Theos-Talk Archives (October 2001 Message tt00231)

An old post but relevant....

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|From: 888 [mailto:bhive@alphalink.com.au] 
|Sent: Friday, 2 February 2001 7:28 AM
|To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
|Subject: Theos-World The Idea of Tsimtsum 
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|How can there be a place where God is not when God is everywhere?
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|Valentin Tomberg explains this well in his Meditations on the 
|Tarot: "the idea of tsimtsum - the 'withdrawal of God' - of 
|the Lurianic school of Cabala.....the existence of the 
|universe is rendered possible by the act of contraction of God 
|within himself. God made a 'place' for the world in abandoning 
|a region interior to himself."
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|"In other words, in order to create the world ex nihilo, God 
|had first to bring the void itself into existence. He had to 
|withdraw within in order to create a mystical space, a space 
|without his presence - the void. And it is in thinking this 
|thought that we assist the birth of freedom."
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|If this was not so then we would have not been told to pray 
|"Thy Will be done, Thy Kingdom come."
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| If God's Will permeated the world in toto then the world 
|would be perfect, but also there would be no freedom and 
|development. No death also.
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|-Bruce
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|http://www.egroups.com/group/spiritualscience
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