EUREKA !

“In the original unity of the first thing lies the secondary cause of all things - with the germ of their inevitable annihilation.”

Mwahhh...don’t you just love that phrase?

I absolutely adore it! I worship it - rendered with the convincing ring of genius. For with these few simple words Edgar Allan Poe had already determined that every present state of material substance is necessarily a consequence of its preceding state, and in such a manner that its future is always implicit in its present.

Poe’s Eureka! - a work I’ve found truly inspiring - remains a largely neglected masterpiece. The perception is scholarly, incisive and wide ranging. Cosmology, he implies, is simply the study of mental processes of which we are unaware, and bound up with its relationship to human consciousness. Mind and creation in itself is the moving principle. And it is hardly hindsight to 'presume' that Einstein held similar views; or that all paradox and polarity transcended from that great a-causal conundrum - "the absolute irrelative particle" - with which creation as we know it began. Though, I must confess, to explain all that, one would have to start at the beginning, the actual micro-second of creation, 13,7 billion years ago!


Dreamy


P.S.: many of Poe's theories predate later accepted scientific theories including Black Holes.