“The master [of Kabbalah in the Bahir] depicts Nature as the King’s emissary, His medium, through which He projects Himself (in humble disguise) into this world. Human thought, also part of Nature, is man’s emissary.
Insofar as it has no end, man may extend himself through thought all the way to the end of the world— to confront G-d. Since all of man’s sensory faculties were no more than extensions of thought, the imaginative faculty was the source and ruler of all created things.
Gazing into the Throne of Glory only meant descending into oneself in order to ascend to the Infinite…”
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— Susan Sontag, from “Death Kit,” (1967) (via lunamonchtuna)
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Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus,
originally published: 1977
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