Method & Wonder
Tetelestai
"It is finished" as handoff, not ending.
The most famous declaration of completion in the Western world has been misheard for two thousand years. Tetelestai — "it is finished" — was not the sound of a door closing. In its own grammar it is a handing-over: the work brought to the point where it can be carried by others.
An eschatology of the open loop reads the end of all things the same way. Not termination. Transmission.
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