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Leibniz - Ascension and the Spiritual path
Identifier
020574
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Concerning Infinite Progress [from Grua]
lf all things in the course of ascending descend again and do not proceed in a straight path, the question arises of how progress to infinity may be defined, whether as ascent, descent, or neither.
If we say that something ascends, another will say that it descends again after a long period, even if at some other time it ascends again. Therefore I say that it is a true ascent if we posit a point below which there is no further descent and after a certain time it at length arrives back to the higher point below which it does not descend any further (and so on to infinity).
The same argument, on the other hand, applies to descent because if there is no point about which it can be said now or at any time that there is no returning here, there will be a revolution in which there is neither ascent nor decent.