What was the Beginning in Genesis 1:1?
According to Vic Alexander, the Aramaic word he translates "as the beginning" in Genesis 1:1 is brasheeth. It is a very interesting word. It implies a son, 'br,' and it implies before the beginning. I got interested in the word from reading Rabbi David A. Cooper's God is a Verb: Kabbalah and the Practice of Mystical Judaism (1997, New York: Riverhead Books). On page 66 of that book he translates Genesis 1:1 according to kabbalists: "With a beginning, [It] created God (Elohim), the heavens and the earth."
Of this Cooper says, "That is to say, out of Nothingness the potential to begin was created--Beginningness" (emphasis mine). The potential to begin was not a point in time as we might think - "In the beginning of time," or "In the beginning of God's creating the universe." No, the Beginning was more of an object. Cute: God is a verb and Beginning is a noun. No wonder we can't understand the Bible. Anyway, it has come to mind that there was nothing with the Ineffable. There was no adjacent emptiness for It to create from or in, nor any alternate dimensions. Before the Beginning there was the Ineffable alone, and It was the Nothingness.
The Ineffable is something, a Nothing we cannot understand. It is beyond all comprehension and imagination. Having no form, It cannot move. But can It imagine? I believe that the imagination of the Ineffable is Its "Son." The Ineffable's intelligence is power to become what is imagined, so the Son, the Ineffable's imagination, creates all things.
This is where things get wild: the Ineffable imagined having form, being manifest, there being a manifest form of Itself. Now, I do not think that the Ineffable just popped into existence as a finished product. However It marks time, It had a long time to develop. It explored. Contemplated. Considered. Talk about having time to think something over! Over eternity past the Ineffable became what It is. And now it wants Its qualities in a manifest form. That manifest form is going to need an eternity to generate those qualities in. The End form is going to be full manifestation of the Ineffable BEFORE the Beginning. Everything that might possibly, potentially be involved in generating the End Manifestation of the Ineffable had to be in the Beginning.
Which is where "I AM" comes in. The Ineffable Nothing had to define Itself. "I AM (whatever)." Space, time, energy, light, gravity, matter, heat, life, love -- you name it, the Ineffable had to say, "I AM THAT," and IS it. Everything that can happen unto the final Manifestation, and everything that can exist unto the final Manifestation, is the Ineffable DEFINED IN THE BEGINNING AS "I AM." With this Beginning [the Son of the Ineffable, Its imagination] created God (Elohim), the heavens and the earth. Everything we want in the future is in the past!
I appreciate Vic Alexander's transliteration of Exodus 3:14, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh." This was God inside Moses speaking to his mind. Ahiyeh is the absolute intention of the coming one to come or become. Ashur is the spark that ignites the flame, which I take to be the Imagination of the Ineffable - the power to become. Hiyeh is his coming or becoming. Was God in Moses saying, "I become by imagining His becoming," i.e., we are the manifestation of the Ineffable?
The Hebrew is much like this. It says, "’ehyeh ’ăšer ’ehyeh," I AM THAT I AM. That is (perhaps), "I (God in you) am THAT 'I AM,' the 'I AM' of the Ineffable in Its Beginning on Its way to becoming fully manifest." The Beginning is simply playing out through all possible experiences.
Of this Cooper says, "That is to say, out of Nothingness the potential to begin was created--Beginningness" (emphasis mine). The potential to begin was not a point in time as we might think - "In the beginning of time," or "In the beginning of God's creating the universe." No, the Beginning was more of an object. Cute: God is a verb and Beginning is a noun. No wonder we can't understand the Bible. Anyway, it has come to mind that there was nothing with the Ineffable. There was no adjacent emptiness for It to create from or in, nor any alternate dimensions. Before the Beginning there was the Ineffable alone, and It was the Nothingness.
The Ineffable is something, a Nothing we cannot understand. It is beyond all comprehension and imagination. Having no form, It cannot move. But can It imagine? I believe that the imagination of the Ineffable is Its "Son." The Ineffable's intelligence is power to become what is imagined, so the Son, the Ineffable's imagination, creates all things.
This is where things get wild: the Ineffable imagined having form, being manifest, there being a manifest form of Itself. Now, I do not think that the Ineffable just popped into existence as a finished product. However It marks time, It had a long time to develop. It explored. Contemplated. Considered. Talk about having time to think something over! Over eternity past the Ineffable became what It is. And now it wants Its qualities in a manifest form. That manifest form is going to need an eternity to generate those qualities in. The End form is going to be full manifestation of the Ineffable BEFORE the Beginning. Everything that might possibly, potentially be involved in generating the End Manifestation of the Ineffable had to be in the Beginning.
Which is where "I AM" comes in. The Ineffable Nothing had to define Itself. "I AM (whatever)." Space, time, energy, light, gravity, matter, heat, life, love -- you name it, the Ineffable had to say, "I AM THAT," and IS it. Everything that can happen unto the final Manifestation, and everything that can exist unto the final Manifestation, is the Ineffable DEFINED IN THE BEGINNING AS "I AM." With this Beginning [the Son of the Ineffable, Its imagination] created God (Elohim), the heavens and the earth. Everything we want in the future is in the past!
I appreciate Vic Alexander's transliteration of Exodus 3:14, "Ahiyeh Ashur hiyeh." This was God inside Moses speaking to his mind. Ahiyeh is the absolute intention of the coming one to come or become. Ashur is the spark that ignites the flame, which I take to be the Imagination of the Ineffable - the power to become. Hiyeh is his coming or becoming. Was God in Moses saying, "I become by imagining His becoming," i.e., we are the manifestation of the Ineffable?
The Hebrew is much like this. It says, "’ehyeh ’ăšer ’ehyeh," I AM THAT I AM. That is (perhaps), "I (God in you) am THAT 'I AM,' the 'I AM' of the Ineffable in Its Beginning on Its way to becoming fully manifest." The Beginning is simply playing out through all possible experiences.
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