“The mystical centre of the universe must therefore be thought of as one of those points which by their fluxion generate a whole geometry: it must be as much everywhere as at the centre. Each existent individual, even a corrupt and distorted one, must represent some specification of it pure variability, and this is what we sometimes feel when we see some rather poor object or person suddenly bathed in ineffable glory: there is always something in everything that resists every attempt to batter or abuse it, and which reveals the Most High in propria persona.” (Transcendence of the Cave, p. 183)
“We have accepted the principle of the Germanic theology, held by a long line of thinkers from the mediaeval mystics to Hegel, that s a perfection that does not work itself out in creating and redeeming a world is a self-contradictory perfection, it is an empty and abstract thing and not a true perfection at all.” (Transcendence of the Cave, p.183)
“That the zeal at the world’s centre is absolutely and incorruptibly clean is, in fact, only possible because it becomes more and more sullied as it moves out towards the periphery, because in variously alienated, sundered forms it can depart more and more from its central self. It must fall away from itself in order to be able to bring itself back to itself. The shocking character of what we are saying reflects only the creaks and groans of our logic and our language as we approach the final truth of things. If there is, and must be, a vein of sublimated immorality in all men whom we deeply love and admire, there is, and must be, a similar vein in the absolute.” (Transcendence of the Cave, p. 196)