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P R E FAC E T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R • Matter, • Form in matter, • Abstract form, and • Essence. I will explain them first using actual examples from this world. For example, when we say a: “strong person”, or “truthful person”, or “liar” etc., we discern between the following: • The matter the person consists of, i.e., the body. Matter is the fourth stage, so if we speak about a person, it means the body. • The form into which this matter is shaped, i.e., strong, truthful or false (let us say a liar). • The abstract form, i.e., it is possible to comprehend an abstract form of falsehood irrespective of the matter of a person and study these three forms as such, without their being manifested in any matter or body. In other words, it is possible to investigate the qualities of strength, truthfulness or falsehood, to discern their merits or baseness, when they are abstracted from any matter at all • The essence (of falsehood) 12. Know that the essence of a person, as such, is quite impossible to perceive without his material embodiment, as discussed in the first Form in Matter 30
P R E FAC E T O T H E B O O K O F Z O H A R limitation. This is because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the revelation of the actions of the essence, but not of the essence itself. That is, we do not perceive the essence, which is purely divine. We can more or less abstractly attain whatever derives from it, but not the essence itself. … because our five senses and our imagination do not offer us anything more than the revelation of the actions of the essence, but not of the essence itself. For example: • Our vision perceives only the waves from the essence of what we see, according to the light it reflects. When I am looking at an object, I do not know what it really is. I only perceive it as waves that it reflects. They return to me and create a certain form in my perception. • Our hearing is simply the power of influence of sound waves, transmitted through the air from some essence. This air, reflected under the influence of a sound wave, exerts pressure on the membrane of the eardrum. This is how we are able to hear that something is near us. The sound comes from something beyond me. That is, I know nothing about the source of the sound; I have no clue as to what it is by itself. I can only judge it by the way I perceive it. • Our sense of smell is the irritation of our nerve receptors reacting to smells, by the air emanating from the essence, and this is how we sense a smell. Everything depends on our nerve receptors and on how they transmit to us this or that smell. 31
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