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200.02a Cosmic<\/p>\n

At the Genesis Point, a Divine spark leapt forth. The spark initiates a cycle of becoming, creation, and rebirth. It is the core of this spiritual blaze of potentiality whose ultimate perfect achievement is a primal cosmic end. It is this transcendental flame which directly continues the spark of Life which the Divine infused through Primal Man.<\/p>\n

200.02b Mortal<\/p>\n

Man is a creature with the ability to undertake a search for the Tree of Knowledge. He is a creature with the ability to undertake a long-term spiritual quest. With dominion over the earth, man as a species is not burdened with a battle for survival with nonhuman creation.<\/p>\n

Man’s restless spirit seeks to transcend its limits.296<\/sup> Man must dare to reach down into the depths of his own spirit and find his essence;297<\/sup> this is his spiritual quest.298<\/sup><\/p>\n

By prayer, study, piety, contemplation, solitude, abstinence, penance, sacrifice, charity, purity, and love, man approaches his goal. This is a resolute and continuous assault, day after<\/p>\n

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296 <\/sup>See also Merton, The New Man,<\/em> p. 31, and his footnote on page 56: “In the Biblical concept [as opposed to the Nietzschean], man is raised above himself by supernatural gifts for which his nature has a passive and obedien- tial potency, gifts by which these hidden potentialities receive a supereminent realization.”<\/p>\n

297 <\/sup>See also ibid., p. 27.<\/p>\n

298 <\/sup>“Rabbi Kook in his introduction to his commentary on the Siddur Olat Riyah, <\/em>writes that man’s soul is continually in a state of worship. It expresses the soul’s yearning for inner fulfillment from a state of potentiality to actuality.” Stitskin, Studies in Torah Judaism,<\/em> p. 86.<\/p>\n

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