"8th Root of Unity"
Image By MarekSchmidt (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The following is a passage cited from the novel "Eyeless in Gaza", by Aldous Huxley (p.467,68) which I have converted into a poem for its elegance in deciphering the properties, proportions, perspective(s) on the concept of Unity (as a whole/hole).
The unity of life.
Unity demonstrated even in the destruction of one life by another.
Life and all being are one.
Otherwise
No living thing could derive sustenance
from another
Or from the unliving substances
around it.
One
(even in destruction),
One
(in spite of separation).
Each organism is unique.
Unique and yet
United
with all other organisms
in the sameness of its ultimate parts;
Unique above
a substratum of mental identity.
Identity and Interchangeableness
of Love, Trust, Courage.
Fearless affection
restores the lunatic to sanity,
transforms the hostile savage into a friend,
tames the wild animal.
The mental pattern of Love
can be transferred from one mind to another
and still
retain its virtue...
And not only Love,
but Hate as well:
not only Trust, but suspicion;
not only kindness, generosity and Courage,
but also
malevolence and greed and fear.
Reality of unity,
but equal reality of division-
greater reality, indeed,
of division.
