Yesh ma'Ayin...
There is a concept in the Kabbalah of yesh ma'ayin, "something from nothing". Yesh means "something" and represents everything that we think of as real, the four worlds. Ayin (or ain, ein, en, etc., spelled "אין", not "עין" like the letter ayin) means "nothing" and represents everything that wasn't created, i.e., G-d. G-d took the stuff of himself, the ayin, and created out of it yesh. Something from nothing.
Originally there was "nothing", ayin for what existed before creation can't be understood as existing in the way creation, yesh, exists. There was only G-d, the great "nothing", the great Ain (Ayin). G-d created a space within him in the constriction, creating the Ain Soph, the Endless. Then G-d said, let there be light, and there was the Ain Soph Orh, the Endless Light. This is the beginning of creation. Everything from that point forward is considered yesh, "something".
Our minds can only understand yesh, not ayin. What we can understand, we call yesh, and what is beyond our understanding, we call ayin. All the yesh is actually made up of ayin, the stuff of G-d, held in the form of yesh be Divine Intent. G-d keeps constant attention of each particle of yesh to keep it in the form of yesh. This is the energy of the Divine. Without this energy, the yesh would revert back to ayin. G-d is constantly creating the yesh from ayin and this energy. It's as if the universe is constantly destroyed and recreated. This is the continuity of creation. If G-d decided to turn his attention away from the yesh, for one infinitely small unit of time, there would be no more universe, no more creation.
Ayin is the real reality according to the Kabbalah. What we see as ayin is really yesh, from G-d's perspective, and our yesh is nothing but ayin. Part of the goal of the Kabbalah is to see this from G-d's perspective, to understand that what we see as ayin is the real yesh, and what we see as yesh is an illusion (this does not mean to forsake our yesh, our physical realm, but to reconcile the physical realm to the reality of the ayin, G-d's yesh).
Each of the four worlds, as you go up, becomes less substantial from our point of view, less yesh, but becomes more like the ayin, G-d's yesh, than the lower worlds. But even Atziluth, the highest world is still made of our yesh, and isn't ayin, G-d's yesh. Each world moving up is harder for our mind and senses to understand, but ever Atziluth is easier to understand than ayin, G-d's yesh.
From a Feri point of view, both yesh and ayin are real. Everything we can understand is yesh. We are fully human. But everything is made of ayin, the stuff of the Divine (the Star Goddess), making everything Divine. We are fully human, but we are also fully Divine. All of creation is Divine. Everything is yesh and ayin, physical and Divine.
FFF,
~Muninn's Kiss
Originally there was "nothing", ayin for what existed before creation can't be understood as existing in the way creation, yesh, exists. There was only G-d, the great "nothing", the great Ain (Ayin). G-d created a space within him in the constriction, creating the Ain Soph, the Endless. Then G-d said, let there be light, and there was the Ain Soph Orh, the Endless Light. This is the beginning of creation. Everything from that point forward is considered yesh, "something".
Our minds can only understand yesh, not ayin. What we can understand, we call yesh, and what is beyond our understanding, we call ayin. All the yesh is actually made up of ayin, the stuff of G-d, held in the form of yesh be Divine Intent. G-d keeps constant attention of each particle of yesh to keep it in the form of yesh. This is the energy of the Divine. Without this energy, the yesh would revert back to ayin. G-d is constantly creating the yesh from ayin and this energy. It's as if the universe is constantly destroyed and recreated. This is the continuity of creation. If G-d decided to turn his attention away from the yesh, for one infinitely small unit of time, there would be no more universe, no more creation.
Ayin is the real reality according to the Kabbalah. What we see as ayin is really yesh, from G-d's perspective, and our yesh is nothing but ayin. Part of the goal of the Kabbalah is to see this from G-d's perspective, to understand that what we see as ayin is the real yesh, and what we see as yesh is an illusion (this does not mean to forsake our yesh, our physical realm, but to reconcile the physical realm to the reality of the ayin, G-d's yesh).
Each of the four worlds, as you go up, becomes less substantial from our point of view, less yesh, but becomes more like the ayin, G-d's yesh, than the lower worlds. But even Atziluth, the highest world is still made of our yesh, and isn't ayin, G-d's yesh. Each world moving up is harder for our mind and senses to understand, but ever Atziluth is easier to understand than ayin, G-d's yesh.
From a Feri point of view, both yesh and ayin are real. Everything we can understand is yesh. We are fully human. But everything is made of ayin, the stuff of the Divine (the Star Goddess), making everything Divine. We are fully human, but we are also fully Divine. All of creation is Divine. Everything is yesh and ayin, physical and Divine.
FFF,
~Muninn's Kiss