{Emptiness of the Spirit [continued (6)]}[4th September 1988]

[Redbook5:339][19880904:2022f]{Emptiness of the Spirit [continued (6)]}[4th September 1988]

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But this* is a sideline: the importance of the pattern** is that A~ is neither emptiness nor fulness***, but ***distraction (and ***diversity). Emptiness and ***Fulness are both at the top of the Circle and the extreme of Emptiness and the extreme of ****Fulness are the same,**** and yet the whole passage of the Circle lies between them. The Emptiness of the Spirit, the Holy Emptiness which is the profoundest root of all Art,# is also the root of Love, of falling in Love, of being in Love: the Love of the Spirit for the Spirit in another, and for the Spirit Alone. In this matter I am almost beyond speech.

*[See last previous entry]

**[See last previous entry but one, [Redbook5:338][19880904:2022d]{Emptiness of the Spirit [continued (4)]}[4th September 1988]]

***[sic]

****The Emptiness fills you.

#[cf [Redbook5:126-127][19880527:2240e]{The Burden}[27th May 1988]; &

[Redbook1:206][19710612]{Vacant Possession}[12th June 1971], &

[Redbook1:196A][19710206][Emptiness][6th February 1971], &

[Redbook2:129-132][19780829:2025d]{Publication [continued (5)]}[29^th August 1978]]

That is why it is not necessarily misleading to speak of ‘the fulness of Love’ in [2]:#* by or at that time, [the Narrator]’s love for xS might well be of a fairly refined or developed type, even though she is capable of accidentally arousing his desires.

#*[Reference in [2] not found]

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