TREATISE I. BOOK I.

A large, solid black square representing the primeval darkness or "nothingness." Bordering each of the four sides of the square is the English phrase "And so on to infinity" original: "Et sic in infinitum". The phrase on the top edge is inverted, the phrases on the left and right are oriented vertically, and the phrase at the bottom is oriented normally.

CHAPTER V.

Augustine Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430 AD), an influential theologian asserts against the Manichaeans Followers of Manichaeism, a dualistic religion that saw the world as a struggle between light and dark that deprivation is nothing other than darkness, which is defined as the absence of light. But if the meaning of darkness is correctly considered, we will perceive that it extends more broadly than the term "deprivation." For, as Moses testifies, darkness was upon the face of the deep A reference to Genesis 1:2, before light or form was created; however, it cannot be called "deprivation" except in respect to a certain position—that is, where there is an absence of some preceding form. Therefore, to agree with Augustine, every deprivation is darkness, that is, [the absence] of a luminous form