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"None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two." - CCXX, I:28
Lately I have been contemplating Kether as a crisis...a transitional crisis between nihility & duality...Anatman/Anatta & Atman. I say crisis because during meditation Kether seems to almost flash between a state of Self & No-Self, as if to struggle to exist between these states. I am curious to know if anyone else has experienced Kether in this way during their meditations or otherwise.
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93,
Yes and no.
That is, I don't feel I truly meditate on Kether <b>as</b> Kether very often, if at all. I sometimes find it hard to hold as an image in, for example, an LRP, and it doesn't always seem stable. But if I can persuade my mind to quiet down, then it is perceived to be totally stable, at least from my viewpoint as an existing consciousness within creation. It's my own attention that can't sustain the idea that Kether represents.
That might be the root of the sense of crisis you mention.
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Indeed...perhaps the crisis originates from within as a result of the paradox naturally inherent in the equation of Anatta = Ipissimus...
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@ATUM said
"Anatta = Ipissimus"
what?
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@Red Eagle of Death said
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@ATUM said
"Anatta = Ipissimus"what?"
No-Self is equal to He Who Is Most Himself.
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93,
I dont know - I tend to think language is getting in the way here. Anatta doesnt mean one who isnt himself but refers to a Characteristic or 'Mark' of this world: that nothing has inherent selfhood (although I can see how you would interpret it that way).
I would say everything above the Abyss contains the contradiction 'both Self and Not-Self' since I assert/affirm the inherent unity of the Supernal Triangle.
Further, Im not sure how Kether is the point between 'nihility' and 'duality' simply because I have no idea what you mean by nihility. If you are referring to the '0' in 'None and Two' then its not simple nothingness. Berashith, the essay, explains this a lot better and more completely than I could but its less Nihility than the Silence which contains everything in itself unmanifest.
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@Aum418 said
"Further, Im not sure how Kether is the point between 'nihility' and 'duality' simply because I have no idea what you mean by nihility. If you are referring to the '0' in 'None and Two' then its not simple nothingness. Berashith, the essay, explains this a lot better and more completely than I could but its less Nihility than the Silence which contains everything in itself unmanifest."
Yeah, it's a really full nothing.
Best image I've found for explaining it: Any amount of space, however small, contains an infinite number of non-dimensional points. (Since they are non-dimensional, they have no thickness or width etc. at all, so are infinite in number in any amount of space.) Imagine them as an infinite number of unimaginably finely-plotted positions.
As long as you do nothing to differentiate any one point from any other,
this space - whether the inside of a ping-pong ball, or the whole of space - can lternatelybe regarded either as completely empty (there's nothing in it - that is, nothing differentiated from anything else, and therefore no thing), or as completely full (every position has a point).When the mind regards the absence of differentiation, we call this "Nothing." When the mind regards the saturation of positions (points), we call it the Limitless.
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@Aum418 said
"Im not sure how Kether is the point between 'nihility' and 'duality' simply because I have no idea what you mean by nihility."
I suppose in Qabalistic language we could equate nihility with Ain or perhaps the Vedantic concept of Parabrahman...
@Jim Eshelman said
"Any amount of space, however small, contains an infinite number of non-dimensional points. (Since they are non-dimensional, they have no thickness or width etc. at all, so are infinite in number in any amount of space.) Imagine them as an infinite number of unimaginably finely-plotted positions."
I immediately think of the parable of the acorn(it contains within it all of the acorns that every descendant oak will produce).
@Jim said
"When the mind regards the absence of differentiation, we call this "Nothing." When the mind regards the saturation of positions (points), we call it the Limitless."
This language sounds more like we're discussing Ain & Ain Suph rather than Kether.
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