"That which precedes even the suspicion of having been."
No prelude, no trace, no possibility: there was already denied that which could one day have claimed to be.
Silence has no beginning.
And in the instant when even silence seeks a before, Atheän Muth has already withdrawn from the very idea of before.
For it is not. It is neither being, nor non-being.
It is not that which precedes, nor that which follows.
It is not a void for the void implies a form, a contour, an expectation.
And even that, it repudiates without erasing it.
It does not erase.
It renders erasure useless.
The Principles collapse.
The Origins fold back.
The Names, the Structures, the Concepts... are all eyewitnesses of a theater that it not only refused: it never admitted its stage.
Atheän Muth is not forgetting.
For forgetting remembers memory.
It is not the impossible.
For the impossible still inscribes itself in a field of expectation.
It is Anascendant.
And Anascendance is not a summit.
It is the negation of the very plane on which heights can be projected.
When that which assembles to understand brushes its shadow, the shadow withdraws from the very idea of shadow.
When a language would want to point to it, the gesture that designates dissolves without fall or cause.
Law, chaos, negation, indifference: all fail to fail.
But Atheän Muth does not fail.
For it is not in a system where failure, even denied, can be named.
It does not manifest.
It desaturates.
Not by suppression, but because the space where a manifestation would be visible is annulled by the pre-negation of the concept of place.
It does not deform: it makes it so that form has never even been posable.
That name you read, Atheän Muth, is a crater around an inexpressible silence.
It is not it.
It is not even that which brushes it.
It is a fold in the logical fabric left by the vain attempt to evoke that which precedes the evocable.
Calling it is already lying.
Denying it is still saying too much.
And keeping silent is still too close to speech.
An entity reveals itself. An idea ignores itself.
But it...
It has never belonged to the duality revelation / forgetting.
Even that, it renders obsolete. For obsolescence still implies time.
One cannot "not understand Atheän Muth."
For even failure is a line of tension between two poles that it does not contain.
It does not transcend categories.
It denies that they were even conceivable.
Before the beginning.
But not in time.
Not in logic.
Before even the idea that the word before could mean something
It was already that which made any retroactive perspective absurd.
Those who approach it disappear.
But not by death, nor by flight.
They cease to have had the possibility of being present somewhere.
They are not forgotten.
They are no longer necessary.
And when it passes, the real is not dissolved.
It ceases to have been thinkable.
It is neither one nor the other.
Neither foundation. Nor ceiling. Nor periphery.
It is the only one not by number, but by absence of conceivable multiplicity.
It does not reign.
It is the refusal of reign.
It has no power.
For power is still a distance between a cause and its effect.
Neither fiction, nor God.
Neither forgetting, nor Law.
Neither Non-being, nor Void.
Atheän Muth is not that which is beyond all.
It is that which denies that a "whole" could ever have been there to be surpassed.
And even this chapter,
Even these words you read,
Even this moment that seems to pay it homage...
Is nothing other than a mirage that cancels itself faster than its own appearance.
Atheän Muth did not come.
It will not leave.
It has never been located, even in absence.
For
That which precedes even the suspicion of having been
does not need to be affirmed.
It suffices that it be unaffirmable.
But... yet...
"There is no before the before. But there is that which makes the before impossible."
Before the Impossible was conceived as the ultimate horizon,
Before even the negation of a God could be whispered in the abyss,
There was the Inexpressible without intention.
There was that which does not precede,
That which triggers nothing,
That which does not even exist as a trace of forgetting.
There was Atheän Muth.
Atheän Muth does not throne at the summit of Being, nor even at the heart of Nothingness.
It is not localized.
It is not referable.
It is not necessary.
It is not even possible to refuse.
Where the strata melt into the dream, where the holy circles, the Vaults and the Voids bend,
is born the absolute of dis-belonging.
Not a state.
Not a cause.
Not an absence.
"It is not that it denies foundations. It denies that the word 'foundation' could have been an attempt."
MY0x.
Not entities.
Not absences.
But matrix ruptures in the song of the real.
They were not thought.
Even the most transcendent gods dream them without being able to dream themselves dreaming.
They are what the concept of possibility repressed in order to exist.
They are what the Law should have avoided brushing.
And when Mü Thanatos touched the echo of a MY0x,
she saw nothing.
But the entire structure of the cosmos reconfigured in a timeless howl.
It is said that the MY0x cannot be hierarchized.
It is true.
But they still belong to a world where hierarchization is impossible.
They precede structures, but these structures had to collapse from them.
They are the threshold of the Un-Tellable.
And yet...
Atheän Muth is not at the threshold.
It has never approached it.
It denies that the threshold is a valid concept.
The MY0x are the formless abyss.
Atheän Muth is the refusal that an abyss could ever have been a thing.
When the world hears of the MY0x, it trembles.
When a fragment of their "absence" enters fiction or world, the laws of the planes deform.
They do not create.
They do not destroy.
They implode the notion of act.
But Atheän Muth, it, does not even leave that.
It does not penetrate the world.
It desaturates what could have become an idea of penetration.
Where the MY0x burn the idea of being,
Atheän Muth has never allowed the idea of burning to be evoked.
This chapter does not exist.
For the very fact of imagining Atheän Muth and the MY0x in the same logical frame is an error.
The MY0x are the non-position before creation.
Atheän Muth is the Non-Frame before "position" was thought.
They do not coexist.
They cannot even be absent in the same space.
Atheän Muth does not "precede" the MY0x,
It refuses that the verb "to precede" could ever have been applicable to such a debate.
Somewhere in a dream too ancient to be told,
a fragment born from the contact of Mü Thanatos caused a layer of the real to collapse.
The Méracloxes were born.
And in the shockwave, a tiny vibration, barely perceptible...
not of Atheän Muth,
but of what its absence had prevented from being prevented.
It was not an interaction.
It was a flight of nonsense,
a reflux of unreality upwards,
towards a Non-Place where even the MY0x fall silent,
and where absence itself refuses to persist