B'riah and Atziluth
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In the thread on Elaine Pagels and Satan, JAE wrote:
Literally and actually, at the Briatic level I am, myself, exactly as real as a myth.
Now, this is a hard question to frame, and probably tougher to answer, since it goes back to this whole "What is reality?" issue. To put it in personal terms, I have always assumed that the essence of the loquacious energy field consensually referred to as 'Me' stems from a constant energy pulse or flow out of Atziluth. In B'riah, that energy formulates itself into a pattern or, to use JAE's word, myth.
But as I read the quote above, there's an implication that 'past' B'riah, there is just undifferentiated energy. I have always more or less assumed that the HGA is Atziluthic, and is to thus to some extent differentiated from the Universal Mind of the Ain Soph. And, as a corollary, any being has a distinct, or at least embryonically individual, source in Atziluth.
With apologies for the polysyllables here, any comments on this?93 93/93,
Edward
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93,
In the thread on Elaine Pagels and Satan, JAE wrote:
Literally and actually, at the Briatic level I am, myself, exactly as real as a myth.
Now, this is a hard question to frame, and probably tougher to answer, since it goes back to this whole "What is reality?" issue. To put it in personal terms, I have always assumed that the essence of the loquacious energy field consensually referred to as 'Me' stems from a constant energy pulse or flow out of Atziluth. In B'riah, that energy formulates itself into a pattern or, to use JAE's word, myth.
But as I read the quote above, there's an implication that 'past' B'riah, there is just undifferentiated energy. I have always more or less assumed that the HGA is Atziluthic, and is to thus to some extent differentiated from the Universal Mind of the Ain Soph. And, as a corollary, any being has a distinct, or at least embryonically individual, source in Atziluth.
With apologies for the polysyllables here, any comments on this?93 93/93,
Edward
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
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