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A one-line proposition that defines transcendence as passage beyond illusion, not beyond reality itself.

The sentence resists mystical escapism. It insists that spiritual or imaginative ascent should strip away false appearances without abandoning the real world that gives the struggle its stakes.

'Magical Margin': a single proposition - 'Transcendence is going beyond illusion; not reality:' - sets going past false appearance against abandoning the real.

Everything turns on the semicolon and the dangling colon. The semicolon splits transcendence cleanly: it crosses illusion but stops at reality, so ascent becomes a stripping-away rather than an escape. The terminal colon leaves the sentence open, as if the definition is a heading awaiting whatever the rest of the book supplies. Giving one corrective line a whole page is itself the claim - the thought is treated as load-bearing, not ornamental. This reading remains provisional because the page transcript is marked mixed quality band and OCR-uncertain.