BLOG 19: DEC. 24TH 09 PEERING INTO THE DEPTH

Blog 19:    24^th Dec. 09

Peering into the Depths

-          Laibl Wolf, Dean, Spiritgrow - The Josef Kryss Wholistic Centre, Australia

Take a round piece of soft dough. Press your finger deep into it and then remove it. What do you find?  A hole.  That’s strange. What was visible on the surface is now embedded deep within.

Upon which Kabbalah comments, somewhat cryptically: the foremost intention is hidden in the completion. Well, perhaps the Kabbalah doesn’t use those very words, but you know what I mean.  Or do you?  Let me explain.

You wish to build your dream own home. Your original vision is the pristine ball of dough.  Months of intense planning extrapolates your original vision. The architect drafts the plans. Let the builders begin! Excavation, pouring of foundations, up go wall slabs, the roof, and the finishing trades - the finger presses into the dough - and voila, your new home. Somewhat simplified?  But here is the point. The original inspirational vision culminated in tangibility: bricks and mortar, paint and furniture. Your original vision is now deeply embedded in the physical spread of your new home.  The finger of construction pressed the inspirational design into a deep hole. And the onlooker has to peer through the rooms of the house, into the ‘deep hole in the dough’, to discover your original inspiration.

Another Kabbalistic reading of the same concept: the stone at the top of the wall fall furthest from the wall. The more spiritual the source, the more hidden will be its physical manifestation. It is a bit like Alice in Wonderland. Tumbling into the ‘worm hole’ she finds herself in an upside-down world where the obvious is the obscure and the obscure masks the obvious. We live in that ‘worm-hole’ and find ourselves in an upside-down world: pain, worry, evil, insecurity, anxiety, inequity. Ironically, here, deep below, is where we can discover the profoundest truths: joy, fulfillment, growth, love, faith and profundity.

And yet another Kabbalistic reading: ‘the end is wedged in the beginning and the beginning is wedged in the end’. Meaning: the beginning – the inspirational (spiritual) design for the home - is now embedded in its (physical) structure (down the worm-hole).  But the vision of the completed product (the world at the bottom of the worm-hole) was always there in its earliest moment inspiration (pristine ball of dough).

Hence the Jewish spiritual emphasis on profound respect for the seemingly mundane aspects of life: protecting the environment, nurturing plant life, acting kindly to animals, and sharing our income with others. Thinking right, speaking right, and doing right, at the most practical and material level, reveals the purpose behind the breath of life that animates existence – the highest inspiration: creation.

G-d pressed Its Finger into the Dough. And you and I live in that profound Void. The filtered light that dimly reveals our spiritual environment down here in the void below, allows us to peer through the looking-glass and discover this world’s inverse, the higher truth, viz. the original Creative inspiration. The process of discovery is what facilitates the mystical co-experience of the original moment of Divine inspiration. 

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