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by DAVID BIRNBAUM
Book #2 of the SUMMA METAPHYSICA series
Book #2 of the Quest for Potential series
with commentary by
DANIEL N. KHALIL
New York
released on the Web: Fall, 2006
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sequel to
God & Evil
hardcover by KTAV: Fall, 1988
Summa Metaphysica
TWO-BOOK SERIES
Print Edition
scheduled release: March 2008
publisher:
J Levine / Millennium
New York
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Summa Metaphysica proposes a comprehensive and integrated metaphysical structure – a new paradigm.
God and Evil (published 1988) and God and Good ( launched 2006) comprise Birnbaum’s Summa Metaphysica series. The author has proposed that one fundamental concept – and one fundamental concept alone – Quest for Potential (recursive to the infinite power) – ignited – and drives – the cosmos – and the integral infinite divine.
Building upon his 1988 treatise, in God and Good ( 18 years later ) the author lays out his over-arching metaphysical structure in very significantly greater scope, depth, breadth and texture.
Birnbaum’s paradigm is non–linear, as opposed to the linearity of the great bulk of Western philosophy. It is non-circular, as opposed to the circularity of much of Eastern philosophy. Rather, Birnbaum’s paradigm is what the author refers to as a “spiral/reflexive”dynamic (elucidated in the text). The author proposes that this Quest for Potential∞ paradigm more elegantly explains the dynamics of the cosmos – and of life, in particular – than alternate propositions.
According to the Birnbaum, only the full plethora of potentials – and the quest thereof – could have ignited the cosmos. The combined potentials for love, life, intellectuality, spirituality and, indeed, for an infinitely Perfect Divine, ignited, birthed, nurtured, and projected the cosmos onward on its quest towards infinity. ‘Extraordinariation’, according to the author, is the over-arching goal.
Thomas Aquinas wrote Summa Theologica c. 1273 within a Christian context. The Summa Metaphysica series, proposing an original, dynamic, overarching, and integrated metaphysics, is crafted within a Jewish context seven hundred years later. – JLC
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Table of Contents
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Introductory
Prelude
Dedication
In Tribute
extract from Book I Foreword
Introduction: The Metaphysical Gates
Definitions
Theodicy re-visited
The UNITY “POTENTIALâ€
note: The Key Term
Encapsulization
Caution
Foreword by KHALIL
A “Subtle Dynamicâ€
Extension or Separate?
Overview
Author’s Note
Part I: The Cosmic Womb of Potential
ALPHA: Lay-of-the-Land
BETA: Cosmic TOOL KIT- Shelf #1
GAMMA: Lead-in
DELTA: Embryonic Design
EPSILON: Notes & Observations
ZETA: “Principa Metaphysicaâ€
ETA: Some reflections…insights
THETA: The two key (spiraling) SUPRA-DYNAMICS
IOTA: Reprise to the Cosmic Womb of Potential
KAPPA: The building blocks of the cosmos
LAMBDA: A fresh look at some of our concepts
MU: Cosmic TOOL KIT- Shelf #2 Extraordinariation
Part II: God’s 120 Guardian Angels
Foreword by DROB
Preface * Author’s Midrash
KEDUSHAH
from the Yom Kippur Machzor
Reprise to Midrash
“Strength and Faithfulnessâ€
Outline of 120 Angels
-Guardian Angels 1-20
-Guardian Angels 21-40
-Guardian Angels 41-60
-Guardian Angels 61-80
-Guardian Angels 81-100
-Guardian Angels 101-120
AFTERWORD to 120 Angels
INDEX (alphabetical) to 120 Guardian Angels
Part III: The Lost Manual
Appendix Section:
Appendix A: Metaphysics
Appendix B: Schematically
Appendix C: Extraordinariation
Appendix D: Consciousness
Appendix E: Evolution from the Perspective of
Summa Metaphysica
Appendix F: Hasidic v. Kabbalistic
Appendix G: “The Spiraling Collectiveâ€
About the Author
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