[NGFP-BookClub] Another Response from Professor Elior

[Aron Trauring]

Claudia

Some answers to some of the questions are offered below.

 > How can I speak from a 32 wondrous paths of wisdom if the world is  
really hidden?

The hidden world is in our soul and our infinite perception that might  
come to expression through letters of the language and through numbers  
by calculation. The innovation of the Book of Creation is that it  
claims we share letters and numbers with God and with the infinite  
divine process of creation.

 > How can I assume that the world is a higher reality?

Think of all the unknown dimensions of the world around us: the secret  
of life, the eternity of cycles of creation, the wonder of language.  
These aren't "invented" categories but aspects of reality. Do not  
think about them so much as "higher," but rather as not yet known.

 > Why do they think it is higher? In what it is higher?

Higher signifies the divine eternal powers which are not subjugated to  
human constraints of mortality. They are eternally represented in  
cycles of nature and infinite creative power, embedded in language and  
numbers, shared by the creator and his human creatures

Part of the creative mystical experience is illuminating the daily  
experience with contemplative, inspired, visionary and abstract  
imagination. This involves searching for new meaning of existential  
conventions, reading anew well known verses and deciphering in a new  
way the sacred texts,

 > Sefer Yetsira connects the secret of creation with visionary,  
without historical reality.

History is what changes by human hands. Sefer Yetsira connects the  
divine creation with human visionary inspiration, imagining the divine  
chariot, the ten depths or spheres, the letters of language as new  
components that explain the natural-divine creation. "Ten sefirot of  
nothingness. The measure is ten which have no end. A depth of  
beginning..."...

 > What does it mean?

It means that we add new dimensions beyond those that are perceived by  
the senses; that we offer new conceptual paradigms that will serve as  
the foundation of kabbalistic literature for a thousand years.


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