I have found that in a lot of the writings related to spirituality it is necessary to realize that one cannot keep hold of a full understanding, as one would do with a material issue. Since we are trying to understand something that is beyond human understanding we are left with some glimpses that come more and more often the more we read and meditate over these issues.
This kind of understanding is very fluid, and it is difficult and maybe useless to try and crystalize it because it shifts with every new glance we manage to get.
It is not easy but I find it fascinating
On aumha.org I have found a good commentary..
Any suggestion/review is welcome here..
For this first line it focuses on the word "manifestation", and connects it quabbalistically with existence in Malkuth. This brings me back to the topic of how Hadit is the way we humans have found to think of Nuit.
And then it goes on explaining how in this case to manifest is intended as opposite of "to hide" (referring to one of the next lines)
But on the other side Nuit and Hadit don't exist just to satisfy human categories.. or do they?!? Uhm.
Maybe it would be more proper to say that Hadit is the way of Nuit to express herself, leaving all the action at the deities level..
I might do with some help here..
In both cases:
Nuit would be too subtle and encompassing at the same time to be understood/expressable in herself.
So we need something to bring her at a more familiar and digestable dimension: that something is the experience of the moment.
If we manage to fully absorbe the experience of a single moment, then we have an idea, through the experience of that moment, of what would be like the experience of the all.
But it can be only a very transitory feeling cause our human senses and minds are not equipped for such comprehensive toughts.
And here comes the question again: have Nuit and Hadit manifested in the Book of Law to teach to us human and bring mankind to a next stage of evolution or are they doing everything out of the unfolding of creation, regardless of mankind? (And the book of Law is the description of what they do).
But definitely the book is worth learning even if it was not meant to teach..
I am quite confused on this, I ll leave it for a while, hoping in someone willing to be of help..
I am more comfortable with the opposition of manifest and hidden and the interplay of wholeness and experience.
I actually mostly get confused when i ask myself if this manifestation is brought forward beacause it is the Will of the Gods or if it is for human benefit.
Uhm, at least I manage to pin down what I am puzzled about. That's something!
Also I gather:
Hadit as experience is what makes possible to talk about Nuit's manifestation at all.
And
In every experience there is the seed of everything. Every experience is comprised in the seed (because it concurrs to its modification/creation, I suppose..)
The commentary goes on with defining Hadit as the "Knower" and explain how the first two chapters deal with presenting Nuit and Hadit, and are therefore parallel but also complementary of each other.
It suggests to me that to experiment one's own experience/Hadit, is in itself evidence of the existence of the Universe/Nuit. (and I would say also of some of the ways it works)