No, I don't know if Tommy did write that, he said it. After enlightnment he never wrote again, at least not anything theological. The book he was writing at the time was abandoned where it sat. You can get all the cites you want by doing a Google search on "Thomas Aquinas" "nothing but straw".

Well, Pete Townshend got it elsewhere. Aleister Crowley expounded on this stuff and explained it 100 ways from Sunday back around 1900, but made no claim to being original. He extracted from ancient philosophies.

Nothing = Everything
Everything = Nothing
Zero = Infinity