Theos-Talk Archives (October 2001 Message tt00232)

I got that 3 times for some reason - was that just me?



|-----Original Message-----
|From: nos [mailto:nos@granite.net.au] 
|Sent: Wednesday, 17 October 2001 3:03 PM
|To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
|Subject: RE: Theos-World Tsimtsum & God's Will
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|An old post but relevant....
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||-----Original Message-----
||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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