http://www.kheper.net/topics/Kabbalah/LurianSf.gif
Lurianic diagram of the
emanation of
worlds
(click on URL directly below to access these highlighted links found on the
original website)
http://www.kheper.net/topics/Kabbalah/tikkun.htm
The Lurianic Theory of Creation and Redemption
The
Lurianic and
Sabbatian Kabbalah teach about a very dynamic and controversial (even
dialectical in almost Schellingian sense of this word) process of self
explication and self construction of the
Absolute (as well as His liberation from even the shadow of the
roots of evil) which as the process of tikkun (Restoration, or
Universal Correction) unfolds the unlimited richness of His contents in the
system of Personalities, or Hypostases (Partzufim).
Therefore, the World of Restoration ('Olam Tikkun) is not equal (but is
not different as well) to the world of
'Or En-Sof (Ultimateless Light, or
Absolute) of the beginning. Tikkun 'Olam is of the same nature as
'Or En-Sof but it is not simplicity and potentiality but concrete unity of
differences and actuality. And the process of Tikkun is called "the
repairing of the God's Face" because it corrects the existential break, or gap
in the Absolute Being as such which is also a moment in His unfolding.
Evgueni Tortchinov
originally posted on Donmeh West - The Donmeh of the Internet
