A Little More Whiteness, Please

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Dave Meury wrote:
> 
> Paul wrote:
> > rather that Whiteness is the Eternal Idea of Eternal Ideas. That which
> > exists before Matter (along with consequent Conception, Birth, Death,
> Sin,
> > et al) comes into being. Don't know how I came on this (less than
> eternal)
> > idea. Just popped into my head.
> 
> Reminds me of someone else's idea (perhaps from some old post on this list)
> regarding the film conceit running through GR.  Without the "stuff" of the
> film, there is only whiteness on the screen and nothing moves, nothing
> "is."  It also reminds me of the Plotinian emanation of existence from the
> brilliant singularity to the differentiated plenitude of creation.  I know,
> the singularity is supposed to be good (though I only know Plotinus second
> hand, and could be off base) but it sounds pretty frightening to me without
> some Slothrop's desk of a world to offset the white nothingness.
> 
> "Glory be to God for dappled things."

 "The One is all things and not a single one of them."
Enneads 5.2.11.1, in The Essential Plotinus, trans. O'Brien.
So the soul, when it brakes its downward plunge into the
bowl of multiplicity and evil and succeeds in returning to
its own true reality, must not rest, but "strike forward yet
a step" into mystical reabsorption in the One. see Plotinus
Enneads 6.9.9.9 and 6.9.9.11

see Enneads 1.3.20 for the dialectical power of the Soul. 

"of whos soule Jhesu Crist have mercy. Amen."  Chaucer