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Ain Soph: The Endless One

by Moe | Jul 7, 2015 | Meaning of Symbols, Meaning of Words | 0 comments

The term Ain Sof, Ayn Sof,or Ayn Sof (/en sf/, Hebrew: ) is used to
describe the cycle of time that is circular in motion.Itis understood as God
prior to his self-manifestation in the production of any spiritual Realm.Ain or
, signifies a great circle,the vacuum of pure spirit, moved and created AIN
SOPH, or Infinity.The meaning of Ain is nothingness, motionless space, and
abstract space.AinSof may be translated as "no end", "unending", "there is
no end", or Infinity.
The Zohar explains the term "Ain Sof" as follows: "Before He gave any shape
to the world, before He produced any form, He was alone, without form and
without resemblance to anything else. Who then can comprehend how He
was before the Creation?
Hence it is forbidden to lend Him any form or similitude, or even to call Him
by His sacred name, or to indicate Him by a single letter or a single point...
But after He created the form of the Heavenly Man, He used him as a chariot
wherein to descend, and He wishes to be called after His form, which is the
sacred name "YHWH".
Many P. Hall had said, "THE Qabbalists conceive of the Supreme Deity as an
Incomprehensible Principle to be discovered only through the process of
eliminating, in order, all its cognizable attributes. That which remains--when
every knowable thing has been removed--is AIN SOPH, the eternal state of
Being. Although indefinable, the Absolute permeates all space. Abstract to
the degree of inconceivability, AIN SOPH is the unconditioned state of all
things. Substances, essences, and intelligences are manifested out of the
inscrutability of AIN SOPH, but the Absolute itself is without substance,
essence, or intelligence.

AIN SOPH may be likened to a great

field of rich earth out of which rises
a myriad of plants, each different in
color, formation, and fragrance, yet
each with its roots in the same dark
loam--which, however, is unlike any
of the forms nurtured by it. The
"plants" are universes, gods, and
man, all nourished by AIN SOPH
and all with their source in one
definitionless essence; all with their
spirits, souls, and bodies fashioned
from this essence, and doomed, like
the plant, to return to the black
ground--AIN SOPH, the only
Immortal--whence they came.
AIN SOPH was referred to by the
Qabbalists as The Most Ancient of
all the Ancients. It was always
considered as sexless. Its symbol
was a closed eye. While it may be
truly said of AIN SOPH that to
define It is to defile It, the Rabbis
postulated certain theories
regarding the manner in which AIN
SOPH projected creations out of
Itself, and they also assigned to this Absolute Not-Being certain symbols as
being descriptive, in part at least, of Its powers. The nature of AIN SOPH they
symbolize by a circle, itself emblematic of eternity. This hypothetical circle
encloses a dimensionless area of incomprehensible life, and the circular
boundary of this life is abstract and measureless infinity.
According to this concept, God is not only a Center but also Area.


Centralization is the first step towards limitation. Therefore, centers which
form in the substances of AIN SOPH are finite because they are predestined
to dissolution back into the Cause of themselves, while AIN SOPH Itself is
infinite because It is the ultimate condition of all things. The circular shape
given to AIN SOPH signifies that space is hypothetically enclosed within a
great crystal-like globe, outside of which there is nothing, not even a vacuum.
Within this globe--symbolic of AIN SOPH--creation and dissolution take place.
Every element and principle that will ever be used in the eternities of Kosmic
birth, growth, and decay is within the transparent substances of this
intangible sphere. It is the Kosmic Egg which is not broken till the great day
"Be With Us," which is the end of the Cycle of Necessity, when all things
return to their ultimate cause."

HP Blavatsky had written: "Ain Soph is also written En Soph and Ain Supk, no
one, not even Rabbis, being sure of their vowels. In the religious metaphysics
of the old Hebrew philosophers, the One Principle was an abstraction, like
Parabrahmam, though modern Kabbalists have succeeded now, by dint of
mere sophistry and paradoxes, in making a " Supreme God" of it and nothing
higher. But with the early Chaldean Kabbalists Ain Soph is "without form or
being", having "no likeness with anything else" (Franck, Die Kabbala, p. 126).
That Ain Soph has never been considered as the "Creator" is proved by even
such an orthodox Jew as Philo calling the " Creator " the Logos, who stands
next the " Limitless One ", and the " Second God ". "The Second God is its (Ain
Soph's) wisdom ", says Philo (Quaest. et Solut.). Deity is No-thing; it is
nameless, and therefore called Ain Soph; the word Ain meaning Nothing.
(See Franck's Kabbala, p. 153 ff.)"
We find the number nine associated with thecontinued motion of the three
wordsAIN/SOPH/AUR. These three words contain three letters each, making
nine letters total producing theSephiroth.
In ancient Celtic Ireland where they spoke Gaelic or Old Irish, the peoplehad
called this the Bel-ain (), or Ba'al ain/Bal-ain, ie, the circle of Baal /Belus,
orthe solar circle or annual course of the Father and Sovereign Lord of the
Heavens,Jupiter.The meaning of the name Baalis the sameprecise meaning
in Gaelic as in Phoenician which is now called Hebrew as "the lord of
heaven." Ba'al ain to the modernKabbalists is called "AIN SOPH" and was
referred to as The Most Ancient of all the Ancients. They also symbolizeAIN
SOPH by a circle.

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