In the English Old Testament the word IHVH is translated Lord, and Elohim by God: Boutell calls Jah a contraction of Jehovah. Isaac Myer writes :–God may be regarded from four points of view as the Eternal One, or AIN SUP, Ain Suph as AHIH, Aheie, I am as IHVH, Who was, is and will be and as ALHIM, Elohim, God in Nature, called Adonai or Lord. Let us more fully consider the conceptions of the Divinity. It has been suggested by some learned authors that these Kabalistic ideas resemble those of the Alexandrian philosophy and of the Gnostics, embodying notions derived from the Pythagoreans, the Platonists and from Indian Brahmanism and Buddhism. (7) That when all the pre-existent Souls who have been incarnated here have arrived at perfection, the Evil Angels are also to be raised, and all lives will be merged into The Deity by the Kiss of Love from the Mouth of the Holy One, and the Manifested Universe shall be no more, until again vivified by the Divine FIAT. (6) That one human life is seldom sufficient that two earth lives are necessary for almost all to pass and that if failure result in the second life, a third life is passed linked with a stronger soul who draws the sinner upward into purity: this is a form of the scheme of Re-incarnation, Transmigration of souls, or Metempsychosis. (5) That every soul after earth life or lives must at length be so purified as to be reabsorbed into the Infinite God. (4) That human souls before incarnation dwell now in an Upper Hall, or Treasury where the decision is made as to what earth body each soul or ego shall enter. (3) That human souls were pre-existent in an upper world before the origin of this present world. (2) That all we perceive or know of, is formed on the Sephirotic type. 283) was not the direct Creator of the World but that all things have proceeded from the Primordial Source in successive Emanations, each one less excellent than the preceding, so that the universe is ‘God Manifested,’ and the last and remotest production is matter, a privation of perfection. (1) That God, the Holy One, the Supreme Incomprehensible One, the AIN SUPh, the Greek apeiros, (Zohar iii. The following seven Kabalistic ideals are of the greatest interest to students of the origin and destiny of the world and mankind. In this theosophy,–ex nihil nihilo fit spirit and matter are the opposite poles of one existence: and as nothing comes from nothing, so nothing is annihilated. It seeks to explain by Emanations the transition from the Infinite to the finite, the multitude of forms from a unity the production of matter from spiritual intelligence and the relations existing between Creator and creature. ![]() 15.) eternity, immutability, perfection and goodness the origin of the world at God’s will, the government of the Universe, and the creation of man after the image of God. The Kabalah confirms the following Old Testament declarations: the Unity of God, His incorporeal form (Deut. His telescope allowed him to see with a magnification of eight or nine times, making it possible to see that the Moon had mountains and that Jupiter had satellites.“The great doctrines of the Theoretical Kabalah,” says Ginsburg, “are mainly designed to solve the problems of (a) the nature of the Supreme Being, (b) the creation of the Universe and of our world, (c) the creation of angels and man, (d) the destiny of the world and of men, and (e) the import of the revealed law.” In 1609, he learned of the spyglass and began to experiment with telescope-making, grinding and polishing his own lenses. Galileo, though not the first inventor of the refracting telescope, significantly enhanced its power. His championship of the Copernican (Sun-centred) planetary system brought him into serious conflict with the Church, which forced him to make a public recantation and put him under restriction in later life. Prior to Galileo's conflict with the Church, the majority of educated people in the Christian world subscribed either to the Aristotelian geocentric view that the earth was the center of the universe and that all heavenly bodies revolved around the Earth, or the Tychonic system that blended geocentrism with heliocentrism. Galileo was born in Pisa, Italy on 15 February 1564 (Julian calendar 26 February 1564 by our modern day Gregorian calendar), the first of six children.
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