The Generous Absence: Divine Self-Withdrawal as Cosmic Gift

Musings on Fragment 3 of the Chaldean Oracles

In the cathedral of absence, we discover the most profound presence.
In the void that enables, we find the fullness that sustains.
Between the stars, the darkness is not empty
it is the generous space that allows light to sing.

I remember the first time I encountered the concept of tzimtzum in Kabbalistic thought, that primordial contraction of Ein Sof, the…