Sol 6.1

  1. Existence—and it is enough for me to say: Existence.

    It has generosity and bounty, from itself to itself.

  2. It transcends the attribute of perfection, for that

    weighs heavily by implying imperfection within it.

  3. Yet within it are perfection and its opposite,

    belonging to it, arising from it; the whole stands firm within it.

  4. And the noblest of the shapes of enclosures is that by which

    its spheres became round; thus they are auspicious through it.

  5. For they encompass all shapes within themselves,

    and from them the shapes begin, and to them return.

  6. And their power yields all diversity;

    so nothing surpasses them in perfection,

  7. save the power of absoluteness, for it is all-encompassing;

    by its might all the spheres perish.

  8. Likewise, circular motions are the noblest means by which

    a body moves to attain its aims.

  9. Thus they encompass every kind of movement;

    so at every instant their creation is renewed.

  10. Meanings: through them and from them come proofs concerning them;

    and within them, for them, is witnessing of what they seek.

  11. And were it not for the disruption of the whole by the power whose

    absoluteness has constraints in gathering them,

  12. what exists would never cease to be, nor would

    traces and boundaries pass away through the various kinds of decay.

  13. Yet they reach the end as their attribute;

    so there is never any stillness for them in their circling.

  14. And if they ever stopped at a limit, they would be overtaken

    by nonexistence through it—far from it, for they are Existence.

Sol 6.1