Xaos - Chaos Magick

The title of this article is ambiguous, because I wish to discuss ‘nothing’ and how it is indeed infinite.

Our Universe is expanding and it is inflating. There’s a finite amount of matter and a growing amount of space.

I’m told the Universe is 13.5 to 14 billion years old. It started very small, it got big very quickly, and is still expanding and cooling. Fourteen billion sounds like a long time (it is) and a big number (it isn’t).

Some people say the Universe is infinite, or else what could it be expanding into? Well, the Universe is made of matter and energy. If an atom of matter (or dark matter, or anti-matter) finds itself approaching the edge of the Universe, we might imagine it crossing over the boundary from the Universe into ‘outside the Universe’. Not true. By definition the Universe is made of matter and energy so our intrepid atom simply extends the Universe as part of the usual expansion. Wherever there is matter or energy you are inside the Universe; ‘you’ can’t go ‘outside’ the Universe as if you did you would simply extend it.

So what are we expanding into? Nothing. And the nothing truly is infinite and boundless. If you think I’m talking about ‘empty space’ then we’re having different conversations. Space is chock full of stuff. It makes up the material Universe. Nothing is a total absence, and therefore it has no recordable or measurable or even dabateable qualities and so I dub it a concept. Yep, I made a decision. The nothing into which our Universe is demonstrably expanding into is a mathematical concept. Not a place. A concept.

I refer you to the QBL and the Ain, the Ain Soph and the Ain Soph Aur. Three levels of ‘nothingness’ or ‘potential’ that encapsulated the Tree of Life and bounds the Ten Sephorith and Four Worlds. I now just need to reflect on why our studious Jewish friends felt there were three Ains!