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16 (tet zayin). About last quarter of the page –
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begins: 'shalom...') For text, click: Here.
Peace is a real
presence. Not a contract. Shalom/peace has a deeper reality than a
contractual agreement. It is said, 'He makes peace in the higher
realms' about which it is said, 'the angel of water (kindness) and
the angel of fire (severity) do not slay/extinguish each other'.
These angels do not have territories. Each one is everywhere. So
how do they not kill each other? Because He makes peace between
them.
How does He do it?
The reason is that
there are 2 causes that affect inter-inclusion. One is the principle
that each faculty actually incorporates elements of its opposite and
as a result of this can join with the opposite faculty. And this is
so even it its 'simple' state – the essential state of that
faculty, where it is stripped of any function.
You can sense the
simplicity of sight. You can see things in truth, without any
functional implication. Animals and cameras do not have this purity.
Touch is a relative effect. Sight is the thing itself. You see not
how it affects you, but how it is present in its own reality. You
see the object 'as it is'.
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