Jiva

MIND, MATTER AND GOD : JIVA, JADA AND ISVARA
M.M.NINAN
The other way to visualize these realms is entirely abstract:
0. Imagine Ain, nothing: complete nothingness. No black, no space, no anything at all.
Nothing.
00. Out of nothing emerges Ain Soph, no limit: empty, dark, endless space.
000. Only in this environment is it possible to cradle Ain Soph Aur, limitless light. The
eternal space, or this eternal moment can now be flooded with light.
Ein Sof in Hebrew means Endless. As the one to the zero of Ain, Ein Sof is the
Absolute All to Ain's Absolute Nothing. Ain Sof Aur fills all in all and the source of all
creation.
So far we have the picture of God who has no properties who cannot be called a Person
since he did not exist as Person. Personality is only expressed in terms of relationships.
Once the Trinity of Ein, Ein Sof and Ein Sof Aur is formed God became a family. These
were referred to in Jewish literature as Elohim in plural form of Eloah or as plural
derivative of El.
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