Against the Day : "As above, so below". If interested, a gloss on the ending of the opening chapter in which deep themes are announced metaphorically.

[Mark Kohut]

There it is early, end of Chap 1, metaphorically: "Going up is like going
north"---a cold direction in Pynchon....."So....if you went up high enough,
you'd be going *down* again." ......."No, another surface but an earthy
one".


*Natural Supernaturalism* is the name of a chapter in Thomas Carlyle
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle>'s novel Sartor Resartus
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sartor_Resartus>, which, says Dr. Stirling,
"contains the very first word of a higher philosophy
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy> as yet spoken in Great Britain
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain>, the very first English
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language> word towards the
restoration and rehabilitation of the dethroned Upper Powers."[*citation
needed <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuttall_Encyclopaedia> states that Natural
Supernaturalism refers to the supernatural
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural> found latent in the natural,
and manifesting itself in it, or of the miraculous
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle> in the common and everyday course
of things.[*citation needed
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]

Carlyle's theory of Natural Supernaturalism influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson> and Henry David Thoreau
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau>, two admirers of
Carlyle. It therefore contributed greatly to American Transcendentalism
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Transcendentalism>.

              ---As I have stated here before, this phrase is the title of
a major work by Pynchon's great teacher and some kind of friend--he sent
him signed copies of his work---M. H. Abrams.

Or, in his poised ambiguous way, maybe this.
(Both in some sense in his special non-excluded middle way):
But this seems off a little conceptually to me now.

Panentheism (meaning "all-in-God", from the Ancient Greek πᾶν pân, "all",
ἐν en, "in" and Θεός Theós, "God") is the belief that the divine pervades
and interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond time
and space.