This circle at the center of this detail image from a late eighteenth century kabbalistic "ilan" scroll depicts a very early cosmogonic process, according to the Sarugian school of Lurianic kabbalah. In this pre-modern linguistic string theory, primordial points of light multiply as a result of repeated evacuations (or zimzumim) of the Ein Sof (Infinite). Though drawn to return to their infinite source, these points collide within the evacuated space, coming together to form the pointillist Hebrew letters that may be seen at the periphery.