APPENDIX B: Schematically 5

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DAVID BIRNBAUM PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

3.

We are ALL part of HOLY QUEST FOR POTENTIAL
(this is ~panentheistic, parallel to the BESHT)

4.

We are all part of a grander, evolving COSMIC Consciousness.

(this has components in common with the BESHT and with Teilhard, the Jesuit philosophical renegade)

5.

Divine consciousness (the Godhead of the cumulative consciousness) withdraws to give greater freedom
to MAN
(an anchor of the proposed solution to theodicy in Book #1)

(this has components in common with the Torah’s Hester Panim (Hiding of the Divine Face) and with Lurianic Kabbalah tzimtzum)

6.

ALL (AB) are on an ongoing journey towards EXTRAORDINARIATION.

(components, almost in common with ‘Messianic era’)
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