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As altogether 11 sefirot are listed across the various schemes, two (Keter and Da'at) are seen as unconscious and conscious manifestations of the same principle, conserving the 10 categories. [5] The sefirot are described as channels of divine creative life force or consciousness through which the unknowable divine essence is revealed to mankind.
The 6 primary and 12 secondary partzufim are the basic harmonised Divine manifestations in the Four Worlds of created existence. More specifically however, within their interaction are numerous more particular aspects of Divinity, each denoting a differentiated expression.
The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.
The ten sefirot "attributes" and their associated twelve partzufim or "personas" reflect this light in the Four Worlds, as do more specific Divine manifestations. In Lurianic Kabbalah , the partzufim interact dynamically, and sublime levels are clothed within lower existences, a concealed soul.
The Manifestations of God are seen as divine educators, who are raised up by God with the purpose of uplifting mankind and expressing his will. [4] In expressing God's intent, the Manifestations of God are seen to establish religion in the world. [4] Each brings a book and reveals teachings and laws according to the time and place which they ...
For Coleridge, as for many of his romantic contemporaries, the idea that matter itself can beget life only dealt with the various changes in the arrangement of particles and did not explain life itself as a principle or power that lay behind the material manifestations, natura naturans or "the productive power suspended and, as it were, quenched in the product" Until this was addressed ...
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resultant behavioral manifestations: rites-and-rituals clinging : if one assumes that one is eternal, then one clings to rituals to achieve self-purification. sense-pleasure clinging : if one assumes that one will completely disappear after this life, then one disregards the next world and clings to sense desires.