• Inner and Outer
• Positive and Negative
• Negative vs. positive dynamics
  • The good impulse and the bad
• Number Two
  Discussion of the duality (~P [I actually prefer ~I]) in a discussion on Numbers.
• Middle
  This approaches the topic from the point of view of the excluded/included middle. It also uses the (P, ~P) method of explantion. But also speaks of it from the point of view of Creation.
• Non-duality
  From Daniel Matt’s Essential Kabbalah on the non-dual nature of Perfect Being.

## IV Equal & opposite+

If I propose something, say P, immediately, we can imagine its opposite, ~P, or not-P, even if we have never experienced it.

P = the sky is blue -> the sky is not blue = ~P
Q = Life is hard -> Life is easy = ~Q
R = I love you -> I don’t love you = ~R

[There are two principles here. The first is that of spacial configuration. In other words, when something “appears” or manifests, the space in which it appears has to be reconfigured, as well as the surrounding space. Think of an empty room. Then a table is placed in that room. This reconfigures the space, and affects anything moving through the room directly, as well as the other objects indirectly.

[One could say that by drawing a triangle, for instance, on a piece of paper, you have manifested three shapes, the inner shape/space of the triangle, the actual lines of the triangle, or its “surface”, and the outer space of it. This is actually more apparent if the shape is moving.

[The second is of what we refer to as opposites. A concept that came from a spacial arrangment. You lived “opposite” me. The town is on the opposite side of the road or town. You may have noticed that the opposites expressed here are approximates. For instance, not loving someone is not the exact opposite of loving them. The concept of exact opposites is part of the formal language of mathematics, $x = y$, or rather $x \neq y$.

[This show more accurately the difference between being the “exact” opposite, or not being the same as, or having the same characteristic as. When I say $x \neq y$, I am saying little about $y$, except that it is not $x$. We are clear when we speak of equals, but not inequality. That has to be defined, for it says nothing except that we have the wrong answer, or proposition, and it is not equal to the one we were seeking.

By the Universal Principle of Balance [TODO], the complimentary opposite is created. Therefore by creating $X$ two things are created
$-X$, its “exact” opposite, its reflection, occurs. This is exactly the same as $X$, but “opposite”. In other words, if $X$ goes up, it goes down, etc.

A simplification of this Principle on a local level is that “energy is neither created nor destroyed”. No matter what occurs locally, the original state of Perfect Balance is maintained — whenever something is created, its equal and opposite manifests with it — for every particle, there exists an anti-particle.

But what I am also trying to emphasise here, is that there is a change in the spatial configuration around anything that emerges (as well as it’s reflection – although this reflection, this opposite, might be part of this “spatial” reconfiguration.)

Equals

Upon X coming into creation, ~X emerges as well at the same instant. Which is actually the real meaning of ‘=’, equals. “X op Y”, is an expression of X and Y’s relationship. “XopY” expresses a relationship, ‘op’, between any two positions or elements X and Y.

Equal expresses a complete identification with absolute equality. This is an idealisation. In our real world, the world of action, Assiyah, nothing can truly be equal to anything else. For were it identical with something else, in Malchut – reality – it would be the same thing and there would be no distinction. Only in Atzilut, the highest realm, of emanation, we encounter the contradiction of everything being the same, yet different.

In fact, it can only be equal if it actually IS the other thing, yet obviously a different aspect of that actual thing. When I say f(x) = y, I am equating two different scenarios. This is an example of the “other” that is created.

Inner and Outer

Every shape has an inner (positive) version and an outer (negative) one.

For instance the triangle has both an inner triangle, and an outer one. Why is this a positive and a negative? Well, if we think from the perspective of the triangle, then everything inside the triangle is part of the triangle, and everything outside of triangle is not of triangle, yet is necessary for its very existence.

Between any two points of existence, a and b, we can trace the “line” or space/time vector between them. This gap makes up our “consciousness” — for we are only able to realise that something has occurred after it has transpired — never before.

Positive and Negative

#point

As the Point took shape, in order to maintain the perfect balance, the non-Point emerged. Thus we find that, at its most basic level, every point has three aspects: the point itself; it’s “shadow”, or non-point; and their influence upon one another. [N: This is similar to the non-local interaction of quantum “particles”.] The last aspect is shown due to the fact that the “shape”, the topology, of the non-point will be defined by the shape of the point it has given birth to.

And, according to the concept of non-locality, any movement or change in the point, will be mirrored by its partner, the non-point.

As a shadow will be different according to the shape of the object (and the angle of the light), so will the non-point change. We have expressed this as negative numbers.

N: To live in the negative (debt) is to live in the shadow. To live in guilt is another way of living in the negative. To live in gratitude is to live in the positive.

Negative vs. positive dynamics

This is also what enables the two realms to “seem different”.

It needs to be this way otherwise everything will end up in a big clump. Imagine if the material behaved in a similar manner to the spiritual, it will produce a stasis, as eventually all the positive will lump together, and all the negative will lump together separately, with no “attraction” between them. Nothing can be formed, as there will be no interplay between the positive and its opposite.

Both these dynamics will produce chains, from which the molecules of life can emerge. In the case of opposites, each chain will have a negative and a positive end, with the inside being fairly neutral. Whereas in the case of similars attracting, both ends will be either positive or negative, producing two separate types of chains that will not connect easily.

The good impulse and the bad

#neshama #math

רצון התוב ורצון הרא

Here ‘+’ is the expansive (positive or light) side, and ‘–’ is the contractive (negative, dark or shadow) side. We could also think of it as ‘I’, and ‘–I’, where ‘I’ represents the external, or positive, individuation, and the ‘–I’ the internal, or negative, individuation.

Becoming esoteric, two wrongs cancel one another out, but do not make it right! In fact, to express it more humanely, we could say that when in error, you need another asymmetry, something unexpected, to correct the journey, by countering the first. It is only through the negation of the negative that we can find the positive. This is the principle of non-rationality.

The concept of sin (chet) in Judaism is described as missing the mark. Something that requires constant readjustment and practice till the target can be attained with some degree of accuracy.

If we apply force, that is intention. With clear intention and energy, we can transform this error, and return it to the service of HaShem. It seems that the only way to extricate oneself from a bad situation is to embrace it so completely that you emerge from whatever it is. You accept (or submit) to the challenge, and instead of despairing and feeding the dark, you “acknowledge” it, and thus transform it. For is the dark just the light that we refuse to acknowledge?

What often happens is we forget our original goal. That is why we need to access the timeless and non-spacial place in us. For the only way something can remain in time, in the hear & now, is if it has a timeless element in it. Remember our original goal, our primordial purpose is to serve the Creator – the Source of Creation – which is the most difficult task we face. And much of our darkness comes from not acknowledging His Light.

Another dynamic has now entered – to experience the Divine. When I have an experience of the Divine, being a part of the infinite source, I experience myself in harmony with the Divine. The reverberations of this moment of Grace last forever.

This comes from the fact that one can, for instance, only speak to the heart with one’s own heart. So, in order to be able to connect with the Divine, there has to be some part of you that is Divine too.

And how can I experience the Divine if I do not have the Light of the Divine in me as well? Thus, if I start off denying the existence of that Light, how could I ever experience it?

Non-duality

THE ESSENCE of divinity is found in every single thing—nothing but it exists. Since it causes every thing to be, no thing can live by anything else. It enlivens them; its existence exists in each existent.

Do not attribute duality to God. Let God be solely God. If you suppose that Ein Sof emanates until a certain point, and that from that point on is outside of it, you have dualized. Realize, rather, that Ein Sof exists in each existent. Do not say, “This is a stone and not God.” Rather, all existence is God, and the stone is a thing pervaded by divinity.

BEFORE ANYTHING emanated, there was only Ein Sof. Ein Sof was all that existed. Similarly, after it brought into being that which exists, there is nothing but it. You cannot find anything that exists apart from it. There is nothing that is not pervaded by the power of divinity. If there were, Ein Sof would be limited, subject to duality. Rather, God is everything that exists, though everything that exists is not God. It is present in everything, and everything comes into being from it. Nothing is devoid of its divinity. Everything is within it; it is within everything and outside of everything. There is nothing but it.