placement of nothingness, Chaos or God back in the center of the world. NRx and Neo-confucism seemingly intent on doing so whilst preserving the non stultifying nature of technological progress obtained from the concentration on Being in the west. To call this a difficult task is putting it lightly.