{"id":94,"date":"2006-10-05T18:45:21","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T18:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/ge\/50040-common-quests\/"},"modified":"2018-04-23T20:25:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T20:25:48","slug":"50040-common-quests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.summametaphysica.com\/ge\/50040-common-quests\/","title":{"rendered":"500.40 COMMON QUESTS (p.104)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">hard cover page 104<\/p>\n<p><strong>Man, (infinite) God, and the universe are all questing for their potentialities.<\/strong><sup>403<\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . the Jewish religion may truly be considered as the ideal of religion, the religion of the future, the &#8220;I shall be what I shall be.&#8221;<br \/>\n-Kook<sup>404<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>It is logical that every spark of life has a soul, that it yearns to ascend, and that it ascends by divine grace, which is active at all times. . . . A chaotic world stands before us as long as we have not attained to that degree of higher perfection of uniting all life-forces and all their diverse tendencies.<br \/>\n-Kook<sup>405<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>. . . the world is best conceived of as . . . a living organism with boundless potentialities for growth.<br \/>\n-Gordis<sup>406<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Quest for potential courses from the Divine to man and through the cosmic order.<sup>407<\/sup> All strive towards ultimate perfection. All sail parallel cosmic oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Man is the keystone of the cosmic quest for perfection. However, man is not alone in his quest. For the entire cosmic order is interlocked with man&#8217;s potentialities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">===================================<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d- NOTES \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d-<\/p>\n<p><sup>403 <\/sup>See G. F. Moore, <em>Judaism<\/em> vol. 1, p. 384. &#8220;The maintenance of the world is a kind of continuous creation: God in his goodness makes new every day continually the work of creation.&#8221;<br \/>\nNote that the concept has some convergence with Hartshorne&#8217;s &#8220;process theology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>404 <\/sup>Bokser, <em>Abraham Isaac Kook<\/em>, p. 267 (scriptural citation is Exodus 3: 14).<\/p>\n<p><sup>405 <\/sup>Ibid., p. 230.<\/p>\n<p><sup>406 <\/sup>Gordis, <em>A Faith for Moderns<\/em>, p. 208.<\/p>\n<p><sup>407 <\/sup>See Steinsaltz, <em>The Thirteen Petalled Rose,<\/em> p. 39. &#8220;All these <em>Sefirot<\/em> are infinite in their potency, even though they are finite in their essence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--COPY THIS ENTIRE CODE TO START TABLE--><\/p>\n<hr width=\"80%\" size=\"1\" align=\"left\" \/>\n<table width=\"314\">\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"3\"><strong>you are currently on hard cover p. 104<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 125px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/ge\/50030-mans-ascentcreation\/\">< BACK<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50px\"><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/summametaphysica.com\/ge\/600\/\">NEXT PAGE ><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><!--END OF TABLE--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hard cover page 104 Man, (infinite) God, and the universe are all questing for their potentialities.403 . . . the Jewish religion may truly be considered as the ideal of religion, the religion of the future, the &#8220;I shall be what I shall be.&#8221; 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