This work follows a series of thoughts around the idea of seriality as a fundamental or absolute feature of reality. It begins with a counter-reading of a passage in Aristotle's Metaphysics, where the primacy of substance is established in relation to the specter of a universe of mere succession, in order to affirm the seriality of everything as the overflowing unity of one and many. Next, in light of the serial basis of counting, I examine the nature of quantification as a pervasive limitation of our times, the instrument of a “transparency” that works to obfuscate actuality. I then assess the principle of quality as the category to which critiques of quantification historically appeal, arguing for a renewed sense of quality as the spiritual core of life's spontaneous and infinitely evolving question of itself. Next, I consider seriality per se as the principle that promises a way past the dialectical oscillation between quantity and quality. Lastly, I turn to the topic of measure in order to articulate the poetic nature of seriality as process and activity, the immeasurable reality's never-ending reckoning of its own indivisibility.

The unifying theme or thesis of the text is that the principle of seriality resolves the apparent contradiction between the oneness of everything and the oneness of oneself, spectacularly filling like an infinity mirror the specular space between everyone's individualized being in the universe and the universe's being in all, healing by unfolding the wound opened in the wholeness of everything by our seemingly being only a part or segment of it. Seriality is the constantly manifest sacred threshold or halo between the ONE and the one, just as by “manifesting the sacred, any object becomes something else, yet it continues to remain itself.” This is revealed, paradigmatically, in the experiential spontaneity of creativity, which takes place as the emergence or revelation of serial form, as well as in the nature of the index or sign as “a thing which, over and above the impression it makes on the senses, causes something else [aliud aliquid] to come into the mind as a consequence of itself.”