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  2. Tohu wa-bohu - Wikipedia

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    Possibly related to the concept of "formless and void" is the Yesod hapashut ( Hebrew: יְסוֹד הפשוט, lit. 'simple element') in the Kabbalah, in which "everything is united as one, without differentiation". [9] ArtScroll's Stone Edition Chumash translates the phrase as "astonishingly empty". [10]

  3. The Void (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    This is a necessary result of the sympathy and tension which binds together things in heaven and earth." [This quote needs a citation] Chrysippus discusses the Void in his work On Void and in the first book of his Physical Sciences; so too Apollophanes in his Physics, Apollodorus, [5] and Posidonius in his Physical Discourse, book ii." [6]

  4. Tehom - Wikipedia

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    Gnostics used Genesis 1:2 to propose that the original creator deity, called the Pléroma "Totality" or Bythós "Deep" preexisted Elohim and gave rise to such later divinities and spirits by way of emanations, progressively more distant and removed from the original form. In Mandaean cosmology, the Sea of Suf is a primordial sea in the World of ...

  5. Let there be light - Wikipedia

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    1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

  6. Genesis 1:2 - Wikipedia

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    ha’aretz: "the earth" hayeta: "was", pa'al construction past tense third person feminine singular; tohu vaḇohu: difficult to translate, but often rendered as "formless and void" vechoshekh: "and darkness" ‘al-pene: "[was] over [the] face", pənê being a plural construct state of the Hebrew word for face

  7. Atomism - Wikipedia

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    The void is infinite and provides the space in which the atoms can pack or scatter differently. The different possible packings and scatterings within the void make up the shifting outlines and bulk of the objects that organisms feel, see, eat, hear, smell, and taste. While organisms may feel hot or cold, hot and cold actually have no real ...

  8. Hexaemeron - Wikipedia

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    Augustine thought that the 'heaven and Earth' signified the spiritual created order and unformed matter. John Scotus Eriugena believed that the terms referred to archetypes and primordial causes. Next, Genesis states that the world was created "without form and void" or, in the Septuagint, "invisible and unfinished" (aoratos kai akataskeuastos ...

  9. Apollo 8 Genesis reading - Wikipedia

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    We are now approaching lunar sunrise, and for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.