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The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Tzimtzum, Broken Vessels & Tikkun

mean that's voluminous >> and that is where you really start to see the beginnings the makings of cabala as we understand it and particularly as it's trans transferred or translated to um to the lauranic cabala which I won't go into too far but there's three main ideas the failed first creation right of of god he fails the divine light uh he first he creates a space by attracting and expanding himself in the infinite light of the anor because it has to create an enclosure. It needs a vessel

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, The Mystical Qabalah

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 31:08

The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Tzimtzum, Broken Vessels & Tikkun

to to to in order for the the material universe to exist otherwise it's just diffuse uh potentiality for an eternity. So it it expands and contracts in this one area and that's called the tsimsum. And within that vacant space now the divine light begins to pour in and generate emanate really the saphir. And the the first attempt that this fails the the the vessels of the saphir cannot hold the divine shifa the light the inpouring of the light. They shatter. So the light gathers itself back up, but

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, The Mystical Qabalah

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 31:44

The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Tzimtzum, Broken Vessels & Tikkun

there's still pieces of it in the shards of those broken vessels. Um, and then what happens is the second creation is endeavored. It is successful, but the second creation is essentially built on top of the rubble heap of the kipot, those shards which hold within them sparks of the divine light, the shakina. So um the way the only way to release the trapped parts of the divine presence in those you know clific shards is through something called the tikun tikunam the repair of the world the um

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, The Mystical Qabalah

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Transcript passage · Unknown · 32:21

The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Tzimtzum, Broken Vessels & Tikkun

restoration of the universe and that's uh he says it's in prayer and good deeds and following the commandments and again morality and uh and living a good life living uprightly and your several stations before God and man and Um and that is how you you rescue those lights and and from that you know we get a lot of our modern cabala with a Q. Now there's a period obviously in the Renaissance with people like uh Marcelio Facino, Pico Demirandela, Yoanis Royland, Athanasius Kersher um Italians

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, The Mystical Qabalah

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The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition

Relevant chapter: Pythagorean Parallels & Hellenistic Influence

A focused passage on pythagorean, parallels, hellenistic, influence from The Midrash& Magik, Creative Potencies, and The Grimiore Tradition.

Related books: Esoteric Mythology, Ætheric Magic, The Mystical Qabalah

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