"...all oppositions [belong] exclusively to a particular relative and limited domain; as soon as the limits of that domain are overstepped, there is only that which is, and which cannot not be, nor can it be other than it is; and so it comes about that, if one does not stop short of the most profound order of reality, it can be said in all truth that the 'end of a world [or cycle]' never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion."

René Guénon, The Reign of Quantity