Pynchon as propaganda

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>>>Is it ever called or conceived as "nothingness"? Please do cite.<<<

Having already quoted Tillich's usage of the term nothingness, Here's one of
many from Eckhart:

Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)

God is infinite in his simplicity and simple in his infinity. Therefore he
is everywhere and is everywhere complete. He is everywhere on account of his
infinity, and is everywhere complete on account of his simplicity. Only God
flows into all things, their very essences. Nothing else flows into
something else. God is in the innermost part of each and every thing, only
inits innermost part.

When the soul enters the light that is pure, she falls so far from her own
created somethingness into her nothingness that in this nothingness she can
no longer return to that created somethingness by her own power.

Blessedness consists primarily in the fact that the soul sees God in herself
. Only in God's knowledge does she become wholly still. There she knows
nothing but essence and God. Between that person and God there is no
distinction, and they are one. . . Their knowing is one with God's knowing,
their activity with God's activity and their understanding with God's
understanding.