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“Facts”
There are two types of “facts”. The first is a description of an actual event, the other arises just by its insistence, by its being constantly repeated until it is generally accepted as a “consensual” truth, a fact everyone agrees upon.
Axis
#dimensions
A way to see a 3d object projected or represented in 2d. For instance, a ball becomes a circle, a person has no depth. The drawing of my house is actually flat, etc. It is as if one axis, or dimension, has been removed.
Exciting ability
#exc/quote
“A person cannot create something out of nothing, but she possesses a much more exciting ability, the ability to create one thing out of another thing. She creates new combinations and constructs out of the fragments and pieces of existence.”
—Rav Shagar, “The Remainder of Faith,” p.24.
Revelation
G-d’s revelation depends on one’s ability to see Him within parts of the text.
Light
#light_dark
There is light which energises and light which constrains. The light that constrains is known as darkness/evil/hatred, the light that energises is known as Love/Mercy/Kindness.
Grows
#light
Everything grows towards the light.
Imagination
#light
What are these images but trapped light? Light that we evoked or resonated with and now hold in our memory. This is how we learn we can manipulate the light.
Arrogance
#self
Arrogance is presuming to be separate entities and sovereign independent beings.
Meaning of the Merkabah
#merkaba
Kabbalists called it the Merkabah, meaning “four-wheel chariot.”
Actually, Merkabah is a compilation of Egyptian words. All the component syllables are Egyptian words. Mer means “place of ascending”, Ka is “spirit-soul” and Ba is “earth-self”. You can see there is a connection here.
Merkabah Descent
#merkaba
The Merkabah Descent, as taught by Martha-Joy Aft, is correct (even if only for this time and this place). It is our inheritance - a portal to another world, perhaps the “other world”, that is part of our true inheritance, in addition to this one.
Lightning bolt
#sefirot
Imagine if the lightning bolt travelling along the pathways, through the sefirot, experiencing each one. You are at the head of this cavalcade, like a comet with a long tail and into חסד, Chesed you fly.
Divine Spark
#divine
In every material or manifest object there exists a spark of Divine Light.
Who recognises this Divine spark?
Only the Divine can know the Divine.
Conclusion: Only if you have a Divine self could you recognise the Divine anywhere or in anything—for it is Divine in you that recognises Itself. It is “G-d knowing Itself”.
Dynamic flux
#self
Instead of looking at ourselves as some sort of “object”, an “ideal” to attain, as in becoming like Jesus or some other significant figure, perhaps we should approach ourselves and our fellow man as works in progress. I would describe us as dynamic systems, always in a state of flux.
Axis of perception
#perception
The axis (or axes) you choose to as your basis for perceiving something, will affect what you observe. Each time you shift axis, you will see a different perspective.
Axis
#dimensions
If one thinks of reducing a 3d representation to just 2d, in order to accomplish that, one has to “remove” one axis of infinity. If one calls the three dimension , and , represented by 3 perpendicular axes, in order to produce one’s 2d image, one will remove the -axis.
Multi-dimensionality of being
#dimensions
What if all these entities, our guardian angels, ego, consciousness and many such associated events, are, in fact, expressions of the multi-dimensionality of our very beings.
How would I experience multi-dimensional consciousness? How would a higher or dimensional being perceive this reality? Whether my own, or someone other being’s.
Technology
#light_dark
Technology will be and is only the product of the human mind and can and will be used in pursuit and support of the light or the darkness according to the mind that wields it. No technology is inherently evil. However, inasmuch as they are enhancements of actual aspects of our being so they will enable greater expression of the positive or the negative aspects thereof.
Compass
#compass
This is the principle of the compass, used to draw circles, which requires one foot to be fixed, while the other many wander around. The compass we use to determine direction has true north as its anchor. In fact, all measuring devices require the same two elements in order to produce any valid results.
Beauty of Mathematics
#math/about
That is the beauty of mathematics, and its pull for those who are able to hear it. It is like a chord that enables us to explore amazing realms of the imagination, even think thoughts that few are able to comprehend. It is the thread that leads us back to the point we started from.
Wisdom of Math
#math/about
It is said that Wisdom is the ability to understand the essence, the principles, the “fundamentals” of a topic, and then are able to apply this understanding of principles to other fields of investigation. Perhaps one could then refer to mathematics as a language of wisdom, and equations as the sentences with which it speaks, the functions being the words, the symbols the consonants and the operators the vowels that bring the consonants to life.
D.T. Suzuki
Todo Give reference (Notes: P21)
Keter, Ein Sof = satori
| Chokhmah | Binah |
|---|---|
| בינה | חוכמה |
| wisdom | understanding |
| prajna | vijnana |
| intuitive knowing | discoursive knowledge |
| grasp reality in its oneness | analyse information: subject & object |