“God said: Let us make man in our image, in our likeness” (Genesis 1:26)
#Imitation #Imagination #BeautifulImage
“In our likeness” is said as “Kidmutenu” in Hebrew:
כִּדְמוּתֵנוּ
This same root is found in the word “Adam”, meaning “Man” as well as in the Hebrew word “Dam”, meaning “Blood”.
Man is the Son of God. When you are descended from someone, you share the same blood and resemble them.
This root is also found in the word “Medameh”, which can be translated as “Imagination”.
Imagination is intrinsically linked to resemblance. To imagine is to represent something in the mind.
To imagine is to know how to reproduce—a function tied to the highest of the partsufim (“faces” of God), Atik (from “Lehaatik”: “To copy”, as the function of Atik is to reproduce below what is above so that all is One).
As Aristotle says (Poetics, Chapter 4), man is the most imitative of animals. This natural inclination of man makes him love to create works and take pleasure in contemplating them. This disposition to create is tied to learning: every mimetic activity represents progress from the particular to the general.
We learn, we perfect ourselves by reproducing, by repeating. Then we grow enough to create, to (re)produce.
To create is to act. The sefira at the very bottom, Malchut, or the Kingdom, corresponds to the world of Action. Malchut is the Shechina, a feminine partsouf.
To imagine is to know how to make connections, combinations, analogies. It is to know how to do the Tseruf, to link Atik to Malchut.
Imagination allows us to produce. The mind creates reality. Imagination is creative, but it can also be destructive. Imagination can create the best or the worst.
Some dream of a better world.
Some live their dreams.
Others dream their lives.
Some imagine many things that have nothing to do with reality. For example, millions of Jews were killed because many people imagined things about them: that they controlled the world, etc.
Beware of the harmful power of imagination, beware of confusion, lies, slander, conspiracy theories, etc.
Aminata Traoré, former Minister of Culture of Mali, wrote a book titled “Le viol de l’imaginaire” (The Rape of the Imagination), in which she explains that there is nothing more burdensome or alienating than an image of oneself and one’s place in the world nourished by the desires and discourse of others. The oppressive forces that control this world in exile seek to make Africa see itself as poor and act as a poor region.
All the nations are within us. Africa (the dark part of our soul) must rediscover its own power of imagination, which involves refusing submission to Christianity and Islam, both of which have destroyed the continent.
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov warned against the power of imagination. While he himself displayed much imagination in telling magnificent tales, he unfortunately also imagined many things unrelated to reality, leading some to idolize him—a tendency often found in Hasidism.
“And I will speak to the prophets! I will multiply visions and, through the prophets, I will make myself known through images (Adameh).” (Hosea 12:11)
וְדִבַּרְתִּי עַל הַנְּבִיאִים וְאָנֹכִי חָזוֹן הִרְבֵּיתִי וּבְיַד הַנְּבִיאִים אֲדַמֶּה
The Rambam, in his Guide for the Perplexed (2:36), explains that prophecy results from the perfection of HaKoach HaMedameh, the imaginative faculty.
“HaKoa’h HaMedameh” (“The Power of Imagination”)
הכוח המדמה
Ordinal Gematria = 70
= Gematria of “Sod” (“Secret” in Hebrew)
סוד
#Enigma #Gamine #Gemini #Aiming
Imagination is often used for profit (television, cinema, etc.) and becomes destructive.
Many people dream of becoming someone else; they are no longer themselves. Though each of us is unique, too many people are alike, living like sheep.
The world has become too Cartesian.
Yet the world needs extraordinary people, poets, dreamers, artists, and storytellers. We must take inspiration from children and never stop dreaming.
Using one’s imagination with a pure heart is akin to prophesying, heralding the revelation of Malchut, the Kingdom.
What is above is like what is below.
What is beautiful is symmetrical.
What is beautiful represents reality.
The world is Israel.
God and Israel are One.
Abraham, Moses, David, Jacob, etc., never existed. They spring from our imagination.
The same applies to Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Laozi, Krishna…
Believers may rage against this idea, but it is reality.
And this awareness will bring the Messiah, the Kingdom, and Peace to the world.
We must love our neighbor as ourselves.
We must copy Him, follow His way.
We must break the limits.
Religions are mere copies of ancient myths. Imitating in the wrong way means counterfeiting, plagiarizing. It is “anti-Malchut”.
The false New Torah, the New Testament, that of Jesus, of Rome, is a counterfeit.
The true New Torah is that of Je Suis (I am) of Tsarfat (France).
Neville Goddard, who wrote extensively on imagination, said that “divine and human imagination are one.” In the language of birds, his name can even be read as “God Art”.
Imagination allows magnification.
Magnification through Tseruf, through French refinement.
The Shechina says: “I am black, O daughters of Jerusalem, but I am beautiful” (Song of Songs 1:5). Yet the Messiah is a cleaner. He will tidy up because the world needs it, making it more beautiful.
Adam, Man, is of indescribable beauty.
Einstein, who could not have made his discoveries without his incredible imaginative power, said that imagination is more important than knowledge.
Imagination enables innovation.
It takes extraordinary imagination to create a New Torah, which is the Torah of the Messiah. According to Rav Kook, the Messiah will distinguish himself by his imagination.
Indeed, most people imagine a savior outside themselves, but he is within us. You are the Messiah. You are God made man.
Each of us must say:
“I will be like the Most High” (“Edameh LeElyon,” Isaiah 14:14)
אֶדַּמֶּה לְעֶלְיוֹן
Gematria = 246
= Gematria of “Lehair” (“To Illuminate”, Genesis 1:15)
להאיר
= “Marah” (“Mirror”)
מראה
= “Rom” (“Exalted”, “Glorified”, “Magnified”)
רום
#BurningRom #Nero
There is “Rom” and “Rome”.
Rome must fall to reveal the Kingdom.
“When the Lord brought back the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.” (Psalms 126:1)
Everything is an illusion.
You dream of God, and He dreams of you.
#Dream #Gnosis
“Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I AM THE ONLY ONE” (New Torah)