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Definitions, and Comment:
Being a Description of the World
By Eli Siegel

33. Power

Power is the ability to change things.

The world can be seen as being all powerful. Yet, if it were not also powerless, it would not be everything. So, being all powerful, it has to be powerless or weak, too.

A self is a thing thought of as having power and not power and trying to make them one.

© 1945 by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism
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