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Creation
Days 1 and 2 depicts the bringing forth of the concrete
from the abstract, the emanation of light and energy
and the establishment of the fundamental design of the
Universe. A mandala,
with the four letters of the tetragrammaton
spells the name of G-d and expresses
the holiness of the creation. A six-pointed Star
of David is, subtly, part of the mandala. A pomegranate,
containing the raw material of creation, the
letters of the Hebrew
alphabet,
as seeds, cracks apart, like the primordial Kabalistic
broken vessel. Sparks
fly out. Five miniature versions
of the pomegranate, , a Tree
of Life, showing their seeds,
blossom from the holy vessel, representing the nature
of the Universe, where life reproduces life.
The pomegranate is the symbol of Torah and five is the
Five Books of Moses. A colored
border, made up of 613 divisions takes
it's design from a chromatograph of the DNA molecule,
symbol of life. The
water
below
is separated from the water above.
The water below appears to "divide," foretelling
the splitting of the Red Sea and the redemption of the
Jewish people. Two circles
with concentric rings and orbits symbolize the archtypical
structure of the Universe which takes this form, whether
you are looking at an atom or a solar system.
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