Kether, Static?
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93 All,
Here's a question I've been thinking of for some time and I cant quite figure it. Chokmah is the Dynamic aspect of Kether, Kether in action if you will, but it seems off to consider kether as a Static state. By my understanding Kether is a constant flow of energy, only, it is pure and undirected, so this would bar it from the static state wouldn't it? But as Chokmah is the Dynamic action of the unlimited energy from the Smooth Point what does that make Kether?
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@Ophion280 said
"Chokmah is the Dynamic aspect of Kether, Kether in action if you will, but it seems off to consider kether as a Static state. By my understanding Kether is a constant flow of energy, only, it is pure and undirected, so this would bar it from the static state wouldn't it? But as Chokmah is the Dynamic action of the unlimited energy from the Smooth Point what does that make Kether?
"This is a well thought-through question. Let's hope I can think through an answer as well.
I think language is the problem here. You are correct that static is the linguistic complement of dynamic in this sense - but, therefore, the "static" or "still" quality applies to Binah as the complement of Chokmah. Kether sits above that polarity (and all other polarities between them).
The motion implied in Chokmah (by which energy flow is demonstrated) is one of the first characteristics of Kether. It is an attribute, in the same way that color would be an attribute - the first thing we know about Kether. Visually (cinematically), Kether would be seen only with the camera fixed on it and in close-up, so that there is neither movement of Kether across the screen, nor a changing background. It isn't that Kether is or is not moving; it's that what matters is its raw existence, the very fact that it IS. (Sticking with the movie analogy, Kether is character definition not yet put in the context of plot or action - as yet we have neither context nor plot, neither background nor action.)
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I have always pictured it in my mind as Kether being 'static' after the fashion of a sprial that moves around but remains in a static position. You might say it "moves in a circle
Where Chokmah is like a line, a definitive path with movement in 'space.'
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coming fro the perspective of one who does not claim adeptship but has a very vivid imagination, I always visualized Kether as an acceleration/speed/vibration so fast as to negate itself and thereby being virtually indistinguishable from a static state, something comparable to surpassing the speed of light and leaving this dimension.
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@Uni_Verse said
"I have always pictured it in my mind as Kether being 'static' after the fashion of a sprial that moves around but remains in a static position. You might say it "moves in a circle
Where Chokmah is like a line, a definitive path with movement in 'space.'"Well I guess it could be static in the sense that it really has nowhere to go because it is everything that exists
but to picture it with any kind of background would affirm that there is something other than Kether... A and not-A which would be a representation of 2Chokmah. AC avoids the temptation to define it by simply stating""Unity" transcends "consciousness". It is above all division"
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@Ophion280 said
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Well I guess it could be static in the sense that it really has nowhere to go because it is everything that exists but to picture it with any kind of background would affirm that there is something other than Kether... A and not-A which would be a representation of 2Chokmah. "I see it more as affirming 0=2 ; Kether being the point that marks the center of the circle known as 0 (or is it on the circumfrence ? - I can see it both ways).
Though, to expand a bit on what I said earlier : Being that it sprials in and out at the same time, it appears to be a static point.
But then I started thinking of what the apex of those two principals would be, and I think you nailed it when you said that it just IS.