AethyrOr

"Eternal, unconfined, unextended, without cause and without effect, the Holy Lamp mysteriously burns. Without quantity or quality, unconditioned and sempiternal, is this Light."

The Ain Soph Aur Kabbalah postulates that Kether, the Point from which expansion began through the Sephiroth into existence, is in itself the Malkuth of a "negative existence", a limitless "being" which contracted to a point in Kether. Kether itself is the Malkuth of the absolutely unknowable, from which all things proceed. The infinite being is viewed as having three veils which cover its essential essence and by which it is known : AIN -Nothing, nought AIN SVPh -Infinite (SVTh - End) AIN SVPh AVR -Limitless Light (AVR - Light, fire)

Here humanism shades into transhumanism – an ardent belief in an indefinite, perhaps endless vista of possibilities that are supposed to lie open to our species. Our faith in technology, especially medical technology, is backed here by a deeper message that, as humans, we are virtually exempt from earthly conditions anyway and ought to take advantage of that exemption. Both actual technological successes and science-fiction’s images of further technology have impressed us so much that we are no longer sure that anything is actually impossible. As Arthur C.Clark pointed out, it is quite hard now to distinguish between technology and magic, and magic has no limits. Prophets urge us to believe that we have moved right outside the bounds of nature – that we are now effectively supernatural and ought to live up to that status.