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An Introduction to Kabbalah, Part 2: God Does Not Exist, God is Existence Itself.
This God is less a God that does or doesn't exist, but existence itself.
Granted, there's no proof that any of us exist, or that anything exists, or that existence itself is a real thing.
To paraphrase from a non-Kabbalistic source, the yoga sutras of Patanjali, God does not exist -- God is existence itself.
Last week, in part two of our introduction to Kabbalah, we suggested that in Jewish mystical theology, "God does not exist -- God is existence itself".
Johnston is humane, and philosophically nimble, but his rarefied and almost scholastic definition of the ideally non-idolatrous God is not obviously very helpful to anyone but a rarefied scholastic: "The Highest One = the Outpouring of Existence Itself by way of its exemplification in ordinary existents for the sake of the self-disclosure of Existence Itself".
For existence itself.
It seems they know that their existence itself is a sign of change.
This is no novelty act, though; it's music not just about bees but existence itself.
He searches — "Everything and everyone, existence itself, has become an evocation, a possibility for resemblance".
Such found objects of cinematic wonder converge with a wonder at existence itself.
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