L.O.F. and Kabbalah

May 17th, 2007 Fred McVittie

The ground on which the figure of this circle is marked, in this case the screen of the monitor you are looking at, represents the potential which precedes all action and all existence. Without the screen, or the potential, there could be no making of marks and, as a parallel, without the substrate of ‘nothingness’ there could be no something. This idea is part of a number of mystical and religious traditions, as well as featuring is some of the creation myths which we call science. Within Kabbalah for example, the creation of the world proceeds through the ten sephirot which mark God’s divine methodology (and also mark the steps that must be retaken by the mystic to achieve divine union). A significant aspect of the kabbalistic diagram this cosmology, the ‘tree of life’ symbol as it is sometimes called, is that the blank surface on which the diagram is drawn also has a name. This emptiness, the metaphorical blank screen which exists before the making of the mark describing creation is the ‘ein soph’, the universe ‘without end’ upon the the stages of the creation can be created.

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