{"id":1899,"date":"2023-11-10T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/?p=1899"},"modified":"2023-11-10T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:29:57","slug":"souls-nothingness-space-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/souls-nothingness-space-and-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Souls, nothingness, space, and time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Crowley thought that each soul was a mode of the absolute first principle, Nothingness. A soul is to nothingness as a particular shape is to space. It is a limitation. And just as an enclosed area makes conspicuous not only the area inside the enclosure but the rest of the space without, so does the self-limitation of nothingness bring into relief not only the particular soul (Hadit) but the rest of the Ain Soph (Nuit) in which the limitation occurred. This is how the self-cancelation of <em>Ain <\/em>grounds both Nuit and Hadit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can draw an infinite number of shapes in space. The total space would serve as a coordinate system. Likewise there are infinite ways Ain limits itself to create souls, and the space-like way in which the different particular nothingnesses (Hadits) are related to one another is Ain Soph Aur. I think that&#8217;s the idea Crowley came to with <a href=\"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/thelema-polytheism-and-absolute-individuality\/\" title=\"Thelema, Polytheism, and Absolute Individuality\">the Star-Sponge vision<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The self-limitation of Ain\/nothingness creates determinate nothingnesses or souls (Hadits\/stars). This simultaneously creates Ain Soph (Nuit). The purely conceptual\/mathematical relationships obtaining between the stars in Nuit is Ain Soph Aur. Together this system forms a noumenal sum total of reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a particular soul incarnates, it interprets these purely noumenal relationships phenomenally by means of the forms of space and time. This transforms space-like relationships into actual spatiotemporal relations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The soul has latent within itself something like a computer program that contains all the information about itself and its relationships with all the other souls in Ain Soph. Incarnation is like running that program. Space-time is like a graphical user interface that allows the soul to interact with the program within itself. If it weren&#8217;t using that interface, all the information within itself would remain latent, which in the case of a soul would be an absence of knowledge about itself and the universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incarnation transforms space-like relationships into actual spatiotemporal relations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/315243902_10159763945181785_2497304099555805418_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapis-mercurii.org\/lvx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}