#1, RE: K'YANA
Posted by Andrew Gabriel Roth on Mar-31-2002 at 01:58 AM
In response to message #0
» Last edited by Andrew Gabriel Roth on Mar-31-2002 at 02:04 AM (GMT3)Actually Akhi Stephen I think the problem is that you are viewing KYANA as something concrete that either a human or God has, and that is not true. Youw will not find any Scripture that says God IS a KYANA because God is an example of ONE KIND OF KYANA, as opposed to having or being one.
K'YANA is an abstract concept, like we would talk about a divinity or a human spirit, without substantiating that divinity of spirit. We are ASKING about potentiality, not grounding an identity in hard observation. It would be like me saying, "Can there be brown Grizzly Bears or Black Bears in South Dakota?" without my actually going there to see which one I will find first.
K'YANA, I have found, stands best understood as a question that asks "CAN X have either a human or divine nature?" We cannot penetrate X to see what KIND is there, but rather are asking what the range of possibilities for that K'YANA are.
A RUACH (spirit) is what God IS, but at a pure theoretical level God is an instance of DIVINE K'YANA, not K'YANA being something that God is.
Do you see the difference Akhi?
Now, continuing, when we answer this first question with, "X can have as a possibilitity either a divine or human K'YANA", then we go down the next level, which is to now identify that type, human or divine. When that happens we now have a concretization of that reality. We now know--of these two choices- that this is a REAL SUBSTANCE of either divine or human origins. In other words, we have a QNOMA.
Going another level down, let's say we have identified the QNOMA as human, but we know nothing else. We don't know gender, race, age, ethnicity or anything that makes me different from you, Paul or anyone else. Then we see that separation, and now we have say, a young Jewish man, about 30, 6 feet tall, 250 pounds. Guess what" Those characteristics in the human QNOMA are now the PARSOPA of the individual.
Try not to think though along the lines of RUACH and NEFESH on this exact line of thought because it will cause confusion. Although, those terms also relate to this study in another manner.
Hope this helps!
Shlama w'burkate
Andrew Gabriel Roth