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Daily Thought
When the Mighty Waters cover your head, suffocating the soul and the flame that burnt inside . . . When raging torrents of confusion drag you away in their current, ripping you from your hold on Life . . . Look deeper. Beyond the soul. For the soul itself, as well as the flame it holds, are rooted in a serene G‑dly World of Emanation, a world of quietness and sublime harmony. But the turbulence of this world is rooted even beyond that, stemming from a World of Confusion, of light unbounded and untamed, before the orderly emanation of defined being, “and the world was confused and void, with darkness over the face of the deep.” So you...
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