chapter 10 the monism of darkness and the dualism of limit and ...

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stucture of being notwithstanding Parmenides’ definitive influence on
the formation of the theory of Ideas. The transition from the Archaic
Logicomythical conception of reality to its Classical Logical
representation corresponds to, and conforms with, the contemporary
augmentation of Limit’s dominion beyond the immutable boundaries
of the ordinances of lawless Night. The first principle conceived as
abyss of Water (Thales), as Unboundedness agitated by eternal
mobility (Anaximander), and as Air breathing large, endlessly spirited
and always blowing (Anaximenes) are philosophical formulations and
conceptual projections of the dark and chaotic pre-eternal Depth.
Early Pythagoreanism set against, and conjugated with, female
Limitlessness (\AappleÂÈÚ›·) her Son whom it finally positioned and
venerated above her as consort and co-governor. In the Classical era,
the Abyss of Indeterminacy loses much of its ontological power and
becomes underestimated in value. Limitlessness dynamism, having
become other than and alienated from Ideterminacy itself, seeks a new
vehicle: thus arises a tendency to hypostasize a third principle of active
creativity 55 . Mature Classicism provided two solutions: the
mathematical Pythagoreanism of the Ancient Academy and
Aristotelian teleology. Hellenistic reaction manifested itself positively
with the bold synthesis of Monism and Dualism in Stoicism on the
one hand, and the Epicurean continuation of the ancient atomistic
application of Eleatic Pythagoreanism on the other. When, in the
centuries of the Great Turn, the Limit seems to usurp the
inappropriate horrible throne of the Very First Principle, pushing thus
Unlimitedness to the lower threshold of existence as its farthest
declension, there emerges again unmanifest, far above Limit, the
primordial Night, inviolable in its inescapable supreme jurisdiction. In
his first act of lawlessness, Light takes maternal Darkness as his wife;
he in his last finally rejects her as his very last lowest offspring.
Nevertheless, what he encompasses and what he rules over, is only a
limited portion taken from boundless and independent
Unlimitedness. Unlimitedness herself stands always on top,
undiminishable and undebilitable, universal fertile Mother and
inexhaustible Nurse of all things, progenitor of Limit and hypostasis of
its activities, sole root and power of his Transgression (Hybris) against
her, as well as of the ensuing inflexible Retribution (Nemesis), very
first Cause above all relationships, references and co-ordinations, most