JMPtD wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 4:44 am
I’m sensing curiously why we were not taught this.
I quit my sophomore year, but I don't recall anything other than general science and theology, and the theology was mostly Bible related. My mother was Catholic and there was a Catholic school close by that some attended - just my neck of the woods though. Kabbalah is pretty niche stuff and many Jewish don't even know about it(which I extrapolated from a very small sample). Having said that though, science and theology is an integral part of my philosophy/cosmology but they are broad subjects and it depends on where you focus.
JMPtD wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 4:44 am
Hadit is said, in The Book of the Law, to be "perfect, being Not."
Hadit appears as the primordial point to me(1), but there is an eternal connection between it and negative existence("being not"). Part of the problem here is that anything that transcends one also transcends order and ascends into an obscure chaos of which god(s) are born. Of course technically everything is "connected" anyway as it all shares a common root but this is more targeted towards fundamentals and emergence.
So, one(or God) is both being and "being not" periodically throughout eternity, although it should be realized that "periodically" loses its primary meaning upon collapsing the dimension of time where any 'thing' would occur as a single moment absent any temporal duration. The realm or state of "being not" has a few names. It can be referred as the self-begotten aspect of one, or the acausal - that which emerges without cause. The acausal IS the unmoved mover which is opposed to an eternal timeline where one would fall prey to the infinite regression of an infinite past. Even science now talks of a beginning with The Big Bang. Think about a "beginning" with no end, but that's not it. "I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning AND the end." - of time.
The thought that an omnipotent being would ever cease to exist does leave something to be desired though, but it appears to be the case - God is just largely misunderstood is all.