The fifth part of the 36 Cosmic Laws series covers the Law of Infinity:

“Source is ever-expanding, infinite, and unknowable in full.”

Infinity Is Not Size, but Essence.

Infinity is not endless space, nor uncountable numbers, nor time without end.

Infinity is the condition of Source: without boundary, without opposite, without cessation. Source is not within infinity—Source is infinity.

This is reflected in The Cup or Monad from the Corpus Hermeticum:

The Oneness being Source and Root of all, is in all things as Root and Source. Without [this] Source is naught; whereas the Source [Itself] is from naught but itself, since it is Source of all the rest. It is Itself Its Source, since It may have no other Source.

The Oneness then being Source, containeth every number, but is contained by none; engendereth every number, but is engendered by no other one.

All other laws arise from this foundation.

Infinity Cannot Be Reduced.

The human mind craves idols, boundaries, labels.

“God” in a box. A being on a throne. A concept to argue for or against.

But this is not reverence—it is diminishment.

Infinity cannot be reduced to object, idol, or name. Every name limits. Every idol shrinks.

From Though Unmanifest God is Most Manifest from the Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes Trismegistus said:

I will recount to thee this sermon (logos) too, O Tat, that thou may'st cease to be without the mysteries of the God beyond all name…

He [is] greater than all names, so great is He, the Father of them all. For verily He is the Only One, and this is His work, to be a father.

So, if thou forcest me somewhat too bold, to speak, His being is conceiving of all things and making [them].

And as without its maker its is impossible that anything should be, so ever is He not unless He ever makes all things, in heaven, in air, in earth, in deep, in all of cosmos, in every part that is and that is not of everything. For there is naught in all the world that is not He.

He is Himself, both things that are and things that are not. The things that are He hath made manifest, He keepeth things that are not in Himself.

He is the God beyond all name; He the unmanifest, He the most manifest; He whom the mind [alone] can contemplate, He visible to the eyes [as well]; He is the one of no body, the one of many bodies, nay, rather He of every body.

Naught is there which he is not. For all are He and He is all. And for this cause hath He all names, in that they are one Father's. And for this cause hath He Himself no name, in that He's Father of [them] all.

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The Tao Te Ching echoes this teaching by Hermes:

The tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao.

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The name that can be spoken is not the eternal Name.

The nameless is the boundary of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of creation.

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To see Source in truth is to bow before what cannot be fully known.

Infinity Expresses as Expansion.

Source does not remain still.

Infinity is not stagnant—it expands ceaselessly, not because it must, but because it is.

Every star born, every soul incarnated, every breath taken, is infinity expanding into form, and then returning. This expansion is not growth toward an edge—it is flowering without end.

Infinity Is Both Within and Beyond.

The paradox is this: Infinity is in every grain of sand, and yet no sand can contain it.

Hermes Trismegistus said:

In God alone, is, therefore, Good, or rather Good is God Himself.

So then, Asclepius, the name alone of Good is found in men, the thing itself nowhere [in them], for this can never be.

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For no material body doth contain It…

It dwells in each soul, fully—yet no soul will ever encompass all of it.

To know Source is not to grasp it all, but to realize that the drop and the ocean are the same essence.

Infinity Cannot Be Mastered, Only Mirrored.

No priest, no ruler, no order can mediate Infinity for another soul. They may point, but they cannot contain.

The Law of Infinity dissolves hierarchy.

All are sparks of the same flame. To pretend mastery over it is the deepest illusion.

True reverence is humility: to know that you are part of Infinity, and therefore infinite, but never the totality.

Infinity Generates Mystery.

Infinity whispers through form: “There is more. Always more.”

Mystery is not a problem to be solved—it is the natural fragrance of the Infinite.

The Law of Infinity embodies the following truths:

I. Source is not a god among gods, but the ground of all gods.

This truth was expressed by the Greek philosopher and poet, Epimenides, a predecessor of Plato, who removed Zeus, a god of the Greek pantheon, from his mythical high position of “God of gods” and placed him instead as the Source of all that is:

They fashioned a tomb for you, holy and high one,
Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies.
But you are not dead: you live and abide forever,
For in you we live and move and have our being.

This was later quoted by the Apostle Paul who visited Athens and proceeded to explain this to Greek philosophers of that time, much like Epimenides did before. From the New Testament book of Acts 17:18-29:

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?

For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

This truth is reflected in many indigenous Native American cultures that see the Great Spirit as the Supreme Being and divine essence that exists within all things.

In Hinduism, it is referred to as Brahman, the universal Supreme Being that is the ultimate reality—a singular divine essence that permeates the All—from which other “gods” are but manifestations.

Source exists beyond name but is the essence from which all names derive.

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In the Tao Te Ching, Source—the Tao—exists beyond the concept of God:

The Tao is like an empty container: it can never be emptied and can never be filled.

Infinitely deep, it is the source of all things.

It dulls the sharp, unties the knotted, shades the lighted, and unites all of creation with dust.

It is hidden but always present.

I don’t know who gave birth to it.

It is older than the concept of God.

II. Infinity is not something to reach, but what you already are.

This truth was revealed in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas when it said:

The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be."

Jesus said, "Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death."

This was echoed in the New Testament book of Revelation 1:8 that said:

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

Thus, the eternal nature of Source is revealed in the Law of Infinity and as each soul is a fragment of Source, so, too, every soul is eternal.

III. The attempt to reduce Infinity is irreverence. The attempt to rest in its mystery is devotion.

Because Source cannot be reduced, understanding Source’s limitless nature must not be reduced to fixed ideas and reducible concepts. Attempts to understand Source are limited by its limitless nature because a thing that is limited cannot fully explain the limitless.

Remember this:

“The Infinite is the only altar, and every breath is its prayer.”

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