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Kabalah - Four Worlds - Yetzirah
Before the Kabalah Forum was folded within this new and wonderful broader forum (maybe it can be considered the leaven in Magic and Spellcraft ), a number of threads were even added to the Table of Contents without their actual formation as yet... This is one of these.
Of the four worlds, the World of Yetzirah - the world of formation - seems at times the most difficult to clearly explain. I have reflected numerous times on this, and have wondered if it was not simply because this is the one we are, in our thoughts, so often engaged in... and then I also think that this doesn't do justice to the Yetzirahic world.
It is the world whereby forms take shape - but not forms in their manifested state. Rather, Forms in a somewhat similar sense to Goethe's discovery of the Ür-Plant: it already has all the elements by which it can instruct its Assiatic manifestation.
In Hebrew, 'Yetzirah' has the connotation of not only the making of something, but also the impulse in its making. Oft times, it is translated as 'creation' rather than 'formation'.
I'll leave it here for now...
Before the Kabalah Forum was folded within this new and wonderful broader forum (maybe it can be considered the leaven in Magic and Spellcraft ), a number of threads were even added to the Table of Contents without their actual formation as yet... This is one of these.
Of the four worlds, the World of Yetzirah - the world of formation - seems at times the most difficult to clearly explain. I have reflected numerous times on this, and have wondered if it was not simply because this is the one we are, in our thoughts, so often engaged in... and then I also think that this doesn't do justice to the Yetzirahic world.
It is the world whereby forms take shape - but not forms in their manifested state. Rather, Forms in a somewhat similar sense to Goethe's discovery of the Ür-Plant: it already has all the elements by which it can instruct its Assiatic manifestation.
In Hebrew, 'Yetzirah' has the connotation of not only the making of something, but also the impulse in its making. Oft times, it is translated as 'creation' rather than 'formation'.
I'll leave it here for now...