The gnostic text Thunder Perfect Mind states: I am the mother of my father, the sister of my husband, and he is my offspring. This refers to the Shechinah; the heart of contemplation. It is what is contemplated, and what contemplates. Its basis is En Sof, which radiates as the brilliance of infinite expanse. It instantly adapts in response to any condition or requirement without ever leaving its own primordial nature. The space of the Shechinah is inherent in the primordial light that fills it. Its expanse shines as luminosity as it spreads, thus it can be said that it is the ‘mother’ of the light. The expanse of space is a co-creating agency with the formative motion of energy manifested by this spreading. Therefore the space of the shechinah is a ‘sister’ to energetic motion as well. Since it is also prior to its arising, energy is considered its ‘offspring’. The shechinah both appears and remains open. This is why the letter heh is repeated in the name YHVH. It reflects itself as it presented. This does not imply that an object to barter in conceptual commerce has been separated from anything. The shechinah is open possibility appearing. It responds to any and all conditions by instantly adapting; both as the womb of the possible and the display of the actual. It is the capacity for variable motion and its lack of fixity in the midst of change, but it is always presentational. The goal of gnosis is not to mistake the reflections for the mirror itself. Observe: Father: yud (keter/chochmah) ---> primordial dynamism Mother: heh (binah) --------------> basic space (inherent to dynamism) as responsiveness Husband: vav (middle six) -------> formative motion arising as qualities Bride: heh (malkut) ---------------> presentational display The conventional logic is that the father precedes the child, and is the cause of the child’s existence. In order for a father to actually be a father there must be a child. Therefore the father’s designation is dependent upon it. The roles are then reversed. The so-called cause (the father) is understood to depend on the so-called effect (the child) for its designation, which renders the effect as a cause. The same is true with the universe and its perception. How would we know that there was even a universe at all unless it entered somehow into perceiving? In mundane terms, it is assumed that the universe must precede the mind that perceives it. It is assumed that the mind is born into a universe as a prior condition that allows it to exist. Therefore the universe can be called the cause and perceiving is its effect. However the effect (perceiving) becomes the cause of the universe arising due to the necessity of its having to be perceived in order to be considered at all. Therefore the perceiving becomes the cause and the universe becomes its effect. Like the Sefer Yetzirah states: Their end is imbedded in their beginning, and their beginning in their end, like a flame in a burning coal.” (1:7).
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