545. Let us now return to the "primordial desire" which we pointed out earlier was the link between "X1" and "X2". We explained that it merged into "X1" and constituted the first "veil" between the investigator and the source of life. The "primordial desire" is the very first, weak, initial creation of the "absolute something's" "view" of itself. It is the first "created thing" and is thus the first illusion. It is the very first tender shoot of life and movement. And its presence here in our analyses has revealed a new reality: "a something with which something No. 1 can create and experience". Initially we called this "something" the faculty for sensing or creating. But as we have just seen that all experiences are only real in the form of illusions, then the analysis of this newly discovered "something" as a "faculty for sensing or creating" is not quite correctly covered by this definition. A faculty that produces "something" which in itself does not exist, is not a realistic "creative faculty", for such a thing cannot exist within the Universe. If it could really exist, it would have to produce "something" from "nothing", which would mean transforming a "nothing" into a "something". As this is both physically and mentally impossible, then the reality we call the "faculty of sensing or creating" can only be a faculty for transforming "something" into "something", which ultimately means transforming something or other into the same thing.
      It is true that we do not perceive things in this way, but express each form of creation as being identical with "change". But as every form of change is identical to limitation, and can be expressed by measurement, weight, colour, mass, etc., and each of these phenomena are, in reality, illusory because they contain "that which is unlimited" or "infinity" within them, then the fact can be seen here that, in an absolute cosmic sense, our "creation" has been a transformation of "something" into "something". As the existing absolute "something" fills the entire Universe, then the Universe comprises absolute-ly everything in existence, and every form of anything else in existence will consequently be a mere "nothing", which means just an illusion. When we perceive our creation as synonymous with "alteration", this means that we consider our creation as an "alteration" of "something". But in an absolute sense, an "alteration" of "something" can only be a transformation of this "something" into a "nothing", which is a sheer impossibility. If, nevertheless, we regard our creation as a "transformation" of "something" into another "something", this other "something" will be simply "nothing", which means an illusion, for the first "something" fills the Universe and everything that exists, and in fact can be the only thing that exists at all. A new "something" cannot arise. Where would it come from? "Something" cannot come from "nothing", and "nothing" cannot become "something". Everything that exists has always existed.