“I suppose if I meditated on it long enough it can mean ‘hell by separation of creation, or creating.’
If separated long enough from creating HOW we were meant to create, we can find ourselves in this darkness. I suppose it’s only a matter of time before the universe steps in.”
Darkness
It got me thinking about dark times in our life, in our world.
In Jewish literature, there are three types of darkness mentioned in the Old Testament or Talmud.
'Alatah' is one, this would be heavy darkness. But the word is used more to describe the coming of dusk or dawn. So it's a meditative kind of darkness. You don't associate evil or demonic presence with this kind of darkness.
'Choshke Aphelah' is a tangible type of darkness, known to incorporate fear. There appears to be an inner darkness, or most closely translated, 'supernatural darkness'
Then there is darkness known as 'Araphel' thick darkness. Almost like being washed in a cloud. Properly translated it just means dark cloud.
Then there is the Aramaic 'Chashuke Bria' In English it means "outer darkness" The Greek call it 'ho skotos ho exoteron' which means separation from light. Separation from that which makes us whole
The Aramaic word for 'outer' is 'Bari'. It can also be translated to mean creation.
So as I'm sitting in a type of Alatah contemplating my experience also with Chashuke Bria. I'm thinking hard about what that term means, and I suppose if meditated on long enough it can mean 'hell by separation of creation, or creating.'
If separated long enough from creating HOW we were meant to create, we can find ourselves in this darkness. I suppose it's only a matter of time before the universe steps in.
