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And what do we           
   symbolize by  ?

"'What is this Stone?' Chloe asked....
'...It is told that, when the Merciful One
made the worlds, first of all He created
that Stone and gave it to the Divine One
whom the Jews call Shekinah,
and as she gazed upon it
the universes arose and had being.'"
- Many Dimensions,
by Charles Williams, 1931
(Eerdmans paperback,
April 1979, pp. 43-44)

"Its discoverer was of the opinion
that he had produced the equivalent of
the primordial protomatter
which exploded into the Universe."
- The Stars My Destination,
by Alfred Bester, 1956
(Vintage hardcover,
July 1996, p. 216)

"The possibilia that exist, and out of which the Universe arose, are located in      a necessary being...." -- Michael Sudduth, Notes on God, Chance, and Necessity by Keith Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity at Christ Church College, Oxford (the home of Lewis Carroll)