/lit/ - Literature

>>13442391
Well, in my defense, that's how the Egyptians saw it (according to my source): Atum is onanistic, creation is onanistic, no matter how much room you give to Heraclitean Flow, it is always immanent to cyclical cosmic time. If it wasn't, it would violate Langan's reality principle (nothing can be posited outside reality without being intelligible enough to be logically circumscribed by it).

Now I totally get what you're saying, how this kind of thinking turns finitude into a flytrap, the self caught in the funhouse of infinite reflexion, but I can't see a way out that doesn't involve death.

I'll leave you with this: there are tantalizing hints of ontological completeness in even the Egyptian doctrine. Cyclicity does not have mean stagnation.

>In the absolute chaos of the infinite expanse of darkness, absence of differentiation and absolute homogeneity, a incredible energy-potential is dormant. The "abyss" of darkness contains the "pleroma" of light called "Atum". Atum, who "created what exists" and who is the "Lord of all things" (CT, utterance 306), "Lord of All" (CT, utterance 167), "Lord of Everything" and "Lord of Life" (CT, utterance 534), is "the origin of all the forces and elements of nature" (Allen, 1988, p.9). His name is a form of the verb "tm", probably a noun of action, meaning both "complete, finish" and "not be". Indeed, Atum completes creation without belonging to the created order.