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The Unconditioned (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be known by one who wants it not to concern him, because what concerns no one is not at all.

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The Unconditioned (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠invented by thinking as an adjunct to the conditioned, just as it invented the "ego" as an adjunct to its multiple processes.

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The Unconditioned (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be pictured in only two ways: as the whole infinite series in which every member is conditioned, or as a first member — beginning, boundary, simple, freedom, or necessity — standing under nothing.

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The Unconditioned (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what reason seeks for every conditioned cognition; the illusion begins when it assumes that, given the conditioned, the whole unconditioned series of conditions is also given.