The Cabala explains creation in four divisions accounting for the attenuation of light through myriad contractions ending in physical creation described by science as black holes, quasars, galaxies and solar system; nonetheless, the diversity of creation remains unexplained. Coming through the vehicle of contractive transitions the four divisions account for creation but not the mechanism necessary for diversity.
These four divisions are delineated in the Cabala as: light, vessel, garment and dwelling which are directly related to the four elements: fire, water, air and earth; the four seasons; the four directions; and the four species of life: inanimate, growing, moving animals and human beings able to articulate thoughts into speech.
The light is unable to illuminate without a vessel; this idea is represented in the fire of the sun which travels in darkness until reaching the atmosphere of the earth which allows the illumination of the sun to be revealed. Once inside the vessel the light becomes indistinguishable from the vessel which holds the light; vessel and light become as one, the description of essence.
This division of four is also represented in the atom. The electron which gives girth to the nucleus like a house surrounds the occupants while the nucleus of the atom is like the garment which clothes the body where light and vessel merge as described in the Cabala. Within the nucleus of the atom is the naked configuration of the human body as arranged in six quarks.
Particulars do not exist in the essence, only the potential of particulars exist; the sub-atomic quarks are theoretical finite expression of essence. Through the garment the body is seen and though the garment is not the body it is a good representation of the body, similarly the essences can not be seen but an inner configuration can be theorized – the quark.
Within the atom, the essence is expressed in the six quarks–a pair of triangles; these six quarks account for moment to moment functioning of the atom by transferring the light invested within the two triangles. Called Zira Unpin/Small Faces in the Cabala these two triangles are the prototype for the human body – the meaning of the Star of David, two triangles intertwined.
The two arms and the torso form one triangle while the two legs of the sex represent the inverted triangle – how the body works controls what is spoken from the center of the two intertwined triangles forming the mouth. The head is beyond quarks; it is where the light from the soul enters into the most ephemeral part of the body – the brain.
The Cabala describes precisely the mechanism for transference of light and uses this knowledge to explain how the intellect is brought into emotions. Dividing the body into three levels: head, torso, lower body plus the soul, mimics the construct of the four spirit worlds from whose symmetry the atom is built.
The knowledge of the Torah comes from the exploration of the spiritual realm upon which all the physical creation is predicated.
