On the path of spiritual search, one of the first to arise is the question of the meaning of existence. Against this background, there are many teachings and religions trying to lift the veil of the mystery of birth and death, reincarnation and the process of evolution of consciousness. The idea of the ultimate goal of being, as of merging with the One God and dissolution in the worlds of the Absolute, is increasingly heard. Eternal stay in paradise, blissful peace or disembodied floating in the higher spheres promise many metaphysical concepts, which entails some contradictions with the universal laws of the Universe. Peace is the antipode of life. And life is an impossible phenomenon without the eternal interaction of dualities. Therefore, in itself, the cessation of reason and the freezing of consciousness in the sphere of passive existence contradicts the principles of an active creative and dynamic principle that gives birth to the world as such.
The world is like a looped algorithm of birth, fall, evolution and rebirth. Outside the dynamic processes of emanation of the lower spheres from the higher; beyond the subsequent ascent of reason in the opposite direction - to the Primary Source, continuous non-existence dominates: dark matter and dark energy, existing only hypothetically, as an invisible mathematical universe, unmanifest and unobservable. Only the birth of consciousness, its statement about its own existence "I Am" animates the dual opposites with its ray, forcing them to interact, thus generating in their proportions an infinite number of forms - reflections of the One. This creative act is the action and manifestation of spirit in matter. But what is the dissolution of consciousness if not a rejection of the highest gift - the ability to consciously create through a conscious choice?
In the kabbalistic system of the Tree of Sephiroth, two paths of ascent are displayed. Sephira Keter and Sephira Daat are two possible conditionally end points of being. Dissolution is the fusion of individual consciousness with the Sephira Keter, which is the return of the spirit to the abode and source without accompanying creation. So the energy, which has become the raw material for the creation of individual consciousness, returns to its cradle, with subsequent splitting into bricks in order to create a new individuality that has nothing to do with previous incarnations. In fact, the consciousness that has returned from dense spheres to the original center is subject to liquidation here. This is falling asleep and a dream in which dreams do not occur.
Another Sephirah on the Tree is the sphere of Daat, which is Knowledge. It is hidden, and its position is displayed as if in a different dimension. Sephira Daat lies on the edge of the abyss, embracing the world of the emanations of the One, but also the world of the manifested. In the reality of the original tree, cosmology describes this sphere as a black hole gaping on the event horizon. This is the very metaphysical limit beyond which it is impossible for a creature to look in the ordinary state of consciousness. In another dimension, outside the original universe, a black hole, from which nothing emanates, but everything is thrown into it, is a new Primordial Source, from which everything manifests itself. Beyond this limit of the abyss lies another Sephira Keter, the essence of which is a conscious mind that has passed through all the stages of ascent and accumulated enough experience to organize a new birth and a new Big Bang, as physicists call it.
Author: Elena Zakharchenko