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To: betty boop; hosepipe; Fester Chugabrew; marron; PatrickHenry
Thank you so much for your excellent essay-post!

A-G, your Ayn Sof here???

The Hebrew phrase used by Jewish mystics to describe God as the Creator is Ayn Sof which essentially means "no thing" or "One without end from which all being emerges and into which all being dissolves."

The concept comports well with cosmology and geometric physics. The void in which there had to have been a beginning of physical reality (regardless of cosmology) - has no space, no time, no energy, no matter, no physical laws, no physical constants, no logic, no mathematics, no qualia, etc. - no thing - including most especially no physical causation.

The void is singular and transcendent - Ayn Sof. Only God can be the uncaused cause of "all that there is".

1,020 posted on 01/07/2006 11:28:34 AM PST by Alamo-Girl (Monthly is the best way to donate to Free Republic!)
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To: Alamo-Girl; marron; hosepipe
The void is singular and transcendent - Ayn Sof.

Yes; which is what the sensorium Dei is, in my understanding. It is the "efficient cause" of Absolute Space -- which is a true void, because it is absolutely EMPTY, in Newton's view -- by which and into which all laws and creatures come into existence. It is "singular" and "transcendent" in that it is syngenes -- akin or alike -- to its Source, which is God. The sensorium Dei is not God per se, but the creative field in which He works, which He begot of Himself.

This is really tough stuff, dear sister. I continue to try to think it through.

So far, I find a distinct correspondence between Newton's concept of Absolute Space and Plato's Chora, of his creation myth in the Timaeus. Wolfhart Pannenberg suggests Newton received inspiration for his concept of sensorium Dei from Henry More, the famous English (Cambridge) Platonist philosopher.

So now we've got Plato embroiled in this question. LOL! How many cultures have we "covered" here, so far?

1,023 posted on 01/07/2006 12:49:02 PM PST by betty boop (Dominus illuminatio mea.)
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To: Alamo-Girl
That's new information to me but is in line with what I have been shown by Christ God's Word and Spirit. I followed your mention of Ayn Sof with a brief but fascinating (!) Google search. I see that mighty discernment is called for! Thank you.
1,033 posted on 01/08/2006 3:51:35 AM PST by .30Carbine
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To: Alamo-Girl
1 Peter 4:7
The end of all things is near.
Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled
so that you can pray.

1,034 posted on 01/08/2006 3:57:46 AM PST by .30Carbine (Amen)
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