1. The circle of One not separate from zero is the blazing sky of 10.
circle=symbolizes infinity as well as the principle of tzimtzum at the heart of infinite variation
one=alef
blazing=dynamic luminosity; the seed initiates
sky=adaptive space; the womb responds
ten=yud: a 'sky'. Compare this to the common symbol of yud as the 'point' of origin (in linear causal terms).
“One not separate from zero” refers to primordial essential wholeness. It equates pure potential (0) with its actual (1) or manifest condition. Thus I refer to the equation 0=1; pregnant nothingness which equals everything. This can be represented as a unity: 01, which transcends the disparity between being and non-being. Considering this absolute wholeness can correct conventional attitudes about infinite essentiality (ain sof).
2. Yud is bound to alef, and alef to yud, “like a flame in a burning coal”.
Going a step further, 01 and 10 show how the numerical cycle itself is equalized. In a relative sense, 01 is the beginning and 10 is the end of a series. The esoteric wisdom is that relative and absolute concerns present themselves simultaneously as one divine continuum, which is itself essentially absolute. In the line above alef (01) and yud (10) introduce interdependency. They posit this an equation: 01=10. This presents a continuum in which 2 sides of a 'mirror' require each other and present equal value, “like a flame and burning coal”. Consider that both beginnings and ends are both cause and effect for the other. A cause can only be truly called a cause if it produces an effect, thus the effect becomes a type of cause. 01 has no value outside of a sequence that culminates in 10. In this sense ten is a 'complete potency' equal with the primal 01. This can be taken further by an extended equation: 01=10/10=01. Here the zero is represented both inside and outside of the mirror of equated sets. This is similar to considering the space surrounding a circle with the space inside the circle. Space is a singular continuum which transcends the relative concern of container and contained, however it does not negate it. Both are possible through an equalizing paradox. Such is the case with the so-called primal cause and effect relationship of god and the universe.
3. The seed bears its womb; a door into itself replete with the connective tissue of the worlds. The heart of the matter is a mirror. The hand of five fingers doubles in reflection above and below, one soil for two trees.
The primordial seed is yud, which is 10. Yud is spelled yud/vav/dalet (YVD or 10-6-4). Its components are of monumental kabbalistic importance. The common attribution for dalet is a 'door', which reflects the opening of the 4-fold structure of the creative process. Because of the role that energy plays between the hehs of JHVH, and because a hexagram binds the nodal points between the interpenetrating circles of the sefirot, the vav (6) is called the 'connective tissue'. The heart of the matter is the heh/shechinah, as stated in Tikkuney Zohar. The mirror is, of course, ain sof. The formula YVD expresses the following equation: essence (Y) extends energy (V) via the door of open possibility (D). The graphic forms of vav and dalet create a heh, which is the the always pregnant always birthing field of the Shechinah. Thus womb (H) is contained within seed (YVD), and two 10's reflect each other as a mirror (yud (10) and V/D which is 6+4=10). Within that, heh reflects itself as the mirrorlike aspect of upper/lower shechinah which is binah/malkut (5/5=10, equal to the basic premise 0=1).
4. The circle reflects reflection to four, and a six pointed star “runs and returns” on its back, but there is no diminishment. The mirror is pure yet darkens knowing as the field of the known in its dreaming.
The term ‘reflects reflection’ alludes to the contextual structure of creativity which is 4-fold, a self-reflecting mirror. It is based on the primal aspect of reflection reflecting itself endlessly (2x2=4), thus 4 is associated with reflective infinity. Geometrically this produces a square, which replicates the simple closed symmetry of the circle (representing the infinite but paradoxically the finite as well). Four is also the number of successive circles it takes to create the perfect proportions of the 10 sefirot. Within that 4-fold geometric construct a ‘six pointed star’ (hexagram) arises to bind the nodal points of the 4 circles at the midpoint. This is the vav (6); the continuum of motion/energy that is perceived as time and the flowing of life itself. Its oscillating disposition is ‘running and returning’, which extends reflective motion throughout the infinite space of the shechinah. This too is reflective; basic space reflects itself (binah) and therefore 'runs', and it 'returns' as perceived relative space (H/malkut).
5. In one week the heart is hidden within stone at the intersection of the bounded lines. Yet knower and the known may swallow each other. Holy Shechinah ain sof is recipient, offerer, and offering of all phenomenon.
one week=6 days (Gen.1); the sefirot from chesed to yesod which move like a reflection in a mirror, to no where/from no where
intersection of bounded lines= the stone (heart of the matter); this is the meeting point of the vertical/horizontal axis lines that produce the square; the horizontal axis line is the plane of earth (receptive) and the vertical is the 'standing' of a human being under infinite enveloping immensity (active). they represent luminous creative dynamism (initiating light) and basic vastness (responsive space).
stone=(ABeN)=father/Y/essence (AB) + son/V/energy (BeN)--->Arich Anpin (keter)/Zer Anpin (middle 6).
the father’s lineage is that of extending ain sof into play. it realized through reflective motion, which is simultaneous with and co-equal to the heart of the matter; the shechinah: the mirror of hehs (HH/55) equal to the primordial 10 (which extends as the equation 01=10/10=01). this is the whole of the matter, although volumes have been eliminated for brevity.
B’ain sof yehi aur
