The Laws of Nearness: Dense Concretion and Fluid Abstraction

It was in this field of knowledge that I found the answer that quenches the heart’s thirst and purifies it: If we take nearness as a material Concretion, we fall into the trap of Concretion and of divine indwelling, and the Creator becomes bounded by the limits of the created. - If we take it as pure Abstraction, cut off from any real effect, we fall into a verbal nihilism, a cold knowledge that changes nothing in the state of the Self. The answer, I found, is to understand that God, glory be to Him, is near to us in Abstraction — through His all-embracing sustaining power, His instantaneous informational encompassing and His unceasing supply — while we are far from Him in Concretion, through our material density, our preoccupation with what is other than Him, and our heedlessness of the luminous frequencies. This distinction is what enabled me to lay down the rules of this systematic structure, in which the rules are fixed at the root and absolute in their Abstraction, while their applications remain flexible and suited, in their Concretion, to human reality. It is my modest attempt to repair the deep gulf between what we read in the religious text and what we witness in lived reality, using the living language of our age — a language that understands the technical and existential difference between the origin (the formative code) and the interface (the outward image). Through this Abstraction we recover our authenticity and become worthy of the title of rabbānī Vicegerents, who govern density with the awareness of subtlety. Hashem Nassar All rights reserved