BEGINNING AND END
727. »Centrality« and »axiality« are essential expressions of the in se inexpressible reality, which is connected to the metaphysical origin, to the beginning that precedes this origin, and to the beginningless that is the very root of beginning.
728. The beginningless and the endless containing the beginning and the end are consciousness in its most universal sense.
729. Subiectum is the Alpha and the Ómega. It can be the Alpha and the Ómega because it precedes Alpha and it is beyond Ómega.
730. Beginning is the imprint of the beginningless in the world.
731. Adam Qadmon, »the man of beginning« is not only the Man who is manifested in the beginning, but also who is the beginning of every man.
732. (Alétheia) To live under the aegis of truth means to live under the aegis of being aware of the beginning.
[The etymological meaning of the Greek word alétheia, which means truth, is »non-forgetting«. (Léthé is the river of oblivion in Hades - the underworld - of Greek mythology.)]
733. What should one not forget about in the sense of alétheia? It is the origin, the beginning, and the beginningless, i.e. Myself.
734. Origin and the recovery of origin-consciousness is not simply an ontological remembrance in the sense of metaphysics, but the return to the non-oblivion.
735. Beginning and domination are inseparable. Only the dominator can be in the beginning, and the dominator is always in the beginning: he always commences. The dominator never continues: he is in the state of always-beginning.
[The Greek arkhé and the Latin principium means both »beginning« and »dominion« at the same time.]
736. Someone who has just started to really study something could experience a deep and germinal understanding within himself at the beginning. This understanding is much more powerful than the understanding gained by intense, many-year-long study. He may have been studying the topic for a long time, he knows its many details but still something is missing: what he had right at the beginning. He knew only a little about it, but he understood it somehow more deeply… This is why the study of spiritual thematics and meta-thematics should be a process of permanent commencement. Ordinarily, man can only continue what he has started, however, the archaic understanding disappears in the process of continuation. Archaic understanding is the same as understanding something in the sense of the beginning. So the real challenge is not the continuation as continuation but the continuation as a constant commencement, since the lack of this implies the attenuation and loss of the state of domination, which characterises beginning.
737. When I say that I do something in the sense of beginning, I could also say that I do it in a lively manner, or I could say that I myself do it.
738. Each world that has lost its origin-awareness is characterized by annihilation.
739. An extraneous force dominates all that has a beginning.
740. The loss of beginning is the loss of dominion, the loss of dominion is the loss of the consciousness of beginning and that of origin, i.e. the loss of my ultimate reality as a consciousness.
741. Everything that has beginning passes away.